Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-03-02 Thread dseretakis--- via Mercedes
Tell me about it. As I write this I'm headed to buy ten gallons of kerosene to keep the oil tank from running out till I get my next delivery. $1000 per month this winter in oil. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 2, 2015, at 8:09 AM, Jon Agne jonag...@gwi.net wrote: Every morning when I wake up,

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-03-02 Thread Jon Agne via Mercedes
Every morning when I wake up, I look out the window to check Dimitri’s chimney. If his house were a steam locomotive, it’d be moving down the tracks at 90mph! On Mar 2, 2015, at 6:41 AM, dseretakis--- via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Oh shut it! :) Sent from my iPhone On

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-03-02 Thread dseretakis--- via Mercedes
Oh shut it! :) Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2015, at 10:51 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Should I mention that we had to turn on the AC today? Guess not Dan On Mar 1, 2015, at 10:01 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-03-02 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
We had our first real ice storm yesterday. Started as snow then rained hard with temps. below freezing. Today was a wintry wonderland, but it's gotten warmer so I was ably to safely commute. Andrew (DC Area) On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-03-01 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
dseretakis--- via Mercedes wrote: Hmm. My house consumed 500 gallons of heating oil in one month with the thermostat set at 57 degrees. I just spent $600 to have ice dams removed from my roof but they were so thick that they are now only 1 foot thick at the eaves. I'm not liking this winter

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-03-01 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
I am SO glad that I'm not heating with propane this last month! It was 16F yesterday morning, and the aux heat strip in the geothermal heat pump did NOT turn on! The 400 gallons of propane that I have will be burned in the grill . . . On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-03-01 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Peter wrote: One more blast of cold air and   low temps below 10F and I think winter is done. ‎ I hope you're right Peter. Two miserable winters in a row is enough for a few years... ‎ I'm ready for spring. That would make at least two of us.  Rick Sent from my BlackBerry Z10

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-03-01 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Should I mention that we had to turn on the AC today? Guess not Dan On Mar 1, 2015, at 10:01 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 19:30:48 -0600 OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: The 400 gallons of propane that I have will be

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-03-01 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 19:30:48 -0600 OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: The 400 gallons of propane that I have will be burned in the grill . . . Too bad I use charcoal. My goal was to get the tank under 50 gallons without running out this winter. December/January were so cold

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-03-01 Thread Peter Frederick via Mercedes
It was actually above freezing today! One more blast of cold air and low temps below 10F and I think winter is done. I'm ready for spring. Peter ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-03-01 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
I spent the weekend installing cold air blockers in outlets on outside walls and attaching weatherstrip to seal two leaky patio doors. Don't know why I waited this long... On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 8:30 PM, OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I am SO glad that I'm not heating with

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-03-01 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 19:30:48 -0600 OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: The 400 gallons of propane that I have will be burned in the grill . . . That's going to take awhile! Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-25 Thread LarryT via Mercedes
India is very similar as China when it comes to pollution. but both refuse to engage in limiting activity - *But if this Global Warming gets any worse, I'm going to freeze to death!!* LarryT 91 300D On 2/24/2015 10:06 PM, G Mann via Mercedes wrote: Having traveled to China in the past two

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-25 Thread clay via Mercedes
: Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter On 23/02/2015 4:49 PM, dseretakis--- via Mercedes wrote: Hmm. My house consumed 500 gallons of heating oil in one month with the thermostat set at 57 degrees. I just spent $600 to have ice dams removed from my roof

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-25 Thread clay via Mercedes
the chloroflorocarbons were eating the ozone over the penguins. If we had not stopped with the hair spray and freon, we would never have been able to watch all these disturbing penguin movies. clay On Feb 23, 2015, at 9:23 PM, archer75--- via Mercedes wrote: 40 years ago we had to give

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-24 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
I can take a short drive across the border to Mexico and buy all the R12 I want.. Gallons or pounds of it.. I guess R12 doesn't cause global warming in Mexico? With a license [available via testing online, BTW.] I can purchase R12 at the local Air Conditioning supply store [hey, it's Phoenix, AC

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-24 Thread fmiser via Mercedes
Curly wrote: 40 years ago we had to give up R-12 because of global cooling. Now that we have global warming, why can't we use R-12 again? Seems like it would counteract global warming. Gerry That too was a hoax. We had to abandon r-12 because the dupont patent was expiring. They had

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-24 Thread archer75--- via Mercedes
Curly wrote: 40 years ago we had to give up R-12 because of global cooling. Now that we have global warming, why can't we use R-12 again? Seems like it would counteract global warming. Gerry That too was a hoax. We had to abandon r-12 because the dupont patent was expiring.

