Welcome To Spring

bitzerguy · Post by **bitzerguy** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:09 am

Wow! Joey, fantastic shot! The artistry on this forum is... is... WOW!

Count me in on the posters as well, Paul. I have a new music room underway that will need some serious art for the walls.

...Dean

jps · Post by **jps** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:51 am

That's not fair Joey, it is at least always Spring in So Cal. Show us your Winter shots!

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:19 pm

Thanks guys!

Jeffrey here's a couple of winter pics:
Driving up the Bronx River Parkway in a snowstorm (good thing I had a Blazer 4x4).

Looking across Yonkers Ave. during another snow storm:

I know what winter is like. I don't mind the cold, it's commuting to work in the snow, scraping the ice off the car and digging out of snowed in parking spots that I hate!

jps · Post by **jps** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:42 am

I recall that in 1990 you could actually have a snowball fight in Malibu. Anybody remember that ?

rumbush · Post by **rumbush** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:30 am

It snowed in Malibu in January of this year IIRC.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:50 am

...As did it in the Bay area. Global cooling, I suppose.

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:14 am

Heh, i'd rather describe it as a "global weather switch". We had something that reminded more of a "global warming" here instead of winter... there was literally no snow (well, apart from about a short period of snowing in November) until mid-January! And now, in mid-March it's above +10C and getting warmer and warmer...

winston · Post by **winston** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:24 am

So who do you believe? It can be quite confusing when the evidence for both sides of the global warming argument is so compelling.

This side of the argument gets very little press.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=440049&in_page_id=1965

35012 · Post by **35012** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:40 am

The reason it gets so little press is because the media knows that a crisis will sell news, and would rather sell the public the least "pretty" side of the story (unless it is a crisis that has already happened, although those are usually forgotten when the next celebrity scandal or pregnancy happens.)

35012 · Post by **35012** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:12 pm

That's what we really need to hear on the news! More celebrities to keep us blissfully unaware of crises, or lack thereof.

jimk · Post by **jimk** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:22 pm

So who do you believe? It can be quite confusing when the evidence for both sides of the global warming argument is so compelling.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about it. Yellowstone Park is sitting on a potentially devastating volcano more powerful than Mt. Penatubo; there are volcanoes set to blow from California to Alaska, the New Madrid Fault located in SW Missouri is very unstable, not to mention San Andreas. If any or all of these should happen in the same century, global warming is going to be the least of humanity's worries.

And me? Well, I'm saving up my pennies for a Ric. (Ric content. I just looked at my bank account and I've got 10% Yay!)

JimK

jps · Post by **jps** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:59 pm

Yeah, at the moment I have no interest in visiting Yellowstone NP as it is time for the super volcano to blow it's wad. Last time was about 800,000 years ago and blew half of Wyoming into Idaho!