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Do Texas floods portend a new ice age?
Ice Age Now ^ | 30MAY2015 | Robert Felix

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 1600s; 1700s; 1780; climatechange; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; floods; globalcooling; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; greennewdeal; iceage; littleiceage; southwest
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To: stanne

I mean I’m not a Texan so I don’t understand as much about it as I might, but I think it’s the clay soil among other things...
Like the polar vortex, global warming , all of the things al gore greed man mr Al Jazeera hopes for


21 posted on 05/30/2015 8:18:04 PM PDT by stanne
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To: dragnet2

Based on what Joe Bastardi said today on his Weatherbell.com website the eastern Pacific is supposed to cool down over the next six or so months. This should help bring more significant rains for CA this fall and winter.


22 posted on 05/30/2015 8:19:21 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

got to love joe. wish he would say it’s going to be cool here in philly.


23 posted on 05/30/2015 8:19:46 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: kvanbrunt2

It’s going to be slightly warmer than normal along the eastern side of the US and a bitter warmer along the western side.


24 posted on 05/30/2015 8:21:00 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
One thing I like about Bastardi is that he does some thinking and actual forecasting instead of just spouting what the computer models spit out.

Getting to be a rarity now days with most meteorologist.

25 posted on 05/30/2015 8:23:52 PM PDT by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: Texas Eagle

Quick!

Everybody go out and put bricks on the gas pedals of your SUVs!

We can beat this!


26 posted on 05/30/2015 8:25:21 PM PDT by Salamander (Subhuman)
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To: Salamander

And, by all means, remove those catalytic converters. We’ve no time to waste.


27 posted on 05/30/2015 8:26:40 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: P-Marlowe

LOL


28 posted on 05/30/2015 8:26:41 PM PDT by Salamander (Subhuman)
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To: Texas Eagle

You still have one?

:D


29 posted on 05/30/2015 8:28:29 PM PDT by Salamander (Subhuman)
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To: stanne

It’s sandy here, not clay.


30 posted on 05/30/2015 8:28:35 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: Jack Hydrazine

You are correct.


31 posted on 05/30/2015 8:28:56 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine; Texas Eagle

32 posted on 05/30/2015 8:34:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Icenado!


33 posted on 05/30/2015 8:35:49 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: BenLurkin

Blizzicane?


34 posted on 05/30/2015 8:36:56 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: SuzyQue

No. I do not know

And I can’t talk geology or weather really

I do garden here and I can say it I lumpy and clay in this region and the rock underneath prohibits basements which are a standard in Long Island as is sand, which this is not. But I don’t know

What I do know is Stevie Ray wrote about it a long time ago


35 posted on 05/30/2015 8:37:38 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Jack Hydrazine

There is a video somewhere of Joe Bastardi, probably the most competent and knowledgeable weatherman in the country explaining the California drought and the torrential rains in Texas before those rains got going and the cyclical nature of el nino induced droughts and floods. It’s called “weather.” “Weather is what we are all supposed to panic about and turn over our possessions, liberties, bodies and souls to the government so the government can finally do something about the weather.


36 posted on 05/30/2015 8:37:40 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine


37 posted on 05/30/2015 8:39:10 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Texas Eagle

38 posted on 05/30/2015 8:39:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: stanne

I went to this concrt with some friends:
Saturday 30 June 1990
Stevie Ray Vaughan live

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Mann Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA, US

Rode my buddy to the ER at osteopathic hospital. thot he was dead. he was drunk, stoned. someone threw a bottle at him outside the fence ( he was probably trying to score some drugs.) his sneakers were red with his blood from the lacerations. When i walked by him in the grass near my car, i didn’t even recognize him. interesting night.


39 posted on 05/30/2015 8:39:55 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: JJ_Folderol

Exactly. Texas Ranchers knew it would take an El Niño to end our severe drought. All part of ongoing cycles.


40 posted on 05/30/2015 8:41:58 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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