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randywa

randywa

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Will someone please send me a case of global warming? We have 1" of sleet on the ground, a blizzard warning, the first since 1912, and it's going to be -12 Thurs. morning. And my feet are cold.
 
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Randy -- I came to southern Arizona to snobird from Alaska and it will be below freezing this week here in the desert.

Several years back the climate forecasters advised that the world was going from a period of relatively stable (narrow range of variation in weather) to a much more normal condition where the extreme conditions were much wider. The average stay about the same but the swings are wide. Compares to that old saw -- one foot in a bucket of ice and one in hot water -- and the average is comfortable.

I think the climate forecasters were pretty much correct!!!
 
randywa said:
Will someone please send me a case of global warming? We have 1" of sleet on the ground, a blizzard warning, the first since 1912, and it's going to be -12 Thurs. morning. And my feet are cold.
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Randy
here in Boston we are getting another 20" between today and tomorrow to add to the already ice packed 4 feet we have everywhere. So last night I'm watching the news and they tell us all this snow IS the result of global warming?!?!?!
 
greggas said:
here in Boston we are getting another 20" between today and tomorrow to add to the already ice packed 4 feet we have everywhere. So last night I'm watching the news and they tell us all this snow IS the result of global warming?!?!?!
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Yep; The term "Global Warming" is a misnomer; most scientists have started using "Climate Change" instead. The result can be colder winters and differences in storm tracks.

The "Little Ice Age" caused Europe to freeze during the winter for years. "Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates" was written during this period and many renaissance master paintings show frozen winter scenes because this was unprecedented. Today the Dutch canals rarely freeze deep enough to skate on.

My "thought model" of climate is an uneven surface with hills and valleys. Climate is a small sphere that rolls among the hills and valleys. The danger of climate change is that the increased heat may be enough to push the ball up the valley wall over the hill and into the next valley where the climate model may be far different that what is common now.

For better or worse, WE are now in charge of our fate and climate, and we don't know what we are doing!
 
Climate Change is something we see everywhere every day in Alaska -- some call the far north the "ground zero" for climate change. Coastal erosion, loss of permafrost, glaciers receeding (except for Hubbard Glacier), insect and disease changes in forests, and changes in where species can survive (yellow cedar decline).

We are in for a wild ride as climates go through cycles and do change.
 
saw one model that says if the average temps go up enough to melt a good portion of the ice up north, the gulf stream may get diverted to a more southern route and we could see the Chesapeake freezing over in winter.


People have to remember we are only talking about a few degrees to make big changes. And I remember last summer being one of the hottest on record in my area. Averages are up.
 
randyrls said:
Today the Dutch canals rarely freeze deep enough to skate on.
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I know it's been a few years, but I was in Amsterdam in February 1981.. the canals were definitely frozen over that year... I'm thinking it may have happened because I laid my top coat on the back of the sofa where it lay my entire trip... being from Houston then and the previous 15 years in California I definitely wasn't used to that kind of cold....nearly froze all of my natural appendages off...
 
We are just staring the latest storm. Started about 3 hours ago and is supposed to last until tomorrow evening. Everything has been closed in preparation of this storm. It comes on the heals of some other storms that have already given us 49" of snow (measured it in my back yard). We are in for either 8 more inches followed by either a massive ice storm or another 24", so that makes 36" in 24 hours. Sigh. Anyone in southern Texas need a visit?
 
Padre, You may need to go a little farther south as they are predicting a 40% chance of icy precip for thursday. Although I guess after what everyone up north has been through A 40% chance of mild frozen precip would be nice.
Wayne
 
:tongue:It's 72 here right now. :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin: Thinkin about moving my lathe from my air conditioned/heated shop out in the yard is the sun. :embarrassed:
 
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