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“Howdy, Tim,” writes commenter Dave S. “I saw this article in my local fishwrap yesterday. Apparently global warming is uglifying the formerly awesome prettiness of Vermont fall foliage: ‘Forested hillsides usually riotous with reds, oranges and yellows have shown their colors only grudgingly in recent years ...’
“It doesn’t say how they know this - arboreal spectral analysis? - but I’ve attached a quick snapshot from my back porch in Maine, 150 miles east of the global warming ravaged hellhole of Vermont. Note the riotous-yet-grudging reds, oranges and yellows of the neighborhood trees ...
“Cheers, Dave.”
This would not be a problem if color film had never been invented.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 22 at 12:23 PM • permalinkOh!
Dave S.
Dave S.They know all of this because some ditzy 62 year old from Conn said so. There is still time to save Vermont tho’ because she said this was the first year she had recognized this. Delayed reaction climate change.
In other distressful news!
There is a rumor that Bono will soon be doing “A Concert for Malibu Colony”. Watch for it.On a serious note.....it’s possible that part of the problem is due to increased vision problems as one gets older.
No, I’m not a doctor, but this particular whine does fit how people these days go out of their way to avoid responsibility of any sort. This particular article is one short step away from blaming Bush for the bushes.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 22 at 12:25 PM • permalinkVermont trees hold a grudge? Pretty damned surly of them.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2007 10 22 at 01:16 PM • permalinkWhen I lived in the South, we had a grudge, but now all’s we got is a carport.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 10 22 at 01:21 PM • permalinkThey know all of this because some ditzy 62 year old from Conn said so. There is still time to save Vermont tho’ because she said this was the first year she had recognized this.
It was also probably a year when she wasn’t lucky in timing her trip. Savvy leaf-peepers know that the difference between “riotous reds, oranges and yellows” and bare trees is often three days and a stiff wind.
Stiff winds are supposedly another by product of global warming, Dave, so I’m afraid we’ll still have to deal with the envirotards on this one. Unless you can persuade Gorezilla to shut his yap, and stop those winds.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 22 at 01:35 PM • permalinkFrom the article:
...temperatures in Burlington have run above the 30-year averages in every September and October for the past four years, save for October 2004...
Which is another way of saying “two years in a row”, or “two of the last three” or “three of the last five years”, or “We’re all doomed!”
Spin never sleeps in the MSM.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 10 22 at 02:14 PM • permalinkThe mountains were so pretty yesterday I almost ran off the road. Really.
Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 10 22 at 02:16 PM • permalinkThe real problem is that the peak didn’t fall on a weekend. I live in Vermont, and my yard was just beautiful three days ago. Now my lawn is a mess. I blame global warming.
It is due to lack of rain. Caused by global warming of course. One reason for a lack or rain? No hurricanes of course, err, wait…
I suppose you guys will discount this proof just the way you sneered at Robert Fisk’s fond rememebrence of those winter blizzards he used to dog sled through to school.
And the bears! Don’t forget the poultry bears!
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 10 22 at 02:21 PM • permalink"Some trees are just starting to change now,” Cowger said Thursday. “It used to be, religiously, it was the second week of October when they were at their peak. I would tell my guests to come the second week if you want to see the peak colors. But it’s definitely the third or fourth week at this point.”
This observation didn’t strike me as supporting the warming theory, either.
Well, Dminor, Congress saw fit to extend Daylight Savings Time several weeks, “to save energy”. Maybe the plants got confused by the change in the time change.
Anywho, Bush signed the bill. So.....
I blame Bush!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 22 at 03:21 PM • permalinkYou see that the lyrics to Camelot have been updated over at Climate Audit
It’s true! It’s true! Al Gore has made it clear.
The world is warming more and more each year.We started burning too much fossil fuel here.
July and August now are much too hot.
For soon there will be no more snow here
In Warmalot.The winters now arrive way past December;
It says so on the data plot.
Torrid summers linger through September
In Warmalot.Warmalot! Warmalot!
Although it sounds a bit bizarre,
But in Warmalot, Warmalot
That’s how conditions are.That looks like Smooth Sumac (Ohio, taken yesterday morning) to me. That turns red, global warming or no global warming.
...four loud, big-ass helicopters (bigger than Blackhawks)...
Sounds like Chinooks (CH47) or Sea Knights (CH46), assuming they had two full rotors. If they had only one set or rotors, then you saw the Super Stallion (CH53E. Pretty cool, either way!
And whomever was in those birds probably had a really great tour of the state!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 22 at 07:29 PM • permalinkYep, it was those Super Stallions. Thanks, Jeff!
When Putin was up there this past summer, they had 24-hour fighter cover - there literally wasn’t a second that we did not hear the distant roar of jets. Sadly, they were too far off, and probably too low-flying, for us to see them.
