superyooser's Journal: Global warming humor

These pictures are from slideshows linked from this article about southern California getting rare snow and ice; 3 inches in some places; LA's first snow in 30 years!

Tropical freezing ("Ice in Ojai Orchard" - Stephanie Callahan)

Do the global warming dance! ("Freezing in Palmdale" - F. Melero)

An inconvenient truth ("cold in Lawndale" - Mike Lanning)

"Help us, Al Gore!" ("very small snowmen along Kanan Road in Malibu hills" - Christine Vanek)

Hate to mention it

[Marxist Hacker 42]

But that storm (which hit us in Oregon too) is actually a SYMPTOM of global warming. More chaotic winters is part and parcel of the price of hotter summers on the west coast of the US.

What you're getting mixed up is the difference between weather and climate. I did too to a certain extent.

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[superyooser]

But that storm (which hit us in Oregon too) is actually a SYMPTOM of global warming. More chaotic winters is part and parcel of the price of hotter summers on the west coast of the US.

So, let me get this straight. Warmer winters are evidence of global warming. Colder winters also are evidence of global warming. Is there any mercury level that isn't evidence of global warming?

What you're getting mixed up is the difference between weather and climate.

This brings up a question I thought of earlier: Why

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

So, let me get this straight. Warmer winters are evidence of global warming. Colder winters also are evidence of global warming. Is there any mercury level that isn't evidence of global warming?

A winter can be statistically warmer (climate) with individual colder events (weather). Chaos theory in action. Individual mercury levels mean nothing- statistical averages are what global warming is about. Due to the mess caused by global warming, you can have *some* statistical points that are much, much lower

Moo

[Chacham]

The CHP began escorting motorists

Oh no, images of Eric Estrada and what's his name come to mind.

I still can't figure out if i liked that show. :P

Don't answer! It's a trap

[TheConfusedOne]

Being able to provide the correct name will forever brand you as hopeless. :-D

Moo

[ncc74656]

That last one is begging to be photoshopped. "HALP US ALL GOER, WEE R STUK HEAR N KALIFOURNYA!"

(Frakking lameness filter...garbage added here to bypass it.)

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[iminplaya]

No, the filter got it right :-)

Tiny Snowmen

[Talinom]

"very small snowmen along Kanan Road in Malibu hills" - Christine Vanek

The reason they are so small is that they decided to go and buy them at the Gucci store. They are also about $10,000 each, handmade, individualy numbered and guaranteed to have a limited lifespan. Nobody but you will ever own one the same.

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[iminplaya]

They're probably not made of the kind of snow you're thinking of. You know that a "White Christmas" in Beverly hills is just the butler throwing handfuls of cocaine from the roof.