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Global Warming, Hunh?
Bismarck, ND recorded a temperature of -44 this morning. It is the coldest morning in nearly 100 years. It is only one degree shy of the all-time coldest temperature in history (period of record 1875 to present) there. That cold air mass in Alaska and the Yukon persisted for 12 days straight. For those twelve days, the minimum temperatures ranged from -55 deg F to a whopping -68 deg F. Mind you, the all time record for Alaska is -76 in Ft. Yukon way back when. -68 is not that far off.
I can't wait for that first hot spell in the summer and the Greenpeace solicitors are out there in Central Sq., Cambridge taking advantage of the weather conditions to try and drum up support.
Climate changes, that goes without question. There are 4,000 year-old olive and cypress trees in sheltered mountainous areas in the middle of the Sahara. Are they mute witnesses to this?
Would an increase in temperature make more arable land available in areas now too cold for agriculture?
Or does a change in storm tracks, and thus precipitation patterns, make more of a difference in the long run? And, further, do these changes in storm tracks have any relation to atmospheric temperatures (probably some, due to wind dynamics, but not entirely; I bet there are unconnected factors)
John D. Moore
I can't wait for that first hot spell in the summer and the Greenpeace solicitors are out there in Central Sq., Cambridge taking advantage of the weather conditions to try and drum up support.
Climate changes, that goes without question. There are 4,000 year-old olive and cypress trees in sheltered mountainous areas in the middle of the Sahara. Are they mute witnesses to this?
Would an increase in temperature make more arable land available in areas now too cold for agriculture?
Or does a change in storm tracks, and thus precipitation patterns, make more of a difference in the long run? And, further, do these changes in storm tracks have any relation to atmospheric temperatures (probably some, due to wind dynamics, but not entirely; I bet there are unconnected factors)
John D. Moore
PEACE : The Infection...
WE are a very small group of souls, but, from what I have ascertained, a very enlightened, and influential group of souls.
This has been tried before, and it DID WORK, so if ALL will give it a try, just maybe, this small group, can have a much needed BIG IMPACT?!
Think of it like this. It only takes a very small amount of bacterial/viral influence, to completely over run another living mechanism! Let US be the NEW VIRUS!
THIS quote by Kahlil Gibran, is where this inspiration comes from: "You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."
Here's the plan! Everyday, at a pre-agreed upon time, everyone interested invest just one (1) minute of your time in a prayer for WORLD PEACE! No specific, prearranged prayer, just one minute of 'prayerful energy', directed toward ALL of mankind, and all other life forms on the planet, for PEACE toward all other life forms!
Start as soon as you can find it in your heart to believe in it! And stop only when you can't do it anymore!
I don't think it will really matter about doing so at a preset time, as ALL prayer is collective, anyway.
So just put aside that ONE (1) MINUTE, for the welfare of OUR PLANET?
"If you BELIEVE, spread the WORD...
Namaste
This has been tried before, and it DID WORK, so if ALL will give it a try, just maybe, this small group, can have a much needed BIG IMPACT?!
Think of it like this. It only takes a very small amount of bacterial/viral influence, to completely over run another living mechanism! Let US be the NEW VIRUS!
THIS quote by Kahlil Gibran, is where this inspiration comes from: "You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."
Here's the plan! Everyday, at a pre-agreed upon time, everyone interested invest just one (1) minute of your time in a prayer for WORLD PEACE! No specific, prearranged prayer, just one minute of 'prayerful energy', directed toward ALL of mankind, and all other life forms on the planet, for PEACE toward all other life forms!
Start as soon as you can find it in your heart to believe in it! And stop only when you can't do it anymore!
I don't think it will really matter about doing so at a preset time, as ALL prayer is collective, anyway.
So just put aside that ONE (1) MINUTE, for the welfare of OUR PLANET?
"If you BELIEVE, spread the WORD...
Namaste
An Interesting Question
Thus:
Why are ice cores in parts of Antarctica not reliable for measuring historical content of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
I'll give this several months to let all those scientists, and educated lay people a chance to tell me.
And, if there are any scientists out there who can say otherwise, I would like to hear that, too.
JD Moore
Why are ice cores in parts of Antarctica not reliable for measuring historical content of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
I'll give this several months to let all those scientists, and educated lay people a chance to tell me.
And, if there are any scientists out there who can say otherwise, I would like to hear that, too.
JD Moore
My Commentary to a Recent Boston Globe Story
Evidently, the Boston Globe eliminated all the earlier commentaries and the blog that was here yesterday. Since I saved this on Xanga, a normal practice since the Boston Globe has censored my commentaries in the past, I now reprint this in full.
Wow! Already 134 comments and climbing, most of them critical. The editors anticipated the response of this story correctly by setting up a discussion page rather than the usual comment section on the bottom of the article.
OK, this is what I say:
This is bad science, on the front page of what is supposed to be a credible newspaper. Mainly, the period of record is too short. Come on now, someone is trying to show a weather trend over only 40 years? Governments have been keeping official records for about 150 years now. We may have reliably precise scientific instruments for maybe 150 years before that. Then we have to go to diaries and journals which are indicators for maybe a century or two before that. Then we have to go to such evidence as tree rings, ice core samples, and the like.
Further, I suppose there's going to be the story that the people worked for months on end extracting and assembling the data and getting thousands of dollars of funding for this study. I can get this all data online and assemble this into solid information in a few hours. Not only that, I can get data back to 1896 without too much trouble. Contact me at any of the standard web based mail sites and I will tell you where to look.
