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Post by Gojitron on Apr 18, 2018 11:51:08 GMT -5
Spring. It's this thing we had when I was a kid. The weather would get warmer, but not too warm. You could go outside without a jacket. Plants would get green, flowers would start blooming, you could hear the birds sing.
I miss Spring.
#globalwarmingisoverrated
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Post by machsabre on Apr 18, 2018 13:40:24 GMT -5
It's kinda nice outside right now here in West Pittsburgh... But yeah, this snow shit in mid April is bullshitterino.
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Post by SporkBot on Apr 18, 2018 14:33:48 GMT -5
I remember when the weirdest weather I saw was years back, and it snowed on the first day of Spring.
Just this past Sunday, I chiseled my Mom's car free of it's encasement in ice so she could get to church (I even recorded some of it for a gag on my Wear Ice Cream Challenge video in "YouTube Shenanigans"). Then I shoveled about half the driveway...half because it more sleet than anything else, and a pain the ass. The only other car in the drive is the hunk-o-junk I drive, and I had nowhere to go.
Then Monday, it straight-up snowed overnight, so shoveled the whole drive. Went for a walk this morning and THREE houses I passed had built snowmen.
And these grey skies are not making thing better.
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Post by iacon45 on Apr 18, 2018 15:01:31 GMT -5
Plenty of Spring down South. Warm temperatures between 65-80 degrees, sunny skies, oh and also 11 confirmed Tornadoes here in the state last Friday (but thankfully no fatalities). You all are welcome to some if you would share some snow (which my area saw NONE!).
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Post by Greatshot on Apr 18, 2018 21:33:38 GMT -5
You make it sound like no snow is a bad thing.
Fuck snow, fuck winter, fuck climate change, I'm with Goji.
And you know we're going right from this bullshit straight into 90+ and as muggy as Swamp Thing's crotch.
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Post by machsabre on Apr 18, 2018 22:11:37 GMT -5
I've come to just simply accept that Earth is dying.
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Post by Greatshot on Apr 18, 2018 22:41:36 GMT -5
Nah, the Earth'll be fine, at least for another billion years or so til the Sun heats up enough to start boiling off water. This is but a momentary blip of course correction, climatewise, looking at the geological evidence. It's more akin to its immune system dealing with a nasty virus that's been plaguing it for a few thousand years.
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Post by machsabre on Apr 18, 2018 23:13:41 GMT -5
Okay yeah, that's hyperbole. There's not a whole hell of a lot we can do to the planet that would kill it in the long run, short of global thermonuclear war. But we are pretty much fucking it up a bit.
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Post by chysgoda on Apr 19, 2018 8:22:35 GMT -5
So whom ever it was that decided to use the term "Global Warming" is someone whom I wish the Curse Of A Thousand Lost Sneezes upon. Technically it's true, the average GLOBAL temperature is rising, which is why they only get a petty curse and not a drop kick. However that term is really hard for people to swallow when it's snowing in June in their local area when they don't usually get snow. As amusing as it is to watch the local politicians fret because the effects of climate change in my area mean that the ski resorts are not having the best luck in the world, and then go on very long winded rants about how climate change is a hoax. the amusement isn't really enough to keep me from breaking out the damnit doll.
*gets off soap box and goes back to stressing final projects*
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Post by Greatshot on Apr 19, 2018 21:32:50 GMT -5
While I really don't want to be to find out, and now i'm on MY soap box, I don't think even a full on nuclear war would have THAT much impact, long term (talking long term in the geological timescales, obviously. What's 20,000 years? ). I've always been morbidly fascinated by the subject and I've done a lot of reading about it -- almost everywhere there's been nuclear disaster, there's still *thriving* ecosystems. There's wildlife around Chernobyl in surprising numbers, including canines that in no way should be surviving in the numbers they are unless they've somehow begun adapting to the radiation (Yeah, it's a subspecies entirely of Dogmeats!), and even in Bikini Atoll, which was *literally* nuked off the fucking map, there's corals and fish - corals in higher numbers and in healthier colonies than many places in a rapidly warming Pacific, and growing right in Bravo crater. In other words, Dr. Malcolm was right. Life.. finds a way. So yeah, we'd have a few millennia of global winter, most likely similar to the K-T extinction event that ended the era of the dinosaur, but I think once the dust settled, the hardier species that survived would just keep trucking right along. ....and this is why we can never stay on topic
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