Re: Happy New Year!!!!!
Well thats how it should look here in normal winters...
Well thats how it should look here in normal winters...
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Re: Happy New Year!!!!!
Here also. We should have at least a foot of snow on the ground right now. Last year and the first year I lived here we had at least a foot of snow on the ground all winter.
Guys should be riding their snowmobiles on frozen lakes and rivers. Kids should be throwing snow balls at each other! Instead its 9c!! In January..that's 49F for those of you in the US...
Sure it's gonna snow this weekend..yea right!
Well thats how it should look here in normal winters...
Here also. We should have at least a foot of snow on the ground right now. Last year and the first year I lived here we had at least a foot of snow on the ground all winter.
Guys should be riding their snowmobiles on frozen lakes and rivers. Kids should be throwing snow balls at each other! Instead its 9c!! In January..that's 49F for those of you in the US...
Sure it's gonna snow this weekend..yea right!
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Re: Happy New Year!!!!!
Well lots of strangeness at the moment. Tibet is hitting 20C in some places, whilst Southern China is down below 15C
Weird!!!
UK is warm wet and windy, so far this year we have barely seen a frost and no snow whatsoever.
Well lots of strangeness at the moment. Tibet is hitting 20C in some places, whilst Southern China is down below 15C
Weird!!!
UK is warm wet and windy, so far this year we have barely seen a frost and no snow whatsoever.
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I'd like to think random weather is just that - random. But I must admit I think global warming is at least partly behind it. Question is, will the relevant people take action while we can?
I'd like to think random weather is just that - random. But I must admit I think global warming is at least partly behind it. Question is, will the relevant people take action while we can?
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Well at least here, as we have parlament-elections this spring, the reccord warm year and snowless winter has made the global warming enter into those speeches that you usually hear during the elections (and oddly never again until the next elections ). The largest party, agrar conservatives even made a turn-coat deccission to start supporting new nuclear reactors becouse the global warming. A important move as now the pro-nuclear factor here has majority...
But that could also be seen as good sings as the politics perhaps soonly bgun realising that the warming is an issue that frightens people and it could be exploited. Perhaps in distant future that we also lead into dessions. (if nothing more good, it can slowly dwiligth the green party as mine's biggest competitor as you dont need to vote them solely if you want those issues to be heard)
Well at least here, as we have parlament-elections this spring, the reccord warm year and snowless winter has made the global warming enter into those speeches that you usually hear during the elections (and oddly never again until the next elections
). The largest party, agrar conservatives even made a turn-coat deccission to start supporting new nuclear reactors becouse the global warming. A important move as now the pro-nuclear factor here has majority...But that could also be seen as good sings as the politics perhaps soonly bgun realising that the warming is an issue that frightens people and it could be exploited. Perhaps in distant future that we also lead into dessions. (if nothing more good, it can slowly dwiligth the green party as mine's biggest competitor as you dont need to vote them solely if you want those issues to be heard)
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Well I must confess that I am a sceptic about much of the Global Warming Hype around these days. Not that I doubt that the climate is getting warmer, is certianly is, but about the guilt politics and Green "Industry" that seems to have bolted itslf onto the issue and made it its own.
As Golly says, it does frighten people and today the Politics of fear are definitly in fashion.
The trouble is, if you say Global Warming is a purely natural event and is going to happen irrespective, than nobody is going to spend mega bucks in order to find out about it.
If however, Scientists and Politicans can tell us that its all our fault and that only they (Suitably financed) can save us from our own folly, than the funds start to roll.
I would remind you that we are just emerging form a relatively cool phase from the last 800 years and that todays tempretures are probably less than those of a 1000 years ago (Norse dicoveries of Greenland and Vinland) and certainly still less warm than in the European Bronze Age of the 2nd and 3rd Millennia BC.
Well I must confess that I am a sceptic about much of the Global Warming Hype around these days. Not that I doubt that the climate is getting warmer, is certianly is, but about the guilt politics and Green "Industry" that seems to have bolted itslf onto the issue and made it its own.
As Golly says, it does frighten people and today the Politics of fear are definitly in fashion.
The trouble is, if you say Global Warming is a purely natural event and is going to happen irrespective, than nobody is going to spend mega bucks in order to find out about it.
If however, Scientists and Politicans can tell us that its all our fault and that only they (Suitably financed) can save us from our own folly, than the funds start to roll.
I would remind you that we are just emerging form a relatively cool phase from the last 800 years and that todays tempretures are probably less than those of a 1000 years ago (Norse dicoveries of Greenland and Vinland) and certainly still less warm than in the European Bronze Age of the 2nd and 3rd Millennia BC.
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I don't know about Scandanavia, but the Green lobby is not that strong. Remember that the oil barons have their own "experts" and scientists. Others sit in the middle. So really I doubt the message would have become so powerful if it was just an attempt to make money.
Besides it isn't just about global warming. It's about landfill mountains, wasting natural resources, etc. If we don't change our ways and global warming doesn't kill us, resource wars could.
Seriously there's quite a bit that could be done without massively changing society - such as having mandatory rules on the amount of insulation in houses (e.g. if one is sold it has to be brought up to spec), enforced recycling, more car pool lanes, etc.
I don't know about Scandanavia, but the Green lobby is not that strong. Remember that the oil barons have their own "experts" and scientists. Others sit in the middle. So really I doubt the message would have become so powerful if it was just an attempt to make money.
Besides it isn't just about global warming. It's about landfill mountains, wasting natural resources, etc. If we don't change our ways and global warming doesn't kill us, resource wars could.
Seriously there's quite a bit that could be done without massively changing society - such as having mandatory rules on the amount of insulation in houses (e.g. if one is sold it has to be brought up to spec), enforced recycling, more car pool lanes, etc.
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Why can't I get rid of the feeling that you have a certain disliking of the person that "used to be the next president of the US" ??
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Nuclear energy was found as our main "problem", so we are to shut down all nuke plants until 2025 at least. These produce currently 12,5% of all our energy or 26% of all electricity. That alone is to be replaced by renewable energies and efficiency. Now there's hardly any room left for reducing CO2 ...
Why can't I get rid of the feeling that you have a certain disliking of the person that "used to be the next president of the US" ??
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Nuclear energy was found as our main "problem", so we are to shut down all nuke plants until 2025 at least. These produce currently 12,5% of all our energy or 26% of all electricity. That alone is to be replaced by renewable energies and efficiency. Now there's hardly any room left for reducing CO2 ...