Hey, Bumble. Here's a question on the bible for you. Do you think that Noah built an SUV first, then he wasn't getting good gas mileage and therefore, the CO2 coming out of the SUV caused global warming, then making an issue for him to make the ark? And imagine the number of trees that had to be cut down to get the wood...
Good point BK...and after all that....yet we still exist!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Environmentalism is not only wrong, illogical, and out of touch with reality, it is anti-Christian, anti-God, and anti-Bible. You cannot be an environmentalist and still believe the Bible. Why? Because the Bible clearly teaches that mankind will NOT destroy the earth, but it also teaches that he couldn't destroy it even if he desired to. He will not allow man to destroy HIS creation.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Late Colors Prompt Climate Change Fears Saturday, October 20, 2007 11:41 AM
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Every fall, Marilyn Krom tries to make a trip to Vermont to see its famously beautiful fall foliage.
This year, she noticed something different about the autumn leaves.
"They're duller, not as sparkly, if you know what I mean," Krom, 62, a registered nurse from Eastford, Conn., said during a recent visit. "They're less vivid."
Other "leaf peepers" are noticing, too, and some believe climate change could be the reason.
Forested hillsides usually riotous with reds, oranges and yellows have shown their colors only grudgingly in recent years, with many trees going straight from the dull green of late summer to the rust-brown of late fall with barely a stop at a brighter hue.
"It's nothing like it used to be," said University of Vermont plant biologist Tom Vogelmann, a Vermont native.
He says autumn has become too warm to elicit New England's richest colors.
According to the National Weather Service, temperatures in Burlington have run above the 30-year averages in every September and October for the past four years, save for October 2004, when they were 0.2 degrees below average.
Warming climate affects trees in several ways.
Colors emerge on leaves in the fall, when the green chlorophyll that has dominated all spring and summer breaks down.
The process begins when shorter days signal leaves to form a layer at the base of their stems that cuts off the flow of water and nutrients. But in order to hasten the decline of chlorophyll, cold nights are needed.
In addition, warmer autumns and winters have been friendly to fungi that attack some trees, particularly the red and sugar maples that provide the most dazzling colors.
"The leaves fall off without ever becoming orange or yellow or red. They just go from green to brown," said Barry Rock, a forestry professor at the University of New Hampshire.
He says 2004 was "mediocre, 2005 was terrible, 2006 was pretty bad although it was spotty. This year, we're seeing that same spottiness."
"Leaf peeping" is big business in Vermont, with some 3.4 million visitors spending nearly $364 million in the fall of 2005, according to state estimates.
State tourism officials reject the notion that nature's palette is getting blander. Erica Housekeeper, spokeswoman for the state Department of Tourism and Marketing, said she had heard nothing but positive reports from foresters and visitors alike this year.
The problem is perception, Housekeeper says: Recollections of autumns past become tinged by nostalgia.
"Sometimes, we become our own worst critics," Housekeeper said.
People who rely on autumn tourism in New England are worried.
"I don't have a sense that the colors are off, but the timing is definitely off," said Scott Cowger, owner and innkeeper at the Maple Hill Farm Bed & Breakfast Inn at Hallowell, Maine.
"Some trees are just starting to change now," Cowger said Thursday. "It used to be, religiously, it was the second week of October when they were at their peak. I would tell my guests to come the second week if you want to see the peak colors. But it's definitely the third or fourth week at this point."
People in Northampton, Mass., are still waiting on fall color. If foliage-viewing is the goal, "I wouldn't send anybody down this way yet," Autumn Inn desk clerk Mary Pelis said this past week.
"The way things are going, the foliage season is the one sure thing for us," said Amie Emmons, innkeeper at the West Mountain Inn, in Arlington, Vt. "We book out two years in advance. It's very concerning if you think the business could start to be affected."
Global Warming Being Blamed for Calif. Wildfires By: Jim Meyers Article Font Size
Man-made global warming is being blamed for yet another natural calamity – the roaring California wildfires.
As the fires raged out of control in a number of Southern California locations, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada flatly declared on Tuesday: “One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming.” He cited the fires in stressing the need to pass the Democrats’ comprehensive energy package, The Hill newspaper reported.
When asked by a reporter if he really believed global warming caused the fires, however, Reid appeared to back away from his remark, saying many factors contributed to the disaster.
But “NBC Nightly News” on Tuesday night also chased the global warming connection, with anchor Brian Williams telling viewers: “This has been the driest season on record, unusually severe, that’s leading some people here to wonder: Are these fires somehow a result of climate change? The U.N. panel on global warming did warn that we would see more wildfires, so is there a real connection?”
Williams then turned to the network’s chief environmental affairs correspondent, Anne Thompson.
She said: “Wildfires so unusual today may not be in the future. A new study out this week suggests the impact of climate change could be stronger and sooner than expected. And one of the predicted impacts from climate change could be more wildfires.”
NBC did not point out that Thompson in August filed a story smearing critics of global warming panic as “deniers,” and more recently endorsed Al Gore’s position on the threat of climate change, NewsBusters.org observed.
