“Spring is arriving sooner and autumn is starting later
By on Aug 25th, 2006 at 5:10 pm
“Spring is arriving sooner and autumn is starting later
because of climate change, according to a study of more than 500 plants and animals across Europe.”
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Those 500 plants and animals hate America.
August 25th, 2006 at 5:16 pmThose are only liberal plants and animals who are lying to hide the truth… (sarcasm off)
August 25th, 2006 at 5:20 pmGood one Unbelievable, maybe the progressive plant’s will catch up and propigate quicker than the conservative one’s….Oop’s there are no conservative’s any more, neocon plants will glow in the dark and fool everyone, cause they don’t reproduce they just suck the life out of everything around them..LOL….Just another day in fake happy crap bush world……..Blessings
August 25th, 2006 at 5:30 pmPlease Hurry! When the two meet there will be no winter and there will be no need for the Republican “Snow Birds” to invade Arizona. Look at all the energy we will save!
August 25th, 2006 at 5:31 pmHey Clyde,
AZ had become so overrun with people in general I don’t seem to notice an infux of snowbirds anymore.
August 25th, 2006 at 5:41 pmHi Sharon,
You’re so funny! Glow in the dark neocon plants! Good one! You don’t hug those do you… ? :)
August 25th, 2006 at 5:54 pmThat would actually imply a change in the tilt of the Earth’s axis as it precesses.
August 25th, 2006 at 5:56 pmFor truth,
We are still in the backcacti (as opposed to backwoods) with only one road in and out and they do drive slow!
Jake,
That would be catastrophic for the rethugs. They all think that the Earth rotates on an axis parallel to their spinal cord with the entry in the center of their head and the egress in the appropriate orifice. A little tilting would do them some good.
August 25th, 2006 at 6:35 pm#7
You have a point. I’d be curious to compare records over the period of movement for the axis. It doesn’t prove anything, it doesn’t disprove anything.
August 25th, 2006 at 6:38 pmNo Unbelievable, I don’t hug anything that might be a neo-con, glowing in the dark or otherwise…One of my bumper stickers states ” I don’t brake for right wing nut job’s” and that pretty much cover’s it…..
Please who ever came up with the axis word , stop it….Never mention that word, bush and crew are reading our post’s and he will be on us all like flies on stink….That’s one of his favorite word’s ya know…….LOL…..We need to change the term “axis tilt “and change it to “circle jerk”…..Blessings..Peace
August 25th, 2006 at 6:55 pmLook what Chimpy is up to now. From Huffington Post by Carl Pope
08.25.2006
The Ministry of Truth Strikes Again, and Again, and Again…
The reactionary campaign against knowledge and information is reaching frightening new heights.
The Environmental Protection Agency has been ordered by the White House to “shut down [its] libraries, end public access to research materials and box up unique collections on the assumption that Congress will not reverse President Bush’s proposed budget reductions.” Fifteen states will lose library service immediately, the rest will follow, and the public is to be turned away as soon as possible.
Unsurprisingly, EPA scientists are protesting, saying that the lack of access to data will impair their research and scientific capabilities. The Administration says its plan is to “centralize” control of all data; EPA scientists say the real goal is to “suppress information on environmental and public health-related topics.” The Administration is not yet burning books, but they are getting very close.
They’re not much fonder of telling the truth — the whole truth — over at the Defense Department. The Department has refused to complete congressionally ordered studies of the potential security threat to radar systems from wind turbines. Until it finishes that study, Defense is blocking all new wind turbines that might help reduce our dependence on what the President calls our “addiction” to oil and natural gas “often from insecure places.”
The Sierra Club sued and demanded that Defense finish the study. (Of course, if wind turbines actually were a threat to our air defense systems, you would think that the Department of Defense would be rushing to prove it and make us safer by dealing with the thousands that already exist.)
But Defense has refused to respond to the Club’s motion. Now, Defense has informed us that it will miss the 60-day deadline for that response and will need an additional five weeks to answer the complaint. In other words, the Department claims that it needs more than three months to tell a Court why it cannot finish what was supposed to be a six-month study. This is giving stonewalling a whole new meaning.
Nor will the Department of Defense tell us how many wind projects it has stopped, even though it has issued “don’t proceed” orders to each one, so the information is obviously available. According to media reports, at least 15 wind farm proposals in the Midwest alone have already been shut down. The list of stalled projects includes one outside of Bloomington, Illinois, that would have been the nation’s largest source of wind energy — generating enough electricity to power 120,000 homes in the Chicago area.
But scientists are good for one thing — as scapegoats. Only a few weeks ago, reactionary columnist Peggy Noonan was setting up the climate science community to take the fall for Bush Administration inaction on global warming. According to Noonan, if only global warming scientists weren’t such obvious liberal hacks, the world would have acted in time. Scientists, Noonan said, are responsible, “for refusing to be honest, for operating in cliques and holding to ideologies. For failing to be trustworthy.” She could not, however, cite a single example of such behavior. Perhaps all her evidence had already all been hidden away under lock and key in the EPA’s “deaccessed” library system.
