Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for April 09, 2014

It is simple physics. Heat = energy. More heat in the system creates a livelier system. This alters micro-climes all over the world. Some places will even benefit from this in the short term.

But right now, the unusually bitter coffee I’m drinking could well be the result of climate change in Sumatra.

THAT is a disaster.

exo, sit down an take long slow deep breath…The deep freeze Michigan had this winter is an example of global weather change….Alaska had 75 degrees on the same day Kalamazoo had -2…That’s normal?

Funny how so many people with no clue think they know more about global warming then people schooled in this area have learned from years of study. This is the era when everyone it seems is an expert on everything with no research. Unusual weather is a sign of warming whether hot or cold or whatever.

Translation: It’s a sunny spring day, the flowers and trees are blooming and our pale winter skin has no protective pigments,

Exoticdoc2, clear thinking people must agree agree. My grandmother smoked heavily all her life and died at 93 when being hit by a bus while doing her daily shopping. Therefore smoking being in general bad for your health is just more liberal lies.

For those who are too young to remember, in the 60’s the concern was that we might be entering another ice age. In the 70’s, I remember from my geology courses that we were in an inter-glacial period and no one knew which way the climate change was going.

You need someone to tell you in which way the sky is falling.

“Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.”

I’d like to know where Arlo and Janis live. I still had to scrap my windshield this morning. The forsythia isn’t even ready to bloom.

glad Meg,Gene and Mary Lou have been dumped for iPhone,weather and cat gags again.

It’s much easier to believe the global warming thing when being a skeptic would end your pay check.

One clown’s comment and everyone turns into Janis and missed the point. I stepped out on the deck this morning and it IS a gorgeous day!

Just remember , “Any day on the sunny side of the flower bed is a beautiful day”

Ahem, it was the ACA first, until the nay-sayers branded it “Obamacare.” Afterwards, the pro-ACA folks gladly embraced this name. Do keep your chronology straight.

And let us not forget that pollen count and/or UV radiation levels aren’t directly related to anthropogenic global climate change

Forgot:Coral snakesRattle snakes (several kinds)Yellow fliesMosquitoesWater MoccasinsAlligators

Know what you see, not what your’re told…

Wait’ll you turn on the weather, Arlo!

“They” is the problem.

Everybody:Poe’s Law of the Internet:“Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing”.

thebird, in physics heat does not equal energy. It is thermal energy flow. In that usage, it would drive weather events via convection, evaporation, radiation, condensation. Energy by itself would do nothing without gradients.

Night-G, how are you figuring higher UV from whatever we finally decide to call it ?

Just like home!

I was implying that more heat introduced into the system adds more energy. I was trying to keep the statement extremely simple.

Yes, it depends on how well the ozone layer blocks ultraviolet radiation.per the Scientific American article I read, ozone is broken down only under cases of extreme cold allowing ice to form woth chlorine at that elevation. They said the only place that happens on earth is over Antartica during the winter. I don’t see the warming from carbon dioxide increase enhancing the effect, more likely countering it.I could be missing something, so I ask.. By the way, the ozone is formed in the first place by ultraviolet photons breaking oxygen molecules apart to create O3, ozone.It forms where it does because that is the first place into the atmosphere where it CAN form.If it were all gone today, much — if not all — would have reformed tomorrow.