OT: Global WHAT? Got 5 cm snow now behind the house, -9 C predicted for the weekend, Polar bears welcome!

weekend, Polar bears welcome!

In Yellowstone, 1956, I watched a _big_ bear (type I'm not sure of) trash a station wagon, get inside, then sit there and eat a box of teething biscuits ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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the weekend, Polar bears welcome!

You didn't call the ranger?

... and don't eat the liver - acute hypervitaminosis A is not pretty.

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the weekend, Polar bears welcome!

This was 1956... no cell phones, middle of nowhere, at a lake, fishing... we jumped into our car and I snapped photos, but ready to roll if the bear made a move toward us ;-)

I may still have those photos... 1956 would date me as using an Argus C4... 35mm slides. ...Jim Thompson

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the weekend, Polar bears welcome!

Perhaps I should have said, "but the ranger isn't going to like that, Jim"

You ought to scan all that stuff. My brother scanned everything he could find of my mother's (pictures, birth certificate, newspaper clippings, etc.) and gave it to all of the kids and grand-kids. My wife inherited all of her recipes and intends to scan them and get a vanity book published for the extended family.

weekend, Polar bears welcome!

I just had to open a window... too "balmy" inside the house ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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weekend, Polar bears welcome!

Mount Baw Baw is a nearly-mile-tall one at latitude 37-degrees-50 south, and is that halfway or 5/6 of the way from 37 to 38 degrees from equator?

With oversimplification to latitude and elevation and east-coast-of-continent location, I consider that to be roughly equivalent to the tallest of the Appalachians in western Virginia USA.

With Mt. Mitchell being 480 meters taller and about 2 degrees closer to the equator, and being noted to have received snow flurries even in July and August, I am reluctant to consider Mount Baw Baw getting a light dusting of snow 2 weeks into December to be a sign that the world is changing for the colder.

- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)

In , Jan Panteltje wrote in part:

One day achieving 10.4 degrees C cooler than historical monthly average and all others for a few days in one direction "slightly cooler than normal" (my words) appears to me outright common. I am having trouble remembering a single one of the past 43 winters in Philadelphia failing to achieve this.

- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)

Phoenix AZ has historical average daily high of 75 F and average daily low of 50 F for historical average of the month of November.

December is 5-6 F cooler still. So roughly 1/3 of the way from center of November to center of December where curve is concave-upward gets me to think that Thanksgiving "normal" for Phoenix is high of 72-73 and low of

47-48, and I am willing to concede to 73/48. 60 F on a specific single current-year day in late November around there appears to me to be far from being an example against AGW existing significantly.

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On a sunny day (Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:41:27 -0800) it happened snipped-for-privacy@radagast.org (Dave Platt) wrote in :

Thank you for the warning, I will leave the livers for the birds...

Have you ever seen a real, full grown polar bear? I have, and I doubt you have the guts to kill one.

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In a small shopping center in San Jose (near Winchester Mystery House) there used to be a taxidermy shop with a Polar bear and a Grizzly out on the sidewalk.

This was one of those centers with multiple small buildings so you can walk around each building.

I'm unaware of this shop, so I turn a corner around the end of the building and almost dump in my pants.

Until you've seen such bears up close and personal, you have no idea how HUGE they are ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Fairbanks Airport. You are walking down the ramp from the plane and there is a turn right as you enter the building. About six feet after you turn the corner, there is a stuffed polar bear poised to attack. I always wondered if anyone had a heart attack when they saw it. It scared the crap out of a couple women and kids that were on the plane with me.

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A friend of my uncle's shot a polar bear and had the rug spread out across their family room. The rug was 10' from corner to corner. She was a hell of a shot. A black bear pissed her off one night. She shot it with a .22LR and had that head hanging on the wall in the dining room.

Don't worry, after 2010, it'll all start going back the other way! that is if we're still here! :)

for the weekend, Polar bears welcome!

Time to get my buffalo gun.

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food

If it was the bear or me? I do think i could (using a gun).

A pistol, or a high powered rifle?

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weekend, Polar bears welcome!

What's in Buffalo that needs shot? :)

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