Ice almost out at Lake Auburn (global warming, Maine)

[jpak]

http://www.sunjournal.com/node/816092

AUBURN — The signs are all there. The ice is growing darker by the hour. It’s receding from the shoreline. The outlet along Route 4 has opened and there is nothing but warmth in the forecast through the weekend.

Could it be? Could the ice go out in Lake Auburn in mid-March, shattering all of the records since such things were tracked?

There are some who dare to believe.

“It looks like it’s going to go out pretty soon,” Mary Jane Dillingham said Thursday. "It’s looking pretty dark out there. I think it will go out by the weekend.” Dillingham is water quality manager at the Auburn Water District.

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Many large lakes in central Maine went out this week. the rivers went out weeks ago, waterfowl have moved inland. the snowpack is gone in central Maine, southern Maine golf courses opened weeks ago...

deniers suck

:thumbsdown:

[jwirr]

1. Northern Minnesota - lakes are thawing, Geese are back. Rhubarb

is growing. We did have flurries today but only for a little while. This is early for us also.

[jpak]

4. People were walking around oustside in shorts and tee-shirts yesterday

:hi:

Portland had a record high temp last week (64 o) and it's been above freezing 24/7 for a while.

Maine experienced a 90+ degree day in April last year - for the first time ever.

deniers suck

:thumbsdown:

[NNadir]

2. Well, you have to admit, a foetid hot lake is a great place to make or pretend to make

a giant biodigester to make renewable gas.

That would be a great thing, of course, especially since the State of Maine is increasingly fond of dumping increasing amounts of dangerous natural gas waste into the atmosphere.

In 1990 Maine got just 39.9% (in percent talk) of its electricity from dangerous fossil fuel burning, followed by dangerous fossil fuel waste dumping in Maine's favorite dangerous fossil fuel waste dump, Earth's atmosphere.

It seems that in 1996, the people of Maine, egged on by people who had some balderdash illiterate concern with stuff they know nothing about - tritium and shit like that - destroyed the largest single source of climate change gas free infrastructure in the entire state.

The did this while handing out a load of biodigestable horseshit about how wonderful solar and wind power are, and how clear cutting their forests, grinding them up, and heating them until they belched carcinogens all over their favorite dump, the atmosphere, would make the Yankee Maine nuclear plant unnecessary.

The very next year, Maine's hare of electricity produced from dangerous fossil fuel waste production rose from 36% to 49%.

The dangerous fossil fuel waste dumping method of generating electricity in Maine has been over 65% every year since 2000.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profiles/sept04me.xls

You think denial sucks? Don't make me fucking laugh.

[jpak]

3. A pantload o' sickfuckery. The OWNERS of Maine Yankee shut it down - not the "people of Maine"

Why did the OWNERS of Maine Yankee shut it down?

Because Maine Yankee was an unprofitable piece of shit.

yup!

:rofl:

[Throckmorton]

5. That had such poor configuration management

that I almost wept when I saw it.

This from a life long CE plant engineer that did start-up on Palo-Verde #3.