It's hot here. Almost like August in Michigan.
It's all cyclical. Remember Jimmay Cahtah saying we'd use up all our oil reserves by the end of the decade (and that was 1972). Jim - yer still alive and there's still oil!
Dems - alarmists, all.
Another silly poll.
Do you think the heat wave is related to global warming?
Yes 20 votes (27.4%)
No 11 votes (15.1%)
Duh, it's summer 24 votes (32.9%)
I don't know 2 votes (2.7%)
Global warming is a myth 16 votes (21.9%)
From the last two polls I've seen today, I have determined that 22-27% of the population are ignorant fools!
It's been crappy, cold, and cloudy all summer up here in Alaska. We're having the year "without a summer." It's cold right now, as a matter of fact; all the garden flowers and veggies are weeks behind schedule, the dirt is cold, the mosquitoes have been unending from the constant rain, and no one has any sort of tan. So, yes, it's obviously global warming. </sarcasm>
They split the no vote 3 ways: 1. No, 2. Duh, It's Summer, and 3. Global Warming is a Myth. This minimizes the yes vs. no impact.
Yes 24 votes (20%)
No 17 votes (14.2%)
Duh, it's summer 38 votes (31.7%)
I don't know 2 votes (1.7%)
Global warming is a myth 39 votes (32.5%)
Classic bad poll -- one 'yes' and three different 'noes'.
(Duly FReeped however)
Here's what I posted at this little newspaper:
"Ah, the pleasure of a narrow world view. Up here in Alaska, we've scarcely had a summer - the weather has been abnormally cold, rainy, and cloudy. I visited South Africa this summer, and the weather there was also abnormally cold and cloudy. I also grew up on the East Coast, and my memories of late July and early August are filled with thoughts of lying in bed without air conditioning sweating like a pig listening to the katydids in sweltering 90+ degree air. The fact is that there is more carbon dioxide in the air since 1800. What that means remains to be seen. Hot summers are normal. Neither your summer nor my summer here in Alaska can be reasonably seen as an example of long-term change. Of course, if you want to panic, use the weather as an excuse to hate capitalism or your culture, or just wring your hands, go ahead."
Yes, it's global warming!
But I have bigger problems: I think I have a badger or some other dangerous wild animal under my sink.
Every time I turn the light on there's this terrible growling noise! Maybe a wolverine?!
Oh me--what to do, what to do . .
Freeped buddy, good pick for freeping, though the "no" vote is split more ways than a Democrat convention.
Bunch of idiots hyping.
The reality is that this particularly heat wave is a lot like the ones in 1939 and 1944. Trough comes down, gets pressure from another trough to the Rockies and West, the hot air gets sucked up since the two troughs SQUEEZE the hot air (which makes it hotter.) In the summertime, heat wins because of the sun angle, if nothing else. The trough splits and the hot air is forced into the split in a fashion that compresses it and lifts it at the same time--sort of a dry monsoon as to the lift.
Try to explain that in a thirty-second sound bite.
Poll Results
Do you think the heat wave is related to global warming?
Yes 38 votes (11.5%)
No 55 votes (16.7%)
Duh, it's summer 123 votes (37.3%)
I don't know 4 votes (1.2%)
Global warming is a myth 110 votes (33.3%)
FREEPING IN PROGRESS
Haven't Freeped a poll in awhile. It's fun. (I suggest "Duh, it's summer.")
Everybody's hot.
So this is the honest to God truth - today a 30-something male came to the Emergency Room at the hospital I work at. Complaint? Hot and sweaty.