xuxa said on June 13, 2003 10:29:

RAIN??? You can’t imagine how I miss rain now:(
I feel myself like inside an oven. 36 degrees in Lisbon yestarday, and I feel that today will be even worse...

on_a_mission said on June 13, 2003 13:39:

not raining here at the moment - long may it continue

Roxrider_USA said on June 13, 2003 15:08:

Hi!
Here in the Northeastern US we are still in the same weather pattern we had this past winter. In other words, we still have bellow average temperatures for this time of year and above average precipitation due to a low pressure trough in the jet-stream flow over this region that allows many low pressure system to move over the area.
As a result, just like in the winter, when we had lots of snow, we are getting lots of rain. Seems like we going to have here a cool summer.

Later!
Carlos E., New York.

Shane said on June 13, 2003 16:26:

Here in Northwestern U.S., it is raining - so nice to wake up this morning to the sound and smell of rain.

wendy said on June 13, 2003 16:46:

sun sun sun :p
Now just some free days!!!!!

derek said on June 13, 2003 17:56:

do you know that the most dicussed topic in the world is the wheather we humans are never satisfied .its to cold .its to hot .its to wet .its to dry sheeeeeeeeeeesh but i do know what you mean i like the rain after a warm spell it makes everything fresh i could not live in a land that was constantly to damn hot id melt but i have worked in all wheathers 47 deg and min 50 but take it while you can because in the next 50yrs with all the bullshit whats happening in the world you never know what to expect

derek said on June 13, 2003 20:57:

tinytim what you mean whoes keeping what storm .hey storm what are you hiding

coyboyusa said on June 13, 2003 21:36:

oh how cute now you idiots are attributing weather changes to war jesus christ grow up

sweet_stalker57 said on June 14, 2003 02:58:

kitty cat running for my front step
the rain came down and the pussy got wet

on_a_mission said on June 14, 2003 16:36:

@sweet lol

DaminehGessle said on June 14, 2003 17:25:

Aaso: You’d said beautiful walking in the rain. Having lived in Iran, I know where you are coming from. It never rains cats and dogs, non-stop for days, in Tehran. And when I say rain, here we refer to it as shower. You get out for 30 seconds and you are wet all over! After living in this weather condition for a while, you see how faded and depressed people are when people in not-raining-6-months-a-year countries are more fresh! This comes from experience :)

Roxrider_USA said on June 14, 2003 20:05:

We just got another deluge here! It poured for like 30 minutes!! Now the afternoon heat that was building up, is gone. The air is refreshed!

Carlos E., New York.

coyboyusa said on June 15, 2003 00:29:

and derek do u rember chernble, how most of the lakes in sweden are poisonous to aquatic life...dont’ be running war in the war with golbal warming...they already proved that cfc’s which they thought depleted the ozone layer actually don’t the true effects of global warming won’t be felt for centuries long after your gone...but if you so concerned stop using natual gas, plastic prodoucts, stop driving your car, take mass transit, don’t use eklectricty cause it made with oil...etc

don’t be a hypocrite

Santi said on June 15, 2003 13:43:

That we have to wait centuries to see the effects of global warming is not true at all.
The effects of global warming are being felt since the 80’s. There’s much more energy in the atmosphere system and that can be felt in for example more violent storms and more frequent floodings in places like Mediterranean countries.

And before coyboyusa starts calling me ignorant, I study climatology & environmental hazards in the University (and I got “cum laude” in “Climate & Human Activities”, “Analitical Climatology” and “Climatology”).

derek said on June 15, 2003 14:30:

@santi is it true that the earth millions of yrs ago also had the same problem. globel warming?through a atmospheric disturbance??if so then what is now happening has happend before??

derek said on June 15, 2003 20:52:

iv allways been interested in the Triassic/Juassic/Cretaceous/ periods yea and i know about the impact on earth by the giant meteorite of the coast of mexico yukatan of something like that .im not to sure about all the reptiles being hot blooded a lot was cold blooded but no body knows for sure a lot of speculation has been flying around over this topic for yrs and both of the ice poles were once all tropical so was the desserts tropical wood has been found

Roxrider_USA said on June 16, 2003 02:47:

@Santi: You are right. The Atlantic Ocean near the convergence zone, which is the place where the opposing winds from the northern and southern hemisphere meet, located from western north Africa crossing the Atlantic going through Caribbean Sea and Gulf Of Mexico, has had an above average number of tropical storms and hurricanes developing the last 5 years. So, yeah, this is a hint that global warming is already causing changes in the weather pattern.

Carlos E., New York.

sparroweye said on June 16, 2003 15:38:

the global warming can also be seen in marine ecosystems!!
for example the corals are bleeched in several places in the see! corals are very sensitive and small raises of the temparture can kill them. it’s not only a beautiful biotope it’s also a very important one.
it’s narrowminded to think that it doesn’t matter what we do with our earth if it doesn’t effect us, who are living here right now! there is a saying; “vi har inte ärvt jorden av våra föräldrar -vi har lånat den av våra barn”...

sparroweye said on June 16, 2003 16:53:

that’s me ;)
no I don’t. I still have one year left before I can study at the university. but I want to study there later!!
so santi may I ask; what do you study?

Santi said on June 17, 2003 08:45:

Actually the last glaciation finished completely 10000 years ago, that is when our epoch, Holocene, started.
But from 1,5 million years ago the Quaternary started, and the quaternary is the ice age with many glacial and interglacial periods. No one knows exactly how many, but 4 major glaciations happened :p We’re living in an interglacial, and during the Quaternary there have been interglacial periods far warmer than our Holocene!
I think that humans can not stop next glaciation, but it happens so slowly that they won’t really realised it’s beginning the next one. And I’m sure of this because I believe that glaciations happen for non terrestrial factors, like changes in solar activity.

Btw, I study Earth sciences and in 1 week I do my last exam to become a graduate student :D
I study Physical Geography, that is “Earth science in relation to human societies”, so to speak. (That’s why we’re focused on environmental hazards, climate change and so on).

Roxrider_USA said on June 17, 2003 15:12:

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derek said on June 17, 2003 22:52:

yea santi the expert great stuff my friend very interesting good luck with your exams