I know pubescent boys love to see loud long shiny high-speed fuselages thrusting over and over at willowy clouds, but tell me, compared to the sum total fossil fuels burned annually by all the cars in all the drive-throughs in the entire Georgian Triangle, how much petro-carbons does just one Snowbird dump out on a single take-off? For 'entertainment'. Isn't the elation over this news just a tad contradictory?

The Snowbirds will be coming to Owen Sound after all ... The official announcement came late yesterday from 15 Wing in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan where the aerobatic team is based.
[ Bayshore Broadcasting Corporation ]

The mind reels at the fuel bill to run these things from Moose Jaw to here and back, and causes me to pause to wonder who it is that pays for all that biodiesel.

And likewise I pause to wonder, since the no-idle rules are obviously not intended to curb local C0/CO2 emmissions, then just what are they wanting to accomplish with the ban?

Worth remembering too, as every NASCAR fan does on every race, that the racecars have been under the gun to mind their emissions for over 30 years now. The fools never realized they could beat that ban by simply extending and rounding the shape of their vehicles, and maybe add some hoops, or a long tunnel ...

hi garym i had to read it twice as i at first thought of all those snowbirds traveling back and forth to florida each year. your comments seem to support my notion that protecting the environment and reducing co/co2 emissions is only paid lip service and most people dont care enough to be inconvenienced. maybe they will get rained out. or maybe global warming is just a myth.

Hey BOY... don't you be a messin with the Nascar ( cut to image of man spitting on the ground)
Whe I retire I wanna be able to drag my 79 foot trailer with the pickup truck hooked on behind ( with the hemi in it of course) pull into the middle of a mile and 1/2track and find my spot amongst the thousands of other trailers. put up my favourite racers flag on a 40 foot pole and site with my cooler and BBQ. and watch the race on TV
I wanna hear the thunder of 700 horse powe and breath in the smoke and the carcinagens of burning rubber as the cars go around. And not some mamby pamby wussy hybrid electric thing purring around the track. I what my chest to hurt from the acoustic concussion as the cars roar by and smash around and catch fire.
If this enviro thing keeps gaining speed like it is things are gonna get out of control and then what. turn the infield of the Brickyard into the largest cricket field in the world.... just another prespective...
BTW what happened to ACID RAIN buzz or was it pre ozone which seems off the radar. :)

The National Post is running a series of articles which serve to point out that at least some well accredited folks do not join in the anti CO2 hysteria that seems to grip some of the people who live among us. I am constantly amazed by the number of people who do not realize that the largest and most effective of the greenhouse gases is water vapour.

Do not read through this if you think Al Gore is safe enough to present to high school and elementary students without some other balancing material. You are too far gone to save.

"scientists who buck the conventional wisdom on climate science. Here is the series so far ..."
Read all about it: Climate change: The Deniers

We have some few Al Gore trained politicians in our midst between Saugeen Shores and Owen Sound. One result is a spate of opinion pieces that pretend to be aligned with the best of current science on the subject. They are usually far from it. Here is one way to sort out the wheat from the chaff: If the article assumes that climate change and anthropogenic activity (it means generated from human activity) have a direct cause and effect relationship, that is a dead giveaway you are dealing with the hysterical faction.

On the subject of this thread those of us who heat our homes with wood heat just have to laugh at the anti idling nonsense.

hi dodge, sorry to be a nitpick but 'anthropomorphic' means human looking or of human form, like a robot with a head, arms and legs. 'anthropogenic' is the adjective i think you wanted, as it means caused by humans.
cheers
kltpzyxm

I have made the correction thanks. I think anthropomorphic is used to describe human attributes in animals which is your "human form". Glad to have you aboard.