Global Warming...

I've been doing some reading on the Maunder Minimum and the last "little ice age" and I gotta tell ya, there's a lot to be said for global warming.

Some say it'd be a lot worse but I'm guessing with modern transportation it's doubtful if we'd have the same level of famine experienced in the last "little ice age" but still, around the world some larger number of people than at present would starve to death.

Amazing what's found when ice melts.

Melting glacier yields secrets.

FWIW: It's a really bad movie...special effects wise. 

I'm watching the definitive answer to global warming as I type: Aliens!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925245/

.....aliens who are propelling global warming to make Earth habitable for their species. D.B. Sweeney, Danica McKellar. Directed by Andrew Prowse.

Mallard must read these boards.

Saw you on the radar Bob, hopefully it'll hold together until it gets down here but it looks like it's falling apart.

Amazing. I know they do strips up weeks or months ahead of time, but still....

Mallard

I'm getting ready to go back outside and try to finish mowing. Started this morning...and that's all it took to start more torrential downpours. (I noticed our mailman is starting to look like part mail-fish. LOL)

Instead of sending you a box of rain...maybe a direct pipeline.

Managed to find a few radishes big enough to pull last night. The white icicle ones...gee...couldn't even cut the suckers with a steak knife. (Gotta remember to sharpen them I reckon. LOL) And the normal red ones...well...if they ain't named "Fireball"...they should be! My honey couldn't handle more than one bite either. ROFL

Don't look like I'll make much progress on getting the front lawn finished this weekend. (Hope all the peat moss don't wash away while waiting.)  I emptied the rain gauge last night before leaving town; about 1.75 inches in the last couple of days.  After getting back from Wal-Mart in Decatur (12 miles away) our towns streets and such was dry...but we had flooded intersections and little ponds in low areas. My first instinct was...maybe they were cleaning out the fire hydrants. So I checked my rain gauge. ROFL Sometime in the 2 hours I was gone...another inch of rain. (My honey said it all came down in just a few minutes...sheets of water.)

I'll box up what I can and mail it to ya for your lawn in Austin...

Hehe, I have a scan of that original article that I pull out every once in a while and show off.

I do have a memory of when the article came out and if it's a good memory that was a cover article.

Made quite an impact on me at the time since I'm not a fan of cold weather. In fact I think it's scared me quite a bit.

Anywho here's a clip of the graphics that were included in the original article.

Well. My memory is fuzzy. Assuming that the entire world was a Garden of Eden original...maybe ice caps and such isn't the "natural" order of the world? (Just a wild thought.)

t'aint no laughing matter. Here at Scarborough we're losing houses to the sea at an ever increasing rate. In fact the whole coast of Yorkshire is retreating ever faster, and before long whole communities will be lost.

$150 billion clean technologies fund?

You 'n me.