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Well, perhaps everywhere else, but I sure can't detect it in this area. And when I got my coffee it had already "chilled-out." (More Like Dry Ice!) LOL :-)
Justin~
Oh my Justin looks like your getting the white stuff now!YIKES!My white stuff, out east here, went down the storm drains with that daylong rainstorm this past Saturday.Fear not, now its freezing cold with a wind chill that would send the polar bears to the log cabin.Where's summer????????ARE WE THERE YET???????Global warming.....Nahhhhhhhhh
Mark
same here, I don't know what part of the coast you're in, but I'm supposed to get more snow thursday thru the weekend.
damn cold weather.
Thats a great pic! looks like its coming down over there..wish we could get snow here in Chico the last time it snowed was 03!
It snowed in Chico last night,snowed 6" Christmas Eve.Oh,you mean Chico Ca.I live 2 miles south of Chico Tx,population 500.
Arrick
You know, we desert rats actually take trips to visit such wonderful weather.....
To walk along a windy, rainy beach is just heaven for us !!
Enjoy !!
I can't remember for sure who first sent this pic to me earlier this month, I think Larry (Bill's partner); but in any case, the photo speaks for itself...
Enjoy!!
- Ken
There's an upside to the down economy: somebody had time to do this.
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I am guessing these hundreds of snowmen were done mostly by children who are out of school for Christmas vacation.
Scott
I've heard the term "having a melt-down' before; but this takes it to a whole new level!
- Ken
Ha Ha Ha
Looks like the kids did when I was in 1st grade. LOL :-)
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I have become a skeptic on the global warming issue. I am not convinced. While some glaciers are in retreat, many are growing. Global climate change would be a better statement and not warming. Some places have been getting warmer and some getting cooler. If you put it all in a blender, overall, the temperatures are about the same.
Scott
Hey Scott,
I blend a lot of food at my cooking job in the nursing home kitchen that I work at over in Castro Valley... Reminds me of my favorite bumper sticker that I occasionally see on the back of cars, "Visualize Whirled Peas!"
Then again, I once saw a bumper sticker that succeeded at being so politically incorrect that it offended EVERY conceivable political group you can possibly ever think of. It read, as follows:
"Nuke a gay whale for Jesus!"
Now that's what I'd call "Global blending" (ROFL)!!!
- Ken (who's turned into a whale-size gay himself - LOL)
Nah, for it to offend *every* group, you'd have to have race/ethnicity in there somewhere.... then again, where is the whale from, hmmmm???
We had an inch or two of snow today down here in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas.
- Oren
Hi Justin,
Oh my goodness, look at that SNOW! I totally agree with you about the so-called glbal warming. Here is western PA, it has been really cold the past few days, along with some snow on the ground, although not as much as you have. It does seem as though you have had more snowstorms in your area the past few years.
Thank you for sharing, and take care,
David
That's a great picture of your own winter wonderland! I wish we could get some snow every now and then.
Global warming really isn't about the impending absence of winter in any given place. Like Scott said, it's a change in the climate. But there is ample evidence to suggest that at the poles there has been a warming as sea ice at the North Polar region is much less than it was twenty or even ten years ago. Also, the ice sheets in Antartica are smaller. The ice is less in Greenland as well. Just a one or two degree rise has been responsible for these changes. Thus, there are still wintry conditions where ever there has typically occured the same. Also, there are predictions that some regions could become colder due to climate warming. For instance, the melt off of Greenland could stop the Gulf Stream ocean current which keeps the Eastern US and Europe warmer than they should be. Essentially, the climate changes have been so small that they are nearly undetectable to us, but they have occurred, and human activity is responsible for most of it this time.
Nobody can say humans are responsible. Even the scientists that say we're causing global warming can produce the raw data they used to make that determination, so nobody outside that group of scientists can say for certain either way, especially with a blanket statement.
The fact of the matter is, nobody knows either way.
As for "carbon footprints", the elephant in the room is "having a baby". We've seen lists of how much carbon almost every little human activity causes, except perhaps, picking your nose. Yet, nothing on any of those lists comes close to "having a baby". That kid, and all his offspring, will be spewing carbon for many years to come. Until they impose population control, I for one, am not going to worry in the least about the minute amount of carbon that my ordinary activities of living is going to produce.
