http://www.greencarcongress.com/2005...ne_of_the.html

It may or may not be due to greenhouse gasses and human pollution, but the instruments don't lie - 2005 was a HOT ONE.

 

My 93-yr old Grandmom told me the Dallas area is as warm now as it was in Houston over 200 miles south during World War II.

 

Maybe we should start saving urns full of dry dirt to trade for chits out on the open seas....

I'm not a scientist so anything I say about this subject is purely conjecture and not meant to spurn any hate posts. Maybe the earth is entering an unusually active volcanic period and there are undersea vents spewing mega tons of methane and CO2 into the atmostphere that we are unaware of plus the human GG production from burning fossil fuels adding to the problem..?????? There are tons of data but it doesn't point to a definitive cause. Thank heaven we have the oceans to moderate earth's temp's otherwise we could end up like venus.

 

And let's not forget the millions of tons of methane, a well known greenhouse agent, being emitted by cows passing gas.....


Now seriously, I'm very concerned about global warming. When hurricane Emily passed less than 100 miles south from here, I stood outside soaking in the rain. The rainwater was as warm as a good shower...I don't ever remeber feeling rainwater that warm.

I recently joined www.stopglobalwarming.org I don't know if that can help make a difference or not. But they don't ask for money or anything else.

 

OK, perhaps I'm not as smart as I look, but doesn't ~1 degree change in 100 years seem incredibly stable? Manage any area of my life to that tolerance.

Don

 

Another plug for drivers having a fluantance pad with a hose interfaced to the gas line to increase fuel economy.

 

I saw an NPR special a few months ago that mentions one of the moon missions back in the 1970's placed a solar reflector on the moon surface.

Its purpose was to accurately measure the moon>>>Earth distance.

They found the moon is moving a way from us by about an inch a year.
Earlier in the special it was mentioned that any changes in the distance could create major temperature shifts here on Earth.

I too think any temperature shifts are due to many things- Solar flares, changes on the suns surface, cow farts etc

 

Conjecture only:
Any change in tidal forces from the moon on the oceans could cause shifts in ocean currents that are rivers of cold and warm waters that help moderate earth's temperature. One thing to note is that as the N/S polar ice melts, it adds water to all of the oceans. This increases the earth's equatorial bulge, which in turn could theoretically slow down the earth's rotation lengthening the day's. Longer days, more solar heating, warmer climate. But warmer climate means a wetter climate which means more clouds which means more shade and cooler temps......Ahhhh isn't mother nature nice...checks and balances. Heating followed by glaciation, the cycle repeats ad infinitum.

Every 11 years the sun goes thru one complete magnetic pole reversal preceded by intense solar activity. During this time the upper atmosphere is under attack and some of it, albeit a minute amount is stripped away. There is a lot of good info on spaceweather.com if anyone is interested.

 

Yep. 2005 was a hot one.

But it is almost Feb. 2006 and we have had the warmest winter in a while. (Apologies to the Russians who are taking a really hard cold hit.)

 

Aren't we a thousand years overdue for the next ice age or something already? Isn't climate change inevitable and has been going on in large (10 - 15 degree) amounts every 15,000 years or so for as long as we have extrapolated data on the current epoch?