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El Nino / La Nina

Nov
5
2007

From Environment Canada: El Niño For hundreds of years (the first available record dates 1567), South American fishermen have noticed the appearance of warm waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean along the coast of Ecuador and Peru. As the phenomenon typically becomes apparent around Christmas, the name “El Niño”, or the Christ Child was eventually bestowed. At the turn of this century, a connection between El Niño and other weather patterns had yet to be established. During the 1920s, the head of the Indian Meteorological Service, Sir Gilbert Walker, recognized patterns to the rainfall in South America. His discovery lead him to theorize additional associations with the change in the ocean temperatures, and with atmospheric pressure changes measured at stations on both sides of the Pacific (Tahiti and Darwin, Australia). … Read entire article »

Filed under: Our Earth

What?? No Drive By Shootings?

Oct
26
2007

The Teeswater.ca team thought I might make for an interesting editorial – being from ‘away’ and all – so here goes… My wife and I arrived in Teeswater about a year ago, after buying our house over the Internet no less, full of apprehension and worry about how we would find living in a small town again after years on the Wild West Coast. Where we used to live, Chilliwack B.C. (population 92,000), our life had become a matter of scurrying about to avoid being nailed by the world’s worst drivers or accosted by panhandlers and drug dealers.  Our middle son (the oldest is in college) had to pass crack smokers in the park on his way to school, on an almost daily basis and our youngest couldn’t even poke … Read entire article »

Filed under: The View

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