We Do Not Tell A Lie

Wherever that tree is, it's taking up space that could be developed.

Call me for an estimate on building your dream house.

I actually saw those trees this morning and thought I was hallucinating!

Thought I saw what looked like a big moving truck in the middle of Crisco Ct.

New tenants perhaps ?

they were moving in furniture for another model home

And I hear it is suppose to be 65 on Saturday??? Personally, the weather can stay like this for the remainder of the winter!

Now this is where global warming would appear to be a good thing. Unfortunately, while we are enjoying this mild weather, up above the Arctic Circle, a chunk of ice the size of 1100 football fields recently broke off its glacier and is floating free. Weather experts up there in Canada said this hasn't happened ever!

My crocuses don't know what to do! I came back from my tour of the Caribbean just in time to witness this freakish weather, and while I do not want the snow and ice that plagues the Mid-West, this mild winter may still have some surprises for us.

Oh well! I think I'll go for a run... outside!

From CNN:

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Crocuses are pushing out of the ground in New Jersey. Ice fishing tournaments in Minnesota are being canceled for lack of ice. And golfers are hitting the links in Chicago in January.

Much of the Midwest and the East Coast are experiencing remarkably warm winter, with temperatures running 10 and 20 degrees higher than normal in many places.

"I'm not complaining. I can take this," said Rudolph Williams, a doorman in New York City who normally wears a hat this time of year but stood outside in 50-degree weather with his shaved head uncovered.

"The Earth is recalibrating itself: Last year, we had a cold winter, and it's balancing itself out now. In January, it feels like the middle of April."

New York City saw a November and December without snow for the first time since 1877. And New Jersey had its warmest December since records started being kept 111 years ago.

Maria Freitas said that not only are crocus bulbs blooming in her Rahway, New Jersey, backyard, but the asparagus is three inches high.

"They think it's spring. They're so confused," she said.

Meteorologists say the warm spell is due to a combination of factors.

El Nino, a cyclical warming trend now under way in the Pacific Ocean, can lead to milder weather, particularly in the Northeast.

The jet stream, the high-altitude air current that works like a barricade to hold back warm Southern air, is running much farther north than usual over the East Coast.

The weather is prone to short-term fluctuations, and forecasters said the mild winter does not necessarily mean global warming is upon us.

In fact, the Plains have been hit by back-to-back blizzards in the past two weeks.

"No cause for alarm. Enjoy it while you have it," said Mike Halpert, head of forecast operations at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center.

Whatever the explanation, Amanda Dickens was enjoying the weather Wednesday at Baltimore's Inner Harbor as she ate lunch outside with her husband and 3-year-old son.

Temperatures there were expected to reach 60 degrees.

At the Marovitz Golf Course in Chicago near Lake Michigan, 30 people teed off between 9 a.m. and noon, when there are usually no golfers at all this time of year.

Leonard Berg, the course's superintendent for maintenance, gestured to the fairways with pride: "Normally this time of year there would be a brown singe to it. Look at that nice emerald green."

At New York's Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the "everblooming" cherry trees are flowering more fully than usual, producing thousands of blooms instead of hundreds.

But the mild weather is also hurting some businesses and events.

In Minnesota, where a water skier in a wetsuit was recently seen on the Mississippi River near St. Paul, ice fishing tournaments have been canceled. The U.S. Pond Hockey Championships -- scheduled for January 19-21 in Minneapolis -- have only a 50-50 chance of being held.

And organizers of the St. Paul Winter Carnival, scheduled to begin late this month, said the ice is not thick enough to harvest into 1,400 blocks for the ice maze.

They may have to switch to plastic blocks.

"It would give the effect, but it's not exactly Minnesota winter," said Mary Huss, a spokeswoman for the event.

In Ohio, Dan Motz said sales for his firewood business in a Cincinnati suburb are down about 25 percent.

In Maryland, buds are appearing on apple and peach trees, raising the prospect of a poor spring crop if a sudden cold snap kills the blossoms. A gradual lowering of temperatures would minimize any damage.

In New Jersey, the Mountain Creek ski resort in Vernon is struggling to open more trails. There haven't been many nights cold enough to make snow.

"We're keeping our fingers crossed that the cold weather will get here soon," resort spokeswoman Shannon McSweeney said.

"Either that, or sending trucks out to Colorado to steal some of their snow."

Enjoy it now. I expect a 30" blizzard in February...

thanks anne, for cutting and pasting that entire goddamn article

I am concerned for flora and fauna. Do you know that bears are waking up after only a week's hibernation (they too will know sleep deprivation!)and the groundhogs! Oh no, one of my animal totems!!

This is not good. Of course, I enjoy the lack of snow and cold; however, I am concerned about the consequences.

Enjoy the weather, I suppose.

