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| GaiasRose |
Posted - Jan 07 2007 : 10:17:05 AM
Rob is out today cutting some trees that pose a threat to the house and other structures as well as standing dead trees and clearing some dead fall. He has to come in shortly because the cold is expected to come and fast this afternoon.
He came to the deck to show me something sad that he found. I open the door and he shows me a stick from one of the live trees he has had to cut down. It is green and not frozen in the middle and there is new growth and buds on it.
We have mostly melted snow all over, and 40 degree high temps int he day.
It is January 7th.
Someone, please, tell me again that Global Warming doesn't exist......
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| Destiny~ |
Posted - Jan 12 2007 : 05:56:36 AM
Well said, Karin.
Speaking of flowering Quince, normally mine loses it's leaves in the winter, this year it hasn't.
All the trees here have budded already. I've lived in this house through several El Nino's and El Nina's and it's never been like this.
"Let us, together, sow seeds for a better harvest-a harvest for hope."
Jane Goodall, Harvest for Hope |
| Woodswoman |
Posted - Jan 08 2007 : 4:34:32 PM
I just heard someone explain it really well on the news tonight. He said that global warming is what is making everything more "extreme". It's like the normal things that happen are riding on top of the global warming effect.
For example, people don't make hurricanes, but when the ocean temperature rises, the hurricanes are worse.
And, el nino can make it warmer in the northeast, but global warming is what makes the el nino effect even stronger than usual.
Jennifer |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Jan 08 2007 : 09:56:11 AM
I think that Global Warming is a reality. And I do everything I can to be a good steward of the earth. However, I have to believe that the warm weather that the country is experiencing right now is due to a weather cycle and not entirely to be blamed on global warming. We've experienced patterns like this before and will again.
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| bramble |
Posted - Jan 08 2007 : 07:34:11 AM
What has me concerned for the growing season is that inevitably we will get a few really cold days probably in Feb or March and that all the fruit trees whose buds have burst will freeze and result in little to no fruit. I live very near to peach, apple orchards, blueberry fields and I fear that this weather is going to SEVERELY affect both crop and farmer. This is not normal in my part of the world to have cherry trees and flowering Quince in full bloom the first week of January. We as individuals have power to change our personal environment but as a group can change much more. How many of you took my re-use, recycle and reduce challenge? Amazing what one person can accomplish if focused.
If you are curious about this administrations environmental report card just Google EPA regulations dropped during Bush Administration.
There is alot of information that is fact based and valid, not just someone's opinion.
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| mommom |
Posted - Jan 08 2007 : 07:14:58 AM
Didn't someone once say...change begins with me? I try every day to be a good steward of this earth...to treat it with respect. Well said, Karin. We can all make a difference. I need to. Thank you. Susan |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Jan 08 2007 : 07:06:35 AM
We were placed here to be stewards of this earth; to care for it and nurture it and tend it. We are now seeing the results of our efforts. The problem is, is that we forgot that this earth is a living thing. It will provide for us what we need from it as long as we treat it well. But we are human, and taking the road of least resistance is very tempting. So we allowed for chemicals and plastics and other items of convenience to come into our lives, without any thought of what the long-term effect would be, because they were new and wonderful and made our lives better. The only place to lay the blame, is squarely on our own shoulders. If we want to see a change happen, we have to make it. Altering our lifestyles by reducing unnecessary consumption of our natural resourses, discontinuing using products that damage the environment, recycling, finding alternatives to chemical products, learning more about the earth, planting a garden, trees and composting are some of the simplest things we can do. We can worry and fret and argue all we want, but it will not be until we, as a WORLD population, make drastic changes in our consumer behavior that we will have a positive impact on the earth once again. It's not the government that is the driving force here. It is us.
Karin |
| mommom |
Posted - Jan 07 2007 : 6:57:42 PM
My weeds are growing. The Amish around me are plowing their fields. My grandson has been playing in his sandbox. My dad predicted this happening years ago when I was a youngster. I don't like it. Stores here are complaining because people aren't buying their warm jackets and accessories. Geez, lets see, why not? Life as we know it is changing....and not for the better. It was 72 degrees here in Pa. on Saturday. It's just not right. Global warming. What can we do? Susan |
| Woodswoman |
Posted - Jan 07 2007 : 5:58:07 PM
Hello, all.
