Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Friday, March 16, 2007

    You'll enjoy this movie on climate change

    It's not CO2, it's the sun that is driving global climate change. But of course, you and I have little control over the sun. When the Soviet Union fell, there were a lot of people who needed a cause, and destroying western civilization by blaming capitalism for global weather change, which happens continually, became it. Add to that the fact that you can't get funding for research unless you have a controversy. Right now, money is flowing for global warming research, including from our own current administration. The climate change industry is huge--because my husband is an architect, we hardly see an article that doesn't have "green" in it. So, watch the result of some really bad science. . .


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Sunday, March 4, 2007
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    Robins who winter here

    When I was a girl growing up in Illinois, we always watched for the first robins as a sign of spring. Because I see so many robins in central Ohio all year, I thought it was just our more mild climate. When we had that terrible cold snap a few weeks back I was surprised to see so many dead robins in the street. They didn't seem to be able to get out of the way of the cars, and the streets were snow packed so I wasn't sure why they were in the road. Then in today's Columbus Dispatch I noticed an article about robins staying around because of the spread of the honeysuckle bush. Its red berries provide winter food for them when there are no worms or bugs. The plants are foreign to our area (you might call them illegal immigrants who have gotten out of hand) and have killed off some native species. When I checked Google, I see that robins are also wintering in the western suburbs of Chicago, but those may have come south from Wisconsin.

    Whatever is keeping them here in the winter--dried fruit and berries from ornamental trees or invasive species--our terrible cold snap must have been too much for them. It either covered up or iced over their food supply or disoriented them enough that they weren't able to fly.Source URL: https://maryelizabeth-winstead.blogspot.com/search/label/weather
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

    Blizzard Warning for Ohio

    Central Ohio isn't getting it as bad as a bit north and west of us, but so far at 5:15, there are 305 "closings," that's schools, businesses, and malls. We've had about 5" of snow, and then about 3 p.m. it started to sleet, and sometime tonight the snow will return. Nasty! I think I heard that Hancock County [Findlay] had some 5' snow drifts. Some counties have level three conditions (means don't drive or you'll get a ticket). Unless the ice causes a break in the electricity from downed lines, it's warm and cozy here. Two years ago an ice storm around Christmas caused power outages for some of our neighborhoods for two weeks or more.Source URL: https://maryelizabeth-winstead.blogspot.com/search/label/weather
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