Are you feeling Global Warming in your area?
I hear tell that it used to be much colder up here in the Northeast Ga mountains? Have you been experiencing a climate change where you are? If so, how?
We could use a little global warming in Indiana. The Indiana winters are too cold and long
120 degrees last summer. Never in my memory. Dryer winters. Course this is Sunny California. But is supposed to rain here in winter. We have strange sea creatures washing up on our beaches. Giant Squid again this year. I have never seen a Giant Squid in my life on our beaches until recently.
I have some very easy Green Ideas on my website Blog. Wrote it after I saw a great show Oprah did. Even doing 1 simple thing will help. Isn't that amazing? I have started one thing at a time and after a bit it becomes a habit. Can save money too!
http://www.jmteam.com/blogs/jana_davis__marcia_demerjian/archive/2007/04/20/change-or-lose-your-home-going-green.aspx
Jana
Not global warming, but a change in weather. We had a deep freeze this year in Hill country texas that was unusual. Last year we had a drought. This year more rain than we really needed, but the rain has procuced a really great green environment and more water in our lake and river. Hmmm. Colder, wetter, tell Al Gore to let up.
Did anyone see "Water World?" Do you think humans will grow gills?
Really it is not funny. We are cutting down our rain forests (the earth's air cleaners) Burning coal and fossil fuels for our cars - hey guys the air cleaners are going, going and soon to be gone. We have become a disposable society. Why did we stop using dish cloths, cleaning rags and cloth napkins? It is a lot easier today to throw them in the washer then the dryer. What did people take with them to market before paper bags? Is there any place in the world that doesn't have smog? We have our fair share and it wasn't too long ago that I heard that the trade winds bring us smog from Japan. Now is that crazy or what? No I won't stop using paper TP :) But won't it be nice to see all paper products made from recycled paper?
No wonder our weather is changing. Jumping off my soap box now!
I am all for conservation of out planets resources and the cleaning of the air but I am not a believer in man’s cause for the change in climate. Not wanting to start anything but there are more trees today than in the 1900’s. Trees are not the answer to global warming. There are fewer Rain forests and that is a shame but we have no rain forest here and I am more in control of here than there. There are probably less large trees now but the reclamation of trees is very good here.
I am in agreement with the scientist that feel that the climate change is due to the Ocean currents and the effect they have on the Artic. In the Atlantic Ocean, these warm surface waters push northward, releasing heat into the atmosphere and becoming cooler and denser. As they do, the waters sink and flows southward in the deep ocean. This has been going on since the oceans were formed. When you have excessive amounts of fresh water dumped into the North Atlantic, from melting ice and snow, it changes the density of the salt water. This disrupts the circulation. As the fresh water ice melts, as it has in the past and this flow sinks or is disrupted, the climate does change. But it is not warming; it is a mini ice age. The last ice age ended 11,500 years ago and is now due. It has come like clock work, every 11,000 – 12,000 years. Scientist believe within the next 50-100 years we can expect the change. We can’t stop it, it is how nature works.
So now you can pick what you want to worry about, is it going to be to hot or to cold!
Never ask someone in Phoenix, in June, if it's "warm"....
Although it hasn't cracked 110 yet, I'm sure it will soon.
I just wonder about these things, and I like to conduct my entirely unscientific surveys!
Having lived in Florida for the first 52.10 years of my life, I can tell you that I knew one temperature in varying degrees: HOT! That was one of the main reasons that I moved.
120+ here every summer. Some summers it has cracked 130.
When I worked in radio, spent 10 years in Palm Springs. The on air personalities were always discouraged from making too much ado about the weather so as not to put the kibosh on tourism. Same here in Bullhead/Laughlin area. One station I worked at, the thermometer reading was always 5-10 degrees 'light'. Still not sure how they do that.
Sunscreen and lots of water . . . and windshield thingies for your car so your dashboard doesn't melt.
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Gary it looks like I'm agreeing with you again. Global warming doesn't exist. I think it's pretty arrogant for people to think they have entire course of nature figured out with only a couple hundred years of documentaion, even more arrogant to think that humans are going to change it. There's my 2 cents.
