Text 24069, 53 rader
Skriven 2006-10-29 01:30:20 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 24063 av MIMI GALLANDT (1:275/311)
Ärende: WEATHER
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MIMI GALLANDT -> JEFF BINKLEY wrote:
 MG> Jeff Binkley wrote:

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

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

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

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


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

It's not the heat so much as the single digit humidity that's the problem with
the Santa Ana wind.  It comes down out of the Nevada desert, acting like a
dessicant by sucking every bit of moisture out of the air.  What is already
dangerously dry is turned into tinder, and you get a big buildup of static
electricity in the atmosphere.  The resultant lightning storms start all kinds
of brush fires in the high canyons.  Remember the one that started in Mission
Valley on the south slope and almost took out Kensington and North Park?  It
was started by some idiot tossing a cigarette along I8 but the dry brush did
the rest.

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