Author Topic: Damn this global warming!! (Read 2799 times)

Brad Johnson · « **on:** February 11, 2008, 10:57:04 AM »

How can we take all this global warming? It's a catastophe, I tell ya!!!

From Fox News...

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MINNEAPOLIS It lived up to its name: The temperature in International Falls fell to 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the "Icebox of the Nation."

It was so cold that resident Nick McDougall couldn't even get his car trunk lid to close after he got out his charger to kick-start his dead battery. By late morning, the temperature had risen all the way to 18 below zero.

"This is about as cold as it gets, this is bad. There's no wind it's just cold," said McDougall, 48, a worker at The Fisherman, a convenience store and gas station in the town on the Canadian border. "People just don't go out, unless you have to go to work."

Like many Minnesota residents, he uses an electric engine block heater to keep his car from freezing.

"You plug in your car, for sure, and you put the car in the garage if you can," McDougall said. His garage is full of other things, so he had to park outside a "big mistake."

The previous record low for Feb. 11 in International Falls was 37 below, set in 1967, said meteorologist Mike Stewart at the weather service in Duluth. The cold was expected, he said: "When the winds finally died off and the skies cleared off, it just dropped."

The temperature also fell to 40 below in Embarrass, 80 miles southeast of International Falls. That's just one degree above the all-time record in Minneapolis, 250 miles to the south, that was set in January 1888, the weather service said.

MrRezister · « **Reply #1 on:** February 11, 2008, 11:11:57 AM »

You're way behind times dude. "Global Warming" is out as the global death sentence. Now, increasing "greenhouse gases" result in "climate change" which is just as bad as "Global Warming", but less predictable. Oh, and "climate change" is still caused by industrial activity. Not to be confused with the climate change which occurred before the Industrial Revolution which was completely natural and non-cataclysmic.

charby · « **Reply #2 on:** February 11, 2008, 11:14:47 AM »

Google La Nina and it will explain the current winter weather.

Brad Johnson · « **Reply #3 on:** February 11, 2008, 11:25:56 AM »

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You're way behind times dude. "Global Warming" is out as the global death sentence. Now, increasing "greenhouse gases" result in "climate change" which is just as bad as "Global Warming", but less predictable.

Oh. My bad. grin

Brad

Bogie · « **Reply #4 on:** February 11, 2008, 11:34:15 AM »

Well, I just saw a completely pissed off brass monkey scamper painfully by, with a well-digging witch in hot... er... cold pursuit...

AmbulanceDriver · « **Reply #5 on:** February 11, 2008, 11:44:37 AM »

Quote from: Bogie on February 11, 2008, 10:34:15 AM

Well, I just saw a completely pissed off brass monkey scamper painfully by, with a well-digging witch in hot... er... cold pursuit...

Bogie, just one word....

what?

Brad Johnson · « **Reply #6 on:** February 11, 2008, 12:18:01 PM »

Youngsters. No appreciation for the classics. grin

And a point to Bogie for Most Original Use of Classic Phraseaology.

Brad

El Tejon · « **Reply #7 on:** February 11, 2008, 12:34:05 PM »

Global warming? Where and I'll move.

It's so cold here even the crows are wearing hats and jackets.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #8 on:** February 11, 2008, 12:36:36 PM »

Quote from: Bogie on February 11, 2008, 10:34:15 AM

Well, I just saw a completely pissed off brass monkey scamper painfully by, with a well-digging witch in hot... er... cold pursuit...

Wow. That IS impressive.

Sergeant Bob · « **Reply #9 on:** February 11, 2008, 01:06:11 PM »

Quote from: Bogie on February 11, 2008, 10:34:15 AM

Well, I just saw a completely pissed off brass monkey scamper painfully by, with a well-digging witch in hot... er... cold pursuit...

....while trying to avoid a mother-in-law's kiss.....

roo_ster · « **Reply #10 on:** February 11, 2008, 01:52:47 PM »

Quote from: Bogie on February 11, 2008, 10:34:15 AM

Well, I just saw a completely pissed off brass monkey scamper painfully by, with a well-digging witch in hot... er... cold pursuit...

Bogie gets the trifecta:

Cold enough to freeze the ballz offa brass monkey.

Colder than a well-digger's *expletive deleted*ss.

Cold as a witch's teat.

AmbulanceDriver · « **Reply #11 on:** February 11, 2008, 03:07:25 PM »

Aaaaah. Wasn't trying to decipher a three-in-one

ilbob · « **Reply #12 on:** February 11, 2008, 06:44:48 PM »

Quote from: MrRezister on February 11, 2008, 10:11:57 AM

You're way behind times dude. "Global Warming" is out as the global death sentence. Now, increasing "greenhouse gases" result in "climate change" which is just as bad as "Global Warming", but less predictable. Oh, and "climate change" is still caused by industrial activity. Not to be confused with the climate change which occurred before the Industrial Revolution which was completely natural and non-cataclysmic.

