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Cold Temperatures Freeze Gardening Season

By Mark Geary, Reporter

By Mark Geary

MARION – All of this cold weather is freezing the start of the gardening season. Now, outdoor fans are eager for a warm-up.

"I'm 71-years-old and I've never seen spring come this late," Robert Ciesleck said.

Ciesleck and his family look forward to gardening together every spring. This year, they're not sure when they're going to be able to get their hands dirty.

"When it starts getting into mid-March and April, then things should change fast, but not this year," he said.

On a typical Sunday afternoon, the Culver’s greenhouse would be packed with people, but the recent cold temperatures scared away a lot of customers.

"All the plants are right here. All you can do is come and look for now. I'd hate to take any home quite yet, but it's getting really tempting,” customer Rhonda Kaczinski said.

Cold temperatures aren't the only problem. This winter's snow and ice storms drenched the soil and left it soggy.

"If you can pick up a handful of soil and still wring moisture out of it, it's too wet to plant," Culver’s employee Sherri Baldonado said.

Even though it might be too cold for flowers to take root, Culver's employees recommend buying plants now and storing them in a warm place like a garage.

"I have a saying for people -- If you see it and you like it, take it now, because it may be gone the next time you come back," Baldonado said.

Ciesleck and his family eventually found a few plants they like, and they plan to visit the greenhouse again soon.

Even if we do get some warmer weather, a spring frost is still possible all the way until mid-May. Culver's employees try to warn all of their customers about that possibility.

Tuesday, Apr 29 at 9:13 AM angelos backus wrote ...

http://www.hmsweeny.com/links/GLOBALWARMING.htm

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 7:11 AM Tom wrote ...

It has worked all of Al Gores efforts has turned the global warming into global cooling.

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 6:32 AM Erik M wrote ...

What the Climate Change idiots fail to understand, is that the key element is nitrogen. Old school farmers have known this for centuries. With now the shift in crops towards bio fuels of corn, corn replenishes nitrogen in the ground, but it takes it from the air. Hence, the huge swings in temperatures. "Plant wheat for heat, plant corn for cold" is an old adage. It is the precipitation system that determines temps, and the major element for this system is nitrogen. GET A CLUE!

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 6:26 AM glengarry wrote ...

A credit to America, you lot are.

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 4:54 AM Redmond wrote ...

But the solar cycle also has major shifts every couple of hundred years or so. Also as the russians have been predicting, the sun is now in a super cycle and is expected to be at super low minimum in approx 30 year from now. I was born an raised in Alaska (50 years). The natives depended on the Northern lights to predict future weather. Up to 2005, spectacular display of Northern light almost every night. Last 3 years almost no northern light activity. Go figure.

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 2:18 AM C. Parker wrote ...

The global warming movement is a Trojan horse for a slew of interest groups (clean air, anti-oil, anti-coal, pro-nuclear, anti-Islamofascism, anti-development, etc., etc.) that all hope, for their own reasons, to use it to scam their causes into fruition. But no matter how much merit each cause, its still a fake wooden horse - and a gift we would do better without. We should deal with each issue separately and honestly. The arrogance of scientists who claim to understand climate is stunning.

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 1:37 AM Dennis Slater wrote ...

Here in Phoenix we have had the furnace on all winter. A first. Normally we turn it on only once or twice the entire winter. Definitely cold here. I have lost my flowering shrubs two winters in a row due to frost. What's next? Snow? There is not a scientific debate about global warming. It is a political debate. Scientists, real scientists, welcome debate and doubters in the scientific community. Politicians and scientific political activists want all doubters to sit down and shut up.

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 1:33 AM Nikkofly wrote ...

Global warming and global cooling exist. This fact cannot be argued. The Sun and sunspot activity are not constant. Therefore, history shows climate trends that just so happen to to coincide with solar trends. Despite man's enlightenment and growing knowledge (which could fit on the head of a pin compared to what there IS to know), he is wrong at the top of his arrogant lungs when he concludes and proclaims that we are responsible for sudden worldwide warming (or cooling). Nuff said.

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 1:15 AM Bam Bam wrote ...

Greenland will again be Green...or will it still be iceland...BET on the ice and if not bet on me buying land in Greenland for the next crop.

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 1:11 AM Darrel wrote ...