Change it? Maybe not...probably not... but why contribute to our demise? Even the acts of one person or one family won't stop it but one person becomes two becomes four becomes eight, etc. Every little thing we do can slow the progress of it, is something we should all be doing and it isn't that hard to do. Use efficient appliances, keep your HVAC system in good condition and get a newer system if possible, use florescents not incandescent, buy a hybrid vehicle (my goal in the near future), if you can't buy a hybrid, keep your vehicle in great shape to burn less fuel, turn your HVAC up 2 degrees in the summer or down 2 degrees in the winter, don't drive 3 blocks to the convenience store----walk or ride a bike, don't print something out on paper just to throw it away 2 minutes later! Instead of throwing away your used letter size paper, why not stack it and when you have a nice supply, have it cut into quarters and use it as scratch paper? I never buy scratch pads or memo forms. Recycle whenever you can. Save aluminum cans and sell them---no shame in collecting this kind of trash.
Yes, I do believe global warming does exist. As a person with severe respiratory problems, it does worry me. I just can't tell if my condition is worse today because of the environment changing or just because I'm older and my system is declining all by itself. I do know that immediately upon moving from Indiana to Texas, my asthma worsened dramatically and I have more allergies here. I've even become allergic to cedar!
"Have you been experiencing a climate change where you are? If so, how? "
Humm How, Huh
Well all I know is as I get older my climate changes seems to be getting colder for me, I was a lot hotter in my teens!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACpNVD5GMUw
Vance
Gary what is making the polar caps melt? Trapped hot air? Smog tends to make it's own inversion layer. And it doesn't take to many degrees to make a difference. All that fresh water changing the currents is scary enough, and the climate changes that comes with it - bigger and badder hurricanes, tornadoes, colder winters, hotter summers. I think we are seeing that already. I am selling my beach front property in Malibu!
Almost all of South American and India use to be rain forests. When you look at a map of then and now it is very scary. Why are those forest gone? People cut them down or burned them. They needed farm land or the trees became popular building material. So saying people have nothing to do with climate change, dirty air, etc. just doesn't make sense. Nature had nothing to do with that. In North America we have rain forests also. One up by Alaska. You are right we can't control the world except to control ourselves. Be more responsible. Teak wood use to be a very popular wood for furniture and flooring. India saw the $$$ signs. Red Wood, thank God for that owl! Those trees don't grow very fast! And most of the wood was being exported before the owl controversy. One of the best products on the market and eco friendly is bamboo. I personally really like the way the new bamboo flooring looks too. It grows like a weed too!
But I think one of the great points to "Going Green" is it will also save you a bunch of money. So it is something a lot less painful then it sounds. So if not for the planet, just do it for your pocket book. Then hope for the best.
Hmmm... I thought the bamboo floors were going out of popularity because they don't last very well. I don't have any idea, but that is what I read.
Vance, all I know is that the older I get the hotter I get! Yes, there are three ways to take that--and I meant the more easily I feel that room or outdoor temperature is higher than I like it!
Jana you are correct there is a rain forest in Olympic Nation Park in Washington, however the damage that is being done has always been pointing at those forest in Central and South America. There is a difference is dirty air and global warming, and they are two separate issues. You will get no argument from me for going greener to clean the air and save money. It is something that affects millions of people with respiratory conditions and is unhealthy for all of us.
My problem is when the two are combined. I can be for clean air and clean water and even have a desire to save the rain forest without believing that man is the cause for the climate change we may be experiencing. It is the alarmists that want to combine everything and say we are the cause. Most of the alarmists are operating on government grants to fund their study and absent a crisis there are no funds. Follow the money and you will see what I mean. Mr. Internet is using it to fuel his failing political career.
In reality the polar ice caps have always been melting. The warming of the earth is a natural occurrence. In the cycle of nature, the snow fall normally replaces all or more than that which melts each year. However, history of the ice caps has shown over time that the fresh water melt increase over time and the salt water becomes less dense and the amount of snow each year is less, because the earth begins it warming cycle, and therefore the ice caps become smaller. However this cycle is something that has been happing and is not new phenomenon. It happened 11,500 years ago before we started polluting the atmosphere. As the sea water becomes less dense, the circulation of the water slows and eventually stops since there is no returning flow. When this happens the opposite effect happens. Now there is no warmer water to melt the ice caps and the world starts to turn colder. As it turns colder the salinity of the ocean increases and the flow starts again and we start a new cycle for the next 12,000 years. That is my understanding of the cause and effect.
It makes sense to me more than mans ability to alter nature through his actions. Man can do a good job of messing things up and we certainly need to be better stewards but man changing the climate is hype more than science. IMHO.