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I live in Michigan. Normally at this time we would have tons of snow and this is one of the coldest times of the year.
I am not complaining, mind you, just find it strange. Yesterday was in the 40's and the day before the 50's and sunny. Not a snowflake in sight!
Very strange year. Colorado with which I lived for 10 years before here got bombarded and here nothing. With the exeption of one snow fall in the beginning on November (it has since melted) there has been nothing but rain and livable weather.
I like the warmer weather, I just hope it doesn't screw with the summer, or while the rest of the world is getting nice spring weather that it decides to snow here :ack2:
I missed the white Christmas, but can definitely get used to living with this warmer weather again!
 
Global Warming..... and people say its not going to happen... i live in the northeast and i have yet to see but a small amount of snow earlier in the month. I can walk outside with a t shirt.
 
No snow there either eh? Hmmm, I tend to agree with you. We really have messed with earth way too much.
I saw shifts last year too, but more subtle, this year it is an eye opener!
 
I also think there was a dusting earlier in the year. No white christmas here... actually i think it rained a little bit too.... i was really sad. Ill do my part though, Ill be walking to work today :p
 
We've had a couple of fairly good snows here, but as of today it's all melted and the ground is mushy. More problems with fog than snow.....definitely NOT typical Iowa weather. I remember as a kid, by January we were always outside playing in big snowforts we built into the giant snowdrifts all over....but having to bundle up so thickly we could barely move. It hasn't been tshirt weather here by any means, but well above average temps for the most part. We get a few days of NORMAL December?January weather, and we all think we're going to freeze and die.....
 
Cat_72 said:
We've had a couple of fairly good snows here, but as of today it's all melted and the ground is mushy. More problems with fog than snow.....definitely NOT typical Iowa weather. I remember as a kid, by January we were always outside playing in big snowforts we built into the giant snowdrifts all over....but having to bundle up so thickly we could barely move. It hasn't been tshirt weather here by any means, but well above average temps for the most part. We get a few days of NORMAL December?January weather, and we all think we're going to freeze and die.....
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Its supposed to be 60 here tomorrow.... and it was raining just a little while ago...
 
Yes, very mild here too...they mentioned on the radio yesterday that December's average temp in our area was 8 degrees above the norm. I, too, enjoy the milder weather, but the downside is that there are still FLIES outside! In January! Can you believe it?

The in-laws were telling me that this was the mildest winter they remember in Eastern Canada.
 
We've noted a dramatic change in the weather here in north Florida from the time we moved down here in 1991 to the present. We used to have several nights drop down even into the mid teens every winter. In the past 5 years or so, this has not happened. Matter of fact, we had one night this year where it dropped down to 22 degrees, and that has been the coldest night here for the last few years.

I would say that this is a pretty drastic change in average temperatures over such a short period of time. Maybe even seemingly accelerating. I've seen "scientific estimates of the amount of change predicted and they were always taking about decades in the future for minuscule changes. But certainly I would thing that as inaccurate as daily weather forecasters typically are, climate forecasters certainly can't be any better.

Makes you wonder what it will be like 10 years from now. Maybe mankind just pushed the Earth just a little bit too far.........
 
WebSlave said:
We've noted a dramatic change in the weather here in north Florida from the time we moved down here in 1991 to the present. We used to have several nights drop down even into the mid teens every winter. In the past 5 years or so, this has not happened. Matter of fact, we had one night this year where it dropped down to 22 degrees, and that has been the coldest night here for the last few years.

I would say that this is a pretty drastic change in average temperatures over such a short period of time. Maybe even seemingly accelerating. I've seen "scientific estimates of the amount of change predicted and they were always taking about decades in the future for minuscule changes. But certainly I would thing that as inaccurate as daily weather forecasters typically are, climate forecasters certainly can't be any better.

Makes you wonder what it will be like 10 years from now. Maybe mankind just pushed the Earth just a little bit too far.........
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Have you seen an Inconvenient Truth yet? everyone should. its seriously disturbing...
 
Have you seen an Inconvenient Truth yet? everyone should. its seriously disturbing...
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I actually purchased it 2 nights ago while shopping for something else....but I haven't watched it yet. I think I'll put it on my list of things to accomplish this weekend :)

Makes me think of the words of George Carlin:

The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' around the sun?

The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worlwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages...And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet...the planet...the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!

We're going away. Pack your ****, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.
 
ms_terese said:
I actually purchased it 2 nights ago while shopping for something else....but I haven't watched it yet. I think I'll put it on my list of things to accomplish this weekend :)

Makes me think of the words of George Carlin:

The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' around the sun?.
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THE EARTH WANTS PLASTIC! :p
 
Mooing Tricycle said:
Have you seen an Inconvenient Truth yet? everyone should. its seriously disturbing...
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Nope. If it didn't have Al Gore's name attached to it, I might have picked it up.
 
