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Skriven 2006-10-29 20:55:00 av MIMI GALLANDT (1:275/311)
     Kommentar till en text av JOHN HULL
Ärende: WEATHER
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John Hull wrote:

JH>MIMI GALLANDT -> JEFF BINKLEY wrote:
JH> MG> Jeff Binkley wrote:

JH> JB>> .MSGID: 1:226/600 0012bb95
JH> AH>>>>> Seems you missed the "Global September Temperature Fourth
JH> AH>>>>> Warmest On Record" up there.  Global warming doesn't mean
JH> AH>>>>> that every day, or every month, in every place will be above
JH> AH>>>>> normal - variations will occur, as always happens with
JH> AH>>>>> weather.  The overall trend remains that the earth is
JH> AH>>>>> warming, and the article above even says September 2006 was
JH> AH>>>>> the first cooler than average month since May of 2005.

JH> JB>>>> Our records don't go very far back, in comparison to how long
JH> JB>>>> the  earth has existed and is likely to exist.

JH> RH>>> The old timers just 8 miles North of my house still talk about
JH> RH>>> how bad it was "back then."  It was only 14,000 years ago that
JH> RH>>> the ice was nearly a mile deep.  In fact the evidence is being
JH> RH>>> recovered every day along the flood plain of the Racoon River.
JH> RH>>> Hundreds of tons of sand and gravel are hauled out on trucks
JH> RH>>> to construction sites to build all kinds of things.

JH> JB>> Yep and these global warming clowns want to base wild-eyed
JH> JB>> predictions  on spans of 10 years time.  I saw yet another
JH> JB>> story a few weeks back  where others continue to believe as I
JH> JB>> do that the early part of the 20th century was abnormally
JH> JB>> cooler due to the volcanic eruption of Krakatau  in 1883.  You
JH> JB>> throw that much ash, sulfur and other crap into the  atmosphere
JH> JB>> the effects can linger for years.  I've seen estimates that
JH> JB>> Krakatau's impact lasted for over 50 years and tossed more
JH> JB>> matter into  the atmosphere that all of man's activities
JH> JB>> combined.


JH> MG> I'm sure this has nothing to do with "global warming" because
JH> MG> Father Junipero Serra wrote about the Santa Ana winds in the
JH> MG> 1770s, but today it was 83 degrees at my house. What you might
JH> MG> not know is that I live about 3000 feet from the San Diego bay
JH> MG> and if it was that hot at my house I don't even want to think
JH> MG> about how hot it must have been at Tim's place. (It's always
JH> MG> warmer in the east county than it is in the south bay)

JH>It's not the heat so much as the single digit humidity that's the
JH>problem with the Santa Ana wind.  It comes down out of the Nevada
JH>desert, acting like a dessicant by sucking every bit of moisture out

Yes, I know (I live them every year <g>)

JH>of the air.  What is already dangerously dry is turned into tinder,
JH>and you get a big buildup of static electricity in the atmosphere.
JH>The resultant lightning storms start all kinds of brush fires in the
JH>high canyons.  Remember the one that started in Mission Valley on the
JH>south slope and almost took out Kensington and North Park?  It was
JH>started by some idiot tossing a cigarette along I8 but the dry brush
JH>did the rest.

Actually, yes, I remember that fire because about 6 months before the 
fire we lived in an apartment very near there and we worried (as it 
turns out needlessly) our former neighbors.

L'Chaim

Mimi

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