Global Warming is Real!

BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1488 Location: U.S.A.

It was 98 degrees here yesterday and today.

And, species extinction is happening! mcgruff was right! Something broke into my bluebird house and there are feathers all over the ground beneath it (must have been a racoon, as opening it requires climbing up a pole and than manipulating a little latch. I suppose it could have been the evil fisher if he has run out of coons to eat. I don't hear the racoons chattering away as much at night, in back by my river, or screaming when the fisher tries to eat them, and I haven't seen them marching across the field in the moonlight to raid my neighbor's garbage (although that could be because he finally secured it). Fishers eat cats too, which may mean my old cat's days are numbered.

Some kind of black bird with a blue head (grackle, I think) has savagely attacked two finches under my bird feeder and eaten their innards. The moles that have been wreaking havoc on my front yard along the rock wall are apparently gone this year. The great blue heron has not returned to nest along the river in back (although that could be because my neighbor virtually deforested his adjacent land to use as a "campground" and kids and a dog have been running around back there). There are more hummingbirds this year than I've ever seen (enough to suck down a whole pint of sugar water every day).

The Asian tiger mosquitoes that showed up last year seem to have completely taken over from the indigenous ones (which is good actually, because even though there are more of them, they seem to be slow and stupid, and you can usually kill them before they bite). Black flies (not house flies, the tiny biting, blood-licking black flies of the family Simuliidae) seem to have abandoned the valley over the fast few years but are still voracious in the mountains. Biting horse and deer flies are still around.

My five foot tall Dwarf Alberta Spruce was devoured by spruce spider mites (who, I have learned from the Interent, prefer Dwarf Alberta Spruce to all other food, and which have never been a problem here before). I cut it down, burned it, dug up the roots, and sodded over the spot.

Most frightening of all, the family of chipmunks in my front yard have lost their fear of my cat (they were just sitting there, four feet apart, looking at each other) and a big fat one got run over by a car (rare for smart, nimble chipmunks).

I take these as signs the end is near.

On the good side, the barn swallows returned to nest over my garage door (they had gone away for a couple years). The robins are hopping around all over the yard as usual. The goldfinches, house finches, red-winged blackbirds, grackles, bluejays and cardinals are all back and devouring the bird food I put out. As usual there are a couple of huge crows perched high up in the trees being bad-asses and eagles occasionally circling high overhead. The gray squirrels are already doing their reconnaissance of my oak trees, and as usual, performing acrobatics to try and rob my bird feeders. The flora seems generally unfazed by climate change and, if anything, is doing extraordinarily well.
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Muso · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:55 am Post subject:

We're all Going To Die!!
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BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1488 Location: U.S.A.

Should I kill the fisher, before he kills my cat? Or would that be too Bush-like.
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Ahenobarbi · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:26 am Post subject:

Catanduva · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2008 Posts: 57

Apocalypses aside, you seen to live in a wonderful place.
I love nature, but fucking hate spiders (the tiny ones doesn't bother me). If someday i own a land i'll put a big sign with a spider drawing with a red cross in it so spiders won't enter.

Old School · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 1:36 pm Post subject:

High of 64 here today, and rain. On the other hand, last fall we had salmon running in the river for the first time in over 25 years. They were spawning along a river bar right off my back yard.

Something ate a couple of our cantaloupe plants the other night. Maybe it was the salmon.
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pjp · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 3:42 pm Post subject:

mcgruff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 137

http://www.wildlifeadaptationstrategy.gov/climate-change.php
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Catanduva · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2008 Posts: 57

If spiders die with the climate change i'll start to fart right now.

Ahenobarbi · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 4:19 pm Post subject:

Old School · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 4:33 pm Post subject:

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sikpuppy · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 5:37 pm Post subject:

What if I agree with the facts, but then state that I don't really care? Is that bad? Should I care about not caring? Should I turn my limited brainspace into a bleeding spagettified mess because I couldn't give a rats arse about not giving a rats arse about rats arses?

Ahenobarbi · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 5:52 pm Post subject:

sikpuppy · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 5:59 pm Post subject:

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Ahenobarbi · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:40 pm Post subject:

Muso · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:43 pm Post subject:

More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims - Challenge UN IPCC & Gore

Ahenobarbi · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:48 pm Post subject:

Old School · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:49 pm Post subject:

Every single one of them are incompetent, and under the pay of big oil.

And obviously racist homophobes to boot.
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Ahenobarbi · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 7:09 pm Post subject:

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