Oh, everything's just dandy ...
POSTED BY: rue
UPDATED: Sunday, June 17, 2007 17:12
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Originally posted by MalBadInLatin:
I still don't know why I expect anything less than "Nope! there ain't no such thang as global warmin'" rhetoric from conservatives.
Don't forget the "This flood/drought/storm/calm/fire/bug-dieoff/moss-increase/bad-year-for-my-tomatoes/rain-on-my-just-washed-car was caused by global warming, and proves we have to shut down everything right now!" rhetoric as well.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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Record rains, record droughts, severe droughts followed by extreme rain - these all fit the model of global warming which says the US west and southwest will get drier and hotter on average, but extremes of weather will become more common all over.
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Originally posted by rue:
Record rains, record droughts, severe droughts followed by extreme rain - these all fit the model of global warming which says the US west and southwest will get drier and hotter on average, but extremes of weather will become more common all over.
Possible, but the IPCC model also calls for more moisture in the eastern US, where the big fires in South Georgia are still buring due to lack of rain. Saying any single event is due to global warming ignores all the other factors which come into play. The Georgia fires were started by downed power lines. The new Griffith Park fire was down to careless smoking - people involved directly or indirectly.
Edited to add: Here's a link to rainfall totals for LA back to 1877. Note that the greatest yearly difference was between 1883-4 and 1884-5.
http://www.laalmanac.com/weather/we13.htm
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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This is the sort of gloom and doom that brightens my day.
-River
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Could you tell by the title of the thread? (A take off on Hiram Gummer's "Well that's just dandy.")
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Originally posted by Geezer:
"This flood/drought/storm/calm/fire/bug-dieoff/moss-increase/bad-year-for-my-tomatoes/rain-on-my-just-washed-car was caused by global warming, and proves we have to shut down everything right now!"
That's funny Geezer. Last year was in fact a terrible year for tomatos. Also, I couldn't dissagree with you more. But that IS funny
And you can't change that by gettn' all bendy.
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"Extreme human sensitivity to stings resulting in serious or fatal reactions is confirmed almost entirely to cases involving bees, wasps, hornets, bumble bees and ants (Order Hymenoptera). Each year 90 to 100 deaths from sting reactions are reported, but many more deaths may be occurring, mistakenly diagnosed as heart attacks, sunstrokes or attributed to other causes. More people die each year from the effects of insect venom than from spider or snake bites."
Who needs these little pesky critters?
"The first year of insect sting shots costs about $1,000 for a single venom. Subsequent years, when shots are given less often, run about $500 each."
Fucking pretty bad for the economy too. Can anyone say Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane
"Only a small proportion of the 129 men's remains were ever found, and many excursions into the Arctic today still come across an occasional human bone or Franklin relic." - Death in the Arctic
Do we really need all that murderous ice?
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Oh, and this ...
"WASHINGTON - Future eastern United States summers look much hotter than originally predicted with daily highs about 10 degrees warmer than in recent years by the mid-2080s, a new NASA study says.
Previous and widely used global warming computer estimates predict too many rainy days, the study says. Because drier weather is hotter, they underestimate how warm it will be east of the Mississippi River, said atmospheric scientists Barry Lynn and Leonard Druyan of Columbia University and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies."
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Originally posted by Geezer:
Possible, but the IPCC model also calls for more moisture in the eastern US
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"Previous and widely used global warming computer estimates predict too many rainy days, the study says. '
The models are flawed. What ever prediction they SPIT out is meaningless..............
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