Posted on 06/08/2009 9:28:44 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
It was a raw, even wintry, weekend for residents and travelers in the northern Rockies. The cold air streaming southward from Canada will get cut off this week, and temperatures will begin to rebound over the next few days.
The recent cold weather has slowed the progress of crops in Montana in comparison to last year, especially the spring wheat. While some snow can linger in the higher elevations of Montana, any snow will be a distant memory the end of the week.
While it will take a few days, temperatures will return to more suitable levels for June. This will help the crops recover from the slow growing season.
Just being a really bad week for algore, isn’t it? Just a dadgum shame I would say. But give him credit he just keeps plugging away at it, his mommy read him the “little Engine that Could” every night and he’s so vain “he thinks that story’s about him”
They were huge and really meaty. We flew up to see some friends in Scotts Valley back in the 80s, I don't remember the little airport we went into out toward the coast but there was another couple getting ready to fly out and they had artichokes that were at least 8" in diameter. I've never seen anything like it since.
Your village called...they are missing their idiot.
Perhaps because if you will notice: the media now tries to avoid asserting that the temperature is rising instead opting to call what is happening as climate change because the temperature is actually getting much cooler.
NASA Still Hiding Correlation Between Solar Activity & Temperature
We have a chart:
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Much more discussion regarding sunspots aand their relation to the earth temperature....the Little Ice Age happened in the time of the Maunder Minimum....
Extreme weather is the new clarion call; this episode qualifies and that reinforces the theory of climate change.
It is the most elegant theory ever; with no limiting parameters it is robust in its breadth.
The pent-up warming is wound ever tighter with each fall of the barometer.
Paging John Ringo. Your books are coming true and it is not very funny anymore.
The Last Centurion
http://www.webscription.net/chapters/1416555536/1416555536.htm?blurb
Parts of the Going To The Sun Highway in Glacier Park, commonly known as US-2, (Montana) are closed due to avalanche danger. The park itself is open and has been open since Memorial Day.
Hard to say, but you can approximate the thermodynamic situation of earth by putting 9 rocks in a box with a whole cut out from the top. Put an incandescent bulb through the whole. Measure the temp of each rock.
Now, if you use a dimmer switch, you can lower the intensity of the bulb. Do this and record the temps after 1 hour. Now increase the intensity to maximum and repeat.
First law of Thermo - energy is neither created nor destroyed. It is in fact converted. From potential to kinetic, etc. Planets aren’t creating new energy either, but converting any potential energy available there to either heat or radiation (Jupiter, for example, or Saturn).
The sun is gradually going out, since the total amount of energy in the Sun is fixed. The longer it radiates, the less energy it has. The only place the planets are getting new energy is from the Sun.
Each planet’s atmosphere is held to the surface of the planet by its mass. Mars was too small to hold something like the atmospher of earth down onto it. The moon - same thing. Remember, mass is differnt than volume. Some stars are relatively small, but their cores are so dense that a square foot chunk of it could weight 100,000 lbs. on earth.
So, if you take into account that all of the energy being expended on the planet is actually energy being CONVERTED from potential energy to kinetic or radiant energy (no new energy being created or destroyed) the only place that can have a signficant impact on warming is the Sun.
The evidence tends to bear this out. When the sun is hotter (higher sunspot activity) the airtemps on Earth are higher. When they are not (ice ages and maunder minimums), then the airtemps on Earth are low.
I’ve been buying artichokes the size of dinner plates for a dollar each. I am died and gone to heaven.
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