Global Warming giving Northwest's weather that California feel

This was a story by Bill Monroe in today's Oregonian. It had to do with fish runs (and how Oregon might become more suited to bass fishing than salmon fishing in the near future), but it has relevance for us when people start debating about whether or not a Portland baseball stadium needs a roof.

We don't need no stinkin' roof!

Ummmmm, I'll believe Portland is as nice as So-Cal, when I start seeing tourists swimming in the ocean off of Cannon Beach.

That being said, and I'm no global warming expert, but has the amount of rain fall in Portland dropped steadily the last 10 or 20 years. Because if it has, then great. We could probably do without a roof.

Perhaps I'll cruise around Portland, and spray aerosal cans out the window... you know just to help the global warming effort.

Of course there's "Global Warming", technically we are still in an ice age that's been going on for the last 12,000 years....

I just don't get the hooey about "Global Warming"....What do they want? Everyone running around like Quinn the Eskimo wearing parkas and chasing walrus?

When palm trees are growing in Seattle naturally and the forcast for Christmas Day calls for clear skys and 82 I'll be one happy UV baked camper....

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Perhaps I'll cruise around Portland, and spray aerosal cans out the window... you know just to help the global warming effort.

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Thats turning lemons into lemonade Portland style! Good stuff! Maybe they should have written that into the movie "Day After Tommorow"

Ya know on a seriuos note, some towns in Alaska are seeing mosquitos for the first time, bears cant migrate over what used to be frozen and some villagers can no longer use a hole in the ground as their traditional refrigerator. I know there are lots of other grim examples out there. What percentage of global warming is natural or man made will be a long long debate. But I'm noticing fewer and fewer people who deny it is a real problem worsening exponentially.

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Originally posted by Roy:
What percentage of global warming is natural or man made will be a long long debate. But I'm noticing fewer and fewer people who deny it is a real problem worsening exponentially.

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The sun is getting warmer & humans aren't responsible for that. Killing our economy to offset rising solar temperatures that we can not control is insane public policy.

We'll log other worlds after we're done here

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Originally posted by Kingdome:

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Originally posted by Roy:
What percentage of global warming is natural or man made will be a long long debate. But I'm noticing fewer and fewer people who deny it is a real problem worsening exponentially.

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The sun is getting warmer & humans aren't responsible for that. Killing our economy to offset rising solar temperatures that we can not control is insane public policy.

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And herein lies the global warming debate. Is it really out of our control?

Anyway, I'll believe we have a problem when Cannon Beach turns into Venice Beach.

Must be a slow news day today!

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We'll log other worlds after we're done here

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We will boldly go where no OSC has gone before.

I hear Martian cedar really holds its color longer than the stuff we have here.