Why is local weather on the national news page? Oh, I forgot; to the media, New York is the center of the universe.

Spider,

Because it is an interesting story considering the extreme nature of a storm with snow at this time of year. Doesn't matter where it is. If it bothers you so much, don't read.

Because if it's not about Spider, it's not news.

Heavy snow in late April is news, Spider.

Especially since it was just 82 degrees one week ago!!

good one spider, can't stop the smile's .

this is old new's every year its the same ...maybe everyone forgot this area use to be under a mile of snow and ice

spider, someone ought to kick you in the face for trying to be a smart ass.

Spider-This Western New Yorker takes offense at your comment. Get over yourself. Thank you Normalperson. Good response

Think of it this way Spider. If you have friends or family in that area isn't it better to be informed in case you don't hear from them for a while.
I have friends in that area and under normal weather, I might hear from them once a week or so. But with weather like this, when the power and heat are out, I would make a point of checking in with them and make sure they are okay. I may not be able to do much to help, but you never know. And it's better than not knowing at all.

That said, I hope all are okay and power is restored soon.

it's not just the NE, we are feeling the wrath down in FL today as well. It's after 3:00pm and it's still 68F outside, that doesn't even take the wind chill factor into account. Almost as bad as that day we got a frost back in January.

Spider, I totally agree with you! The rest of the country can experience floods, tornadoes, fires, earthquakes and whatever else nature can dish out and the media does not bother. A few snow flurries in the northeast and it is a national disaster!

Keep your pants on new englanders and east coasters - the snow will melt within 2 days and you then will have to gripe about the warm weather!!!!!!!

Anne, Get your panties out of your crack!!! The media is always there when Mother Nature unleashes her fury, whether it is dust storms hitting Phoenix, Earthquakes on the west coast, Floods in the midwest, or tornadoes hitting Alabama, Joplin, MO or any other place. Just because you are not interested in the weather in other parts of the country does not mean that other people are not interested. Some of us travel for a living and like to be kept informed of the weather...and some people have relatives in the affected area so we are interested in what is happening. Crawl back into your little cave and don't come back out until Spring!!!

Unusual weather, yes, unheard of, no.

My parents have pictures of me on Easter Sunday in the late 60s on Long Island, outside, in shorts, standing in the middle of a shoveled walkway with snow piled high on either side and the landscape covered in a deep snow.

Barbara:

I shared your sentiment, it got a little chilly here but thankfully, no snow! I did wonder what affect this will have on the early blooms and trees sprouting leaves?

Best regards to our northern neighbors!

Could we make that about 10 months !!!

This is not even close to being extreme weather. It's April-it snows in April. We've had blizzards in Northeastern Ohio in April. Get a grip on reality, pal.

Snowstorms in April is NOT Extreme weather. Maybe in Florida it would be. But not in the Northeast.

Wow, anyone who disagrees with global warming, has there head and the sand and believes the world is flat.

It once was global cooling we had to watch out for, then it was global warming and then it is just climate change to fit the agenda. When will you all grow up and stop being just blind party hacks and address real problems.

Reefs are getting killed by fertilizer and phosphate mining and it won't be fixed because idiots blame it on global warming, while reefs only ninety miles away are thriving and that country uses no fertilizer. Go figure!

Please refer to your "Enviromental Whacko Manual" Page 242, Paragraph 4.. "...When colder weather is encountered, this should be refered to as "Climate Change"...

Keep that narrow mind in the sand. It will help maintain your state of denial.

This is nothing completely unusual it has been seen before and it happens every now and then through the ages and would not be considered extreme weather besides it is fresh water and is actually a good sign against drought. Even though it may not be "global warming" we still need to consider the environment and the rate that humans have been depleting it.

So, if my head was out of the sand and I believed global cooling when I was younger and then I was still enlightened when I was older and believe global warming and then we had record cold winters, they changed it to climate change and when weather miraculously remains about the same for a while, it will be man-made global climate stagnation.

When I believe all of this, will I be as enlightened as you?

When it snows in June, then it's "global warming". Snow in April is just nothing to get all excited about. It's perfectly normal for anyone who lives in the NorthEast.

About 15-16yrs ago, we had a major blizzard in NewEngland on April 1st. The April Fools storm dumped about 2-1/2ft of the stuff on the ground.

10" of snow is just nothing to worked up over.

For the global warming folks out there, do a little reading. Do an internet search for "eocene period" it will open your eyes to the truth about our worlds' climate history.

