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Baby, it is cold outside and global warming is
plains scout
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a myth.
Temp is going to drop hard by morning.
High until Sunday is predicted to be -17F with a low of -30F. I just hope the wind does not blow!!!
Temp is going to drop hard by morning.
High until Sunday is predicted to be -17F with a low of -30F. I just hope the wind does not blow!!!
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I hear you there. The word is the base up here in Minot might be closed on Monday due to the cold.
You got to be kidding me?
I'm going on strike until the weather warms up to at least 90.
Not hard to do when you are not working![:o)][;)][:D]
I know you are going on strike from looking![;)]
February can be tough. January was a piece of cake compared to this.
Oh well. The homeless problem has been solved in ND once again.[:p]
I was just south of Plains Scout one nice chilly (-25, -45 wind chill) day a few years back and had been outside for about 2 hours. After i jumped back in the truck, I learned never to wipe your nose until you thaw out. Half of your mustache on the hanky does not look cool....
Hang in there guys, put another log on the fire and make that cold day decision to buy that Pre 64 on GB...
quote:Originally posted by cowdoc
Plains, you know the myth about Jan bing the coldest month but I'll have to say that feb alot of the time is a colder month.
In point of fact, temperature records reveal that January averages the coldest, that is more cold days in January, though not necessarily the coldest individual days. Those are often the third week in December, the shortest days of the year. Feb. often seems harder on us though, perhaps because we are sick and tired of winter by then.
quote:Originally posted by catpealer111
I hear you there. The word is the base up here in Minot might be closed on Monday due to the cold.
You got to be kidding me?
They shut things down early on Friday because of the windchill. I doubt they will do it on Monday, I just overheard some Masters and Senior Masters talking about it.
It's out of the sub-zero weather, and into the 20's.
Headed for the 40's next week. [:D]
I bet the gas companies are loving this weather.[:D]
Now they are calling it Climate changes brought on by Greenhouse gas emmissions. I guess someone pointed out record snowfalls and low temps around the country.
I heard a "scientist" say that global warming could lead to warming or cooling temperatures, well that's rather convenient, whatever happens, they were right.
Its just plain freezing here.[V]
I bet the gas companies are loving this weather.[:D]
I hope so because I burn wood.[:D][:D]
Ben
I don't understand why anyone of any intelligence would deny that the earth is becoming warmer.
Ben
But I don't understand why anyone of any intelligence could reasonably say it is the fault of humanity. Show my a pic of that icecap 10,000 years ago and we'll talk.
But I don't understand why anyone of any intelligence could reasonably say it is the fault of humanity.
That's fine by me. As long as it is acknowledged as actually being real, and a threat to future generations. I just don't like it whn people blatantly ignore it as fact.
quote:Show my a pic of that icecap 10,000 years ago and we'll talk.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/11/650000-years-of-greenhouse-gas-concentrations/
"Given the current level of understanding of phenomena like hurricanes, extratropical cyclones, and severe thunderstorms-which result from complex interactions between many scales of motion in the atmosphere-it is difficult to skillfully predict if these weather phenomena will become something extraordinary ; a similar statement may be made for events such as an extended heat wave or seasonal flooding. Adding a sense of urgency to this already complicated problem are projections of more frequent, and perhaps more intense extreme events in future climates. The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences is responding to this problem through its focus on Climate and Extreme Weather (CLEW), which seeks to: Understand and predict the physical and statistical behavior of extreme weather and climate events."
The point is that they just don't know. I have stated many times that knowing that cancer exists is not the same thing as knowing what caused it, or how to effect a cure.
All you have to do is watch to see just how much they are guessing about the strength, duration, direction, and even whether of not a hurricane is going to make landfall to realize that they just don't know. Educated guess, but guesses nonetheless.
Look, a warming trend exists, that much is a given, but there is ample proof that it has happened many times in the past, and they were not caused by automobile exhausts. This one may or may not be caused by man, but to make a declarative statement as to cause when you can't even predict rain accurately is the height of egocentric hubris.
Watch the ten day forecast for the weather, chart it to see just how much and how frequently it changes completely, and then tell me they really know for certain about the next one hundred years.
Look, a warming trend exists, that much is a given, but there is ample proof that it has happened many times in the past, and they were not caused by automobile exhausts.
There is also ample proof that life as the earth knew it was changed dramatically by it.
I never said that humans caused it, but I do believe that it would be stupid for us to ignore it, or worse yet, deny it's very existance.
Ben
quote:Originally posted by dlrjj
Look, a warming trend exists, that much is a given, but there is ample proof that it has happened many times in the past, and they were not caused by automobile exhausts.
There is also ample proof that life as the earth knew it was changed dramatically by it.
I never said that humans caused it, but I do believe that it would be stupid for us to ignore it, or worse yet, deny it's very existance.
Ben
To deny that it is happening is just plain foolish, it's far to easy to simply look at the heat index charts. What to do about it, if anything, is an entirely different story. Certainly long range planning, even for things like where to build new housing, needs to consider what results might take effect. It would be a mistake to build right now based on an assumption that the ocean could not raise in the next few decades for instance. I don't want to be paying the bill for new water retention walls and for houses to be moved or raised. It will be interesting to watch.[;)][:)]