Global warming?

[coopermini]

I know most of the eastern part of the country has been very warm this winter and we are no exception here.

After a good steady rain all morning which is not all that common here in Jan (snow would be the usual). The sun came out and it was 65 degrees this afternoon. Think typical high temp would be just below freezing. Did chores tonight with just polo shirt on and at 6 pm it was still over 60 degrees out side with a very strong wind that was quite warm. The ground is no longer frozen at all here. Usually this time of year frost will be at least 12" deep. Now we are back to mud every where. Flowers are sprouting in gardens here. Several golf courses are still open and a couple were quite busy today. The greens and fairways are still green!

The horses who are all set for 20 below zero nights are sweating!

The lack of any resemblence to winter here is beginning to have an effect on the economy. Nearly all of the seasonal winter workers are not working. Snowplow drivers, snowmobile shops, even heating oil companies hire lots of winter drivers but most are not delivering enough oil to use the extra drivers. Ski areas have made some snow but when people can golf in a tee shirt it is hard to get them to the ski slopes.

Just how warm is summer going to be? :no: :no:

Mark

 

[bfogg]

I know most of the eastern part of the country has been very warm this winter and we are no exception here.

After a good steady rain all morning which is not all that common here in Jan (snow would be the usual). The sun came out and it was 65 degrees this afternoon. Think typical high temp would be just below freezing. Did chores tonight with just polo shirt on and at 6 pm it was still over 60 degrees out side with a very strong wind that was quite warm. The ground is no longer frozen at all here. Usually this time of year frost will be at least 12" deep. Now we are back to mud every where. Flowers are sprouting in gardens here. Several golf courses are still open and a couple were quite busy today. The greens and fairways are still green!

The horses who are all set for 20 below zero nights are sweating!

The lack of any resemblence to winter here is beginning to have an effect on the economy. Nearly all of the seasonal winter workers are not working. Snowplow drivers, snowmobile shops, even heating oil companies hire lots of winter drivers but most are not delivering enough oil to use the extra drivers. Ski areas have made some snow but when people can golf in a tee shirt it is hard to get them to the ski slopes.

Just how warm is summer going to be? :no: :no:

Mark

Ditto here in New Hampshire Mark! All of my spring bulbs are up at least 4 inches! Crocus are ready to bloom.

Did chores in a golf shirt, had to get out some of my summer shirts this week. Not sure whether to let the horses shed or try to glue hair back on!

But not to worry the Shrub said global warming is a myth so this is all a mirage.

I feel sorry for all the plow truck drivers, seasonal workers and such.

Larrys Artic Cat is still in its little house on its trailer,not registered and for sure not running. Restaurants and hotels are really feeling it as well.

But I am sure the "Mirage will soon fade"!

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The cherry trees blooming in Washington is a myth perpetrated by the media.

Wipe your eyes and it will all go away and you will be back to shoveling snow!

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Bonnie

 

[Jess P]

70 degrees here today. I have my window open.

 

[Leeana]

We have not seen 1 day of snow here in OHIO this year and that is something very out of this world. I have not worn a coat in about 2wks.

Have to say i'm pretty mad about not having any snow, i was hoping to use all of those school snow days my last year of school ...looks like we wont be using any of those. I'm pretty upset about that :lol:

I dont want to think about this summer, i cant stand heat ..deff a winter person. Coco is almost to his summer coat, poor boy. I think we have snow ahead of us and i cant wait!!

 

[Jess P]

forgot to add, this time last year it was in the negatives.

 

[Pepipony]

I grew up in CT, sis is still in RI and she says the winters are nothing like when we grew up. When I moved here to TX back in the late '80s it was nothing to have temps in the teens and we blanketed the horses a lot. We now no longer have cold weather, we have cold fronts then back up to 60s if not 80s. The horses have no winter coats anymore and I havent had to blanket in years.Untill this winter, only one horse, and I think that is because she is getting old

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Our summers are averaging hotter as are our winters. I am scared to think that we have severly ticked off mother earth and she is plotting her revenge on our stupid selves.