Sorry to disappoint all the mis-informed global warming deniers. Iowa, like the rest of the US, and the world, is experiencing warming. Anecdotal stories don't trump the actual measurements carefully taken by scientists. Please get informed before tapping at your keyboards. See: Feeling the Heat: Temperatures in Iowa on the Rise http://www.environmentiowa.org/news-releases/global-warming-news2/global-warming-news/feeling-the-heat-temperatures-in-iowa-on-the-rise D.

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 1:08 AM Dennis Wilson wrote ...

Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dwoo three peas in a pod. Can't a great nation find three people less idiotic than these three? All of whom are taken in by what ordinary people like these can see quite clearly. GW is a hoax! Now Global cooling...hmmm.

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 1:01 AM C. FRITSCH, PH.D. wrote ...

This has been a cool year in Hawaii as well with snow on top of Mauna Kea from Dec 2nd to April. Generally the snow only lasts a few days or weeks at most. However, our sun is in an increased active solar cycle which heats up undersea volcanos, which warms the oceans, creates melting at the pole and historically precedes an ice age. Kiluea is very active as are multiple volcanos around the globe. They spew tons of ash into the atmosphere creating the climate changes and cooling off.

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 12:54 AM Kage wrote ...

"Buy our plants anyways!" The avg. temp of the earth has almost nothing to do with carbon levels and everything to do with solar activity.

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 12:52 AM Aurora wrote ...

Has any one asked themselves just how unbelieveably huge the Gore homestead is and what is their consumption of fuel, water, sewage? How many hundered of people live in that huge monster of a house? And what about the jet fuel useage to make that old news movie that is suddenly so popular? And his limo fleet? Come of people - wake up. Fear based control of the lame brain population.

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 12:49 AM Big Carbon Footprint wrote ...

Now that dimwit G. Bush is falling for the Algore hoax. Heaven help us all!

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 12:38 AM kejjer wrote ...

It was a gorgeous day in Houston. mid 40's at night--low 70s in the afternoon. ZERO humidity. with a slight breeze from the NORTH. Normally it would be in the upper 80s with 40% humidity this time of year.--I have one thing to say---If this is GLOBAL WARMING--SIGN ME UP TO SPRAY the next CAN OF CO2.

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 12:36 AM KNG wrote ...

I'm only going to say this once, so listen up. Al Gore should be arrested and put it jail for life. All the evidence a date says the temp. of the earth is tracked by the amount of solar energy emitted from the SUN (or maybe Al's breath). The sun has begun a period of less soalr activity.

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 12:35 AM steve wrote ...

I can't believe the idiots that post here. global warming is about the world's climate changing. it's not just about regional changes. even if global warming wasn't real, would it not be smart, seeing how this is our only home, to play it safe?

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 12:09 AM Paul wrote ...

LOL, sucks to be you guys. It is 10:00pm here in california and it is all of 60*F. This weekend we were laying in the pool in 90* weather. Basically, Iowa and the Midwest suck.

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Tuesday, Apr 15 at 12:01 AM Jerry in NW Florida wrote ...

Hey Carl! You got it! They are calling it "climate change" now instead of "global warming". Even a poster or two here did said it amid his "warning". People are and will starve because food has been diverted to bio-fuel because that's where the governments have subsidized it and made it more profitable. SHAME, SHAME! Al Gore and your minions for fear mongering and government hounding.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 11:57 PM California Sunshine wrote ...

The reason Al Groe believe their is global warming is because he is full of hot air

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Monday, Apr 14 at 11:47 PM B.H.Heiman wrote ...

You guessed it! Old Al Gore got the Nobel Peace Prize if he would not run for President this year. And, to sweeten the pie, he was promised lots of moola and help if he would preach on Global Warming. Since the nuts can't stay on this band wagon any long, how is Gore going to get any more moola! Can't fool everybody, Mr. Gore!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 11:38 PM Sam wrote ...

Nobel Peace Prize recipient is part of a group asking the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "admit that there is no observational evidence in measured data going back 22,000 years or even millions of years that CO2 levels (whether from man or nature) have driven or are driving world temperatures." The following is a complete reprint of a letter sent to the IPCC on Monday (with permission): 14 April 2008 Dear Dr. Pachauri and others a

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Monday, Apr 14 at 11:30 PM Ron wrote ...

People, we have had a climate regime shift. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation just turned to its cool phase. You can expect to have cooler temps for the next 30 years or so. The PDO was in a cool phase from 1945 to 1975 and people were afraid of global cooling. It was in a warm from 1976 to 2007 and people were afraid of global warming. Check out Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_decadal_oscillation

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Monday, Apr 14 at 11:28 PM paul wrote ...

