Sugar levels and climate change

[Parker]

Bahh bahhh bahhh, climate has always and will always change, during the last ice age 15000 or so years ago ice was2miles thick over my house....the southwest is a desert enviroment. Its hot and dry in a desert...

[Hop Kiln Road]

Gore is current a director of Apple Computer. They sold 34,000 iphones an hour, 24/7, last quarter at a 40% margin. Don't know about the weather, but he seems to know which way the wind is blowing.

[miohman]

Global warming... If it means that we can swim in Lake Superior every year with icebergs thats awesome!!! Oh did i mention that was the 16th of June.

Up here, my trees rarely even give 2% sap, but that's why they invented the RO.

Micah

Still waiting for some warm weather so we can make syrup

[Marc Duclos]

Global warming is a religion to a class of people that think when it is cold it means its hot. With that kind of thinking should they be aloud near the children and keep scaring them into a non fact that has yet to be proven to be the truth.

We have not heard much from Al Gore lately have we? The glaciers may be melting in Alaska but they seem to be forming on my property.

Spud

[Greyfox]

I love the fact that, once it started to get COLDER, they had to change the buzz-word from "global warning" to "climate change". If you agree with them you're enlightened, when you disagree you're a fool. It's a belief system, not a science. I hope that I live long enough to see the day when people look back on this period and say "I wonder what they were thinking. They really believed that we could change the climate!"

Doc

[BreezyHill]

I recall my grandfather saying" There are going to be cold winter, long winters, warm winters and short winters; some days it will rain when you want and others when you don't. So don't worry about and just make hay when the sun is shining." Born in 1896 died 1981, he could tell of droughts and I recall one year the pond got so hi we had fish on the back lawn 500 feet away. There was only one way out of the farm for a few months cause many roads were gone or culverts were missing. A 15 minute ride to town took nearly an hour with all the detours.

Just think of all the money people are paid for " global warming studies" I think it would be better spent to put in a pipe line to get water to Ca & Nv for the farms and people. Yes it is drier there than family has seen that is only 20 years old but those that are 80 have seen it before.

Cycle

They go around.

[Thompson's Tree Farm]

Yup, lets put in a pipeline and drain all the water from the great lakes to the West, What a great idea. If you live in a desert, expect to live in a desert. Don't try to change it into a garden of eden. My $.02

[Greyfox]

And if you tap the deep aquifers that take hundreds, if not thousand of years to replenish, than don't be shocked when you run out of water.

There are plenty of things that man has done to trash the place over the years; unsustainable water usage, overfishing of stock of some ocean fish, paving too much so rainwater can't penetrate etc. Global climate change is NOT real. The audacity to think that we could permanently change the climate if we WANTED to is ludicrous. Just like the weather, wait a while and it will change. This nonsense will pass eventually as well.

Doc

[R A Powers]

Russ, I totally agree with you. At the turn of the century New Hampshire was 85% cleared. Subsistence farming was in full swing. If you look at old pictures of the landscape you will see lots of fields and stone walls with a scattering of wood lots for fuel. Most of the trees that lined those walls were sugar maple and elm. The maples were used to make sugar and syrup and therefore to valuable to burn and the elms were just to big and hard to split for fire wood. The Andover historical society has some pictures of Kearsarge and Ragged taken around the turn of the century and all you can see are houses, barns, fields, pastures and even the old hotel that was on Kearsarge where picnic area is now on the Wilmot side. There is hardly a tree in site. I am only sixty nine and fields I can remember haying and hunting around are now totally over grown. Cycles in the weather have been going on for eons, some more drastic than others. All of this clamor over climate change and global warming has a lot more to do with politicians finding a way to make money off of it than it does with what is actually going on. Thats my 2 cents. Dick

[PerryW]

actually, the increased Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere can be directly attributed to the burning of fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide from fossil fuels are a different isotope ratio than carbon dioxide from other sources. I think it is audacious to think that 8 billion people heating/cooling their homes and billions driving vehicles would not affect the environment.