David E. Ross wrote:
On 10/9/2013 4:12 PM, Higgs Boson wrote:

Rain, in So. Calif, Oct 9??? Surprise. Supposed to start, IF it
ever comes, somewhere in November.

Or did I do it: washing the car and patio and watering the garden
(too long; I buy a damn timer and always forget to set it! Water VERY
expensive here.)

The seasons that used to be rock-solid steady have shifted over the
last 2-3 years. Food plants that used to be sowed or transplanted at
X season are not doing well. I may just throw it in next year...but
I always say that...

But of course global warming is unproven, say the whore scientists
hired by the industries that don't want to be forced to curb their
carbon emissions. Their well-paid flacks do a great job sowing doubt
in the minds of the 99% of the public that don't know how or don't
want to be bothered reading the readily-accessible research.

Apes moi, le deluge...

HB


Malibu 0.11 inches
Beverly Hills 0.03
USC 0.04
CHE 0.03 (my local weather station, about 2 miles north of
US 101 and just east of Oak Park)
I can't find a weather station in Santa Monica that records and
archives precipitation. In most parts of southern California, too
little rain fell to hold down dust let alone end the danger of brush
fires.

As for climate change, we should stop arguing about why it is
happening. It is happening. Ask the almond growers in the California
Central Valley, who are experiencing crop declines because of
insufficient winter chill for their trees. Ask the Canadian
government, which is trying to assert control over the North-West
Passage now that commercial shipping is possible through the Artic
Ocean. Ask the city of San Francisco and surrounding cities, which
are concerned about their water supply as the Maclure and Lyell
Glaciers (feeding the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir) retreat. We should
concern ourselves with preparing for the results of climate change
and with preventing it from becoming worse.

No no no. If you close your eyes and block your ears while you sing LA LA
LA very loudly you can neither see nor hear anything to do with climate
change. Besides it's all a left wing conspiracy aimed at installing a
socialist world government that will remove your rights: to vote, to wash
your socks whenever you like and to celebrate Christmas.

And keep in mind you are dealing with Frank. Recall Mark Twain , "The
problem with folks is not what they don't know but what they know that just
ain't so"


D