Weather or not?……..
What’s the deal with all the weird weather events all over the world this year?…… Has God (or whatever deity you choose to, or not to, believe in) decided to remove us vile destructive humans from the face of the Earth before we have the chance to wipe each other out on our own (we’ve been doing a fairly good job of it lately) and/or blow-up the entire world taking not only us out but all the other living species too?……..
I can see where God might not have a problem with us doin’ ourselves in, but we probably shouldn’t be allowed to take the other million or so species with us, should we…….eh?
Or-r-r, is there real scientific fact to back-up and explain all the hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, etc. going on one after another this year?……..
Or-r-r, is the Earth just getting old, decrepit, and coming apart at the seams?…….. If she is, I know how “Mother Earth” feels – Just like I do every morning……. Don’t ya just hate to get-up and hit the daily grind sometimes?…….
October 14th, 2005 at 10:33 am
MR, I’ve been thinking the same thing lately. It seems (here in Okla. anyway) that the weather has shifted about a month. Summer now extends thru September or later, if we have a year when it snows, it’s usually about a month later that it used to be, etc. Global warming? Or………maybe I’m just getting so old, I’m not remembering things correctly. It sure seems we only have two season here, now-Winter & Summer. Not much spring or fall.
Or…….maybe this is natures’ way of TCB.
October 14th, 2005 at 3:27 pm
It’s the middle of Oct. and no frost yet up here in Seattle. The glaciers have been melting back over the years. The big snow storms from 30, 40, 50 yrs ago are no longer. It’s getting warmer. Who dosent believe it?
October 14th, 2005 at 3:46 pm
Are you asking for a theological or a scientific response, MR?
I don’t personally believe God is actively trying to wipe out mankind, through nature or otherwise. See 1 Kings 19: 11-12 to address what I think is the prevalent Judeo-Christian interpretation. Some Christians and (all?) Muslims believe more of the “God’s Will,” idea, that His hand plays a role in actively guiding all goings-on.
Scientifically, people try to pin every kind of extreme weather event on human effects like global warming. However, it’s extremely hard to separate the CO_2 doubling effect (and all the complex water vapor and cloud feedbacks) from the many modes of natural variability. Consensus is that the increase in CO_2 is causing the planet to warm slightly in a global-average sense, but it’s not scientifically defensible to attribute specific hurricanes, heat waves, etc., to global warming.
I think the most apt explantion is “Stuff happens.”
October 14th, 2005 at 4:00 pm
The average first frost date in Seattle is 11 Nov.
The glaciers are retreating most places, and the high latitudes is where the global warming signal seems to be the greatest.
October 14th, 2005 at 4:01 pm
Hmmmm. I found another source that says 2 November.
October 14th, 2005 at 11:37 pm
As huskysooner said, it would be a stretch to attribute the destructivness of a given
storm to global warming, but global warming is a fact, unless your last name is Bush,
or unless you’re home-schooled and your clergyman tells you how to vote.
October 17th, 2005 at 4:14 pm
My tomatoes are still a growen and I cant go fishing cause the freezing level is too high. The river is still silty. I know we get a few cold days in Oct. no matter what the average date of the first frost. Oh well, I just throw them back anyway.
October 17th, 2005 at 8:42 pm
RTG, didn’t your daddy teach you not to mix religion & politics. Apparently, neither did GW’s Dad. Seems to have worked for him once. What’s the old sayin? Twice Bitten?
October 28th, 2005 at 12:30 am
My old Dad taught me a lot about religion and politics, but it was the FOUNDING fathers
that taught us not to mix ’em. Unfortunately, the Kurds in northern Iraq seem to grasp
the separation of church and state principle better than most Americans.