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AND! there are people who don't think there is anything with Global Warming!
Wishing for snow..... :pray: :pray: pandamac
Dolls N DreamsHi, we are getting yet more snow here in colorado, let me send you some..................... 
Here in the southeast of England the weather is quite mild for the time of year at about 12 degrees C. The sun came through yesterday and it was beautiful ... it really energised me! But next week, we're told to expect a cold snap! BRRRRRRRR!!!
Posts: 3,540We're exactly the same...running at temps far above normal. I know most people are ecstatic over a mild winter....but I keep worrying about the extra flies we'll have for Blossom this year if this stuff keeps up!
Our little magnolia tree is exactly the same....budding out at a very silly time of year. I thought trees relied on the level of light/sun for budding?? Not according to this particular tree...poor thing keeps trying to have flowers incessantly.
Even wierder...the robins have not migrated this year 
I've never seen that happen here in Missouri!!!
Same here. unusually mild. Christmas day was 10 Celcius and kids were out playing street hockey in T-Shirts !!! I've never seen that in Dec.! It is supposed to be 12 C this weekend too. We've had 2 little snowfalls totalling about 2 inches of snow- but mostly more rain. We should be having cold temps and snow on the ground. It is so weird. I'm expecting a really wet spring. 
Posts: 280I live in Austin, Texas and have yet to put a coat on this "winter". Today, it is supposed to be very near 80 degrees and is gorgeous outside. I've been taking advantage of the weather and have been painting outside. (I took the doors off of the bathroom, dressing room and bedroom.) I was able to take them outside and get them sanded and painted and they dried pretty quickly. I painted the master bathroom while the doors were drying. This afternoon, I'm hoping to be able to mow the lawn and mulch up all the leaves that have fallen. I'd better get it done today, as the high for tomorrow is only supposed to be near 50! My husband has been working in Houston all week, which is only 3 hours away, and they have been rained out for the last 2 days. The weather has been pretty bizarre everywhere it seems.
Luann
Mountain Dreamer BearsEven wierder...the robins have not migrated this year I've never seen that happen here in Missouri!!!
Around this part of Missouri, we've noticed that the robins haven't migrated for the past three year! Very unusual!
Mild winters not only mean more flies, but more ticks and chiggers too. Bleck.
Posts: 3,540:crackup: I joined you with that ~ bleah Bonnie!! :crackup: You're right, though....we seriously need our hard winters to help balance things here.
Also, since I've spent time in Oregon....I have to say that the Rainforest does not only exist in South America. (although I've clicked both links for ya Bonnie 
) I've been more and more ticked off that our very own rainforests here in the US have succumbed silently...no one trying to protect our very own ecosystems here, or the very unique Rainforests we have in our own Northwest of the US Clear cutting has never worked, and yet still our forests and parks are clear cut and logged!!! Grrrrrr... Despite all the propaganda about 'we replant', there's no way the corporations could have ever replaced the Old Growth forests that we had here in the US. And sadly as the Oregon coast receives its normal amount of rainfall, without the trees to absorb the much needed water...the ground becomes utterly saturated and slips off the mountains, suffocating homes and slipping massive amounts into the ocean.
I'll get off my soapbox, but yes, much of the change in climate has been indeed brought about by man's habits.
Posts: 434Here in Cleveland, Tennessee it is today 71 degrees and rainy. I had the bedroom window open last night. I was burning up. Some of the trees are budding the dogs and cat are starting to shedd again. And no this isn't normal for here at all. :doh: I guess we will have winter in the spring time now??? Spring in the summer??? Summer in the fall??? Fall in the winter??? :doh: 
Yes, things are definitly out of balance. Up here in Evergreen, CO I just heard that we have gotten 81 inches of snow over the last two and half weeks... way over the normal for the year. I have a foot of new snow so far today with this lastest storm and truely buried in now. My sons have gone back and so I a alone for this one... HOwever, they did excellent job of shoveling the snow from the last two blizzards so all is not hopeless. There has been no garbage collection or mail delivery for weeks and I have not had phone service since the 20th of Nov. (not the fault of the snow) so feeling a little isolated. Better go work on some Bears!!! I do have power and plenty of fire wood for the firplace so there are positives to keep in mind.. Janet
Posts: 3,540But you know, Janet, I can remember being 3 years old and visiting my auntie and uncle in the mountains outside of Boulder (so it would have been the winter of '73-'74)...and that WAS the normal snowfall!!! It just seems so ultimately wierd because we've been having such mild, mild winters, but every single year I remember growing up hearing about them getting hammered with the snows. Everybody knew to plan ahead for them. And now when we get harsh winters, it seems to broadside people. Not to say you aren't prepared, or don't know Janet :hug: But we saw this even in Oregon when the rainfall was finally in the norm after years of drought...people would freak. "Its not normal! It doesn't get this cold!" ...yes, it does, you just don't remember...
