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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Shuckins on April 07, 2007, 12:06:50 AM
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Night time temperatures here in the 20s. Coldest Easter I can ever remember.
Crops such as corn that have already come up are in danger of being bitten back by the cold and frost.
Early gardens will likely be lost.
Beatin'est thing I've ever seen in south Arkansas for this time of year.
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We had temps in the mid 80's a few days ago with storms and tornados here in North texas. Now its supposed to be close to freezing with rain and snow. In April?:huh
Call Al Gore!!!!!:furious
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I live in SW VA...half inch snow on ground;
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Record cold....record heat....record cold...record heat...record snowfall....record rainfall...
Earth's climate may, indeed, be balanced on a razor's edge.......but it could fall in either direction.
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We have had a very short winter this year. It lasted for about a month with tons of snow and very cold weather. The rest of the winter has been very mild with not a snow flake in sight. In normal norwegian winters (unlike the last 5-10 years) around were I live the snow and winter weather usually comes in november or october and lasts until spring in April.
4-5 months have been reduced to one.
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Originally posted by Nilsen
We have had a very short winter this year. It lasted for about a month with tons of snow and very cold weather. The rest of the winter has been very mild with not a snow flake in sight. In normal norwegian winters (unlike the last 5-10 years) around were I live the snow and winter weather usually comes in november or october and lasts until spring in April.
4-5 months have been reduced to one.
Well then HOOOOORRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYY YYYYYYYYYYYYYY global warming!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by Shuckins
Record cold....record heat....record cold...record heat...record snowfall....record rainfall...
Earth's climate may, indeed, be balanced on a razor's edge.......but it could fall in either direction.
It has indeed been a very peculiar year. Soon I'll need my own solar/wind generator to assist me with my utility bills. AC one day heat the next. I tell you...the climate is after my pocket book!
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It hit 80 degs yesterday for us in the foothills. Sunny, beautiful spring day. :)
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I’m in North Ohio; it’s snowed the last two days, My sister lives in Juneau Alaska; this is the snowiest winter on record.
(http://michaellwittig.tripod.com/blog/snowcave.jpg)
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Well it's 9:55 AM here in Virginia Beach and it's snowing like crazy right now. Go figure, yesterday it was almost 70 degrees. I was washing my truck wearing a t-shirt and blue jeans, and had my AC on the day before that it was so warm. Woke up this morning freazing my butt off looking at snow.
Yeah global warming is here. Right. I wish because I hate the cold.
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any climate change from some "norm" will be attributed to man made global warming..
The buffoons are now even going so far as to say that the people who live on the coast will drown when the oceans rise 30 feet in the next decade or so unless we spend lots of money on their research and companies.
A light hurricane or tornado season is blamed on global warming... as is a heavy one.
no matter what the weather does.. you have to look no farther than the big yellow ball up there...
ITS THE SUN STUPID
They know they have to hurry and get restrictions passed before we go into a natural cooling cycle in the next few years.
You would think that after they all predicted the 2000 ice age back in the 70's that we could not be fooled by the chicken littles and grant seekers again but...
it is difficult to overestimate the the ability of the herd to be stampeded.
lazs
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At 10:30 AM it's 47 degrees in Lafayette LA. just about 60 miles north of the gulf. Last year we were running the AC at max because of the heat. Must have been all the money gore invested in carbon offsets.... :rolleyes:
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(http://www.woodcraftplans.com/CWPplansGFX/ys124.jpg)
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Why you posting your national bird there Nilsen?
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Interesting:
Bleakest report ever on global warming
April 7, 2007
the associated press
BRUSSELS, Belgium- As the world gets hotter by degrees, millions of poor people will suffer from hunger, thirst, floods and disease unless drastic action is taken, scientists and diplomats warned Friday in their bleakest report ever on global warming.
All regions of the world will change, with the risk that nearly a third of the Earth's species will vanish if global temperatures rise just 3.6 degrees above the average temperature in the 1980s-90s, the new climate report says. Areas that now have too little rain will become drier.
Yet that grim and still preventable future is a toned-down prediction, a compromise brokered in a fierce, around-the-clock debate among scientists and bureaucrats. Officials from some governmentsmanaged to win some weakened wording.
Even so, the final report "will send a very, very clear signal" to governments, said Yvo de Boer, top climate official for the U.N.
, which in 1988 created the authoritative climate change panel that issued the starkly worded document.
And while some scientists were angered at losing some ground, many praised the report as the strongest warning ever that nations must cut back on greenhouse gas emissions.
The report is the second of four coming this year from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations network of 2,000 scientists. The new document tries to explain how global warming is changing life on Earth; the panel's report in February focused on the cause of global warming and said scientists are highly confident most of it is due to human activity.
All four reports must be unanimously approved by the 120-plus governments that participate, and all changes must be approved by the scientists.
That edict made for a deadline-busting contentious final editing session that was closed to the public. However, The Associated Press witnessed the hectic final 3 1/2 hours of objections and conflict.
At one point, Chinese and Saudi Arabian delegates tried to reduce the scientific confidence level about already noticeable effects of global warming. They lower the confidence level from 90 percent to 80 percent. Scientists objected, and one lead author from the United States, NASA's Cynthia Rosenzweig, left the building after filing an official protest.
"There is a discernible human influence on these changes" that are already occurring through flooding, heat waves, hurricanes and threats to species, she said.
Under a U.S.-proposed compromise, the final report deleted any mention of the level of confidence about global warming's current effects. And that may have saved the day, according to some scientists who said the report had appeared doomed over that issue.
There were other disputes where scientists lost out:
_Instead of saying "hundreds of millions" would be vulnerable to flooding under certain scenarios, the final document says "many millions."
