Global warming is going to be the farce of the 2000's

Skybird · 02-12-08, 01:25 PM

Mid-February here in Germany. I currently live in the same climate zone as I did when being a schoolboy 25-35 years ago.

this weekend, weather was like the days before: I did my first skate tour - in nothing more than shorts and T-shirt. blue sky, sun was shining.

Last year I used to sit on my balcony at this time of the year, again in shorts and T-shirt. I enjoyed icecream - like I did yesterday. The years beforer also weather was considerably warmer than during my childhood.

Flowers and trees start to blossom. the cherry tree in front of my house started blossoming short after christmas, then hesitated, and went on, and hesiotated. Tress in general become green much earlier in the year now, and colopurful autumn comes later and lasts longer, than 30 years ago.

Increasingly, we have insects now that we did not have back then, they came in from the south.

when I was at school, we used to wear tight, thick coats, and do snowball battles in February. In Decembre, snow was not a given, but January and February and sometimes March were the coldest time of the year, with temperatures around or below zero very often, and snow that lasted for days and weeks. Sometimes there even was another snowy week in April.

Taking that contrast of over 25-35 years, I do not need a statistic to see that this is not the climate I lived in during my childhood anymore 8not that statistics objects that observation). It is objective, most direct experience. Like is the vanishing of glaciers, the increasing loss of ice at both poles (last confirmed by Nasa just in January this year), changing spreading patterns of botanic and animal life.

By calendar date, we have deepest winter over here. In fact it already is late spring, at noon-time even early summer. record temperate last week climbed to 25°C in my town area. It should be around and below zero. the number of severe floodings and stronger than usual thunderstorms in germany have increased by a factor of 5 over the past 20 years, says the german weather service - that makes it a trend. Last year was the warmest year in Germany since the recording of weather data started. Same record was reached in 3 of the 5 years before 2007 - we again talk of a trend, then.

02-12-08, 01:25 PM	#16
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,718 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Mid-February here in Germany. I currently live in the same climate zone as I did when being a schoolboy 25-35 years ago. this weekend, weather was like the days before: I did my first skate tour - in nothing more than shorts and T-shirt. blue sky, sun was shining. Last year I used to sit on my balcony at this time of the year, again in shorts and T-shirt. I enjoyed icecream - like I did yesterday. The years beforer also weather was considerably warmer than during my childhood. Flowers and trees start to blossom. the cherry tree in front of my house started blossoming short after christmas, then hesitated, and went on, and hesiotated. Tress in general become green much earlier in the year now, and colopurful autumn comes later and lasts longer, than 30 years ago. Increasingly, we have insects now that we did not have back then, they came in from the south. when I was at school, we used to wear tight, thick coats, and do snowball battles in February. In Decembre, snow was not a given, but January and February and sometimes March were the coldest time of the year, with temperatures around or below zero very often, and snow that lasted for days and weeks. Sometimes there even was another snowy week in April. Taking that contrast of over 25-35 years, I do not need a statistic to see that this is not the climate I lived in during my childhood anymore 8not that statistics objects that observation). It is objective, most direct experience. Like is the vanishing of glaciers, the increasing loss of ice at both poles (last confirmed by Nasa just in January this year), changing spreading patterns of botanic and animal life. By calendar date, we have deepest winter over here. In fact it already is late spring, at noon-time even early summer. record temperate last week climbed to 25°C in my town area. It should be around and below zero. the number of severe floodings and stronger than usual thunderstorms in germany have increased by a factor of 5 over the past 20 years, says the german weather service - that makes it a trend. Last year was the warmest year in Germany since the recording of weather data started. Same record was reached in 3 of the 5 years before 2007 - we again talk of a trend, then. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.