Tornadoes in Oklahoma two miles across, three weeks apart. The tip of Manhattan under thirty feet of water. Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Houston devastated within weeks of each other, while a hurricane hundreds of miles across marches straight up Florida.
Not to mention droughts, record fires (tell people in Santa Rosa how normal this all is), record floods, the record temperatures, year after year, and now you say two days of frost in MISSISSIPPI, while Oregon has not had any frost. I once heard a scientist in TV say that global warming does not mean that everywhere gets warmer steadily -- it means that the weather get IRRITABLE. Or you could believe Senator Snowball, who believes that global warming is totally invented because he can find snow in Washington DC, never mind the disappearing ice cap in the Arctic.
The ice sheets of Antarctica are falling apart, melting methane is making the ocean off Siberia bubble like champagne, with blowholes a half mile across, Inuit villages have to move inland to higher ground, the permafrost is melting, so there are "drunken trees" leaning because the ice under them is gone. I've seen the videos showing huge chasms opening in the Greenland ice sheets as melt water rushes down. When it gets down to the ground, it lubricates the ice which then flows downhill faster.
The weather is not just changing, like it did in ice cores from long, long ago. It's FLIPPING, and in record time. Years, not centuries. We've got just about all the ice cores we're going to get -- the places they used to core are melting too fast, taking the ancient data with them.
"The attempt to politicize" -- well, Republicans used to be worried about climate change, till some of them decided that they could get good talking points and help their petroleum industry friends by saying they knew better than 95% of scientists. "Climate change is a Chinese myth" -- yeah, right, that's why they are making more solar cells than anywhere else, and phasing out their coal. Meanwhile, full speed ahead, lets open those coal mines again, and make pipelines for the tar sands oil, the filthiest oil on earth.
Sometimes I think that humans are too stupid to run a planet ...
As for climate change being good for piano tuners, well, when the pianos have been under six feet of water, they will be harder to tune.
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Susan Kline
Philomath, Oregon
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-29-2017 22:10
From: John Formsma
Subject: Climate Change?
I occasionally will joke with a few clients that "climate change is good for my business." They understand what I mean, because I have just explained that changes in RH are the main cause of a piano to go out of tune.
I have noticed similar things with the typical season of pianos going flat. It has happened later than when I first began tuning in 1999. This summer in North Mississippi was milder than usual, as was last summer. The last two winters were pretty mild as well. But...we had a chilly week in August this year, which has NEVER happened before in anyone's memory. The last two nights have gotten just below freezing, which is also atypical of "normal" temperatures for this area in this season. We normally don't see below freezing temperatures until November-December.
The climate changes, largely because of that great big ball of fire in the sky. Yeah, manmade activity might affect it slightly, but as Bill Bremmer pointed out, there have been huge climate changes happening long before there was any of the things that we are told cause global warming.
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John Formsma, RPT
New Albany MS
Original Message:
Sent: 10-29-2017 13:06
From: Roger Gable
Subject: Climate Change?
I read in the newspaper this morning that climate scientist are acknowledging that winter is coming later and leaving earlier. Over the past 10 years I've noticed, in my region (Seattle), that the transition from the typical summer sharp drift to winter flattening has been transitioning later in the fall and earlier in the spring. Years ago I told my customers they could experience a tuning transition in early October and late May. Now it's late November to early May. This year seems to be particularly notable in that pianos are still sharp this month where typically this is the month that pianos are on their way down. Any similar experiences?
Roger
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Roger Gable
Gable Piano
Everett WA
425-252-5000
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