California burning to the ground

Keep dreaming. I've been to that portion of the state enough times to know that not only are there clouds of coal, there's also a Pittsburgh specific ground hog named "Artie the Black Lung."
He spreads the joys of inhaling too much coal to the children.

As for children, we can't allow Viktor to succumb to sickness before he becomes the ruler of us all.

 

good news: the fires are coming under control, and most evacuees have returned to their homes.

bad news: the smoke has made Viktor worse. and it's a weekend, so if he doesn't get better tomorrow it's an ER visit for us.

 

The only reason its getting hotter is because we just passed the friggin' Ice Age, now its getting warmer. In a few thousand years its gonna get colder again. Global Warming is a myth.

 

No. He denies Global Warming, i.e. the fact that the average temperature is increasing (though, of course, he acknowledges it in his first sentence).

 

The warm-up is increasing in speed, in relation to past ice ages. This means that the cool-down is going to happen sooner than it should as well. So, maybe within a few hundred years we'll see an ice age, if we're lucky. Actually, with all of the extra heat being spread about the globe, as the ice caps melt they'll put cooler water further south and screw up weather patterns. And, since salt water freezes at a much lower temperature than fresh water, that is probably what will spark the new chill.

 

I prefer that funky Earth Crust Displacement theory of how the Ice Age never ended, it just moved (viz. to the poles). At least that way, I can say I've lived during those interesting times.

 

The end of the world is pretty interesting, this is true.

 

Actually, if you read... what was it, Nature Magazine? The guys that did the initial research that lead to the whole "Global Warming" craze discovered that they miscalculated something somewhere [actually someone else did, and they triple-checked their work and found the error], and that Global warming doesn't create "holes" like they thought, but causes a mild thinning of it, and is doing 1/10th of 1% of the amount of damage they thought it was. The damage is also being done by Halons [miss-spelled, I know], not Freons [another miss-spelling!]. Have a nice day, and feel free to find a new controversy. =]

 

Even down here we'd have had at least brief snowfall by now, though it would have turned to slush pretty soon and then not really settled until a few weeks later. But as I said over in the duel, snow is almost unknown down these parts in the last few years. Sad, really, but then the summers have been better than in old times...

 

well, whatever's happening, it needs to stop. we're quite warm enough here already.

 

Update: The authorities have a boy (age and name withheld) in custody for starting the fire that burned 38,000 acres and 20-something homes while playing with matches.

 

Well just for the record, the weather here in Hawaii is pretty much the same as ever.

 

I personally like the idea of palm trees in Washington [not D.C, for those who're new]...