Bonnie, I feel exactly the same way... we are stewards of the land for our grandchildren (even though I don't have any, I respect the legions of youngsters that will come after me). I have to say I was utterly gutted to find out from my hubby that Paul Bunyan used to cut trees....in the MidWest! He was point of fact a legend for the tree cutters from Minnesota westward. They didn't learn... the people when they took the land from the Native Americans...they didn't learn. It was simple greed and the vast, seeming unending supply laying ahead of them. Hubby and I also saw a book on Fishes printed in the 1900s....fishermen did their own curtailing of fishing just to make sure the stocks would survive. They were facing extinction of species in the 1900s and realized if they didn't stop what they were doing ~people would starve in the long run. Now we are facing that exact same scenario again. I do hope people will realize and rein it all in.
Newcastle, OntarioWe just re-located to the Toronto area, from Ottawa. It is milder here but this year has been very mild - no snow for more than half an hour here and there and nothing that has stayed on the ground. I just wear a sweater in the car and toss my coat on the back seat. I am used to a fair bit of snow, as all three other places I've lived have been in the "snow belt". I don't mind it a bit milder, but this depressing. I'd give anything for just one week of snow with a cold snap.
hugs,
Brenda
K P BearAnd here in Australia we are in a drought that is the worst since recording started. I have just heard that some el company wants to build 11 new coal fired plants. And cars that are run on alternate fuel are put into moth balls or worse destoryed. I get very upset when this topic comes up for I feel so help less and wonder why people can not see what is going to happen if we continue on this trend. And worst of all it all boils down to greed and only greed.
Sorry for the whinge.
Lena
Well put Lena - I do agree with what you are saying. I think a lot of people do not want to know what is happening or they will suddenly open their eyes to it all when it is too late or out of control.
I'm sorry too as I have a had a whinge, must be catching 
Lyn
Oh boy! My sister and I get into heated debates about global warming. I believe it to be true......she thinks that scientists are paid to say such nonsense. Oiy! I still love her anyway. 
Here in Portland, Oregon, we've been pretty much normal.....perhaps a bit more rain than usual though. I'll take the rain over snow any day. Having lived my growing up years in Alaska, I've had about as much snow as I'd like. I do have to say one thing though, I would like to learn how to snowboard. That would be the only reason for me to enjoy snow. Even then, I would have to drive to the snow to enjoy it. That suits me just fine.
Green grass year round.....ROCKS!! :dance: :dance:
Warmest bear hugs, :hug:
Aleta
Chaska, MinnesotaEllen wrote: Wishing for snow
Ellen: here in Minnesota where we are use to snow (lots of it) and yet we had a sprinkle at best. I finally got eight inches a few days ago but it melted in a couple of days. Normally at this time of year I am wearing what I call my "big gun coat". Meaning the down filled coat that keeps me warm in -40 degree weather. I am wearing a light jacket these days. The weather folks are saying we are having spring weather. Not much of winter here....So we are in the 40's during the day (50's at times) when we should be in the 20's for a high. Hmmmm....I think you are right about global warming...
Michelle
well I think it is a cycle that the world will go thru, and it has been going thru, every so many hundreds of years, just that things have only been documented for such a short period, maybe 100-150 years, which is a drop in the ocean compared to how old the world actually is, only now can we compare and say this is the hottest, coldest since 1923, or whenever. Time has told us that their was an Ice age, so things must have happened to the climate and I am sure that things will still happen as we see the weather patterns changing world wide.
Did man contribute to the changes in the past, who can tell, but today man should have learnt and should know better. Man can do things today to HELP- except man goes out and destroys the world around us- taking what they want, when they want and yes I am sure that this does have a BIG effect on what happens around us.
Lynette
Here I am in New England, the Berkshire mountains. We should be nice and snowy! We've had no snow at all so far. It is 7:30 am and it's 61 degrees! It's supposed to be about 65 today, we're planning a cookout The weather forecast for my brother in Seattle is colder through the next 10 days than our 10 day forecast for Connecticut. Something is really wrong?!? I really wonder about Baffin and the Arctic that is Northeast? (Is there an east in the Arctic circle?)
Karen
Should I feel better knowing that everyone is having unusual weather? Well, in a way yes, but only because I am not alone in my thoughts. It appears as though we all have pretty much the same thoughts, if we could just get 100% of people to agree on what to do, the problem may be solved.
Yes, weather comes in cycles, my husabnd predicts that in another few centuries the Northern US and Southern Canada will be the Florida & Texas.....I don't want to be here for that! 5 years ago when I went to Antarctica, there was conversations about the weather and global warming.....While I was there, the poor penguin chicks were suffering with sunny 48 F. temps!
I guess we each have to do what we feel is best to help where we can....and we have to deal with the weather we get. I still wish for snow..........SEND IT OVER!
Thanks,
pandamac
