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Dec 17, 2006 12:10:50 GMT -5
Post by mickster on Dec 17, 2006 12:10:50 GMT -5
We got our first snowfall of the season. Started yesterday about 2:30 p.m. and quit around midnight. I have three inches at my house.
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Dec 17, 2006 14:28:32 GMT -5
Post by Arrianna on Dec 17, 2006 14:28:32 GMT -5
No kidding? We recieved snow as well. Usually it doesn't arrive until January and then melts by 7am. The kids had a snow ball fight or two.
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Dec 17, 2006 17:08:30 GMT -5
Post by eiko on Dec 17, 2006 17:08:30 GMT -5
We had a teeny bit a week or so ago. But the weather has been so warm up here this year that it hardly seems like December at all. White Christmases are hit or miss, and it seems like it'll definitely be a miss this year.
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Dec 17, 2006 17:27:08 GMT -5
Post by herringchoker on Dec 17, 2006 17:27:08 GMT -5
We've also got warmer than average temps right now. Later in the week it's supposed to get closer to "normal", which is lower to mid-50's for a high.
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Dec 17, 2006 18:48:49 GMT -5
Post by mickster on Dec 17, 2006 18:48:49 GMT -5
We're supposed to have an overnight low of nine degrees tonight, burrrrr. It has only been in the 30s the past few days but was high 50s last week and will get up to mid 40s next week for daytime highs. Lows in the 20s. I went out in the yard and saw all sorts of animal tracks in the snow. Dogs, racoon, coyotes, birds. I think there was a trail of skunk tracks, too, but I'm not sure. All provide a very good reason I don't spend time outside at night, don't want to be lunch! I'm such a coward.
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Dec 17, 2006 22:55:07 GMT -5
Post by allezcuisine on Dec 17, 2006 22:55:07 GMT -5
Last week we had a few flurries here, that's it. Like HC, the temps here have been well above average.
Global warming, anyone?
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Dec 18, 2006 17:23:12 GMT -5
Post by mickster on Dec 18, 2006 17:23:12 GMT -5
For sure!
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Dec 18, 2006 19:25:06 GMT -5
Post by allezcuisine on Dec 18, 2006 19:25:06 GMT -5
Has anyone seen Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" movie? It is about global warming. I hear it is good and informative.
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Dec 18, 2006 21:32:39 GMT -5
Post by herringchoker on Dec 18, 2006 21:32:39 GMT -5
I haven't. Then again, I'm not completely convinced about global warming, either. About 30 years ago all the scientific talk was about global cooling (yes, I'm old enough to remember).
The one thing that really makes me a skeptic, though, is that accurate weather data has only been collected for a relatively short period of time (120 - 150 years). We really don't know for sure whether or not the earth goes through long, natural heating and cooling cycles (regardless of what humans do). We can only guess at the past and use that guess and what hard data has been collected to make a guess about the future.
Don't get me wrong - I'm all for being a good steward of the earth's resources. If there's a more efficient way to do something that will produce fewer emissions of whatever type, count me in. I'm just not going to jump on a bandwagon whose destination is uncertain, and whose opposite was the rallying cry earlier in my lifetime.
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Dec 18, 2006 21:51:26 GMT -5
Post by Arrianna on Dec 18, 2006 21:51:26 GMT -5
Has anyone seen Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" movie? It is about global warming. I hear it is good and informative. I hear it's " one sided, misleading, exaggerated, speculative, or just plain wrong". I'm with herringchoker on that particular subject to the letter, well except for being able to remember the cooling scare. I have read several articles on it, and from it, though and thought it rather interesting. Mind you the latest word is we're about to slide into an iceage and I've heard that one from mutiple sources like this one. Link: Russian Scientists Predict New Ice Age In 50 Years
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Dec 19, 2006 9:39:58 GMT -5
Post by mickster on Dec 19, 2006 9:39:58 GMT -5
Actually it's global warming that is the first step to causing an ice age. I highly recommend viewing of the documentary "Little Ice Age, Big Chill" It explains much about how, when the planet is heated by fuel emissions, carbons, etc., they serve to block out the sun light but cause melting of the polar ice caps which inturn covers the planet and cools it to the point that eventually it freezes because there is no sunlight to warm the planet due to the (crap) we have put in the atmosphere. It all works hand in hand. And on any given day when you don't have a breeze in your area, you can see the brown smog covering the cities. There is a normal progress of weather changes that occur, but humans are contributing greatly to the extremes and frequency of these changes now. And as the population continues to grow, it's will only get worse. Look at all the "by-products" of a growing population, i.e., road-rage, crime rate, growing cancer rate, there are so many things now that are related to this problem, that being that the world is just too full of people. Well, I could just go on and on about overpopulation being the biggest cause for global-warming, and, it's my educated, opinion. I've studied it. But you must find out for yourselves. People tend to be in denial until the bitter end, sometimes.
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Dec 19, 2006 11:04:11 GMT -5
Post by Arrianna on Dec 19, 2006 11:04:11 GMT -5
Perhaps you shouldn't assume that just because someone doesn't agree with you means they haven't studied the issues or are in "denial". It is rather presumtuous. Personally I have studied it and decide that man made global warming is utter foolishness and egotism. It's a ever expanding and barely understood science that the more we learn the more we know only how little we know. Especilally when dealing with an "open" ecosystem like the entire world. I've studied the issues thuroughly and come to the conclusion that there are natural cycles the earth goes through and that political issues/lobbies have turned those cycles into a sky is falling cycle of panic. "It's too cold, it's too hot, now it's too cold". Fact is the jury is still out. It's all theory and nothing as of yet is proven in either direction. They don't know, they are just guessing and the US National Acadamy of Sciences explained it perfectly. The United States' National Academy of Sciences has reported it cannot say with any certainty what has caused the current warming. Scientists have noted a warming of the surface temperature appeared to have occurred between the 1890s and 1940s, and that a 30-year period of cooler temperatures followed. Back on the subject at hand however. It snowed last night again. That's two for two. Sweet. Here at least the weather is cold and, now, crisp. The kids are having a blast.
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