On the other hand, there is surely someone somewhere who loses sleep every night worrying about how much carbon Brits cause by putting extra letters in words like "colour".
The bottom line: The Ice Age sure wasn't caused by human activity, and until they figure out a cause for that, for all we know, in recent years we've just seen a natural variation.
Bill
This would explain then why even though I've been "pregnant' for YEARS now, I've held off giving birth (lol)....
ROFL!!! I was just reading a gardening book last night on the topic of English Roses (so, obviously it was written in jolly old England), and yes indeed, they most certainly do put in extra letters in how they spell some of their words (including "colour")! It's bad enough that English as a language is nearly impossible to follow the "rules" about spelling (there being more exceptions to the rules than following the rules). That's why I like Spanish much better -- at least they have spelling rules that they actually stick with!
Yes, let's blame Glouwbal warhming on the Brits! After all, SOMEbody has to be the scapegoat for the "elephant in the living room" that no one will talk about (or is it spelled, "aboout?")!!
- Kehen inn Sahn Frahncischo
We Americans had to take the extra letters out cause we can't handle big words.
LOL
I think you're wrong. We, humans, cannot deny that our ordinary activities of living changed something since the industrial era. It's silly to reject the responsibility on "Them", even if, I agree, the simple fact that humans exists produce carbon. And carbon is not the only problem, by the way. In my opinion, if every single person in the occidental and civilized world (the rest is part of another debate...) thought about his activities, it would change something. Not a noticeable change, but better anyway.
True enough :)
My 2 cents
Vivien
The only problem with my "carbon footprint" is I have to get the
carpet scrubber out as they won't come up with the Hoover.
Really the only way we're going to see a trend in the other
direction is to have a catastrophe in which 80 to 90% of the
population dies off and the rest descend back into the dark ages.
sort of starting over you could say.
Of course there's always that rogue asteroid hiding in the
shadows.
I'm sure an old scrubber is better than a hoover!
Well, an Elve gave me the newest for Christmas:
A type of Carpet Sweeper put-out by the Android Co. in China. ALL is 100% genuine plastic and when you push it little bells chime a sweet melody. But alas, it has failed to work for me so far. The scrubber wins.
Justin I fear there may be a gas leak somewhere in your house.
Or perhaps paint fumes.
You know our Queen she is posh and she likes us to write and spell properly in Colour!
I myself have never bought in to this sudden panic among the masses about "Global Warming." My opinion? Since the beginning the earth has always been in a state of change and it will always be that way.
But, I AM afraid that man in the end will destroy himself by the way he trashes this beautiful planet..........and luckily this planet will be without him for indeed it is so beautiful. The Earth will know how to reclaim itself. Saddly, apparently to man, greed at the expense of anything is the ultimate goal. But ALWAYS without exception, greed ends up demolishing.
Empires rise, and then they topple. To date not one has lasted. And what was the REAL cause? Their economy did them in. A promise unbacked is indeed a fiat backing.
Justin
ps: Snowed to about 1' but all is melting just fine right now. Yikes...........must be Global warming striking! LOL :-)
Excellent. Well said.
Paul
Thank you Paul. Much appreciated.
And now at the expense of being nailed to a cross and hung upside down:
Isn't it charming for a great super Power to keep scary things going in the peoples minds to help keep minds off what is really going on of the greatest concern. Like a magician, they can get everyone watching the right hand, while meanwhile their dirty work is being done with the left and un-noticed. And suddenly the people get yet another bad end of the stick and don't know what hit them. Alas for the "supers" however, a game always does comes to a conclusion, and it appears that this conclusion may at this point not be really all that far away within the time-frame of the whole picture.
Wasn't it simply lovely and ever so delightful that on Xmas Eve while the common people were all in celebration and together with family that the officials just HAD to pass some votes while the minds of the masses would not be so tuned-into all that was going on. And, it just HAD to be Xmas Eve. I mean really, it couldn't have been any other day.
Justin~
Matt says there's less snow and ice at the poles so I suggest you
and your neighbors pack up all your snow and send it up there to
help make up for the loss.
Be sure to wipe your feet when your feet when you go back into
the house.
Kevin