I'm sure that's just coal ash.

 

damn tree huggers

 

So all the schools are closed today due to snow.

My girlfriend has a half-day at work, and probably won't go in tomorrow.

Walmart was apparently packed last night with people panicking to purchase milk and bread. Mmm.... milk sammiches.

This state is crazy.

 

Notice how everything is changing from "Global Warming" to "Global Climate Change".


There has been a temperature drop on average over the past 10 years.

 

Notice how everything is changing from "Global Warming" to "Global Climate Change".

There has been a temperature drop on average over the past 10 years.

It's your fault, too. With your cars and such.

 

Got a text from my dad the other day.

It is just damn cold, global warming my ass.

That said I can deal with the cold, but it's the damn wind that kills me.

 

Global Climate Change is a crock of shyte. Temperatures fluctuate, so what? It's about 6 inches of snow here now.... We're expecting around 14 when it's all through...

 

Global Climate Change is a crock of shyte.

Sadly it is not. The scientific community has very much agreed that our CO2 emissions are impacting the climate. There is however much debate on whether this is good or bad, and how much the impact will be.

However, there are a few facts that you can take comfort in. There's absolutely no way we can curtail our emissions fast enough to stop our impact. So at this point we're along for the ride no matter what. If you have shore front property though, you might wanna sell it.

 

I saw snow in Missouri last week. /global warming.

 

Snow is weather, not climate change. There is a difference.

Anyway, funny about the dusting of snow you got code. We just got 1-2" here, and I might not even shovel. Ha.

 

Regardless of anyone on here's personal views, or my own...

If any of you think that the people reporting/studying/etc the "climate change" or "global warming" phenomenon (or whatever the kids are calling it today) has anything to do with day to day, week to week, month to month, or ever year to year temperature examples, then you are pretty ignorant of what you are arguing against.

I also think it is a pretty widely regarded fact that an upward average temperature tend will eventually cause a cool down due to icecaps cooling oceans and disrupting ocean currents.

I really don't mind when people have good evidence to argue their points, but for the most part, the counter arguments I hear (ie: "Hey, it was colder this summer than last summer," or "Look, snow in Alabama") are really irrelevant and show that the people trying to make these counter points don't know what they are arguing against.

I certainly don't subscribe to the exteme thoughts one way or the other, but I do get a kick out of some peoples' reasoning for taking one side or the other :lol:

 

FYI, I posted this fread as a joke. I know that day-to-day changes are not indicative of the larger trends.

 

Oh shit.

Now they're talking about sending me home.


REALLY???

Jeebus, we've got work to do and a deadline to meet. We can't tell our military customer "Sorry, we took a snow day. You'll have to come back later."

 

the phenomenon formerly known as global warming....

i'm waiting for a flight to chicago, which got some snow... my 9:40 flight was canceled, bumping me to a 12:50 flight, which would put me into chicago at 1:30... when i'm supposed to be landing in Denver (local time). So now that i've spent 5 hours in the Pittsburgh Airport, i'll get to spend another 4 in Chicago Midway... All that because of a little snow in Chi-Town.

But the mountains in CO are still short on snow, WTF...

Oh, and they closed I-90 from buffalo to Cleveland the day that we were driving home from the lake, turning a 2 hour trip into a 5 hour trip, due to a few fucking retards on the road wrecking their shit...


argh.

 

Bah... this ain't cold. When Niagara Falls freezes near solid, that's cold.

1846; nudnicks on the ice bridge:

1902; yes, those are people down there:

1910 (?):

 

I'll believe in global warming when the Hudson River freezes over enough that I can drive across and bypass the $8 toll on the George Washington Bridge.

 

In what way does this even remotely make sense?

 

Follow the money .........

 

Yep!

 

yay^

 

 

In college this past December I went to a meeting for a group called "Sustain Missouri". The leader of the group was a professor/scientist heading the school for atmospheric sciences. He said that yes, the temperatures are rising, but no, things are far from cut and dry about the human cause of that temp rise. There could be thousands of factors at work. I also heard that from Beck/Levin/Hannity/Ingram so it must be true. Raven loves to clump all conservatives together.

