Posted on 05/30/2015 7:55:36 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
“What do floods in Texas have to do with the coming Ice Age?” asks reader Caroline Snyder.
“Quite a lot actually!
“Looking at the historic record, we only have to go back to the 16th Century; a time when the Little Ice Age was causing devastation across Europe, but what of the South-West US?“
This article, amongst other things, looks to first hand accounts by Europeans amongst other things.
Little Ice Age
(Excerpt) – “…if you think it’s cold here in the Southwest now, you should have been around back in the days when the Spanish, Mexicans and Anglos settled in the region, during the period scientists call the “Little Ice Age.” A world-wide phenomenon that lasted from the 15th century well into the 19th century, the Little Ice Age brought frigid winter weather and powerful storms to many parts of the world. In Europe, England’s Thames River and the Netherlands’ canals and streams often froze over, setting a tableau for ice skating. Europe’s Atlantic coast suffered winter storms of violent and bone-chilling winds and torrential rains. In Iceland, miles of sea ice surrounded the shorelines of the island like a massive collar, shutting down marine traffic. In New York City in 1780, the harbor froze over, offering residents a frigid walk from Manhattan to Staten Island. In our Southwestern region, the icy winters and substantially foreshortened and drier growing seasons may have forced the Puebloan Indians to give up agriculture in many areas.
http://www.desertusa.com/mag05/feb/cold.htm
AND(Excerpt) – For men accustomed to tailored clothing, walking about the Texas landscape in the middle of the Little Ice Age, sparsely clad or naked, it probably seemed very cold indeed. As reported by Oviedo, “the north [wind] blows in winter, when even the fish freeze, inside the sea, from the cold” and a single day would bring “snow and hail.” Indeed, fish kills due to extreme winter cold fronts are well documented along the Texas coast today.
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/cabeza-cooking/survivors.html
What’s the real reason for the “government concern” over “climate change?”
That’s what it is the solid limestone. No basements.
Like the large amounts of snow that the north east got this winter?
SRV
Boy its it isnt hot air its ice holes
If it gets hot?
It gets hot and humid EVERY summer in Texas. This flood is not unheard of either. I am 75 and I can remember lots of floods here in Houston and they weren’t all connected to hurricanes.
We have great winters here but summer can be a little difficult.
It’ global coolwarm-ing.
Coldhot is the new trendy temperature.
It’s just weather. Climate change is constant and is the result of so many variables, in a massively chaotic system, that it is laughable to see people trying to make long term plans and predictions based on computer models.
I’d be much more concerned about cooling trends than warming ones though. You can’t grow much when your farmland is under a mile of ice.
The opening sequence of that film is the funniest 10 minutes I’ve ever seen in any movie. I swear I almost fell out of my chair the first time I saw it.
well try these numbers on then - one sq mile covered by one inch of rain = over 17,000,000 gallons. now multiply that by the 268,800 sq miles of TX and then by 8 inches. That is a lot of water.
You edited my quote.
Don’t do that.
If we're headed for an ice age, I'm taking both gas guzzling SUV's out of the garage along with the two lawn mowers, weed whackers, my 10k watt generator and anything else that burns gas and creates "global warming" and starting them all up, letting them run non-stop!
.??? Huh? Did I hurt your tender little feelings ?
Well there was 18 inches or so of rain. :D
That said, there is a huge ocean out there, and the state tips that direction.
So it’s draining. It has been draining. And today the weather is fabulous, and all of the flooding is receding now already.
It IS a fabulous day, isn’t it? $; ). It is so green and lush here it almost hurts your eyes!
That’s very unfortunate. I mistakenly thought rain water supply’s wells, springs, soaks into the soil for vegetation etc.
Hurt my feelings? Not quite slick.
When you quote someone like you did, you do not edit their quote to fit your response or rebuttal. It makes you smell like butt.
This is is pretty basic stuff. And if ya don’t like being called on it, don’t do it.
Well ok there was a lot of that as well.
All I’m saying is it stopped raining just yesterday, and today it already seems like everything is mostly back to normal.
With more water in all the lakes and streams, that is.
I was just saying it’s quickly returning to normal, is all.
Your statement was that it “ might” get hot and humid. I was correcting you because it “ will” get hot and humid.
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