All right, who the frak canceled spring?!?

[thatcrazycajun]

Today suddenly got freezing cold and windy, after weeks of springtime temps. And tonight's weather forecast actually calls for snow flurries. Yes, snow. In April. In Georgia!! Fercryinoutloud, baseball season just opened last weekend!

I realize this may just be winter's last gasp, but really now. Global "warming," my skinny goose-bumped Cajun ass!

Comments

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's cold here, too. Forecast lows for tonight will be in the 30s. I thought we were over winter.

[wolfette]

They call it "climate change" now.

[zsero.livejournal.com]

So you're finally coming around :-)

Seriously, I wish there were global warming going on, because the world could very much do with being a degree or two warmer than it was in the 1990s. Back to the Medieval Warm Period, please. Unfortunately for the past decade we've been headed in the other direction; the earth has cooled, and is now about as warm as it was in the 1950s.

Whether we're still cooling, or have started warming again, is of course impossible to tell until later. But the most obvious cause for both the warming of the '80s and '90s and the cooling of the '00s is solar activity. The sun was very active over the previous two decades, but it's been at a low since about 2000. Sunspots have practically disappeared. There always used to be sunspots; at least for small values of "always". The last time they disappeared was in the Little Ice Age.

Looks like Fallen Angels may have been right.

[wolfette]

I remember back in the 70s "expert opinion" said that we would be in an ice age by now.

We're not. It's generally been getting warmer and wetter - which doesn't mean hot and sunny - in the last 10 years than it was for the rest of my life. We used to get lots of snow, every winter, now a few inches is so unusual it disrupts the whole country.

Call it global warming, call it climate change - something is changing.

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Climate always changes. Why would you expect it to stand still? But in the past 10 years it has been getting slightly cooler, not slightly warmer.

What you're observing is the growing urban heat islands. Those are good things, but they've got nothing to do with global climate. They're purely local effects.

[wolfette]

dunno where you've been living, but I'm sure all those missing glaciers didn't think it was getting cooler. And the Arctic ice. Oh yeah, and the Antarctic ice shelves. If the world has been getting cooler in the last ten years, why is all the ice melting and less snow falling in the mountains (not cities).

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Some glaciers are retreating. Others are growing. Arctic ice has been shrinking; in most of Antarctica it's been growing. One thing to keep in mind is that ice layers that big take a long time to melt; they're still recovering from the Little Ice Age.

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

One of the impacts of global warming is more extreme weather. More out-of-season temperatures, change of location of the jet stream, the Gulf Stream and so on, including bigger storms, rain that does not move across the country as fast as it had previously, and even more. It's not just consistent warmer temps.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

"Last weekend"? Does that mean "yesterday", or "eight days ago" -- because the latter is true of MLB's opening.

As wolfette says, it's now called "climate change", because what it really is, is demoderation of climate, with higher highs and lower lows as a result of human interference in the ecosphere. So hotter hots, but also more extreme and longer colds, too.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

All I know is the Braves had their season-opening game this past weekend at Philadelphia, so as far as we Atlantans are concerned, baseball season began three days ago, regardless of what happened elsewhere in MLB-land a few days prior. (Their home opener comes this Friday against Washington at Turner Field.)

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Um, no. The Braves' season opened yesterday (Sunday) with a victoryover the Phillies. Trust me, it was not three days ago.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

You are right and I are confuzzled. I sit corrected.

[dsthomas.livejournal.com]

Blame it on the snow!

[kayshapero]

"Global Warming" is shorthand for "more energy in the system" which tends to lead to wild swings in both directions. There are also those who theorize that our addition of heat to the environment over the years is why the next Ice Age hasn't started up yet. But if you think this is interesting, some warming up in the wrong place could turn off or redirect the Gulf Stream and at a minimum freeze a lot of Europe. Or we could finally get that next Ice Age referred to in the second sentence...

One thing's for sure - if we do decided to grab hold of the thermostat, we're going to be in for a very long haul because we will not be able to stop thereafter.

[crystalgee.livejournal.com]

Yow.. stay warm!

The cool front hit us here too!

Btw will you send your phone number to me to my email addy? crystalgee at yahoo dot com.

Chad and I are going to be in Atlanta for a con this weekend. Are you anywhere near the Midtown Vortex?

[sffilk.livejournal.com]

Well, getting up this morning, it was 35F outside. Considering that the low Sunday was in the 50's and the high was in the mid-70's,

Not DINA!

[dsthomas.livejournal.com]

I had to go back outside to RE-cover the rabbit hutches that I'd just uncovered last week! Sadly, I'd tossed the stuff because it only lasts thru one season. Time to bring out the tarps! Now there is snow 4 inches deep on my hutches and thankfully the babies are furred enough they MAY make it. Just six outside, but still... I'd hate to lose any. Momma is coughing too. Not good!