America's Weather and Climate

We are all concerned about global warming. Some more than others, but still, we all want our planet to live long and prosper so that we can to.

One man, Ron Ace believes he has an answer. Of course the Experts are denying it, most likely simply because they were not the ones to think of it first, and that it could be just this simple, but it still deserves honest and serious consideration.

Scientists Doubt Inventor's Global Cooling iidea...But What If It Works?

Even if the experts could tweek this theory, maybe it could work. The article says NASA wants to put mirrors in space to deflect the heat...I'd rather have Ron Ace's way than mirrors in space!

What do you think?

Hurricanes get their enormous energy from warm waters, so the warmer the water, the more fuel a storm has to either start up or get stronger.

Distinct numerical connection between the ups and downs of water temperatures and how nasty hurricane season gets, helps explain why hurricanes have been so much worse in the past dozen years

The average August-September water temperature in the
Atlantic waters region is about 81 degrees. Calculated that for every one degree Fahrenheit increase:

- Overall hurricane activity - a combination of frequency and hurricane strength - increases 49 percent.

- The number of intense hurricanes, with winds over 110 mph, increases 45 percent.

- The number of hurricanes of any size increases 36 percent.

- The number of tropical storms increase 31 percent.

For example, 2005 was the most active hurricane season on record, and Atlantic water temperatures were the warmest, about 1.4 degrees above normal. That hurricane season set a new high with 28 storms and 13 hurricanes. Seven of the hurricanes were major storms

Okay, snow, snow storms, avalanched and sunny Southern California. Four things that will never meet... in this lifetime. Or not? This past week, in sunny Southern California, it snowed! It turned into snow storms, and then there was a deadly avalanche. Yes, it really happened! Weather is definately really weird these days!

Mountain avalanches killed an off-duty ski patrol worker and left another person missing Friday as California strained under nearly a week of snow and rain. The avalanches were outside Mountain High's boundaries. An avalanche advisory was issued for the ski area at nearby Mount Baldy, a 10,000-foot peak about 40 miles east of Los Angeles, and the lifts there were closed.

Southern California rainfall totals from Monday afternoon through 4 p.m. Friday included 9.43 inches in the San Gabriel Mountains above Pasadena and 8.15 inches at Gibraltar Dam in Santa Barbara County.

Well, we've covered water and heat problems. There was the wild fires out here in California last 2 weeks. Now let's add some fog! We have been having really heavy fog out here in California this week and in Fresno, CA, it was the worst ever. A 100 car pile up on Interstate 99 today, killing 2 and injuring dozens more. 18 big rigs were among the 100 vehicle pile up with only a 2 foot visability limit. Read more

When we think about Global Warming, we think heat, hot and dry. However, researchers have found that wet and sticky are a combination that contribute to hotter temperatures and heavier rainfall which produces powerful hurricanes.

Published in the journal Nature - "The findings are some of the first to show how human-produced greenhouse gases have affected global humidity levels in recent decades and could offer clues on future climate change, the researchers said."...... Read More!

And the story goes on ... predictions are coming in that this winter will have warmer than normal temperatures with drier than average precipitation.

With 2008 predicted as the warmest year, it is apparently in the process of coming true...

They call it "La Nina" as opposed to the wetter "El Nino" weather condition. However, no matter what name it goes by, dry is dry and the southern states that are currently in severe drought situations are very concerned.

NOAA CLimate Prediction Center shows this map of the United States and it shows critical drought weather conditions throughout the nation.

As if the year 2008 being predicted as the warmest year of the century wasn't bad enough, now we can look forward to major flooding in places you'd never thought of. And it isn't from rain storms or hurricanes.

It is from rising sea levels. Now you are saying, "rising sea levels? How can that be when they say that we are in danger of water shortages from dry seasons?"

Well, sea water is not where we get our drinking water. One thing has nothing to do with the other. What they say is happening is this..

" Global warming - through a combination of melting glaciers, disappearing ice sheets and warmer waters expanding - is expected to cause oceans to rise by one meter, or about 39 inches. It will happen regardless of any future actions to curb greenhouse gases, several leading scientists say. And it will reshape the nation."

Okay, are we shocked? Well I am, as they also predict...

"Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are predicting. In about a century, some of the places that make America what it is, may be slowly erased." reports the San Fransico Examiner.com.

Good grief! Who'd a thunk it? Can we do anything about it? How can we stop ir or at least help drag it out as long as possible?

"We're going to get a meter and there's nothing we can do about it," said University of Victoria climatologist Andrew Weaver, a lead author of the February report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Paris. "It's going to happen no matter what - the question is when."

Oh, good grief! We can't stop it! Why are the glaciers melting faster and waters getting warmer? Two words...Global Warming. Global warming doesn't just effect land areas...if also effects the rest of the planet which is mostly water. Again, something we never thing about. We think about as it relates directly to us or as it sits in our own backyards and that is as far as we think. Well, we need to think farther. We can't stop this from happening...can we delay it?

Beginning with a recent meeting at the United Nations, world leaders convened to talk about fighting global warming. Later, leaders gather in Washington with President Bush for more talks. Well, at least some attention is starting. How much it will help remains to be seen but at least the thought and help attempts are in progress.

What Areas Will be "Hit" the Hardest?

"The EPA, which studied only the Eastern and Gulf coasts, found that Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, Texas and South Carolina would lose the most land.

S. Jeffress Williams, a U.S. Geological Survey coastal geologist in Woods Hole, Mass., says it's "not unreasonable at all" to expect that much in 100 years. "We've had a third of a meter in the last century."

"It's not just "on the way"...it is here ... now. We just don't know it. The change will be a gradual process, one that is so slow it will be easy to ignore for a while. But we have to start now to do whatever we can. We can't stop the ocean's waters. We can't stop the melting glaciers, disappearing ice sheets and warmer waters." But maybe we can help global warming from warming to fast. You say, "Oh, 100 years - we have time". Well, no we don't. As they say, it is not just "on the way"...it is HERE!!! Don't you want to keep this country at its best for generations to come?

There are so many things everyone can do to help slow down global warming. We now don't just have the heat from global warming to deal with, but we now have the rising ocean waters. We are destroying our earth. Granted, some of it can't be stopped - some of it can't be actually stopped, but at least some of it can be stalled, slowed down and not contributed to as much.

Do what you can to stop global warming. If everyone does just a few little things, multiply that by the millions of people in the country, and there's a good chance that we could at least slow it all down a little.