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Post subject: Severe winter storm hits major cities across the US.
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:18 am
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A severe winter storm hits major cities across the US since the past week-end.

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This brutal cyclone bomb has already killed 18 persons, leaving about 31,000 customers without electricity. Even the Niagara Falls partially froze because of the extremely low temperatures, whose records could be broken across the country in coming days.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-06/brutal-cold-spell-grips-us-east-coast-after-bomb-cyclone-hits/9308030


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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:05 am
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I live in New York. Far as I can tell, it was just a little extra windy and plenty cold for sure, but that's why we hoomans build shelters. Not sure what all the excitement was about.


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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:14 am
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Post subject: Re: Severe winter storm hits major cities across the US.
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 11:31 am
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Perspective.
Mine mine be a bit different.

Ungodly storm there.
Average January day here.

I'm sure they don't see it that way, though.
I get that.

It's pretty mild here right now but that could change any time.
On any given morning in January or February I could wake up to 40 below and a foot of snow.
I know it's possible and even probable.
That's the difference.
I own shovels and warm clothing and I know how to use them.

If I lived where Mike is I would die of heat exhaustion just getting from the house out to the car.

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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 1:31 pm
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The mayor of Boston is laying the blame of flooded areas in Boston as being directly related to Global warming. I can’t say it is or isn’t, but his view lets a lot of people off the hook, and makes for good politics. That’s a bold statement in a place where many have contested the following article, and, I’m guessing, chose to not consider the alternatives.

Consider this article from 2 years ago:

http://newbostonpost.com/2016/01/06/bos ... thousands/

I sincerely feel sorry for those affected in this recent flooding.

We live in a flood zone that has a long history. The annual flood changes it’s flow every year. Those flooded last year may not be this year. Others may or may not be for the first time. This city had been totally flooded in the 50s, but a huge floodway and gates now redirects the water and we have all but prevented the city from being swamped. Only city areas close to the Red River connected with the mighty Mississippi are in jeopardy, and that has been minimized. South of the city is another story. Big time.

I am fully aware of the ocean changing with climate, having lived on a Pacific island, and with the Atlantic where the highest and lowest tides in the world are. Boston is not to be compared to those locations other than to say, construction does play a part in prevention and danger of rising waters, and not because of global warming announcements.

Wherever there is water it will change the landscape of the land. So too will the landscape change the water. The ocean floor is constantly changing as well.

Inland we have homes near water where lakes have risen beside lakes that have dried up. Homes are built where rivers and other water erodes banks. Puddles left over from the Ice Age have left 100,000+ lakes in this province alone, and then there are the Great Lakes. Pretty big puddles.

Are we secure in using statistics and science based on decades, a few hundred years, or thousands of years? The previous article pointed out newer technology and methods that had earlier been left out of the calculation.

Whatever the method or conclusion, Global warming exists, IMHO, but so do other major changes including natural climate change. I’ve seen the result of acid rain, and I’ve also learned of the Ozone natural healing.

One last thing. Those changing high tides in the Bay Of Fundy are neighbours of Boston.

To put this all in perspective, check this article about the Sahara desert which is expected to go green in about 15,000 years!

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/74 ... rs-Algeria

Just sayin’.
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(from someone who has taken thermal temperatures of the ocean at sea) :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Severe winter storm hits major cities across the US.
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:15 pm
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Welcome to my world, the hawk lives in Chicago.
Climate change is the goofiest cork and bull story told by the worst liars in governments around the globe since our own government ordered The Waco Massacre. Remember how dangerous over 70 christian men women and children were to the world that they had to be slaughtered in order to save all the government bureaucrats.
Global warming, sure, that's the new money machine. Our money not theirs. Don't fall for that hogwash.

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Post subject: Re: Severe winter storm hits major cities across the US.
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 1:50 pm
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Global warming, sure, that's the new money machine. Our money not theirs. Don't fall for that hogwash.

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Post subject: Re: Severe winter storm hits major cities across the US.
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 3:41 pm
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Nice segue, ghost_of_strings.





Warning: Typical raw comedy as it often is:


Whether Global Warming is or isn’t your flavour of the day I think this applies.



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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 4:23 pm
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Save the trees, save the bees! (remix by Melodysheep)



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Post subject: Re: Severe winter storm hits major cities across the US.
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 5:37 pm
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Save the trees, save the bees! (remix by Melodysheep). Nicely tied in addition.

What an ingenious work of art. I’m glad to have experienced that. Thanks, for the post, ghost_of_strings.

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Post subject: Re: Severe winter storm hits major cities across the US.
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 10:27 pm
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Save the trees, save the bees!