This Is What the Scientists Told Us Global Warming Would Be Like
Max Mayfield, director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, says Katrina was far from the worst hurricane we will experience.
“People think we have seen the worst. We haven’t,” Mayfield told Reuters in an interview at the fortress-like hurricane center in Florida. “I think the day is coming. I think eventually we’re going to have a very powerful hurricane in a major metropolitan area worse than what we saw in Katrina and it’s going to be a mega-disaster. With lots of lost lives,” Mayfield said.
And This Is What We Can Do About It
The “two-mode” hybrid engine being developed in Detroit by General Motors, DaimlerChrysler and BMW would increase the fuel efficiency of big SUVs and large luxury cars by at least 25 percent.
August 25th, 2006 at 7:05 pmFrom you’re vacationing president we have the latest new’s and weather…..All link’s have been screened and met the white house approval say’s messers cheney and rove..This news report will be brought to the public by ms. rice, just as soon as she returns from her european shoe buying trip……Q,,, camera pan to ms..rice..I am here today to inform the public president bush has released this report…..”It’s hotter in the summer than it is in the city”. Also “it will be colder in the winter than it is in the country” ….More new’s tomorrow……….Blessings
August 25th, 2006 at 7:28 pmI own a hybrid, now, I buy but one tank of gas every three weeks (Ten gallons per week) instead of one every two weeks (Twelve). Prius vs. Avalon. That works out to 3.3 gallons per week vs. 6. Driving habits have not changed one iota.
August 25th, 2006 at 7:35 pmsb 10 gallons per fill
August 25th, 2006 at 7:41 pmMan, those hurricanes have been stronger than ever this year!
August 25th, 2006 at 8:45 pmWhen the Greenland Ice caps melts some more (as it is in the process of doing) the freshwater added to the N. Atlantic could kill the gulf stream current. Then in Europe for a time anyway, Spring will come MUCH LATER, and Winter will come MUCH EARLIER.
August 25th, 2006 at 10:01 pmThat’s the theory anyway.
#16 – keepinon,
August 26th, 2006 at 12:17 amWhat most ignorant US citizens do not realize is that most of Europe is further north then New York City, but is warmer than South Carolina. The Gulf Stream provides this warming effect. Where my family lived for two years in Baden Württemberg in Germany (that is a region between Bayern (Bavaria) and Alsace (France)), pansies were basically a perennial – plant once and they survived for years. In city center in Boeblingen, there was a planter of the things that survived for the two years that I was there without replanting.
Ya know with all this crazy weather you would think the earth is tilted and wobbling on it’s axis or something…=]
August 26th, 2006 at 8:37 amWeather, Water, Energy 8-26-06…
January water skiing in WI? Maybe it’s just a matter of time. (h/t Think Progress)…
August 26th, 2006 at 10:04 amWe’re going to be getting a car within a year or so for mostly driving less than 100 miles a week.
We want something economical, comfortable and environmentally friendly.
Is there anything out there?
We are in no hurry, but I think this is the time to begin gathering information so we make a good choice.
As for the weather – winters are milder, all seasons are dryer, storms are more violent.
August 26th, 2006 at 11:06 amWhen I try to remember back to my childhood and what we experienced.
I firmly believe there is climate change, and while some will attempt to persuade us that it is a natural cycle, but the pace of change, and the degree of change is undeniable. We (people throughout the world) are an enormous part of the problem.
#20 – Maria,
August 26th, 2006 at 12:23 pmThe Toyota and Honda hybrids are a fair choice. Both have a sound track record and have been around long enough for the bugs to have been worked out. If you are in no hurry, wait for the April issue of Consumer Reports – it has reliability data as well as interior space and gas mileage. I believe that Toyota is transferring its hybrid manufacturing to the US except for the drive train. I am not sure about the Honda hybrid, but they have plants in OH, NC, SC, AL, GA and IN.
#21 – Sorry Marie, why I used Maria eludes me.
August 26th, 2006 at 12:25 pmWalt, thanks for the tip. I knew the smart people here at TP would reply. I will investigate.
August 26th, 2006 at 12:38 pmAs for the name — people very frequently err with my name — no offense is ever taken — Yesterday, however, there was someone here named maria and our posts were confusing people.
I couldn’t get past the spam filter to identify the mistake.
#23 – Marie,
August 26th, 2006 at 12:55 pmThe SPAM filter seems to get testy about links now and then. I had problems for a while when I used the link to backwardsbush.com as my URI. By the way, 877 days to go, worst case.
Moved back to NC after 10 years away.
The robins did not leave this winter, never seen that before, and the crape myrtle trees began blooming in mid-June, which used to be a mid-July event.
Strange.
August 26th, 2006 at 7:24 pm#15: Man, those hurricanes have been stronger than ever this year!
What a cogent and witty analysis of the available science on global climate change. Where can I sign this man up to be on my staff?
August 26th, 2006 at 11:07 pm