Posted on 06/13/2009 7:02:51 PM PDT by managusta
For the second time in little over a year, it looks as though the world may be heading for a serious food crisis, thanks to our old friend "climate change". In many parts of the world recently the weather has not been too brilliant for farmers. After a fearsomely cold winter, June brought heavy snowfall across large parts of western Canada and the northern states of the American Midwest. In Manitoba last week, it was -4ºC. North Dakota had its first June snow for 60 years.
There was midsummer snow not just in Norway and the Cairngorms, but even in Saudi Arabia. At least in the southern hemisphere it is winter, but snowfalls in New Zealand and Australia have been abnormal. There have been frosts in Brazil, elsewhere in South America they have had prolonged droughts, while in China they have had to cope with abnormal rain and freak hailstorms, which in one province killed 20 people.
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Where’s Al Gore now?
Apparently the only way to do this is by spending about a thousand gillion dollars of the US economy.
It only will work if we use American dollars cuz that is what Al Gore is demanding. The rest of the worlds money is no good for this use. Something about the special CO2 and ozone in US currency.
This must be a typo in the headline. We all know that the earth is melting from the heat of global warming...Gore said that the issue is settled and so it must be...maybe someone cafix that headline.
See my tagline. It will be as true this year as any.
if it eliminates enough corn to keep them from craping up the gasoline i’m all for it!
Likely prepping for the award liberals will undoubtedly bestow upon him.
It is still snowing here, on June 15th, in the High Sierra of California.
Guess why it’s not called “Global Warming” anymore? It’s been “Climate Change” and about to become “Deteriorating Atmosphere” apparently.
Hey, Algore, you foul stinking p.o.s. - - where’s that “global warming” you promised?
So far our garden looks very healthy inspite of all of the rain. Probably helps that it is on the side of a hill?
Odd. My calendar says June 13th, and we're in the same time zone (I think).
Normally, in mid-June it is consistently in the 90s, maybe a few 80s days, maybe a few 100s days.
It is STILL in the 60s and 70s overall and we're well into summer. My vegetables won't grow - they don't think it's time yet.
Anecdotal, perhaps. But this has been a very cool spring and summer in my neck of the woods.
Check. I’m in Ventura Co. and it’s been in the 60s most of the day. Right now at 1922hrs, it’s 63F.
But technically, Summer doesn’t begin until 6/21.
Yeah, well I have June 13, and I am in the foothills and it only rained down at this elevation but I am sure it snowed up higher.
He made his millions selling the GW trash to the world … he is now in the Bahamas sipping Mojitos or something, laughing his considerable derriere off. ;-)
I have an idea.
Let’s build dozens of coal burning power plants.
Lower the price of electricity by 50%.
Stimulate economic growth with cheap energy supplies.
Stop funding terrorists.
Increase global warming and prevent a catastrophic ice age that could easily erase humanity from the earth.
I have three inches of “global warming” on my deck right now. (Black Hills of South Dakota).
There appears to be some recognition by the “Warming” people, as evidenced by the more frequent references by the “state owned media shills” [SOWS] to “Climate Change”.
I was listening last night to the Yankees-Mets game on radio. Announcers John Sterling and Susan Waldman were discussing the cold weather during the Yankee/Red Sox series that ended the prior day. Waldman concluded the cold weather is due to global warming on the ridiculous premise any weather that is “out of place” is due to global warming. She didn’t bother to elaborate who determines it is out of place or what criteria is used. At that point I changed the station.
Simple...the enviro-nazi’s will now switch their propaganda from ‘global warming’ to CLIMATE CHANGE.
So, in the end..it will still be humans (or Bush’s) fault.
Near Des Moines in central Iowa..Highs for month of June have averaged 73 degrees, average daily high for mid June is 82 degrees.
It’s been cool and rainy here in SE Pennsylvania, with the emphasis on rainy. We can’t seem to get a break from the clouds, rain, thunderstorms, mold, slugs . . . Every time my green beans try to sprout, the slugs eat them. The tomatoes are well rooted, but won’t consider growing or blooming, and the strawberries are rotting on the vines before ever ripening. Don’t know what I’m going to do about all this global warming . . . I actually had my heat on in June this year - first time in 27 years of living in this area that I’ve heated the house in June.
