Global Warming & Nh ?? (Hill: how much, job transfer, living)

[countrylv22]

Hello everyone!

For those of you that believe in GLOBAL WARMING and that have lived in NH for several years. How have you seen Global WARMING affect the state? With the weather, animals, vegetation, etc. Please give as many details as possible.
Thank you so much!
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[woodchuck]

Being the weather is so unpredictable in New England we probably would be the last to know if Global Warming is real or not. We moved to southern NH due to a job transfer from the midwest in 1984. I was glad to get away from the hot, muggy summers to a more moderate summer climate. The second week after we settled in there was nine straight days the temperatures went over 100 degrees. In the years since we have had summers where the summer temps never climbed over 88 degrees. Several winters ago we had two consecutive years that the snow fall reached some 100 inches. During other winters it snowed as little as 12 inches total. Keep in mind that different geographical areas within the State experience different weather patterns. Naturally, the mountains will get more snow than the coast. Because of the effects of the ocean the coast is cooler in the summer than the inland areas. It's true to say that New England has a history of climate changes, it happens every year.

[rockyhillgal]

I haven't lived in NH long enough to have a long term perspective. However, I have recently been to two presentations by scientists and others who have been tracking warming and who have recorded climate change in this state. Check out the link "indicators of climate change in New England" on the following web page for concrete information. http://carbonchallenge.sr.unh.edu/

[countrylv22]

HELLO WOODCHUCK!

Thanks for the reply!
Temperatures over 100! WOW! That must have really hit you hard having just arrived !
It sounds like the weather seems to be all over the place!
I wonder if that is the way it was 50 years ago, or is it just in the last 20 to 30 years where things have changed dramatically?
Thanks a million!
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[swampyankee]

Originally Posted by woodchuck

Being the weather is so unpredictable in New England we probably would be the last to know if Global Warming is real or not...

Global warming is an absolute, scientific fact. The globe is warming. Period.

The questions are: 1) Is 'man' causing it, or is it due to factors that have always been beyond our control. 2) How much devastation, if any, will result.

[countrylv22]

HEllO ROCKYHILLGAL!

Thanks a bunch for the link to the site, I will check it out, and I hope that others will benefit as well!
And maybe if we all pitch in, we can reverse or slow down the damage...
Take care,
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[woodchuck]

Originally Posted by swampyankee

Global warming is an absolute, scientific fact. The globe is warming. Period.

The questions are: 1) Is 'man' causing it, or is it due to factors that have always been beyond our control. 2) How much devastation, if any, will result.

In the politcal spectrum the term "Global Warming" is used by the extreme far-left moonbats in an attempt to alarm and blame the humankind for this warming trend. It's typical of their maligned thought process. This term is slowly fading from popular usage except in their small universe.

The more responsible term for this trend is "Climate Change" because it helps convey that there are changes in addition to rising temperatures such as precipitation levels and wind patterns over an extended period of time.

The Earth's climate has changed many times during the planet's history, with events ranging from ice ages to long periods of warmth. Historically, natural factors such as volcanic eruptions, changes in the Earth's orbit, and the amount of energy released from the Sun have affected the Earth's climate.

While it is easy to put the blame on mankind for this warming trend the jury is still out over who and/or what is responsible for it. Certainly, since the advent of the Industrial Age there has been an increase of fossil fuel usage, deforestation and emissions from man made chemicals. Some scientists will argue that the planet has experienced simular factors due to natural occuring events over the length of its history.

Just recently, NASA scientists have reported evidence of "Climate Change" on the planet Mars. The Martian polar caps are shrinking and the planet's surface is showing a steadily increasing temperature trend. Can this be the result of Earthlings sending space probes to the Red Planet and contaminating its atmosphere too ? I think not.

IMO, what we are experiencing is a natural warming cycle that universally occurs over time with a slight pinch of a human activity thrown in. If it results in extending the length of summer in New Hampshire during my life time, as a motorcycle rider, it can't be a bad thing.

[WIMU]

People look at the short term changes10-30 years and decide that we are having global warming. Thousands of years ago the arctic was tropical and whoever said that glaciers were always present. Somebody decided that because the glaciers are melting that it is bad but they have done so in the past and because the rocket scientists werent around it didn't matter. The sun is in avery volatile stage right now which is contibuting to the increase in temperatures universe wide not just us. We put out a lot less pollutants in our cars today than 20 years ago even though we have more cars. A lot of alarmists out there who have not studued thousands of years but decades.

[looking4home]

We are headed for another Ice Age, so I say let's enjoy the warming while we can! The fact is that a warm earth is much better for man and all other living things than a frigid one. And I imagine that you Easterners that are getting snow on Easter would welcome a little of that g.w. right about now!

[kosnebbear]

Hey I just saw this about global warming. I am from Nebraska so for woodchuck maybe is was the heat God from the midwest just telling you goodbye and good luck.

Global warming is happening, but is man the cause? The sun heats earth and the sun over the years have grown hotter this is also a fact. They also know from deep core drilling in the Artic region to the bottom of the Artic Ocean that at one time many thousands of years ago this ocean was not frozen over and that the water temp was somewhere around 70 degrees. So earth must have been warm back then, only thing is where was man in this event. Did the cave man have coal fired factories and electrical plants? Wonder what kind of SUV's that the cave man drove back then? Global warming has been going on since the beginning of time and cooling off which caused ice ages. Europe had a mini ice age less than 1000 years ago how did this happen? What did they do back then to cause it? There is a lot that we are doing that is causing damage to earth that we can do something about. We can do nothing to stop an event that has taken place in the past and will continue taking place in the future as long a earth does not explode.