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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
High tide hits as Olympia rally calls attention to climate change
2013-01-17
[BELLINGHAMHERALD] Freezing weather with light snow flurries greeted about 200 climate activists gathered on the steps of the state Capitol noon Monday to demand the state Legislature get serious about climate change.

The climate rally unfolded four hours after the highest predicted tide of 2013 in Budd Inlet. Climate activists draw attention to the winter high tides, calling them a precursor of a future shoreline under siege from sea-level rise.

The irony of Monday's cold weather compared to a global climate that is heating due to a carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere was not lost on the crowd, or some of the speakers.

"Climate and weather are two different things," Olympia-area environmentalist Paul Pickett was quick to remind the bundled-up crowd. Climate is long term and weather is what happens daily, he said.

Urgency embroidered with anger and despair permeated the so-called Climate Crisis Rally timed to the first day of the 2013 legislative session.

Urgency because the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continue to build: Roughly two-thirds of the carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere the past 100 years is still there. The rest is in the ocean, Pickett said.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just reported that 2012 was Earth's hottest year on record. Further, the latest draft report on United States climate change effects paints a picture of increased droughts, coastal erosion, sea-level rise, weird weather, melting glaciers and intense wildfires.
Posted by:Fred

#7  Remember, the US is only 1.58% of the global surface. Sooo, lets take on the task of cooling the entire planet with 54 mpg autos, ethanol, ect. Go ahead the American taxpayer can do it, and you'll feeeel better too.
Posted by: Whavising Splat3355   2013-01-17 13:25  

#6  "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just reported that 2012 was Earth's hottest year on record."

Not true. The NOAA said that it was the hottest year in the U.S., not the hottest for the planet.

Even to get it to be the hottest in the U.S required that the agency revise prior years temperatures downward.
Posted by: DoDo   2013-01-17 10:51  

#5  Damn, "Climate Change" (aka Gerbil Worming) alters celestial gravity!!!!!!

Did Einstein know this? Which of his theories of Space Time deal with this? Is this the Goreacal theory of Relativity??

What's next? Global Warming causes earthquakes?


ooops, my bad.
Posted by: AlanC   2013-01-17 09:20  

#4  That explains the freezing weather we've been having in the Seattle area lately.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2013-01-17 08:00  

#3  Yesterday, the weather forecaster said most models how 'this', but only one model showed 'that'. Today all the models show 'that' - snow in DC.

Interesting that we have six or eight models for tomorrow's weather, but - as far as I know - only one model for climate change.
Posted by: Bobby   2013-01-17 07:04  

#2  Too much exposure to Alar.
Posted by: Shipman   2013-01-17 05:15  

#1  Compare wid PRAVDA.RU > MANKIND WILL NEED THREE MORE EARTHS [reserve resource planets] TO PRESERVE CURRENT CONSUMPTION.

Year 2023 is the deadline, + exclusive of "fracking".

AND

* SAME > CLIMATE CHANGE TO CREATE EPIC SURFING CONDITIONS.

Iff old Dreams/Visions once again hold true - YUUUPPP.

D *** NGED BEACH BLANKET GLOBALIST GIDGET BIKINI KIDS!

[Shaking OWG Solyent Apple Fritter angrily].

As they surf, I look deep D-E-E-P into the Water Blue for "signs".
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-01-17 01:10  

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