Global Warming...

$150 billion clean technologies fund?

You 'n me.

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.

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.)

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.

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...

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.

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

Mallard

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.

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.

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

Amazing what's found when ice melts.

Melting glacier yields secrets.

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.

Wow, great story.

There have been a lot of pretty extreme weather cycles and I don't think it's any secret but I guess it doesn't go along with man made climate change so it's rarely mentioned.

RIP Michael Crichton.

Perhaps one of the best yet ever on globull warming.

'Aliens Cause Global Warming'

Didn't realize he started off so young. Very accomplished fellow.

You're done for to be sure.

None of that here, we've got rain in the forecast for the next three days and warmer temps as well (overnight lows in the 60s vs. the mid 40s).

Now that sounds a bit cold.

That sounds like it belongs right next to the Truth Commission.

Ouch.  That would only be fair!!

Oh dear. Wonder how that would affect me on days like yesterday?  Had a Mexican meal the night before and I must confess, I didn't even like being around myself. (And no GaxX or anything stashed away.)

  Pretty hard when truth just slams you right in the face.

Strange. That's a new article by the date, but when I googled "kidney stone belt" it's old news, dating back to July 2008.

Interesting, there is a Kidney Stone Belt

The southeastern area of the United States is known as the Kidney Stone Belt because of the relative high ratio of people suffering from kidney stones in those states. North Carolina (where this author, a fellow kidney store sufferer happens to live) has more kidney stone cases per capita than any other state. Several factors probably come into play to create this situation. One is the typical southern diet which is high in green vegetables and brewed tea - both of which are high in oxalates. The second is the hot climate which causes increased amounts of perspiration and loss of body fluid. And finally, modern life styles often reduce physical activity.

My take on kidney stones in that area of the country is the high consumption of soft drinks and specifically coke, which, I have heard, causes kidney stones.

When I lived in Georgia I was amazed by the number of people that had a coke for breakfast. They thought it was perfectly normal and routine.

Throw in a Goodie powder and they were in heaven.

I was thinking a load of suger and caffeine but I be wrong.

Caffeine Content Of Popular Drinks

A 12 glass of tea has more! Wow, and I thought that tea was a low caffeine drink. 

And speaking of coke here in Texas it used to be a BC powder but I hardly seem them any longer, can't remember the last time but they still seem to be around. Another when I was a kid, and this was a real treat, was a coke with a bag of peanuts dumped in it. The salt seemed to turn it flat and it was almost like a non-carbonated soda fountain coke.

And man could I tell the difference between a bottled coke and a soda fountain coke. Never figured why because surely the syrup was the same but there was a difference. Even so I'd take a cherry phosphate over a coke any day.

Kids may have iPods but sheesh, they don't know what they're missing.

Actually, I can still tell the difference between a "can" and from the fountain. May not be able to side-by-side, but for some reason I sure can when we go out. "Canned" Coke about gags me; just does. But, I can handle Coke from a foutain when we go out to eat.  Not sure why. Otherwise, I'm a Pepsi guy.

Ah. That's, uh, been a while since I've seen one of those. I think when I was a kid the Rexall (sp?) drug store uptown had a soda fountain.