 

[Marty]

It is Global Warming.

It's the Polar Tilt.

We're going to all have a very late winter.

It will be a screwy summer too and nobody is going to have a good hay year.

That's my prediciton anyhow.

 

[Loren&Rocky]

See what I left you guys with? Nice of me, hu? :lol:

Well, here in Washington, we are having the worst winter EVER!! Well, so I am told. Rain, Rain, go away!!

Enjoy your nice weather back East. We miss you guys!!

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[rabbitsfizz]

We do not have winter anymore, no snow for years and no need to think of buying into the myth of it being a myth- no, it is REAL and it is caused by US.

Everytime a jet takes off, not to even start with a space mission, every time we all drive our cars- you complain of gas prices?? think of the hidden costs please of driving a vehicle that does ten miles to the gallon!!!

What can we do??

Well, I am no longer sure, I honestly think, with idiots like a world power president willing to say it is all in our minds that the only thing we can do is let it run it's course.

Nobody listens anyway, and when they do listen, which is rare, nothing gets done.

Tony Blair is trying, right now, to get us to believe that high gas prices will help cut mileage- no, it won't as it is not private drivers that are the biggest problem.

All high gas prices will do is hurt me and people like me, and line the Politicians pockets- every time we have a crisis- and this is International, not just us- the Politicians award themselves a huge pay rise!! How does that help???

If it runs it's course the oil will eventually run out and thus the hold the bloody Muslim countries have over us, and our need to interfere in their running will disappear.

Life will be very hard for our grandchildren and they will curse our shortsightedness but what else can we do??

In the end, if we have not completely messed up the ozone layer, life will find it's own level again but quite possible revert to pre car days- oil just will not be there to be used for frivolities like personal vehicles.

I do not see us reaching Amish level, but at least it will stop the population explosion as, as always, it will be the poor who will suffer most.

All the third world countries we are carrying at the moment will be left to starve, and starve they will, in their thousands.

All the people being carried by various social security programmes will meet the same fate as economies merely collapse- if the money is genuinely not there it cannot be spent.

This is not gloom and doom it is simple extension of present situations.

I am not sure we could do anything even if we could get our governments to listen as places like China (the dirtiest country in the world- the US being second) would not be interested in doing anything anyway- I despaired of this long ago- I , quite frankly, would rather have my emissions form my vehicle slightly higher and have a decent gas consumption level, than have the low mileage that is at present imposed on me by the government so I only get 30 miles to the gallon with gas costing $8.00 a gallon and set to rise to over $9.00 soon!!

 

[laughingllama75]

:aktion033: I have to say, living here in NH.....this is the strangest winter

: . I LOVE the fact it was 70 yesterday. Love it. I do not love the fact anywhere in my yard, you can sink at least 8 inches in mud with no warning. The animals are loving it, I have green grass growing and thats no joke.

: My pussywillows are in bloom, the forcythia is ready to bloom and I have not had to shovel since.......I don't know when.

My husband plows for the Town and it has been a bad year as far as that goes, but he is doing other warm weather things like septic system intallations, that he could not do usually till' spring. It really has been strange, but man, I love running around with no jacket. :bgrin I went riding for a couple hours yesterday, the horses were full of it. They like the weather too it seems........

Alicia

 

[mrgizzmoe]

i am sure it it a big part of it..everthings is conected on earth. if one thing is off all will be some..we are killing ourselves and everything that we share this life with. we are the most disrective (SP?) animals anywhere. i just wounder how long is earth will last. i feel bad for my little girl and everyone of her generation. look what they were born into.

James

 

[LindaL]

Yep, while its still (always...lol) wet here in Oregon, the temps have been above normal here, too. We noticed some bulbs popping up in the flower beds yesturday, too!! :new_shocked:

 

[yankee_minis]

In Maine this is just so bizarre. Window was open all night last night. It was just too hot!

We had a fire in the oven last night and had to open up everything to clear out the smoke and it was nice to not freeze! lol

The mud concerns me and I am wondering what the heck this is going to do to the hay this year.

