BREAKING NEWS: daily miata is trapped, but uninjured.
 

http://i48.tinypic.com/wss502.jpg
Turbo Miata is snuggled up in the garage where its safe.

Dude what the mother fuck. I live 25 minutes from the canadian border and i'm running around outside in a Tshirt, begging nature for snow. Even our local ski resort is weak sauce this year. Meanwhile you're in texas with all the fun white stuff.

Wow. Something similar happened at an apartment complex I used to live at in Carlsbad. They were roofed in clay tile (very heavy) and the stoned driver of a carpet cleaning van backed into one, causing it to fall over sideways such that the roof came down flat.

Only one car was parked under it at the time, a Honda coupe of some sort. The top half of the car was completely pancaked, and all for wheels had, shall we say, more positive camber than is normally attainable.

WOW, go move it before the other side gives out!!

Is that in TX?

Here in northern KY we've got about 8-9" of snow on the ground.

EDIT: Curb, eh? You're in quite a fuckle.

Global warming!!! jk happy your car is safe man..

Wow.


Crazy as shit.

The vintage Taurus is baller.

Fucking crazy. Get some wood and drive up on the sidewalk. The weather lately is crazy. We had a bit of hail/sleet earlier today on the gulf coast.

I got to drive mine for a little bit Tuesday on my Blizzaks... and then the front right tire went low after I hit something on the interstate and I had to park it and drive the Lincoln Towncar instead.

http://tammyandrich2010.net/frozen_miatard.jpg

Yeah, because it would be perfectly safe to walk under there! Just have some with a camcorder standing by...

This snow is lame. It's too thick to have fun in. And it completely trashed my $10 HD lip. Latest report was 12.2 inches, which is a record for us texonians.

Go push that shelter over and get a free track car...

12 inches of snow in TX? WTF?

cheap shots at global warming during snow storms?

meanwhile vancouver has had mostly rain and vancouver has had its warmest january on record.

meanwhile the contiguous united states was .3 degrees above its long term average


nevermind it's hot in australia.

holy fuck it's dark where i live, my localized condition must be a clear indication of a global trend, therefore the sun is gone forever and will never come back

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Regardless of whether you believe global warming is a legitimate phenomenon or not, the idea that "it snowed this week where i live, therefore global warning is bullshit" is so appallingly absurd it makes my head hurt.

Lol, well I thought I was obviously joking.

I did not intend to turn this thread into a global warming debate.

Edit:

Before I get a bunch of people starting arguing let me go back in here and point out that I am joking. I posted the cartoon to make you smile to you not to start a debate.

They obviously decided that global warming was a bad label as now it is global climate change. We did once or more times have an ice age and a tropical age. This was a long time ago. Perhaps we are in another slow temp change in the earth cycle. Even if we are is it human caused? One volcano could change it all in a week. Is it a bad change? How much new farm land would be available for crop production in Canada?

yeah, and my office is bitching because I didn't go in yesterday. Now, I'm getting my shit together and driving to work on summer rubber, in the snow, lol.

4-MORE awnings fell last night.

Man i wish i lived in texas sometimes. All the HPDE's i could handle. And snow!

I dunno man. The HPDE's would be cool, but I'm willing to bet that it gets WAY worse there when it snows than it does here. People act like its the end of days when they say it MIGHT snow in Seattle. I mean, fuck, they canceled school last year because of the possibility of 2 inches of snow...which never came...and they kept on canceling.

Well no snow in Austin but the last two winters have been much colder then normal. it is this damn El Nino! warming everything west of the Rockies and hosing those of us that are east for the Rockies

NOAA El Nio: Research, Forecasts and Observations

Have you listened to Glenn Beck? Yes it does mean that global warming is bull shit. He knows everything. The fact that this guy, and many others on fox, are supposed to be the "voice" of my party really pisses me off.

Its not so much that EVERYONE drives like an idiot...but I have summer tires on and I don't feel like plowing through slushy snow to get to work.

There aren't supposed to be the voice of the party, they are news commentators (Glenn isn't even in the party). Although the way Robert Gibbs behaves, I could see how that could be misconstrued.

Holy shit, I saw this on the news last night!

sorry! VERY low threshold for snow=disproval naysayers!

+1 on that.

I have an even lower threshold for a few warm periods over the past 20 years = man is killing the planet.

The last two months the South and East have been hammered. The NW has been warmer than usual. Yeah for us!

Have fun with that rare snow. States that aren't used to snow really get screwed up when it happens. Not enough plows and poor govt planning on dealing with it.

I wasn't saying that they say they are the voice of the party, but are taken as the voice of the party by masses. They are the source that is easiest to access and most widespread, so people take it as the faces/voices of the Republican Party. They aren't meant to be, but in this day where people don't know how to read a damn book or look anything up for themselves, TV commentators turn into thier source for all thier own politcal views.

Doesn't bother me, I watch Glenn, Greta, Bill, and Shawn daily. and Stossel on Wednesdays.

hey Gays,
Lets be mean to Al Gore on the internet he created!!!

You guys are fucking assholes. Only here could we take a perfectly good opportunity to bash a fellow enthusiast while he's down and worrying about the safety of his daily driver, and turn it into a political whine-fest.

Anything I can do to help. ;)

:hustler::hustler::hustler::hustler::hustler:

http://www2.nationalreview.com/dest/...7/29/goret.jpg

I think Hustler even said he owned that shirt....