LOL, you read what I almost posted but didn’t. It snowed there June 15th or 16th, 1979.
Sorry, "climate change" is your new friend. Your old friend, "global warming", turned out to be unreliable and stopped showing up when you expected him so you had to find someone who could go both ways.
You have to realize that temps in CA have been lower than normal, we had one spell of fairly hot weather in early May and since then below normal temps. Plus we have had rain about once a week, had some today, not much but some. In this area it usually stops raining in late April, early May and then not again until about Sept., sometimes later.
Lower the price of electricity by 50%.
Stimulate economic growth with cheap energy supplies.
Stop funding terrorists.
Increase global warming and prevent a catastrophic ice age that could easily erase humanity from the earth.
Those are right wing extremist ideas according to democrats and liberals. Common sense tells us you are 100% correct. Heaping unnecessary taxes upon us and forcing us to do as they say, not as they do, is today's democrat/ liberal mantra.
So Al Gore wins a Nobel Prize for global warming? HAR HAR HAR HAR DE HAR HAR! (Jackie Gleason, The Honeymooners)
We are just a bit ahead of everyone else here.
max americana: “Simple...the enviro-nazi’s will now switch their propaganda from ‘global warming’ to CLIMATE CHANGE.”
I don’t think so. At some point, a reality that everyone can see trumps all the efforts of the global warming industry and their friends in the media.
(I think the tipping point will be a partially failed harvest this fall due to early frost).
This is what’s driving the colder weather, I believe.
http://www.solarcycle24.com/
He's won a Nobel Peace prize, an Emmy, a Time Magazine Person of the Year Award and many more. It's enough to make a healthy person barf.
If anything,IMHO by awarding the Nobel Peace to Al Gore, it cheapened and discredited the award to future recipients. It's akin to pulling a prize out of a cracker jax box. The elderly woman who saved many from certain death at the hands of the Nazis died not so long ago - and she was the one who should have received that award that year. Al Gore to the best of my knowledge did not acknowledge her in the acceptance of his award. It's not for me to judge the man, but one day he'll have to account for that disrespect. Most likely he knew about his competition for the award.
Ping!
Snow in June = global warming = climate change = ice age
It should be in the 70's and low 80's with no clouds this time of year.
Same in north central WV seems we get a couple of warm sunny days followed by 4-6 rainy/overcast and cold.
Yah here in Ne we haven’t had a warm growing day for many days. It’s been t’storms and tornado warnings for days after days.
Why did I movw here?
movw = move
I like it. I hope we skip summer all together this year.
winter-spring-fall-winter
Apparently the only way to do this is by spending about a thousand gillion dollars of the US economy.
It only will work if we use American dollars cuz that is what Al Gore is demanding. The rest of the worlds money is no good for this use. Something about the special CO2 and ozone in US currency.
You nailed it!!!! LMAO at the truth!
Global warming is a boon to life on earth. When the world wide climate retreats into global cooling, possibly an ice age, billions will starve to death.
She is a brainwashed idiot that cannot think nor reason for herself. She is exactly where the Green Left wants her to be, buying their claptrap and making the facts fit the Global Warming dogma. Read Chris Horner’s book “Red Hot Lies” that describes some of the Orwellian non-speak which means, in every situation of weather, no matter what, it is caused from Man’s spewing of CO2, it is always bad, and always man made. The Green Left is never wrong in this diagnosis, too cold - that’s Global Warming, too hot, - that’s Global Warming. They are always right, and of course Capitalism and Dick Cheney are always wrong. But the Greens don’t have to be right, hell, they don’t even have to be consistent. They are never held accountable for their lies and exaggerations. Look back at the Earth Day predictions from 1970 - billions are supposed to be dead by now from pollution and starvation, but it never happened. Let them scare children and bimbos, it is up to you to keep telling the truth!
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I feel stupid... what the heck is that?
The minimal sunspots and record low temperatures are pointing in the direction of an ice age. Check our the most recent articles at Ice Age Now. Check out sunspot activity at Solar Cycle 24.
The problem with that theory is that the ice caps over all are growing not shrinking. More likely due to volcanic act ivies in the area.
Never the less the slowing currents are a threat.
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