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Chillin' Villain
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
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 Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 9:55 pm Post subject: Hottest Korean summer in 100 years? Holy smokes. |
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Anyone hear this yet? A friend told me about it, then I saw it on the news (a few different stations) shortly after. Apparently it's s'posed to be a bigger scorcher than any other summer in the past century!
I've got July off to bounce around the country, so that won't be so bad, but intensive camps, etc, in August are gonna ruin me! I won't be so chillin' then...
What's the best way to keep from red-lining when you're teaching indoors in the summer, anyways? I still haven't figured it out. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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- and next summer will be hotter yet, and the one afterthat. until we all fry in a runaway greenhouse effect of our own making.
Soon we'll all be getting suntans in midwinter. have fun! |
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the eye
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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| rapier wrote: |
| - and next summer will be hotter yet, and the one afterthat. |
yeah, i remember people predicting that last summer would be one of the hottest on record.
turned out it wasn't. |
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Chillin' Villain
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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Ah~
That was gonna be the other think I wanted to say...
Can they really predict that kinda thing? What, is the Earth going to rotate a couple meters closer to the sun this year? I mean, the weather a day or two from now is close enough, and they get that wrong quite a bit too!
When I was searching for an Engrish article to link this to, I found one that was written about this summer, but way back in January! How can they know that? Amazing!
Oh yeah, and there was one from 2003 predicting THAT was gon' be the hottest summer ever too...
To me they're ALL too freakin' hot. Pah!
[/grumpy old man talkin' 'bout weather] |
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the eye
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 12:30 am Post subject: |
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| Chillin' Villain wrote: |
Ah~
That was gonna be the other think I wanted to say...
Can they really predict that kinda thing? What, is the Earth going to rotate a couple meters closer to the sun this year? I mean, the weather a day or two from now is close enough, and they get that wrong quite a bit too! |
heh.
apparently that huge earthquake that hit Indonesia a few months ago shifted the earth's axis of rotation a small fraction of a degree, but scientists haven't determined what effect that may have on future weather.
as for these hot summer forecasts... predictions made, have a lot to do with past weather patterns. one of my co-workers explained that because the winter was longer than normal, the following summer would be hotter.
sounds like a combination of using a farmer's almanac and groundhog day nonsense. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 12:52 am Post subject: |
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All of the greenhouse effect crap is just a tiny little blip.
We should all be worried about the shifting of the North/South magnetic poles. Saw a show on the Discovery Channel about that, and it freaked me out.
We're 150 years overdue for a shift, and satellites show it happening. It takes maybe 3 years to complete the majority of the flip once it starts, and in that time, practically everywhere on Earth between the two poles flip-flops in temperature. Ever wonder why deserts are filled with dinosaurs?
There is geographical evidence of these flips dating back millions of years. Satellites have shown a change in magnetic forces in the past few years, and the theory is that we've started. Things could go nuts in the next 10 years or so. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 1:27 am Post subject: |
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PolyChronic Time Girl
Joined: 15 Dec 2004
Location: Korea Exited
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 1:29 am Post subject: |
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| It's already May and it's still cold! I don't see a big scorcher coming...in fact, I think it will probaby be one of the cooleset summers...considering it's been one frickin' cold year. |
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Freezer Burn
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 1:34 am Post subject: |
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| Derrek wrote: |
All of the greenhouse effect crap is just a tiny little blip.
We should all be worried about the shifting of the North/South magnetic poles. Saw a show on the Discovery Channel about that, and it freaked me out.
We're 150 years overdue for a shift, and satellites show it happening. It takes maybe 3 years to complete the majority of the flip once it starts, and in that time, practically everywhere on Earth between the two poles flip-flops in temperature. Ever wonder why deserts are filled with dinosaurs?
There is geographical evidence of these flips dating back millions of years. Satellites have shown a change in magnetic forces in the past few years, and the theory is that we've started. Things could go nuts in the next 10 years or so. |
So does that mean Australia would be more akin to canadian weather rather than the sub-tropical weather that we experience now.
