Last Year At This Time, Global Warming(Climate Change) Was A Big Topic Here

[Jerry Rapp]

but now it is not, we have a frost advisory for Arcadia Valley tonight(May 11th, Mother's Day is tomorrow and Dad would never sell a tomato plant until mother's day for this reason. Sometimes experience is good) . Sometimes one has to think through it all. Normal temps are normal. It takes highs and lows to make normal. I really did like last year better for fishing, but it is what it is.

[jdmidwest]

I predict there will be global warming after the frost tomorrow night. Based on the pattern of the last month or so, there may be another period of global cooling till the blackberries bloom. Then blackberry winter will be over. After that, probably a normal summer.

Last year sucked for fishing. Low flows kept me off most of the streams that I normally venture out on.

[gotmuddy]

Last year sucked for fishing. Low flows kept me off most of the streams that I normally venture out on.

yes, I didnt get to fish much last summer.

[Al Agnew]

I don't know why I bother...but global warming is just that, global. One day, one month, one season in one year in one spot on earth, means nothing by itself. When you average all those highs and lows in all those areas and look at the trends, you see the real evidence. A cold April in Missouri followed a warmer than average winter. If we have a warmer than average summer, or fall...or if there is somewhere else on earth that has so much of a warmer year that it more than cancels out a cooler than normal year in Missouri...well, you get the point. Just as one tiny example...today it was warmer than normal here in Montana, and tomorrow will come close to breaking the record high temperature.

Oh, and by the way...globally, the decade of the 1980s was warmer than the decade of the 1970s, the decade of the 90s was warmer yet, the decade of the 2000s was still warmer, and the decade of the 2010s is starting out warmer still. That's a trend. Glaciers continue to shrink, permafrost continues to melt, ocean temperatures continue to rise. That's evidence.

In Missouri, there has been a couple months of cooler and much wetter than normal weather. Will it continue? Who knows? But in the global climate picture, it's barely a blip. Last spring was extremely warm and dry, and was the apparent culmination of a long term drought that has been going on since at least the early 2000s, but there were a few normal years within that time period, and maybe even one or two slightly wetter than normal, and certainly one cooler than normal spring in there. The trend there is not yet definitively broken with one much wetter and cooler than normal spring.

[Goggle-Eyed]

LOL, didn't global warming start the day the Ice Age ended? Now the effects of man are surely speeding it up!

Here is a photo showing the pollution in a small city in Northern China. In the fall I visited and loved the city because the skies were crystal blue. was looking forward to this trip last week but when I arrived this is what I was faced with. Because of the NW winds blowing the pollution in from a larger city.

One hour outside, washed my face and turned the wash cloth "black"

[stlfisher]

Al pretty much summed up what i was going to say.

[Chief Grey Bear]

Al, you're on crack! Where do you get off presenting facts as.....well.... facts? Really think your something don'tcha?

Now for rest of you that wouldn't float last year because of Global Drought, yer wussies! You layed around in the air conditioning cause it was too hot and the water was too low. Waaa Waaa Waaa. Don't think for a minute you were the only ones with low streams. A little dragging never hurt anyone.

[bfishn]

At only six letters, global is a pretty big word, and hard to wrap your head around. Thinking local weather in any way represents global weather is like thinking the price of gas will go down in the US if we build a pipeline to move Canadian oil for destinations overseas. It takes a lot of little drops to fill a big bucket.

[jdmidwest]

Now for rest of you that wouldn't float last year because of Global Drought, yer wussies! You layed around in the air conditioning cause it was too hot and the water was too low. Waaa Waaa Waaa. Don't think for a minute you were the only ones with low streams. A little dragging never hurt anyone.

Around here, it was called carrying, not dragging. Better to leave the yak at home and just wade. Then there was the high water temps and the stagnation. And the fishing was not really that great on most of the local streams because of temps.

[Chief Grey Bear]

Fishing was great around here last year. If you didn't mind working at it a little. Toughen up solider!

On a more serious note though, 2, maybe 3 years ago we started out with a really hot summer. The temps and humidity were brutal. We had a wet spring so we had plenty of water. But May through July, not a drop. Temps were at 100 or just below. But it didn't bother the fish. It was on like donky kong all summer.

But come August the weather broke. It rained and the temps stayed in the 80's the rest of the summer. Was a really nice cool rest of the summer. I thought the fishing was really going to turn on then. But it did the exact opposite. It went to nothing. You could buy a bite. I hated it.