We get some interesting traffic. I’ve got my wife trained to discern out-of-the-ordinary engine noises, so we simultaneously bolt for the backyard when we hear something out of the ordinary. This summer we saw a P-51, and a couple of summers past, a B-17 and B-24 flying together.
Probably the coolest, though, was something I didn’t hear, but saw while mowing my lawn - a set of dual multiple contrails WAY high up in the sky. Fetched my binoculars and damn if it wasn’t a KC-135 refueling a C-5 (or whatever those gigantic transports are called.) Pretty impressive to see a big-ass plane flying just a stone’s throw ahead of a HUGE-ass plane.
I really miss the fall colours since I returned to Australia.
Though there are compensations. In Sydney right now the jacarandas and Illawarra flame trees are both out. The flame trees bloom only every second year, so having the fluorescent purple of the jacaranda and the brilliant red glow of the flame trees out at the same time makes for spectacular sight.
Don’t know how to link to the photos I’ve taken but here’s a link to one site that shows what I mean. Trees
Dave S.
If the fuelee was bigger than the fueler than it probably was the C5. I had the distinct pleasure of riding on one of those during the Panamanian invasion (shhh, don’t tell the lefties that we actually LEFT that country) A frickin’ MONSTER of an aircarft. I was told it could hold 4 battle loaded M1A1 tanks. (each goes about 74 tons)
By the way, the colors are doing fine here in Michigan (took that at my brother-in-laws’) Makes for some beautiful scenery while deer hunting!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 22 at 07:54 PM • permalink#40 ann j
I set up a little account on photobucket just for linking to my pictures for this site, works pretty slick and takes no time at all. In fact, the fall picture I just linked to took me about 30 seconds to load and link.
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 22 at 07:59 PM • permalinkoops, bad link there ann j.
My Queensland lace bark has dropped all it’s leaves and the flowers will be out soon. The flame tree (same species, brachychiton) won’t be flowering this year I think, but the kurrajong (another brachychiton) is flowering now.
Illawarra flame tree.
Kurrajong (white flower)Queensland lace bark.disclaimer: I have a bit of a thing for brachychitons.
ann j
Do you miss this since returning to Australia!!! (I suppose it depends upon where you returned too!!)
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 22 at 08:05 PM • permalink#44 ann j
WOW, now THAT is just stunning!!!!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 22 at 08:07 PM • permalink47
I’m in the southern part of the state, our colors should peak by the weekend!! If there is a suitable thread I’ll make sure to post another photo.
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 22 at 08:17 PM • permalinkAll the good stuff seems to happen to Dave S, dammit.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 10 22 at 08:22 PM • permalinkA very similar piece of crap here. We’ve had the same stories here in the great White North-a-little-bit-more-than-Vermont.
A sampler:
...the average snow cover season has decreased by more than 15 days compared with 30 years ago...
well, how does it compare with 300 years ago? Or 1000 years ago? Heck, why not 70 years ago.Another:
Much of this warming is caused by emissions, primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), that blanket the earth and trap heat. The main source of excess CO2 is the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas to generate electricity and drive our cars.
Well, lies, lies lies. One good volcanic eruption dwarfs all the man-made stuff.
It’s the ignorant suburban socialistas living the life of Reilly devocred from teh “natural” world who fret so much about cuddly polar bears.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 10 22 at 08:40 PM • permalink#40 Annj, the life-forms in Australia ar just plain weird. Mostly poisonous, or at least sticky.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 10 22 at 08:45 PM • permalinkA shut-up question to a warmenizer:
“Clearly you think the planet is too hot. How cold should it be?”
They shut up.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 10 22 at 08:50 PM • permalinkwell, how does it compare with 300 years ago? Or 1000 years ago? Heck, why not 70 years ago
Because 70 years ago we were in the middle of a warm period just like today. Newsweek magazine thought it so wonderful that they told us in 1975 - when we were in the middle of an unpleasant cool period - how our industrialized world was making things horribly, irreversibly cool compared to those halcyon warm days.
Rule #1 of stupid apocalyptic doomscreaming - compare conditions today unfavorably to a period in which those conditions weren’t present.
Rule #2 - when the situation reverses itself, do the same, and pretend you never believed your first, opposite doomscream.
In both cases, speak with absolute certainty.
51 Wimpy,
Didn’t the ice roads from Yellow Knife set a record last year for days open??
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 22 at 09:14 PM • permalink#50 ann j
I like the ice just fine as long as I get to skate on it and don’t have to drive on it!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 22 at 09:15 PM • permalink#50 ann j
let’s try this again .....skate.... hope that works, just more of the photobucket fun!!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 22 at 09:25 PM • permalinkRe #39, Dave, you live in a REALLY interesting place! Pretty scenary, politicians, and all those aircraft. If my father were still alive (a WWII fighter pilot), he’d probably pester you for a nearby spot just to see what came by next.
