Global Warming

[me]

  Most likely it was from volcanic action.   Volcanic ash in the air reflecting the sunlight back in to space.  This has happen the pass and if we have another Yellowstone Caldera explosion we will have another Ice Age.   

Na, the "global warming" will counter it.

[The Troll]

  A fool's folly will never cease!   

[Palehorse]

A record wildfire raged on in southwestern New Mexico on Sunday, belching out a wall of smoke as it devoured thousands of acres and advanced across the rugged wilderness.
Authorities cautioned children, adults with heart disease and other sensitive groups to stay indoors and avoid the smoke.
The blaze -- the biggest in the state's history -- has scorched an area more than one and a half times bigger than Chicago. . .

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/03/us/new-mexico-historic-wildfire/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[The Troll]

  I was looking a chart of all of the drought areas in the United States.  I was thinking we have some people think there is no such thing as global warming.  I wonder how long would it take if we lost our crops here in the states to really become a problem.

  A drought in West coast, a drought in the middle West and we lost all of our corn, soybeans, wheat and grass for hay and such.  I really don't think it would take long.  And do you think that the other countries that we sent food to would send us a large amount of food for free.    Just think about it.   

[Palehorse]

It's hot out there. But this time, it's more than idle watercooler talk, according to weather scientists.
At the same time the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center has released a report noting that this spring in the United States has been the warmest since record-keeping began in 1895, a group of scientists has published a paper in the journal Nature warning that the planet is approaching a critical tipping point because of climate and other factors.
Rampant population growth and changes to the environment caused by humans, including the burning of fossil fuels and the conversion of nearly 43% of the planet's land to farms or cities, threaten to cause an abrupt and unpredictable shift in the global ecosystem, 22 scientists from five countries said in their paper.
In its report issued Thursday, the climate data center said the average U.S. temperature between March and May was 57.1 degrees, 5.2 degrees above the long-term average from 1901 to 2000.
While May was only the second-warmest on record, it was still in the top third for monthly average temperatures, marking 12 consecutive months with temperatures in that range, said Jake Crouch, a NOAA climate scientist.
"For that to happen 12 times in a row in a random circumstance is one in 540,000," he said.
Globally, NOAA reported in May that the average temperature in April was 1.17 degrees warmer than the average from the past century, making it the fifth-warmest April since at least 1880.
It was the 326th consecutive month that global temperatures exceeded the 20th-century average, NOAA said.. . .

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/08/us/record-warmth/index.html?iref=allsearch

[Palehorse]

CNN) -- A raging Colorado wildfire grew overnight from 8,000 to 14,000 acres, burning structures and prompting evacuations, authorities said Sunday.
"Fire behavior and fire weather has not been our friend," Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith said late Saturday.
The sheriff's office on Sunday provided the new acreage total.
Firefighters battled the blaze, dubbed the High Park fire, that has been fanned by high temperatures and dry brush since it began Saturday morning 15 miles west of Fort Collins, according to InciWeb, the U.S. multi-agency Incident Fire Response website.. . .

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/10/us/colorado-fires/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[The Troll]

  Hey Horse.  I want you to do your famous Indian rain dance for Salimonie Lake.  It's down 7 feet below pool stage and the boat ramp on the East end of the lake can't be used.  In fact about half of the lake is almost unusable.   

[Palehorse]

  Hey Horse.  I want you to do your famous Indian rain dance for Salimonie Lake.  It's down 7 feet below pool stage and the boat ramp on the East end of the lake can't be used.  In fact about half of the lake is almost unusable.   

                                                 
                                           
                                   
                           
                   
           

           
                   
                           
                                     
                                             
                                                     

[me]

  Hey Horse.  I want you to do your famous Indian rain dance for Salimonie Lake.  It's down 7 feet below pool stage and the boat ramp on the East end of the lake can't be used.  In fact about half of the lake is almost unusable.   

Been a while since it was that low. 

[Palehorse]

Time to do muh rain dance!

                                                 
                                           
                                   
                           
                   
           

           
                   
                           
                                     
                                             
                                                     

[Palehorse]

(CNN) -- A raging, fast-moving Colorado wildfire continued to grow Sunday, prompting evacuations as some 20,000 acres burned, authorities said.
First measured at two acres early Saturday morning, High Park fire has grown exponentially in the time since -- including more than doubling in size over the course of Sunday. . .

Still growing. . .

[Locutus]

If El Nino develops as is anticipated, it's going to be a long fire season out west. 

[Palehorse]

If El Nino develops as is anticipated, it's going to be a long fire season out west.

Yep. They're going to be roasting elk, deer, antelope, rabbits, possums, squirrels, and oh yeah, people and their homes too! 

And as dry as it is here this spring, we're just a stupid campfire away from a roaring blaze in the midwest too. That is, unless we start getting some of that torrential rain Florida has been having. . .

With all of the fireworks going to be set off in the next 3 weeks, I look for some fires to start anytime now. I just hope my wife and I and the dog can get out before it consumes our place.

Hell, the grass has burnt up and the only reason we have any flowers is because I water them along with the quickly growing cacti. (We have one that was about 5 inches high when we bought it 5 years ago. It now stands nearly 2 feet high or more! )

[Locutus]

Yep. They're going to be roasting elk, deer, antelope, rabbits, possums, squirrels, and oh yeah, people and their homes too! 

Maybe Troll can find us a nice barbeque smiley. 

[Palehorse]