Algore has ended global warming. He's my hero.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 11:05 PM Plumber 601 wrote ...

While the past few years have had some mild winters and springs, I can remember cold Aprils. Mostly from growing up in the 60's and early 70's in South Dakota. But I also recall a few times it has snowed in April during the 80's and 90's as well. The weatehr is always changeing so one shouldn't get too excited over a one year anomally. But if this trend keeps up for a few years then we can get worked up about global cooling again .

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Monday, Apr 14 at 10:46 PM Killobl wrote ...

theres a new term for Global Warming - SUMMER!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 10:38 PM David John wrote ...

Wow, I hope either most of you are just joshing about global warming because we've had a late spring, because the only other conclusion is that your really uniformed about global warming or don't care...

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Monday, Apr 14 at 10:37 PM Richard wrote ...

Is it right that now we are 'burning' our food supply, ie, corn etc to operate our machines? Along with freezing, we, and our children die of hunger? Something has to give! Last year here in Western Pa. we had a late frost that killed the fruit crops; looks like it may happen yet again this year! Ask GOD to help us, not gore....

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Monday, Apr 14 at 10:35 PM ShameOnU wrote ...

Hypocrasy @ it's finest. "I shall not post any statements which attack a person’s integrity or moral character, expose a person to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, deprive a person of the benefits of public confidence and social dealings, or injure a person in the maintenance of that person’s business" But yet, almost every post here does exactly that.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 10:33 PM Ashamed American wrote ...

KCRG "censorship" at it's finest. "I shall not post any statements which attack a person’s integrity or moral character, expose a person to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, deprive a person of the benefits of public confidence and social dealings, or injure a person in the maintenance of that person’s business" But yet, almost every post here does exactly that.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 10:33 PM Greg In Albuquerque wrote ...

Why do midwest people have the ability to see thru the BS, while the handwringigng lib's eat up all the Glogal Warming make believe.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 10:31 PM RP in DC wrote ...

Thanks "Ya'll". Really enjoyed the posts. Just wanted to say that I live out here in the land of crazies (Washington DC), and linked in from Drudge, where there is always a good crowd around to nash their teeth and tear their hair over OUR (read US of A)'s cataclysmic contribution to "man-made" global warming. It is the next fraud to take dollars from our pockets. The prez held the line for a while but appears to be knuckling under to the loudest 10%. God save us all.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 10:30 PM Smarth enough wrote ...

how sad. to see so many of my fellow countrymen/women so ignorant of the facts. So hateful and full of contempt for someone who has more character and courage than any of us EVER WILL. And most peculiar how un-christian-like most of these comments are. When i bet 99.9% of you call yourselves one. HA!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 9:59 PM JohnD wrote ...

Ahhhh, thank God for Global Warming or we would all be frozen solid right now. People pay attention - the world has been declared to be ending for thousands of years. Chicken Little's sky is still yet to fall.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 9:50 PM Steven Stipulkoski wrote ...

It turns out the equations that predict global warming are wrong. I reckon the politicians will be the last to know. http://www.dailytech.com/Researcher Basic Greenhouse Equations Totally Wrong/article10973.htm

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Monday, Apr 14 at 9:25 PM Pteranodon wrote ...

Wide variations in temperature, rainfall, snowfall, and all other aspects of meteorology are 'normal' for the Great Plains as historical accounts prove. We used to call this sort of thing 'weather' and we joked about it; now it's 'Global Climate Change' and we have to mobilize all the wealth of the world to stop it. Remember what your grandfather said: if you don't like the weather wait a bit and it will change.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 9:24 PM Wild Willy wrote ...

They got it wrong...it's not a CO2 problem and carbon credits won't stop Global Warming or climate change it seems they need to start selling flatulance permits that should take care of the problem.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 9:15 PM Achimws wrote ...

All those who complain about cool temperatures are looney and misread their thermometers, because we are certain that global warming is happening, Al Gore said so. After all, he invented the internet.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 9:15 PM Solution Dude wrote ...

Global warming is a crock. The four independent climate sources (used by the IPCC) indicate that the global temperature (to which they cannot agree on how to measure) fell -0.6 degrees Celcius on average last year. This drop eliminates the 0.6 degree increase (source IPCC) during all of the 20th century.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 9:11 PM Brad wrote ...

Ask a farmer, not a gardener!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 9:09 PM Brad wrote ...

