What's with all this extreme weather we keep getting? They said global warming would cause more extreme weather but we all know that's bs.
We get a couple of weird days like this almost every year, or every other year around this same time, but often earlier. Not always so close to the century mark, but a few years back we hit 101 at the airport............. the coldest place to record the local temperature. Living at the same location for 56 years, I don't recall anything that even slightly makes me think "climate change"
These days, if weather isn't "average", it becomes big news. (doom and gloom)
Any unusual occurrences or unusual temperatures are instantly blamed on global climate change by the people making money on climate change. .ike, duhh!
Personally, I think "normal" should be based on a minimum of 200 or 600 year cycles instead of decades. Decades mean absolutely nothing in realistic measurements of true "climate change" We can't go back 600 years because they didn't have the precise digital monitoring that we have now. How do you really compare today's monitoring accuracy with the methods of 600 years ago?
In the 70's they warned global cooling.............. then the 80's and 90's it converted to global warming ............then in the past 20 years, to cover all the bases, because of no real warming, it was converted to "climate change" If the weather is different tomorrow, it's because of my van.
Oregon had a record breaker in 1919.............. the Columbia river froze in Portland. This is one
huge river. That same year, a nearby town got 40 inches of snow in 24 hours. This is Oregon....... we don't get that kind of weather.
Where I live, here on the coast, we got 24 inches of snow in 1969, and 20 years later in 1989 we got down to 9 degrees and had 11 inches of snow in about 10 hours, then it stayed below freezing for a week and a half.
I recall in the 70's it stayed below freezing for a week and a half and a local 40 foot wide river froze solid enough that we walked a couple hundred feet upstream to a low waterfall that froze so much, it looked looked like portholes across the river where the river dropped and couldn't freeze. It was strange looking into those frozen bubble looking "port-holes", seeing the moving water and the air bubbles running under our feet, and yet the river was frozen above and below these short falls.
If the climate is changing....................... do we really want other events like these?
Here on the Oregon coast, we get average lows of 30 to 45 degrees in December and January and highs will range into the upper 30's to upper 40's.
9 degrees in the winter here is as crazy as 100 degrees in mid spring.
We do get extremes once in a while, but I have seen nothing locally that alarms, or even slightly concerns me in all of my years of living here.
Been a while, so I think we are due for another unusual cold one, ............one of these years.
Traditionally, if it gets a little more hot and dry than "usual" for 2 or 10 years, we just figured that we were going through a drought period.
Today, tho............... it's big news and the "we're all gonna die" crap makes a lot of people billions of dollars. Without hysteria, they don't have a job. I mean, why would they not continue to promote hysteria?
Global warming is a money maker. Follow the money created by hysteria. Real scientists and meteorologists can't make a buck................. because they do science, and the reports that they make are proof, not theory. Science is exact, theories are................... theories.
Unfortunately, theory sells like beer and pretzels.
My theory?
We don't have 200,000 years of electronic digital data to accurately record or compare the past to present. We base a few decades of fairly accurate digital and satellite data, and then
attempt to "interpret" the previous 160,000 years using tree rings which upon to base an accurate reading of the climate trend.
...and even then, we interpret any perceived changes occurred, as man caused.
Picture this. The earth is about 4.4 billion years old.
In a miniscule 100 years, mankind's evil behavior has set the earth on a downward death spiral that will cause the oceans to rise 3 feet in 30 to 100 years. ..............um .........I don't get that.
(Don't get me wrong, I'm not against a clean environment)
If in 56 years, in the same location, I can't see even a slight "unusuality" in Oregon's climate. I probably never will.
Maybe I live "under the dome" as a test culture.
I'm rambling............ I do that sometimes. (often)
