Craig, All interesting local facts, observed and documented. How about October snow in the Sierras, the usual is hope for snow by Thanksgiving? Two or three years ago winter lasted 7 months, from a friend who lives there. Colors in the trees are more brilliant this year in this neighborhood, last few years have been particularly dull. We had frost in October, in addition the very cool summer, no extended warm periods, no need for the AC, butter left on the kitchen table didn't melt into a puddle. How about much of the country is reporting record, early, low temps. It's in the same newspapers that tout GW. In Europe Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,662092,00.html time out, wow. How about we had a legitimate spike in temps for a few years and no one has figured out the mechanism why and reported it, Then the con men/politicians, pretty much the same thing, seized on a way to alarm the populace and create a crisis. "It's a shame to let a good crisis go to waste" Rahm Emanuel, unwittingly confirming what thinking individuals believe much of government is all about. So Moses Lake is Warmer but it looks like a whole lot of the rest of the world, including Germany isn't. Oh, Copenhage is up, was it .04 Celsius just in time for the pollution spewing politicians to fly in. I still want an explanation for the warming in middle ages Europe, why there were grapes growing in places that cannot support them now. That is more than a blip Why the vikings were able to settle land that eventually froze them out. Were they driving SUV, or using incandescent light bulbs? A lot of history, history many of us have lived through has extreme blips, rain for weeks on end, flooding the Mississippi Basin, years of drought in California followed by amazing floods, enough water to wash out culverts on I-5. That massive rain is credited to El Nino although it is not 100% accurate, some el nino years are drought years, but a betting man would go with them being wet, I think it is about 80% accurate AND WHY is there a collusion of scam artists pretending to do science on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific, and the media we rely on for news not willing to release the data they use for their conclusions and when the data is acquired we find they blackmailed opponents, either were willing to delete inconvenient data or suppress it, threaten bodily harm to those they disagree with. It's all out there if you want to read it and more is coming. Climate changes, you folks up north were under anywhere from a few feet to two miles of ice depending on which expert you want to believe and which locality. It's good there has been enough global warming that we cannot walk across the ice between Alaska and the Russia that Sarah can see from her home (thanks to SNL for a funny, if inaccurate line) or maybe you like living in an ice cave. Man made climate change is a hoax, or worse. Lawsuits are being filed now and the true believers are going to have to pony up the data in court. Then it will hopefully be settled. On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Craig Jungers <crjungers_at_gmail.com> wrote: > A decade ago at this time of year we'd be ice skating around Moses Lake, > where I live in Washington state. And two weeks later in the season the > fishermen would be driving their pickup trucks out for ice fishing. No one > but an idiot drives their trucks out onto the ice any more and the local > fathers built a free ice rink to keep the kids off the ice which is not as > thick as it used to be even at the height of the winter season. But I like > to think that in return for my loyal purchases of useless crap from China > they have reciprocated by burning enough coal to warm up even my remote > corner of the planet. Why it makes me want to get in the car and drive to > Wal-Mart even now! > *********************************************************************** Makes me wonder if the anti-business attitude that has been running this country for the last couple of decades is having the desired effect, The jobs don't go over seas because our governments are encouraging growth. Let's see, we have minimum wages, China doesn't, we have stringent environmental laws run amok driving up the cost of goods produced w/o adding to the quality of the product, China doesn't. We have increasingly oppressive/regressive tax on earners, China Doesn't. Much of the same can be said of India too. In no way am I supporting exploiting honest labor, but business is being driven out by policy decisions People with money and business are leaving California, A tax seminar that my CTAC certified sweetie just went to outlined a trap set by our legislature making an employee tax increase retroactive, we are all going to owe back taxes and penalties. More business and producers are leaving the state in large part because of oppressive, freedom restricting governments, federal, state and local. Global Warming is the tool by which they are achieving their end. The political class (royalty) and the serfs. Orwellian. And don't forget AlGore's current book cover. Hurricanes on the Equator. Fraud, just simply fraud Choose your glacier carefully, not all are shrinking, reporting in the popular press is very selective about what it prints.. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Nov 25 2009 - 13:05:36 PST
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