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18" of Snow on Long Island - yes this too is global warming
After failing to find a water heater anywhere locally I went out and bought
an air bubbler to keep a hole open in the pond. It was doing such a gallant job and then we got over 18" of snow in one day. I can't even see where the pond exists let alone a hole somewhere in the vast blanket of white on our back yard. even the chairs and benches are under. I have to laugh at the misconception folks have of global warming, thinking it means we will all have San Diego weather when in fact what it means is that with the ocean covering most of our earth being the heat sink and the weather maker we will have more extremes of all weather. The "snowstorm of the century" was just a few years ago and we missed beating that record by a couple of inches. The previous 2 record beaters were I believe since 1988. DKat |
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18" of Snow on Long Island - yes this too is global warming
"D Kat" wrote in message ... After failing to find a water heater anywhere locally I went out and bought an air bubbler to keep a hole open in the pond. It was doing such a gallant job and then we got over 18" of snow in one day. I can't even see where the pond exists let alone a hole somewhere in the vast blanket of white on our back yard. even the chairs and benches are under. I have to laugh at the misconception folks have of global warming, thinking it means we will all have San Diego weather when in fact what it means is that with the ocean covering most of our earth being the heat sink and the weather maker we will have more extremes of all weather. The "snowstorm of the century" was just a few years ago and we missed beating that record by a couple of inches. The previous 2 record beaters were I believe since 1988. DKat LOL! I just love this "global warming." It's the perfect explanation for everything. If it's hot, it's global warming. If it's cold, it's global warming. And then, of course, if it IS global warming it is undeniably caused by humans -- even though the so-called "greenhouse gasses" are produced in far greater quantities by the Earth itself. Mt. Pinatubo belched out more "greenhouse gasses" in one eruption than man has put in the atmosphere since the dawn of time. Mankind has been on this planet for a relatively short period of time. Could this "global warming" not just be part of a naturally occurring cycle that takes an incredibly long time (from the human point of view) to complete? |
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18" of Snow on Long Island - yes this too is global warming
Yet here in the inland pacific northwest we have had hardly a trace of the
expected snow, all winter we have had 2-2" "storms" and a dusting or two we have had a record low snowfall:-(, in fact, I have been outside over the long weekend working on the sand base for my new pond as the daytime temps have been in the mid 40's (should be in the 20-30 range)...I want your snow..........I miss winter :-) "D Kat" wrote in message ... After failing to find a water heater anywhere locally I went out and bought an air bubbler to keep a hole open in the pond. It was doing such a gallant job and then we got over 18" of snow in one day. I can't even see where the pond exists let alone a hole somewhere in the vast blanket of white on our back yard. even the chairs and benches are under. I have to laugh at the misconception folks have of global warming, thinking it means we will all have San Diego weather when in fact what it means is that with the ocean covering most of our earth being the heat sink and the weather maker we will have more extremes of all weather. The "snowstorm of the century" was just a few years ago and we missed beating that record by a couple of inches. The previous 2 record beaters were I believe since 1988. DKat |
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18" of Snow on Long Island - yes this too is global warming
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:01:51 -0800, "Bob H"
wrote: Yet here in the inland pacific northwest we have had hardly a trace of the expected snow, all winter we have had 2-2" "storms" and a dusting or two we have had a record low snowfall:-(, in fact, I have been outside over the long weekend working on the sand base for my new pond as the daytime temps have been in the mid 40's (should be in the 20-30 range)...I want your snow..........I miss winter :-) I missed our annual dusting, but it aint over til it's over... ·.·´¨ ¨)) -:¦:- ¸.·´ .·´¨¨)) jammer ((¸¸.·´ ..·´ -:¦:- ((¸¸ |
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18" of Snow on Long Island - yes this too is global warming
I live in Austin, Tx.
