Iqaluit (Nunavut) sizzles through hottest day on record

[Newsjock]

Source: Nunatsiaq News

Iqaluit residents stripped down to shorts, T-shirts and halter tops this week during a record-smashing heat wave that produced the warmest maximum temperature ever seen in the community.

On Monday, July 21, a temperature of 26.8 C was recorded at the Iqaluit airport, making it the highest temperature reading in Iqaluit since 1946, when record-keeping began.

... The normal temperature range for July, usually the warmest month in the eastern Arctic, is between 12 C and 4 C.

... Ironically, Mother Nature gave us these record high temperatures just as a major gathering on climate change got underway in Iqaluit at the Frobisher Inn.


Read more: http://nunatsiaq.com/news/iqaluit/80725_1391.html

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Iqaluit on the map

[Trajan]

1. That's 80.2 degrees F for us non-celsius speaking Americans ....

[XemaSab]

2. Thanks

;)

[Scairp]

13. I know it sucks

I start doing the math in my head and I am so bad at it it's easier to just use a conversion chart. Anyway, this is extremely bad. 80 degrees above the Arctic Circle even in summer should be scaring the shit out of everyone, even the dense assholes who still deny our planet is dying and it's our own fault.

[BunkerHill24]

15. ROFL that was funny Trajan

[Speck Tater]

3. 26.8 C = 80 in real degrees.

National Weather service conversion page: http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm

on edit: oops, transposed two digits.

[Lorentz]

5. I assume (hope) you're kidding, vis "real degrees"

Since the rest of the world uses the metric system, I think Celsius are "real degrees".

[Speck Tater]

8. This is why "real degrees"...

Our units of measure should be scaled to work with human experience. We measure the distance to the next town in miles or kilometers. Both of those give us number that are compatible with the human scale of experience. Suppose we used a tiny unit of measure instead, and said that the distance from Los Angeles to New York is 153,271,000,000,000 fleegles. Well that number is just too big to work within the human sense of scale.

The metric system is certainly useful within the human scale, except where Celsius is concerned.

When the temperature gets up to 110 degrees F, that's REALLY hot. and 110 is a really big number, appropriate to the level of heat. The same temperature in Celsius is 43 degrees. 43 is just NOT a big enough number to express the shear magnitude of the heat on a 110-degree day. Celsius is not an appropriate unit of measure for the human scale of experience.

Saying that it's 43 in Death Valley just robs the statement of all the power of the reality that it is 110 in Death Valley. Since the reality is best expressed by the triple-digit "110", Fahrenheit is clearly the more "real" of the units of measurement. Hence "real degrees".

[Amonester]

12. It depends on how long people live in the environment.

In Canada, when we hear it's 32 outside, that's hot.

Then bring in the Humidex (short for "humidity index") at 35 or 43, and everybody knows we're gonna melt...

It only depends on "how long" (20 years plus, here) people live in it...

110 means nothing anymore here.

[PatGund]

17. People adjust

When I lived in Doha, Qatar, it didn't take long for me to go "40-45 Cels, UGH!"

It's just as hot at 43 as it is 110

[Lorentz]

19. Doesn't make any sense. That's just Amero-centric thinking.

Why haven't Americans' adopted metric for speeds, then? Surely 120 "sounds" much faster than 75.

Ask anyone else in the world, and a 40 degree day is a scorcher, just as 0 degrees is freezing.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. And, of course, '32' is a *really* important number in human experience

so it obviously should be used as something important in temperature measurement. '0'? Pah - just any old number ... :evilgrin:

[NewJeffCT]

4. Meanwhile, I heard a RWer orgasming over the fact that

Anchorage, Alaska has had a cool summer - as that was proof that global warming was a hoax!

[Blue_In_AK]

10. I'm not a RWer, but Anchorage HAS had a very cool summer

on track possibly to be the coolest on record. I'm not a global warming denier, though. This is La Nina, and is projected to last through October. Then, according to the weather folks, it will be warmer than normal for a few months. This year is just a blip.

http://www.adn.com/life/story/473786.html

[NewJeffCT]

16. well, the radio guy cited it

as proof that global warming is fake.

[Blue_In_AK]

18. The radio guy is crazy.

This year is not unlike summers years ago, but since the '90s we've had very warm weather over all. These idiots really need to get a clue. You can't look at one year and then extrapolate over the past three decades. He needs to come up here and have a look at some of our glaciers "then" and "now" if he has any doubt.

[NickB79]

24. Half the Arctic ice cap melting away will do that

Like putting ice cubes in your lemonade to cool it down.

Until the ice cubes melt away entirely.

Then you're fucked.

[SpiralHawk]

6. "This is just more lib-rul, fact-based reality." - Republicon Homelanders

"There ain't no mention of this coming out of Rush Limbaugh draft-dodging butthole, so it cain't be true. SmugAss Smirk."

- Republicon Homelanders

[truedelphi]

7. Sometimes I wish I could live inside the RW world of fantasy

Drastic climate change is not occurring, kids are not autistic, the war in Iraq only helped "those people" and No Child Left Behind is a smashing success.

Oh and the economy has never been better.

Please tell me why I am stuck in the land of doom?? Along with the rest of you nay sayers!!

[FSogol]

11. How could you forget: "The surge is working"?

"The surge is working"
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"The surge is working"

[truedelphi]

23. It wasn't till you got it written out the tenth or eleventh time that

I realized that the surge is working!!

All it takes is repetition of a lie, and the lie becomes truth, I guess.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. "Ironically"? It's not ironic at all.

[Gman]

14. 80 degrees will melt some ice real quick

[bitchkitty]

21. 80 degrees F is searing heat?

Of course, considering the location, that's pretty damned hot.

[CHIMO]

22. And The Band Played On

A northern rebuff to Dion's Green Shift

Add northerners to the list of Canadians suspicious of Stephane Dion's proposed carbon tax.

Over the weekend, Northwest Territories Premier Floyd Roland, Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie and Nunavut Premier Paul Okalik came out of two days of meetings in Yellowknife with a unanimous condemnation of Mr. Dion's "Green Shift" plan, which would slap $15.4-billion in taxes on carbon emissions. "To add on a cost to very high fuel costs already is just not an option for homeowners in our territory," Mr. Okalik said. "There really are no alternatives for us in Nunavut to turn to, to get away from diesel generation for power and for heat."

This declaration should not be surprising. Even if one believes Mr. Dion's claim that his plan would be revenue-neutral overall -- with the carbon tax-grab being offset by tax credits and reductions in other areas -- the costs and benefits would vary radically according to region. As Mr. Okalik notes, it takes massive amounts of power to live in Canada's north -- to move around the vast spaces, to heat one's home in bone-chilling weather, to fly-in food and other necessities and to extract the natural resources on which much of the regional economy depends. Environmentalist rhapsodies about windmills, solar power and dainty Toyota Priuses no doubt ring hollow in a rugged part of the world where many roads are unpaved and some communities aren't even on the electrical grid.

The northern rebuff shows that -- whatever one thinks of the economics behind the Green Shift -- the politics are suicidal. A carbon tax may be politically palatable in a country such as, say, Denmark, a wealthy, high-tech, geographically compressed welfare state where regional differences are relatively minor and energy-use patterns are relatively uniform. But Canada is a very different beast. Depending on which province you live in, the high price of oil may be an economic godsend--or a catalyst for recession.

http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=622825

They have been complaining about warming for the longest time. But when someone puts a plan in front of them, they don't want any part of it. In other words someone else has to correct it. We don't have to do anything.