I don’t worry about daylilies as a rule. They’re tough. But today I noticed that the daylilies in my mom’s yard are drying out. I’m afraid the corms will dry out in the ground and die this year. That’s bizarre.
It’s ridiculously hot and ridiculously dry this summer. And this doesn’t seem like a one-off heat wave so much as now within normal range–a range where the highs run 9 degrees F (5 degrees C) higher than when I was a kid.
The next (IRL) person who tries to tell me that “Glow Ball Warning” is hokum gets punched in the viscera.
Damn you, Michele Bachman, you stupid bitch, please make a campaign appearance somewhere within driving distance so I can crash the stage and throw you off.
Same person, really. Or just throw muddy ice at them.
Since I live in the middle of a continent, I can look forward to both, & apparently global climate change has unpredictable effects year to year. We actually had a nice summer in the last few years. This one sucks though. Summers are often nasty here anyway, & the suckage is particularly intense this time.
What I think is truly terrible is that global warming is thinning the ozone layer, allowing more gamma rays to shine through–thus wreaking havoc on my sister-in-laws marigolds (yes, fluiddruid, she tried getting her mother and sister to help, but they aren’t exactly friendly towards the whole thing).
Around here, daylilies don’t normally need watered in early July, or ever, really. We are supposed to get some summer storms. So far, it’s been too hot and the rain isn’t falling.
Last four years we’ve had winter (50 degrees all day, rain, drizzle, clouds, nothing else) last until the end of June. Before that it was consistently getting warmer and drier around mid April.
That’s a pretty standard scenario for the effects of global boning, most of the water takes the form of vapor, much less as running water, lakes, etc. Think we have fights over oil, imagine how we’ll fight over water. Imagine what happens to the guys who lose. Or not. Can’t really blame you if you don’t want to imagine that.
This is idiocy. If you are trying to blame your lilies dying on global warming, then you obviously don’t even understand the fucking concept. It’s as stupid as the deniers that look at a record snowfall and say that it is evidence against global warming.
We’re in our third year of drought here in Texas. The temperature on Sunday reached 109.
My trees are starting to die. We’ve already lost a prime Hickory tree and I can see that others are stressed.
Feral pigs are chewing through the hoses out in the field, desperate for water.
It’s real bad.
But I don’t know that because it’s hot this summer. Or even because it’s hotter the past few summers than it was when I was a kid.
The next person who uses short-term data on local temperature, compares it to childhood memories of what whether was like back in the day, and uses that comparison as evidence of global warming gets punched in the viscera.
Most of the rivers around here are at or still above flood stage. The Summer so far has not been out of the ordinary with the exception of the last few days.
The past Winter was colder than normal and Spring was rainy as fuck and arrived later than usual.
We had a nice summer the last few years…thanks, global warming.
It’s hot as fuck this year. Damn you, global warming.
You really have no idea what you’re talking about, do you? All you have is a little bit of information and an agenda…though I wonder if you are even really sure what your agenda is.
I get the feeling that you’re going along with the global warming hipness for hipness’ sake, and you haven’t actually done the homework.
We had so much rain this year that the rivers are overflowing. And summer was so late in coming that all the fruits and vegetables are weeks lake in ripening. I guess Global Warming is nonsense!
For those who are impaired in the irony area, this is another way of saying the OP is as stupid as climate change deniers. They use his exact same argument (short term weather as opposed to long term climate) to deny the effect.
Yes, primarily from increased solar activity. Not much we can do about that. Fortunately, scientists are predicting and overall decrease on solar activity in 2013which will hopefully pull down these temps some.
As for *man-made *global climate change, that topic is up there with guns and religion and “chicken or the egg” philosophy. I believe that no one really knows the answer on man-made climate change–too many variables. That said, dumping enormous quantities of CO2 and other pollutants into the atmosphere is not a healthy or sustainable thing to do. I am for decreasing these emissions more for the air quality, health and sustainability benefits rather than any climate change issue.