This is global warming, people. VERY serious business that will affect our children' lives.

Check out, if you haven't already, "An Inconvenient Truth." Scary. We need to wake UP!

I take responsibility for the last post. I forgot to put my name on it. Apologies.

The movie is being shown for free at the environmental center

Thanks Anne!

I cannot finish out my last semester of college without a few snow days, I count on those.

I'd re-adjust my schedule

I'm hoping for some kind of winter weather so THOSE STARLINGS will finally fly south! Saw the usual thousand or so flying around my neighborhood again yesterday!

Hey Katie - how did you make out today?

I am 55 years old and I cannot remember another winter in my lifetime where there was not a single flake of snow by this time.

Global warming, indeed!

Here's the inconvenient truth about global warming:
some places will be better off because of it (for example, when Jersey winters feel like San Diego or when vast areas of tundra become fertile farmland).

Yes we'll be better off when we're under water thanks to it. And Anne, I'm feeling fine now! Well, for now. You'll read about it at SK!

appletony,
When you consider the over whelming negative effects of climate change the positive effects are not even recognizable.

Mikey, while you consider the effects of climate change (if in fact it is that, I was recently in the Adirondacks and golly, there was loads of snow), perhaps you'll remember to get out of the way of the herds of caribou (and even of elk in north-central PA) as they migrate southwards.

Personally, I don't mind this mild winter one bit. I even have friends from Stowe who've headed down to a family house on LI Sound to revel in this warmish weather. But then, unlike Al Gore, their wardrobes aren't chockful of flannel shirts.

As appletony suggests, the effects of current climatic anomalies -it is in no way conclusively established that this constitutes "global warming" in any true overall sense - can be both positive and negative. But humans have also faced clusters of such anomalies before. As during the Neolithic-early Iron Age period (which saw the erection of both Stonehenge and Callanish, as well as the much older megaliths of Malta) and from around 1000 AD through the 1500's, which spanned the "Age of Discovery" and allowed for both Viking exploration of the New World and subsequent efforts by European powers from more temperate climes.

Yikes...I just bought my kids season passes to Mountain Creek.

I've got a lousy cold & I am CRANKY today!!!!!

I blame global warming and Al Gore. I will kick them both in the groin if I see them. :=(

When you consider the over whelming negative effects of climate change the positive effects are not even recognizable

Uh, were you outside today? The overwhelming negative changes you speak of really have yet to happen. Manhattan is above water. We're using less heating oil from Chavez and Ahmedinejad. It's nice out. I'll leave it to others to embrace imaginary doom while our non-imaginary sworn blood enemies, comprised of totalitarian, misogynistic, homophobic religious zealots that make a Southern Baptist look like Liberace on crack, develop and deploy nuclear weapons.

Latebloomer and Laser,
I challenge you to read 'A State of Fear' by Michael Crichton. Read the whole book and don't make judgements until you're done.

I wonder if people living in Denver feel the same way about global warming.

Start by reading Scientific American. Then move on to Global Warming: The Complete Briefing by John Houghton.

We will not see the dramatic negative effects of global warming for many decades. We have to deal with the problem now before we see the effects of climate change. If we take "wait and see" approach it will be too late.

We live in a species make or break moment. If we don't get on onboard with good sense and reason we will pay the price.

The link between the climate change and human activity is totally unproven speculation at this point, the existence of climate chang is just beginning to be evidenced but it's magnitude is still unknown despite Gore's convenient lies.

I'm afraid the scientific data does not support your supposition.

It's not 'Gores Convenient Lies' Hiding - he simply used a lot of scientific research! So if ya wanna call all that research lies as well as the scientists, go ahead, but at least take a second to think where the information is originating. If you don't trust the scientists then perhaps you can just follow your favorite Holy Book and you and your la la land will be just fine.

Global warming rules!

Stop fussing people, animals and plants will adapt, just like they have for the millions of years before we "inconvientently" had anything to do with global warming and will continue to do so long after we cease to exist.

When I can wear a t-shirt in January outside, then all is OK. Take a look at Denver, does anyone REALLY want that here?

steve

go back- we don't want to be able to wear a t-shirt in January and we don't want you

Dear Hiding,

Love you too!

Love Steve (wondering if I should open the pool already)

I'm sure Yellowstone doesn't want you either.

Our President says there is no Global Warmiing...good enough for me,and my crocus's that are coming up, my PSE&G bill, my daily outside walks, and getting ready to plant my perennials...Thank you Mr President, you have restored my faith.

Apropos for this thread:

Sparks - "Complaints"

Nothing in the world is perfect,
Grin and bear it silently or yell into my ear.
Complaints, it's my department,
Complaints, it's my department,
Everything you wear's too tight and clashes with the
candlelight,
Just give it back, no questions asked.

