Global Warming

[me]

  Just give me a little town to live in.  Away from the hussle and bussle of the big city and a little trailer up by a Indiana lake in the summer time.  That is when we don't have a drought.   

I'd add a monsoon season to that too.  Don't really like getting flooded out which has happened a few times too.  I recall one time when there was no primitive down by the water because the water was clear up to the main campground in that one area and you couldn't even see the boat ramps on the main side. 

[The Troll]

  Yes, I remember one high water event.  At the marina the water was so high that all you could see of a house boat anchored to the bottom was about 6 feet sticking straight up above the water.  The other boats anchored that way were under the water.  The marina office it's self floats.   

[Palehorse]

British researchers say they've discovered a massive rift valley beneath the Antarctic ice sheet that rivals the Grand Canyon in depth and is contributing to ice loss on the continent.

"If you stripped away all of the ice here today, you'd see a feature every bit as dramatic as the huge rift valleys you see in Africa and in size as significant as the Grand Canyon," the lead researcher, Robert Bingham, a glaciologist at the University of Aberdeen, said in a press release.

Fausto Ferraccioli, Bingham's co-author and geophysicist from British Antarctic Survey, said the valley allows warmer ocean waters to contact glacial ice, contributing to the melting seen on the continent.

"What this study shows is that this ancient rift basin, and the others discovered under the ice that connect to the warming ocean, can influence contemporary ice flow and may exacerbate ice losses by steering coastal changes further inland," Ferraccioli said.

The work of the researchers was reported this week in the journal Nature.

The valley is in West Antarctica, which is losing ice faster than other parts of the continent, the researchers say.

"Thinning ice in West Antarctica is currently contributing nearly 10% of global sea level rise. It's important to understand this hot spot of change so we can make more accurate predictions for future sea level rise," David Vaughan, of the British Antarctic Survey's Ice2sea program, said. . .


http://www.youtube.com/v/VZd47gfsfuA&feature=player_embedded

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/26/grand-canyon-sized-valley-found-beneath-antarctica/?hpt=hp_t2

[The Troll]

  Say goodby to corn feed beef.  Remember how bad grass feed beef tastes.  Blah!

[Palehorse]

Another day with rain around, everywhere but Madison County! 

[Anne]

Rained here sometime betweek 5 and 7. We went out to eat at The Bank in Pendleton and when we got home there were puddles still in the street.

[Palehorse]

Rained here sometime betweek 5 and 7. We went out to eat at The Bank in Pendleton and when we got home there were puddles still in the street.

Rained in Andertard this afternoon sometime, but not a drop in Delaware country.

[The Troll]

  One of the Koch brother top scientist who said there was not global warming has reversed his thinking.  He said that there is global warming.  After much reseach he says that there is global warming and it is cause by human beings.   

[Anne]

There were 58 days of 90 degrees or more in 1983, how close are we to that now?

[Palehorse]

There were 58 days of 90 degrees or more in 1983, how close are we to that now?

We have broken that record for all time and are still working on what the new one will be!

[Anne]

I don't know if that was a record, I just remember it because that was the year my mother in law died and it was so hot that summer and she didn't have air conditioning on her house so she stayed in her travel trailer. I haven't watched the weather for a few days and the last I heard we were up to 42 days of 90 degrees or better.

[Palehorse]

INDIANAPOLIS - (Updated July 30, 2012)
July's sweltering conditions have lifted Indianapolis to a record 26 days in a single month with highs reaching at least 90 degrees.

The National Weather Service says the state's capital reached 91 on Sunday, making it the 26th day this month where the temperature reached or exceeded 90 degrees. The previous record was 25 days in July 1901.

The weather service says this month is poised to end as the warmest month on record in Indianapolis in terms of the average temperature. As of Saturday the city's average monthly temperature was 84.4 degrees. The record of 82.8 degrees was set in July 1936.

Indianapolis has seen seven days this month with highs of at least 100 degrees, second only to the nine days of triple-digit highs recorded in July 1936.

[Bo D]

We don't even count the 90 degree days anymore. Now we count the 100 degree days. 

[The Troll]

We don't even count the 90 degree days anymore. Now we count the 100 degree days. 

  We all know how hot it has been.  But since it is not global warming.  This weather will go down the rabbit holes to the Republican Wonder Land where it will be meet by the Queen of Hearts "ME" with Henry Hawk at her side.                                

[Exterminator]

We don't even count the 90 degree days anymore. Now we count the 100 degree days. 

Ten years from now we won't talk about droughts either...any more than people in the Sahara do.