Weather where you are?

Paul Marx said:
I read an article this morning saying that the population of Hudson bay polar bears had dropped by 27% in 5 years.
We don't eat polar bears and they're not immediately responsible for pollinating the plants we depend upon for food, but a sign of major upheaval.
The flora and fauna have survived for millennia but have only had to contend with human activity on it's present scale for a few decades, and they ain't the better for it.

Paul
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Ahhhhh ...... I thought we were talking about the cold. As any uneducated fool knows hot weather is caused by mankind but cold weather is just natural. I was also reading that 40 temperature coldest temperature records were broken across the province of British Columbia ...... some extending back as far as 140 years. Yet not once was the was the word "unprecedented" used .... nor epic even. In fact, it was a well written short article outlining all the records broken and the dates of the previous record. There was absolutely no finger point, blaming or shaming directed at mankind at all. Very disappointing.

The polar bear population is also quite controversial. It seems there is a dispute between scientists who visit the arctic perhaps once and instead rely on data gleaned from non-scientists who haven't been to the arctic once versus the scientists who actually work in the arctic. I won't bother you with anymore details however. We don't eat polar bears.

Jim
 
helicopterjim said:
Ahhhhh ...... I thought we were talking about the cold. As any uneducated fool knows hot weather is caused by mankind but cold weather is just natural. I was also reading that 40 temperature coldest temperature records were broken across the province of British Columbia ...... some extending back as far as 140 years. Yet not once was the was the word "unprecedented" used .... nor epic even. In fact, it was a well written short article outlining all the records broken and the dates of the previous record. There was absolutely no finger point, blaming or shaming directed at mankind at all. Very disappointing.

The polar bear population is also quite controversial. It seems there is a dispute between scientists who visit the arctic perhaps once and instead rely on data gleaned from non-scientists who haven't been to the arctic once versus the scientists who actually work in the arctic. I won't bother you with anymore details however. We don't eat polar bears.

Jim
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Completely agree. The MSM has been pushing this for years, as mouth pieces for the ‘progressive’ agenda. Heck, they have already changed the main code term “global warming” to the new code term “climate change”. I mean, Al Gore said the polar ice caps would be completely gone by 2009.
They of course fail to bring up the fact that where I live, just 200 kms from the northern Sonoran Desert full of cactus and rattle snakes, less than 10,000 yrs ago, there was 3.75kms of solid ice residing. Human kind had little to do with this ‘disastrous’ warming of the planet from then until now. The great bogy man CO2, is presently near an all time low in earth history.
Of course the hypocrisy continues in Western Europe, as $500 billion investments in green energy, solar panels, wind farms, none of it recyclable material BTW, have all failed to deliver, combined with shutting down well established nuclear plants, and now are reduced to burning raw coal to deliver rudimentary levels of electricity . Can’t make this stuff up. Don’t look the other way, this is what Western Europe voted for.
Embrace natural resource energy as the one reason humanity now enjoys 1st world status. And the only way to pull the 3rd world into 1st world status.
Truth rant over.
 
Dodged this in the Kimberley driving up from Perth last week, 3800km. Ex Cyclone Ellie was SE of us heading NW so missed most of it. 600 km from Darwin got smashed by it and been raining since in Darwin. One floodway in the dark nearly did us in.

All good. Don't have to drive back until next week so She'll be Right! :rolleyes:

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I'm still trying to figure out how mankind fucked up the weather before the 1680's. As best as I can tell we are the only reason glaciers retreat.

Jim

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helicopterjim said:
I'm still trying to figure out how mankind fucked up the weather before the 1680's. As best as I can tell we are the only reason glaciers retreat.

Jim

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I’m still working out why my 12v freezer some days has a miniature glacier on the inside the back wall, other days the mini glacier has all but retreated. Some weirdo iceage icebox scenario at play?
 
chrisk said:
Some weirdo iceage icebox scenario at play?
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I think there is an episode on the Netflix show Love Death Robots that explains your problem quite well.

Season 1, Episode 16: Ice Age
A couple, Gail and Rob, find an antique refrigerator after they move into their new apartment. Opening it to get ice, they discover a tiny preserved mammoth, and returning to the freezer, they realize that a fast-moving time-dilated civilization is developing. Within ten minutes, the civilization goes from Medieval era to Industrial Revolution then modern-day, but some minutes later they see the civilization use a nuclear bomb, which burns Rob's face. Finding the fridge civilization escalating their warfare, they close the freezer and order pizza. After an hour, and afraid they did not make it, they open the freezer and find the civilization has rebuilt and has moved further into its future with technology evolving at an unprecedented level. They ultimately evolve into a race of energy beings, return to a singularity, and vanish from the freezer. Believing the mini-people are gone, Rob unplugs the refrigerator to clean it in the morning. As they have breakfast, they find the freezer now has a prehistoric world, with primitive sapiens under attack by dinosaurs.

I hope this helps.

Jim
 
Good grief, we (Australia) have movie commentators that can’t critique movies as well as you! I’m hopeless.

The Mrs comes home while I’m watching a movie and asks what I’m watching…… I usually have no idea, because I’ve forgotten…… besides, there can only be so many movies called:

“Shush, I’m trying to watch this”
 
After a slightly damp, overcast start to the week the weather in the Trossachs has definitely improved. Almost sunbathing weather this afternoon once the frost had gone.
 

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Erosion in action… on the driveway that I personally stomped on with a bloody big vibrating roller:


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I was pretty annoyed, then I got a call from the missus: “Can you come and get me? I’m caught between two road closures, I’ll have to leave the car here but the vollies (volunteer firemen) are ferrying people across the flooded bit”. Ok, no problem, down the road I go. Fuuurk! It’s worse than it was two years ago! Houses flooded, cars floating, cows swimming, bloody carnage! I’m not worried about my driveway any more…

In other news, New Zealands main highway 1 is closed in multiple places, which isn’t that unusual, but not in the middle of Auckland city! Lots of people stuck in their cars waiting for flood water to drain, hope they’re not busting for a piss after Friday drinkies, and I hope they aren’t going home to a flooded house.
 
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