due to global warming the temperature today is 46, vs the average of about 55.



this warming WILL melt the ice caps by 2001, if something isn't done about it!



i think we all need to rally around, and have ribbons or something, to show how much we care about this.

i think someone should punch al gore in the ****** face..... with a .45 slug.

This has been a really strange winter, REALLY strange. I am big into weather, i guess because I sail and I've spent a lot of time trying to figure it out (no of course I haven't succeeded). Anyhow, you very, very rarely see winds out of the south, if they are out of the south they are light. This year we have had HEAVY winds 25 to 35 mph direct out of the south. not to mention record cold temps.

Its very strange that SoCal is getting pounded with this much rain, usually its Portland through Seattle along the 5 that sees all the rain this time of year.

The barometer has been pinned @ 28.75 for two days now yet it hasn't rained hardly at all, the sun is out and its damn near 50 today

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from a webcomic by a paintball shop owner lol

yeah its been raining for like a week!

They said most places in SOCal and Southern Nevada have gotten more rain in 4 days than they got all last year! Build an ark I say! With the fallout from wildfires earlier in the year the hills have to be straining to hold thier own weight.

We've had record-breaking lows here for several weeks at a time. We had ice that stayed ice from one night to the next, I don't remember seeing that since I moved here in '89.



It warms up, and we just had a serious rain storm. Areas that rarely flood, were flooded. Some spots got 3"-4" in an hour, that is an INSANE amount of rain in a short time span, tropical storms and major summer storms here don't drop that much rain.



It's also been real breezy here the last couple months, and usually the wind barely blows in this area.



It's been an interesting few months!

I noticed the weird things happening in the Southeast too, the Arctic blast that dipped clear down to the tip of Florida, very rare along with the weather coming right out of the south. Usually you guys get most of your weather from the east, off the Atlantic, mostly due to the flatness of the Sahara and corresponding wind patterns, no?

Whats hilarious, yet tragic at the same time, is that people tend to scale their perception to their localized area. Just because your area is seeing a cold front doesn't mean that's whats happening around the world. The earth is a big place, keep that in mind. Over 80% of the effects readily viewable are in the arctic. How many of you live in the arctic? That's right. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.gif



Whether you want to believe it or not, the arctic ice caps are melting at an extremely rapid rate. Picture this, the Northwest passage - the passage that connects the Atlantic to the Pacific from the north. From the dawn of human history that passage has been almost completely closed year round. Many explorers tried to make their passages and ended up losing their lives because of the ice pack.



In the last 5 years, the passage has opened up so much that its being looked at as a major passage for cargo ships.



There is new ice and old ice, the new ice forms and retreats every year, the old ice, as the name suggests, is a semi-permanent ice pack. The old ice has shrunk by almost half in the last 100 years. That is cause for concern. The fresh, cold water, introduced into the saltwater currents will fall lower than the warm water, changing currents both on top and bottom of the ocean. That is also a huge cause for concern since plays a HUGE roll in our weather systems.



The world is dynamic and will work itself out with or without human intervention, but for the preservation of our current state, its probably beneficial that we take precautions to slow its accelerated rate. How many of you know about trash island? An mass of garbage spread to the size of Texas x2 drifting in the north pacific, brought together by naturally occurring tides. I've been able to see it with my own eyes, not a very endearing sight.



I am also part of a climate change research team partnered with NOAA and various other agencies, we attended the climate change summit this year in Copenhagen and my company is designated to photo and video document some of the newest arctic water samples taken in the past 7 years. A coalition of several top leading scientists from around the world will be working on our boat as we make the first voyage through the Northwest passage in a 110' crab boat (modified research platform).



There ya have it... we're all doomed. Now you know why I built my anti-mexican/zombie mallet!