We are having a beautiful spring day again here in central New Jersey.

[NNadir]

It's in the 60's fahrenheit, teens centigrade.

The only problem with it is that it is still January.

[Lindacooks]

1. Yep, no more winter. In Minnesota,

we had rain this weekend, LOWS in the 30s, highs in the 40s, near 50.

Global warming is real.

[NNadir]

3. No, the cold weather in Europe disproves global climate change.

[Lindacooks]

12. No, you're wrong.

CHANGING weather is climate change. The weather is colder in Europe because the Gulf Current is weaker and probably flipping.

And with the melting ice caps, polar bears drowning because ice floes are melting, and the increasingly dead and acidic sea are all further proof that global warming is real.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Did you check out the thunderstorm last week?

I thought they were a warm-season phenom....

:)

[jojo54]

4. South Jersey here.

Yeah, it's beautiful here too, for the end of January; usually one of the coldest months of the year on the East Coast.

But the U.S. can't afford to join the Kyoto accord, can we?

[phantom power]

6. If we had joined Kyoto...

Then Exxon might have made only $9 billion in profits last year. The humanity, the humanity...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060130/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_exxon_mobil;_ylt=ArrrLYJlzn4kdqQk8jBpYuWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-

[NNadir]

7. You have to set your priorities.

[BonnieJW]

5. Climate Change

While everyone is enjoying spring in January, think about all the polar bears that are drowning because the Arctic is melting. I watched a documentary on it and it filled me with despair. They keep swimming trying to find an ice floe large enough to support their weight, cannot, and drown from exhustion. Anyone who thinks this does not pertain to them is mistaken. Think of the canary in the coal mines.

[Pirate Smile]

8. It has been in the 50's in Iowa in January.

It feels like it should be March.

I was volunteering in the school library and a little kid was checking out a book on gardening and flowers. The librarian said "it is almost that time of year". I just said "yes, it feels like Spring, only one problem, it is January. This is not good."

However, we have been in a drought and we have been getting rain. Normally, of course, we don't get rain now. It would be snow or sleet.

I keep thinking - "great weather, oh, sh@#!"

Hurricane season is going to be absolutely terrible.

[phantom power]

9. This weekend we broke our record for consecutive days w/out rain.

As of today, we are at 103 days with no measurable precipitation in the Phoenix valley, breaking the previous record of 101 days. And going strong.

[Dogmudgeon]

10. It's not Global Warming so much as the Pacific Jet

Of course, the Pacific Jet has been strengthened and re-shaped by Global Warming, but it's Hawaiian heat per se.

If it follows the pattern that other PJ winters have followed, the Pacific Jet is weakening even as we speak, the weather will turn colder in about a week or two, and we'll have at least one major snowstorm in the East between Valentine's Day and the first week of April, before the new Early Summer Warm-up.

Say, a foot-and-a-half of snow on April 2nd, and the first 90F day on April 16th. March's average temperature should be below that of January this year.

Then, in early April (maybe during that snowstorm), Little King George will once again ask Aunt Condi how the Sun knows that it can go to bed an hour later.

--p!

[LiberalEsto]

11. Same in Maryland

But it's been known to happen in previous years.

[belpejic]

13. Agreed

Try not to get too worried...remember, when we do get that massive cold snap in February and blizzard in March GWB will say "global warming? What global warming?" Not to say that it isn't happening...

I don't think it's irrelevant to point out that 2005 was the warmest year on record, and caps a rapid warming trend. And the plight of polar bears living on the Arctic Sea is real, and truly, truly heartbreaking. The Arctic is melting, and I think it's a sign of bad things to come.