what year was that bill?...and where did you live in sydney?..merle
Merle, I worked in Sydney for CBA for about 6 months. During that time my wife and I took a train trip up into the mountains to a town called Katoomba. Do you live near there? ...Bill! --- In [email protected], Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote: > > > > Â here in my neck of the woods..the greatest fear is bush fires...merle > Â > Suresh, > > I don't know if it's an explanation, but I understand that Climate Change is > having effects upon the annual Monsoon, and the general atmospheric > circulation over the Himalaya. > > Many have been viewing with alarm the accelerating increase of concentration > in greenhouse gases. Keeling has observed the concentration of Tropospheric > CO2 from Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawai'i since 1958. The tiny > amplitude annual cycle is due to changes in photosynthesis on a seasonal > basis, and the upward climb is due to burning of fossil fuels. Detection of > the annual cycle shows the fine sensitivity of the method. > > Disruptions in the regularity (as to Date) and other behavior of the Monsoon > may have to do with climate changes wrought by general (global) tropospheric > warming. > > The "Keeling Curve" graph is a beautiful piece of work, and is powerful > document. A copy of the graph, almost up to date, and an article about it, > is at Wikipedia: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mauna_Loa_Carbon_Dioxide_Apr2013.svg > > Data that is more up to date can be had from the Carbon Dioxide Information > Analysis Center, in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. I think that the CO2 > concentration is now above 400 parts per million. > > Many hectares of forest land in the western USA is burning now, due to > unusually warm and dry conditions. In Colorado, the year 2012 was the worst > year on record for wildfire damages. The Spring of 2013 has already exceeded > that record. > > We in Arizona are taking extreme measures to avoid fires, now. Our > thunderstorm monsoon begins about July 4 every year, and the rains are > usually preceded by several weeks of "dry" storms with lots of lightning. > Warming and climate change seem to have made our desert even drier, lately. > We are not likely to have flooding here, but fires, instead, on our wooded > mountains. > > --Joe > > > SURESH JAGADEESAN <varamtha@> wrote: > > > > Shocking News > > ========================================================== > > Rain toll rises to 131, over 73,000 stranded in north > > Casualties In Thousands, > > Dehradun/Shimla: Torrential rains continued to pour [snip] >
