unfortunately no one is making the policy makers waitch this movie. it is largely preaching to the converted. realist or pessimist,the both still bleed.
From: robert and benita rabello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [Biofuel] Weird Weather
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:07:44 -0800
Hello everyone!
I talked my sweetheart into renting "An Inconvenient Truth" over the weekend. She finds it hard to sit through all of the science, but my boys were pretty interested throughout the film. We've had a very strange year, weather-wise, in this area. Back in January, we had the wettest month on record. It came in the middle of a long, rainy but mild winter that blended into an early spring, bringing warm temperatures. Our garden got a real kick-start from the mild temperatures in March and April.
This summer ended up being the driest on record. We went for WEEKS without rain. (When I first came to BC to visit my sweetheart back in 1989, it rained at least once, every day during the summer.) Local creeks were so shallow I saw dead adult salmon stranded on the shore. Autumn came with a vengeance though, bringing high winds and heavy rain that saturated the ground. A couple of weeks ago, the remnants of a typhoon slammed into the west coast, bringing 800 mm of rainfall within a 24 hour period, just over the ridgeline from where we live. We've had serious flooding, property damage and drowning deaths in our area.
Over the past couple of days, however, a mass of outflowing arctic air has dropped the temperatures precipitously. The wet ground crusted into ice. A frontal system from the Gulf of Alaska brought about 15 cm of very wet snow that fell on the ice and made driving so treacherous, the municipality actually closed the two roads that lead uphill to our neighborhood. (These have since been re-opened.) We've not seen the snowplow because the crews are so busy trying to keep the major routes clear. In the meantime, people are struggling to get their machines uphill, and several have simply parked on the sides of the roads and walked home. (What a unique concept!)
Our Toyota has traction control, which I've learned makes the car utterly useless once the wheels start spinning. It's not bad on compact snow, but anything deeper than the bottom of its rims renders the vehicle immobile pretty quickly. In order to get my sweetheart to work this morning, I had to chip ice away from the front wheels and pour warm water around them to melt the ice underneath.
What this kind of weather pattern illustrates is that the balance of temperatures and precipitation is changing. We've set several records for rain, heat, drought and snowfall in a single year. The overheated atmosphere is releasing its energy with increasing ferocity, and unless we take SERIOUS action soon, I think we're going to be in for a very wild ride in the near future.robert luis rabello "The Edge of Justice" Adventure for Your Mind http://www.newadventure.ca Ranger Supercharger Project Page http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/
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