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It’s currently 15 degrees in south Louisiana. Normally it snows once every 7 years or so. We got about an inch of snow last night. About 5 inches one day last month. Thanks Chicken Little oops I mean Al Gore.

Yeah.

Weather can only be used to PROVE global warming.

Ask the Boston Mayor.

Anthony is using it to disprove.
Tell Walsh to fight with Abrignac

be careful on the ladder, boss...

Yep and if they should fall I would think they wouldn't throw the saw!

They better not. I've got workman's comp ins. It'll pay 'em if they end up in a body cast for 6 months. But, my tools aren't covered.

Anthony, while no one enjoys a good joke more than me, you have got to relies that we have a lot of not-so-gifted people that really don't get that pollution effects the environment. They really do think that a cold day is evidence that the globe is not heating up from the green house gases. There are more people with drag marks on there knuckles than we think.

And they have friends that see these witticisms and decide that there is no world hunger because Micky-D's is having a two for one sale.

Sorry about you weather though - not real typical for south LA....

Drafter!

Funny, I was just thinking of you....

It's funny.

Our climate is in a warming trend.
But liberals need to point out things like this. Even when (if) they're expected.

And at the end of the day, nobody can say whether a warmer earth would be a good or bad thing.
I mean, will half a degree definitely be a negative? And if so, would we be equally worried if the world were heading in global Ice Age where the world was half a degree cooler?
Are we so sure that a swing in either direction is definitely bad?

But in the meantime we'll mortgage our children's future (fact) because climate change MIGHT be caused by taxable man-made actions (speculation).

The "debate" is just a smoke screen.
Nobody cares about the facts unless they're easy to understand like average temperature during a calendar year.

The earth exists.
And it exists TODAY because it has adapted over her 6,000 year existence (calm down. joke).

And species have come and gone. Not because of half a degree. Nor because of an inch change in ocean levels.
Survival of the fittest shows that living creatures and their mother earth are resilient.

Make laws to protect the environment from those who rape it. I will sing that tune every day.

But don't assume I'm a stupid lemming and tell me that my taxes will curb global climate changes and that this is a necessary thing. Because the only thing that it will definitely do is take my money. With zero guarantee that it will curb a temperature curve. And zero guarantee that if we don't it will be bad for the earth.

Rant off.

tailgater wrote:

The earth exists.
And it exists TODAY because it has adapted over her 6,000 year existence (calm down. joke).


not just a joke, but a Prequel Joke!
Feeling the love, bruddah.

I heard it was caused by Cow Farts

if it was only half a degree or so...

I dunno...sea level rise isn't too bad here in SoCal and we haven't had much extreme weather conditions (knock wood)...but I hear beachfront property owners in Miami and other places are worried about the rising Atlantic...

we should ask our brethren in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas how they like Cat 5s a few times a year...or freezing temps in the South along with snow...


and nobody ever thinks about the homeless polar bears...

I don't think I've read of one necessarily...

High winds and dry conditions can possibly be blamed on climate change, but honestly, winds are variable enough that I wouldn't necessarily think that could be traced easily... and dry conditions... well... that may be.

Steely Dan sang about them Santa Ana winds...or something like that

Doesn't matter how they start, it's how they burn.

Thank you for the explanation.

Overpopulation and non-indigenous plants in a formerly arid environment.

Those factors can contribute, since some wildfires are started by man-made ignition sources (power lines, fuel stations, etc.) in places that were uninhabited a few decades ago...we really must do something about all these people moving here...

Maybe we can goad Trump into calling this state a sh*ithole...

Southern CA is a dry place.
Indigenous plants for the arid environment are ugly, but they are healthy during dry months.
People bring in pretty plants that aren't native and the arid weather dries them out to the point where rapidly spreading fires are inevitable.

Just part of the equation.

^ that's an awesome idea, I would run with it.

due to climate change, the rising sea levels are causing a water shortage

Not necessarily...it depends on the location of the fire, whether any human structures are threatened, the difficulty of fighting fires in rough terrain, weather conditions (strength and direction of winds, high temperatures and dry/low humidity levels) and available firefighting resources.

This fire season was particularly difficult because so many fires were burning simultaneously due to most of those factors persisting over many days. The biggest one that consumed so much acreage was allowed to burn because it was too expensive to extinguish in the uninhabited rough terrain that it burned. Available resources were used to build fire breaks to protect inhabited areas, rather than try to fight a fire spread over such a large area.

CA is a large state with many mountainous forest regions and chaparral plains that can burn rapidly.

I know that any weather that occurs is evidence of man made global climate warming change. However, for those of us keeping notes at home, is cold global warming or hot global warming worse? Should I be more afraid of last year's mild winter or the frigid ones that bracketed it?

Remember how stupid we were when he called floods and earthquakes natural disasters? Glad we have cleared up that nomenclature over the past decade.

Thank you.