Usually our water at the barn is frozen or we've had to use the snow blower in the paddock just for a place for the minis to walk.

Poor skunks don't know what to do! I bet hibernation is all screwed up for a lot of animals!

Sorry, but I do NOT want the cold to come back. 30 degrees is fine. Anything less and I will be frowning.

 

[laughingllama75]

I forgot to mention, the bears are all screwed up here in NH.........there have been several sightings in town over the past month, they should be all sleeping by now. There are 2 cubs from the spring with no mother that are down at the town dump. We see them ALL the time. They are afraid of people, which is a good thing.

I wonder if we are going to be over-run with deer this year, as the winter has been kind to them thus far?

Alicia

 

[CharmedMinis]

Jane I couldn't have said it better myself :aktion033: Part of the reason why I've decided not to have children and add more people to this world!

Obviously things are screwy here in NM, 14 inches of snow last weekend, that was record breaking for us, and we haven't hit a high temp over 35 since then (today is supposed to be a bit warmer though).

According to our experts here, our temps in Central NM will be more like that of Southern NM from now on..........meaning hotter summers :no:

 

[coopermini]

Yesterdays high temp set the record for Jan with 67 degrees. The old record was 53 that is 14 degrees higher than the any over 100 years. We also set a record minimum low tepm as it only dipped to 51 which is again 14 above the old record of 37! We also had over 60" of rain for 2006. I think 45" is ave. for us.

Worst part of the warm this winter is the mud! With no frozen ground and rain all the time even the hill tops are just sopping wet and more like walking thru a swamp.

As some one keeps telling us it is just a mirrage! It will go away soon?

Mark

 

[TangoMango]

Well, you cant expect the weather to stay the same forever. Think back to the ice age. Im sure glad the temps have risen since then. :bgrin

Even my mom gets in on the "excitement", She is convinced something is going on. Why? Because this winter isnt normal? So what. And if our weather cycle is changing, adapt.

What I dont understand about this supposed global warming, is....Why are some places colder than normal this year? Wouldnt you think "global" warming would mean EVERYWHERE is geting warmer?

 

[Jill]

It was into the 70's here yesterday. I have actually turned on the a/c this "winter". "What" is happening is concerning.

 

[Pepipony]

Tango Mango, Global warming is the name, but the causes are many. That global warming can lead ( more like probably will) to the next ice age. Warming will melt the polar ice which will lower the salinity of the arctic ocean which will shut off the oceans conveyor which circulates the waters and allows places like England to have a temperate climate when polar bears frequent the same latitudes further west.

We all need to watch some of the science channels shows about global warming. Yes there are normal climate changes due to many things. However it is beyond obvious to scientists that WE are causing this one. Think the only scientists that do not agree with this thought are the ones in the back pockets of big oil and big industries. Kinda like tobacco companies swearing that smoking wasnt unhealthy

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[rabbitsfizz]

Guess we had better get used to Hippos in the Thames.....again!!!!

Trouble is, since we are causing this it will not clear itself up, as has happened before when the normal tilting of the Earth has caused the different areas to warm up or cool down.

Of course there have always been changes- why do you think Greenland is called "Green" land??

But the facts remain that it odes not happen this quickly when it is happening normally.

Parts of the south of England are now permanently an official Drought Zone!!!!

Even though it still rains loads- or seems to anyway- there is still a drought as the reservoirs are still only half full- in the same way a few isolated places may be experiencing low temperatures but the majority of places are experiencing , to say the least, abnormal, weather.

In places like Ethiopia where the rains have failed for the last ten years this is critical- they will not recover.

So, people are already paying with their lives for our stupidity.

Why do we always have to wait until it is our families that are dying, why can it not matter to us, just a little bit, that someone's family is dying??

It seems so childish and , Yes, stupid, to just turn away and petulantly say "it's not my fault".

It is even worse to say it's not happening!!

Closing your eyes and putting your fingers in your ears, or even your head in the sand, will not make it go away, believe me.

Mind you there are people who say the Holocaust did not happen........