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-24 Thread archer75--- via Mercedes
Curly wrote: 40 years ago we had to give up R-12 because of global cooling. Now that we have global warming, why can't we use R-12 again? Seems like it would counteract global warming. Gerry That too was a hoax. We had to abandon r-12 because the dupont patent was expiring.

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-24 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Oh, the joys of conspiracy theories! So much more comforting than dealing with truth. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: 40 years ago we had to give up R-12 because of global cooling. Now that we have global warming, why can't we use R-12

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-24 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
On 23/02/2015 11:09 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote: Well.. it seems my questions and suggestions may have touched a nerve or two... good. Some are stimulated to spew.. others are stimulated to do.. you decide. As for myself, I see indication the numbers were skewed, information was

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-24 Thread dseretakis--- via Mercedes
I don't know what to think. The truth is that my part of the world is getting colder, not warmer. It is my understanding that warming is responsible for the climate change as we now call it. Problem is that I don't see any warming but polar ice caps are melting so how is that explained? And our

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-24 Thread archer75--- via Mercedes
Even if the global warmers are correct, and the solution is a massive worldwide decline in the use of fossil fuels; how is anyone going to stop China and 100+ nations from using fossil fuels and/or stopping practices that increase CO2? Is China going to stop using coal, a major source of

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-24 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:08 PM, G Mann via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: snipI guess R12 doesn't cause global warming in Mexico? R-12 has nothing to do with global warming. It destroys the ozone layer, letting more of the harmful UV rays reach the surface. The hole over Antarctica

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-24 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Having traveled to China in the past two year, I can say without hesitation it is one of the most polluted places ever on the face of the earth. We in America pay through the nose to have our cars inspected each year, and through the nose for ever tighter EPA regulations, while the cloud of

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-24 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
Having traveled to China in the past two year, I can say without hesitation it is one of the most polluted places ever on the face of the earth. We in America pay through the nose to have our cars inspected each year, and through the nose for ever tighter EPA regulations, while the cloud of

[MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Climate change may be to blame for frigid NortheastPublished: Monday, February 23, 2015 Biting winds and frigid temperatures terrorizing the Northeast can be linked to climate change, according to scientists at Rutgers and Wisconsin universities. Researchers found that since the 1990s, the North

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
I do not recall the technical details but an article in the paper here on the weekend suggests that the issue is one of the sun going through a cooler cycle. It suggests that the winter that you folks have been suffering through may become a normal thing for the next 30 years or so as the

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread dseretakis--- via Mercedes
I'm not seeing anything warm on this globe. Climate change I am seeing but how can it be attributed to warming if things are getting colder- much colder. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2015, at 5:06 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I do not recall the

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Climate change may be to blame for frigid NortheastPublished: Monday, February 23, 2015 Hoya! And butter will kill you and coffee will kill you and so it goes. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 5:06 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter I do not recall the technical details but an article in the paper here on the weekend suggests that the issue is one of the sun going through a cooler cycle

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
So, I posed this question to our guides in Patagonia in the Torres del Paine park in Chile. The mountains there are 4000ish feet high which is more than a kilometer, call it 1.5km. They told us the mountains were under a km of ice, so that makes that the ice was 2.5ish km thick (above

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread dseretakis--- via Mercedes
warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter I do not recall the technical details but an article in the paper here on the weekend suggests that the issue is one of the sun going through a cooler cycle. It suggests that the winter that you folks have been suffering through may

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
On 23/02/2015 4:18 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote: Climate change may be to blame for frigid NortheastPublished: Monday, February 23, 2015 Hoya! And butter will kill you and coffee will kill you and so it goes. ___ But BEER is good for you. RB

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Your point is... ? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Climate change may be to blame for frigid NortheastPublished: Monday, February 23, 2015 Hoya! And butter will kill you and coffee will kill you and so it goes.

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
And proof of God's love. -Curt From: Randy Bennell via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Peter Frederick via Mercedes
R-12 was banned due to the destruction of the ozone layer, which is in much better shape now that it was 20 years ago. No recent stories of pigs in Australia with skin cancers on their ears. There was no global cooling, and as far as I remember, no one I was around in those days paid any

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
40 years ago we had to give up R-12 because of global cooling. Now that we have global warming, why can't we use R-12 again? Seems like it would counteract global warming. Gerry That too was a hoax. We had to abandon r-12 because the dupont patent was expiring. They had the best pols money

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Craig: I also have a PhD, I'm not an ignorant yahoo from under a rock. Over the four decades I've been paying attention to this subject, I've had the opportunity to work with people directly involved in the discussion at several universities and Forestry Canada, where I did a Post-Doc. I

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
--R wrote: ...but it certainly was not anthropogenic. Were you there? Did you witness lack of anthropogenic? We really have propensity to jump to conclusions. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Or.. perhaps it could have been to cover the tactical error of cooking the books and outright lying about the scientific findings which kept them in grant money for more than a decade.. perhaps... The question comes could a grant be made to do the calculation of actual cost result of the

