Comments on: Global Warming’s Halloween Horror http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/29/global-warmings-halloween-horror/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:16:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Paul K http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/29/global-warmings-halloween-horror/#comment-6483 Paul K Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:07:24 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/29/global-warmings-halloween-horror/#comment-6483 Joe, This year's version of the better get your pumpkin before they run out reminds me of back in the 60's and 70's, every year there'd be a news story that barbers predicted shorter hair was coming back in style. Glad you posted this in Humor. Here in Illinois, there's plenty of pumpkins including a good selection of white, red, yellow and purple beauties. The real question is where do all the unsold pumpkins go. Seems like at about 5 or six p.m. on Halloween, they all just disappear. Joe,
This year’s version of the better get your pumpkin before they run out reminds me of back in the 60’s and 70’s, every year there’d be a news story that barbers predicted shorter hair was coming back in style. Glad you posted this in Humor. Here in Illinois, there’s plenty of pumpkins including a good selection of white, red, yellow and purple beauties. The real question is where do all the unsold pumpkins go. Seems like at about 5 or six p.m. on Halloween, they all just disappear.

]]> By: David http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/29/global-warmings-halloween-horror/#comment-6506 David Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:48:42 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/29/global-warmings-halloween-horror/#comment-6506 So exactly how much was the pumpkin crop down overall? The article didn't say and I'm wondering if it's unprecedented or if it falls within year to year variations that have been experienced in the past. Are there other reasons, not related to the weather that the pumpkin crop could be down? Possibly farmers using their land for more profitable crops? Finally, when you were cherry picking quotes from the article, you left this one out. "Indiana, conversely, got a big crop, which Meadows attributes to adequate rainfall there and in northern Ohio, the nation's top pumpkin state." Can we blame global warming on that too? So exactly how much was the pumpkin crop down overall? The article didn’t say and I’m wondering if it’s unprecedented or if it falls within year to year variations that have been experienced in the past.

Are there other reasons, not related to the weather that the pumpkin crop could be down? Possibly farmers using their land for more profitable crops?

Finally, when you were cherry picking quotes from the article, you left this one out. “Indiana, conversely, got a big crop, which Meadows attributes to adequate rainfall there and in northern Ohio, the nation’s top pumpkin state.” Can we blame global warming on that too?

]]> By: Joe http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/29/global-warmings-halloween-horror/#comment-6509 Joe Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:28:09 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/29/global-warmings-halloween-horror/#comment-6509 Pumpkin-picking, not cherry-picking. Yes, I focused on the "news" -- extreme weather hurts the crop, not the dog-bites-man story of how normal weather gives us a perfectly fine crop. Why? Because global warming means more extreme weather, not more normal weather. Pumpkin-picking, not cherry-picking.
Yes, I focused on the “news” — extreme weather hurts the crop, not the dog-bites-man story of how normal weather gives us a perfectly fine crop. Why? Because global warming means more extreme weather, not more normal weather.

]]> By: Paul K http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/29/global-warmings-halloween-horror/#comment-6511 Paul K Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:42:14 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/29/global-warmings-halloween-horror/#comment-6511 Joe, In the context of a hundred or even two hundred years, all weather is extreme. There is no normal weather. Weather has patterns, but it is essentially chaotic. All the charts on global warming show not the actual temperature, but the anomaly - the deviation from the "norm". It is striking to see that almost none of the yearly points fall on the lines showing the norm. Every year is an anomaly. Joe,
In the context of a hundred or even two hundred years, all weather is extreme. There is no normal weather. Weather has patterns, but it is essentially chaotic. All the charts on global warming show not the actual temperature, but the anomaly - the deviation from the “norm”. It is striking to see that almost none of the yearly points fall on the lines showing the norm. Every year is an anomaly.

]]> By: Joe http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/29/global-warmings-halloween-horror/#comment-6514 Joe Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:13:18 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/29/global-warmings-halloween-horror/#comment-6514 Paul: Global warming makes the weather measurably more extreme. Longer and more intense heat waves. Longer and more intense droughts. More precipitation falling in extreme rain events. More severe storms. This is one of the major predictions of the science, and so far it has come true. Paul:
Global warming makes the weather measurably more extreme. Longer and more intense heat waves. Longer and more intense droughts. More precipitation falling in extreme rain events. More severe storms. This is one of the major predictions of the science, and so far it has come true.

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