…on my bus this morning and on Twitter about schools needing to be closed today! Listen up. Legit reasons to close schools: Power outage Water outage Major snowstorm / freezing rain event that puts staff and / or students at risk of physical harm Earthquakes – big ones Invasion by
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Sandy Wind Blows
The largest hurricane recorded is underway, and it’s hitting the US and Canada. Is it because of climate change? The short answer is, yes. If you’re asking that question because you’re wondering if climate change is real, the answer is, yes it is real and we have to make a
Continue readingTrashy's World: Crap.
I hate when snowflakes make their inevitable reappearance on the Environment Canada website. (6) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingTrashy's World: Sandy…
… such an innocent sounding name… doesn’t sound at all like a hurricane. I think of “Sandy” and this is her: NOT this: Who thinks up these names, anyhow? Might be an interesting Tuesday, by the look of it… and dressed up witches might do some real flying on Halloween!
Continue readingcartoon life: The Weather today
Filed under: art, digital Tagged: Cat, cold, rain, weather, wind
Continue readingTrashy's World: A coooooool morn’!
(4) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue reading350 or bust: Weathergirl Goes Off Script, Mentions Science
Pippa the weathergirl goes off script and drops some science instead of the usual barbeque forecast: * Yes, there is more sea ice missing now than there is ice remaining. It’s in a “death spiral”, scientists are saying: Rate of Arctic Summer Sea Ice Loss is 50% Higher Than Predicted
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Holiday Movie Monday
So, the last weekend of summer is upon us loyal readers! I hope that you are currently enjoying the last day of the last long weekend, of this wonderful summer that was. It’s not everyday the Movie Monday falls on a holiday, so I wanted to give you all a
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Folk Festival Saturday
Some more photos from the Wood Mountain Folk Festival, with videos to come when I send some to YouTube. Little Miss Higgins The backdrop over the audience Scene from that hill Scene on that hill Sunset from that hill – On Sunday, my Mum and I helped out at the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wood Mountain Folk Fest
On this weekend I’m at the Wood Mountain Folk Fest. Last night the air was cool and windy, with a few drops of rain, but dozens of people stuck it out anyway in front of the stage while a lot of others watched and listened from their trucks lined up
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Summer 2012: The Season Of Record-Breaking Extreme Weather
This post explores the link between climate change and extreme events, and argues that the summer of 2012 is poised to become a record-breaker.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: North Sky from Regina
– Last night during the thunderstorm. – A few months ago when everyone in Regina got those great mammatus cloud photos.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Sunset
This is the sunset a few evenings ago, through a #12 welding filter plate.
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday miscellany…
…Free Pussy Riot edition! Just learned that Pussy Riot, the chick punkers who have been in detention in Russia for performing an anti-Putin song in a church, have been declared guilty of hooliganism! What a travesty! This is typical of Putin’s imperial Russia, and it also shows the power of
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Show The Cards Elections Canada #RoboCon
A lawyer is trying to compel Elections Canada to release more public details of its super slow investigation into the election fraud from May 2011. Apparently the next date we’ll have any news from the Federal Court is August 8th. In the meantime, the greatest crime against this country in
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wood Mountain Hail
There was a bit of hail in Wood Mountain today; the ground turned white at the park. @canadogreg Friend at Wood Mountain park took this one http://t.co/dqGg1fHX— Riley Fafard (@RilesFaf) August 01, 2012 Tornado warning, and one touched down near Glentworth apparently.
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That’s better. See what happens when you bitch a little bit? (10) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingTrashy's World: This forecast had better change…
…by the time we arrive in P Dot next Tuesday. That is all. (5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Save our Farms! Follow Farmer Friday!
A Farmer in a parched field… So, in case you haven’t noticed, both from my previous Movie Monday post and any time spent out side for most of July, it’s been hot as hell and dry as a bone out there. While this might be great for getting a tan
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Hot Enough For Ya!? – Climate Change – Movie Monday
So, I’ve been having a really good time doing all these ranty Movie Mondays…trying to get people riled up and make us all think a little. Today’s movie is no different. We’re going to look at a topic that has, somehow, become fairly controversial: climate change.It doesn’t take a scientist
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