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Global warming is coming for us all!

Posted by $ WillH 10 years, 4 months ago to The Gulch: General
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Monday the high in Anchorage, Alaska will be 34 while Atlanta's high is 24
SOURCE URL: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/05/us/winter-weather/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

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  • Posted by Rex_Little 10 years, 4 months ago
    Now they're calling it "climate change", which implies that the climate must stay the same at all times. Does this remind anyone of a certain Directive?
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    • Posted by gtebbe 10 years, 4 months ago
      I have always maintained that politicizing an issue invalidates the issue. Climate change was well-founded until it became a political issue. Now any legitimate analysis is obfuscated by all the PC rhetoric. Additionally, who can ignore the fortune Gore is still accumulating from it, which IMHO is a dead giveaway.

      Another example: If memory serves, the EPA was created in 1970 and tasked with studying and lowering L.A. smog. Almost a half-century later, and after billions of your dollars granted to the EPA, the studies are unreadable nonsense and smog levels haven't decreased at all. For the fiscal year 2010 alone, the EPA budget exceeded $10 billion, the mean amount since 1970 (March 1998), $145 Billion. LA smog was/is still a legitimate concern. What happened?


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      • Posted by preimert1 10 years, 4 months ago
        I'm in Manhattan Beach, just south of LA and most of us agree that the Air Quality Management (AQMD) has accomplished a pretty damn good job of smog abatement and particulate removal (I can remember he 60s and 70s--eyes burning, sinus head aches, metalic tasting air) Still have a ways to go though. Catalytic converters were a major help. "Clean" diesel in LA harbor also.
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  • Posted by $ Stormi 10 years, 4 months ago
    It is -4 here in Ohio, headed to -17 during the rest of today. I always wish Al Gore is somewhere very cold, after his global warming scheme. Wait for the "climate change" brigades to surface soon. My question, does anyone know how HAARP and similar Russian and commercial weather operations are affecting the weather really? You do not heat the ionosphere with no effect. How much is HAARP costing taxpayers each year - my senator runs for the hills and refuses to say anything about it.
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 10 years, 4 months ago
    Oh noes!
    Wobal Glorming!

    Do I even need to go into how ridiculously cold it's been in New England?
    Just got a respite today and tomorrow.
    But going to lock right down again after that.

    Gore must be speaking someplace local.
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  • Posted by dwcarmi 10 years, 4 months ago
    It's amazing how far these people are willing to go. Down in Antarctica those eco-freaks getting stuck in the ice. They seemed to have not seen the report of 1.3 million square miles of ice which was a new record. It's all a scare tactic of the socialist to get a one world government.
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  • Posted by JQuinn97516 10 years, 4 months ago
    Funny how they can think global warming is the cause of everything. Its 6 F outside right now due to this "Polar Vortex", funny I thought it was called winter.
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  • Posted by LaCarna_and-J 10 years, 4 months ago
    Maybe catalytic converters cause global cooling.
    John LaCarna http://t.co/MLG7MgrY
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    • Posted by DaveM49 10 years, 4 months ago
      An aside to this: I have often wondered why, rather than installing expensive catalysts to burn up pollutants, manufacturers did not make their engines more efficient and avoid having to use catalytic converters. In fact, Honda did so, and was the last manufacturer to be required to add catalytic converters to their cars.

      For that matter, a number of improvements have been made in engines since the mid-70s. It would be interesting to test the exhaust from a modern vehicle to see just what the emissions are WITHOUT a catalytic converter.
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    • Posted by preimert1 10 years, 4 months ago
      A good side effect was removal of tetra-ethyl lead from gasoline. I read somewhere that this might improve children's IQs. Anyone know of a definitive study on this?
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  • Posted by $ minniepuck 10 years, 4 months ago
    I enjoy the cold. I went up to visit my parents in Canada when the 2010 winter Olympics were having their cross-country torch relay. it came near their town, so we went to the celebration (where I was the ONLY person waving an American flag). it was - 40 that day and I was I was wearing so much stuff, I was afraid that if I slipped on ice and fell, I wouldn't be able to get back up no matter how much I rolled around. anyway, if nothing else, the cold gives me a good excuse to drink hot chocolate and spend the entire day writing.

    stay warm, everyone.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 4 months ago
    Reminds me of ’91. Ice storm along the 95 corridor through seven states. I drove through the whole thing. Slid through South Carolina and Georgia at five mph. Every other faster car, I found in a ditch up the road.Tracktor-trailers were upside down and jack-knifed on many of the off ramps. You couldn’t get off the highway if you wanted to. Spent the night in subzero temperatures in my car right before the St Mary’s bridge leading into Florida from Georgia. Georgia state-patrol made us stop.

    “We are waiting for the sun to come up in the morning and melt all this mess away before we open the bridge.”

    It was suppose to to be -10 degrees the next day, but who was I to burst the bubble of a Georgia State Trooper.
    It was ugly going over the bridge. They closed it a half-hour later from what I remember, but it was nothing as hairy as trying to negotiate the ramps in Jacksonville, Florida. Took me six hours to get off the one ramp. Don’t remember which way the car was pointing at the bottom, but I survived and conquered it. I missed the 99 car pile-up on 95 all the papers covered later.

    I made it. It took two-and-a-half days to drive a twelve hour route plan. I was so exhausted. The weather was a little nicer in Coco Beach. Exhausted but glad to be safe, I decided my filthy car needed a carwash. After checking into a hotel, I went to seek one out, broad swiping this woman making a left-turn light I failed to see, while I was turning right on the same road.



    The one and only wreck I have been in as the driver. *BG*
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    • Posted by $ Abaco 10 years, 4 months ago
      I was right out of college, living in Seattle and working for Boeing when that first hit. I barely made it home after work the first day because I got off the freeway and snuck down some back roads - driving my little Toyota truck through a foot of snow. "Arctic Express" - it froze Seattle for a few days.
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  • Posted by Snoogoo 10 years, 4 months ago
    I'm sorry but I just have to say this.. weather and climate are not the same thing. It's like geologic time versus human time - it's apples to oranges.
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    • Posted by $ WillH 10 years, 4 months ago
      I don't think anyone actually believes they are the same. Days of unusual coldness, the ice breakers betting stuck during the middle of summer, the father of global warming found to have forged his result, are all just good reasons to make fun of the global warming crowd.

      It's a foregone conclusion to most people that the climate on Earth is not stable, and never has been. It's always warmed up and also had ice ages. There is no reason to believe it will not keep doing this.
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