Global Warming Thread XIII

[Ed Edwards]

I had a divine look into the future (from my favorite Oklahoma Comedian: Argus Hamilton.

It is obvious what happens next, if you just look at the numbers:
40% of the oil is used by the USA.
The USA has only attacked 17% of the Oil producing Nations so far.

[David Flick]

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[Jim]

I like the poster that suggests that everyone should “eat locally.” My small city of some 300,000 or so lies in one of the best agricultural areas in the country, racehorse/tobacco/cattle/corn country. Most of what’s grown now goes to horses and cows with small acreage devoted to “eat locally” stuff, and that for only two-three months a year as a substantive matter. Gardens in the service area (this is a combined city-county government) are virtually non-existent since there’s no room for them.

I spent my childhood during the “Great Depression” of the 1930s in a small town that was covered with gardens, and my folks canned everything from beans to cabbage (sauerkraut) to corn to whatever else was thought to keep safe. We ate all this during the winter – it tasted even better. This may still be possible in small towns but this is no longer an agrarian society. Eating locally won’t wash so those climate-killing machines on the corporation farms will just have to belch their carbon into the atmosphere until we all die from not eating locally.

[David Flick]

[Ed Pettibone]

Ed: David I am no Global Warming alarmist but when you say that you know of no community that was build on farm produce it is nearly as radical as any thing the alarmist posters suggest, I think you definition of produce may be overly restrictive. Off the top of my head I can think of a few communities that in deed where build from the proceeds of produce; Plant City Fl, Strawberries, and mellons, Decatur Indiana, Soy Beans and sugar beets, Clewiston Florida, Sugarcane, Frost Proof Fl, Citrus products. Burnt Hills NY where I am sitting and several small communities in this area where built as business centers to support farmers who grew produce to supply the cities of Albany Troy and Schentady . It is true that most of these farms no longer exist however most of us buy quite a lot of the types of produce shown in the picture to which I have linked here https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_zZV8 ... 000857.JPG locally grown by owner operators of the many apple orchards in the area. Tons of apples, gallons and gallons of apple juice and truck loads of applesauce are products of these family owned enterprises. You probably even get some of it in Oklahoma. But for the most part the other produce stays local.

Another type of Family farm in the State of New York http://www.dairygoatjournal.com/issues/ ... ovsky.html Just one quote from this link "Cornell (Univ) Farm/Small Business Educator Sandra Buxton said that supporting local agriculture and eating locally has become popular with just about everybody."

[David Flick]

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[Jim]

Don’t look now but natural gas will kill us all before coal will before gasoline will before cows will before light bulbs will before almost anything will: .

[David Flick]

[Mrs Haruo]

Can you gentlemen explain in the context of global warming, why the local weather service has officially declaired this month the coldest April in the recorded history of Seattle? Don't use too many complicated words now, I might get the vapors if I have to think too hard.

[David Flick]

[David Flick]

[Jim]

Known far and wide for wisdom rare,
Old Albert Gore went everywhere
To speak of inconvenience sore
For all who would not know the score.

He spoke of polar bears’ demise
In terms that brought tears to the eyes…
Of typhoons, hurricanes galore
To cause upheavals more and more.

He said the melting snow meant death
Per global warming’s hellish breath
To cause the oceans’ fatal rise
As carbon wafted toward the skies.

He warned that folks along the coast
Would soon become un-jellied toast
Or simply slip into the waves
While singing loudly “Jesus Saves.”

Yes…inconvenience was his shtick,
Describing truth to every hick –
It was an old and trusted trick…
Just lie enough, and it will stick.

And when old Albert lies in state,
Old-age will likely be his fate
As icebergs gently move down south,
His stone marked “Inconvenient Mouth.”

[David Flick]

[David Flick]

[Jim]

The last catastrophic tornado season in Kentucky was in 1974 (well over 300 deaths), when the self-acclaimed weather gurus were warning of an impending ice age – global cooling of dangerous proportions. The average April rainfall in my city is 3.9 inches. In the April just ended, 12.7 inches fell. Rainfall at this time last year January through April was 8.06 inches, while it’s been 25.65 inches this year or a swing of some 17 inches, with only 2.31 inches in April 2010. All the obviously much better informed meteorologists I’ve heard simply lay most of the reason on the cooling of the Pacific, something no one can control, except maybe Al Gore. The violent weather this week passed just east of my city and went through southeastern Kentucky, the coal-fields. In 1974, a tornado went through central Kentucky and right through the train I was operating, lifting cars off the track as if they were toys.

[Ed Pettibone]

Ed: This past week was the 2nd worst series of tornados in U.S> the worst was 86 years ago.

Associated Press - 4/30/2011 6:35:00 AMBookmark and Share

CLANTON, Ala. - As the death toll from Wednesday's tornadoes climbed to 340 on Saturday, officials declared the storms the second deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history.

The death toll has climbed to 340. In 1925, 747 people were killed in a line of storms that raged through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.

[David Flick]

[David Flick]

[Jim]

Alas, everyone with walking around sense has by now seen through the manmade climate-change hoax except, of course, the dear leader, who naturally blames republicans for befogging the entire population: .

[Ed Edwards]

http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/20 ... rom-space/

Tee Hee! There is still a track of a tornado visible on Googe Maps. The lighter track goes from Bridgecreek School to Midwest City (missing Tinker Air Force base). The Tornado took place 3 May 1999 (twelve years ago). Seems grass is lighter than trees; concrete slabs are lighter than roofs. Yep, lots of places didn't get rebuilt (by the Humans) since the tornado.

[David Flick]