I guess it depends on where you get your weather. The weather network had the temp at -27 at 8 this morning, therefore no record as far as they are concerned.

I wonder if everyone was wringing their hands about global warming back in 1963 when it was +12?

Hi JohnnyBelt. To understand climate change you must first understand the difference between weather and climate. A high pressure system is a change in weather, not climate.

curmudgeonscurse
And the difference between normal and average.

I know that the climate has been changing for billions of years. Just getting ahead of the usual ‘experts’ on the subject.

Just to set the record straight, JB has never been ahead of the usual experts on the subject of climate change / global warming.

The exerts: NASA, NOAA, and US EPA, have always been ahead!

climate change aside, does anyone here have n opinion on leaving your dogs outside from at least 8am to after 11pm in this weather with no form of shelter at all? what would you do?

Leave them in my home

Leave them in my home

Now, there’s some pollution for you!

Not in this weather Boudicca, and if you see someone doing this, call the SPCA!

Posted by: Boudicca on February 6 2014 10:44 AM
climate change aside, does anyone here have n opinion on leaving your dogs outside from at least 8am to after 11pm in this weather with no form of shelter at all? what would you do?

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Call the SPCA. 1-855-622-7722 is the animal cruelty number.

Some dogs live outside fine.

My parents old dog, slept under a tree his whole life unless it got below -20, then he would finally go sleep in his doghouse(perfectly fine doghouse, he just didn’t like it).

He didn’t even notice the cold. Depends on the breed and the fur levels.

thanks, i contacted the spca and they are going to look into it, and try to educate the people about how to care for their animals!

hummer i hear you but your parents dog had the option i think, shelter was provided
anyways whats done is done

Curmudgeon you don’t understand. Low temperature records are just weather and high temperature records are so called climate change. Did you know there was no climate change before Mann.

Peaple you really have to catch up on the usual alphabets have been saying lately.

All you dog experts can come and watch my dogs. Heated dog house with blankets and pillows and I go out at 6am to find them curled up outside, on top of the blankets they pulled out of their house. :p

Granyed they’ve got the option – but the old girl HATES being in the house and gets terribly stressed until back outside.

Environment Canada has Tuesday at a high of -13 and a low of -37 but the Weather Network has a high of -3 and low of -16. Why the huge discrepancy?

Used to have an akita and he lived outside. The only time he was under cover was when it rained. Forty below never fazed him, curled up on the snow sound asleep.

Why have a dog if it’s left outside? Mine are indoors 24×7 except to do their business. They are family pets that I wouldn’t dream of leaving outside. I’m not trying to be critical here. I’m just curious. Why bother having them if they are left outside?

Environment Canada has YXS at -23 as does AccuWeather. Weather Network has PG at -19. So it would depend on where they are getting the weather from.

AccuWeather shows Shelley and Miworth at -19 so I would draw the conclusion that the Weather Network uses the bowl for its weather report and the others use the airport as they have done all the way back to when it was built, also where our 1975 and 1963 temperatures were recorded.

Everyone knows the bowl apart from being stinky is also a few degrees warmer than when you climb your way out.

Good question, mythoughts… I have no idea why people have dogs if they’re just going to be chained up outside all the time. Yet, many people in PG do this. Maybe someone can explain?

Our dogs go everywhere with us except work. (And even then on occasion if its a road trip) Camping, hiking, trips to the garbage dump, wherever. If I open the door to the truck they jump in with excitement. They are a very close and loved part of our family. They are also large breed guardians that prefer to be outside. They let us know if anyone comes in the yard, etc. If the door to the house is left open they will not stay inside. I guess I could ask conversely, why do people have dogs if they’re just going to lock them in the house all the time?

Minus 58 in Siberia.

Climate Scientist Who Got It Right Predicts 20 More Years of Global Cooling –

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/climate-scientist-who-got-it-right-predicts-20-more-years-global

They are left outside to be watch dogs.

Seamutt, your first post was illegible and your second post is just reinterating someone else’s opinion. Time to do you own research (outside of the news media)

Global warming just doesn’t mean the entire world will get warmer and all end up growing pineapples and bananas. It means all the “normal” weather places usually see will be impacted..

