The City of Edmonton has declared a climate emergency. Vinesh Pratap takes a look at what that means.
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The City of Edmonton has declared a climate emergency. Vinesh Pratap takes a look at what that means.
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I’ve been living in the Edmonton area for 30 years and this is the coldest, most miserable summer I can remember. This coming off a brutally cold winter and last summer, which was only marginally warmer than this year. Basically two years of miserable weather.
I’m somewhat sad that daylight is growing shorter here, yet I love winter sports and much about winter.
However, I’ve been to Edmonton in the winter several times and never found much of a desire to be outdoors then. I’m wondering if people in Edmonton dread the coming of winter or at least feel some sadness from the shorter days.
See Notley’s Carbon tax worked! It’s colder! 🙂
I hope the mayor and Edmonton council stop driving and tax public transit! Ha ha.
Well maybe they’ll stop taking winter trips to warmer places! Ha ha
Does it not just come back to you get the government you deserve by voting them in?
Is there not enough clear thinking voters out there to throw these Councillors out?
There’s an old saying: when in a hole stop digging. The climate cult is now so deep it cannot climb out of its delusion – and reality and the bananas cult adopted by all the western elite are now so at odds with reality that I think it will literally bring down the elites in the in one huge cultural and political revolution.
For those idiots who were out protesting that “Trump is not our president” …. please understand this: Trump is just the warm up act of what is to follow.
When in a hole, stop digging.
But they are making progress.
They’ll get what they wish for this winter.
Shelter in place until 2050!!!!
The first issue the city of Edmonton should address is the NAME OF THEIR HOCKEY !! What a travesty !!
The biggest Climate threat to Edmonton is the possible useless destruction of their oil industry. There’s nothing to support a nice city “way up there” without the vast amount of oil related economic activity…there’s no other reason for that city to be “up there”.
A warmer Edmonton would be nothing but better and less expensive BY FAR. There’s no hint of more extreme weather in North America (outside of some bad years for agriculture from cold). Though if the funds can be siphoned off from oil profits, some flood control projects would be a good idea for protection against frequent North Saskatchewan River flooding (not new).
https://open.alberta.ca/publications/359955
So I guess a Climate Emergency of sorts does exist for Edmonton…their very existence might hinge on how far the virtue signaling can corrupt reality and needlessly devastate a fairly nice and very improbable (without oil) city.
Wow. They really brainwashed, aren’t they? How much MONEY is this going to cost the people of Edmonton?
Follow the money, people. Always, always, always follow the money. Look how much loot IPCC is raking in to line its own pockets. Follow the money. It’s the biggest scam/con job on the planet.
Hey, Edmonton! Could you reroute that Alberta clipper come this winter and send it down to California instead of inflicting it on the Midwest?
They don’t call it Redmonton for nothing.
They simply misread the directive. It is a Connor Emergency. His knee injury has set the Oiler fans into a panic
as they do not know when he will be fully recovered.
What they have is an idiot emergency. Their government has gone full retard.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling and -40C (or was it F) is only a few months away. You’d better find your woolies and make sure they’re clean.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling.
-40 is the same in both … DFC (Darn Freaking Cold)
I use that a lot and it always gets a laugh, even if it’s my own. Engineers usually get it right off. Scientists have to think about it.
Yhese peope are not even required to prove anything about there dire predictions, which actually are vague , except to reference extreme weather events, which every honest climatologist (even the IPCC) knows have no relationship tp global warming.
The sky is falling! The end is near! Run for the hills! Run for the hills! Yeah.right…zzzzzzz
The first priority has to be limiting heat in all public buidings to 5C. Private residences 10C. A total conversion to composting toilets would allow heating to be eliminated entirely as plumbing could be drained. Locally produced hemp based thermal clothing should be mandated for comfort. The entire city should be disconnected from natgas.
All city equipment should be solar powered and gasoline and diesel sales rationed with the goal of a total ban.
Let’s get serious here!
Self evidently all sports events will only be played during daylight hours as floodlights need to be banned. Also no away games as that will entail pointless travel, expending co2.
obviously any ice hockey needs to be curtailed as generating that ice needs vast amounts of energy.