This year, I was able to wake up and find about a handful of snow on the hood of my car. Last year, we had a little bit of snow fall. It was enough to see it in the sky, but not enough to even touch the ground. About 10 yrs ago, we had enough snow for a few snowballs. That is the history of our winter weather for the past 16 years that I have been here. -will |
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18" of Snow on Long Island - yes this too is global warming
See this is exactly what I'm talking about! Of COURSE there has been
climate and environmental change since the beginning of the earth's environment. At one point we did not have an oxygen based atmosphere but anerobic organisms poisoned themselves almost out of existence with their "waste" product, oxygen, and we oxygen breathers took their place. Of course comets, vocanos and the like have changed the climate. That does not negate the fact that we are changing the atmosphere and climate as well and that the change that we are creating may do us more harm than we as individuals can handle. That "belching" volcano has a relative short term effect and the participates it put in the upper atmosphere actually cool the earth. What we have been doing since the industrial age has been constant and increasing. Let's put it this way. You know that ice age where most of the earth was covered with glaciers? Well that occurred with a change of global temperture of about 9 degrees. It is beginning to look as if we are going to surpass that but in the opposite direction. There are no reputable scientist at this point that do not acknowlege that we are going through global warming caused by man and that it is going to bring about more droughts, floods, extremes of snow fall and lack of snow fall (drought remember), hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. Personally I am a fan of change and don't have a problem with it but those folks living on flood plains better think of moving upground. "Lawrence" wrote in message hlink.net... LOL! I just love this "global warming." It's the perfect explanation for everything. If it's hot, it's global warming. If it's cold, it's global warming. And then, of course, if it IS global warming it is undeniably caused by humans -- even though the so-called "greenhouse gasses" are produced in far greater quantities by the Earth itself. Mt. Pinatubo belched out more "greenhouse gasses" in one eruption than man has put in the atmosphere since the dawn of time. Mankind has been on this planet for a relatively short period of time. Could this "global warming" not just be part of a naturally occurring cycle that takes an incredibly long time (from the human point of view) to complete? |
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18" of Snow on Long Island - yes this too is global warming
DKat wrote:
See this is exactly what I'm talking about! Of COURSE there has been climate and environmental change since the beginning of the earth's environment. At one point we did not have an oxygen based atmosphere but anerobic organisms poisoned themselves almost out of existence with their "waste" product, oxygen, and we oxygen breathers took their place. Of course comets, vocanos and the like have changed the climate. That does not negate the fact that we are changing the atmosphere and climate as well and that the change that we are creating may do us more harm than we as individuals can handle. That "belching" volcano has a relative short term effect and the participates it put in the upper atmosphere actually cool the earth. What we have been doing since the industrial age has been constant and increasing. Let's put it this way. You know that ice age where most of the earth was covered with glaciers? Well that occurred with a change of global temperture of about 9 degrees. It is beginning to look as if we are going to surpass that but in the opposite direction. There are no reputable scientist at this point that do not acknowlege that we are going through global warming caused by man and that it is going to bring about more droughts, floods, extremes of snow fall and lack of snow fall (drought remember), hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. Personally I am a fan of change and don't have a problem with it but those folks living on flood plains better think of moving upground. "Lawrence" wrote in message hlink.net... LOL! I just love this "global warming." It's the perfect explanation for everything. If it's hot, it's global warming. If it's cold, it's global warming. And then, of course, if it IS global warming it is undeniably caused by humans -- even though the so-called "greenhouse gasses" are produced in far greater quantities by the Earth itself. Mt. Pinatubo belched out more "greenhouse gasses" in one eruption than man has put in the atmosphere since the dawn of time. Mankind has been on this planet for a relatively short period of time. Could this "global warming" not just be part of a naturally occurring cycle that takes an incredibly long time (from the human point of view) to complete? You guys might all benefit from reading a book called "Extinction - Evolution and the end of man" by Michael Boulter. Joe -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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18" of Snow on Long Island - yes this too is global warming
Ingrid, I'm curious. How many millions of years will this take?
Nedra http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836 http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118 wrote in message ... actually, it is global warming that precipitates an ice age. the warmth melts glaciers that affect the movement of the gulf stream and without the gulf stream N. Europe cools off and we head into an ice age. once that starts there isnt any "fix" Ingrid "DKat" wrote: Let's put it this way. You know that ice age where most of the earth was covered with glaciers? Well that occurred with a change of global temperture of about 9 degrees. It is beginning to look as if we are going to surpass that but in the opposite direction. |
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18" of Snow on Long Island - yes this too is global warming
I understand that the hole is - or has repaired itself.
