Now Alan. We all know that people were smaller back then as was the resultant architecture so that is in fact only 2 feet of snow. So says the Rona Ambrose official "Climate Change is a Liberal Sponsored Myth" report.

Well, my back is still sore from White Juan a few years ago and I think it was 2001 when St. John's had something like 619 cm? Anyway, I'm not complaining about the lack of it, despite the snowshoes from Santa. My Mom said that the winter of 94/95 there was no snow at all in Hfx (maybe a bit in May or something).

I don't think anyone is saying there's no climate change (at least, there shouldn't be anyone); the debate is on the cause and extent.

I remember that there was +10C in Halifax on Christmas Day 1985 as I was the only campus police officer on that day. I was in the Ottawa Valley in 94/95 and that may have been the year of -30C for around four weeks, -40C for around eight days in the middle of that and -50 for a couple of days in the middle of that. I still have a small red patch on my cheek where I got frostbite when I was trying to start the car.

We had tons of the stuff there late in the winter of, I think, 2001 and also 2002--almost 75 or 80 inches in March alone, in our NH town, and the drifts looked like the above picture. Today, however, in northern NY, it is perhaps the prettiest January day I have seen, sunny and mild, and the dude across the street took his motorcycle to work. That is probably a first.