Well, it is warming up, but this hype about global warming is just that. 50’s and 60’s, it was -50F, don’t see that anymore. Just means the North Pole is shifting, no big deal. It was a beautiful sunny day, it wasn’t that cold out, would love to have gone snow shoeing, but had to work, damn!

Curmudgeon if you didn’t understand my first post then you really don’t get it.

These temperatures are because I pay a carbon tax or because in spite of. Is my carbon tax paying working as it should? Maybe I should volunteer to pay more if it warms things up. But then again…..I’m confused. My government wouldn’t lie to me, would they?

Other provinces don’t pay a carbon tax. And they are just as cold. I’m suspicious of this tax.

According to the IPCC we need to bring our co2 and other emissions to a balance so we no longer affect climate – to that almost everyone agrees.

This balance is approx 17 GT

IPCC chart is metric, this one is not but has the same data simplified:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/human-co2-smaller-than-natural-emissions.htm

So if we are to believe the IPCC – globally we did not hit 17 GT co2 emissions until the mid 80s, so we did not affect the climate through GHGs until about 1985 according to the IPCCs own research. Thus it would stand that any warming of the planet or increase in co2 levels before 1985 is completely of a natural cycle and nothing to do with people.

+12 in 1963, this was pre 1985 so exactly what brought that about?

Hmm… judging by some of the comments on here, the following applies to a few Canadians as well…

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1536539_677470465638818_342866491_n.jpg

Get over it! Anthropogenic climate change / global warming is a scientific fact, accept it and move on!

Im suspicious as well Harb. I heard some add saying how much CO2 had dropped with this tax. Has anyone heard of an independent confirmation of this? Has anyone ever measured at ton of CO2 on this site? It seems to me it would be very easy to inflate anything when actual CO2 numbers are almost impossible for taxpayers to verify.

I was totally against this tax when it was brought in and given the lack of implementation else where, it makes even less sense.

When this tax has more years of data, I,m confident it will be deemed a wealth redistribution to questionable “green” projects with very little environmental impact.

I get that current weather will be different at different measuring stations around town but how can a forecast have a 10 degree difference of the high and 20 degree difference on the low?? That’s what I don’t understand.

…different at different measuring stations…? Maybe the people nearer one of the measuring stations pays more carbon tax. Could happen. You don’t know.

Record low in lotus land. Carbon tax must be working.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/17/cause-of-the-pause-in-global-warming/

Have a look and read what other people have to say about it.

-31 on the thermometer this am dam cold anything below about -20 dogs should be allowed some form of shelter. I agree with an earlier post why keep a dog outside all the time they enjoy house time also,and don’t kid yourself their sense of hearing is amazing with tv blaring they can still hear a car driving past down the road.

Minus 36C here this a.m. and our dog prefers the snowbank out in the open to his giant overstuffed dog bed in the woodpile shelter.
He likes to see and hear what is going on.
One of our other dogs used to drag his bed out of the shelter and sleep on it out in the open.
Lots of dogs live outside in colder weather than PG gets.
metalman.

Find a homeless guy who would appreciate yer dog’s house. Provide an incandescent light bulb. Just to be a rebel.

An the most tasteless comment of the week goes to: Harbinger!

Its kind of a warm/dry cold anyways. I hardly noticed it today and didn’t even wear the toque. Its felt colder than this at minus 1 before when moisture is in the air.

Posted by: People#1 on February 6 2014 5:39 PM “Get over it! Anthropogenic climate change / global warming is a scientific fact, accept it and move on!”

Those are two different things, global warming is not being debated, the world goes through global cooling and global warming cycles, that is a known fact which everyone accepts.

It is the first one on your list that is the debatable factoid to which noone really has an answer, not even the IPCC or NASA – they have guesses but those have not proven too accurate as of late. Nasa’s sun activity monitoring and PDO is the closest mimic to the climate we have so far. As everyone has been trying to tell you check out in percentage terms what humans actually contribute to the overall effect. There have been a few notable ‘scientists’ moving to more neutral ground on the issue as of late.