Remember the melting glaciers in Alaska?
Remember the 0.2 degrees Centigrade that the earth has warmed?
Break out the sunscreen.....it's going to be a warm summer, thanks to many things other than my own influence upon the environment.
1 posted on
03/19/2005 7:08:25 PM PST by
Puckster
To: Puckster
The Vernal Equinox is a Solar constant. Too bad the constructed calendar of mere mortals isn't as accurate.
2 posted on
03/19/2005 7:27:04 PM PST by
plangent
To: Puckster
Thanks for this post. Our daughter's birthday is Monday. I was just telling hubby today that Spring started tomorrow and not on Monday. He was trying to tell me I was wrong. Now I can tell him why I am correct.
4 posted on
03/19/2005 7:32:27 PM PST by
TXBubba
( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
To: Puckster
You haven't started Daylight Saving time yet?
I set my clocks ahead weeks ago!
5 posted on
03/19/2005 7:33:53 PM PST by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Puckster
You haven't started Daylight Saving time yet?
I set my clocks ahead weeks ago!
6 posted on
03/19/2005 7:34:23 PM PST by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Puckster
I know when we were still under the Julian Calender in Colonial America, I think things were so skewed that spring began on March 10th or 11th. There is an interesting website,
www.time.gov that goes into calendars and the like.
9 posted on
03/19/2005 7:42:20 PM PST by
Nowhere Man
(I hope you enjoyed your dinner, Terri Schiavo can't. B-()
To: Puckster
Ya better break out the sunscreen--I just passed gas--bigtime---and edged the the planetary average temperature upward!
16 posted on
03/19/2005 8:36:42 PM PST by
exit82
(You see, I've been to the desert on a horse with no name--then I found FreeRepublic.)
To: Puckster
Okay....put a fork in me, I'm done for the night........sleep tight.
19 posted on
03/19/2005 8:57:06 PM PST by
Puckster
To: Puckster
I have never seen the different lengths of the seasons before. Of course, those were for the Northern Hemisphere.
One reason for the difference is that the orbit of the Earth around the sun is not perfectly round - it's elliptical. And the Earth is closer to the Sun during our winter. So autumn and winter are shorter than spring and summer.
Another reason that the dates change for the start of the seasons is that the "correction factor" of "leap days" is applied every four years, and was in 2004. After a leap year, the seasons start a day or so earlier than the year just before a leap year.
20 posted on
03/19/2005 9:05:14 PM PST by
RandyRep
To: Puckster
This makes my head swim. It took me years to catch on to the "floating Easter" concept. Now I understand that Easter is on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. I'm old. I get confused.
To: Puckster
March 21 always, isn't it?
24 posted on
03/19/2005 10:29:39 PM PST by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Puckster; abbi_normal_2; Ace2U; adam_az; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; AMDG&BVMH; amom; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
28 posted on
03/21/2005 11:59:38 PM PST by
farmfriend
( Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill?!?)
To: Puckster
It's George Bush's fault.
35 posted on
03/22/2005 10:13:28 AM PST by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: Puckster
I am going to Alaska to see the glaciers this September, I sure hope they don't melt before I get there.
39 posted on
03/22/2005 11:20:50 AM PST by
razorback-bert
(FR's spell checker thinks Freepers isn't a word)
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