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An Inconvenient Idiot

Feb 28, 2015 3:56AM PST

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I almost believe in Evolution now....
Feb 28, 2015 3:58AM PST

....because God's certainly making a monkey out of Al, LOL!

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Response
Feb 28, 2015 5:47AM PST
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I guess you
Feb 28, 2015 9:15PM PST

weren't around for last year's winter and this one was already predicted to be twice as bad and it has been.....it's not just a one month winter here and it's not over until April at least. I don't know what you have for 'normal' winters to compare it with. We had several years of pretty mild winters and knew, from common sense alone, that that wasn't going to last.....scientists are always 'self-correcting' and find reasons to continue to blame other reasons when they are wrong. Just look at how many reversals they've made regarding the foods we eat and what they believed were bad for our health, and decisions to to globally do away with DDT and the effect that had on the malaria and other issues in other countries. A good majority of those 'scientists' still touting global warming/climate change as man-made are people who have made money (think 'research funding' funneling) in order to give the results others want in order to keep getting those funds. And people like Al Gore, et al who have made billions/millions off a specific agenda....all while living as if pollution doesn't pertain to them personally and continue their own lifestyles that are opposite to what they preach.

Believe whatever you want, and you will, but we had catastrophic weather changes since the birth of the earth and they never had anything to do with man because we weren't here yet...but your shyster scientists have refused to recognize or even acknowledge that when faced with hard questioning from others who disagree with their side.

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RE: I guess you weren't around for last year's winter
Feb 28, 2015 10:51PM PST

Right you are...I was born yesterday.

Believe whatever you want, and you will, but we had catastrophic weather changes since the birth of the earth and they never had anything to do with man because we weren't here yet

And that proves that man has NO affect on the environment/climate?

You've had "catastrophic weather changes" before and you've got it again...this time it's worse because man has his hand on the throttle.

it's not just a one month winter here and it's not over until April at least.

It's the first of March...the snow level in my yard...way north of where you are...has dropped 5" in the last 2 days.

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And you have definitive proof of this?
Feb 28, 2015 11:48PM PST

>>this time it's worse because man has his hand on the throttle.>>

Because other scientific evidence has shown that temps/weather/snowfall/sea levels/ice situations have barely, if at all, changed over time....weather comes and goes in spurts as a natural scheme and that's been proven as a fact.

So your snow level has dropped in two days....so has mine....what is your point? The sun comes out and melts some of it.....that's nature, not because man breathed warm air and caused it to melt.

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RE: So your snow level has dropped in two days....
Mar 1, 2015 3:28AM PST

So your snow level has dropped in two days....so has mine....what is your point?

That response was MY rebuttal to YOUR statement

it's not over until April at least.

It's not over til "April at least", but it's melting in Feb. So it's starting to be over.

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Snow will melt and come back
Mar 1, 2015 5:44AM PST

as a natural process during an entire winter season....my winter season doesn't actually end until at least the middle of April with February and March 'normally' being the worst months for large snowfall activity.

Your nonsensical statement is your usual troll activity.....with no point to any of it.

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RE: my winter season doesn't actually end until
Mar 1, 2015 5:59AM PST
my winter season doesn't actually end until at least the middle of April

I'll bet you don't even have a pair of snowshoes in your closet...YOU don't know what "winter" is. I could spill a drink with ice cubes on the highway and cars would be spinning out of control down there.

here's some good news for you then


APRIL 2015: temperature 53° (1° above avg.); precipitation 2.5" (1" below avg.); Apr 1-5: Showers, then sunny, cool; Apr 6-8: Sunny north, heavy rain south; Apr 9-11: Sunny, warm; Apr 12-17: Rainy periods, cool north; showers, warm south; Apr 18-25: Sunny north, scattered t-storms south; warm; Apr 26-30: Scattered showers, cool.

Annual Weather Summary: November 2014 to October 2015

Winter will be colder and slightly wetter than normal, with above-normal snowfall. The coldest periods will be in late December and early and mid-January. The snowiest periods will be in mid- and late December, mid-January, and early to mid-February.

April and May will be warmer and generally drier than normal.

Summer will be hotter and drier than normal, despite a tropical storm threat in early to mid-August. The hottest periods will occur in early June, mid- to late July, and early to mid-August.
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This is from your Poor Richard's almanac?
Mar 1, 2015 6:34AM PST

And for what area? Yours or mine? Because it's already wrong if is for mine for November thru February.

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RE: And for what area?
Mar 1, 2015 11:36AM PST

Yours, of course...How would it be " good news for you" if it was for my area?

2015 Long-Range Weather Forecast for Richmond, Virginia

YOUR "winter season doesn't actually end until at least the middle of April"

According to this document the last/only time Virginia had a major "storm" IN APRIL was April 11, 1956: A severe nor'easter gave gale winds (40 mph +) and unusually high tides to the Tidewater Virginia area. At Norfolk, the strongest gust was 70 mph. The strong northeast winds blew for almost 30 hours and pushed up the tide which reached 4.6 feet above normal in Hampton Roads. Thousands of homes were flooded by the wind-driven high water and damages were large. Two ships were driven aground. Water front fires were fanned by the high winds and, the flooded streets made access to fire fighters very difficult and it added to the losses.

Notice no mention of "snow or extreme cold" in this April storm.....that's how I describe "winter".......... snow or extreme cold.

Roanoke Winter Statistics
Average Snowfall = 22.9 inches
Greatest Snow = 22.2 inches in Jan. 1996
Snowiest Month = 41.2 inches in Jan. 1966
Coldest Temperature = -11F in Jan. 1985

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Your stats are way off
Mar 1, 2015 7:12PM PST

for MY area.....both of the cities you cited are 250-400 miles away from me, and both are fairly 'level'. I'm in a mountain as well and the Christmas I moved here in 1989, there was already about three feet of snow on the ground (it was the same storm that hit Cleveland the day before I left there).....in March of 1991, we were hit with nearly four feet in a day and a half and lost power for almost a week. November of 1989 and again in January/February of 1994 or 1995, we had severe ice storms that ripped nearly every limb/branch off a 100 year old willow tree next to my house and power was out again for nearly a week across the area.

Bad winter snow storms are few in April, but that isn't the only 'winter' type environment that constitutes 'winter'.....April is an unpredictable month, and for that reason, I consider it a 'winter' month. I've had heavy frosts that have wiped out an entire garden as late as May 22 here and our normal last frost date is around the 10th.

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Another article that proves my point
Mar 1, 2015 6:47AM PST