Gotcher Global Warming right here. Yeah, as we read about naturally occurring gasses, (essential for all life on earth.. like the CO2 that keeps all the plants we depend on for...well for everything...alive and thriving)..... being regulated by a greedy bunch of money-grubbing hypocrites, all in the name of Anthropogenic Global Warming (try typing that before you have finished your first cup of coffee) it is not warming here. We have had a cold, miserable summer. One of the coldest Octobers on record. November was warmish, but alas it is over.
Today NY has a storm. It is not in any way, shape, or form a warming storm. (Maybe we are just not global enough.) Traffic, what there is of it, has slowed to a crawl, even down on the usually speedy Thruway. As I lay under about six covers, including three knitted afghans, this too darned early morning, thinking about getting up....but procrastinating, even though it is milk tanker day, the room was aglow with reflected light. Um....unless there is a really big moon, and right now the moon is smalling down pretty quickly, that means lotsa snow. I came downstairs and plugged in the coffee maker...Houston...we still have power. However, it didn't look too pleasant down across the river. The sky is pink from the lights in town bouncing off a curtain of snow. It is frigid.
And indeed Gael would not go out to tend to Mother Nature. Just stood on the porch shivering and glaring at me...well, alright, but you'll be sorry later.
Yeah, we gotcher Global Warming...it is falling all over the ground and piling up on the trucks and fences.
It is also here, where my good friend Earl needs a Zamboni for his kitty dish
And here, where one of our lovely Lindas has been without power and is freezing at around 35 below in this "warmest decade on record" weather
And here, where our other delightful Linda is also experiencing something less than toasty, sunny and warming
And here, where if you click on the picture of Loveland Pass, as seen through the window of a tractor trailer, your heart will probably leap right out of your chest like mine did...well almost....seriously, hop over there and click on that picture...
They have Global Warming down in North Carolina too.
Pennsylvania
Knoxville Tennessee
SoDak Maine
If that nasty little conference in Denmark got to experience a big, fat, weeklong blizzard it would be poetic justice, which is about the only kind we are likely to see within ten thousand miles of it.
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Going Forward—Monday, December 23, 2024
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I've got six to eight inches of heavy wet snow on the deck at the Aerie in Tioga Co., PA this morning with freezing rain falling on top of that. All the PA schools are closed for the day.
Terry just read to me that massive lake effect snows could bring three (3) FEET of snow to the Tug Hill Plateau on Thursday and Friday when the winds come howling out of Canadian arctic and drop the temperatures accordingly.
Get back to staying warm--after the cows get milked, of course.
Oh ya, we are defiantly having 80 degree weather and the sun is a shining, NOT! Maybe that is rain falling from the sky, funny looking rain if you ask me!
Cold here for us too - and no one asks why it is OK for all these people to travel to Copenhagen and cause more supposed global warming, while everyone else has to cut back or do without.
It feels like it will be a lonnnng winter - unfortunately :(
I can't even imagine that kind of cold! It's 71 here but we had a little cold snap last week that took us into the 40s LOL
Sugar and Monday say they will happily burp and flatulate more in an effort to help support the global warming cause...because their little tails are cold.
No it isn't "Global Warming" now it is "Climate Change".
There! Don't you just feel all special and better now?! :)
By the way, aren't you glad your not a cow, so no one sticks a cold cup on your....ummm....hmmm...oh well, you get the drift!
It's warmed up to a balmy 8* below F. here this morning, downright tropical! Stay warm:)
I really hate winter!
It's a regular heat wave here, it's all of one above at the moment.
Wouldn't that be wonderful! A HUGE crippling snowstorm right there, just for 'them', in Denmark!
Wonderful! I would cheer loudly!
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
We got a very rare killing frost last night in spite of all my efforts to advance global warming.
Joated, od dear....we have to go to Syracuse today for a meeting...
Lisa, yeah, lovely weather ain't it?
Nita, too long I fear
ScMomma, not too bad yet, but I'm afraid that it is on its way now
Paints, well, you just thank them for that for me please
JB, I feel better now. lol
And, we dip the milkers in a pail of warm water this time of year. I just hate those hind feet flailing around my head.
Linda, oh, my, that is just cozy. You stay warm too!
CTG ditto!!!!
Jeffro, warm and toasty huh? I looked at that pic of where you have to drive and shuddered...argh..
LInda, it would be an irony that they truly deserve
Jan, keep trying please. I am freezing. lol
Hi,
I want to say that I'm from the North country and I like what you have to say, and the photos on Sunday stills!
Unlike the other commenters before me, I'll stick my neck right out and say that I do believe that human activities have increased the CO2 level higher than would have naturally occured otherwise over the same time period (150 years?)
But I don't think the politicians in Copenhagen will accomplish anything that actually and fairly tackles the problem. Frankly I don't have a lot of faith in politicians as a general rule (regardless of party or affiliation).
The way I view global warming is that it's the worldwide average temperature that is expected to increase, some places will be a lot warmer and many places only a little warmer. It also means that some places will actually be colder.
Since this 3.6F temperature change is theoretically going to happen over the next 100+ years so far we'd see very little change in our area, less than 1/4 degree F. So saying that a few cold days in December invalidates the theory of global warming doesn't make a lot of sense to me because isn't December supposed to be cold in our area anyway, and could anyone really tell if it actually was 1/4 F warmer?
Regardless of the cause of increasing temperature (CO2, humans or otherwise), as the atmosphere gets warmer weather patterns will change due to overall increased energy level. Higher energy increases the frequency, duration and intensity of weather extremes.
So rain showers might come with more water over a shorter period of time and with higher winds, or there will be longer periods of dry weather, or longer periods of continuous wet weather. Basically "different" weather than usual because the atmosphere is slowly getting more energetic.
Maybe this effect helped cause the unusually long wet period this July in the North Country, even though the other months were somewhat below average rainfall, or maybe it's contributing to the current midwest drought?
Interestingly the NOAA website you linked to showed that October 2009 was colder than average, but if you check out November 2009 you'll see it was the 3rd warmest on record. What I take away from these two months is not that they are or are not warmer than normal, but rather that both are quite different than average -- perhaps another example of weather pattern change due to a more energetic atmosphere.
Oh and strangely warmer temperatures lead to increased lake effect snow
And sure, CO2 is an essential part of plant respiration. But even too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. Even if we ignore temperature changes, weather extremes and whatnot, there is still measurable evidence of increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere, corresponding with increased fossil fuel use.
Way in the past (100 million years) according to this anti-global-warming site CO2 level was about 1000 ppm. But if what is important is not just the total amount of CO2, but rather the rate of change then I'd be very worried. That graph also shows an increase of CO2 from (about where we are today) to about 2000 PPM over the course of about 25 million years beginning 300 million years ago. I guess that's about 0.00006 PPM per year change.
But in the past 150 years according to this pro-global-warming website CO2 has increased 100 ppm (0.66 ppm per year). That's 9,500 times faster rate of increase in CO2 levels, way faster than any earlier rate of CO2 increase.
Well anyway, I wouldn't worry about Copenhagen and CO2 restrictions. Most likely they're going to end up restricting methane instead since its a more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2 -- That means we'll be putting our burping & farting cows into spacesuits.
Cheers,
bkc Believe it or not, I have read some of this stuff. However, when I see people like Al Bore rampaging across the globe spewing carbon in their wake and getting rich off carbon trading, all the while telling me not to milk cows and drive tractors, I get kind of skeptical.
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