Lake Dardanelle from Lake Dardanelle State Park
August 10, 2008
Last Sunday never got above 75°F and the month, so far, has been abnormally — and wonderfully — cool.
The weather has been very strange this year in Arkansas.
(The place I retired from and where I am currently working on a contract is about a mile on the other side of that hill and to the right.)
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August 14th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Remember, global warming also causes some places to be cooler. Or something like that. That’s why they refer to it as “Climate Change” more and more.
In another decade, temperatures will be dangerously moderate! So, be warned!
August 14th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Sorry, I’ve nothing to add about Arkansas, although I do have a small bit of family there. I just wanted to compliment you on your site. Everything about it is clean. I feel like the maid just left your blog. I like it.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Beautiful picture. Arkansas…I totally flunked geography. Okay, no I didn’t flunk it..probably got like 95%..but I never liked geography so never retained anything. Off to look up Arkansas to see where it lies in the States. Yes, I do know it is a state LOL. We haven’t had a very hot summer at all, and RAIN RAIN RAIN. Here being Gatineau, Quebec. Just in case you were wondering and wanted to look it up *smile*
August 15th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Weird weather here in the Seattle area. Almost 100? I think the weather got off track several hundred miles from Cali.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
I do love that photo - it is neat to see the red-roofed sheltered portions of the pier. Looks like a nice place for a picnic.
August 16th, 2008 at 9:43 am
The monsoon, that is the annual rainy season, is vital for Indian farmers. A number of them depend entirely on rain water for irrigation. This year, the monsoon played truant for a while and played havoc with crops. When the monsoon revived, it has been raining with a vengeance and now there are floods every where, and some crop is getting damaged due to excess rainfall.
This erratic behavior is blamed entirely on climate change or global warming or whatever else you want to call it. The farmer is unable to follow the seasonal patterns that he has been following for hundreds of generations due to the unpredictability of rains and temperatures.
Systems theorists have been crying themselves hoarse that we are not paying sufficient attention to the global systems. No one other than perhaps Al Gore seems to be listening. If you have not seen the video that he has produced, you must. It is a revealing piece of information and it is vital that the course of action that he advocates be given serious consideration.
August 16th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
@dcr - Climate change is right. The climate is always changing and always will. From what I’ve been reading, your last statement may be close to the truth.
@Writer Dad - Thanks! I’ve tried to minimize the clutter — though it looks like the maid might have taken some stuff that should have been left. Actually, I’ve not completed the last renovation and there are a few things that I want to add back…, but it’ll still be “clean.”
Urban Panther - Yes, I know where Quebec is. Did a little bit of genealogy work quite a while back on my wife’s ancestry, she’s mostly French Canadian. Her lines moved to Wisconsin in the very early 1900s or late 1800s. Then, after she moved to Milwaukee, her parents moved to Arkansas, which is part of the reason we ended up in Arkansas after I got out of the Navy.
@Tage - That is hot for Seattle. We’re 20 degrees cooler today than we were this time last year…, at the extended outlook appears to be more of the same.
@teeni - thanks! it was actually raining that day. I took the picture while huddled under an umbrella.
@rumuser:
We’ve had a lot of rain here this year also. There’s been extensive flooding in a lot of areas.
I voted for Al Gore three times. He’s a politician, not a scientist. He sets lofty targets for limiting greenhouse emissions, but refuses to change his own wasteful habits.
I personally doubt much of the so-called science that Gore’s Inconvenient Truth is based on. I do believe that climate change is occurring. The climate is always changing, but generally the change is so slow that we do not perceive it. Unfortunately, much of the predicted global warming is based on computer models that have limited scope and which use incomplete, inaccurate, and misapplied data.
I don’t think that climate change is being caused by human activities. I fear, however, the good intentions of combating the supposed human causes of global warming may have disastrous consequences. Through the best of intentions, we have started shifting to more use of biofuels — with the result of diverting crops from the food chain into the fuel pipeline and causing the price of food to rise. Through the best of intentions, actions to combat global warming may limit the development opportunities of some of the poorer peoples and countries of the planet. Through the best of intentions, we may do more harm than good. Through the best of intentions, we may harvest dire unintended consequences.
August 17th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Your comments about Al Gore makes me want to share an adage that we have here. It is difficult to translate it but I shall try : One’s own farmyard chicken is just as good as homegrown beans! In effect, the message that it conveys is :Ghar ki murgi dal barabar… When you can readily access something without much effort or cost, you do not realize its value.
I say this to convey the thought that Al Gore can generate other opinions about himself in the USA than outside! The adage also suggests that we treat our environment like our own farmyard chicken!
August 17th, 2008 at 11:42 am
I like to think that the next generation will be better than us in taking care of our environment.