Re: Weather forecast for OTlympics

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

I love two things about this:

"For example, my uniform is made entirely from recycled bottles,"
Kettlitz said.

Only Corporate "Greens" would try to make plastic clothing cool.
Polyester and the '70s were a fashion foul the first time around, and
nothing has changed.

And there is no Global Warming, at least not for the last 10 years. And
there may not be for another 10.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7376301.stm

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10783

That isn't saying anything about the longer term trend, just that, even
if you believe in AGW, it isn't to blame for the lack of snow @ Whistler
this year.

What the Olympics need is a visit from Al Gore: 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/04/the-gore-effect/


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> Subject: [funsec] Weather forecast for OTlympics
>
> If you have been following Olympic coverage at all, you will know that
> the big
> story of these games is not the doping, not the cost overruns (and the
> hidden
> ones, pushing cost per capita to $2K for every man, woman, and child
in
> BC), not
> the over-eager border guards, Not the implicit fight between the
region
> and one of
> the major sponsors (
> http://links.cbc.ca/a/l.x?T=jncickgambkkiicafkinlonldeho&M=34 ), not
> the idiots
> trying to get some press time out of this by predicting an influx of
> "hackers" (
http://www.vancouversun.com/Games+sure+bring+gold+medal+hackers+town+ex
> pe
> rt+war ns/2544449/story.html ), and not the massive security presence
> (heard last
> night of cancer patient who, because of airport security, will not be
> allowed to
> come to Vancouver for treatment during the games), but the weather.
>
> > http://www.cbc.ca/bc/features/roadtothegames/weather.html
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Weekend+forecast+gloomy+slushy+C
> yp
> ress+events/2549879/story.html
>
> Snow being trucked in from two different mountain ranges to try and
get
> something on the tiny run on Cypress.  Fog thick enough to cancel
> practice
> sessions on Whistler.  My wife has taken to referring to the Spring
> Olympics.
> Freestyle slushboarding.  Mud luge.  Figure skidding.  Giant downhilll
> (blind) slide.
> And, as for Vancouver:
>
> > Text Forecast: Issued at  5.00 AM PST Wednesday 10 February 2010
> > Today..Cloudy. Rain beginning this morning. Amount 5 mm. Becoming
> windy late
> > this afternoon. High 7. Tonight..Rain ending this evening then
cloudy
> with 60
> > percent chance of showers. Amount 5 mm. Windy. Temperature steady
> near 6.
> > Thursday..Rain. Amount 20 mm. Becoming windy. High 9.
Friday..Periods
> of rain.
> > Low 6. High 10. Saturday..Periods of rain. Low 6. High 9.
> Sunday..Cloudy with 70
> > percent chance of showers. Low plus 5. High 9. Monday..Cloudy with
30
> percent
> > chance of showers. Low plus 4. High 9. Tuesday..Cloudy with 30
> percent chance of
> > showers. Low plus 4. High 9. Normals for the period..Low plus 1.
High
> 8.
>
> (Last week we had some lovely sun.  Too bad it's all gone now.)
>
> In true Canadian fashion, we will apologize all over the place for the
> lousy weather.
>
> In reality, this is working out just the way we planned it.
>
> Let's face it, Vancouver doesn't do snow.  I can recall, 30 years ago,
> driving down
> the main drag, looking at the North Shore Mountains, and seeing the
> giant brown
> patch on Grouse Mountain with absolutely no snow at all.  Feb. 6, it
> was.  At the
> time, I was listening to a news report about snow falling in Miami.
>
> All you have to do, to track the El Nino cycles, is to track the
> pattern of
> bankruptcies of the North Shore ski hills.  They happen regularly.
So,
> years back,
> the Powers-That-Be looked at the cycles, extended them, and realized
> that 2010
> would be a no-snow year.  Perfect.  Book the games!  (In the interim,
> this forecast
> has been solidified by the global warming trend.)
>
> (We could not have predicted that Intrawest, the owner of most of the
> Whistler
> resorts, would have gotten itself into embarrassing financial trouble
> right before
> the games.  That the new [American] owners went bankrupt, and then
made
> stupid
> statements all over the press about shuttering the place and holding
an
> auction
> during the games, was just icing on the cake.)
>
> We made sure of having a cold winter last year so that everything is
> late blooming
> this year.  Normally the place would be covered in cherry and
forsythia
> blassoms.
> This year, dead sticks.
>
> See, if we are going to have the TV (and Web) cameras of the entire
> world here
> for two weeks, we don't want to have the place looking its best.
> Everybody would
> want to move here.  Sorry, but we don't have room for you all.
>
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