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HeyBill said:
Short periods of cooling longer periods of warming weather is notoriously variable. In any case who can speak against steps taken to reduce bad manmade effects?
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I can . We as a society here in the lower mainland of B.C. have cleaned up our collective act and are continuing to make strides in environmental protection and reclamation and have been for decades .
 
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Fossilisation

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Louis Hissink
The geological uniformist axiom first enumerated by Charles Lyell in his Principles of Geology, that the key to the past is the present, was and remains to the present a strict scientific formalism. It’s otherwise known as the scientific method in which only known facts are allowed to be used to explain observations.
When animals die their bodies end up being recycled in the biosphere. This is particularly so for tropical rainforests and temperate regions. Even in arid regions, dead life forms end up returning to dust, as it were. The fact is that no where on the Earth’s surface are there steadily accumulating deposits of biomass; not in the seas or oceans. The reason is obvious – dead life forms are continuously recycled back into the biosphere. This means that the Uniformitarian explanation for the formation of fossiliferous strata is close to mythological and miraculous.
The problem with preserving life forms is ensuring putrefaction doesn’t occur. Life forms are not simply biomechanical organisms but a collection of microscopic life forms in some symbiotic relationship. The human organism, as an example, is host not only to a calcareous skeleton and muscles, but it also has a digestion system populated with billions of microorganisms. On death these microorganisms continue to live and the candida organisms flourish in order to break down the organism back into the environment. It’s a balance that in total is life.
Except when a catastrophic event happens and life forms are, shall we say, snap frozen in situ by an overwhelming deluge of cold icy plasmodial debris that instantly kills even the smallest life forms. Alternatively hot thermalised plasmodial debris, or fire storms, simply incinerates the life forms and nothing ends being preserved. Which means it’s the ice age
s that fossilise life forms in sediments. And such ice ages are not slow creeping coldness events from which life forms could migrate away from, but catastrophic inundations of bitterly cold, electrified slurries and deluges of attritioned crustal rocks as fine muds and silts and sands.
But catastrophes are anathema to modern science except, of course, when political imperatives require them as a climatic prophesy.
And if your brain has been addled by the inculcation of Western Mores, then comprehension becomes difficult.
 
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As long as the wind packs the drifts so you can walk on them all is good. No doubt I will have to endure those blasted chinooks again, damn, lol.
 
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Walter said:
Extreme Alaska cold grounds planes, disables cars
By STEVE QUINN, Associated Press Writer Steve Quinn, Associated Press Writer – Thu Jan 8, 5:59 am ET
JUNEAU, Alaska – Ted Johnson planned on using a set of logs to a build a cabin in Alaska's interior. Instead he'll burn some of them to stay warm.
Extreme temperatures — in Johnson's case about 60 below zero — call for extreme measures in a statewide cold snap so frigid that temperatures have grounded planes, disabled cars, frozen water pipes and even canceled several championship cross country ski races.
Alaskans are accustomed to subzero temperatures but the prolonged conditions have folks wondering what's going on with winter less than a month old.
National Weather Service meteorologist Andy Brown said high pressure over much of central Alaska has been keeping other weather patterns from moving through. New conditions get pushed north or south while the affected area faces daily extremes.
"When it first started almost two weeks ago, it wasn't anything abnormal," Brown said. "About once or twice every year, we get a good cold snap. But, in this case, you can call this an extreme event. This is rare. It doesn't happen every year."
Temperatures sit well below zero in the state's various regions, often without a wisp of wind pushing down the mercury further.
Johnson lives in Stevens Village, where residents have endured close to two weeks of temperatures pushing 60 below zero.
The cold has kept planes grounded, Johnson said. Food and fuel aren't coming in and they're starting to run low in the village, about 90 miles northwest of Fairbanks.
Johnson, whose home has no heater or running water, said he ventures outside only to get more logs for burning and to fetch water from a community facility. He's been saving the wood to build a cabin as a second home, but that will have to wait a few years now because the heat takes precedence.
"I've never seen it this cold for this long," he said. "I remember it 70 below one time, but not for a week and a half."
In Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, residents are used to lows of about 10-degree temperatures in January — not 19 below zero, which is what folks awoke to Wednesday morning.
Temperatures finally settled to about 10 below at midday, but that was cold enough to cancel races in the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships.
Skiers won't compete unless it's warmer than 4 below zero, but the numbers have ranged between 10 below and 15 below.
That has led to four days of canceled or postponed competition with organizers hoping to get a set of races under way on Thursday, the event's final day.
Meanwhile, in Juneau, the state's capital is enjoying balmy weather by comparison with lows in the single digits.
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-60°F is colder than winter on Mars.
 
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petros said:
A hurricane in the height of hurricane season?
How the Hell did that happen?
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Five hurricanes in the Atlantic and one humdinger giant about to clobber the Phillipines while Alberta gets snow. Is the climate becoming unstable?

No, no, no sez Random Internet Climate, Geology, Sonar Imaging and Marine Navigation Expert (Do you have a badge, Petros?)

I know! The solution is to burn more petroleum. HUSKY OIL OF CALGARY is the very best and using as much as you possibly can will fix the glitches in the climate and save the planet from the coming ice Advance.

BTW, MAGA! Trump has outlawed climate change!
 
petros

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Drunk again or is it your lack of education rearing it's ugly head?

I'm qualified to write a paper and be considered a "climate scientist", are you?
 
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