Oh baby, it's cold out

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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,463
    edited January 2015
    BlueFox wrote: »
    tonyb wrote: »
    So that means that 1895 was the second hottest year on record, right ? You don't see a problem with that ?

    I see a problem with your assumption. All it means is that 1895 was when record keeping was started. It could be the coldest year on record, but is probably somewhere in the middle.

    Through it's history, the Earth has been MUCH hotter, and MUCH colder than the record will ever show. At least twice in it's history, the earth has been completely covered in ice, and many times, the poles have been completely ice free. And all of this happened before mankind was even a thought.

    Mankind has been only smart enough in the past couple hundred years or so to record and observe these phenomena, so to assume that in such a short period of time that we somehow fully understand the way our planet behaves as a sole entity or how it interacts within our solar system is absurd. Even a slight shift in the tilt 1/100th of a degree of our axis, or a large solar flare can have a dramatic effect on our climate. The Earthquakes in Japan and Indonesia both resulted in an ever so slight axis shift, and slowed our rotation by measurable degrees.

    We have yet to get a clue.

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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    We DID have a MEGA hot summer this year, for sure. I was missing that pool.
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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,066
    I would rather sweat than freeze any day.
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  • polkfarmboy
    polkfarmboy Posts: 5,703
    My Boxster never touches those salty roads and there was that little accident I had last year. As it is I went to start it and the battery is dead and its a new one I just put in after the other died after last years frozen winter.
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  • Msabot1
    Msabot1 Posts: 2,098
    You know how I measure cold?? It's when you spit,and it freezes before it hits the ground....
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,328
    kevhed72 wrote: »
    I would rather sweat than freeze any day.

    Not me, I would rather bundle up....there's only so much close I can shed and that's not a pretty site :(

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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,463
    polkfarmboy wrote: »
    My Boxster never touches those salty roads and there was that little accident I had last year. As it is I went to start it and the battery is dead and its a new one I just put in after the other died after last years frozen winter.

    Any pictures of you licking that light post at -20 below?
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,783
    I mowed the lawn (moss) today....
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  • [Deleted User]
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    Glad I live in Cleveland. 77 today. B)
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,008
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    [ The Earthquakes in Japan and Indonesia both resulted in an ever so slight axis shift, and slowed our rotation by measurable degrees.

    Actually John, that's a good point. Since everyone wants to claim the high ground using science, please do so. What happens when the earths rotation slows ? How does the planet maintain it's magnetic field and why is it even important ? Answer those questions first, with science, then connect the dots.

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  • voltz
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    "Dang it Spock what are you are saying? I'm afraid Captain, This planet is tearing its self apart!
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,671
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    polkfarmboy wrote: »
    My Boxster never touches those salty roads and there was that little accident I had last year. As it is I went to start it and the battery is dead and its a new one I just put in after the other died after last years frozen winter.

    Any pictures of you licking that light post at -20 below?
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  • cristo
    cristo Posts: 231
    5F two days ago, 9F this am, and will be about the same tomorrow am.
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    74 right now in SW FL.... a bit chilly.... Wind Chill is at like 70.... Tomorrow back in the 80's.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,463
    65 and rainy in the SFV...
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,671
    4 degrees here now. Brrrrrrr WAITz7xujp6xs4vm.jpg
    i got a fire going in the snow :smile:
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    I will be glad when I move to the Eastern Shore in a few years. Hopefully, it will still be getting cold. I am sitting here in Silicon Valley burning up from the heat generated by my Pass amps. I thought these would be great in the winter, but I feel like turning on the AC. The thermostat says it is 77 in the hall, and the thermometer on the rack says 83. If I open the windows I suspect my neighbors will call the police. :)

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    No thanks. I have been burnt once by stereo warming. :)

    I love the irony of having to use the AC in the winter.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited January 2015
    You guys $(%*#)((*& me off! I just went through 200+ gallons of heating oil in three weeks! And even at $2.45 or so a gallon that's still like paying RENT on a house I own ($650+ a month?)! RIGHT!
    God I hate OIL and having to use it to heat! When I first moved up here my total heating bill for the year was $1425 and that was only 14-15 years ago? And that includes heating water all year long. Damn, I'm cheap!

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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,132
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    It got up to 27 today so after the packer game took the dogs out it was snowing again spose to get back in the teens and negative temps this week so 27 was the brief warm up. They are looking for their ball.

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    Had to get Chico the Wifes Chihuahua to help find it. Max the stationery Rotweiler is the one responsible for the yellow snow. Yep 27 is the warmest its been in a week.

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