Once agan the tattle tale Hydro meters are not doing their job…nor obvious is Hydro

All that drama from the desk of the ceo of hydro, who should gfe fired for incompetance, about how they got to get those meters installed…. why? They aren’t doing anything with them… the old ones would have done just well as these new ones and for a lot less money.

Drive BC is reporting,, They should be reporting, how PG has big heavy graders out, plowing 4 inches of powder snow, Not digging into the ice,Went down our street 3 times, and did nothing. LOL A pickup, with a blade,would of done just a good, and quicker, and for way less money. What a waist of money. Streets still full of pot hole ice.

Wouldn’t a reverse warming trend mean it’s getting colder?

December had above normal temperatures and rain (+4 degrees & rain), and now January has +2 to +8 degree celsius temperatures and rain. We just need a couple of days in February to have above freezing temperatures and rain, for my November prediction to come true.

Namely; “it will rain in every winter month this winter”. There have been so many warming periods (freeze-thaw events) this winter, it is difficult to even count.

BIG OIL will deny global warming exists, and that it’s products are major contributor, just like the tobacco industry denied it’s products were associated with lung cancer in the 1970’s, to it’s dying breath.

We cannot ignore scientific facts!

So when are you going to stop using oil and oil-based products, People#1?

Why doesn’t the city hire all the experts posting on this site like sayitaintso who are obviously way better at allocating snow clearing resources?

Ya, Im better at making my own comment too,, unlike you.. If you get the wasted money in your pocket,, you should be happy…cutbanks54

sayitanitso is right.

They plowed my street 3 times each way on Saturday, and the front end loader cleaned out the drive ways three times. Absolutely unbelievable.

Like how many dollars spent, so we can still have crappy streets??

“Why doesn’t the city hire all the experts posting on this site”…… EXACTLY!!!!!!

As I have written often, the City Administrators are incompetent!!!

How do I know?

Because they would have done as you wrote, cutbanks54, a long time ago.

;-)

Then again, they do not have time during their busy day to read 250NEWS …. :-)

Nimrod …. exactly …. I do not understand what they mean by reverse-warming trend…..

BTW, the forecast from the weather network is for above freezing daytime temperatures right through to the 27th of January.

So bcracer what do the smart meters have to do with these outages?

sayitaintso …. I think that they made a HUGE mistake by not getting at the streets while they were still slush. They had plenty of time. They would likely have had to be paid overtime. If one person who has a death in the family causes a piece of equipment to sit idle, they obviously have very poor access to human resources.

That ice will not be a feature on our streets until the overnight temperatures stay above freezing for probably at least a week. When that is going to happen is anyone’s guess. Normally that would be sometime in March.

I too am interested in how a smart meter can be responsible for heavy snow and ice pulling lines down and/or pulling trees down on to lines?

1000 years ago had warmer temperatures than we do today. Science proved that. Climates do change but humans have little effect

Skakum had an interesting report on the amount of snow removel equipment parked in the works yard in the evenings not being used.

Posted by: People#1 on January 13 2014 8:23 AM December had above normal temperatures and rain … for my November prediction to come true. Namely; “it will rain in every winter month this winter”. There have been so many warming periods (freeze-thaw events) this winter, it is difficult to even count.

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Pretty safe bet considering our average monthly rainfall in Dec 8mm, Jan 6mm, Feb 7mm, etc. And the fact that record daily highs for each month of the year remain in the 1940s to 1980s and nothing after that, as well as the record lows. Seems our current weather over the past 30+ years is not as extreme as it used to be.

Record single day rain 16mm Dec 16, 1970. 12mm Jan 29, 1960. And 18mm Feb 2, 1962.

Oh, and the data is from http://www.farmzone.com/statistics/CL1096450/nb010

Slinky people#1 does not respond to facts.

Here are more stats from the government site, of course we all know Harper is manipulating this data… this data is amalgamated data from the years 1971-2000
http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_e.html?stnID=636&autofwd=1

Note Jan has an average of 12.2 days above zero, and .16 days above 10 degrees. Rain and snow in the winter months is pretty normal around here. What messes us up is the freezing and thawing as weather systems move through, always better to have 1 thaw and 1 freeze per month but that is not normal either.

slinky your argument is with NASA; write to them and tell them how wrong they are!

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence

I am quite pleased with BC Hydro. Since having a smart meter installed, my bills are about 10% lower. I live out of town a bit and have had far fewer power outages this last year than the previous years as well. So there is a flip side to most stories. Yes People#1, I keep a monthly and yearly running average going so this is fact.

slinky; your arguments differ from NOAA; the National Oceanic and atmospheric Administration.

slinky; your denial of AGW is not supported by the Untied States Environmental Protection Agency:

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/sources.html

slinky; your denial the global warming is associated with human caused activities is not supported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):

http://www.ipcc.ch/news_and_events/docs/ar5/press_release_ar5_wgi_en.pdf

slinky, the science is quite clear, and unmistakeable, time to face facts and the truth! The earth’s climate is warming and it is “highly likely” that it is human caused!

My argument is with you, it rains and snows in PG every average winter – I posted my link that has that ‘proof’ for you – post one back that refutes the data. Nothing to do with NASA or global warming – just the fact that your ‘prediction’ is all smoke and mirrors.

I should add you have the data in my links at your fingertips. If this data differs from what the NOAA or NASA claims weather is like in Prince George I cannot help that, I did not collect or sort the data, only provided a link and quoted some of the data.

My argument with you; Anthropogenic Climate Change is real, the earth’s climate is warming, and it is caused by human activity!

Problem is, most v=every country in the world knows AGW exists and that we (humans) are causing global warming because of our use of “fossil fuels”.

Because our Conservative Government refuses to believe AGW exists, and continues to bed down with Big Oil, this is how we are view by the rest of the world:

“Canada was awarded the dubious honour of Fossil of the Year for the fifth year running at COP17 in Durban, South Africa. Canadians in Durban were on hand to accept the award, and to pass it on to the next worst offender in recognition that Canada’s actions have become so egregious that they have been left behind on the sidelines of global climate progress.”

http://climateactionnetwork.ca/?p=26720

20,000 years ago our houses were under 1km of ice. I say the warming trend started by our caveman ancestors (by burning wood for heat) is continuing.