Is it a deadly kinda thing or just a reverse in weather conditions?
Enquiring minds want to know |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 4:00 am Post subject: |
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| I was around in the summer of '94, which they said at the time was the hottest in a century. It wasn't pretty. By mid-June it was hot and just kept right on till the beginning of September. By hot, I mean in the 90s every day AND night. Few air cons. The appliance stores sold out. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| I was around in the summer of '94, which they said at the time was the hottest in a century. It wasn't pretty. By mid-June it was hot and just kept right on till the beginning of September. By hot, I mean in the 90s every day AND night. Few air cons. The appliance stores sold out. |
Wow, you were here then too??? I wanted to get T-shirts made up ("I Survived the ...")
Do you remember (at least our neighbourhood) all the families sleeping outside on those platforms like the ones you see at the fruit stalls (linoleum staple-gunned onto a square wooden platform about knee-high)? Because they didn't have A/C. And you're right -- you couldn't buy them anywhere. For the next few years after that, they would have pre-summer A/C sales as early as March, where they'd take people's deposits as "reservation" on a big-ass A/C system.
That one summer of 1994 led to a nationwide sea-change in the whole A/C market:
The poor people bought their first A/C
The lower-middle class bought a second A/C
The middle class bought the factory-capacity giant floor-standing models with the pipes and external fan units
The upper class immigrated to Canada |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 4:20 am Post subject: |
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Its burning up out there. No kidding. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 6:07 am Post subject: |
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| Freezer Burn wrote: |
| Derrek wrote: |
All of the greenhouse effect crap is just a tiny little blip.
We should all be worried about the shifting of the North/South magnetic poles. Saw a show on the Discovery Channel about that, and it freaked me out.
We're 150 years overdue for a shift, and satellites show it happening. It takes maybe 3 years to complete the majority of the flip once it starts, and in that time, practically everywhere on Earth between the two poles flip-flops in temperature. Ever wonder why deserts are filled with dinosaurs?
There is geographical evidence of these flips dating back millions of years. Satellites have shown a change in magnetic forces in the past few years, and the theory is that we've started. Things could go nuts in the next 10 years or so. |
So does that mean Australia would be more akin to canadian weather rather than the sub-tropical weather that we experience now.
Is it a deadly kinda thing or just a reverse in weather conditions?
Enquiring minds want to know |
Grabbed this from the web: http://www.betz.org/archives/2005/01/gabreael.html
OK... This, some scientists believe, is actually happening. It is quickly becoming common knowledge that the magnetic poles of the Earth may be starting to shift ( http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/03/20/north.pole/ ). This means that it is believed that sometime, in the not too distant future, the North pole will actually be magnetically the South pole. So if you have a compass, the north will be south and south will be north. But when? Most scientiest think within the next few centries.
There is a lot of evidence that this has happened before. Geologist are starting to examine the iron filing that were used by ancient civilations to create their pottery ( http://www.tmgnow.com/repository/planetary/angularchronology2.html ). What this research is finding is that the iron fillings are lined up as if the magnetic poles, as we know them today, were reversed. This would indicate that at sometime, during man's existance on this Earth, the magnetic poles were reversed and shift to how we know them today. I believe that one scientist claims that the poles shift every 100,000 years and that it has been 1,000,000 years since, so we are due for a shift.
Also, it is known that the Earth's magnetics protects us from the emissions from the sun ( http://www.windows.ucar.edu/spaceweather/mag_protect.html) . Should a shift in the poles happen, scientists theorize that this could reap havoc as the protection that these magetic poles give us will be lessened or all together disapper during the shift. Now, I would speculate that the solar flares during this period would do far more damage than "interrupt communications and such". Hell... They do this now.
Something, very well publicised, is happening to the Earth's magnetic signature. So, is this a prediction or is it a regurgitation of the Discovery Channel? |
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Derrek
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rapier
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