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This even more just in - the weather thread
GarandMarine:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 14 Dec 2013, 11:50 ---
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 14 Dec 2013, 08:18 ---It's proof of climate change that's for sure.
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Though of course no single event is proof of anything much other than that it happened.
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Mhmm. Just remember kids, when our parents were young (Well. Those of us belonging to Gen X and the Millennials any way) the freak out du jour was human induced global cooling.
Snowing and raining, and generally sucking is the weather here.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 14 Dec 2013, 15:14 ---when our parents were young [...] the freak out du jour was human induced global cooling.
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I guess I fit that demographic, so I'll bite - our freak-out was not climatic at all; it was the imminence of global nuclear war and the likely long-term effects (including the so-called "nuclear winter").
GarandMarine:
*the environmental freak out du jour :P
pwhodges:
My awareness of the environment (in this sense) was at that time limited to stuff about the Romans growing vines in England (which restarted last century after being impractical for over a millennium); changes in sea level (as the British Isles tilted) causing the Isle of Thanet (part of Kent) to change from being an island as it was in Roman times to being part of the mainland; and the river Thames at London freezing over in Tudor times sufficiently for bonfires to be built on it to roast oxen (I saw it frozen right across in my childhood as far downstream as Reading, 40 miles from London, but not strongly enough to walk on, let alone build a bonfire).
And nuclear winter, as mentioned above.
blacksinow:
Where I live, snow is known as the white death. People panic in droves just to pick up days worth of supplies as though they were stocking up their bunkers for the cold war. Kid you not, people around here are scared to death of the snow, to the point that it is funny.
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