That said, we are looking for about 6" of snow here in StL. Yikes! This thread should turn into "how to drive in the snow". I was definitely the guy going 30 mph on the wide open highway last night.

 

Raven loves to clump all conservatives together.

That came out of nowhere, WTF?

 

I think I'm about done here.

 

I find it humorous that people are more adept to believe a very large group of unrelated people are lying for personal gain instead of independently coming to very similar conclusions.

 

I see how this is going to pan out...

I'm going to say "yes", and then you are going to say "no, you really don't because yaddahyaddahyaddah"

But anyway, yes. Basically my whole family on my Wife's side, and 80% of family on my side.

 

Fair enough. You could have said no! I just wanted to know, MN is a pretty liberal state... 90% of the conservatives you know may be taken out of a total like 20 or something.

 

Yeah, it's true...MN overall is pretty Democrat.

I just happen to live by the random pockets of the all the dickhead social conservatives.

You know the ones that elected Michelle Bachmann?

Yep, that's my home town. Terrible.

 

MN=mostly nice

Yeah, it's true...MN overall is pretty Democrat.

I just happen to live by the random pockets of the all the dickhead social conservatives.

You know the ones that elected Michelle Bachmann?

Yep, that's my home town. Terrible.

I thought M/SP was a nice place when I was there for a Parr Nuclear training session. That was a week after the bridge collapse. Went back a year and a half ago for a job interview at the Prairie Island Nuke in Red Wing. For a mostly liberal state, things seemed pretty conservative. People were very pleasant, helpful, and wholesome everywhere I went. Taxes were too high, but there were a lot of social programs and recreational activities.
I needed another grand a month for it to be worth my while. Taxes here (NH)are second lowest in the country, but we're losing our reputation as a conservative state. It's becoming more and more like Massachusetts.

 

Back on topic....

On my drive home from work yesterday (after they sent us home early due to road closures - lol), I did not see any patches of ice on the road. But I DID see two vehicles totalling themselves in two separate accidents (like, actually watched it happened) and I watched a kid in a TransAm careen into a ditch for no obvious reason. Again, I did not see any ice or even any road surface that was slicker than after a light rain shower.

It's colder than a witches teat here today, but the roads are still clear. Most businesses remain closed though.

I've lived in Alabama my whole life, and this shit is ridiculous.

In other news, my deployment package has finally gone through so it looks like I'm on schedule to leave for Afghannyland next weekend. Should be quite a party. No arctic weather there (maybe).

 

Back on topic....

On my drive home from work yesterday (after they sent us home early due to road closures - lol), I did not see any patches of ice on the road. But I DID see two vehicles totalling themselves in two separate accidents (like, actually watched it happened) and I watched a kid in a TransAm careen into a ditch for no obvious reason. Again, I did not see any ice or even any road surface that was slicker than after a light rain shower.

It's colder than a witches teat here today, but the roads are still clear. Most businesses remain closed though.

I've lived in Alabama my whole life, and this shit is ridiculous.

In other news, my deployment package has finally gone through so it looks like I'm on schedule to leave for Afghannyland next weekend. Should be quite a party. No arctic weather there (maybe).

Sounds like a fun time. I don't think anyone up in these parts even blinks when someone says we're getting 8 inches of snow... It's actually not as bad up here as I thought it would be... But then again, Alabama doesn't really have any "Snow Fighting Equipment"... stupid name for a snow plow...

 

lol.

I actually saw a cop driving around yesterday on the bare pavement (no ice or snow in sight) with chains on his rear tires. Yay for preparedness!

 

lol.

I actually saw a cop driving around yesterday on the bare pavement (no ice or snow in sight) with chains on his rear tires. Yay for preparedness!

Better than the one with chains on the front of his Crown Vic!

 

Tuna? Nope, don't think I've had that one before.

In my military days I used to eat the Chili Mac MREs all the time though

Oh, and thanks for the safe wishes and such

 

I had to scroll through all that BS again, just to read, "Good job Raven."??????

 

You don't have your settings set to resize ridiculously large images?