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Started 10 months ago by onederfullone
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onederfullone

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Al Gore reprise.

Global warming, my ass.

Posted 10 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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R.E.I. knew what they where doing when they set up shop here.Al must have shared some inside trading info with them ;)

Posted 10 months ago #
onederfullone

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Global warming is a hundred billion a year industry. Our Ms. Clinton just handed another two billion to 'developing nations' to combat global warming.

I bet they starve before realizing any temperature change.

But, it's not about life. It's about power and control.

Posted 10 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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Nation of Sheep

Ruled by Wolves

Owned by Pigs

just saying

Commissars and pin-striped bosses role the dice
Any way they fall guess who gets to pay the price.
Money green or proletarian gray, selling guns instead of food today.
So the kids they dance, they shake their bones
While the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.

Posted 10 months ago #
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oneder-- don't you have some 'creationist' meetings to attend? it is Sunday afterall.

Posted 10 months ago #
onederfullone

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Bh
Not lieing. fwiw.

GI, bring on the hate and the lies.

I don't know of any creationist meetings scheduled today, but, I'm not on their mailing list. Maybe you can enlighten me?

Prolly not.

Posted 10 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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GI - We should have a MyBallrd get together at a Mars Hill Church service.

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teigyr

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I find it interesting that Epic Life Church (wtf came up with that name?) is having a "neighborhood block party" on the same day and pretty much same time span as Pride downtown. I find it equally interesting that they littered the windshields of the cars on our street with their flier.

Posted 10 months ago #
onederfullone

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Remember the Seventh day, and keep it holy. Today isn't the Seventh day. It's the first day of your week, fwiw.

Bh, I walked out of a Mars sermon, and never returned.

You are free to attend, all of MyBallard is free to attend. But even the most ignorant of you know better. fwiw.

Posted 10 months ago #
onederfullone

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bh, green party? No, orange?

I luv ya bro.

Posted 10 months ago #
onederfullone

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teigyr

The end will not be annouced with flyers.

I know a trumpet player, fwiw.

Posted 10 months ago #
teigyr

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I think the end will come due to all the flyers on the ground going into the drainage system. It will back up, we will all have rain gardens, and our high water level houses will flood. The sump pump simply won't be enough anymore.

Posted 10 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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I wonder if the ceilings on the porta potties open up for The Rapture.Is there enough housing for every soul in the promised land ? I just hope it is facebooking tax free.

Posted 10 months ago #
teigyr

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http://www.raptureready.com/

http://www.aftertherapturepetcare.com/

here's a few resources, BH.

Posted 10 months ago #
boatgeek

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The OP gets to a major pet peeve of mine. The minute there's a colder than average day anywhere, they bust out the snarky Al Gore is wrong comments (see OP for a great example). If there's a record-setting hot day, well, that's just weather variation. It's BS, and anyone with half a brain who actually cares one way or the other about the actual issue should see that. Either you look at monthly average temperatures across an entire continent or two, or you call everything weird daily weather variations.

Just for the record, June weather sucks in Seattle. It does every year. We get suckered in by a nice stretch in May, then the clouds and rain set in for a month. You can see it in average temperature charts, average solar radiation charts, or just about anywhere else you look other than your own rose-colored view of the halcyon days of our youth.

PS Global climate change means that the average temperature of the entire planet gets warmer, but some places might get colder.

PPS It is the seventh day or the week if you look at a European calendar.

Posted 10 months ago #
Lou98107

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Ever since I was a little kid, I couldn't understand why Sunday was considered the first day of the week. It never FELT like the first day of anything, it felt like an ending (and still does). Various nuns bristled when I quesioned it, so I learned to keep my mouth shut, and accept it was just another churchy-thing that was not based on logic. The calendar in my head still attaches Sunday to Saturday, and Monday is below it on the next line.

The only thing I'm going to say about the climate change issue is that it reminds me of yet another "churchy thing" that puts faith above logic (or at least, the views and feelings of those who don't believe in it are not logical).

Posted 10 months ago #
Ballard Dad

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It's forcasted to be 100 here in Denver. Record hot days for the last month. Put that in your data pipe and smoke it.

Posted 10 months ago #
nwcitizen

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Most moving explanation of why we need to change the way we see ourselves in the world:

David Suzuki on Rio+20, "Green Economy" & Why Planet’s Survival Requires Undoing Its Economic Model
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/6/25/david_suzuki_on_rio_20_green

Posted 10 months ago #
iPlod

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Ah'll buleev in evalooshun after a alligator gives burth to a monkey & ah'll buleev in globul warmin after thars three hunnert sixty fahv days a torpid humors.

Posted 10 months ago #
racerX

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This ftw --->

The minute there's a colder than average day anywhere, they bust out the snarky Al Gore is wrong comments (see OP for a great example). If there's a record-setting hot day, well, that's just weather variation. It's BS, and anyone with half a brain who actually cares one way or the other about the actual issue should see that.

Posted 10 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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http://www.hecklerspray.com/al-gore-save-the-planet-eff-the-fish/20079239.php

"Gore and his guests at the weekend ceremony dined on Chilean sea bass – arguably one of the world's most threatened fish species. Also known as Patagonian toothfish, the species is under pressure from illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing activities in the Southern Ocean, jeopardising the sustainability of remaining stocks…As we await a response from the US… the sustainability of the Patagonian toothfish and the legal fishing industry inches closer to the brink of extinction."

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iPlod

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Ah'll buleev in racerX after a Yugo gives burth to a Lambourgini & ah'll buleev in half brains after thars three hunnert sixty fahv days a half zombies.