Then come back here and lets debate "global warming", OK?

Not good for the global warming folks.

One could make book on just such an assinine statement being posted in response to this story.

For the global warming folks out there, do a little reading. Do an internet search for "eocene period" it will open your eyes to the truth about our worlds' climate history.

Then come back here and lets debate "global warming", OK?

Anywho - how about you familiarize yourself with the concept of cause and effect. You might also want to acquaint your self with the correct geological terminology regarding the Eocene, which was an "Epoch", not a "Period".

Nobody denies the Eocene Epoch was largely much warmer than the climate today. Scientists offer multiple theories as to why.

The question today is why is our climate warming in the here and now?

Nothing happens without a cause, and with the Suns brightness largely stable over the last half-century you and others who believe nothing man-related is involved in the warming of the global climate, have yet to offer a counter theory to explain it.

Instead you triumphantly point to the Eocene Epoch, or the Carboniferous Period and say, "See it was warmer then, too!", an argument logically equivalent to explaining a bullet riddled corpse by saying your aunt Martha died of a heart attack back in 1969.

News Flash: We're not living in the Eocene Epoch. Whatever global changes which caused a warming trend over this stretch of millions of years, they cannot be said to be occurring over the last 50 years. The sun is not growing brighter. The configuration of the Earths continents have not changed. With a few exceptions, the same flora and fauna are present today, as were in 1962.

The ball is in your court, anywho ....slowly rolling beyond baseline.

it actually makes perfect sense to global warming people. As ice melts in the poles it is evaporated into the atmosphere where it is driven southward then condenses and snows.

"News Flash: We're not living in the Eocene Epoch."

No, we are not living in the Eocene Epoch, but maybe we are headed that way again, maybe we are not the sole cause of the current climate changes happening today. Who is to say that the temperatures of the Eocene Epoch are NOT the normal climate for this planet? And the climate as we know it today, is actually the end of a cooler period, or the final stages of the last ice age. Humans were not around during the Eocene Epoch burning fossil fuel in mass quantities to cause the warm climate of that period. There was a HUGE global event that threw the world into the last ice age, scientists are continuing to search for the answers of what that event was. They have many different theories, and possibilities of what could have happened, some even have evidence of their theories, while others have evidence to explain their theory and contradict the others.

Also, even if America stops burning fossil fuel tomorrow, that does not mean the rest of the world is going to follow suit.

Here's a theory for you. The Sun is the great engine that powers the weather on this planet. This year we are having somewhat extreme weather phenomena. This year we are also having somewhat extreme solar flares. Hmmm. What might that mean? This could certainly explain this years weather. I know this doesn't explain the whole crazy warming/cooling climate change thing, but you can bet the Sun plays a major part in creating those extremes. I don't often hear scientists mention any word about the Suns effect on climate change. They only seem to like talking about how humans are changing the climate. Maybe a reader here can point me in the right direction for information on the Suns effect on climate change.

No, we are not living in the Eocene Epoch, but maybe we are headed that way again, maybe we are not the sole cause of the current climate changes happening today.

Again, with fading expectations, I'll ask, what is driving the warming of our climate TODAY?

The Eocene was geological age which lasted million years. During that time many climate-affecting changes may have occurred, such as changes in the sun brightness, shifting of the earths continents,or the uplifting of mountain ranges, such as the Himalayas. Which of these factors was most at work, I do not know. I do believe that it was not the result of some mysterious and hidden global thermostat being turned a couple of clicks clockwise.

I challenge you to find any such factor today, which are shifting with such speed and magnitude as to drive the warming of the Earth's climate over the past 50 to 100 years. The Sun did warm slightly in the decades following the 1820s, but in the years since it has shifted both up and down. Since 1950, the trend has been downward (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090719195200.htm), and while the suns radiance does vary on an an 11 year cycle, the peaks of these cycles were slightly lower in 2000, than in 1980 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variation)

There was a HUGE global event that threw the world into the last ice age, scientists are continuing to search for the answers of what that event was.

Many factors relatively difficult to trace or prove today may have been at work. Scientists may differ over which cause or causes were at work. BUT, I know of no creditable scientific authority claiming that, "hey, it just happened. Go figure?".

Do you?

So Again, what event is occurring today?

If something of this magnitude is occurring, it should be measurable.

Or is God simply turning up some mystical thermostat?

Cause and effect: The Earth is not getting warmer without some, measurable cause. If it is not human activity (for the 4th time), what is it?

Well, I read about the Eocene Epoch and have returned to the Global Warming debate. Have you taken the time to refresh you understanding of the concepts of cause and effect.

I'm still awaiting your explanation as to what is happening TODAY, not thousands or millions of years ago. To point to past events as an explanation of current phenomenon without drawing some evidential link is not logically supportable. That was the point of my metaphor regarding your Aunt Martha.

guitarjock - The suns radiance, which is connected to sunspot activity, does vary on an approximate cycle of 11 years. We are approaching a solar peak. However, unless the peaks of these cycles are growing higher over time, there can be no link to decades-long changes in our global climate.

I do agree that incidental variances in weather, be it a particularly mild winter, or very cool winter, mean little in terms of determining if the climate is changing. But measurements over time, along with anecdotal evidence, such as the gradual clearing of ice in the Arctic Ocean does strongly indicate that something is happening.

@dman-353357: Excellent/liked/+1 !!!

@dman-353357

The cause (of climate change) is because the earth is probably returning to what MAY be its normal temperatures. EFFECT the ice fields and polar caps are melting causing less global cooling. Less ice = less cooling, less cooling = gained heat, gained heat = ice melting faster, less ice melting faster = faster gained heat, so yes, the less ice we have to cool the earth, the faster it's going to heat up, to answer your last 50-100 year warming trend. Also add in the affect that the ice is/was reflecting some of the solar radiant heat, with less ice to reflect the radiant heat it factors into the heat gain of the earth as well.

This article might also interest you, if you have not seen it already.

"'Gaia' scientist James Lovelock: I was 'alarmist' about climate change" Lets see if i can get the link posted.

worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/23/11144098-gaia-scientist-james-lovelock-i-was-alarmist-about-climate-change?lite

The cause (of climate change) is because the earth is probably returning to what MAY be its normal temperatures

Anywho, you are dodging the issue. There is no normal, average global temperature. The Earth's climate is not like a pendulum swinging in ever decreasing arcs, around some base or "normal" temperature. The average has always been and will always be a function of how much radiance is received by the sun, combined with how much heat is retained and how this warmth is distributed by the oceans of the world.

At times in the Earth's past the climate has been markedly warmer. At other times it has been cooler. But in all cases there must always be a direct cause for the prevailing norm, or average temperature.

Just like your house over the course of the year, there is no unvarying, "normal temperature" prevailing in the world. If the house is unheated and lacks air conditioning, its normal temperature will approximate the ambient temperature of the surrounding environment. In January this may be below freezing. In July it may be over 90. If you turn on your heat, or air conditioning the internal temperature will move to what we term a normal room temperature. But this does not happen automatically; it would be nice if it did.

So, if the global climate is growing warmer, there has to be an absolute cause. Either the sun's radiance is increasing, or the earth is retaining more of the heat energy received. You cannot just theorize that the temperature is returning to some mystical norm. Such a thing just does not and cannot exist.

Also add in the affect that the ice is/was reflecting some of the solar radiant heat, with less ice to reflect the radiant heat it factors into the heat gain of the earth as well.

The effect you cite is real, but it what is known as a secondary, reinforcing factor. The ice did not start melting of itself. It reacted to warming temperatures. The diminished ice cover may increase the Earth's ability to absorb and retain heat, but the melting ice can never be the original cause.

There are other reinforcing factors, such as the amount of water vapor in the air. Water vapor too is a greenhouse gas, and the amount in our air is increasing. But this too, is a secondary, reinforcing factor. At any temperature level, the atmosphere will only hold so much water vapor. Any additional amount will condense and precipitate out. If the temperature rises, so too does the amount of moisture the air can contain as vapor. If it falls, so too does the air's capacity to hold water as vapor. This is why weather men speak of the dew point on the evening forecast.

So to cite melting ice, or some unexplained tendency of the Earth's climate to return to a"norm", is to circle around the question. Something is always causing a rise or fall in the Earth's average temperature.

Thus, the question remains, why, in today's world is the earth growing warmer?

I did read the article regarding James Lovelock's alarmist predictions regarding global warming. I too decry such exaggerations. But the admitted excesses of "experts" like James Lovelock do not mean that global warming is not occurring, or that there will not be adverse impacts.

Finally, at this point, you will either see the sense of my arguments or not. I cannot better explain my reasons for believing in man-influenced climate change. You have listened and responded politely, for which I thank you

breakstuff81

Not good for the global warming folks.

Yeah, it snowed in the Northeast of the U.S.A. -- so that just has to mean that it's cold enough to snow everywhere. Yeah, and the Pope admitted that the Catholic Church is 100% responsible for the deliberate terrorism and torture of pregnant girls. Don't know what I'm talking about? Then look up "Magdalen Laundries".

Global Warming means that the whole planet is warming -- not just one little part of it. GLOBAL Average Temperature, GLOBAL Warming. It is as evident as the nose on your face.

Climate change, real and natural to the state of our planet. We are but a blip on the radar in the geological timeline.

Anthropomorphic climate change, a theory that man profoundly affected the current weather. This has been discussed ad nauseum by climatologists with thousands of scientists showing contrary findings. Ergo, theory disproved IMO. These alarmists are much akin to the ones that were certain in the 1970s we were heading towards another ice age.

That being said, do I want dirty air/water for my prodigeny? No friggin way! I just think the religion of anthropomorphic global warming is a farce. Ask Al Gore how the weather is at his beach-front property in California.

LiarsInPolictics, In the interests of intellectual honesty, I'll ask you the same question I have asked Anywho, other than human activity, what factor or factor is causing the current rise in the average global temperatures?

The sun is measurably brighter than it was 50 years ago. The oceans currents, the elevation of mountain ranges, the configuration of continents have not changed since 1962.

What has changed?

The sun is measurably brighter than it was 50 years ago.

I, of course, meant to write "The sun is not measurably brighter than it was 50 years ago".

Average global temps have not had a sharp rise (.6 degrees Celcius in the last 100 years). There was also a decline during several decades in that time period (mid 1900s, mid 1940s and 1970s)

I don't claim to have all the answers. Solar flare/sunspot activity?

40 years ago scientists proclaimed we were heading for another ice age.

Climate change is the natural order of our planet. How else would you explain tropical plant fossils in Greenland or Antarctica?

Intellectual honesty is not coming from those who would skew recorded data to suit their own adgenda. (see East Anglia's Climate Research Unit)

I don't claim to have all the answers. Solar flare/sunspot activity?

LiarsInPoltics - Actually, you do not give any answers to the obvious question. Solar flare/sunspot activity is tied directly to the amount of radiance emitted by the sun. It does vary over an 11 year cycle, but as I have stated before these cycles are not rising. The most recent peaks, are not higher than the peaks from 30 or 40 years ago. In fact, since 1950, the trend, though slight, is downward.

Yet in that time, the average surface temperature has risen by approximately 1 degree Fahrenheit, which is a significant, if not sharp increase. (http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/recenttc.html).

WHY?

The upward variations you cite from the 1940s, through the 1970s, are miniscule by comparison see graph at link supplied above).

Climate change is the natural order of our planet. How else would you explain tropical plant fossils in Greenland or Antarctica?

Again, this logically equivalent to explaining a specific, suspicious death by saying, "Everybody dies, it happens.". It is lucky the police do not investigate murders with this mind set; nobody would ever be prosecuted. Whatever conditions allowed tropical rain forests to flourish in Antarctica in some past time period, we cannot say such conditions are prevailing today.

Intellectual honesty is not coming from those who would skew recorded data to suit their own adgenda. (see East Anglia's Climate Research Unit)

Whatever the deficiencies in intellectual honesty, professional jealousies and other failings of a group of scientists in East Anglia, a region of England, most would have trouble finding on the map, they do not change the fact that the Earth has grown significantly warmer in the last 40 years.

I'll ask again, WHY?

BTW: What you would term a "sharp rise (6 degrees Celsius)," would constitute approximately twice the difference between the Earth's average temperature during the last Ice Age and today (http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html) I think we can take note of lesser changes without considering ourselves alarmists.

I'll ask again. The question is simple, and inescapable. The earth is growing warmer over the last 40 years, WHY?

@ dman-353357 "You have listened and responded politely, for which I thank you."

I have to say the same of your comments. Goes to show not all debates have to get ugly like they so often do, especially on public comment boards like this one.

At this time, i dont know of anyone that can without a doubt answer WHY our climate is changing. I wont sit here and try to convince anyone that it's not changing. In my opinion, i don't think it's all to blame on human activity, but i also believe that we could be compounding the speed of which it's happening.

Fair enough, Anywho. Well said.

Not really. Snow melts and replenishes the fresh water supply. It doesn't typically destroy homes or kill many people. I'll take it over drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, or earthquakes any day.

I live in PA, and I like living here....I'll gladly take an April snowstorm over a hurricane or earthquake. I have a cousin who lives in CA, and she'd rather have the earthquake than the snow. To each their own! :)

Now a days you are given so much warning for Hurricanes that it's really your fault if you die as a direct result of a named storm. Unless of course you live in New Orleans because then it's everyone's fault besides your own... So to those of us in FL hurricanes are just a way of life and you deal with them, and once every 3-5 years you may be temporarily inconvenienced; I'd rather have a slight chance I have to clean up after a storm than the guaranty that you have to shovel snow every year. CA can keep the earthquakes because the idea of the ground moving bothers me.

Been prepping ever since Rita came through and we were without power for 28 days. It sucked then but I sleep better at night now knowing that we can handle just about anything as long as we live through it. Food, shelter, water and alternative power make a big difference since you are not one of the last minute shoppers fighting over bottled water.

And apparently it's so bad it even makes your comments appear in the wrong article.

Since when is West Virginia, western NY, and western PA considered the east coast??????????

NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN. All this is "Lil" gw bush-league's and that dick, Cheney's fault. If Romney gets elected it will be his fault. Republicans are the embodiment of BLAME!!!

Mike, you are a MORON!!!!

I am surprised he got 5 other people to agree with this brand of BS.

Are you really that dense that you don't recognize the sarcasm ?

Vote Republican and Global Warming will be what it is...a scam!

Really? Just what is it the Dems are gonna do to prevent the "end of the North & South poles"? Idiot.

"Climate Change" is a natural process that has occurred multiple times over the eons. Man may be able to cause a small hitch in the process, but nothing we can do is capable of derailing the evolution of our planet. It is only the arrogance of the left that says otherwise. It is not within our purview to control the environment, but it is well within our capabilities to adapt to the challenges our changing climate presents to us.

One wonders what the reaction of the modern-day left would be if they were around during the climate change that resulted in the retreat of the glaciers? Or the retreat of the primal ocean that created the habitable areas of the southwestern US? There is solid evidence that areas of the Arctic were once temperate and much of the continential US was downright tropical. Hint: There were no SUV's around then.

Excellent post Larry, but unfortunately, those who believe in global warming don't want to deal with facts.

So what policies will the Democrats come up with that provide an alternative energy source for the planets 7+ billion people? It is global warming after all not US warming. I'll save you the hassle of making something up. None. Here's an 'Inconvenient Truth' for you. There is no energy source capable of supplying the energy needs of humans let alone when the population hits 8 billion or 9 billion. No politician, no political party, no country has the political pull to put in place the only thing that can stave off humanities need for more energy. Fewer people.

LOL!!! The dems couldnt stop anything except fiscal responsibility...

Excellent post Larry!!! Its obvious that Hannah-2721721 bought good ole Al's book and also has the DVD set to play every time she turns on the TV, she must also keep the book on the toilet tank for bathroom reading material.

As i posted in reply to an earlier statement, if they want to educate them selves about the world's climate history, just do an internet search for "eocene period" and read some of the articles that are from reputable institutions (not our Govt).

One wonders what the reaction of the modern-day left would be if they were around during the climate change that resulted in the retreat of the glaciers?

Well, Larry, if there were a natural explanation for the change, I would certainly accept it. But in the here and now, as opposed during some past geological age, I've yet to here a logical explanation at to what other factor, besides human activity, may be affecting our climate.

How about it? Instead of talking about past geological events, occurring over thousands or even millions of years, and for which scientists at least theorize about the cause, give me your theory as to why the global climate is markedly warmer over the last 50 years, while the suns radiance has remained cyclical, but stable?

What have you got to say?

Did God just turn up the thermostat?

....hmmmm?

Skup- "There is no energy source capable of supplying the energy needs of humans let alone when the population hits 8 billion or 9 billion."

Your statement could not be further from the truth. Solar, Biomass, Geothermal, Ocean & wave, and Hydro all have an ANNUAL production potential that far exceeds current global energy consumption. The potential for hydro is the smallest of these with solar being the highest. Biomass and geothermal individually have a potential to supply enough power to cover demand even if the earth's population were to be 8-10 times greater than it is currently. Wind potential per year is at least ten times greater than geo and biomass combined and the amount of solar irradiation that reaches the earth in one calender year is at least twenty times the amount of potentia, of the TOTAL potential in existence on earth, of coal, oil, gas, and uranium combined. See the link below (the second slide with the color coded box graph)

No link allowed ? Try this.

W W W DOT greenpeace DOT org/international/Global/international/publications/climate/2010/SolarGeneration2010.pdf

People....people...

Lets keep science just science and not involve politics of Dempublicans or Repcrats.

Dante - excellent idea.

The only reason why this storm has been a story at all is because up to now, April has been much more summerlike than normal which is cold, still snowing on and off, and a couple of decent days here and there. Not golf weather with dry fairways.

Well, headhunter, in Buffalo, NY, they are talking about as much as 16 inches of snow, which would be an all time record for April. That, together with the damage expected makes this storm news worthy, even if we had had a normally cold winter.

dman, You can tell it like it is but the deniers will always go back to fox for more brainwashing.

I think I understand people's resistance. To admit that as an apparently inescapable by-product of how we live, we are altering the planet's climate, with unforeseeable consequences, is alarming. It scares me, and I enjoy driving as much as the next man; for 4 years I had a Honda S2000 as a second car, and I loved driving it. I got married. The car is now gone. Cost of love, I guess.

But I do not think we can escape the conclusion that rising levels of greenhouse gasses are causing an accelerating warming of our climate, that human activity is the primary agent in this effect, and that the consequences of this warming are unlikely to all be positive.

It is scary. But other than avoiding a general panic, I see no benefit to denying what is manifestly happening.

You meant MAJOR GOP NUT CASE! Nugent is the poster idiot for the Conservative right wing NUT! He got himself on a Secret Service watch list because of his racism. Nugent is a piece of right wing CRAP!

We are idiots? You are calling a once every 25 year cold event global warming and we are the idiots. Grow up child, your little bit of knowledge that was spoon fed to you is embarrassing.

Do not expect a narrow minded, pea-brained Conservative to ever understand science. That understanding might impinge on their selfish, wasteful, lifestyle! It's easier to just consume and burn without thought to the effects on the environment. Republicans are the embodiment of ignorance!

Please explain liberal brilliance.

They claim reefs are dying from global warming, yet Cuba's reefs are flourishing. Please explain to us pea-minded people how that happens.

I am with You Jimmy, you have won me over! I have a few fresh ideas:

1. Let's practice what we preach! No more using that evil petroleum and the stuff made from it. This does mean you will have to toss your plastic encased computer away, but that is fine since you should not be using that nasty electricity to surf the net any-hoo.

2. Let's quit breathing for a day to reduce personal CO2 emissions.. You can go first and let me know how it works out.

3. Please sell your house and car, they are made up off all kinds of plastic stuff, as well as refined metals (it takes energy to smelt and forge steel ya know) and probably tons of wood (tree killer!!!). I suggest a mud hut for you, hand dug of course, with a nice sod roof so you can scrub a little more CO2. Be sure and get a sheep to mow your lawn.

These are just a few steps..I got plenty more good ideas that I want to force onto you. Of course, I will not be doing any of this myself because we both know it is what you say that matters, not what you actually do.

2. Let's quit breathing for a day to reduce personal CO2 emissions..

You first, I'll watch. And since I'm a registered republican, don't be surprised when me, and your wallet are gone when you wake up. As a consolation prize, I'll spend the rest of your life telling what to think, and how obviously dense you are if you dare to disagree with me.

Sorry Dave, I called dibs on going first on the breath holding thing. As far as your wallet goes, I will be sure and give what ever is in it to the United Nations, after all that is where good global warmers want our money to go anyway.

As for as spending rest of your life telling me what to think... aren't you already doing that?

the beev---water here is very expensive -both the bottled and tap water. yes we have our share of problems but with the sun shining almost everyday and so much free entertainment- such as whale and dolphin watching- we find much to enjoy. weather rarely stands in the way of doing what you want to do.

Your definition of google is incorrect. The number 10 raised to the power googol, written out as the numeral 1 followed by 10¹⁰⁰ zeros which is still not what you claim. Try googleing it next time

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Things like heavy rainfall in some places, droughts in other places, may be symptoms of warming; the evidence for global warming itself is in the actual temperature record ... 2010 - tied global high temperature record set in 2005 (NOAA data); 2011 - warmest La Nina year on record; ocean heat content measured between 0 and 2,000 meters steadily rising (NOAA/NODC data).

All true but you had some fierce sandstorms not too long ago.

What's your recommended donation amount, so I know what to write it out for.....how about I just make it blank?