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
There has been indeed a great deal of money spent and fake data generated in the climate debate, but it's all from the fossil fuel industry aimed at convincing the general public that climate change is a hoax. Peter, I respect you very much but this paragraph is dead wrong. Read the

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread archer75--- via Mercedes
40 years ago we had to give up R-12 because of global cooling. Now that we have global warming, why can't we use R-12 again? Seems like it would counteract global warming. Gerry Rich Thomas wrote: So, I posed this question to our guides in Patagonia in the Torres del Paine park in Chile. The

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter I'm not seeing anything warm on this globe. Climate change I am seeing but how can it be attributed to warming if things are getting colder- much colder. Sent from my iPhone

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Well.. it seems my questions and suggestions may have touched a nerve or two... good. Some are stimulated to spew.. others are stimulated to do.. you decide. As for myself, I see indication the numbers were skewed, information was spewed, and we were screwed.. Further, I see indications that

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Randy wrote: But BEER is good for you. What is the trio of lines about beer? I drink beer so that... When beer does... Therefore beer is... Someone? mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread dseretakis--- via Mercedes
Tell me why the term global warming went into disfavor? In it's place, some climatologists now use the term climate change. Why? Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2015, at 7:22 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: --R wrote: ...but it certainly was not anthropogenic.

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:30:28 -0600 Peter Frederick via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: None of the anti climate change people are climatologists, and the vast majority of them do not have any real qualifications in science. They do produce very high quality deliverables for their

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Peter Frederick via Mercedes
Craig: I also have a PhD, I'm not an ignorant yahoo from under a rock. Over the four decades I've been paying attention to this subject, I've had the opportunity to work with people directly involved in the discussion at several universities and Forestry Canada, where I did a Post-Doc.

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
Was it because the warming trend stopped about 15 years ago, so in order to keep the grant money flowing they had to come up with something new? -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On February 23, 2015 7:27:48 PM EST, dseretakis--- via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Tell me

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Tell me why the term global warming went into disfavor? In it's place, some climatologists now use the term climate change. Why? Sent from my iPhone Most people caught on that no global warming is happening. Aside from the major prehistoric climate shifts, the solar cycles, and therefore

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:49:37 -0500 dseretakis--- via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I'm not liking this winter and I'm furthermore starting to believe that global warming is one big giant hoax. It is, and a very lucrative one for those who want to control you and for those who want to

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Peter Frederick via Mercedes
There has been indeed a great deal of money spent and fake data generated in the climate debate, but it's all from the fossil fuel industry aimed at convincing the general public that climate change is a hoax. None of the anti climate change people are climatologists, and the vast

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
Well.. it seems my questions and suggestions may have touched a nerve or two... good. Some are stimulated to spew.. others are stimulated to do.. you decide. As for myself, I see indication the numbers were skewed, information was spewed, and we were screwed.. Further, I see indications that bad

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Well.. it seems my questions and suggestions may have touched a nerve or two... good. Some are stimulated to spew.. others are stimulated to do.. you decide. As for myself, I see indication the numbers were skewed, information was spewed, and we were screwed.. Further, I see indications that

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
dseretakis wrote: Climate change I am seeing but how can it be attributed to warming if things are getting colder- much colder. Becuz... We are pumping out all the good fuel used to warm the climate. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
On 23/02/2015 4:49 PM, dseretakis--- via Mercedes wrote: Hmm. My house consumed 500 gallons of heating oil in one month with the thermostat set at 57 degrees. I just spent $600 to have ice dams removed from my roof but they were so thick that they are now only 1 foot thick at the eaves. I'm

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
The volcanos were mentioned in the article I mentioned earlier about cool periods of time. There is evidence of earlier periods when the sun cooled for a time and one of those coincides with a period when there were some massive eruptions too and that cooled things even more. I shall see if

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
I have one and it's great! Dan basking in 70s with open doors/windows On Feb 23, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On 23/02/2015 4:49 PM, dseretakis--- via Mercedes wrote: Hmm. My house consumed 500 gallons of heating oil in one month with the

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread dseretakis--- via Mercedes
I was never a big fan of Florida, but after visiting Amelia Island concours D'elegance last spring, and getting subjected to this bullshit winter, I'm starting to like it. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2015, at 6:15 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I have one and

Re: [MBZ] OT Global warming (aka climate change), linked to frigid winter

2015-02-23 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
The part of Florida I live in (Tampa) is amazingly temperate considering the climate. From October to April our daytime temperatures are typically in the law 70s with low humidity. From May through September it's hot, topping out in the low 90s with moderate humidity. One of the things