Here are my kids at the beach on Christmas day. Best wishes to all my readers.
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Of course, to get to the beach we went through a long dark scary tunnel. Our only light source was the camera's flash. |
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Also on the way we walked along the top of a high cliff. |
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Justin was worried that Silas would fall off the cliff, so he put him on leash. |
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As we can see, sea levels have not risen. It has snowed in Texas for the first time in 83 years, (so media tells us) and I wait for Hanrahan to again repeat his refrainW'all be roooned!
Louis
your inability to stop behave civilly even for a single day is truly extraordianry.
If you have so much time and energy to spare, why don't you stop by the "worst argument ever" thread and explain how the Chinese medieval measurements of the length of the day match your bizarre theories.
Your comment about it snowing in Texas (if it was meant seriously) reveals that you have failed to read or failed to comprehend most of the literature on global warming which predicts that a more energetic anf turbulent atmosphere will result in more extreme weather events of all sorts.
Adding to Ian's comments, the snowing in Texas remark also reflects at least 2 other common screw-ups of global warming skeptics - 1) chronic conflation of local weather events and/or trends with global climate trends, and 2) a lack of understanding of the fact that increasing temperatures imply an increasing moisture carrying capacity of the lower atmosphere (simple application of Boyle's Law and partial pressures), and therefore, of increased precipitation events - exactly as the IPCC and the NAS have been repeating with the frequency of a chiming clock for years now.
Back to the basic theme of this post (which Louis appears to have accidently posted on rather than the "worser" one), nice pictures Tim. Merry Christmas, and a very happy and productive New Year, stemming the never-ending tide of innumerates and Right-Wing illiterates.
Merry Xmas Tim! Hope it is a great new year for you too.
All the best to you & yours Tim.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!