I heard this on TV last year. Nedra http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836 http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118 "MLF" wrote in message ... "K30a" wrote: Does anybody remember the global *cooling* theory that was all the worry in the 70s. Actually, it's more than a theory, it's a sure thing. Given the continuing and increasing introduction of various chemicals and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, it's going to happen. The issue was not if, but when. Right now, the effect seems to be negligible, or at least too small to be measured reliably. The hole in the ozone is a real thing, but no one really knows if it is a cyclical effect or if it is actually getting bigger. Therefore there's the current debate among ultrarightwing conservatives who deny it's effects despite growing evidence that it does (at least to some extent) and the leftist alarmists who declare the sky is falling despite fairly weak evidence that it is. My guess is that the jury is still out on the issue and the truth (as usual) is somewhere in between. Michael Fermanis New Orleans, Louisiana USA (Remove the RICE to reply) ================================================== =========== |
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18" of Snow on Long Island - yes this too is global warming
"BenignVanilla" wrote in message ... "Nedra" wrote in message rthlink.net... I understand that the hole is - or has repaired itself. I heard this on TV last year. I read somewhere that the inhabitants of Antarctica cut on their use of hairspray which helped. BV. But those penguins STILL keep their hair shiny and manageable. I wonder how they do that without hairspray? |
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18" of Snow on Long Island - yes this too is global warming
"DKat" wrote in message . net... See this is exactly what I'm talking about! Of COURSE there has been climate and environmental change since the beginning of the earth's environment. At one point we did not have an oxygen based atmosphere but anerobic organisms poisoned themselves almost out of existence with their "waste" product, oxygen, and we oxygen breathers took their place. Of course comets, vocanos and the like have changed the climate. That does not negate the fact that we are changing the atmosphere and climate as well and that the change that we are creating may do us more harm than we as individuals can handle. That "belching" volcano has a relative short term effect and the participates it put in the upper atmosphere actually cool the earth. So it's only the "manmade" greenhouse gasses which cause harm? Sounds like junk science to me. What we have been doing since the industrial age has been constant and increasing. Actually, by far most of the warming to have occurred in the 20th century took place BEFORE 1940. It hasn't been at all constant and is not increasing. Let's put it this way. You know that ice age where most of the earth was covered with glaciers? Well that occurred with a change of global temperture of about 9 degrees. It is beginning to look as if we are going to surpass that but in the opposite direction. There are no reputable scientist at this point that do not acknowlege that we are going through global warming caused by man and that it is going to bring about more droughts, floods, extremes of snow fall and lack of snow fall (drought remember), hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. Personally I am a fan of change and don't have a problem with it but those folks living on flood plains better think of moving upground. "Lawrence" wrote in message hlink.net... LOL! I just love this "global warming." It's the perfect explanation for everything. If it's hot, it's global warming. If it's cold, it's global warming. And then, of course, if it IS global warming it is undeniably caused by humans -- even though the so-called "greenhouse gasses" are produced in far greater quantities by the Earth itself. Mt. Pinatubo belched out more "greenhouse gasses" in one eruption than man has put in the atmosphere since the dawn of time. Mankind has been on this planet for a relatively short period of time. Could this "global warming" not just be part of a naturally occurring cycle that takes an incredibly long time (from the human point of view) to complete? |
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18" of Snow on Long Island - yes this too is global warming
Does anybody remember the global *cooling* theory that was all the worry in the 70s. k30a |
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18" of Snow on Long Island - yes this too is global warming
Lawrence,
Personally, I think too many people have been reading Al Gore's book on the environment, which, of course, was condemned by virtually the entire scientific community as drivel. As far as belching volcanos go the one that went up in the Phillipines sent the equivalent into the air of all the pollution that had been created by man totally for the last 400 years. And as I remember my history, when Krakatua exploded in 1883 it created crop failures for almost two years worldwide. It is universally accepted in the scientific community if the worldwide temperatures dropped 5 degree there would be another Ice Age and any thing higher than that would virtually be the end of humans here on earth. The earth moves in cycles and with all the volcano eruptions that occur every year throwing millions of tons of pollutates into the atmosphere I would seem that the earth that a certain capacity to work it out. Global warming is more of convience than actual fact to make a point. Tom L.L. Tom L.L. "Lawrence" wrote in message hlink.net... "DKat" wrote in message . net... That "belching" volcano has a relative short term effect and the participates it put in the upper atmosphere actually cool the earth. So it's only the "manmade" greenhouse gasses which cause harm? Sounds like junk science to me. What we have been doing since the industrial age has been constant and increasing. Actually, by far most of the warming to have occurred in the 20th century took place BEFORE 1940. It hasn't been at all constant and is not increasing. Well that occurred with a change of global temperture of about 9 degrees. It is beginning to look as if we are going to surpass that but in the opposite direction. |
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18" of Snow on Long Island - yes this too is global warming
actually, it is global warming that precipitates an ice age. the warmth melts
glaciers that affect the movement of the gulf stream and without the gulf stream N. Europe cools off and we head into an ice age. once that starts there isnt any "fix" Ingrid "DKat" wrote: Let's put it this way. You know that ice age where most of the earth was covered with glaciers? Well that occurred with a change of global temperture of about 9 degrees. It is beginning to look as if we are going to surpass that but in the opposite direction. |
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