Goodbye Snow, Goodbye Ice, Hello Steam.

[danbaron]

[font=courier new][size=8pt]Happy news to brighten your day! ;)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100728/sc_yblog_upshot/noaa-past-decade-warmest-on-record

[kryton9]

Don't forget thought that last winter was brutal, with places that usually don't get snow getting some. My friend Josh is up in Washington State for a few months for work and he sent picture from last weekends trip to Mt. Ranier National Park and there was still snow from last Winter season on the mountain.

I'm more worried about a giant Solar Storm that will knock out modern electronics and some sort of super volcano or super massive series of quakes.

Did you catch last night's Coast to Coast? I really liked that physicist that was on with John Hutchison, Dr. Bob Koontz. It was nice to hear a real scientist looking at the actual world and mysteries in front of him with a free and clear mind looking at all these cool things instead of being up and snobby from his ivory tower.

What I always wanted was to get a glimpse of the truth around us, but it seems that truth is going to be more astounding and hard to wrap our heads around.

I think I will be like the Captain on Star Trek Voyager, when she said, all this time travel stuff, it gives me a headache. I think the reality of what is going on is going on is going to cause our heads to hurt till we can come to terms with reality of what is beyond what we see and know.

[danbaron]

[font=courier new][size=8pt]I hear people on the radio say all the time, "We've recently had more snow than ever before, how can there be global warming?". But, in my opinion, the comment doesn't make any sense. Global warming means that the average atmospheric temperature is increasing (probably, also the average ocean temperature). As it does so, ocean water evaporates at a faster rate. The result is that there is more water in the air. That water comes back to Earth, in the form of precipitation, either rain or snow. For any air temperature lower than 32 degrees Fahrenheit, the precipitation will be in the form of snow. So, I think, greater snowfall in the winter, can be an indicator of global warming. You might want to ask Josh what the average temperature was in Washington State during the winter for the years, 2000-2009, and compare it to the average temperature in Washington State during the winter for the years, 1990-1999. My guess is that the 2000-2009 temperature is greater. If global warming continues, then, I would expect that sometime in the future, there will be no snow in Washington State, including on the mountain tops, all of the precipitation will be rain. That's what I meant by, "Goodbye snow, goodbye ice, hello steam". Maybe I should have put, "Goodbye snow, goodbye ice, hello rain, hello steam". Anyway, initially, global warming would cause (on average), more rain in the summer and more snow in the winter, and later it would cause more rain in the summer, and the increased winter snow, would become rain.

I heard the beginning of the show with Koontz and Hutchison, then I had to go to bed. I also liked the way Koontz talked like a normal person.

Some of the scientists who come on, I don't like. For instance, Michio Kaku. To me, he thinks he's a great man. I think he only comes on when he has a book to sell, and he always has to tell the story about how Edward Teller tried to recruit him to work on the hydrogen bomb.

Tonight's show:

For centuries there have been reports across London of strange beasts, misty apparitions and phantom assailants. In the first half of the show, Neil Arnold takes us on a supernatural safari of this concrete jungle.

The weird journey continues in the 2nd half with author Deena West Budd discussing goblins, dragons, vampires, and other weird creatures of the night.