David Phillips Quotes (31 Quotes)

The easy answer is the fact that the source of cold air this winter tended to be more in Eurasia and not North America. So what we got was more Pacific air and not Arctic air.

I guess I can see both sides if it is depicting certain groups in a negative light. But at the same time I would keep it for its historical quality. It's a touchy subject.

Our reputation as the great white north, the land of ice and snow, may be at risk here because what we have seen is rather anomalous weather conditions for the last year particularly.

What we're saying is from Vancouver to Thunder Bay, Ont., that western part of Canada is looking like it'll be warmer than normal, so it's a continuation of what the fall has been like,

I don't know if we feel guilty, but we certainly feel as if it's the first year we've cancelled winter. We've gone years without summer, but never winter.

I think (this winter) will be a dress rehearsal. It may very well be a glimpse or preview of what winter will be like in the future, where we will be wondering where winter is.

It's not the coldest place, but it has a sure cold. And unlike the coldest places, it also has a sure snow cover.

Both Bush and Blair were prepared to move forward with military action without fully appreciating the level of difficulty they would face.

I'm reluctant to say this is global warming because next winter may turn out to be colder than normal.

(The last) four months have been warmer than normal so there's a lot of stored heat in the lakes and the rivers and the land and the soil.

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All of this is a bit of a yawner from a weather point of view. It's dramatic because it's so sudden.

We have now got a situation where the amount is three times the cost of the original proposal. Eight weeks later and we are now talking about 20m.

It's our best guess at what we think the character and personality of the winter in Canada will be like. It's not saying whether it's going to be a white Christmas, or whether there's going to be a January thaw, or what voting day will be like weather-wise. It's none of that.

We are very happy with how far he's come and his ability to be able to succeed as a wild whale,

It became a 400-million hit. Most of that came from insurance losses, but also losses of infrastructure. And sadly, it cost four people their lives.

Diseases, viruses and germs will survive the (warmer) winter. The best thing about our winter climate in this country is when we get cold winters it kills a lot of those things.

As much as I like the Miss America tradition, it too is part of a bygone era. Reality TV shows have taken over, and Miss America is so old-fashioned.

That just shows you that sometimes weather does balance off. Sometimes you get milder winters here and colder winters there.

We certainly can't feel punished if his prediction is six more weeks of winter, because we haven't had six days of winter.

Never has Canada been so wet as it's been here this year, and particularly the summer. It was also the most expensive summer from an insurance point of view.

To support their economic growth countries like China and India are aggressively moving to secure new energy streams. The US needs to have a comprehensive energy strategy, which is part of our overall national-security strategy.

I think it's as simple as saying we've been doing this for almost 35 years. We've been putting off things that we wanted to do.

We're almost like the no-cold-weather zone. Almost every day but one since the start of winter has been above normal.

You're going to be hard pressed to find an area that has temperatures cooler than normal.

We didn't just break the (winter) record, we smashed it to pieces.

It could be (you have) below normal precipitation but your snowfall is higher because you have less rainfall.

If you stand back and look at the past 50 years, all these parties have been competing with each other for resources. There have been some agreements but essentially they've been competing in a zero-sum game.

From southern British Columbia across the southern part of Canada - where most people live - it looks like a colder than normal December.

We had across Canada the wettest year in the past 60 years that we've been measuring records right across the country, particularly in the summer. It was the wettest summer on record.

Milosevic had a dream of regaining his freedom by getting to Russia. Saddam thinks he can regain power through the insurgency.