In article , dgk wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:25:35 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

Stormin Mormon wrote:
Ahoy matey. Shiver me timbers.

Man, up north here in NY state, it's been some kind of
serious cold, also.


Good grief! We're just not used to it being so cold for
so long here in "The South". Our poor cousins down Florida
way are really having a hard time with farms for tropical
plants and animals. Conservation groups are picking up sea
turtles that wash up on the beach because they are paralyzed
by the cold. The unfortunate turtles are helpless and are
brought inside where it's warm so they can recover. The folks
who raise tropical fish have or are afraid of losing their
stock. Of course freezing weather is always bad for citrus
crops. Darn you Global Warming and you climate huggers.

TDD

I think we all learned that heat is energy. More heat in the climate
system means more energy which means more activity. That means more
extreme events - bigger storms, colder colds, hotter hots. That really
shouldn't be tough for a home repair group to understand, right?

You can argue that human activities aren't causing global warming but
it's pretty clear to most scientists that the earth IS warming. I also
don't see how people can look at what we've done to the earth and
decide that it couldn't change the climate.

Most storm systems rely mainly on temperature difference between warm
areas and cold areas. So do heat engines.

Global warming is expected to warm the Arctic more than the tropics.
This would decrease the intensity of large extratropical storms. The most
intense major extratropical storm that I am aware of, at least in the
United States as measured by barometric pressure, occurred in late January
1978, around the 25th.

Hurricanes, which depend on difference between water temperature and
temperature in the upper troposphere, would intensify - but only
accordingly with how much the tropics warm.

- Don Klipstein )