sofaking wrote:

Speaking of da weatha....IT"S SNOOOOOWING!!!

Hell has officially frozen over.

I hope there's enough to play in!!

saw pics of Lancaster, I think you might get a bit!

If I could drive worth a shit in this weather, I would go bring hot chocolate to the office.

I don't trust StabiliTrak to compensate for my idiocy.

Dmtdust wrote:

What doesn't this song go with?
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-164378#

I want to know what the hell is going on in the trench to the right of the slippery road...  can anyone determine what's going on there?

whosasailorthen wrote:

Dmtdust wrote:

What doesn't this song go with?
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-164378#

I want to know what the hell is going on in the trench to the right of the slippery road...  can anyone determine what's going on there?

Construction Site, with wind on a plastic barrier

Dmtdust wrote:

What doesn't this song go with?
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-164378#

I like this one. better payoff:

Dirckman wrote:

lechero wrote:

Dmtdust wrote:

What doesn't this song go with?
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-164378#

I like this one. better payoff:

Link to YouTube page

Last winter I was driving my Jeep and it was really foggy, it was strange because the fog was liquid on the windshield, but the temperature was below freezing....  I went to slow down, but there was no stopping, I slid for about half a block until I curbed my Jeep.....  I must have been on a slight incline because with the brake still held down and from a complete stop I started sliding backwards until I hit the curb on the other side of the street....  Did I mention I fucking hate winter?

I can dig. They shut down all the schools for tomorrow. Something about "not having the infrasructure like snowplows".

It looks like a global warming wonderland outside. This much snow is really weird.

You shoud try to drive your Corvette in the snow for shits and giggles.

Last edited by sofaking (2008-12-18 00:55:06)

We have a snow day tomorrow.  My entire family except me had a snow day today.  Do you realize how much it sucks to try to teach five-year-olds anything when the first snow of the year (for most of them, the first of their lives) is going on outside?  Luckily, they believed my partner when she told them that if they kept going to the window to watch or didn't sit down and do their work it would stop snowing.  Got home to find the 30+' tall eucalyptus in the front yard, right by the house, bowing and snapping off limbs in the snow...who the fuck thought it was a good idea to put goddamned eucalyptus trees in the high desert, anyway?  It fucking snows here, from time to time!

Fallacy: It's cold today in Wagga Wagga

the 100,000 year thing isn't so straightforward, and would indicate 23,000 of 29,000 more years of cooling

A look at the last couple of millenia

Dmtdust wrote:

tojo2000 wrote:

Fallacy: It's cold today in Wagga Wagga

the 100,000 year thing isn't so straightforward, and would indicate 23,000 of 29,000 more years of cooling

A look at the last couple of millenia

So going by these, you could extrapolate either way.

No, going by these it is lunacy to deny that an uncharacteristic global climate change is happening right now at an amazing rate.  Click around a bit. 

The first link shows that it is just as much of a fallacy to say that a warm spell in one day is indicative of global warming as to point out that it's cold somewhere, but the second and third show that while there are cycles, not only is the current trend going backwards, but it's doing so at an incredible rate, geologically speaking, and doesn't correspond to any cycle that is evident as far as we can measure.  It also shows that there is a distinct correlation going back millions of years between C02 levels and temperature.  It shows that anthropogenic influences on climate change are not the only factors, but that we've had a 35% increase in C02 in recent history correlated to a spike in global climate temperature, NOT the weather somewhere.  The graph is showing sea surface, air, land, and deep water temperatures as well as ice and C02.

If you really start poking around at what the evidence is then it starts to become clear why there is a consensus about it.   I recommend starting here, it could use an update about a few things, but it has the best explanations of the data collected and why the models that we have continue to predict the changes accurately and why we should trust their measurements of the past:  http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2 … ceptic.php

Dmtdust wrote:

So it is safe to say to invest in Olives in Washington State, or Mangoes in Oregon?

It's safe to say that even if I could predict the climate, I wouldn't be able to predict people.  The most important thing is to make sure that our scientific research is going into why this is happening, what the effects will be, and what we can do about it.  The last eight years have been wasted by putting the anti-science crowd in charge of our national scientific endeavors.

Inhofe, for example, can lick my ass.

Last edited by tojo2000 (2008-12-18 02:36:07)

Taint wrote:

I'm hoping the insane rate at which glaciers are melting brings about a fast drop in ocean temperatures, bringing about an even faster drop in atmospheric temperatures. I hate hot weather. Summer is my least favorite season. I wouldn't mind another ice age at all, except for the mass extinctions, world wide starvation, and icy sidewalks.

I hear ya.  Besides, there's a good chance that if the temperature rises far enough to melt the permafrost then the massive amounts of methane released will create a feedback loop that really fucks things up in a jiffy.

Stock up on sunblock now, kids!

Ok..it just hit -40...electric heat aint keepin up...can I light a fire in the middle of the floor if i turn on the bathroom fan?

It’s cold today in fnord’s undisclosed location!  WINTER SUCKS!  I miss Orange County!

jesusluvspegging wrote:

Good chainsawin' weather.

A wood stove heats you twice. Once when you cut the wood and once when you burn it.