I just received an email from Yosemite Sam. He tells me that according to his sources that our gold is safe buried in them hills and the UN is not going to put a carbon tax on our huntings and eating squirrel:-)
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
I apologize for posting so much but I feel like a kid with a new toy. I discovered that I don't have to look for information as much. I can bring information to me with Google reader and MeeHive.. MeeHive is in beta and a little slow but its what I have been looking for awhile. My own personal newspaper
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
There is a big difference between weather and climate. Last decade was the warmest on record but Vancouver has no snow, while the East coast is covered with snow.
Tullio
Senate global warming hearing cancelled due to Blizzard, Ice Storms.
HA ! Too Bad :-)
I'm sure you already know this, but just to remind you:
"Weather" (the day-to-day stuff) is very different to "Climate" (an important part of the overall environmental conditions that determines what sort of life lives where).
Our man-made forced (very rapid) global warming is forcing very rapid climate change. One of the consequences of that is that the normally expected weather will change. Hence you'll get rain and snow at different times and in different places and at different intensities to what life there is used to, for just one example. Another example is that hurricanes may well not get any more frequent, however, each one will gain a better chance of developing to a much greater intensity than what is normally seen at present. Forgotten New Orleans already?
There's also changes in temperature. However, it is all the consequences that are far more drastic and deadly.
On our present course, the will be suffering famine, death, and wars. And all very soon.
Hope you get to enjoy your retirement! Shame about your children.
Hope you get to enjoy your retirement! Shame about your children.
There's no need to get too mean - I agree with you on what we're doing to our climate, but I still got a chuckle out of his post: you've got to love the irony. Who knows, perhaps all the cold weather will open people's eyes to the effects of global warming -aside- from global average temperatures rising? Although I doubt those who are willing to blatantly ignore all the evidence will see reason regardless.
On our present course, the will be suffering famine, death, and wars. And all very soon.
Well, we have that already .....
Actually there is some fascinating stuff coming out of the study of the Sahara which is quite salutatory ( source National Geographic ).
- the desert only formed about 3 millions years ago, and has been blowing dust into the Atlantic - forming sediments which are now being examined, fortunately with about a one hundred year granularity in the record.
- prior to that it consisted of about 3 huge freshwater lakes, more or less from Tripoli through to lower Chad.
- two or maybe three major river systems, flowing east, each in size/flows rivalling the present day Amazon, Yangtze, Colorado etc.
- cichlid fish and other species ( now thousands of miles further south in, say, Lake Victoria ) were abundant.
- nearly every major mammal now found in Southern Africa, including humans, have been found ( as fossils etc ) well deep within the current desert margins.
- there is an ~ 20K year cycle, likely related to variation in the Earth's axial tilt, that sweeps the lower margin of the desert up and down about over a range of ~ 1500 or so miles.
- evidence of human habitations : huts, pits, bone piles, stone tools and deliberately grouped burials from as little as 3,500 thousand years ago.
- there was probably a transition time of about 200 - 300 years when the Sahara became un-inhabitable with progressive migration to the east. Possibly stimulating or becoming the known older Egyptian civilisation.
I think for this discussion the salient point is the brevity of the conversion from tropical swamp to desert. Or vice versa for that matter. So while the biosphere's total capacity to support life ( us too ) may/not change, what is quite likely is a lot of migration ( not that this is a new feature ).
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
John Travolta has the gall to lecture British citizens on being “green†as he flys to Britain
on one of his 5 private jets. It’s a hobby, you know.
I just received an email from
I just received an email from Yosemite Sam. He tells me that according to his sources that our gold is safe buried in them hills and the UN is not going to put a carbon tax on our huntings and eating squirrel:-)
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
Finger pointing does nobody
Finger pointing does nobody any good..
Just a Blog entry..
Finger Pointing
I apologize for posting so much but I feel like a kid with a new toy. I discovered that I don't have to look for information as much. I can bring information to me with Google reader and MeeHive.. MeeHive is in beta and a little slow but its what I have been looking for awhile. My own personal newspaper
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
One More.. Since I don't
One More.. Since I don't really feel comfortable having an opinion..:-) I do enjoy sharing other peoples opinions ;-)
Silencing a Climate Denier
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
Senate global warming hearing
Senate global warming hearing cancelled due to Blizzard, Ice Storms.
HA ! Too Bad :-)
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=b3e826ad-802a-23ad-45b8-8fa00c661d62
RE: Senate global warming
There is a big difference between weather and climate. Last decade was the warmest on record but Vancouver has no snow, while the East coast is covered with snow.
Tullio
RE: Senate global warming
I'm sure you already know this, but just to remind you:
"Weather" (the day-to-day stuff) is very different to "Climate" (an important part of the overall environmental conditions that determines what sort of life lives where).
Our man-made forced (very rapid) global warming is forcing very rapid climate change. One of the consequences of that is that the normally expected weather will change. Hence you'll get rain and snow at different times and in different places and at different intensities to what life there is used to, for just one example. Another example is that hurricanes may well not get any more frequent, however, each one will gain a better chance of developing to a much greater intensity than what is normally seen at present. Forgotten New Orleans already?
There's also changes in temperature. However, it is all the consequences that are far more drastic and deadly.
On our present course, the will be suffering famine, death, and wars. And all very soon.
Hope you get to enjoy your retirement! Shame about your children.
Regards,
Martin
See new freedom: Mageia Linux
Take a look for yourself: Linux Format
The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3)
RE: Hope you get to enjoy
There's no need to get too mean - I agree with you on what we're doing to our climate, but I still got a chuckle out of his post: you've got to love the irony. Who knows, perhaps all the cold weather will open people's eyes to the effects of global warming -aside- from global average temperatures rising? Although I doubt those who are willing to blatantly ignore all the evidence will see reason regardless.
RE: On our present course,
Well, we have that already .....
Actually there is some fascinating stuff coming out of the study of the Sahara which is quite salutatory ( source National Geographic ).
- the desert only formed about 3 millions years ago, and has been blowing dust into the Atlantic - forming sediments which are now being examined, fortunately with about a one hundred year granularity in the record.
- prior to that it consisted of about 3 huge freshwater lakes, more or less from Tripoli through to lower Chad.
- two or maybe three major river systems, flowing east, each in size/flows rivalling the present day Amazon, Yangtze, Colorado etc.
- cichlid fish and other species ( now thousands of miles further south in, say, Lake Victoria ) were abundant.
- nearly every major mammal now found in Southern Africa, including humans, have been found ( as fossils etc ) well deep within the current desert margins.
- there is an ~ 20K year cycle, likely related to variation in the Earth's axial tilt, that sweeps the lower margin of the desert up and down about over a range of ~ 1500 or so miles.
- evidence of human habitations : huts, pits, bone piles, stone tools and deliberately grouped burials from as little as 3,500 thousand years ago.
- there was probably a transition time of about 200 - 300 years when the Sahara became un-inhabitable with progressive migration to the east. Possibly stimulating or becoming the known older Egyptian civilisation.
I think for this discussion the salient point is the brevity of the conversion from tropical swamp to desert. Or vice versa for that matter. So while the biosphere's total capacity to support life ( us too ) may/not change, what is quite likely is a lot of migration ( not that this is a new feature ).
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
New Zealands 150 year
New Zealands 150 year temperature record manipulated to show warming when there wasnt any.
http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=550&Itemid=1
The Hypocritical Road to
The Hypocritical Road to Copenhagen.
John Travolta has the gall to lecture British citizens on being “green†as he flys to Britain
on one of his 5 private jets. It’s a hobby, you know.
http://ancavge.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/the-hypocritical-road-to-copenhagen/