<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Thanks, Nick, for that info on my former place of residence. The coldest temperature I experienced in my 6 years there was -40F or C (same). When it's that cold and you are walking into into even a slight breeze you can't run, or you will inhale too much cold air too fast. Your nose freezes, so you periodically have to take a hand out of a glove or mitten to thaw your nose. Then you put the hand back to warm it up until the next time. If you weren't lucky enough to have a "plug-in" for your car at your place of work, you had to spend your coffee breaks running your car to warm it up so the battery wouldn't freeze.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Oddly enough, in 1968, the fifth winter after I came to Moscow, I was in Mexico City, where the headline of the largest newspaper, Excelsior, was "Minus 40 grados en Moscu, Idaho!" -40 is the same in F or C. </span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">A couple of years ago I heard on the CBC (1010 AM, Calgary) that in Alberta they now need air conditioners in domestic dwellings in summer. A man in Edmonton, who had a luxury penthouse apartment, had to spend $30,000 to get air conditioning installed. </span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">And we mustn't forget that in northeastern Alberta, humans are operating one of the largest producers of carbon dioxide on earth at the Athabasca tar sands near Fort McMurray.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Ralph</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "><b>nickgier at roadrunner.com</b> <a href="mailto:vision2020%40moscow.com?Subject=%5BVision2020%5D%20Edmonton%2C%20Alberta%3A%20warmest%20winter%20ever%3F&In-Reply-To="><font color="#000af1" style="color: #000af1"><u>nickgier at roadrunner.com </u></font></a></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times"><i>Sat Jan 9 10:27:08 PST 2010</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; min-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 13px; ">Good Morning Visionaries:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">I set my Roadrunner weather to Edmonton, Alberta, where my daughter and son-in-law live. They had the warmest November on record and these temperatures today indicate that it may turn out to be their warmest winter in recorded history. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Jan. 9, 2010 27°-3°F. The usual January day is 20 degree cooler, but I should check with Ralph Nielsen who used to live there for many years.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Folks, we are talking global climate change not bad weather here and there.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Nick Gier</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div>
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