Found this cool site called "It’s Getting Hot In Here .Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement"

This article on tipping points rapidly approaching is very well written and researched...

Still..I can't help noticing it seemed a bit too youthful to me. I don't know, when you're young you like to believe your generation is SO important...

BTW: we're having an odd summer in B.C. Usually I'd be hiking in the alpine for about 6 or 8 weeks around now, but there is TOO MUCH SNOW.
There were such heavy dumps last winter, I'm thinking they aren't going to melt before next winter's falls on top of em. New Glaciers?

EU bio-fuels policy "a mistake".

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I don't know, when you're young you like to believe your generation is SO important...

That's a good thing, I think. The bad thing is thinking the older generation isn't.

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There were such heavy dumps last winter, I'm thinking they aren't going to melt before next winter's falls on top of em. New Glaciers?

My impression is that, in the Pacific NW, global warming results in local cooling. Cooler wetter overall, but with hotter summers.

Ha! A spokaner....you guys get all the kewl shit....

I agree. It seems like when the rest of the world gets a heat wave, the jet stream has shifted and we're in the path of t3h c00l.

Yeah, the unusual Jet Stream this year caused more rain than usual to be dumped on the UK also. If this is part of a pattern of global warming, rather than just a bit of freak weather, we're doomed!

Unseasonably cold in Boston!

Seemingly short-lived monsoon season this year.
Usually have month to month and a half of daily rain, 10 mins. to 30 mins in duration.

This year, 2 weeks. With I think 2 all day rains.

There's still time, they last into Sept. sometimes.

We haven't had a real Chicago winter in years. The windy city has become the slight breeze city.

the actual data on carbon in the atmosphere...

updated monthly. some things are reassuring.
Like when I look at the mean average growth rates, (scroll down) 1987 was a really bad year.And 4 of the years since 2000 had mean growth less than 2. That make my math a lot less dire. The 400 ppm saturation point some point to is more like 10 years away...maybe 15.

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Originally posted by the_Etruscan:
We haven't had a real Chicago winter in years. The windy city has become the slight breeze city.

You know, that's not why it got it's nickname don't you?

Actually, I do. It's about windy politicians lobbying for the World's Fair to be held in Chicago, right?

I was reinforcing a common misperception.

AH, I thought as much...

I do that all too often ...need a spotter. ;

The Chicago I grew up in had its share of wind.

But Reno... THAT'S a windy city.

ExxonMobil: Vivoleum is made of People.

It is like Soylent Green for your car.

it's kind of been interesting in the last year watching the global brain function. Clearly the east of the U.S. controls the entire planet's thought. When they had weird weather finally last xmas, all of a sudden global warming was everywhere. Now it's at a more interesting stage, where people realize the cost of change, can't get there, but at least we'll give al gore the nobel peace prize. Kind of like giving a little to charity after buying the jag.
"I don't do the right thing but at least I support someone who does!"