I dont mind the pathetic attempt at a jab, but I do mind that you did it so late in the conversation that you look like an idiot.

Fucker's right too - it is. :werd:

Not good weather to be building a deck :facepalm:, but great weather to be drinking on one, so when I finally finish building the fucker, I'm gonna enjoy that cold beer. :friday:

I can agree to drink beer in any weather.

I can drink some Victory Golden Monkey in any weather.

I was a little late getting that one in there..

Maybe next time. ;)
You're only mad that its true.. ;)

We got about 6-8 inches of snow in Moncks Corner (Charleston, SC) yesterday. Lost power for about 10 hours. I'm from up north but most of the people down here (we had a party last night) said this was the most snow they had ever seen.

It's ok, I'll forgive you.


but i still stand by the idea that a couple blizzards in a relatively small region of the US doesn't disprove any long term temperature theory. and when people suggest it does, it only shows their ignorance--regardless of what the truth about the long term temperature theory is.

the earth wobbles as it goes along its elliptical orbit around the sun. As the position of its wobble changes so does the temperature and climate in different regions of the earth. Thus causing cyclical changes in warm and cold periods in earths history. No mysteries or mumbo jumbo. Or people making money of carbon "units"

Damn! I thought those awnings looked solid... I'm glad the beater escaped doom. That Dallas snow was a bitch, looks like it still is.

so what you're saying is that it's wobbling 10 times faster over the last 100 years than it has ever wobbled at any ponit in the last 1000000 years?

average temp has not deviated to much. The dinosaurs did not have fox, cnn, or al gore telling them how quickly or slowing things where changing. The last ice age happend really quick.

Whoa, you had me before that! Are you saying that the Earth is now hotter than it has been at any point in the last 1,000,000 years?

No need to answer that, I know what your answer will be. On the bright side, 30 years from now (well, depending on who writes the history books) we will all see how foolish this global warming crap is instead of just the 70% of us who see it now.

In thirty years we will all be dead because:

1. The killer bees are going to come up from Mexico and sting us all to death. If we don't all die from that then:
2. Y2K is going to crash all the planes and kill us all. If we survive Y2k then:
3. Pesticides will cause cancer and kill us all or make us all sterile.

rate of increase of temperature. i've explained this before in other threads with data and charts. all it has really proved is that this forum is seriously one-sided politically.

Thats the biggest problem with so called "Global Warming" or "Climate Change." Seems to be HIGHLY motivated by political agendas instead of the well being of mankind...


Back on topic, was the daily ever extracted from its pending death?

Oh, but what if the rate of increase was negative for the last 15 years?:

Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995

Read more: Climategate U-turn: Astonishment as scientist at centre of global warming email row admits data not well organised | Mail Online


I have not made a single political statement in this thread. If you want one, here it is - There are a shit load of people in the Republican Party who should be ran out of town for supporting a left wing crackpot idea like global warming. When the dust settles and the fraud has been exposed (I think it already has) I hope they are all held accountable (in both parties).

It is very interesting that the debate/lie keeps changing. Global Warming becomes Climate Change. Warming causing high temperatures becomes Change causes snow and low temperatures. Warming causing hurricanes becomes Change is the cause for lack of hurricanes. Eventually people will become tired of this and move on to more practical matters like what is Lindsey Lohan wearing this week.

except that nearly every industrialized nation's science academies agree that humanity has likely caused an increase in warming over the last several decades. remember, these are NON-profit organizations. look into who the climate change deniers are and what industry (FOR profit) they're in. remember the tens of millions of dollars Exxon Mobil pumped into the public to increase doubt?

surveys and polls of climate change show somewhere over 90% agree that humanity has had an effect.

surveys of the general public (you and me) show less agreement.

the question you have to ask yourself is this:

when you need to learn about something based in very technical, specialized science, do you ask 10 random people on the street or do you call the experts who have studied the subject and analyzed the data?

do you watch glenn beck

or go to the library

Yes, everyone agrees! Well, except these 31,000 scientists:

Home - Global Warming Petition Project

the average rate of increase is not negative for the last 15 years. you own stocks, you know they can still go up even if the current value is lower than some arbitrary spike in the past.

1995 (actually 1998 if you read the article you linked--their headline is wrong) was a cherry picked year that was an outlier. if you follow the trend, it is still upward.

incidentally, this is an el nino year like 1998 was and may show some interesting temperature data.

oh hell, here's the graph:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...mperatures.png

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and here's the thing about science. as science progresses, statements are changed. imagine if scientific theories were never revised. you'd have leeches sucking on you.

the changes are also the result of the public learning more about what is really going on. the concept is still that the globe's temperature is rising no matter what name you give it.

and just because something is complicated (slight increases in temperature cause localized cold and extreme weather) is no reason to write it off.

sorry, where I said "surveys of climage change" I meant to say "surveys of climate scientists".

how many of those 31,000 are actually in the field of climate science? that petition says anyone with at least a BS in a remotely technical field can sign.

even I'm eligible.

WTF is going on here. You guys are way too smart.

The rapid increase in online arguments over the past 20 years has lead to an increase of electricity use. This has caused a spike in carbon emissions that has trapped heat, burned a hole in the ozone and made Al Gore a household name in 120 countries. :)

So, what happened to daily miata?