I Miss Global Warming

[Wild Cobra]

Portland weather: Record-breaking cool spell should end this week (http://www.oregonlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2011/03/marchs_record-breaking_cool_sp.html)

A couple paragraphs:

The longest we had to wait before for that magic “60” had been March 27, 1955.

That record fell Sunday, and today’s forecast high is expected to remain in the low 50s, making it the longest stretch without a 60 degree day since record-keeping began at the airport in 1940.

[ChumpDumper]

What will you post when it's hot?

[MannyIsGod]

http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/27411649/detail.html

http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2011-04-03/red-flag-conditions-record-temperatures-fuel-fires-across-region

etc etc

[Wild Cobra]

Send some off that warm weather here please.

[Oh, Gee!!]

Send some off that warm weather here please.

will it clear your confusion between paragraphs and sentences?

[CosmicCowboy]

We had trees/plants freeze killed/damaged in San Antonio this year that hadn't been dinged in 10+ years.

[boutons_deux]

bullshit. Jan 2010 also had 2,3 day spell with 20F lows and 35F max highs that killed lots of Queen palms, MX fan palms, and other often very mature plants that are marginal in SA but had grown for many years, even decades.

An accurate prediction of global warming was instability, extreme high/low temps, extreme draught/wet. It's here. Moderate climate becoming immoderate.

[CosmicCowboy]

bullshit. Jan 2010 also had 2,3 day spell with 20F lows and 35F max highs that killed lots of Queen palms, MX fan palms, and other often very mature plants that are marginal in SA but had grown for many years, even decades.

An accurate prediction of global warming was instability, extreme high/low temps, extreme draught/wet. It's here. Moderate climate becoming immoderate.

Apparently unlike you, I actually grow things so I can easily compare 2010 to 2011. My Mission and Manzanilla Olive trees came through 2010 with flying colors and got dinged bad this year and most were burnt to the ground although they are now coming back from the base. The California fan palms never even stopped growing winter 2010 and got dinged (but the core wasn't killed) in 2011. A fully mature 10 year old Firebush in my yard at the house did fine in 2010 but got killed dead in 2011 along with a 6 year old bottlebrush tree. That freeze was a bitch for this area.

I never said it proved or disproved any climate theory.

[CavsSuperFan]

I cant understand why Greenies make such a big deal about global warming…If that stuff really was happening Eskimos property values would increase & they could have real houses instead of igloos…Winning…

[boutons_deux]

Apparently unlike you, I actually grow things so I can easily compare 2010 to 2011. My Mission and Manzanilla Olive trees came through 2010 with flying colors and got dinged bad this year and most were burnt to the ground although they are now coming back from the base. The California fan palms never even stopped growing winter 2010 and got dinged (but the core wasn't killed) in 2011. A fully mature 10 year old Firebush in my yard at the house did fine in 2010 but got killed dead in 2011 along with a 6 year old bottlebrush tree. That freeze was a bitch for this area.

I never said it proved or disproved any climate theory.

I "grow (tropical) things". That interest leads me to observe plants drrive around. Lots of (mature) MX fan palms were top killed in Jan 2010, and a lot of them were bottom killed, too. Queen palms fared even worse, being less cold hardy. Bizarrely (life is messy), sometimes MX/queen palms side by side died/survived. A lot of Washingtonia robust have been cross pollinated with the much hardier Washy filifera, so there are varying degrees of hardiness. There are two varieties of Queen, the silver queen being more cold hardy.

I don't assume that the temps and wind (wind chill) are consistent over large areas, which explain some of why there is a variation in how plants die/survive.

[MannyIsGod]

Apparently unlike you, I actually grow things so I can easily compare 2010 to 2011. My Mission and Manzanilla Olive trees came through 2010 with flying colors and got dinged bad this year and most were burnt to the ground although they are now coming back from the base. The California fan palms never even stopped growing winter 2010 and got dinged (but the core wasn't killed) in 2011. A fully mature 10 year old Firebush in my yard at the house did fine in 2010 but got killed dead in 2011 along with a 6 year old bottlebrush tree. That freeze was a bitch for this area.

I never said it proved or disproved any climate theory.

2010 fucked over a lot of plants at my mothers house and she's got a veritable jungle. I remember having to clear out a lot of her dead plants that hadn't been hurt in the 12 years that she has lived there. It just varies in certain parts of the city.

I did post a study on how global warming could cause weather conditions that allow for polar air to spill out further south but keep the poles warmer. This means that while there are parts of North America that see much colder weather, the actual overall temp of the globe is higher.

[RandomGuy]

What will you post when it's hot?

Nuthin'.

[SnakeBoy]

http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2001/06/27/ast28jun_1_resources/jetstream.gif