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nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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This is the scene that gives. Thought there are lots of them.


me shivers.

I plan to visit the hotel when I ride over Mt Hood this summer. Supposedly the outside of the lodge on Mt Hood was used in the movie.
Creepy in winter. Hell Yes.


Current conditions:
Temp 23°
Lift Status 6
Snow Depth 143"
 
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joeee

Joined Jun 16, 2018
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8,0 ° C in Greece. Generally speaking the best time to visit Greece is during spring :D
In any case, you can always check this information in <SNIP>

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wayneh

Joined Sep 9, 2010
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Creepy in winter. Hell Yes.
Only if you flood your mind with the context of the movie. Personally, I find that kind of scene really beautiful. Maybe it's my Neanderthal genes, but the silence and austerity of a nighttime snowscape is incredibly moving. It takes me right back to being a little kid dragging my sled home after dusk after a long afternoon on the sled hill. Cold, wet, tired, by all rights I should be miserable but instead I'm in a trance from the glow reflected on the snow. Only my hunger drives me home.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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Who are you going to believe?

I think the evidence for human-induced climate change is overwhelming from past to present data but have almost no faith in models that predict specific future changes using human generated models that forecast weather using that data.
That’s why it was so puzzling that NOAA’s Martin Hoerling was quoted in the NY Times Thursday saying “to state the obvious, this drought has occurred principally due to a lack of rains, not principally due to warmer temperatures.” He ended by saying, “It is quite clear that the scientific evidence does not support an argument that this current California drought is appreciably, if at all, linked to human-induced climate change.”
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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I've yet to see any evidence. There are hypotheses, and models based on those hypotheses (which have poor predictive ability), but no real evidence.
The evidence I believe in is called thermodynamics. Humans are altering the 'natural' cycles of energy flows on this planet in amounts that are no longer just a noise factor. The end effects of those alterations is where I have a problem with climate science.
 

wayneh

Joined Sep 9, 2010
18,108
The evidence I believe in is called thermodynamics. Humans are altering the 'natural' cycles of energy flows on this planet in amounts that are no longer just a noise factor.
That's an hypothesis, that our GHGs are altering the thermodynamics. It's a reasonable hypothesis but largely unproven in my read of it. Few would argue in favor of adding any more carbon dioxide than we 'need' to, but I'm far from convinced that the CO2 we're adding rises above the noise in natural cycles. A recent presentation on the topic:
https://edberry.com/blog/climate-ph...ontradictions-to-ipccs-climate-change-theory/
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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That's an hypothesis, that our GHGs are altering the thermodynamics. It's a reasonable hypothesis but largely unproven in my read of it. Few would argue in favor of adding any more carbon dioxide than we 'need' to, but I'm far from convinced that the CO2 we're adding rises above the noise in natural cycles. A recent presentation on the topic:
https://edberry.com/blog/climate-ph...ontradictions-to-ipccs-climate-change-theory/
I think that natural cycles currently do modulate human activities but don't alter the trend. So far IMO it looks like positive feedback. Maybe the human effect will limit like a tube amp with too much input signal, so the absolute level of natural cycles won't change. I don't want my children and grandchildren to find out it doesn't.
 
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