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To: garjog

Could be a nice place, up further north where I am they are getting tons and tons of Japanese debris on the beaches, most of our weather comes from Japan actually.

Funny now that I think about it...we just had like three major storms back to back flooding most of south central Alask, it was quite bad in some places, never this much rain in a short period of time, oh and we never had a decent summer, too cool.


23 posted on 09/22/2012 8:57:43 PM PDT by Eye of Unk (OPSEC)
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To: Eye of Unk
Funny now that I think about it...we just had like three major storms back to back flooding most of south central Alask, it was quite bad in some places, never this much rain in a short period of time, oh and we never had a decent summer, too cool.

Some Russian and Danish astrophysicists and climatologists who have been busy debunking Michael Mann's "hockey stick" twaddle, think recent solar activity (lack of sunspot activity) bespeaks a slight reduction of solar output that might put us, they think, back in a cooling episode similar to the Dalton Minimum in the mid-18th century, when (until the early 20th century), canals in Holland and big glacial lakes in northern England froze over solidly for months every winter. (They don't any more.) In 1703 there was a legendary storm that chased Good Queen Anne into the basement of St. James's Palace (at the insistence of her faithful staff) and destroyed hundreds of ships in the English Channel. There were several years that featured summers similar to the infamous summer of (I think it was) 1962, when, the English said dourly, "Summer was on Tuesday." Crops failed, people went hungry, animals went to the knackers.

That all said, significant global cooling would mean famine as crops fail (like Greenland in the 1300's); in the Wisconsinian glacial epoch, the Mato Grosso was a savannah like the Serengeti today, without much rainfall.

Before the gradual cooling that commenced 4500 years ago (the end of the Climatic Optimum), there was no Arctic tundra, and the taiga grew to the (ice-free) water's edge of the (ice-free) Arctic Ocean, and broad rivers watered the Sahara and Arabia Felix (the "land of milk and honey").

Global warming equals higher precip equals food in plenty; global cooling equals global desiccation equals starvation. But people don't know that yet.

25 posted on 09/22/2012 10:43:44 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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