Posted by Hal/Eastern WA on February 16, 2013 at 20:57:30 from (97.115.191.41):
In Reply to: Re: I found it! posted by onefarmer on February 16, 2013 at 12:54:30:
I saw 37 below zero displayed on my thermometer on New Year"s morning 1977, the coldest I have ever seen on property my family has owned since 1959.
About that time there were articles in a number of magazines about the possibility of a coming ice age. I had just moved a mobile home on an acreage and was not all that well prepared for it to be that cold--the magazine articles really worried me.
But the years passed and I built a house on the property, as well as other buildings. There were some Winters that were pretty cold and some that were pretty mild. Some years we got more than average moisture and some years were dryer than usual. Over all, I guess I would say that it is a little warmer than it was in the 1970"s, but not much. We seem to set new record lows for given days a few times every year, and we set a few record high temperatures. I would say that the Summers here do not seem to be quite as hot as they used to be--we only hit 100 degrees a couple of times a year, where when I was a kid, we often had many more really hot days a year.
My gardens did better in the 1970"s. I had very successful tomato crops back then. The last few years, I have not got almost any tomatoes to get ripe before it frosted. And it has been so cold and wet in May and June that my gardens have not done much growing until July.
Really hard to know what to believe! I have read all the arguments to support global warming or climate change. And I hear about glaciers melting and the Arctic Ocean having lots less ice than it did a few years ago. People predict all kinds of horrible things happening in the relatively near future.
I think that lots of the propaganda is to justify a bunch of power grabs. Al Gore and company have become rich over the whole thing.
Climate changes, and it has been changing in different ways forever. Vikings lived in Greenland for generations until the climate changed to a colder mode and many of that population left or starved. I have not heard of people trying to be farmers on Greenland recently. Was it warmer than it is now in Viking times? And obviously there have been ice ages, the last one only about 10k years ago. Are we still coming out of that ice age?
And can we do anything to control climate change? I doubt it...but some people are SURE that reducing the Carbon Dioxide in the air is something we absolutely must do, no matter what it costs us.
It is all about power and control. And BS.
They were wrong about the coming ice age in the 1970"s, and they might just as well be wrong about global warming now.
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