Tropics expanding due to climate change: study

AFP ^ | July 7, 2009

[calex59]

Yes, I am east of Sac and it is the coolest I have seen it and I have lived in this area most of my life(a long one). We had a few hot days since June but mostly cooler than normal, including today.

[VeniVidiVici]

ARTHUR It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. King of all Britons, defeater of the Saxons, sovereign of all England!

SOLDIER Get away!

ARTHUR I am... And this my trusty servant, Patsy. We have ridden thelength and breadth of the land in search of knights who will join ourcourt at Camelot.. I must speak with your lord and master.

SOLDIER What? Ridden on a horse?

ARTHUR Yes!

SOLDIER You're using coconuts!

ARTHUR...What?

SOLDIER You've got two empty halves of coconuts and you're banging them together.

ARTHUR (Scornfully) So? We have ridden since the snows of wintercovered this land, through the kingdom of Mercea.

SOLDIER Where did you get the coconuts?

ARTHUR Through ... We found them.

SOLDIER Found them? In Mercea. The coconut's tropical!

ARTHUR What do you mean?

SOLDIER Well, this is a temperate zone.

ARTHUR The swallow may fly south with the sun, or the house martin orthe plover seek warmer hot lands in winter, yet these are notstrangers to our land.

SOLDIER Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

ARTHUR Not at all. They could be carried.

SOLDIER What? A swallow carrying a coconut?

ARTHUR Why not?

SOLDIER I'll tell you why not ... because a swallow is about eight inches long and| weighs five ounces, and you'd be lucky to find a coconut under a pound.

ARTHUR It could grip it by the husk ...

SOLDIER It's not a question of where he grips it, It's a simple matterof weight - ratios ... A five-ounce bird could not hold a a one pound coconut.

ARTHUR Well, it doesn't matter. Go and tell your master that Arthurfrom the Court of Camelot is here.

SOLDIER Look! To maintain Velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wingsfour hundred and ninety three times every second. right?

ARTHUR (irritated)Please!

SOLDIER Am I right?

ARTHUR I'm not interested.

SECOND SOLDIER It could be carried by an African swallow!

FIRST SOLDIER Oh yes! An African swallow maybe ... but not a Europeanswallow. that's my point.

SECOND SOLDIER Oh yes, I agree there ...

ARTHUR Will you ask your master if he wants to join the Knights of Camelot?!

FIRST SOLDIER But then of course African swallows are non-migratory.

SECOND SOLDIER Oh yes.

FIRST SOLDIER So they wouldn't be able to bring a coconut back anyway.

SECOND SOLDIER Wait a minute! Suppose two swallows carried it together?

FIRST SOLDIERNo, they'd have to have it on a line.

[Mogollon]

What climate change????

The planet has cooled by 0.74 degrees centigrade since 1999.

[count-your-change]

“”There is also evidence that many Australian animal and plant species are moving south in an attempt to track their preferred climatic conditions,” she said.

“Some won?t make it.”

That’s because they’ve put down roots in their community. But we can help, If you see plants that need a ride south, give’em a ride and if you see any of those Aussie dingbat dogs let ride along on your way south.
I think it’s carbon tax deductionable.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[SpinnerWebb]

Exactly.

The "tropics" are defined as follows:



1trop·ic
Pronunciation: \ˈträ-pik\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English tropik, from Latin tropicus of the solstice, from Greek tropikos, from tropē turn Date: 1527
1: either of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude at a distance of about 231⁄2 degrees north or south of the equator where the sun is directly overhead when it reaches its most northerly or southerly point in the sky — compare tropic of cancer, tropic of capricorn

2plural often capitalized : the region lying between the tropics

I *highly* doubt that the Earth has shifted in it's rotation such that the sun is now directly over an expanded zone at each solstice.

These people are idiots. Words have MEANING.

[Rebelbase]

58 degrees on July 4 morning at 2100’ elevation in the southern Blue Ridge mts a few nights ago.

[andy58-in-nh]

Here in Concord, NH - since June 1st: the temperature has exceeded 80° on only one day. Today's predicted high: 68°. The outlook for the next 10-14 days is for continued cooler-than-normal weather, during what is normally the warmest time of the year. It's "climate change", all right: global cooling.

[wendy1946]

In the mid Atlantic region we've had three or four mildly warm days. Last summer we had three weeks worth of mildly hot days and even on those days it took four or five hours to get hot and it didn't stay hot past about 6:30 PM. That is radically unlike the last hundred years worth of weather here. Normal has been what we call triple hundred, i.e. a hundred days worth of one hundred degrees, and hundred percent humidity.

The last time anybody went two years without seeing sunspots was the Maunder Minimum. This IS the second summer of the second little ice age, i.e. LIA-II. We need to start phrasing the discussion using these terms. How stupid do you have to be to pass a crippling anti global-warming bill in the second summer of LIA-II??

[andy58-in-nh]

How stupid do you have to be to pass a crippling anti global-warming bill in the second summer of LIA-II??

It's not stupidity. I assure you, it is quite intentional and purposefully destructive.

[RipSawyer]

You’re telling me that researchers can look at a planet that has a diameter of nearly 25,000 miles,
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What planet are you on? Twenty five thousand miles is the approximate CIRCUMFERENCE of this planet, not its diameter.

[americanophile]

Yep, was thinking circumference, but typed diameter. Good catch.