-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/2016 09:26 AM, Razer wrote:
It was almost 32 degrees F this morning at sea level on the Central California coast. This last summer it went to 100 degrees F for one day. About seven years ago it went to 105 for THREE DAYS breaking all records ... and one morning the following winter it was 28 degrees and stayed there for the better part of the morning leaving a slush puddle on the shady side of the building I worked in that stayed slush for two days. I've lived in the area for 40 years. When I arrived in 1976 I noted this was where all the Italian and Portuguese immigrants had settled on the coast in the 1800s because it's Mediterranean climate with two seasons. Spring and Fall, with a touch of mild winter in the 40s and summers that rarely cracked 80, was familiar to them (and wine grapes grew well). This is NOT a Mediterranean climate anymore. Some might say it's part of a natural cycle. That MIGHT be. But if so, it was long before anyone was keeping record, including the trees, whose inner growth rings can tell no lies.
I'll just leve this here... Infographic: Western Wildfires and Climate Change "Temperatures are increasing much faster in the Western U.S. than for the planet as a whole. Since 1970, average annual temperatures in the Western U.S. have increased by 1.9° F, about twice the pace of the global average warming." - - Union of Concerned Scientists, 2013 http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/impacts/infogra phic-wildfires-climate-change.html =or= https://tinyurl.com/mfoer7r -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYSCxaAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqqlgIAMrfYbw8Aq7awWtXi6PDZ/Ko 4g2OUvtPW/HK/TY+xQ3PgQQeLbMMWwAdG9rhRT/PhHvzyIasI3Z302sEA8yGWiRQ WJMCNHQn8Da3MemqDGdtabnnvtRqMp11wX27AVSjwYDBbHhsF9IE5grXWDtOykDY eCw2pX9i2oIFVIDSXDAZuO38OObD+bHq4icavMDMHUvRtVuId6UCn42BfLasUSch ASEIHefW5ZyLY72ICviS97muvTJb/3srEsNLcZLxXfO87XFL6Pu3vyocApDnd/ML oHQvKP0VEK6bB4YdVYPG/QPO2LGQD06WIBnCwjaj6jW3Pj90cxek9hJZhlj2bRk= =L2sP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----