-----Original Message----- >From: Robert Carter <revkayak_at_aptalaska.net> >> I have watched the weather down south via the internet and at times >we have been 20 -30 degrees warmer than our Mom's homes in West Virginia >and a lot less snow. Instead of global warming we are calling it global >weirding! Curious that you should come up with that sobriquet... There was an Op-Ed in the NYTimes last week; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/opinion/17friedman.html?scp=1&sq=global%20weirding&st=cse discussing that very thing. That word 'warming' is an unfortunate choice -- It is, after all, heat energy that is accumulating globally and this extra energy drives mechanisms that ultimately control our local weather. It's Climate that is changing. A systems engineer once told me that these effects are to be expected. If a system is in equilibrium and something perturbs it the usual response is for there to be gyrations in that equilibrium until all things readjust and it all settles down again. But if that perturbation continues then so will those gyrations... Sort of like over-tweaking a square wave oscillator -- you get this 'ringing'. Joe P. *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Feb 22 2010 - 08:03:28 PST
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