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Backwoods boy

Backwoods boy

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Is it just me or does it seem to be getting worse every year?

Back in my younger days, say about 15 years ago, we seen huge amounts of snowfall. Leading up to now, we hardly get snow anymore. In the past few years I have seen more and more severe weather in our area, around spring-summer with increase tornado activity. In the past 3 years or so there have been around 5 tornados within 10 miles of my location which is nwnc. Back then, we only heard about tornados and really severe weather out west. What's every bodies opinions on the upcoming season? Like I said, is it just me or is the spring-summer seasons getting worse while winter weather gets milder?
 
...and, cue Global Warming debate comments...
 
Last year I actually drove threw the forming of a tornado less than a mile from my house without even knowing it. We experienced high winds but didn't think nothing of it. We went to grab some grub which took about 15 minutes and came back threw the same location and there was literally, a mobile home picked up off its foundation and another stick built house in shambles. That was a near miss for us. Jokingly, we started calling our neighborhood, "the new tornado alley". Wasn't long after that another one came threw about 5 miles from the house in the middle of summer time and tore some chicken house us really bad and left a solid sheet of ice on the road the chicken houses where next to. This was in the middle of 100 degree summer which I found amazing.
 
As far as global warming, it makes some since that winter would be getting milder, which it has in my eyes anyway. But wouldn't summer be getting warmer also? Regular temperatures from 15-20 years ago in mid summer hasn't changed alot from what it is now. I remember it being 100+ back then and it gets that hot still. One would think, if that was the case, that temps would be climbing higher and higher every year and would at least expect to see a few degree climb over normal per year.
 
Weather occurs on a global scale. The effects of your location are only a piece of the puzzle. Global conveyor belt for CO2, ocean gyers, heat islands. All of this has us on a downward spiral that the pilot can't pull out of quickly.

We are only beginning to see the crazy stuff. Anybody pay attention to the plastic in the ocean? One of many swirls of plastic is the size of Texas folks. We eat our fast food, order our trinkets on eBay and ignore the reality.

Its like flushing a big shit. Its going to get messy before it clears up.
 
I think the snow thing you mentioned is all relative to our age. When we were young and wanted out of school, a few inches of snow was a lot. This year in nwnc, we didn't get a lot. But last year wasn't bad, and 09-10 we got a lot.
 
The snowfall has decreasedband it is documented and factual. If that is anthropogenic or natural is the question. In review of all recordable data its clear, but the question is are we looking at the big picture? Well, take a look at the soil sampling and ice sampling and it 100% correlates with the onset of the industrial revolution.

We have shit the bed IMHO! Now pay the reaper...
 
Does not seem any different to me. Variations from year to year, decade to decade, or even much much larger time spans is normal.
 
It's that el Nino again!
 
Not sure if that is sarcasm or not, but it may make more sense than most people realize. That earthquake did cause a wobble. And a fraction of a degree on our tilt axis could make a big difference in global climate.
 
It's from the cow farts.
 
strange1 said:
Not sure if that is sarcasm or not, but it may make more sense than most people realize. That earthquake did cause a wobble. And a fraction of a degree on our tilt axis could make a big difference in global climate.
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I was being serious. I have no smart science quotes for ya. But I know enough to know that a wobble from ordinary...means that we're not standing (relative to the moon, sun etc..)in the same place as we were before that quake. I just wonder if we(earth) didn't "slip" in it's own atmosphere just a bit.
 
How about Bush's weather controlling satellite.... You know, the one that steered Katrina right up the coast of Louisiana? I bet he's the cause.... tokin it up with Kumar.... laughing and playing with the remote
 
1) The weather in your local burb has ZERO to do with global warming. It is completely insignificant.
2) Around here we have more snow than we ever had when I was a kid. And the summers are milder.
3) The last few years have had some of the highest recorded snowfall in my county's 300 year history.

Matt and his El Nino are clsoer to factual than many want to realize. Everything on this earth is cyclical. The cause of the cycles is up for debate.
 
RobMcBee said:
How about Bush's weather controlling satellite.... You know, the one that steered Katrina right up the coast of Louisiana? I bet he's the cause.... tokin it up with Kumar.... laughing and playing with the remote
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you mean this?
 
Thursday night we had some tremendous lightning and thunderstorms round here . A man was struck and killed by lightning around 8:30 pm in a mall parking lot......http://www.wral.com/cousin-was-in-er-for-man-s-final-moments-after-lightning-strike/14573412/.............. Wednesday night storms produced golf ball to pool ball sized hail in Franklin co. check out the pics.......http://www.wral.com/news/local/image_gallery/14569283/

a new home a mile from our house and about 4 miles from the mall was hit and destroyed by fire around midnight Thursday. I have a pic of the house and it looks like a bomb went off in the center of the roof.
 
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i seem to remember a cartoon from 20+ years ago wherein some evil-doer shot a missile that lodged the in the planet somewhere, opposite the direction of spin and it stopped the weather.

can't remember if it was superman or the flash that had to save the day by basically using the earth as a huge treadmill to get it spinning again.

also, I just dropped a d60 housing on my hand. think my pinkie is broken. my cursing was likely volatile enough to affect at least the local weather patterns.
 
The earth goes through shifts and cycles like everything else. Anyone trying to tell you that we as humans caused this whole "global warming" nonsense is trying to sell something. Humans could be wiped off of this planet completely and within a few years, nobody could tell the difference. Our biggest #1 screw up? Plastic.
 
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