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racerX

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after a Yugo gives burth to a Lambourgini

Now you're talking. That would be one heck of a bargin!

Posted 10 months ago #
iPlod

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Or one heck of a religion if at the same time you happen to be visited by the Three Wise Mechanics. :D

Posted 10 months ago #
Mondoman

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Manny, Moe, and Jack.

Posted 10 months ago #
HeatherHeather

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Look outside y'all. My SAD has never been so BAD.

Posted 10 months ago #
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my BAD (ballard aardvark disease) has never been so SAD.

Posted 10 months ago #
Compass Rose

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You're right, boatgeek - we get suckered in May, then June invariably is crap. Yet we fall for it every time. Suckas.

Posted 10 months ago #
dsomers

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Compass Rose

It is like Lucy Van Pelt holding the football for Charlie Brown and pulling it away jussssssst before he kicks it!

You know though...in another post I mentioned my wife working down in CA and having 109 degree temps and horrible air quality on the edge of the Central Valley. I think of that, and I think of my co-workers back east and the temps and humidity they are enduring, and I think of our 60 degree temps and cloud and rain and everything else we get, and our incredible summers and autumns once they do arrive......and I reeeeeeally like living here!!!

Contented Sigh.

D

Posted 10 months ago #
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D-- I don't know if you knew that Ranger who perished during a rescue last week at Mt. Rainier, but my condolences to you and your team.
it's been a rough year for those working down there in the NPS.

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Great Idea,

Thanks for the thoughts. I will pass them on to the park. I am afraid I didnt know any of the climbing rangers at Mount Rainier. Most of the folks I know at this point are in Admin or working what they call the front country rather than the backcountry.

The whole park is pretty traumatized....first Margarets senseless killing and now this. It has been pretty hard on everyone therem and in the surrounding parks as well. Our region is a pretty tight group of people with folks from Olympic NP and North Cascades and Crater Lake and all the smaller park areas all knowing each other well, in some cases since we have started our careers. I do hope they have some time to heal and recover. The other parks have been stepping up by loaning them employees with similar skills who can step in and give park staff some time, and the NPS has been sending in teams of people to help with counseling and stress management and just general support. I even know of one ranger who had retired a bit earlier in the year before Margaret was killed and who stepped back in to help out. As I said...this region is a tight group of people who have "grown up" together in the NPS and are rallying around the Mount Rainier crew right now.

Thanks again! Seriously, I will pass on your thoughts to them.

D

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HeatherHeather

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I love the National Parks so much, and it makes me love them more to see what amazing people are taking care of them and sharing them with us. So much love and awesomeness.

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HeatherHeather

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btw, this is relevant to the original poster(s):
http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2012/06/cascade-melt-out.html

Looks like we're just warming up much slower than the rest of the world.

Posted 10 months ago #
Cougar Bob

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I like this last statement by Cliff Mass:

So if someone tries to tell you that the coastal NW has already experienced major effects due to global warming, you might question their information. And if someone says that a stable or increasing snowpack the past few decades proves global warming is nonsense...I would not trust their information either.

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BuffaloHawk

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The sun was nice while it lasted but the clouds are creeping back in.

Welcome to the Evergray State ;)

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Cougar Bob

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In the past week, 1,011 records have been broken around the country, including 251 new daily high temperature records on Tuesday.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=669&articleid=20120627_669_0_Hundre97403

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Lou98107

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The sun was nice while it lasted but the clouds are creeping back in.

I HATE this muggy weather. Makes me and everyone around me cranky.

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iPlod

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Even Mr. Crankypants?

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racerX

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What about Mr. Empty Pants?

Posted 10 months ago #
MidWest

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Extreme weather event leaves 12 dead, millions without power:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/extreme-heat-millions-without-power-dangerous-situation-145823041.html

For the OP (and for those who mistake local weather for what is going on with our planet's climate):

http://joy111970.tripod.com/eediot.wav

Posted 10 months ago #
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i wouldn't trade our summers for anywhere elses'....

lou98107, it is so pleasant here compared to the east coast, midwest south re:humidity.

buck up lil ballardites! (or start those moving plans)

Posted 10 months ago #
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what a beautiful summer day!!

Posted 10 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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I always enjoyed the Henry Weinhards commerciall at the Northwest beach with the big rocks, people dressed in in sweatshirts and the beach ball whipping around from the wind.

Posted 10 months ago #
Cougar Bob

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Snow level at 5000ft. Snow expected in the mountains! Bundle up!

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/FXC/wxstory.php?wfo=sew

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Lou98107

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lou98107, it is so pleasant here compared to the east coast, midwest south re:humidity.

I've never spent much time in those those three places, but I'm sure you're right, it's almost always more pleasant here. I'm told that the difference is that most don't have air conditioning here, not everyone has a basement, and few have porches suitable for sleeping. Which means it's tough to cool off when it's more humid than usual.

Posted 10 months ago #
Cougar Bob

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Headline from today.

Brutal heat wave: 2,000 temperature records have been matched or broken in the past week

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/03/uk-usa-weather-records-idUSLNE86200R20120703

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iPlod

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What about angst records?

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Cougar Bob

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The heatwave PLODs on across amurrica.

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-forecast/record-heat-triple-digits

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cyoungers

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+10 Boatgeek
"The OP gets to a major pet peeve of mine. The minute there's a colder than average day anywhere, they bust out the snarky Al Gore is wrong comments (see OP for a great example). If there's a record-setting hot day, well, that's just weather variation."

As Cliff Mass says, one event does not a trend make.

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