WebSlave said:
Nope. If it didn't have Al Gore's name attached to it, I might have picked it up.
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Now now, thats what bush was gonna do.:NoNo: ( Our own president wasnt going to watch a film on global warming just cause it was Al Gores Movie.... isnt the president supposed to support things like that? )

Anyway..you really should watch it, if for nothing more than the facts that it holds. it was actually done really well.



Its time to start voting for the people that truly count. The people that WILL make a difference.
 
Absolutely love George Carlin! Although I have never heard him recite those words I can picture his facial features and gestures and the way he would say it :rofl:

I too was resistant on getting that movie, I just may re-think that stance and get it. Gee, Bush or Gore? :eek:

Major changes going on in the weather, I do not think it will be as long as they say it will. Not with it changing, and not so subtly either. I would not be surprised that I will see much more changes in my own life time. We could very well be making ourselves extinct!
 
Mooing Tricycle said:
Now now, thats what bush was gonna do.:NoNo: ( Our own president wasnt going to watch a film on global warming just cause it was Al Gores Movie.... isnt the president supposed to support things like that? )

Anyway..you really should watch it, if for nothing more than the facts that it holds. it was actually done really well.



Its time to start voting for the people that truly count. The people that WILL make a difference.
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Ummmmm...................facts?

Much of the theory in this flick is far from fact.

More fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) than solid evidence-based science.

In the 70's the "facts" showed that we were headed for another ICE AGE!

Al Gore needs to stop being an attention whore and gracefully fade away - probably too late for the graceful part though.
 
Mooing Tricycle said:
Now now, thats what bush was gonna do.:NoNo: ( Our own president wasnt going to watch a film on global warming just cause it was Al Gores Movie.... isnt the president supposed to support things like that? )

Anyway..you really should watch it, if for nothing more than the facts that it holds. it was actually done really well.



Its time to start voting for the people that truly count. The people that WILL make a difference.
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Actually I WAS a registered Democrat before that election where Gore made a complete ass of himself with all those vote recounts. Both my wife and I changed our party affiliation after that and I lost all respect for that man (who "invented" the internet) afterwards. Even though perhaps his message is worthwhile, you cannot discount the messenger who delivers it and the motives behind the delivery.

Heck, it would be like buying a Bible written by "Reverend" Jesse Jackson. :rofl:
 
I actually purchased it 2 nights ago while shopping for something else....but I haven't watched it yet. I think I'll put it on my list of things to accomplish this weekend
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We checked it out and are watching it tonight. No snow here (just a few snowflakes so far in the season) and 30-40 degrees during the day; just remember that historically the central plains are supposed to be among the coldest spots in the country. In talking with an entomologist he said that this is bad as the cold weather is very much needed to destroy most of the larva (that are dormant in the winter) of pests that affect plants and trees. We wonder if pretty soon we might see armadillos in the backyard! :)
 
Ok last year winter started and ended a bit late, I thought that was odd. From 1999, when I moved here it seemed there was a sort of shift in the weather, with winter starting a little bit later and lasting more into the spring, each year it seemed to shift a bit more. Last year I could really tell the shift.
This year is just downright weird. Here we are Jan 7th, usually the coldest month of the year, with plenty of snow by now. With the exception of a lot of snow in the first part of Nov there has really been nothing 1/2 an inch day after Christmas.
Today the sun has been shining all day and in upper 30's lower 40's. I wonder to myself if the "shift" is going to come and this year go into summer as well, or there will be nothing. It should be very intersting. In one hand I hope there is nothing and it gets and stays warmer, on the other hand I worry. No snow is one thing, the lakes will be a lot lower this year, although there has been rain, but no frigid cold is another. We can not predict what this earth feels like doing, we try, but it always seems to surprise us.
 
The BoidSmith said:
We checked it out and are watching it tonight. No snow here (just a few snowflakes so far in the season) and 30-40 degrees during the day; just remember that historically the central plains are supposed to be among the coldest spots in the country. In talking with an entomologist he said that this is bad as the cold weather is very much needed to destroy most of the larva (that are dormant in the winter) of pests that affect plants and trees. We wonder if pretty soon we might see armadillos in the backyard! :)
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Its also needed here or there will be many droughts during the summer...

A guy came into work today and actually said to me when i commented on the weather and global warming " Theres no actual scientific proof of Global Warming being real"

WHAT!????

He was an old man probably in his 80's... Such a remark... i just didnt know what to say to him. so i didnt say a word. I just shook my head when he left... :confused:
 
Hmm, then I guess the evidence of glaciers vanishing is really a case more of Global Evaporation rather than Global Warming? :rofl:
 
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