WOW, its more like a blast furnace in Phoenix

Discussion in 'The Environment' started by *~nathan~*, Jun 17, 2007.

  1. *~nathan~*

    *~nathan~* Member

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    In Phoenix, it hit 110 degrees for 3 days this week, thats hot. I dont know if it has anything to do with global warming, but i was walking for 5 minutes and got fried. Its supposed to be 115 degrees here by weekend some people are saying. And no rain. I heared on the radio that 68% of the country is in drought. Oh well bring it on, I love the heat.
     
  2. gardener

    gardener Realistic Humanist

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    Hey isn't that pretty normal for Phoenix? A little early this year. But here in my neck of the world we realize that is what summer is all about around here.
     
  3. drumminmama

    drumminmama Super Moderator Super Moderator

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    the drought comment is a bit much.
    The drought monitor for the US shows more like high 50s percentage (abnormally dry is not yet drought.)
    what is "good" news, if any, is that drought is limiting to mostly usual suspects ares, meaning the drought of the last seven-eight years in the wheat belt has lessened considerably.
    Now, this is all cyclical.
    It seems the cycles are repeating faster with less recovery time for the watersheds.
     
  4. verseau_miracle

    verseau_miracle Banned

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    Right...so where is Phoenix? Im sure many like me will have no idea
     
  5. gardener

    gardener Realistic Humanist

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    It's in the southwest of the US. Known to be a blast furnace.
     
  6. verseau_miracle

    verseau_miracle Banned

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  7. gardener

    gardener Realistic Humanist

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    Droughts are cyclical, a little early to espouse the current one to Gore's Global warming scheme, since about every ten to twenty years the west undergoes one.
     
  8. Pronatalist

    Pronatalist Banned

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    Summers are always like a "blast furnace." What for was air conditioning invented for anyway? Some people notice it more now, because they are so pampered now, by modern air conditioning most everywhere we go.


    So it's hot. Big deal. And just the other day, cars pulled over to the side of the freeway, because it was raining so hard. I suppose that's also "the end of the world?" The world supposedly nearly ends, most every other year, just like the normal droughts, were it not for all the people claiming to be "saving" it? I think many "global warming" delusional types, like to hear themselves talking, but parroting the same stupid stuff, that has already been largely discredited, if they weren't so lazy as to not study what they talk so much about.

    So much talk about the world nearly ending, due to stuff that is natural and normal, one might as well say that if they have to suffer a hangnail, that means the earth is ending. When will people get tired of tired old news, that isn't even "news" anymore? As they say, bad news sells (even if it doesn't happen to be true).
     
  9. mondoglove

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    I think many "religious" delusional types, like to hear themselves talking, but parroting the same stupid stuff, that has already been largely discredited
     
  10. mamaKCita

    mamaKCita fucking stupid.

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    i've always made a point of keeping my windows up, but AC blasting, with a cooler stocked full of ice whenever going through phoenix. never ever travel there in the summer. it'll melt your tires every time. it's nice in the winter, though. it's like summer everywhere else.
     
  11. spooner

    spooner is done.

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    my neck of the woods hit almost a 40 year flood this year. The only ones higher in recorded history were '78 where the river was barely a thousand cubic metres per second higher, and '36, which had twice the water we did this year.
     
  12. drumminmama

    drumminmama Super Moderator Super Moderator

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    looking back in my papers' archives, it looks like seven is a "magic number."
     
  13. Creek

    Creek Apple Pie

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    Completely Normal--By Mid July Upwards To 120* Degrees...THAT Is A Bit Warm : )))
     
  14. gardener

    gardener Realistic Humanist

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    Sometimes it's wise to pull over when you are driving and you don't think it's safe.

    I live in an area where our temps sometimes during the summer are worse than Phoenix. If you live here long you learn that is part of the situation. It does that every summer and for four or five months we have triple digit temps. I personally don't use air conditioning or a cooler. Hell in victorian times they didn't have the modern conveniences and consider the clothes they wore. A cold shower does wonders. Shorts and tee shirts make it bearable. You can always find a breeze if you get your head in the right frame of mind.
     
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