Just when ya thought that====>

[Mugwump]

..summer was getting closer...sleet and snow approach again.....blah..

[BallAquatics]

Not a cloud in the sky and 81^oF over our way.....

Dennis

[ilroost]

They are calling for rain Thursday thru Monday here

[Mugwump]

Not a cloud in the sky and 81^oF over our way.....

Dennis

They are calling for rain Thursday thru Monday here

Alright you two...rub it in...LOL...but.. maybe looks like it'll head your way too 

[Frank The Plumber]

Not nice at all. Purple means carnage.

[Mugwump]

It's rumblin' and boom'n here big time....just lovely..

[Barb]

Fires out west, snowstorms in May in the central US, what the heck is going on??
Barb

[BallAquatics]

Fires out west, snowstorms in May in the central US, what the heck is going on??

Climate change.....

Dennis

[Mugwump]

Good old 'TED'...I like to go through the archives and watch the older ones too...superb Org....my brother belongs to it.

[BillT]

Climate change.....

As this guy says climate change is simple. The atmospheric weather system is a heat engine and there is more heat going into it due to increased amounts of CO₂ and methane in the atmosphere. Our current weird weather is a current result.

In the long run, it will get hotter and hotter. Each year has more and more record hot days but no record cold ones. I wonder why?

Politicians and lobbyists are working to obscure the obviousness of this situation for the sake of their greedy, overly wealthy donors. This situation has corrupted our basically wonderful political system and to me represents the work of the devil.

This is the greatest threat to civilization.

[BallAquatics]

Yes, it's really a sad state of affairs Bill.  I've noticed when the subject comes up, many people simply deny that our actions could possibly be affecting the entire planet.  It's hard to imagine what life will be like for our grand children 50 years from now or our great grand kids in a hundred years.

Dennis

[BillT]

I've noticed when the subject comes up, many people simply deny that our actions could possibly be affecting the entire planet.

This is often attributed to the apparent immensity of the atmosphere.

However I have read that if the molecules in the atmosphere were packed at the same density as water, it would only be 30 feet deep.
Some scenarios predict sea level rises greater than that (melting of above sea level ice caps, expansion of water due to heating, etc.).

[Mugwump]

Some of newer accounts are leaning towards a cycle cool down...that doesn't help with the scenario either. It just further confuses the whole issue. Who do you believe?..Do we err on the side of caution?.....this is best, regardless, because if don't do something, we've lost even more time in correcting it.

[LizStreithorst]

I believe that it is overall warming of the earth, that the overall warming causes weird weather patterns, and it is because of us.  Every action has an equal reaction.  Sometimes it happens over many years.  Nothing is without consequence.  All I know is that I live in Southeast Mississippi and it will drop to the 30s tonight, and that we are into MAY.  I don't like it one bit.  I had windows open.  Now I have the heat on.  This sucks.

[Frank The Plumber]

Mice.

I personally conducted an experiment upon mice that spells out what exactly will happen to us.

I placed a male and a female mouse within a 20 gallon aquarium. I set a feed quantity to support 6 adult mice as a maximum feed allotment for this scenario. I also chose to allow water for 6 adult mice. I carefully measured the amount of waste that 6 adult mice might make and allowed to remove that amount daily from the environment. This scenario creates a closed environmental system, Earth.

The mice of course reproduce and in a rather short amount of time you have exceeded the capacity of 6 which keeps them ideally. At a population of 12 adults mayhem has not yet ensued. The system is over taxed yet has not broken down yet and by all accounts almost seems sustainable. It is not. We are at 15 adult mice on Earth with the human population right now.

At 12 mice plus offspring there is a general sharing as things are not desperate and mice have an order to their society. Times are tough and the mice are lean yet they continue to populate.

At 18 adult mice territories are being established. Resources are being guarded and there is a lot of tension. Young mice are being killed my opposing groups if they are not noticed.

At 24 mice there is a break down of society. The groups are obvious and there is a skirmish line. Fights over resources are common. The entire environment is breaking down, sores are showing up on some of the mice. Disease is starting to become more common. Heavy antibiotics are administered to keep the project safe. Infants are commonly stolen and cannibalized.

At 36 mice there are 2 obvious clans and 3 or 4 that would arise at any chance. Fighting is constant. Infant mortality is extremely high, the size of the mice has decreased by more than half yet incredibly the females give birth at a younger age. Only one female from each clan gives birth and only one male is in control from each clan.

At 48 mice many of the subserviant mice rarely do get food. These individuals are attacked and cannibalized by all of the factions and their bodies fought over as a resource. At this point fully 90% of the mice in the society are emaciated. The alpha mice still are in some form of shape and generally only they can truly fight any longer. They continue to reproduce but the total population now grows only very slowly due to the constant cannibalization.

Eventually the alphas turn upon their own members and destroy them and devour them. The alphas war against each other so constantly that they will now kill each other only to have any form of advantage. It is as if they realize that they can not survive if any other mouse is alive. It is total carnage. A total population crash ocurrs. It will be amazing if any survive. During this time the numbers dwindle to the pint that the daily removal of wastes for 6 mice does eventually recover the environment. If a male and female mouse do exist we repeat his process again exactly.

The repetition is the sad part, we feel sorry for the mice as they are just stupid little animals with small brains. Yes, the mice are so much dumber than we.........and yet here we are.....at 15 in a tank designed for 6.