Ditto! It's all media hype. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S®4 -------- Original message -------- From: DavidDoy@aol.com Date:02/22/2014 11:57 AM (GMT-05:00) To: lrzeitlin@aol.com,great-loop@lists.trawlering.com Subject: Re: GL: Call Al Gore about cold weather Amen Larry. Hey, it's just winter time. Some are warmer and some colder. Sometime lots of snow, others not so much. I grew up in Michigan, some years we measured snow in inches, some in feet. If it was a cold winter we skated on the farm ponds before Christmas and then all winter on. If a warm one we were lucky to get in a months worth. What we have now, but not back then, is MEDIA and they thrive on anything they can extort as some kind of extreme. They have to hype something to keep ratings up and advertisers $$$$ money coming in. I notice now they are "naming" almost every low pressure weather front that comes through. Why, just to add to the hype and stir the easily influenced masses. It's just the weather, same as always has been. The difference is now we know not only about our own but the rest of the world as well. Especially if it's a stormy day somewhere. It's almost March, lets get ready for boating season. David Doyle _www.CruisingTheGreatLoop.com_ (http://www.cruisingthegreatloop.com/) In a message dated 2/22/2014 9:38:15 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, lrzeitlin@aol.com writes: Jim Graves writes ?Could someone please call Al Gore and tell him we need some warmer weather? Seeing that this weather is so serious, let's all be reminded that the Creator is the One we should call. And that there is a reason the weather is so against us. I am 64, and have never seen a winter half this cold, nor half this snowy. - - - - We should stop being so parochial. World wide this has been the fifth warmest winter in weather recording history. Rain storms drowned Europe while the US west coast was experiencing a drought. There is a near record breaking heat wave in Australia. Remember that the USA encompasses only about 2% of the world's land area and the east coast a fraction of that. It is very cold here but weather mavens consider our conditions a mere blip on the chart of global warming. As for the snow. My wife and I regularly take a two week XC ski vacation in Vermont. This year it snowed so little that we could only get out on the trails three times in 15 days. Yet in our home in the Hudson Valley we had four successive twelve inch blizzards. Buck up. It will be summer soon and we can start complaining about the heat. Larry Z _______________________________________________ http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/great-loop_lists.trawlering.com To modify your Great-Loop subscription options (change email address, unsubscribe, etc.) go to: http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/options/great-loop_lists.trawlering.com _______________________________________________ http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/great-loop_lists.trawlering.com To modify your Great-Loop subscription options (change email address, unsubscribe, etc.) go to: http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/options/great-loop_lists.trawlering.com