You can’t make this stuff up
Rinks in Canada’s Arctic Turn to Cooling Systems
By JEFF Z. KLEIN Published: January 4, 2013
Winter has come to the vast, northernmost reaches of Canada, the sparsely populated area surrounding the Arctic Circle historically characterized by severely cold weather. But these days refrigeration systems are needed to keep the ice cold at hockey arenas.
It has been too warm for December hockey in the Arctic, the latest sign that climate change is altering the environment and the way people live — especially in the far north, where the effects of rising temperatures are most pronounced.
More Rinks in Far North Find Need for Cooling Systems – NYTimes.com
Fairbanks, Alaska averaged -27C in December, and the center of the Greenland Ice Sheet averaged -40. You can play hockey in Southern New Mexico, but the New York Times tells us that it is too warm to play hockey in the Arctic.
The periodic warmups in Nunavut have nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with a weather pattern, where an east wind comes off the relatively warm water of the North Atlantic, which is heated by the Gulf Stream.
Normally that same pattern is also assoicated with major snowstorms and cold waves in the eastern US. December 2010 was the coldest December on record in Florida and there were repeated blizzards in the Northeast during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 winters that resulted in many snowfall records.
The NY Times has lost 80% of its stock value in the last eight years. The after midnight Fox News show ‘Red Eye’ opens each day with a puppet of the physical paper itself, speaking crazy things, viewed by millions a day mostly by overnight recording. Satire to the rescue.
What were the temps in December?
This is really, really interesting. How far will these idiots go? It’s as if they’re on a leash of some sort so they have to keep going forward, no matter how ridiculous they become.
On another note, I see that Jeffrey K. is pushing the rising-Arctic-temperature meme – when will this clash with the more-severe-winters meme? Will there be something like a storm front when the two memes collide?
Unlikely to be a collision as these people operate in a parallel universe where everything is backwards.
New York Times papet edition is good for toilet paper. Barely.
That’s very risky behaviour.
It can lead to a disease called “ADS”
Mid Jan is not looking good for Alberta either…
If you give NYT a free ride
And look to see what they provide
In this “too warm for sticks”
The talked-about fix
Is pumping cold air … from outside!
Some Cape Dorset A data’s here
And it isn’t entirely clear
With December high temps
Less than zero, these chimps
Seem to be making up things to fear.
And that high of temp of zero or so
(That’s the highest December they know)
Is not what they’re about
For the charts spell it out:
That happened fifteen years ago.
===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle
Not surprised an indoor rink would need refrigeration. Is the crowd going to tolerate below-freezing temps indoors?
More like “we installed heat in our arenas, and heated buildings need ice equipment” but no lie is too big for these fools, or for “crazy eyes Mckibben” to pimp around.
A report on this appeared in the Internationsl Herald Tribune (I think) next to an article that 100 had frozen to death in India. Sheer madness, that (i) folk think ice skating rinks are important, and (ii) a society cannot protect 100 people against freezing weather.
And just how many rinks are there above the arctic circle?
I have to comment. This is just dumb on too many levels.
Firstly, the best ice for outdoor skating or hockey is around -5C. At this temperature the ice is slick and skaters can really glide. But when the temperature goes to -10C it is not so easy, and by -20C you need a lot of effort and the ice shatters very easily on the top layer.
I’ve built many an outdoor backyard rink (stuffing the garden hose out the basement window and then running like hell outside to get the water flowing before it froze in the hose. Sometimes 20 seconds was too long and the nozzle was frozen) and I know what the effect is on skating at different temps.
So many rinks in the cold north are indoor because the outdoor ice is too cold to skate on, conditions too variable and tough on spectators. But once the rink in indoors, and you have heating for spectators, the conditions are entirely different. For instance, my garage which is not heated, generally doesn’t get below 0C unless the outdoor temp is below -20C and maybe -25C depending on the wind. An indoor rink would like have similar conditions.
My community has an outdoor rink (complete with lights for night time skating) right beside the indoor rink. For the indoor rink, conditions are pretty constant all through the winter, for the outdoor rink, not so much; but still fun when the temperature is just right!