On Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 1:14:23 PM UTC-10, el dia del Cristo wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
> > On 12/26/2015 9:41 AM, el dia del Cristo wrote:
> >> dsi1 wrote:
> >>> On Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 12:17:32 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> >>>> "dsi1" <> wrote in message
> >>>> ...
> >>>>
> >>>>>> That building manager ought to pay for the damage! At least it was
> >>>>>> clean
> >>>>>> water?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It was clean water but the acoustic ceiling tiles just dissolves like
> >>>>> toilet paper in water and makes a heck of a mess.
> >>>>
> >>>> Oh dear The houses being flooded here are having to dig out mud.
> >>>> Imagine
> >>>> having to do that 3 times in one month
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>> The floods here come with mud and it destroys everything One
> >>>>>> couple
> >>>>>> were
> >>>>>> watching tv and their carpet started to bubble. It was coming up
> >>>>>> through
> >>>>>> the floor. They got out fast. That water was contaminated with
> >>>>>> diesel(
> >>>>>
> >>>>> How odd! Storm system are bad, very bad.
> >>>>
> >>>> I suspect money for flood defences have been cut back over the past few
> >>>> years. They certainly are promising to put big money into it now!
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/
> >>>
> >>> The weather system is the world's biggest heat engine. Global warming
> >>> is like turbocharging the engine. Well, that's my theory anyway. It's
> >>> a good idea to direct resources to fortify our defenses against water
> >>> and wind. Well that's my theory too.
> >>>
> >>
> >> People in Yurop better watch out for:
> >>
> >> The Maunder minimum ushered in a period known as the Little Ice Age, the
> >> article continues. Colder-than-average winters became more prevalent,
> >> and the average temperature in Europe appeared to drop by between 1 and
> >> 2 degrees Celsius.
> >>
> >> A possible little ice age, that's the real story here, not "the
> >> calm before
> >> the storm."
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...04114.html?g=0
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Low sunspot activity has historically been linked with colder periods in
> >> human history such as the period known as the "Little Ice Age" during
> >> the 1600s. Higher levels of sunspot activity have been linked to warmer
> >> periods like the one from the 1970s to the late 1990s.
> >>
> >> Solar activity is now falling faster than any other period in the last
> >> 10,000 years, and some researchers have suggested that the planet could
> >> cool off in the coming decades.
> >>
> >> "By looking back at certain isotopes in ice cores, [Professor Mike
> >> Lockwood of Reading University] has been able to determine how active
> >> the sun has been over thousands of years," the BBC reports. "Following
> >> analysis of the data, Professor Lockwood believes solar activity is now
> >> falling more rapidly than at any time in the last 10,000 years."
> >>
> >> "When we have had periods where the sun has been quieter than usual we
> >> tend to get these much harsher winters," Sunderland University climate
> >> scientist Dennis Wheeler told the Daily Express.
> >>
> >> This is not necessarily a new discovery, as scientists have been
> >> pointing to rapidly falling solar activity for some time now. Last year,
> >> Russian scientists said that the world could soon plunge into another
> >> Little Ice Age.
> >>
> >> "After the maximum of solar cycle 24, from approximately 2014 we can
> >> expect the start of deep cooling with a Little Ice Age in 2055," wrote
> >> Habibullo Abdussamatov of the Russian Academy of Science.
> >>
> >> The U.K.'s Lockwood also told the BBC that falling sunspot activity
> >> raises the risk of entering a new Little Ice Age "from less than 10
> >> percent just a few years ago to 25-30 percent."
> >>
> >> "So the warming we saw, which lasted only from 1978 to 1998, is
> >> something that is predictable and expectable," said Don Easterbrook,
> >> professor emeritus of geology at Western Washington University. "When
> >> the ocean changed temperatures, global cooling is almost a slam dunk.
> >> You can expect to find about 25 to 30 years yet ahead of us before it
> >> starts to warm up again. It might even be more than that."
> >>
> >> http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/13/mu...lobal-cooling/
> >>
> >>
> >
> > It's tough to separate man's effect on the climate and Earth's periodic
> > changes.
>
> Not where sunspot cycles are concerned, those suckers are just
> completely immutable by man.
>
> > The good news is that Las Vegas won't be a hot desert but
> > instead, it'll be a green and verdant land.
>
> It sure could be!
>
> > That would be just spiffy
> > for me but I'm not sure if I can hold out for 10,000 years.
>
> Would 15 work?

To paraphrase Steven Wright; I'm planning on living 15,000 years - so far, so good.