The way the weather patterns have worked in previous years, the wind comes from the Northeast or Northwest during the Winter and then in Spring it changes over to coming along with the jet stream. I live on a peninsula that sticks out into Boston Harbor - as a result, in the Summer and Fall, it is warm but the fairly constant breeze is gentle and cooled somewhat by having passed over the inner harbor. My 3rd floor walkup apartment gets hot but if I open all the windows, the breeze cools it down quickly - I lay out on the porch for 45 minutes to listen to the last 3-4 innings of the Red Sox and then the apartment is nice and cool when I come back in. There are a few heat waves during which I have to put a fan on to augment the breeze, but that's it - no A/C.
Each year since 2005 it has gotten a bit cooler each year - I've needed fans less and less, and each year I've had to start closing windows a few weeks earlier - last year in early October.
This year I still haven't opened the windows but for 2 in the back room. The wind hasn't shifted direction yet and it's been raining almost constantly - I cannot open the windows facing Northeast.
This is definitely ';climate change'; - but it's not the kind of ';climate change'; that we were warned about when we were getting prolonged heat waves and/or weak winters in the late 1990s. Summers in Boston were supposed to look like DC and then ultimately like the Carolinas or Atlanta. As for Winters, the ski industry was supposedly going to die a not-too-slow death, for want of snow and consistently cold weather in Winter.
What we're getting is cool and rainy Summers and cold and snowy Winters and a ski industry that is adversely affected only by the economy. Definitely a shift in the climate but not at all the shift that we were warned about.
Pretty much everyone I talk to outside this Y/A board agree that there's a lot of guesswork, a lot of hype, a lot of just outright lies and that there is an agenda.
Some of my friends think ';well yes they hype, they lie, but something is up and so what if they lie, shouldn't we do something about it?';
My response is that, if we agree that they don't have any clue what they're talking about, then how do we know that doing the ';something'; that they want us to do is ';doing something about it?'; I also point out that it's the same group of people who a generation ago scared us out of the best non-CO2 alternative, and that the reason they lie and hype is that what most of them really want is just to change people's lifestyles, for its own sake, facts be damned.
The true believers who really believe that CO2 is a problem and causes ';climate change'; haven't exactly distanced themselves from those whose agenda is purely political. They haven't distanced themselves from the hype and the lies.
And some of them try to go back and rewrite the predictions to make it sound like what's happened is actually what was predicted.
My question is this - do you blame me for not sharing the same outlook that some of my friends have?Global warming was going to give Boston the ';climate of Atlanta'; - why do we have the climate of Seattle?
I think you got the notion correct. Every decade, the liberal left has come up with one of these scare tactic issues relating to the environment and not one of them ever came true. This one however got the nod of many left wing liberal politicians who are now passing laws that will cost money and jobs. It has to be stopped. What can you do? Call your congressmen in your state and tell them to reconsider their hoax as it will be their embarassment when this is disproven. Also call Pelosi and Boxer of California and tell them they are wrong.
Other than pollution, the earth is fine and that issue is what we all should be concerned about. Fact less science gets us nowhere.Global warming was going to give Boston the ';climate of Atlanta'; - why do we have the climate of Seattle?
These sorts of Q/As make me wonder if deniers' brains even function at the level of a chimpanzee's.
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If you want more info, look up Alan Carlin- a 38 year veteran of the EPA. He is a Senior Operations Research Analyst. His research was censored because it challenged global warming. Also check on a man named Henson, same basic story.
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The impact of global warming over the short term is unpredictable climate. That is precisely what is happening. Weird weather. Excessive rain in areas that don't get it, drought in areas that get lots of rain (like Seattle right now), more prevalent tropical storms, dead reefs in the tropics......etc.
No! I think that you have grasped the entire situation and understand it completely. The Director of the Weather Channel even went so far as to fire an on-the air meteorologist for sharing a dissenting opinion. Weather is cyclical, and previous long term records show these patterns going back as far as climate changes have been recorded. It is a political ';Seinfeld'; agenda. A show about nothing.
Your talking about way back in 2005 and we are now in 2009, I think you will find that the changes you are talking about are 50 or more years away. It's fine to not believe the prediction but to deliberately miss-represent it is denial at it's worst. It's the same rubbish you guy's try with the predictions of hurricanes increases which are over the rest of this century and you keep complaining of no increase in the last 3 or 4 years, again that is just childish.
Oh well in California we're having temperatures over 100 degrees. The past 2 days were 108掳F, 15掳F above average and broke the previous high temperature records for those days. So what does that prove?
Nothing, just like your local weather proves nothing.
Boston isn't supposed to have the climate of Atlanta for decades. Nobody ever claimed otherwise. Your question is just the typical ignorant denier tripe.
who says this is due to global warming this is not a fact!
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