Hm. Interesting.
Jan. 26th, 2007 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciroccojCdns more concerned about global warming than last year, poll suggests
Excerpt: "Global warming and the environment dramatically outstripped war and poverty as the issues Canadians are most concerned about, suggests a new poll conducted this month... Two-thirds of respondents, or 68 per cent, said they were more concerned now than a year ago, while 77 per cent said they were more worried about environmental issues than they were in 2004."
Incidentally, the Rideau Canal finally opened this morning!!! YAAAY!! I was starting to wonder if they were just going to declare the winter a dead loss and give up. It's only open from Pretoria Bridge to Landsdowne, which is only 2km instead of 7.8 (1.24 miles v. 4.8), but whatever, I'll take it.
It's funny though, yesterday Marie and Chris and I were talking about it, wondering what was going to happen, and we were wondering if maybe it wouldn't be better to just leave it closed. Yeah, it would gut the winter tourism economy - like that's not happening right now - but at least people (read: our mayor and everyone who voted for him) wouldn't be able to tell themselves "What's the big deal - it opened, right? Global warming my ass!", kinda like all the twits who were smirking re. the 2006 hurricane season, after all the dire predictions that followed 2005.
Incidentally, we had a laugh over that over Christmas; one of them actually wrote in to the Calgary Herald about "all this enviro-crap", citing the mildness of 2006 as proof positive that Nothing Is Wrong.
Yeah, OK, buddy. Keep gazing at that navel of yours. I mean hey, the Philippines lost over 3,000 people in its worst typhoon season ever - actually, a lot of Asia was just pummelled this year - but we're OK, so no harm done, right?
Some days the only way to deal with the human race's stupidity is to laugh, or you end up crying.
Anyway. Whatever the reason, and whatever folks will make of it, I'm selfishly glad the Canal's open. We're going skating tomorrow. Haven't gone in two years, since last year the Canal was open on and off and slushy a lot of the time, and Chris was studying for his exam, so we wrote off that season and were looking forward to this one.
Conclusion: yay! :)
Excerpt: "Global warming and the environment dramatically outstripped war and poverty as the issues Canadians are most concerned about, suggests a new poll conducted this month... Two-thirds of respondents, or 68 per cent, said they were more concerned now than a year ago, while 77 per cent said they were more worried about environmental issues than they were in 2004."
Incidentally, the Rideau Canal finally opened this morning!!! YAAAY!! I was starting to wonder if they were just going to declare the winter a dead loss and give up. It's only open from Pretoria Bridge to Landsdowne, which is only 2km instead of 7.8 (1.24 miles v. 4.8), but whatever, I'll take it.
It's funny though, yesterday Marie and Chris and I were talking about it, wondering what was going to happen, and we were wondering if maybe it wouldn't be better to just leave it closed. Yeah, it would gut the winter tourism economy - like that's not happening right now - but at least people (read: our mayor and everyone who voted for him) wouldn't be able to tell themselves "What's the big deal - it opened, right? Global warming my ass!", kinda like all the twits who were smirking re. the 2006 hurricane season, after all the dire predictions that followed 2005.
Incidentally, we had a laugh over that over Christmas; one of them actually wrote in to the Calgary Herald about "all this enviro-crap", citing the mildness of 2006 as proof positive that Nothing Is Wrong.
Yeah, OK, buddy. Keep gazing at that navel of yours. I mean hey, the Philippines lost over 3,000 people in its worst typhoon season ever - actually, a lot of Asia was just pummelled this year - but we're OK, so no harm done, right?
Some days the only way to deal with the human race's stupidity is to laugh, or you end up crying.
Anyway. Whatever the reason, and whatever folks will make of it, I'm selfishly glad the Canal's open. We're going skating tomorrow. Haven't gone in two years, since last year the Canal was open on and off and slushy a lot of the time, and Chris was studying for his exam, so we wrote off that season and were looking forward to this one.
Conclusion: yay! :)