Another good reason to revise the CITES policies to protect the nature having a negative impact on stringed instruments manufacturing as rosewood and bubinga are now prohibited for use - unless you obtain a mandatory certification. Ebony is an obvious choice for the Elites as this fretboard material was employed on high-end guitars and basses since the late 1980s.


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Post subject: Re: Severe winter storm hits major cities across the US.
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 8:32 am
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I'm more concerned about the bees than the trees personally. There is simply no creature on the planet like them, and without bees you can expect food shortages. But I'm sure Colony Collapse Disorder is just a made-up "money machine" like global climate change, right? Let's hope so anyway. At least science is hard at work trying to create robot bees. Maybe they can save us from ourselves.


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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:32 am
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ghost_of_strings wrote:
I'm more concerned about the bees than the trees personally. There is simply no creature on the planet like them, and without bees you can expect food shortages. But I'm sure Colony Collapse Disorder is just a made-up "money machine" like global climate change, right? Let's hope so anyway. At least science is hard at work trying to create robot bees. Maybe they can save us from ourselves.
I’ve eaten chocolate covered ants and chocolate covered honey bees. If science continues and predictions come true we here on earth will see colonies of humans in space. I’m not sure if the bees will follow or if we’ll be shuttling honey to a domed scientist on a space station. :wink:
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Post subject: Re: Severe winter storm hits major cities across the US.
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:45 am
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Despite being an amazing substance (naturally antibacterial), honey is not the problem. Without bees to pollinate flowers, you can say goodbye to most fruits and vegetables. Yes, hand-pollination is a thing but it could never be enough. My money is on the robot bees.


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Post subject: Re: Severe winter storm hits major cities across the US.
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 1:09 pm
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You could be right about the robot bees ghost_of_strings. This city has beekeeping on the roofs of buildings everywhere. Perhaps, robot bees will take off from there. For now I enjoy plenty of useful and harmless honey bees in my garden and yard when the weather warms up. I like my honey, but Mrs. FSB doesn’t for some reason. She doesn’t drink milk either ever since she had sour milk as a kid. In this part of the world that sounds strange but probably not elsewhere. I think that’s the key to our concerns. While we worry about what affects us directly, others do and don’t have similar concerns that also have a local need or custom. :wink:
We humans spend a lot of time concerned with farming (which I shared as a kid). Big business has taken hold of livestock, the land, and harvesting what it produces. With farmer friends and associates I’ve heard most every pros and cons and excuses.

What do we have now? Antibiotics, chemicals, an over abundance of ingredients like the lobbyist’s corn (and it’s derivatives) and soy are everywhere. Unnecessary additions of these ingredients (like corn and soy) to the end product create more problems than they give benefits (if they give any benefit at all other than creating a flavour or craving). There are GMOs that can feed the world or remove dark meat from chicken and grow things faster amongst other oddities (much of which have their side effects). Both fish and animal meat is fed pellets of feed (including corn) that is not part of their natural diet. Fruit and veggies are not the fruit and veggies of our grandparents’ time. Some will say it last longer and gives us what we request out of season to be brief. It also doesn’t give us apples to apples. We have colours and preservatives and binders in food and who knows what. The list goes on.

Only this morning a major doughnut company announced dropping artificial food colouring. Although, I’ll take the lesser if there is no choice, I pay extra for real maple syrup. I think it’s patriotic as a Canuck. :lol:
My bet is that the oceans which cover most of Mother Earth will become a bigger provider for world population. My hope is that we shift some resources to pay more attention to that and other waterways for which we have less ability to replace. Polluted water makes a poor addition to land locked crops. Having no access to water is a no brainer.

The subject is the weather and we have included related questionable global warming. We are seeing rare colder weather patterns in parts of North America and around the world. Here in Manitoba a few years back we had Canada’s only recorded F5 tornado about 20 miles down the highway from my home. Talk about a change. Until then we had minor twisters but nothing of concern, and they were rare. Now we have been inducted into ‘Tornado Alley’.

It’s plain to see that whatever the cause or labeling for severe weather, where farming practices may be affected with a loss of growth and profit, and where new found discomfort and personal, historical, financial, and other losses show up, many alternative areas or solutions will develop. Perhaps, like the creatures we are, migration will occur, much like Snowbirds going to Phoenix and Florida. A paradigm shift may correct itself at the expense of some but for benefit to others.

Only the Shadow knows for sure.

FSB

Alley Oop couldn’t have changed volcanoes and the Ice Age. On the other hand, look how nice the world turned out to be afterwards. Sure, many will struggle to survive, like the seedling after a forest fire, but the living breathing world is bigger than all of us. We’re just visiting it for a time. :wink:

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