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And it seemed to last and last and .... you get the picture. It was nasty cold. But not record cold. Close though. In fact, come mid-February thru mid-March, as a basic act of survival, I had to high-tail it south to Florida, which just happened to coincide with the largemouth bass spawn...hmmmm... ;^)

Then, this summer has been exceptionally hot & dry. Doggone stinkin' damned hot & dry. But not record hot & dry. But stinkin' filthy rotten smelly hot... lol

What do I conclude from all of that?

Sometimes the weather is nice. Sometimes the weather sux.

I like it when it's nice. And when it's nice out here in the Great Northwest, it's exceptionally nice compared to the rest of the country.

After living in the upper Midwest, central Texas and overcrowded Florida, I have learned to despise the weather back thattaway.....

Today, summer has come to a close as we're experiencing our first measurable rainfall in 3 months, and the temp's have plummeted to 58°F right now at 3:50pm after reaching a high of 70°F.

And it feels reeeal good. But give me a couple months and I'll be whining about the cold weather over again.. :^p

Just hope it's not too late......

I heard Bush did it.

As we were walking we came to the edge of a field and at one side of it was mounds and mounds of rocks. My wife made the comment that some a-hole must have dumped them there. I said no......"It's GLOBAL WARMING!!!" She thought I was being my usual smartass self, when I explained that it was indeed from global warming and that we were in fact standing on a glacial morain's dumping ground. There must have a been a lot of cars and such around 10,000 years ago!

We all know it is global warming if it is hot, or if it is cold. So it was cold in the house, so it must be global warming. Or the fact that the Mrs. left the windows open so she could go to sleep listening to elk bugling.

I am going with the global warming.

Terry

Terry

NO ONE denies that the climate changes. It's been changing for the past 400 billion years. It will continue to change and if it stops, we're all dead. What we disagree on is that we can actually alter what the climate will do on a grand scale. We can't. The earth has had cold periods, warm periods, dry, hot, wet, etc. since the dawn of time, despite what Al Gore says.

The people who claim that the climate can be kept unchanged by man are either bald faced liars or are seriously delusional, and more likely both.

As stated above.......IT'S THE SUN!!!!!!

Give me liberty or....

Woods Walker beat me to it.

This is the inescapable conclusion of a landmark paper, published in Nature Geoscience, which finally admits that the computer models have overstated the impact of carbon dioxide on climate and that the planet is warming more slowly than predicted.

The paper – titled Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5?°C – concedes that it is now almost impossible that the doomsday predictions made in the last IPCC Assessment Report of 1.5 degrees C warming above pre-industrial levels by 2022 will come true.

In order for that to happen, temperatures would have to rise by a massive 0.5 degrees C in five years.

Since global mean temperatures rarely rise by even as much as 0.25 degrees C in a decade, that would mean the planet would have to do 20 years’ worth of extreme warming in the space of the next five years.

This, the scientists admit, is next to impossible. Which means their “carbon budget” – the amount of CO2 they say is needed to increase global warming by a certain degree – is wrong. This in turn means that the computer models they’ve been using to scare the world with tales of man-made climate doom are wrong too.

One researcher – from the alarmist side of the argument, not the skeptical one – has described the paper’s conclusion as “breathtaking” in its implications.

He’s right. The scientists who’ve written this paper aren’t climate skeptics. They’re longstanding warmists, implacable foes of climate skeptics, and they’re also actually the people responsible for producing the IPCC’s carbon budget.

In other words, this represents the most massive climbdown from the alarmist camp...

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I actually believe in man made global warming. It is man that has created all the computer models designed to show that gorbal warming is occurring. Each of the computer models are "man-made". For the computer illiterate, a climate model is a computer program designed to provide a solution to a problem based upon inputted data. Over the years, these climate prediction models have been tweaked using human selected data to prove the hypothesis of AGW. In other words, the programs have been created to prove their assumption (ass-u-me) that some factor (CO₂ for example) is the causative factor in climate change. Most of the models ignore the factor of time, focusing on a relative short span and ignoring the millions of years of change that has occurred since the earth was formed. A few thousand years of data is barely a pimple on the ages of earth. In my short lifespan, the religion of gorbalism has predicted not only a scare scenario of warming, but also the coming of a new ice age.

Remember...this is the same science that cannot predict actual weather a week in advance, but claim to be able to predict the total global future. When one looks at the actual gorbal science industry, it all comes down to money and control.

Ignore the sun...it's just a part time light source ;o)

The key word in that is 'CONTROL!'

This entire gorbal warming scam is nothing more than the statists' way of gaining control of our economies. That communism thing the USSR and China tried to control their economies didn't go the way the gorbal warming fanatics wanted, so they're trying this ruse instead.

Either way, it's 'control.'

When researchers drilled a couple of miles into the Greenland ice pack to the bottom, silt and mud they found.....wait for it.....,,,,Butterflies!!

Yeah apparently it was a lot warmer up there at one time. Lots of warm blooded animal fossils in Antarctica too..