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It's official
« on: March 20, 2013, 06:52:12 AM »
NH Spring 2013. is here.
from pole to pole.



, isn't it.

Time to reserve a seat...

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Re: It's official
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2013, 09:11:57 AM »
Dying Dragon of the last winter has a long Tail.
I'm a bit worried how that will affect my gardening season. Last one was lousy...

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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2013, 10:25:11 AM »
In practical terms,

the trick is, at the beginning of a global climate change, to move to a region with really bad weather.
When I came to British Columbia two decades ago, it really rained all the time, in a very bad way.
Yes, you can only grow temperate rain forest with, well, rain...

But now, well, all the Mountain Pines are going the way of the Dodo...
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/

But, there is areas with great gardening, and if there is a small stream for hydro-power, you are off Scott-free!

One advice: Do not buy Collateralized Mortgage Obligation for the low lying Fraser Delta, like Real Estate in Richmond, BC.
Call it a hunch...
"Erst kommt das fressen, dann kommt die Moral!"

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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2013, 12:08:04 PM »
Yeah, Wernerempire.
I'm amazed what some people grow there, video .

bothers , but that will pass. Photo attached:
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Re: It's official
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2013, 09:04:21 AM »
-10.4 C at 5 cm this morning, and white all around.
"We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow."


Hoped for an early spring,



I hoped too, you know, an early Spring for you and me.

Edit 2015-09-18: Thanks to the YT I've to repair lik to Immigrant Song by Led Zepellin.
Backup of .
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Re: It's official
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2013, 11:17:36 AM »
Great place to read scientific news. Disclaimer.



Oh Happy Day

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Re: It's official
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2013, 10:36:50 AM »
Ivica, I wish I was yet less clumsy with my iPhone, but already all is in bloom here in Vancouver, BC.

My "Hydro" bill (electricity here is called "Hydro", because it is mostly from water power, "Hydro Dams") clearly states, other than reminding me to be careful and save electricity, that this winter was 1º C warmer than last.

Subjectively, I actually never connected my natural gas space heater at all.
A couple of days, I turned on all the flames on the stove for a while, to take the edge off.
But winters in the North-West of the americas have become much milder and drier in the last twenty years I've lived here.
Wetter and snowier at altitude at the same time too. Alas, all the coastal ice fields retreated much at the annual average.
I know so, because I work in film, and we find it increasingly difficult to budget for a "winter scene" in summer on real ice/snow. You have to drive much further to be sure.

The general feeling seems to be happiness about that, because now you see people keeping palm trees and bananas in their front yards, which did not survive winter in the past.
We are still listed as a "temperate rain forest" zone... (BTW, that means moss and cypresses, usually)



"Erst kommt das fressen, dann kommt die Moral!"

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« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2013, 11:25:11 AM »
Winter here was an average one - but also never-ending - snowfall again, yesterday.
Maybe you should check for , ugh :-))
As I'm aging I become more southern type, I need warmth.
Wider Caspian-Aral area took "our" heat, I wonder is that a precursor of a major heat wave in continental part of Euro-Asia, again.

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Re: It's official
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2013, 01:53:54 AM »
In the upper US, we had a colder March than December-February. Spring didn't spring for us till this week. No one could remember the last time we saw it snow in late March.

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« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2013, 12:55:56 PM »
Raining now ... and - of course - a serious flooding around.


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Re: It's official
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2013, 11:04:39 AM »
Water retreated, sun is back, 20+ C outside.
My gardening is a month behind, time to go out and do something...
Zac Brown Band

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Re: It's official
« Reply #11 on: June 21, 2013, 07:48:03 AM »
NH Summer 2013. is here.
Time to take my seat.

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« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2013, 12:09:39 AM »
Summertime! Fuels you with energy, don't you think?

If you like it, check for 3...
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Re: It's official
« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2013, 12:34:30 AM »
These cliff jumps are cool when you know exactly how and where to land ^^

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« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2013, 12:36:40 AM »
... or ;)  :)
(Be carefull, mediterranean sea is saltiier (denser) than most others).
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« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2013, 01:15:37 AM »
(our , lets not betray them)

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« Reply #17 on: August 15, 2013, 01:28:45 AM »

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« Reply #20 on: September 22, 2013, 08:08:03 PM »
Equinox is back, melt season is on its end.

"Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan:

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“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.



Edit 2014-10-02: blank line added.

EDIT: 2015-05-01: If they (the mindset that rules over us) are any good, why are we in trouble?
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