I am sure that Edmonton council and its people will be very glad to forgo these trivial things for the sake of the planet
tonyb
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Weather Averages
MonthHigh / Low
September17° / 6°
October11° / 0°3
November1° / -8°
December-5° / -14°
January-7° / -16°
February-3° / -13°
March2° / -8°
April11° / -1°
May18° / 5°
June21° / 10°
July23° / 12°
August22° / 11°
September17° / 6°
October11° / 0°
November1° / -8°
December-5° / -14°
At least the new measures will keep down the incidents of heatstrokes.
I see their problem. They have four extra cold months.
Will they require name changes to the Edmonton Oilers and the Edmonton Oil Kings?
How much will attendance at the Edmonton Photovoltaics hockey team fall when they cannot schedule night games and there isn’t enough power to freeze the ice?
+1 for Photovoltaics With more than a few suggestions for a new team name, your name stands out!
If nearly my entire country was recently buried under mile deep ice, a couple more nice days /year seems like a good thing, and might mean that the mile deep ice might stay away a little longer.
I’d enjoy those extra nice days while I could, and not waste them yelling at invisible boogiemen.
There are people who care about the environment, and then there are enviro-loons.
One of the leading lights of Extinction Rebellion in the UK said that she
.
That’s from the BBC ‘News’ website.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49513802
Seems like one of the big gripes these people have is that they don’t get listened to.
Hardly a surprise, we’ve been ignore drug-addled hippies for decades.
Ironic that one of their number felt a ‘sense of loss’ at the establishment of a new bus route at the expense of some trees. Just how are we proles supposed to travel when we’re forbidden to have cars ?
I’ve lost parience with these ‘climate emergency’ and associated fools and don’t hesitate to give them a piece of my mind when the opportunity arises.
Drug-addled hippies in their 21st-century iteration as Uni profs, their students, greentards, and one HELL of a lot of Larry Lunchbuckets, short hair and blue-collar employment notwithstanding, are sure a major part of the root problem: cognitive dissonance, very possibly induced by craptons of psychoactive substances in their system 24/7/365.
Psychologists, where are you on this? Can someone kindly explain how hundreds of millions of “normal” people fly, drive, heat with gas and fuel oil, AND weep about AGW at the same time, never mind the actual multimilllionaires with their mansions, private jets and fleets of cars? How can this even be a thing? This is not a facetious question in any way, because if this is normal I’m very grateful to be weird. 🙁
The “thing” you describe is Marie Antoinetteism. It goes way back. Sanctimonious scions of privilege are virtuosos at describing how the peasants MUST suffer while the big shots romp in palaces and pay nothing for their hypocrisy.
The reality is that climate change is taking place so slowly that it takes networks of very sophisticated sensors , decades to even detect it. Based on the paleoclimate record and the work done with models, one can conclude that the the climate change we are experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. Despite the hype, there is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and there is plenty of scientific rationale to support the idea that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. It is all a matter of science.
Being that there is a climate emergency in Edmonton and there is nothing that mankind can do to change it then the city should be abandoned as soon as possible. If the city fathers think that the climate in Edmonton is becoming too warm, then there is always the possibility of choosing a spot for a new city further North where there exists a colder climate. Because of the climate crisis, people can chose to just move away. The city government in Edmonton does not need to take any action or their own.
Oh no, more climate refugees. Build a wall.
The real emergency in Edmonton is it is a bastion of communist NDP comrades thanks to the recent provincial election.
Edmonton? I couldn’t care less.
I spend my holiday money in Calgary.
Here in Sydney, Australia, we have gone more granular. 16 councils have declared a “climate emergency”.
The world has gone crazy!
The most hilarious thing is that Edmonton had a non-existent summer in 2019. Cold, rainy, didn’t see the sun except for one day in August that everyone talks about. The council is probably reacting to the inevitable climate skepticism resulting from what people are calling the summer that never was.
“If we don’t raise taxes soon, the climate in Edmonton will become balmy, like Minneapolis, Minnesota.”
(Fake quote, but accurate, except it’s not accurate either.)