it's 70 degrees in january in NY

[monkey]

anyone else scared?

[Rock]

pretty much the same here in the DC area. I'm not scared but pissed off instead.

[DipDipDive]

anyone else scared?

To the contrary - it's making me really amped up for hurricane season.

[saz]

it's only a matter of time before the proper harsh winter hits, however it is such a relief to not have to shovel mounds and mounds of snow, or to deal with the usual brutal minus twenty to thirty january temperatures, ditto scraping the ice off of your car windows in the bleak morning darkness before the tortuous commute to work. it was plus thirteen yesterday, and now ten today. global warming is scary, but this warm weather is likely due to warm air from the midwest and southwest, that is now over the northeast. regardless, i am loving spring in january.

[jabumbo]

its only in the 50's here, so i'm not worried yet

[ScarySquirrel]

Yeah, I thought it was only 'cause of La Niña or El Niño so I'm not worrying about a damn thing.

[QueenAdrock]

pretty much the same here in the DC area. I'm not scared but pissed off instead.

Me too. But mainly because I'm sick and can't go to the zoo with my friends.

:(

[gorilla]

I'll stay off the band-wagon unless it's like this for all of January.

Don't let that stop you from crying armageddon.

[ms.peachy]

I remember when I was 17, had just gotten my first car, and it was January in New Jersey and I was outside in short sleeves washing it because it was a really warm sunny day. Now, this is twenty years ago. So, no. It might not be 'normal', but it happens.

[drizl]

every year, the global temp gets hotter and hotter. global warming and climate change are very real, and we should be paying very close attention to this and do what we can to make a change.


hurrican season should be pretty serious. its strance how there was that one year with 5 hurricanes slamming florida and the gulf, then the year with powerful katrina, and last year seemed kind of odd in the atlantic at least. in the pacific however, it was a terrible year, one of the worst ever.

its only logical to think that the atlantic and the gulf will be hit hard again sometime soon, especially since one of the things hurricanes do, is release heat from warming oceans and surface temps. so, as many say, as the temp rises, the storms become larger, more powerful.

i guess i am trying to be somewhat of an alarmist here. not many are really taking this seriously. we should all really be considering our futures, where climate change will be leaving us, why its no longer a good idea to live on the coasts, where drought patterns are transforming the environments and forests.....

and most off all, we need to plant trees, and stop using/wasting so much energy. there are natural ways to ease this transition of climate change. theres no way to stop it.

trees take out carbon dioxide in the air, purify air and water, and actually create water in the ground and out soils. when we take out trees, the land heats up, and rainwater is less able to absorb into the earth and recharge groundwater stocks. springs dry up, and desertification sets in. trees are the mothers of the forest, and play a huge role in the regulating of our climates and weather patterns. and as the good man victor schauberger once said:

"This civilization is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without meaning or foundation, which now threatens to destroy him, for through his behavior and his activities, he, who should be her master, has disturbed Nature's inherent unity."

"Every economic death of a people is always preceded by the death of its forests. The forest is the habitat of water and as such the habitat of life processes too, whose quality declines as the organic development of the forest is disturbed. Ultimately, due to a law which functions with awesome constancy, it will slowly but surely come around to our turn. Our accustomed way of thinking in many ways, and perhaps even without exception, is opposed to the true workings of Nature. Our work is the embodiment of our will. The spiritual manifestation of this work is its effect. When such work is carried out correctly, it brings happiness, but when carried out incorrectly, it assuredly brings misery"


this man predicted all that is happening today in the 1800's. too bad the establishment called him crazy and repeatedly tried to destroy him.

[The Notorious LOL]

Yeah, I thought it was only 'cause of La Niña or El Niño so I'm not worrying about a damn thing.


yeah, same actually. Last time there was El Nino we had a pretty unusual winter.

[Dorothy Wood]

it's actually not as warm today as it has been in chicago and I was kinda pissed about my hands being cold. as a person without a car, this above-freezing weather rules. also, my not driving a car is helping the earth and I don't live by a coast. if lake michigan wants to swallow me whole, I'm ready.

[Bob]

it's 67 in boston and i hate it

get cold already, earth, i'm ready for it

[ET]

HURRICAN SEASON 2007:

HOPE WE DONT DIE THIS TIME!