Posted on 02/10/2007 8:45:19 PM PST by Past Your Eyes
The effects of global warming are not just occurring at the poles. Climatic changes are affecting New Hampshire here and now. Tourism is New Hampshire's second largest industry. Warm winters and lack of snow have resulted in economic hardship crippling snow-dependent attractions, with the ripple effect impacting restaurant, lodging, retail and service jobs. Logging and wood products comprise a $2.7 billion industry that has been gravely impacted by warm winters impairing the ability to harvest timber.
These segments of the business community are vital to New Hampshire's economy and character. Disruption is now on the scale of making this a disaster area!
The balance of biodiversity has been upset. Wood duck and other bird species are returning to New Hampshire weeks earlier. Lilacs and honeysuckle are blooming earlier, warmer winters are moving the maple syrup season earlier in the year and lakes and rivers are freezing later and thawing earlier.
(Excerpt) Read more at unionleader.com ...
Colorado ski resorts went through a few relatively "dry" years but this year is shaping up to be a boon. Smart businessmen save/invest a little during the good years to carry over through the lean years. Dumb businessmen blame someone else during the lean years and end up going out of business.
By the looks of the cars streaming north on I-93 last night, there's a bit of a recovery going on. And her timing is just perfect as we are just finished with the coldest damm week of weather we've had in a few years. And there's more coming, if you can believe the guessers.
Liberals miss the good old days when the Earth never changed.
So move to Maine
;-)
That's it ..... we're doomed ..... I think I'll cash in my 401K and enjoy my last ... what? ... year? ... 6 months?
Lots of snow in upstate New York this year. Someone should be insisting that more reservoirs be built.
"WE ARE GOING TO D I E!"... NOT!
Like the man said: "What a maroon!"
Their lieburralls are even worse than our lieburralls. You want to see a screwed up state, look at Maine. I feel sorry for them poor people over there. Taxed 'most to death and not a damm thing to show for it.
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Remember the good old days when morons like this just put on their tinfoil hats, looked for UFO's and just STFU?
I'm in Maine, and every night for the last two or three weeks the temperature has been plunging WAY below zero.
It's bitter cold in New Hampshire, too. What warming? This Sheila broad.....the moonbat who wrote the article.....is clueless. Then again, she's a liberal, so big surprise.
It's pretty warm in Maine right now. 15 degrees. I'm happy.
-ccm
You must have lived in Concord.
Oh, please! New Hampshire has been nothing of the sort. It's been quiet, weather-wise, for at least a year and a half. Not like the rest of the country. No hurricanes, no tornadoes, no blizzards, no subzero temps for weeks on end. (OK, a minor ice storm, but nothing like the midwest had.)
And someone tell this science-illiterate that the earth's climate has always changed and always will. Plants and animals change with it. NH used to be covered with glaciers. Does she want to go back to those days? Neotropical birds have been migrating for at least 18,000 years, adjusting to glaciation and deglaciation.
"Disruption is now on the scale of making this a disaster area!"
My Mom was just telling me tonight about when it was -32 F in Minneapolis. in the summer it was so hot they were sleeping on the lawn and folks were sleeping by the lakes Downtown. And the summer before that the dust was so thick they had to use lights during the day.
Back in the mid 1930's.
Am I missing something here, does the above make sense to anyone?
If the Winters are warmer, generally Spring seems to come a bit earlier as well. Wouldn't that give the loggers more time to harvest timber and increase their operations?
I hear all the trees adapted to GW last year and moved to Quebec.
Sounds just horrible. Especially the early honeysuckle blooming. Too perfumey for me.
yow! My aunt and uncle live in Brentwood,NH. They sent an email to us the other day with pics and comments on the cold from the "hardy" side of the family.
I sent an email back saying we could certainly feel their pain as it had gotten down to 38 the night before and I suffered the next day as it only got to 68 and I left the house in a t-shirt! :-)
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