Blaming oil companies for adverse weather is akin to putting your finger in a dyke with no leak.

IB次元官网网址檓 not saying emissions are good but the amount of volcanic activity above and below the ocean accounts for unstoppable emissions and ocean warming. WeB次元官网网址檙e still warming from an ice age and mini ice age. Urban temperatures are rising faster due to blacktop, concrete, and office buildings being heated and cooled 24/7, not to mention minimal greenspace.

Plate tectonics raise and lower all land masses. Earth will resemble Venus one day. Mars lost its atmosphere due to losing magnetic poles, which is the only thing protecting us from frying up from solar winds. We still get hit by cosmic rays, but maybe people can learn instead of playing the media blame game.

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DonB次元官网网址檛 live in a floodplain or by a river. Poor construction planning caused Coquihalla damage. Malahat workers failed on drainage impacts as weB次元官网网址檝e had many wetter 48-hour periods. Abbotsford floods every 10 years from a U.S. river breach due to choosing fish habitat over dredging. When tides and rivers keep pushing silt up, we need to dredge as the water needs to go somewhere. Dykes always fail, hills always slide, people cause most forest fires, yet we all like to blame weather.

Uneducated radicals said the Arctic would melt by 1995, and GreenlandB次元官网网址檚 melting would raise oceans 20 feet in 2010. I prefer listening to the astronomers and geologists that were taught before the current fallacies of B次元官网网址渃omputer modelling.B次元官网网址�

Stuart Walker

Central Saanich