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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

There is a weather professional who is surveying the sites where the 
temps are taken http://www.surfacestations.org/  .

Rob
becida AT comcast.net
western WA,


At  9/22/2009 01:07 PM,EarthNSky wrote:
> Global warming means lots of freshwater from glacial ice (and rain from
> warmer clouds and tropical systems) dumping into the oceans which messes
> up the salinity conveyor.  That in turn takes a few years to really
> churn up the oceans, but soon you see a die off and a lot cooler, more
> cloudy weather, with few tropical systems because the sea surface is no
> longer warm enough to support it. No tropical systems means no heat
> dispersion from the equatorial regions to the poles and when the heat
> engine breaks, cold takes over and creeps ever so slowly at first, down
> from the poles.  Summers may be shorter or cooler, Fall, winter, or
> Spring longer and wetter.  We may be due for a Little Ice Age or a
> Younger Dryas again, or who knows, even a full blown Ice Age.
>
> If anyone has a homeschooler who might want to research this a bit,
> especially since President Obama is talking about climate change at the
> UN, this page is pretty good.
>
> http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Little_Ice_Age
> http://www.eh-resources.org/climate1.html
>
> For worldwide monitoring of things like glacial advances and retreats
> and weather extremes, there is always the ever entertaining Ice Age Now
> site:
>
> http://www.iceagenow.com/
>
> Bev in NW Georgia, where the sun is out, but everything is still wet.
> My 8 cu ft wheelbarrow is full again since yesterday morning.
>
>
> roxann wrote:
> > Bev,
> >
> > I think the Ice Age theory makes a lot more sense than the Global
> > Warming Crisis.
> >
> > I'm tired and my mind refuses to think much right now, though. All
> > weekend I made a cabinet for my kitchen. It was the first time I've
> > ever 'constructed' anything that required so much measuring and
> > cutting, and I was surprised to find that I rather like them in the
> > end, lol. I posted pictures on my blog. Very low-tech! These were
> > more than an ordinary challenge because the floor in the kitchen is
> > unlevel. There's a drop of about 3" from the stove end to the sink
> > end of the room, so the dilemma was to make the cabinets in such a
> > way that it wasn't so obviously not square. The floor line follows
> > the floor. The counter top is level. Everything in between had to
> > compensate for the difference. The rest are going to be on a
> > different plane, not cutting across the unlevel plane, so it won't be
> >  as hard. I hope.
> >
> > Roxann, NW AR http://blog.ancientearthwisdom.com (Ozark Musings from
> > the homestead)