velvetpage: (Harper)
velvetpage ([personal profile] velvetpage) wrote2006-10-12 04:28 pm

Gotta love Rick Mercer

If an American presidential hopeful did something like this, it would sink him. But this is Canada, and Bob Rae probably just netted himself a chunk in the Liberal leadership race.

http://www.cbc.ca/mercerreport/backissues.php

All puns absolutely, 100% intentional.

[identity profile] kesmun.livejournal.com 2006-10-12 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay. Here's the deal. You guys warm the place up, and I'll move in a heartbeat! *L*

[identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com 2006-10-12 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
You realize that skinnydipping happened in a Northern Ontario lake at the beginning of October? Those lakes are barely warm enough for swimming in August. I shudder to think about how cold it was.

Southern Ontario's not bad. It rarely stays below -20 more than a few days at a time. :)

[identity profile] kesmun.livejournal.com 2006-10-12 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
*eye* Where I live doesn't go below +20°C while the sun's up for most of the year.

[identity profile] hendrikboom.livejournal.com 2006-10-13 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
A few years I learned that in historical times, the northern part of the northern hemisphere has been four degrees warmer than it was then. Specifically, the Viking had a warmer time of it. So it seems we can accomodate some of the climate change now happening. But making it 30 degrees warmer is another thing. When that happens, you'd probably *have* to come here to survive.

[identity profile] kesmun.livejournal.com 2006-10-13 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately, that would be true. What would work admirably is that Canada's government, as flawed as it is, takes over Mexico, reforms it, and then I can move there. *G*