Americans: Time to Join the Global Warming Fight!

[wolram]

You Americans must get on the global warming band waggon

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17980146/

 

[hypatia]

But I love peaches and blueberries

 

[Astronuc]

Yeah, we're trying to conserve on energy so we turned down the heat.

Guess we overdid it a bit.

We had a low temperature of about 22°F (-5.6°C) this morning. It is supposed to be between 20-30°F (-6 to -1°C) overnight for the next 3 or 4 days.

 

[Evo]

We were forecast to go down to 18F last night. I've had to run the heater all week. I've probably lost all of my peaches and the few pears.

 

[turbo]

Luckily, all the fruit trees and berry bushes here are still in dormancy, so the recent blizzard and forecast low temps shouldn't have any negative impact on us. I have had to put out a LOT of seeds every day for the birds, though. The warm weather lured the finches and juncos north and with the ground covered by 1-1/2 feet of new snow, they're relying on me for food. At any given time, there may be 50-100 birds swarming around the feeders - mostly goldfinches.

 

[larkspur]

Luckily, all the fruit trees and berry bushes here are still in dormancy, so the recent blizzard and forecast low temps shouldn't have any negative impact on us. I have had to put out a LOT of seeds every day for the birds, though. The warm weather lured the finches and juncos north and with the ground covered by 1-1/2 feet of new snow, they're relying on me for food. At any given time, there may be 50-100 birds swarming around the feeders - mostly goldfinches.

Get out there and take more pictures!

 

[turbo]

Get out there and take more pictures!

OK

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[Astronuc]

Goldfinches in the NE US

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