I mentioned this in another thread, but it hit 71 in Albany, NY Saturday. The field next door has all kinds of green growth, and I saw a mosquito today. I was up north near Gore mountain yesterday (in the Adirondacks), and no snow to be seen.
They keep saying here that it is due to el nino. Could be, but I don't think that is all it is. We've had el nino before, and it wasn't like this. I have no doubt global warming has an impact also.
Jennifer |
| GaiasRose |
Posted - Jan 07 2007 : 5:48:44 PM
WCCO reported recently that 2006 was the third warmest year since recording keeping in Minnesota. The others were 2005 and 1998.
ETA: even in unusually warm winters in Minnesota, we still have had snow, we still don't get new growth on trees and shrubs.
I think that those of us in the colder climates are going to be more perceptive to it because we are use to a certain standard of Winter.
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Tasha-Rose
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| celebrate2727 |
Posted - Jan 07 2007 : 5:41:42 PM
I could sit here and jump for joy that the fuel oil tank in my basement is 1/2 full from a fill it got in November and that I won't have to be filling it anytime soon. I could be happy in the thought that I haven't once had to shovel my 250 foot driveway. but that isn't the case. you are right Tasha, this isn't just a warm winter. This is a serious warm winter that should cause us all to pause and look into why this is happening. Stories of ice caps melting and polar bears drowning because the ice has shrunk so much they cannot swim to the next frozen part. Let us all hope that sometime soon we wake up and try and save this planet from an inevitable outcome. Lets hope we do it while we still can. What is the temperature in International Falls, reportedly the coldest town in the continental US?
Where is winter?
MN is usually below zero more days than not in January. we've had 40's. Anyone else noticing this unseasonable winter?
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| jo Thompson |
Posted - Jan 07 2007 : 4:06:05 PM
I concur....... birch trees are moving into the tundra with beavers, that is unheard of........ (they might move out this winter though, just kiddin...) jo
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| GaiasRose |
Posted - Jan 07 2007 : 1:45:52 PM
Patti,
while global warming is a natural cycle, we have surpassed what is within the natural cycle, in fact we have gone so far beyond the natural cycle, it is scary.
yes there have been cycles like this within the past 100 years, but overall it has been a steady incline and climatologists are predicting an even warmer year for 2007 than for 2006. It isn't just natural cycle. It is us.
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Tasha-Rose
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| happymama58 |
Posted - Jan 07 2007 : 1:34:19 PM
I don't mean to start an argument or anything, but I really don't think one year or even a few years of unseasonably warm winters means its definitely global warming. My great-aunt, who is 93 years old and has lived on a farm all her life, says there have been cycles like this her entire life. Yes, our lifestyles, pollution, etc. affect the natural world we live in, but that has been true since man began walking the earth. Do I believe in global warming? Yes, to some extent, but not that just because this winter has been very mild "so far" it's a sign of dire things to come.
In fact, just a few years ago we had what people were calling a mild winter but when it was analyzed later in the year it had actually been just as cold, etc., as previous years.
Again, not to be argumentative at all. Just my humble opinion.
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| cmandle |
Posted - Jan 07 2007 : 1:18:11 PM
Wasn't it 70 degrees in NYC yesterday? Yuck. Our snow is melting too, Tasha. Double yuck.
Catherine
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| YiberryYadeeKarin |
Posted - Jan 07 2007 : 12:00:17 PM
My ex-husband's parents live on a lake in northern Quebec. They've been going up there for YEARS (probably at least fifty) and have lived there year 'round since 1988. This is the first year the lake hasn't totally frozen over. This is a BIG DEAL! Very sad and scary!
Karin |
| westernhorse51 |
Posted - Jan 07 2007 : 10:32:42 AM
Tasha isn't it amazing that people still refuse to believe it when it's right in front of them. I saw a guy on tv who was golfing somewhere in the midwest & the weather guy asked him what he thought of the warm weather, he said"if this is global warming, bring it on". Just so he could play golf. He hasn't a clue what's really happening & doesn't care either. People don't seem to understand how this will change things, things that they take for granted everyday.
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