There's Always The Weather

[moi621 (imported)]

Global Warming is upon us.

This is just the false hope, prelude !

From what I read, all members are reporting an early Autumn but, no report from <sniff> Texas.

Cool and gray off the central O.C. coast.

Mission fig dropping leaves without sweetening the fruit. Fuji apples ripe but, tart. Blueberries, lots of blue - no sweetness or berry flesh.

Moi

It must be the ozone

[A-1 (imported)]

Global Warming is upon us.

This is just the false hope, prelude !

From what I read, all members are reporting an early Autumn but, no report from <sniff> Texas.

Cool and gray off the central O.C. coast.

Mission fig dropping leaves without sweetening the fruit. Fuji apples ripe but, tart. Blueberries, lots of blue - no sweetness or berry flesh.

Moi

It must be the ozone

That is because of all of that oil burning and getting all over the Gulf of Mexico.

IT changes the weather... don't ya know?

[Riverwind (imported)]

NO NO NO Tell me its not so,

I really hope man figures it out before we all become extinct. This is not a problem for earth, extinction is the rule not the exception. Earth will once again do what she does best, heal and rebuild bigger and better then the last batch. Time does not matter to earth, if it takes 50 or 100 million years not a problem, whats a 100 million years when your 5 1/2 billion years old?

I am rooting for the ANTS

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

NO NO NO Tell me its not so,

I am rooting for the ANTS

I am in favor of the uncles. --FLO--

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Hooray for the uncles, boo for the Antz. California's heat wave has temporarily left as it has been in the 70's here. Keep up the good work Mother Nature.

[A-1 (imported)]

Oops! Sober up. Of course, Eunuch ism is conducive to extinction... am I preaching to the choir again?

NO NO NO Tell me its not so,

I really hope man figures it out before we all become extinct. This is not a problem for earth, extinction is the rule not the exception. Earth will once again do what she does best, heal and rebuild bigger and better then the last batch. Time does not matter to earth, if it takes 50 or 100 million years not a problem, whats a 100 million years when your 5 1/2 billion years old?

I am rooting for the ANTS

5 Mass Extinctions... (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/p ... 00907.html)

Really ancient history lesson...

Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, about 65 million years ago.

End Triassic extinction, roughly 199 million to 214 million years ago

Permian-Triassic extinction, about 251 million years ago.

Late Devonian extinction, about 364 million years ago.

Ordovician-Silurian extinction, about 439 million years ago.

Pending CURRENT EVENTS... News Flash!

Sixth Extinction... (http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfron ... edge2.html)

There is little doubt left in the minds of professional biologists that Earth is currently faced with a mounting loss of species that threatens to rival the five great mass extinctions of the geological past. As long ago as 1993, Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson estimated that Earth is currently losing something on the order of 30,000 species per year — which breaks down to the even more daunting statistic of some three species per hour. Some biologists have begun to feel that this biodiversity crisis — this “Sixth Extinction” — is even more severe, and more imminent, than Wilson had supposed.

Corollary

About 30,000 species go extinct annually.

Mass extinction comes every 62 million years, UC physicists discover (http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-03-10/n ... et-showers)

The Last one was 65 MILLION years ago.

We are slightly over due.

With surprising and mysterious regularity, life on Earth has flourished and vanished in cycles of mass extinction every 62 million years, say two UC Berkeley scientists who discovered the pattern after a painstaking computer study of fossil records going back for more than 500 million years.

Their findings are certain to generate a renewed burst of speculation among scientists who study the history and evolution of life. Each period of abundant life and each mass extinction has itself covered at least a few million years -- and the trend of biodiversity has been rising steadily ever since the last mass extinction, when dinosaurs and millions of other life forms went extinct about 65 million years ago.

As a species mankind must get ready to die?

[moi621 (imported)]

Hooray for the uncles, boo for the Antz. California's heat wave has temporarily left as it has been in the 70's here. Keep up the good work Mother Nature.

That heat never really made it to the central O.C. coast.

Today feels like the first day of Summer.

The outside thermometer reads, 78.

The inner spaces are under a heat alert.

Ain't that so, MacTheW.

I think River is in the middle of a lake from what I've read of Western Wisconsin.

Moi

There is always, the weather.

[Riverwind (imported)]

The flooding is south of me but it did rain for two days straight which has left everything in several inches of water, mud, and a lot of soggy.

It is supposed to be in the mid to high 70s this weekend which will dry things out a bit.

River

[moi621 (imported)]

Beyond the Autumnal Equinox, we of Southern Coastal California, aka Paradise, have witnessed record breaking HEAT, even the hottest days of the year.

I trust as the heat moves East those soggy regions, Eastward, will experience a dynamite mushroom season.

[gareth19 (imported)]

Beyond the Autumnal Equinox, we of Southern Coastal California, aka Paradise, have witnessed record breaking HEAT, even the hottest days of the year.

I trust as the heat moves East those soggy regions, Eastward, will experience a dynamite mushroom season.

It's a high-pressure area circulating over over Arizona; it will not move east.