Nothing in the world is perfect,
Grin and bear it silently or yell into my ear.
Complaints, stereophonic,
Complaints, it's ironic,
How they chatter, how they bore us like some avant- gardish chorus.
Just give it back, no questions asked.

I'll dive off the mezzanine if one more points at crooked seams.
A sign of shoddy workmanship, of Asiatic hands that slipped.
Just give it back, no questions asked.

Nothing in the world is perfect,
Grin and bear it silently or yell into my ear.
Complaints, there's too many hours,
Complaints, the bosses cower.
Two weeks free from all complaining, it was due to our complaining,
Take her to Spain, hear her complain.

Now she says she is expecting,
That's my fault for not protecting
Her from all the risks of passion,
She's complaining, she's old-fashioned.
Just give it back, no questions asked.

Complaints, it's my department,
Complaints, it's my department.

Just for all of you...

"Madam Speaker!"

Dear Steve,

Open the pool- we can use it as a skating rink come February

I note that mikey has above urged all and sundry to read "Scientific American." God is good. And very funny.

Couldn't agree with you more, Cathar. Reading is stupid. Even Laura Bush, who is a librarian, can't be bothered to read the little plaque that reads "Abigail Van Buren" beneath her portrait in the White House. She thinks it says "Anjelica Huston".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIED86zZBxs&eurl=

Leave it to the GOP to ignore pesky things like facts. They get in the way of all their insane, baseless theories about stem cell research ("It's evil...until your husband develops Alzheimer's); global warming ("All these scientists are just alarmists...wait...we're raising the National Security Alert to Code Orange...get out your duct tape, everyone!); and medical diagnoses ("Terry Schiavo looks pretty good to me...in fact, if I'm not mistaken she'll be a frontrunner for the NY Marathon next year. The basis for my diagnosis? Watching a 5 second piece of videotape.")

Let's all go over to Cathar's house and have an old-fashioned book burning session, followed by Jell-O shots and a Jackass marathon.

I'm not sure about the jello shots or the Jackass marathon, but I can't help but feel appletony and cathar have the right idea about this mild weather... enjoy it! Whether it is a result of global warming, or the latest theory that it is the El Nino effect, enjoying the warmer weather is not a sin, or some act of environmental heresy. Laser, get thee out in the sun on Saturday afternoon and revel in 60+ degrees of sunshine. Set up your recycling bins or something. This is a direct order from Big Al himself.

Dear "Reading is for pussies,"

Let us not compare our respective literacies. You'd lose easily. The Jell-O shots, however, sound fine. My frat house or yours?

But you might wish to consider taking that reading comprehension course I've recommended to others. Reading isn't stupid, but alleged readers like yourself often are. Now you go and have a nice, wordy, Democratic kind of day.

No thanks, Cathar, I already read plenty of things, unlike you. That's because zealots of your ilk would never peruse an article written by scientists that cites research regarding inconvenient truths like global warming, the shape of the Earth, evolution, and any other theories that run counter to the GOP's agenda.

Stick to editorials by Rush Limbaugh...I'm sure his stance on stem cell research made lots of sense to you, since you both appear to be taking copious amounts of prescription meds. (The only difference between you bastards is that you probably don't have a staff to score your drugs for you. Awww...I'm actually starting to feel sorry for you, asshole!)

And please, do let's compare our respective literacies. I have a feeling that your Little Lulu comic book collection will pale in comparison to my first editions of Faulkner, Stendahl, James, and Eliot.

And before you get all high and mighty about the literary merits of graphic novels, you should be warned that looking at the pictures doesn't constitute reading.

If it's any comfort, though, I will give you the benefit of the doubt and say that your reading comprehension level is probably higher than the President's. Then again, maybe your mother was better at sounding out the two-syllable words than Barbara Bush was.

Pussy.

yo Cathar, still hiding from the Carbones tough guy ?

Cathar, I am so glad you only represent 15% of the population. And this is why we need laws regulating green house gases.

"I have a feeling that your Little Lulu comic book collection will pale in comparison to my first editions of Faulkner, Stendahl, James, and Eliot. "

Now you just sound like a jackass trying to see who has the biggest penis. Both of you, shut up.

laser,
if you're truly a man of science, then that means you have an open mind about data. Please read "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton. I'm not trying to change your mind, I'm just trying to get u to think outside of your 'box'.

Reding Is for Pussies: I think your tinfoil hat has cut off all the circulation to your brain.

Reading Is for Pussies: I think your tinfoil hat has cut off all the circulation to your brain.

Reading Is for Pussies: I think your tinfoil hat has cut off all the circulation to your brain.

Reading Is for Pussies: I think your tinfoil hat has cut off all the circulation to your brain.