Let's talk about the weather!

[Bereta_Eder]

or this. And this is a small hill in center Athens BTW.

[Az]

paiktis, I hope you were using irony , because that old abandoned house in the background was kinda giving it away ....

[axi]

And this is a small hill in center Athens BTW

I don't think anyone doubts that the Acropolis is in center Athens, man!

[C0ckney]

[Dauphin]

Lost your marbles?

Originally posted by axi


I don't think anyone doubts that the Acropolis is in center Athens, man!

I thought it was in the British Museum.

[faded glory]

Actually all the insides and statues are in a brit museum. And the brits arent about to give any of it back

Ya we had only 5 inches of snow (what the hell ). Its actually not global warming or anything. The Stupid Jet stream is to the south of us So we get no precipitation...Its all gone to Georgia.

[Case]

It's really smokey here in Canberra today. I guess that's what happens when a large chunk of your neigbouring state is burning

[faded glory]

Poor Koala's....I saw a picture of a bunch of aussie animals runnin down a sydney street trying to escape blaze

[Peter Triggs]

Paiktis, don't know whether this supports your global warming theory or not but it was in an e-mail I got from a friend in northern Ontario (Canada) the other day:

And the weather! January 3rd and minus 7 Celsius!
That's warm.The coldest it's been so far is minus 22 or so. A very warm
season so far. May it continue.

Guess it all depends what you're used to.

[Berzerker]

It seems that a big cold wave has simultanuously struck North America, Japan and Eastern Europe (75% of the developped world that is)

It's called winter.

while a heat wave and serious wildfires are threatening Australia.

It's called summer.

IMHO this is proof of the effects global warming has in destabilising the earth's weather: hotter summers and colder winters all over.

Hehe, you need to look at temperature graphs paleo-climatologists have developed covering the last 20 or 30 thousand years. Current patterns are EXTREMELY stable compared to the past. What we really need to worry about is the coming ice advance and it's trigger...

On the home front: This is the first time we've got snow in downtown Athens since March 1987

Cool! I remember the year it snowed in San Francisco. Boy did we have a blast
Being right on the coast makes snow, much less snow that actually stays on the ground, a rarity.

Come on, northerners, share your experiences with us!

Here in Kansas we are having a very warm winter. Only a few flakes have reached the ground so far and we are supposed to hit the 50's this coming week. And I was hoping to let my ribcage heal over the winter and we're still getting weather conducive to golf

[Imran Siddiqui]

Needs warming up...

Cold here (in Jersey, like usual), about 30s Farenheit. Want it to be summer again .

[faded glory]

I think the australia fires are mainly caused by arsonist's and spotanouesly combusting kangaroo's

[Berzerker]

Yup, and the reason we had such a firestorm in Yellowstone a few years back was environmental policies by the US government. They would try to put out fires instead of letting nature take it's course eventually leading to a build up of dead brush that would fuel the firestorm once it was triggered.

Maybe you Aussies should let the aborigines run your land management down under. They have a long history of dealing with the land and preventing these kinds of disasters by burning off the accumulation of fire hazards every year.

[Bereta_Eder]

Oh yeah sorry I guess I really wanted to underline the fact that it is snowing in the center of Athens (that's pretty exceptional )

BTW Axi, heed the words of papastrumf:

Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis told reporters it was the worst weather in 40 years and asked citizens to take care and limit their travel.

``I would like to call on all citizens to be careful and limit their movements. This is an unusual phenomenon and beautiful to watch but also dangerous,'' he said.

No ****! I kept on nearly falling every step I took. (because I didn't heed papastrumf's words )

[Bereta_Eder]

BTW the brits have stolen the marbles of Parthenon. The ones they are accusing us of having lost (as well as our sanity)

These are beautiful sculptures of marble that used to adorn the upper front part of the Parthenon sold by the turks during the ottoman occupation to "Lord" Elgin. And they have bleached them in the British Museum thus destroying their original color

They also have one of the cariadites. These are beautiful statues of women that serve as columns for the building of Erechtion, left of Parthenon on the sacred hill of Acropolis.

Someday...