Or the Ice Age predicted 30 years ago by the same kind of kooks that dreamed up global warming.

The only thing I can see is that the weather changes all the time. Just like it has since the dawn of time.

BTW, for you global warming true believers, take a look at the graph of solar activity versus purported temperature increase plotted on the same time line. It is pretty instructive.

wooderson · « **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2008, 08:51:17 PM »

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Or the Ice Age predicted 30 years ago

Except that didn't happen.

Two days ago, I had to turn on my AC. Can I use that as proof of global warming?

Manedwolf · « **Reply #14 on:** February 12, 2008, 01:32:10 AM »

We've still not had the kind of winters some of our ancestors suffered through, but we probably will. Weather is cyclical.

In the mid 19th century, Boston Harbor froze completely. Salt water. Over a foot of solid ice all the way out past the lighthouses.

Imagine what that would do, today?

Scout26 · « **Reply #15 on:** February 12, 2008, 03:51:05 AM »

Yep got up into the positive single digits here in the Chicagoland area yesterday. Just warm enough for us to get 2 more inches of Global Woerming yesterday with another 2-4 inches due today.

There's already 12 inches on the ground in the back yard and the dog only has 10 inch legs. Needless to say he is NOT happy to go outside to take care of business. It's bad enough having your fun parts being drug through the snow, but when your bare butt hits the snow to take a dump......he does the squat and jump.

ilbob · « **Reply #16 on:** February 14, 2008, 05:30:08 AM »

Quote from: scout26 on February 12, 2008, 02:51:05 AM

Yep got up into the positive single digits here in the Chicagoland area yesterday. Just warm enough for us to get 2 more inches of Global Woerming yesterday with another 2-4 inches due today.

There's already 12 inches on the ground in the back yard and the dog only has 10 inch legs. Needless to say he is NOT happy to go outside to take care of business. It's bad enough having your fun parts being drug through the snow, but when your bare butt hits the snow to take a dump......he does the squat and jump.

When I use the snow blower to clean the snow off the walks, driveway, and such,, I am kind enough to my favorite beagle to also remove the snow from an area of the yard so she has a place to squat. Its maybe 8X10. Plenty big enough for her.

HankB · « **Reply #17 on:** February 14, 2008, 09:22:29 AM »

Quote from: wooderson on February 11, 2008, 07:51:17 PM

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Or the Ice Age predicted 30 years ago

Except that didn't happen.

Of course it didn't - it was only articles in worthless rags like these (revealed by a quick Google search) that some people remember, which the authors no doubt made up on the spur of the moment, based on things from natural variation in the Earth's orbit to (fill in the blank.)

Science Digest (February 1973) reported that "the world's climatologists are agreed" that we must "prepare for the next ice age."

The Christian Science Monitor ("Warning: Earth's Climate is Changing Faster Than Even Experts Expect," Aug. 27, 1974) reported that glaciers "have begun to advance," "growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter" and "the North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool." They also reported that Nebraska's armadillos were retreating south from the cooling.

Newsweek agreed ("The Cooling World," April 28, 1975) that meteorologists "are almost unanimous" that catastrophic famines might result from the global cooling."

New York Times (Sept. 14, 1975) said all this "may mark the return to another ice age."

The Times (May 21, 1975) also said "a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable" now that it is "well established" that the Northern Hemisphere's climate "has been getting cooler since about 1950."

Science magazine (Dec. 10, 1976) warned of "extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation."

Iain · « **Reply #18 on:** February 14, 2008, 09:47:34 AM »

Ok, now let's look again using the commonly accepted principle that the media is not a good place to look for science.

You'll need to find journal articles.

Good luck, no-one else has.

The only paper that there is predicted cooling if aerosol levels continued to increase (anthropogenic too). They didn't. Aerosol cooling is now the dominant explanation for any cooling observed in the mid 20th century.

ilbob · « **Reply #19 on:** February 14, 2008, 10:28:52 AM »

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They also reported that Nebraska's armadillos were retreating south from the cooling.

What a loss to nebraska.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 14, 2008, 10:36:21 AM »

Quote from: Iain on February 14, 2008, 08:47:34 AM

Ok, now let's look again using the commonly accepted principle that the media is not a good place to look for science.

You'll need to find journal articles.

Good luck, no-one else has.

The only paper that there is predicted cooling if aerosol levels continued to increase (anthropogenic too). They didn't. Aerosol cooling is now the dominant explanation for any cooling observed in the mid 20th century.

And I am sure that 30 years from now they will come up with some explanation for what they think they are seeing now.

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