WTF is with this weather?!?

[cubbies]

Global Warming is real...the ones who dont believe in it deserve to be shot

It must just be taking a long vacation.

 

[MikeFlynn74]

It must just be taking a long vacation.

That along with the epic hurricane season we didn't have

 

[ChshreCat]

*psst* when people think "global warming" means everywhere will get warmer it makes them seem ignorant.

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

Oh what the heck... this thread is going to the debate area anyway...

If global warming doesn't mean that the earth is getting hotter then what does it mean? How is global warming going on when the earths average temperature has dropped each of the last 5 years and our average now is lower than it has been since before the 80's. Many places are breaking records for cold, many are breaking records for heat... sounds like nature....

The amount of global ice is increasing and the sea level has stopped increasing for the first time in several decades...

The "science" behind global warming is shaky at best and is more or less a craps shoot. I am fine with that and am all about green energy myself. However, when the gruberment gets involved and plays that same craps shoot with billions of taxpayer dollars and institutes mandates... and wants to change the way joe schmo does business by affecting the energy he consumes, I have a problem with it.

 

[cubbies]

*psst* when people think "global warming" means everywhere will get warmer it makes them seem ignorant.

What area has gotten warmer over the last two years? There are record low temps and snowfalls all over the globe.

 

[shecky]

Don't know about global warming. Do know that it was 65 degrees in CT on Dec. 15. Four days later, we got a foot of snow. On Sunday we got six more inches. Today it's in the teens with a wicked wind.

Supposed to be in the 50s over the weekend.

We don't call that global warming around here. We call it "New England."

 

[ChshreCat]

Alright, I don't want to turn this into a debate thread so lets just drop the subject of climate change.

This is much better as a place to rant about the white crap that's kept me from getting to either of my jobs for a week now.

HEY! YOU CANADIANS! ALASKANS TOO! KEEP YOUR FRIGGIN ARCTIC AIR TO YOURSELVES OK! This is Western Washington! I don't live in Caribou Schlong, Manatoba! I like my precipitation in the liquid form, alright!?!

 

[farmbrewernw]

Yeah I'm getting really tired of this stuff, yesterday we had freezing rain resulting in a power outage and a apple tree falling in my front yard, today we have 8 inches of new snow. Worst part about it is that my christmas gifts are at the office and it's a 30 mile drive to get there. I think I'll have to brave it tomorrow regardless.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

HEY! YOU CANADIANS! ALASKANS TOO! KEEP YOUR FRIGGIN ARCTIC AIR TO YOURSELVES OK! This is Western Washington! I don't live in Caribou Schlong, Manatoba! I like my precipitation in the liquid form, alright!?!

Speak for yourself. I love winter. Nyah.

 

[ChshreCat]

Speak for yourself. I love winter. Nyah.

Of course you do. You live in Wisconsin. You don't have much choice. Living in Wisconsin and not liking winter would be like living on an island and not liking seafood. It just doesn't work.

 

[TXCrash]

So is now the time to mention that I'm just far south enough that there's no white stuff left ;-)

 

[sandsquirt]

I wonder if it is snowing at Al Gore's house? This damn global warming has me snowed in for 8 straight days. haha

 

[holden]

a better name for global warming would've been "increasingly erratic weather patterns" as that is the real result of it.

 

[boo boo]

HEY! YOU CANADIANS! ALASKANS TOO! KEEP YOUR FRIGGIN ARCTIC AIR TO YOURSELVES OK! This is Western Washington! I don't live in Caribou Schlong, Manatoba! I like my precipitation in the liquid form, alright!?!

Well I sure don't want it either Up until today I was enjoying climate change.

I like mine in liquid form also, usually in a glass.

 

[Schlenkerla]

I think global warming only occurs in the northern hemisphere during the summer! :cross:

I had a MBA data & decision making class where we collected temp data for over 100 years from one weather station. Something like 130 years since the limiting factor was accurate records and instruments. We did the statistical analysis and could not determine a meaningful trend. The only way one could see a trends is to selectively eliminate one half of self canceling outliers or to chunk-out time segments (like removing 20-40 years out of the data).

I concluded that it might be possible but no data collected proves climate change.

Me thinks its frozen horse-hockey pucks.... I believe one volcanic eruption does more to influence this than having years of millions of gas guzzling SUV's polluting the environment.

Ironically, its time to throw another log on the fire.

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

Onething I can definitely tell all of you is thank God for my 1974 Simplicity tractor and snowblower! :rockin:

Last year I shoveled through 100+ inches of snow by hand.......

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Of course you do. You live in Wisconsin. You don't have much choice. Living in Wisconsin and not liking winter would be like living on an island and not liking seafood. It just doesn't work.

Wanna bet?? I'm in the minority around here. One of the favorite pastimes around here is the whining about the winters. 'Course when you tell them to shut up or move to Florida they just whine louder.........

 

[ChshreCat]

Well, yesterday made it a full week since I'd been able to get in to work. The college was actually open on a late start yesterday, but the roads were too bad for me to even make it to I-5. Today I got up early and saw no closure or late start notice so I went out and started digging out the car.

Work starts at 7:30 so as it was approaching 7 and there was no notice, I figured I'd give it a shot. I barely made it out of town, but the freeway wasn't too bad.

The closer I got to work, the more it was snowing. I got off the freeway and the roads were fercraped. I managed to make it up the hill to the college and slid into the parking lot.

I got into the office about 20 minutes late to find out they closed campus 5 minutes before.

So, I had to battle it back to the freeway. It was worse going home because much fewer cars had been going that way compared to ones going towards the city. I hate snow.