Just a couple years ago, we had a cold snap here, a bad one, worst since 1957. A lot of English ivy and rhododendrons died, nothing like I've seen in many years past. People also forget how bad the winters in 1980, 1983, and 1985 were in large parts of North America.
Maybe in some far past time, generations ago, the Boston winters were quite severe, more like what still happens in the north country, and then not THAT far north. What made the winters of 1917-1918 or 1933-1934 particularly bad was that it hearkened to those "romantic days of yesteryear" when minimum temperatures in Boston routinely dropped below zero and there would be a day or two, at least, of readings of -10 or below. Many people died in those freezes because they were already getting to be a thing of the past, something that grandparents would talk about.
Mrs. Grieve, author or "A Modern Herbal," which she wrote in 1931 said that Cornus florida (the common eastern flowering dogwood) grew as far north as Masschusetts. Also, she said that figs would flower and ripen only as far north as Philadelphia. Also, she said, that cotton would grow successfully only as far north as Virginia. Is this not a credible source? Has any of these plants grown or flourished north of where she said they were 77 years ago?
When I see people routinely growing crape myrtle around here like in South Jersey or Philadelphia, or when I see Magnolia grandiflora grow and get big like I saw in New York city 15 years ago, then maybe I will believe that the "winters are getting milder" here.
It's a shame that the people who put this study together are making handsome amounts of money while I struggle to live on unemployment insurance and worry about being homeless.
Wow! Already 134 comments and climbing, most of them critical. The editors anticipated the response of this story correctly by setting up a discussion page rather than the usual comment section on the bottom of the article.
OK, this is what I say:
This is bad science, on the front page of what is supposed to be a credible newspaper. Mainly, the period of record is too short. Come on now, someone is trying to show a weather trend over only 40 years? Governments have been keeping official records for about 150 years now. We may have reliably precise scientific instruments for maybe 150 years before that. Then we have to go to diaries and journals which are indicators for maybe a century or two before that. Then we have to go to such evidence as tree rings, ice core samples, and the like.
Further, I suppose there's going to be the story that the people worked for months on end extracting and assembling the data and getting thousands of dollars of funding for this study. I can get this all data online and assemble this into solid information in a few hours. Not only that, I can get data back to 1896 without too much trouble. Contact me at any of the standard web based mail sites and I will tell you where to look.
Just a couple years ago, we had a cold snap here, a bad one, worst since 1957. A lot of English ivy and rhododendrons died, nothing like I've seen in many years past. People also forget how bad the winters in 1980, 1983, and 1985 were in large parts of North America.
Maybe in some far past time, generations ago, the Boston winters were quite severe, more like what still happens in the north country, and then not THAT far north. What made the winters of 1917-1918 or 1933-1934 particularly bad was that it hearkened to those "romantic days of yesteryear" when minimum temperatures in Boston routinely dropped below zero and there would be a day or two, at least, of readings of -10 or below. Many people died in those freezes because they were already getting to be a thing of the past, something that grandparents would talk about.
Mrs. Grieve, author or "A Modern Herbal," which she wrote in 1931 said that Cornus florida (the common eastern flowering dogwood) grew as far north as Masschusetts. Also, she said that figs would flower and ripen only as far north as Philadelphia. Also, she said, that cotton would grow successfully only as far north as Virginia. Is this not a credible source? Has any of these plants grown or flourished north of where she said they were 77 years ago?
When I see people routinely growing crape myrtle around here like in South Jersey or Philadelphia, or when I see Magnolia grandiflora grow and get big like I saw in New York city 15 years ago, then maybe I will believe that the "winters are getting milder" here.
It's a shame that the people who put this study together are making handsome amounts of money while I struggle to live on unemployment insurance and worry about being homeless.
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So...
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Hello From Your Moderator!
Hi,
I'm the Earthwatch webmaster. I've been at Earthwatch for 3 years, and so far I've been on 2 expeditions - Puerto Rico's Rainforest, and a paleontology expedition to southern Utah which has finished.
I hear many interesting tidbits of information about climate change and the impacts it could have. For example, Dr. Rolf Peterson studies moose and wolves on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. He has found that when winters are warmer than normal on the island, the tick population doesn't die off. This means that the moose are plagued by many more ticks, and become very debilitated.
Who would have thought that a study of predator-prey dynamics would discover a potential climate change impact?
Kathy
I'm the Earthwatch webmaster. I've been at Earthwatch for 3 years, and so far I've been on 2 expeditions - Puerto Rico's Rainforest, and a paleontology expedition to southern Utah which has finished.
I hear many interesting tidbits of information about climate change and the impacts it could have. For example, Dr. Rolf Peterson studies moose and wolves on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. He has found that when winters are warmer than normal on the island, the tick population doesn't die off. This means that the moose are plagued by many more ticks, and become very debilitated.
Who would have thought that a study of predator-prey dynamics would discover a potential climate change impact?
Kathy
Glad I found this group
Hello- My name is Betsy, I live in Oregon, and am very concerned about what is happening to the planet right now. I have been observing Earth Changes for many years, and try to do my part to not be wasteful, to recycle, and not pollute. Oregon is a great place to live, and I hope to keep my little corner green and natural. Feel free to write to me anytime.
