I just took a short bike ride up into the foothills west of Fort Collins, and captured a few pictures along the way. Somehow I failed again to see nature in collapse.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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It is supposed to be brown. It is all your fault that it is green! That is unnatural. Especially during an exceptional drought.
No, you see, there are spots that do not feature bad weather preventing trees, which was obviously caused by pine beetles destroying them, all because someone drove a fossil fueled vehicle and drank a CO2 infused beer.
If you don’t see it, must not be happening. SCIENCE!
If the climate was collapsing, we would probably notice.
I notice from the photos that you’re still in extreme drough.
“Somehow I failed again to see nature in collapse.”
Try setting your video camera to ‘time delay’, taking 1 frame every second. When you play it back all sped up, you’ll see leaves bending over from the cruelty of the wind, flowers shriveling as the local bees suck them dry, and, if you look closely, the blood and gore and dismemberment and beheadings as the insects battle to the death.
It’s not for the squeamish.
Well, I find I am hard to please today. Those pictures, while beautiful, could be of just about any state BUT Colorado–I see stuff like that here in Tennessee (and I would prefer to be in Colorado). You need (for my sake) to bike up-canyon, into the mountains, and further south a bit, around Boulder at least, not Fort Collins (which, having lived in both, I know is to Boulder like a Wal-Mart parking lot is to paradise–simply because it is right in the foothills, up against the mountains). Show us pictures of aspen in the mountains, beside an old gravel road, with grass-covered, tree-strewn and flower-decked nearby peaks looming fertilely in the background. Or an opulent, torrential stream, coursing down a mountain canyon alongside the highway. (CU keeps sending me the “Coloradan”–because I am an alumnus–with a centerfold two-page picture of the local scenery in every issue. So I shouldn’t complain too much.)
What were we talking about? Oh yes, the climate. Well, the Colorado climate is great, and it’s just unfortunate that it’s not global–as no climate on Earth is, by the way, even that supposedly defined by the global mean surface temperature (hint, hint, climate scientists).
…Boulder is the one right in the foothills, not Fort Collins.
A significant percentage of Fort Collins is in the foothills, including the CSU atmospheric sciences building.
I live in Fort Collins – a five minute bike ride from the foothills. Fort Collins has a better system of bike trails than Boulder. I wouldn’t take a bike up Boulder Canyon – too many cars and the road is too narrow. All of the pictures above were taken by me in Fort Collins today.
I’d call this one a collapse (a collapse of the psychotic imaginations)…
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/89799.html
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/antarctic.sea.ice.interactive.html
http://flip.it/9pIxG apparently you did not see this collapsing climate endeavour…
You must have missed the part where there has been no sea level rise on the west coast for over thirty years