_Instead of suggesting up to 120 million people are at risk of hunger because of global warming, the revised report refers to negative effects on subsidence farmers and fishers.
Often it was the U.S. delegation who stood with scientists and helped reach compromise, said Stanford University scientist Stephen Schneider, a frequent critic of the Bush administration's global warming policies.
British scientist Neil Adger said he and others were disappointed that government officials deleted parts of a chart that highlights the devastating effects of climate change with every rise of 1.8 degrees in temperature.
Some scientists bitterly vowed never to take part in the process again.
Still, Adger and other scientists and even environmental groups hailed the final report as the strongest ever.
"This is a glimpse into an apocalyptic future," the Greenpeace environmental group said of the final report.
The tone of the report is urgent, noting those who can afford the least get hit the most by global warming.
"Don't be poor in a hot country, don't live in hurricane alley, watch out about being on the coasts or in the Arctic, and it's a bad idea to be on high mountains with glaciers melting," said Schneider, the Stanford scientist who was one of the study author's.
Africa by 2020 is looking at an additional 75 million to 250 million people going thirsty because of climate change, the report said. Deadly diarrheal diseases associated with floods and droughts will increase in Asia because of global warming, the report said.
The first few degrees increase in global temperature will actually raise global food supply, but then it will plummet, according to the report.
"The poorest of the poor in the world _ and this includes poor people in prosperous societies _ are going to be the worst hit," said Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "People who are poor are least able to adapt to climate change."
But even rich countries, such as the United States say that the report tells them what to watch for.
James Connaughton, the head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality noted that food production in North America would rise initially, but so will increased coastal flooding.
The head of the U.S. delegation, White House associate science adviser Sharon Hays, said a key message she's taking home to Washington is "that these projected impacts are expected to get more pronounced at higher temperatures," she said in a conference call from Brussels. "Not all projected impacts are negative."
Schneider said a main message isn't just what will happen, but what already has started: melting glaciers, stronger hurricanes, deadlier heat waves, and disappearing or moving species.
It all can be traced directly to greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels, according to the report.
Martin Parry, who conducted the tough closed-door negotiations, said that with 29,000 sets of data from every continent include Antarctica, the report firmly and finally established "a man-made climate signal coming through on plants, water and ice."
"For the first time, we are not just arm-waving with models," he said.
But many of the worst effects aren't locked into the future, the report said in its final pages. People can build better structures, adapt to future warming threats and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, scientists said.
"There are things that can be done now, but it's much better if it can be done now rather than later," said David Karoly of the University of Oklahoma, one of the report authors.
"We can fix this," Schneider said.
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We need to send these guys a link to this BBS and to lazs' BBC swindle show. They'll sure feel silly then.
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Snowing here as I type, snowed last night too, prolly snow all through the weekend.
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in south texas we have a wind chill of 30 degrees. It sucks because today is my boys birthday party and I just got the pool put back together and the back yard fixed up nice.
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only had to shovel the driveway three times this year, and it was just a few inches of powder.
keep it coming...
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Well hey - let's all write our local politicians, calling for the govt's anti global warming policies to be scrapped. Clearly they are no longer needed, because it was the coldest Easter shuckins can remember.
:aok
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in Texas 75 degrees yesterday 30 and hail today:confused:
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Same as Slash, we had tornadoes rip through southern Colorado last week, seems like winter now, light snow since yesterday and a light drizzle in the morning and more of the same today.:aok
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After riding around on the scoot in short sleeves last week, (80s), I am now waitng for the global warming to kick back in and get us out of the 30s. We usualy just call it spring. :)
The "What If" boys in Brussels with their earth shattering news once again proved that they are basket cases. All if with no facts.
IF a rabbit had wings his prettythang wouldn`t hit the ground so much.
:D
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Jackal...you and lazs etc are firmly on the side of China and Saudi Arabia in the GW debate.
That amuses me.
:aok
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hmm... so you are on the side of the UN? So what is the record for scientists who predict doomsday? It is zero.. they have never been right.. they weren't right 30+ years ago when they predicted "man made global ice age" and they aren't right now.
the global climate goes in cycles and can be predicted by the suns activity... we will be going into a global cooling cycle any year now... I think most of the scientists know that and it is a mad rush to get power before nature takes over so that they can say that see.... the company they started or the research they got funded that made them rich and famous.. it was all worth it...
I think that when the average person sees what the global alarmists have in mind for us for "solutions" to a non existent problem.. that even the dumbest will ask for a little more debate on the subject.
I don't care what a country tells me is happening. there are plenty of real scientists who say it is all a scam. They will be missing out on the free money and power.
lazs
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Originally posted by Curval
Jackal...you and lazs etc are firmly on the side of China and Saudi Arabia in the GW debate.
That amuses me.
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I`m on the side of common sense.
The earth has been in a constant state of change since recorded history. I don`t think it will stop because we wish it to.
So..........whose side are you on? All I have seen is what I would refer to a a "gate straddler".
Maybe you are one of the ones who actualy believe you can get people from all over the world to agree on something.......anything.
Or possibly believe that we can put stricter restrictions on industry in our country without them going to the non participating countries who are in states of famine and total ruin, that have and will not have any restricitions without them rubbing their hands together and saying........Come On Down.
Fantasy and reality are worlds apart.
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curval.. you are firmly in the camp of algore... that should amuse anyone who can think.
Blaming man made co2 for global climate change is like driving your car in death valley at noon... The temp gauge goes up... It is like ignoring the outside temp, ignoring the radiator condition, ignoring the fan belts, ignoring the thermostat and water pump, ignoring the condition of the engine, ignoring the condition of the drive train and then...
concentrating all your time and effort into a lug nut on the passenger side wheel as being the cause.
lazs