winter?

[Vallikat]

*tap* *tap* Um, hey, God? Hi, its me. It's January 5 and that would be winter here in the east coast of the US. Not speaking for everyone here but I was wondering if perhaps you forgot. Now I don't need a really big reminder like a blizzard or something (seems you didn't forget to turn the winter on in Colorado, eh?). But appropriate temperatures would be nifty. See I have this bad feeling in my head and if I'm not mistaken this is the start of sinusitis. I really think that maybe if the temperature dropped to where it should be, I wouldn't be getting sick right now. So you think maybe you can do something about that?

Thanks!

Oh and... There's extra rum-soaked muffins in it for ya' if you can get on that PDQ!

[Merkaba]

Yeah, I mean... What the crap?! It's freakin January and it's been in the high 50s to low 60s... No snow whatsoever yet. Just rain. Bah!

[Jenibell]

low 60s we have had high 60s low 70s
Kinda nice weather to be at work though, but its been realy cold at night!

[Fishi3]

Welcome to global warming. It's a trend that everyone will get to enjoy eventually. Polution and the hole in the ozone layer have lead to higher temperatures globally. This means the Ice caps are melting. Since water heats up more than ice the increased freestanding water causes temperatures to rise even further. Thus increasing the rate at which the ice caps melt which leads to even higher temperatures which again causes ice to melt faster. Estimates presently are that the entirety of the Ice caps will melt within 10 years. This will cause the Oceans to rise an estimated 2 feet. Thats high enough to put most of our present land mass under water.

But in the mean time we get to enjoy the fruits of our industrial society. The fact that warmer temperatures lead to more extreame weather patterns and thus more natural disasters such as floods and tidal waves is of no concern if we believe our political leaders. It is after all much more important to secure access to dwindling oil supplies so our factories can burn oil and continue the global warming.

In the meantime it's spring like weather in the middle of winter. No cause for concern. It's not like your home will be under water in a few years time.

Oh wait... NM...

[Vallikat]

Two major blizzards just socked the great plains in 2 weeks time. So I'm not so sure that global warming is to blame here. We're just having an unusually warm January in this part of the country. I'm not in denial either. I know there is scientific proof that our temperatures are rising and that ice caps are melting. However, I'm sorry Fishi, I find it hard to believe that we'll be living in Atlantis in a decade's time ("Estimates presently are that the entirety of the Ice caps will melt within 10 years. This will cause the Oceans to rise an estimated 2 feet. Thats high enough to put most of our present land mass under water.")

Anyway, I happen to enjoy winter-like (but not harsh) weather. So I'm just complaining that it hasn't come yet.

[Vallikat]

Meanwhile, OMG teh irony!

Playing:
Frank Sinatra - Let It Snow [HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!! DJ NARCOTIC GUILTY WHEEL OF DEATH ~*~playlist~*~]

[Negs]

Was 65 here in boston today ... oh god was I loving it.. Wiffle ball in January can't beat that one bit

[Nicodar]

Was 65 here in boston today ... oh god was I loving it.. Wiffle ball in January can't beat that one bit

Wiffle ball in Jan. with half naked chicks and beer certainly beats it one bit!

[Jenibell]

I remember back in High School when the wather did the same thing and then the next wenter we got 6ft of snow and in North Carolina thats a huge deal!

[Fishi3]

NP Valli.
Last thing I read on the subject was that because the ice is melting there is more open water, which will cause the ice to melt faster as water absorbs and keeps heat better than ice. But we can hope that things turn about. I definately have a negative view of the likelyhood of environmental reforms happening in time. As such I tend to preach the worst case scenario to shock people. It's one of the dangers of being an activist

On another note I was born in Stratford Conneticut where it got cold enough for the pond to freeze one year in three. Snow tended to fall around Christmas and last about a week. So the mild weather we are presently having reminds me of my childhood. Surprisingly New York city which was south of us had colder winters. Conneticut is sheltered by Long Island which makes an amazing difference.

[Tacz]

This isn't global warming. The actual effects of global warming are only actually a few degrees of change. Albeit its a very important few degrees, its much to small for any of us to notice, none the less to banish winter from us. I've lived in 7 different states in my life, and I've yet to live in a single one that wasn't at some point exempt from a winter seemingly disappearing. Warm winters happen.

Note: Not denying global warming. Taking no stance.

[Switchfront]

Anyone ever seen "An Inconvenient Truth" ? That's a damn powerful presentation, very imformative and quite shocking to be honest.. Peep it out sometime.. it's good stuff... not good that we're on the wrong path, but very well presented IMO.

[Jugsmalone]

Warm Winter lower Gas and Electric Bills Keep the Freaking snow I can't afford the heat its costly enough as it is.. wearing a sweater during the day and toteing an umbrella are fine with me as long as my bills stay low and I have extra money to play AO..and besides here in Maryland we are use to the weather flip flops we always say just wait 5 Min's and the weather will change...

[Jenibell]

haha Jugs thats a saying in NC as well

[Mivat]

. This will cause the Oceans to rise an estimated 2 feet. Thats high enough to put most of our present land mass under water.

Try over 100 feet. The seas is, if both icecaps melts, has been carefully and optimistically predicted to rise 70 meters above the levels they are at now. And THAT will put most of the flatter lands under water. Makes me happy that I'm living in one of the countries in the world where it's most mountain, and flat land at sealevel isn't all that common.

Know what the most fun part is? It will happen, regardless of what humans do. It's a process that simply cannot be stopped, but only posponed. I'm afraid that most scientists and enviromentalists doesn't understand the very basic fact that a planet, for example the one we live on, operate on a much much greater scale than we have the imagination or ability to understand or percieve. Our mere presence on this planet as a species is but the blink of an eye in comparison. Of course, that doesn't stop humans from trying, but hey, that's the human spirit. Everything has to be explained, defined and put into a booth of it's own.

[Negs]

global warming, el nino, whatever it is I don't care. All i know is i was at bently college today playing wiffleball in a nice sunny 75 degree day, and girls were sunning in bikini's watching us play. The day is good, now time to shower the mud off me (damn friend jumped in first, but did give me time to come on here lol), and go back out and enjoy the day

[Merkaba]

Omg. It's freakin 70-something degrees where I live right now. -_-

[Chaimera]

this is my kind of winter!!!! i hate snow, i love the heat!!! bring it on!!

[Innari]

Agreed Chai. Muchly agreed. To Hell with Snow!

[Jassel]

Yeah.. I prefer the cold during winter.. It helps settle the really hot summers that we get here (Maybe it doesn't, but in my head it helps )

Anyway.. I went home for Christmas this year (NW Penn.) and I was really peeved to see that there was no snow there and we didn't get any while I was there.

I don't care now if we get it or not. I like to have the snow for the holidays. I feel that snow around the holidays helps make them all the better.

Better luck next year right?