Wave 'bye to Wisconsin, say hello to Oklahoma [Global Warming-Progressives move to Southwest?]

Capital Times ^ | 4-5-06 | John Ingham

[OKSooner]

"What's in store for the Badger State?

Maybe it'll look something like this:

www.badgerbadgerbadger.com

[OKSooner]

Try this:

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/

[okie01]

Jeez, is everybody on the left such an utter fool?

Or is it confined to the Wisconsin sub-species?

[Kieri]

We've been seeing record-setting temperatures. And a growing infiltration of pests, from purple loosestrife to the gypsy moth and coming soon the emerald ash borer.

Would someone tell this bozo that the emerald ash borer came into Michigan via a wooden pallet from the Orient??? If anything can be blamed,it's globalization.

I'd like to send him some of our "wonderful" autumn olives. The DNR planted these pests in the 1970's because they were supposed to be good habitat for birds. Now they're classified as a noxious weed.

[Obadiah]

Do you see what we have to put up with in this state? It is people like this moron who write this nonsense and worship Rusty Feingold and keep him in office.

I can sympathize with my Freeper friends in Massachusetts.

[Nachoman]

Cheer up Mr. Ingham. You're probably going to die from bird flu long before then.

[StAnDeliver]

Googled it. Another run-of-the-mill loon. Self-described as "poet, writer".

Don't quit yer day job, Hyperbolingham or whatever.

[redpoll]

So changing weather will be a calamity. I'm still a little confused how melting ice caps and permafrost, which, by definition, will increase the amount of water vapor in the air and liquid water in the environment, will somehow create a desert. There are places on earth where the summer average temp is 93 and the average winter temp is 25 that are wet all year around; some places have a dry season and a monsoon season; some places are deserts; and some, like Oklahoma, are arid grasslands. So let's say Wisconsin turns into Oklahoma. What happens to Oklahoma - does it become Veracruz? How about Churchill, Manitoba - the new Wisconsin?

One of the truths from the last ice age - in Wisconsin, of all places - is that the tundra and forest south of the ice edge was unlike anything on Earth right now. Spruces rubbed elbows with oaks and maples. Imagine Alaskan forests mixed with the upper peninsula of Michigan and a whole dollop of Virginia tossed in the mix. No doubt that winter wind blowing off the ice cap would have been bone-chilling; and with much of the Earth's water taken up as ice, it was far drier back then. It was a unique forest, in the same way that the current forest is unique. Without human intervention, the climate and environment will change over and over. The same is true with human intervention.

In essence, the writer is a reactionary, pining away for a past that never was. No doubt he's not pleased with THAT observation.

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

We don't want him in Texas either!

[maxter]

A little humor there?

[maxter]

Weatherman says tornados will be moving through here tomorrow evening.

[Mygirlsmom]

But John-just think! The corn will be as high as an elephant's eye! That should make you happy as you no doubt support the ethanol mandate boondoggle.

[Beagle8U]

"I'd like to send him some of our "wonderful" autumn olives. The DNR planted these pests in the 1970's because they were supposed to be good habitat for birds. Now they're classified as a noxious weed."

I have those things growing all over my property, even brush killer don't seem to kill em, just makes em sicker than hell for a couple weeks.

The wildlife does seem to like them.

[ops33]

Brother, I'm with you (rural Grady County).

[Big Mack]

So far I couldn't find any downside to his global warming. I've ordered 200 orange trees to plant. In my foolish youth I enjoyed winter, but with age came wisdom. Besides, I really enjoy deer season in jeans and lite-hikers.

[Old Student]

"So far I couldn't find any downside to his global warming. I've ordered 200 orange trees to plant. In my foolish youth I enjoyed winter, but with age came wisdom. Besides, I really enjoy deer season in jeans and lite-hikers."

Great Idea! The two things I've really missed here are homegrown avocados and figs. I once had a date palm, too. Maybe those would grow here, too.

Ops33, I'm in the OKC metro, but I still like it here, despite having driven through once in the mid-80's and not seeing anything to stop for... It's a nice place. Especially compared to LA.