"This weather isn't normal"

mammasan

Global warming or not I'm not complain about the warm weather. For one it's saving me on my heating bill.

PJPOWER

Yeah, pretty crazy weather. I live in northwest Texas and it was in the 70s yesterday and starting tonight they are forcasting freezing rain and snow through Thursday.........then a 2 day break........then more snow. It's starting to look like we're going to have a white Christmas.

onelongsong

polaris wrote:

if any region is gonna start waking up to climate change - it would be the pacific northwest ... huge snowstorms, followed by huge rainstorms and now windstorms ...

global warming ie climate change means more volatility in the climate not necessarily just warming ... more extreme weather events and fluctuations ... the overall trend is definitely warmer ...

the whole idea about global warming is that people don't; or will not understand it. it's snowing in the desert so people are assured that global warming doesn't exist. the only thing global warming has to do with temperatures in regions is the weather changes it causes. for example; in 2 days it will be tee shirt weather here and the snow will melt and water the desert. my pastures will green up and i'll have to feed less hay. someone in the northeast is really diggin the warm weather and life is good.
but no one is discussing the problem this has caused. this snow needs to be on the mountains to the north to provide water in the spring and summer. it's needed to replenish the aquifer we've drawn from.
global warming changes weather patterns but no one aknowledges the real damage being done.

NMyTree

While I believe we as a species need to start taking better care and measures for our environment (air, water, soil); this planet has always been in a state of change. This has been happening since day one.

It's the natural cycle of this planet, and I assume of every planet.

The Illinoisemakers

polaris wrote:

if any region is gonna start waking up to climate change - it would be the pacific northwest ... huge snowstorms, followed by huge rainstorms and now windstorms ...

global warming ie climate change means more volatility in the climate not necessarily just warming ... more extreme weather events and fluctuations ... the overall trend is definitely warmer ...

Not really temperatures in Seattle have been just about average for this time of year. Yes, we have had a little more rain, and it was really windy last week, but that isn't unusual for this time of year. Now if it was raining here and the mountains were getting rain instead of snow, then it might be a little more suspect, but the Cascades are on pace to have another great snowpact.

onelongsong

NMyTree wrote:

While I believe we as a species need to start taking better care and measures for our environment (air, water, soil); this planet has always been in a state of change. This has been happening since day one.

It's the natural cycle of this planet, and I assume of every planet.

nature works in cycles. a seed sprouts and grows; it forms a flower to reproduce and dies. it then goes back to the earth to decompose and become fertilizer for the next generation.
we've inturrupted the cycle of nature and the earth will cleanse itself. it always does. the damage we have caused has in turn caused the planet to cleanse itself in a more drastic manner. the earth will now wipe the slate clean and start over.

thankyougrandma

jeffbr wrote:

That trend is a constant.

I was just commenting that it is funny when a single weather event occurs somewhere in the world, we extrapolate "global warming" from that single event.

The northwest just got hit by a huge storm. But the storm was reported as the biggeest in a decade. That says that a decade ago we had an event, and a decade later another event. Just like the Katrina hurricane season was supposed to usher in even more hurricanes the following year. How was the hurricane season this year? So little coverage about it. I'm guessing it wasn't quite the huge season the doomsayers were predicting.

I have not even mention global warming, i know next year at the same time, it could be minus 14 with 40 inch of snow. But as of last week, it was warmer in Montreal than in Bombay... antartica is melting... last year ultra violent hurricanes seasons... massive wave of heat this summer... current violent weather in the northwest ... i think weather is derailed, but that's just me, you can still use that deaf speech all you want, i don't really care...

chopitdown

thankyougrandma wrote:

you can still use that deaf speech all you want, i don't really care...

it's called "sign language"

thankyougrandma

NMyTree wrote:

While I believe we as a species need to start taking better care and measures for our environment (air, water, soil); this planet has always been in a state of change. This has been happening since day one.

It's the natural cycle of this planet, and I assume of every planet.

At least to all those who say it's normal, or a normal cycle, you can't argue that we should reduce MASSIVELY our pollution productions as humans, we're really the parasite on this planet...

jeffbr

chopitdown wrote:

it's called "sign language"

Thanks, I didn't get the deaf speech reference.

thankyougrandma

jeffbr wrote:

Thanks, I didn't get the deaf speech reference.

sorry guys, in french you can say "language des sourds", not refering to the "sign language" but to the fact that someone is choosing to keep the same speech, even if they're proven wrong, they're not listening , anyway...

Collin

chiefojibwa wrote:

the eradication of the human species will be the best thing that ever happens to this planet. it CANNOT happen too soon.

Fuck that, I want to stay around a little longer!

Though, l wouldn't mind if it got a little colder would sure make things more comfortable.

bubbamackdaddy69

Yeah this warm weather is kinda weird..no snow here and yesterday was mild as I ....get this...cut my grass in my backyard as it was getting long...Cutting grass in december??..what?..lol...Xmas next week and I cut my grass in december and no snow at all...the times they are a changing...lol

pjalive21

no need to worry people, its all a weather trend/cycle

enjoy the warm weather where you are, it will get cold soon enough

bootlegger10

So it is breaking a record set in 1984? Hmmn.....Uh oh, the weather is similar to 20 years ago. That must be a sign of something terrible.

bootlegger10

chiefojibwa wrote:

the eradication of the human species will be the best thing that ever happens to this planet. it CANNOT happen too soon.

There are ways to accomplish this without waiting for the weather to do it. Are you man enough to practice what you preach?

elmer

http://www.weatherwars.info/index.php

know1

Humans haven't been keeping temperature records long enough to know what is "normal" in my opinion.

brain of c

remember the ice storm?

yield2me

learn to swim