Maybe Al Gore was right

Paully_44 · Postby **Paully_44** » July 21st, 2009, 3:37 am

at least here in the PacificNW (Seattle). We are in the middle of nice hot summer weather. 80's - 90's some places may even hover around 100 over the next week or so, and no rain on the forcast. In fact, watching the news last night, in the month of July Seattle has had less rain that Denver, Albuquerque, and Tuscon. who woulda thunk it.

Gerald Creasy · Postby **Gerald Creasy** » July 21st, 2009, 3:55 am

It's in the 60s in Kentucky. And actually 60 at night.

It dosent get in the 60s in July in Kentucky too often.

RaceRunner · Postby **RaceRunner** » July 21st, 2009, 3:56 am

Or maybe he isn't...

We've been waking up to 56 degrees and loooow humidity in JULY in the DEEP South.

dolfan · Postby **dolfan** » July 21st, 2009, 4:44 am

Monday morning was a record low of 55 degrees in Huntsville, Alabama. Go figure.

Meteorologies James Spann said today that scientists actually expect that we're in for a 20-year period of global cooling.

Which means all this stuff, warming and cooling, is cyclical and natural is has zero to do with carbon emissions. Climate change my eye.

paul · Postby **paul** » July 21st, 2009, 5:02 am

Sunday was 107 in Murietta, Ca. where we attend church. Just atypical summer day. By the way they have forcast this year as El Nino, which generally means hotter and dryer in typically cooler and wetter areas.

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » July 21st, 2009, 6:09 am

Summer Cold Breaks 1897 Temp Records in Gore's Home State -- Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga Set Or Tie Record Lows

Cool Weather Continues To Set Records
http://www.wsmv.com/weather/20116659/detail.html

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Cool weather has broken a previous low temperature for July 21 in Nashville that was set when Rutherford B. Hayes was president.

When the temperature at the National Weather Service station dipped to 58 degrees at 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, it wiped out the previous record low for the date of 60 degrees, which was set in 1877.

*****

Except for a few weeks of 100+ weather.. we've been enjoying the cool weather also in Mississippi Delta area. Sadly.. we can't enjoy the summer waterparks!! *sigh*

Btw.. No environment remains constant. Even the continents move under your feet. This place is finite and you heard it here second.

oletimer · Postby **oletimer** » July 21st, 2009, 9:24 am

No God said it first.

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » July 21st, 2009, 10:49 am

oletimer wrote:No God said it first.

LOL. Exactly right... and I corrected my original post and fully digress.

Darling · Postby **Darling** » July 21st, 2009, 3:28 pm

Just last night, I said to DAd, "maybe there is something to this global warming."

We're getting lots of very warm sunshine here in southwest Washington. Love the temps as they are now mid eighties, but when it climbs into the nineties, too hot.

Full Quiver · Postby **Full Quiver** » July 22nd, 2009, 12:54 pm

I have been enjoying the fact that he is incorrect. Lows in the 50's in July is awesome!

Darling · Postby **Darling** » July 25th, 2009, 12:08 pm

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are all forcast to be in triple digits here in southwestern town of Centralia!.

one love · Postby **one love** » July 25th, 2009, 2:31 pm

Just come to the reality that he has made a fortune in this movement. I believe he was worth about 2 million when leaving the white house. Eight years later he is worth approx. 100 million dollars

Now this fortune was created by his investment firm that brings a ton of profit, if I remember correctly. It is supposed to be a firm that invest in "good clean" companies....

Not to mention speeches, board of google and apple..

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » July 29th, 2009, 4:55 am

Geologist Ian Plimer takes a contrary view, arguing that man-made climate change is a con trick perpetuated by environmentalists

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Global ... story.html

... Plimer presents the proposition that anthropogenic global warming is little more than a con trick on the public perpetrated by fundamentalist environmentalists and callously adopted by politicians and government officials who love nothing more than an issue that causes public anxiety.

... Purging humankind of its supposed sins of environmental degradation has become a religion with a fanatical and often intolerant priesthood, especially among the First World urban elites.

... Plimer gets especially upset about carbon dioxide, its role in Earth's daily life and the supposed effects on climate of human manufacture of the gas. He says atmospheric carbon dioxide is now at the lowest levels it has been for 500 million years, and that atmospheric carbon dioxide is only 0.001 per cent of the total amount of the chemical held in the oceans, surface rocks, soils and various life forms. Indeed, Plimer says carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, but a plant food. Plants eat carbon dioxide and excrete oxygen. Human activity, he says, contributes only the tiniest fraction to even the atmospheric presence of carbon dioxide.

... not new to have a highly qualified scientist saying that global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon with many precedents in history. Many have made the argument, too, that it is rubbish to contend human behaviour is causing the current climate change. And it has often been well argued that it is totally ridiculous to suppose that changes in human behaviour -- cleaning up our act through expensive slight-of-hand taxation tricks -- can reverse the trend.

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Refreshing Read. I don't agree on everything he states... but do on the fact that man-made global warming is even real, going to be solved by tax tricks, or paying some third party carbon credits etc..

Paully_44 · Postby **Paully_44** » July 30th, 2009, 4:03 am

As right or wrong has he may be, the undeniable fact is ..... it is way too hot here.

109 at our place, 128 at Safeco field for the Mariners game. With no real AC, our house "cooled" off to a balmy 89 overnight. Most houses out here dont have AC, because this type of heat is so unexpected.

One great benefit is a fantistic electrical storm last night.

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » July 30th, 2009, 5:44 am

Paully_44 wrote:As right or wrong has he may be, the undeniable fact is ..... it is way too hot here.

109 at our place, 128 at Safeco field for the Mariners game. With no real AC, our house "cooled" off to a balmy 89 overnight. Most houses out here dont have AC, because this type of heat is so unexpected.

One great benefit is a fantistic electrical storm last night.

Sure. Agreed. If you are not used to the heat.. it can really drive people crazy.

Rob and I were talking about you guys last night and how services were canceled because of your heat wave. On the flip side.. it's been extremely cool down here and TONS of rain. Extremely out of the ordinary. We had to have received over a few FEET yesterday.. I kid you not. Also we probably on had over 100+ temps for two to three weeks this summer. Extremely odd.

Today? 89 expected with 80% chance of rain still. We're typically smoking hot.

Result? Adapt. You guys need to invest in A/Cs in your home and churches and we might need to get some watershed projects and slickers. Because buying a carbon offset and taxing everyone will not solve this.

Jude 2