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I hope the owners got charged with animal cruelty.

0F this morning at 6 with a 40 mph wind out of the west. Toasty in the house.

Just taking his temperature.:doh:

Most don't and they only take dogs that appear sickly and will give out numerous warnings before fining. The system is overloaded as is. I go as a rescue, animal control will try and talk some people out of their dogs. I wish they would write more fines..

Forget the fines. Sentence them to spend time in an industrial flash freezer where the temperature is maintained at -25° Fahrenheit until they can't feel their fingers and toes.:stare:

Your authorities are way too lenient when it comes to that, fine them big and hard and ban them from owning animals for life.

One house we visited had two leashed dogs, one tied to deck, one tied to tree in backyard. Both were wrapped around and couldn't move, had no food and water and spent night in cold. AC officer untangled and left a letter. Went by next day, same thing....Left another note. I get frustrated in this county, but they don't have a lot of funds and hardly apply what laws they have. We have two parts of towns, the poorer areas where it seems every house has a tied guard dog that barely get care and never get attention. Many states have outlawed leashing or chaining a dog outside or limits it to a few hours per day.

IF the county applied the laws they have and collected the fines, they would have money.

Precisely :yep:

Nice visualisation of US Climate data
 

http://labs.enigma.io/climate-change-map/

Not about to enter into a debate about climate change as this has been over multiple times here. This data set and accompanying visualisation looks at temperature anomolies (explained on the page in the link), across the continental US between 1964 and 2013. Aside from what it obviously shows, I very much like the way the visualisation has been done.

Ah go on if you want to rant about climate change either way, who am I to stop you?:sunny:

What I noticed when living in the UK is the comparatively small number of pests that can attack you while you sleep. According to friends at the time, mosquitoes were only something you encountered on an exotic foreign holiday. Now a study shows that UK cities are becoming increasingly mosquito friendly, even to the more dangerous kind. Another indication of climate change?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27491891

Stagnant water is the killer. You might want to drain some ponds, the Serpentine....or Parliament. :D

The problem I think with global warming is that it has been waaay too politicizied.

IMHO I think the globe is warming and has been since the last glacial period some 20,000 years ago when ice covered vast portions of the earth. That glacial ice just didn't disappear it just took on another form, water. Its estimated sealevels have risen 150 meters since the last ice age. But why? I don't know but it sure as heck wasn't SUV's, Republicans, Communist Propaganda, BIG Oil, evil corporations or from grilling hamburgers in your backyard. Personallly I tend to side with Milutin Milankovitch and his theory.

There is said to be another 60 to 70 meters of sealevel rise locked up in our current ice caps which at the moment still appear to be melting. I'm not getting wrapped up who should be blamed or the politics of global warming. Some people think I'm nuts but while they complain and point fingers. I'm buying up cheap land up in the hills, or as have said, building my ark. If things don't change centuries from now. My offspring will think well of me as they will be land barons controlling the high ground. :rotfl2:

I could not agree more that the problemof global warming is way to politicized. People think global warming, and hear carbon tax, when there is a huge difference. Global warming is a scientific fact, whereas how to solve it is a political question, one which so far the left has had monopoly on.
What's needed are good conservative and libertarian solutions, but for that to happens a general acceptance of science is needed on the right side, which I still hope will happen before its too late.

I do however do not understand your statement:
"Personallly I tend to side with Milutin Milankovitch and his theory. "

This theory is well known, and based on planet movements and wobbling of earth, both which can be accurately modelled without large uncertainties. And the fact is that this model does not give any answer to why we are seeing such an extremely fast (compared to ice ages etc.) increase in temperature.

By all means there might be other explanations that the release of greenhouse gases, however looking at the complete picture this is unfortunately the most likely culprit :(

:sign_yeah::agree:
Everything is cyclic...
We pretty much know what caused the glacial period and it's been warming since that part of the cycle ended and began the upward swing.
One can only assume that all this doomsday global warming broo ha ha is just some chicken little BS by those with an agenda aimed at milking money from gullible sheeple. :roll:

The graphic linked in the OP only illustrates a sinus rhythm for a relatively short span of time and then the data is compared to "expected" norms?
I've always noticed that what mother nature does can be neither expected or normal. I won't waste my time researching their data because it doesn't prove anything other than their ability to apply math skills to create percentages and their need to run around proclaiming that the sky is falling because we're releasing too much of the previously trapped carbon.
It's just part of the normal cycle of this planet. If we don't release the stuff, mother nature will.
I already live in mountains so what do I care if the beach front homes get swallowed by the sea.:arrgh!: