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#158777 - 04/20/06 08:30 PM
Re: Climate Change in California
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PsycoJoe
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Registered: 12/11/01
Posts: 1795
Loc: Michigan
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Urmm...you are aware that Winter is just now over and things are starting to warm up? 
Seriously, I have reason to believe that the world is entering a warming period. A natural warming period. It wasn't that long ago, geologically speaking, that this planet left a 'global winter' (also called an 'ice age'). These things last tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years. It gets cold globally, not just in the neighborhood. Now 'winter' is over and 'summer' is on the way. Man-made global warming is a boojum, a will-o-whisp. It's what ecologists threaten their children with if they don't eat their organically grown veggies.
Really, it's only been about 10-15,000 years since the last ice age, and it lasted longer than that. What did they think would happen when the glaciers receded? Do temperatures remain below freezing after the snows of winter melt?
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#158779 - 04/21/06 05:32 PM
Re: Climate Change in California
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Phil Fiord
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Registered: 06/11/01
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#158780 - 04/24/06 02:47 AM
Re: Climate Change in California
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Wallis
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Registered: 03/05/02
Posts: 1754
Loc: Philippines
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If I were more of a devotee to the sciences, I might have kept yearly records. "Everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it," Mark Twain. Folks both here in the PI and back in Korea have always sung a version of the same tune: "It seems hotter (colder) this year, doesn't it?"
Before my friend passed away, we speculated on the possibilities of why the Korean climate seemed much milder, if not warmer. Most of us can be reminded of how cold it was during the Korean War through books, movies, and the popular M*A*S*H program. In the 20 years or so of my own personal experience in Korea, I really never experienced much cold. Yes, a few days of "bitterness," but nothing close to the stories (and they may be exaggerated) of winters past.
Not to disparage any other theories, my friend and I sought to intellectually (vice scientifically) envision any changes in the environment that could impact the weather. And so, I will present our "musings," if you will, and allow the community to pick them apart.
In the last nearly 60 years since the Korean War, Korea has steadily been building. Farm land has been greatly sacrificed to build cities of apartment buildings. Roads criss-cross everywhere, and they become wider and wider. Apart from the natural growth of human industry and the emissions generated with air conditioners and furnaces, the very earth has been transformed from soil and rock to concrete and asphalt. If earth and soil and rock are poor reflectors as well as poor absorbers of heat, and given the contrary that asphalt and concrete are great absorbers of heat and reflectors, we ponder whether the transformation of the earth itself has somehow lent to altering the weather patterns that affect Korea (in conjunction with other world changes, of course). It is interesting to note that while N. Korea often has terrible weather that would normally affect S. Korea as well, S. Korea appears to be less affected. Vis-a-vis the transformation S. Korea landscape as opposed to the lack of development in the North, it does lend some interest to the possibility, eh wot?
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