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Dec 17^th

Arctic outflow again

While some cloud & snow showers Tuesday – soon cleared off and the arctic outflow winds returned – pink arrow below – blue arrow is ‘our’ rain & pineapple going to California

	Vandalism Sunday night
	Window was quickly replaced – but looks like this was from ‘bar crowd’ – late at night

An online petition for Pacific Coast School

SD 52 --- assimilation strategy?

One discussion did not happen at the special meeting of Board to vision future of schools --- while one of 6 scenarios preserved Westview French language courses – none addressed the present 60% majority—1^st Nations students. I asked Bill Wood about this after the presentation – he suggested it had been done on purpose – the emphasis was upon ‘togetherness’ and wanted to avoid East vs West and potential ghetto-ization A further dimension is PR 1^st Nations are Tsimshian, Haida, Nisga’a etc – but the discussion should take place because otherwise argues for withdrawal into special schools as at Port Simpson etc

My previous on Enbridge w links

Enbridge pipeline – a matter of scale

As one observer commented – it is what scale one evaluates the Enbridge pipeline – at largest scale it involves extracting the bitumen from Alberta tar sands and all the destruction and GHG emissions etc At the more regional scale it involves whether tankers should ever be transiting ‘pristine’ NC waters. The bathymetry map left shows the 3 routes Enbridge could take (depending upon weather etc) – note the fjord of Douglas Channel relatively deep and clear (glacially scoured) – but the entrances are shallow and the main entry point (1) has numerous shallow peaks etc (east of the 1) – probably many uncharted too

	Most susceptible to sea level rising
	Image form provincial brochure – compare with image above – the yellow outer islands are relatively flat and will be very susceptible to rising seas --- especially Rose Spit etc on the QCIs

	AGU meeting –with emphasis upon climate change
	Nature science reporter at AGU – here report on abrupt climate change – where US report on Abrupt Climate Change looks at 4 scenarios – seeing potential for both rising sea levels and droughts (image left) Press Release Good short summary Full report from this web site – as is a short brochure – latter is 6 megs and doesn’t say much more than the press release

	Parking on sidewalk
	While this person parked like this several days – one I mentioned to them that probably illegal as it was blocking the sidewalk – they graciously accepted that it might be and moved the vehicle – had not even thought of someone actually walking – but were good natured about my comments

Created by LG on 16/12/2008

Last updated on Friday, December 31, 2010