Thompson continued: “The wildfires are just one example of this fall’s extreme weather: Tornadoes in Michigan, a lack of fall color in the Carolinas, the spectacular foliage muted by drought and warm temperatures…
“And here in Minnesota’s twin cities, they are still awaiting the first official frost, when the temperature dips to 32 degrees. It should have happened two weeks ago. But not this year. So does all this add up to global warming?”
She then acknowledged: “Scientists say you can’t answer that question after just one season.”
But NBC also spoke with Princeton professor Michael Oppenheimer, without pointing out that he has been called a leading global warming alarmist and serves as science adviser to Environmental Defense, an organization that warns about climate change.
“The weather we’ve seen this fall may or may not be due to the global warming trend,” he said, “but it’s certainly a clear picture of what the future is going to look like if we don’t act quickly to cut emissions of the greenhouse gases.”
Like Thompson, Oppenheimer did not offer a scientific explanation of the connection between greenhouse gas emissions and the California wildfires.
But Thompson termed Oppenheimer’s comments “a stark warning in this autumn of change.”
Okay....so is this country the only one being effected by this so called global warming or is it the usualy democratic fear machine in action? I would like to see the scientific reports in every single nuk and cranny on every single continent on this earth.
And perhaps the earth is warming up and creating a climate change. Perhaps this is a cycle that it goes through. There is so called proof that there was an ice age. Now did man create that also?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The answer was on TV last night. The reason for the severe fires in California is that the green weenies stopped the government from clearing out the under brush and prevented them from using controlled burns in order to clear our the material that fuels fires when they start. The Santa Anna winds blow in that region of California every year and some years are just drier than other years and the fires can start very easy. Add in the nut cases that start fires and you have a recipe for disaster. Global warming has nothing to do with it and as you said Bumble it's the Dems scare machine in full force.
The White House has denied it, but there’s evidence to the contrary that someone in the Office of Management and Budget censored the most sensitive parts of 12 pages worth of damaging testimony on the health impacts of global warming that Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had prepared for a Senate committee Tuesday. It wouldn’t be the first time the White House has tried to mask the severity of this environmental issue from the public. The original draft of Gerberding’s speech, obtained by AP reporter H. Josef Hebert, contained far more information about specifi c health threats on the U.S. population posed by global warming than the speech she ultimately gave to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. That speech was reportedly half as long as the original; according to an unnamed CDC official, it was “eviscerated” at the White House, which had asked for a copy beforehand, something it does as a matter of course. The final speech did not include, for example, a list of specific, significant health problems that climate change could cause. Among them were the effects of more frequent hot spells on older and sicker Americans, increased air pollution in areas hurt by drought, increased incidences of vector-borne and waterborne diseases, and mental health issues. Undoubtedly it would have been a sobering presentation — and one that Americans have a right, if not an interest, to hear — if only Dr. Gerberding had been allowed to make it. Of course the Bush administration has been accused of censoring the bad news about climate change before (so as to justify its lame environmental policies). For example, renowned NASA physicist James Hansen complained to The New York Times early last year that the White House was not only trying to control what he was saying about global warming, but who he was saying it to. While there seemed to have been some positive movement in the administration’s attitude on this subject in recent months, this latest incident underscores the fact that when it comes to science, this administration believes only what it wants to believe and doesn’t like to be bothered by the facts.
Global warming is already impacting life on Earth in a number of ways, some decidedly bigger than others. While one of the smaller ones would seem to be the extension of the catbreeding season (subject of a Page 1 story last Saturday), don’t be too sure this quirky tale doesn’t have broader implications. The story focused on the overcrowding of area animal shelters due to an extra breeding cycle for cats resulting from this fall’s warmerthan-normal temperatures. It may not seem like a big deal — a cat having three litters over the course of a season instead of just two — but it’s not just one cat, of course. And what happens when those two to six extra kittens per cat get old enough (in just 6 months) to begin having kittens of their own? And then when those kittens start reproducing? In fairly short order, there are more cats running around — tearing up gardens, terrorizing dogs, “spraying,” spreading disease, etc. — than anyone knows what to do with. Indeed, many shelters in the region were overcrowded before this year’s phenomenon even occurred, and there are more feral cats around than usual. Now, what happens if the problem isn’t confined just to cats? Don’t other species face similar scenarios? Animal control experts and environmental conservationists are surely going to have their hands full. In the meantime, as far as cats are concerned, municipal licensing programs that encourage spaying or neutering are the obvious solution, but require the cooperation of pet owners. And if pet owners were responsible in the first place, they wouldn’t let their pets run loose and procreate. If the problem can’t be solved that way, it will have to be through euthanasia.
My My...now they are blaming global warming for the over populated cat population? What will be next?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
My My...now they are blaming global warming for the over populated cat population? What will be next?
Bumble, they already told you that
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Now, what happens if the problem isn’t confined just to cats? Don’t other species face similar scenarios? Animal control experts and environmental conservationists are surely going to have their hands full.
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