We get the occasional Chinook flying over, sometimes an Apache, usually on marijuana farm patrol. The Navy used to fly A6s around here, low level stuff (even buzzing the dams!), but now that those are decommissioned, we either get the occasional C130 practicing touch & gos, private planes, or the local commuter flights. It just ain’t the same thing as having an F16 fly low enough for you to do a panel check.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 22 at 09:32 PM • permalinkWe get the occasional Chinook flying over, sometimes an Apache
An Apache! Sweet!
The wife and I were driving along a country lane in New Hampshire once when a couple of A-10s screamed across fast and treetop-level. Scared the crap out of us.
And we were on the New York State Thruway when some of the Boys from Syracuse were doing fancy maneuvers in their F-16s.
No Apaches yet, dammit.
Watch the skies, people! Keep watching the skies!
Ah, the venerable Warthog! I love the sound of them passing nearby.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 22 at 10:59 PM • permalinkDave S # TRJ
Just an update to the eat your heart out file.
We live between Tucson Airport which houses an active F-16 wing and Davis-Monthan AFB. We get everything in the air here if it has a C, F, or blade attached to it. Even A-10 Intruders.
We also have the Blue Angels come in here very April or so. They fly over our house in formation for four days in a row-at less than a thousand feet. Let me tell you that is great stuff!
<grumble grumble grumble grumble.....>
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 22 at 11:43 PM • permalinkSpeaking of planes etc. someone just emailed this to me:
Subject: Ground Proximity Warning System, “Bush Pilot” modification.
GPWS, MODE 8
Too low....giraffe....Too low....giraffe...”69,70
Well, we have to have something since Arizona doesn’t have a professional hockey or football team.:):)
I don’t know how we got so lucky but those Blue Angel fly overs are unbelievable. Right over our house, and I do mean right over! And most years they form up and start their smoke runs just a few blocks over from us. We see the whole show right from our backyard. We were devastated at the news of death of one of their crew. We felt like we new him.
What a fantastic shot of the F111 - I have been close to one doing a “touch and go” at Amberley, it’s AMAZING!
I’m not a petrol head, but I love F111.
Which jet is replacing it?
I need to get to know it so that I can decide if I like it, or if I just have to keep the flame for the triple-I.I’m with your friend, bugger the cars, show me the planes!
I went to Schofields Air Show in the 80s and have been hooked ever since.
I’ve been to one airshow at Avalon, too.I don’t know all about them, I just know I love them!
Roulettes? Schmoulettes, if it hasn’t got the grunt of the pig, and gut-vibrating power, I’m not interested! Sorry, they’re not the same. (But I do appreciate what they do and I’d be getting a sunburnt under-chin watching them all day at an airshow!)
*sigh*
#77 kae; seems like it’s a dead thread anyway so we are probable safe from the topic police.
All this lust for kerosene-powered grunt worries me a little. You are starting to sound like a wannabe knuck*.
The AMAB symptoms might be merely envy of the good times we blokes have.
Remember there are girl knucks these days, so the pleasures are now available to all. (Well, all the yoofs, anyway. We mature folk might have to buy a ride rather than be paid to fly).*knuck, knucklehead: Originally (1950s) a pejorative term developed by heavy-pilots for the boys in their jet fighters. We now wear the badge with honour and pride.
I might email you off the blog if that’s OK.
It is a bit tedious to chat on here and, of course, everyone who is anyone reads this blog and, well, I don’t want to bore anyone else reading the blog to death!!If you could find out what’s replacing the F111 that’d be interesting.
I can’t pick them when they fly over my place at night, I don’t know if it’s F111s or F whatevers (are they F16s? F18s?). Took me years to figure out the diff between Hercs and ‘Bous.Actually, Yojimbo, it was:
“Stay out de bushes!”
“Stay out de bushes!”I remember he wanted to get everybody in the arena chanting along with him but you could actually hear the hesitation because people didn’t want to say “Stay out de bushes!”. It was very funny.
#1--Until the Goran was in use they used to blame to drab fall color on lack of rain.
Exactly. I have no problem accepting that warming might affect fall color. If that turns out to be the case, when they make a list of global warming winners and losers, Vermont could end up on the losers list (after all, leaf-peeping is one of it’s biggest industries). But then maybe Maine, with it’s slightly cooler weather, would become the new leaf-peeping capital, a winner. That’s how life goes.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 10 23 at 09:34 PM • permalinkHere’s Smooth Sumac with fall rooster just now. Roosters try to blend in with their surroundings. Also note the green ball in fall color (metric: colour).
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Until the Goran was in use they used to blame to drab fall color on lack of rain.