Climate Change Woes

Dick L · Dec 27, 2015

Climate change has me bewildered. Last year the cold had my horse water buckets froze night and morning. Had to haul them into the house to thaw enough to dump the ice before the next feeding. With the change in climate this year I have only had to do that a few times but with the rain and mud I have a problem carrying the water in the mud with the fear of slipping in the slime. I can't figure out if I should be grateful or upset for this year or still mad about last years cold.

W30 Lee · Dec 27, 2015

Just wait a while, and it will change. Been through many of these weather cycles. Only thing different is that the politicos are wanting to make it a crises. LE

mj · Dec 27, 2015

(quoted from post at 22:31:58 12/27/15) Just wait a while, and it will change. Been through many of these weather cycles. Only thing different is that the politicos are wanting to make it a crises. LE

You got that right! :wink:

Gary from Muleshoe · Dec 28, 2015

We are suffering from climate change here in the Texas Panhandle also. Instead of of light jacket it is in the teens and we have 18 inches of snow on the ground. Roads are impassable and idiots are still trying to travel. I believe the cold has effected their brain cells.

Richard G. · Dec 28, 2015

AMEN.
Richard in NW SC

Bkpigs · Dec 28, 2015

(quoted from post at 06:05:14 12/28/15)

(quoted from post at 22:31:58 12/27/15) Just wait a while, and it will change. Been through many of these weather cycles. Only thing different is that the politicos are wanting to make it a crises. LE

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You got that right! :wink:

nail on the head there!

W_B · Dec 28, 2015

(quoted from post at 05:00:28 12/28/15) Climate change has me bewildered. Last year the cold had my horse water buckets froze night and morning. Had to haul them into the house to thaw enough to dump the ice before the next feeding. With the change in climate this year I have only had to do that a few times but with the rain and mud I have a problem carrying the water in the mud with the fear of slipping in the slime. I can't figure out if I should be grateful or upset for this year or still mad about last years cold.

Dick, two words for you: Heated Buckets. From a fellow Ohioan.

rrlund · Dec 28, 2015

That's why it's climate change,not climate constant. No matter what happens though,it's our fault and we have to stop living.

dzc3 · Dec 28, 2015

Who was it that said never let a crisis go to waste?

showcrop · Dec 28, 2015

When we had sheep, for the Rams, that didn't have access to the heated waterer, we used to watch the forecast and if it was going to be cold we put just a little water in the buckets. Next morning the ice could be just knocked out and then filled.

MarkB_MI · Dec 28, 2015

You need to look up the definitions for "climate" and "weather".

1130Leo · Dec 28, 2015

Ritchie automatic insulated heated waterers, solves all the problems.

Dick L · Dec 28, 2015

Maybe you need to look up the definition of tongue in cheek.

^D

Dick L · Dec 28, 2015

I actually have about a dozen of them. I put them up in the barn hay loft as they were more problems in zero weather than switching buckets.

Tom from IL · Dec 28, 2015

That would be the current mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emmanuel, who is now embroiled in his own crisis.

Dick L · Dec 28, 2015

I look at them often and dream. Under ground plumbing with wire cost seems to make hauling water more practical. A large heated barn would be easier yet when dreaming.

gtractorfan · Dec 28, 2015

Yehbut the ones that do the talking and impose rules don't stop living.

Dick L · Dec 28, 2015

After a few real cold days horses will drink the fresh water before much is left to freeze in real facts. You are correct that most of the time it is not much extra work. If it was I wouldn't be able to do it.

just another old geezer · Dec 28, 2015

18 inches of snow is just a mild inconvenience here in Wisconsin. Up here, that's not even a good enough reason to be late for work.

rrlund · Dec 28, 2015

Nope,they fly around on jets and talk about it. As long as they tell somebody to plant a tree,it eases their conscience. After all,intentions mean more than actions.

Dieselrider · Dec 28, 2015

I would like to help but, I really struggle with that suggestion.

old · Dec 28, 2015

Ya the last few years have been very odd when it comes to what the weather has been doing. It is unheard if the have 5-10 inches of rain in July but we did. It is also unheard of the have 5-10 inches of rain in Dec. Then to have it happen twice in one year is also unheard of.

RayP(MI) · Dec 28, 2015

Yeahbut - you might want to put it in 4wd!

ss55 · Dec 28, 2015

Once our clay ground is saturated, for the next several days any new rainfall just runs off instead of soaking into the soil.

After having problems caused by two "100 year rainfalls" within five years, I looked into how those levels were established. Older records only recorded the "daily" rainfall. If you look at consecutive days, the total rainfall from one "rainfall event" lasting several days can be significantly higher than the daily records would indicate. I suspect past flooding has actually been much worse than the records indicate or anyone remembers.

Deere Scotty · Dec 28, 2015

We didn't cause the Ice Ages, & we didn't melt them! Evidence its mostly if not all poppycock!!!

Bolens 1000 · Dec 28, 2015

Yep, I agree with the others on here, "Climate change" is nothing but a hoax that gets politicized and puts a damper on how we live our lives, but yet the ones who push for regulations still get to live their lives.

Weather has been changing for millions of years , cooling warming then cooling again before we were ever on this planet.
The things that always kill me how they say we "Broke a temperature record" When we have only been keeping records for 200 years or less in some places and whos to say the temp wasnt 50 degrees warmer 300 years ago on a certain day ???

Janicholson · Dec 28, 2015

It matters very little whether we attribute the effects to people and burning forests and fossil fuels, or the natural changes of the earth and solar system. Dealing with what we will be getting in the next 25 years might just be dramatic enough to plan for and worry about. 600 million people live close to sea level. They will be moving up hill. Jim

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