The initial poster is SENILE! Lived here for 55 years, and spring seems to be on schedule to me! What a scam report!!!!!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 9:05 PM Canuck wrote ...

FYI: Near the Arctic Circle today... EUREKA, NUNAVUT — A Canadian military operation at the top of the world that married science and Arctic sovereignty has discovered the largest remaining ice shelf in the northern hemisphere is breaking apart at an alarming rate. A team of scientists and Canadian Rangers witnessed dramatic deep new cracks, 18 kilometres long and 40 metres wide, on the southern edge of Ward Hunt Ice Shelf while patrolling Ellesmere Island this month by snowmobile.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 8:49 PM tinkerdad wrote ...

In Des Moines, I never set out bedding plants in unprotected areas until Mother's Day. Average date of the last frost in central Iowa is about May 10. I have seen snow (light) in May and days with highs in the 50's in early June. This spring is not terribly unusual. It happens. In the central plains, many of the weather records were set in the 1880's and the 1930's. Read about the great blizzards of the late 1800's and the dust bowl era. If such things happened now Arrogant Al would freak

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Monday, Apr 14 at 8:47 PM Disciple of Gore wrote ...

Al Gore: Can I get carbon offset credits on the purchase of a snow shovel? Can I get more carbon offset credits if I buy an 8 cylinder snow plow to help dig out my less fortunate neighbors? Or is it more expedient to let them suffer their fate for contributing to this global climate change of the coldest winter in our lifetime? Sincerely, Convert to the religion of Gore

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Monday, Apr 14 at 8:43 PM PO wrote ...

Do they take Nobel prizes BACK ???

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Monday, Apr 14 at 8:23 PM garry wrote ...

11 years my niece was born. My wife couldn't visit because of a snowstorm. Mr.Ciesleck the memory may not be what it once was. Some of you need to get the terminology correct, it's the Global Climate Change scam.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 8:23 PM Me wrote ...

It appears that there are many commenters who, like me, would be glad to make the kinds of sacrifices necessary to be as "green" as Al Gore. Yes, we'll shoulder the burden of heating and cooling a 20,000 square foot mansion, we'll fly in private jets and be escorted in gas guzzling SUVs all the while condemning the poor peons who drive Hondas and use backyard grills. It's the least that we can do, people!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 8:23 PM Gerry wrote ...

53 tonight in West Palm Beach Florida.... Al Gore needs to fly off to some other planet!!!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 7:57 PM virg wrote ...

to make all you global warming alarmists feel good, you can sen me money. i will feel bad for you. just send me $100. for each person that feels bad. by paying me the money, you will feel much better about yourself.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 7:55 PM CT wrote ...

Yes, global warming is not the threat it's made out to be and the solutions being proposed are totalitarian. However, it seems to me that everyone, from the gov't, to the education system, to the major corporations, and the media are moving precisely in that pro-global warming direction.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 7:47 PM sourdoe wrote ...

Oh, where are all those florocarbons when we need them?

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Monday, Apr 14 at 7:47 PM GlobAl Goring wrote ...

Global wamring is on temporary retreat due to La Nina. That's Spanish for 'Ha hA fooled ya". I have carbon credits for sale on ebay if anyone needs some.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 7:36 PM neil from mississippi wrote ...

since global cooling was bad in the 70's and now global warming is bad the loonies who believe this stuff and promulgate it to the public must therefore know the perfect temperature for the planet. There brilliance amazes me but they have never said what that perfect temperature is. I guess they also would have been upset if they were around when the ice age ended, funny thing is they can't blame us for causing that with our cars.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 7:26 PM Ted Roth wrote ...

STOP CONTINENTAL DRIFT!!! (after we stop global warming)

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Monday, Apr 14 at 7:20 PM Jericho wrote ...

Its not about Global Warming its about Global Control. Its not about Climate Change its Changing the Climate of the Middle Class. The Middle Class has way to much time on its hands allowing for way too much political activity. Less middle class folks will make things easier on the Al Gores of the world.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 6:54 PM A Skeptic wrote ...

I think Al Gore just 'invented' something else - a global warming scam to insulate his pockets with enough money to keep him warm during the global cooling period we are now entering.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 6:44 PM Skeptic wrote ...

Thunder in February, Frost in April! that is a saying that has been around the south for over 70 years. Seems to hold true this year. Additionally, we don't ever plant our gardens till the pecan trees bud out. For some reason(possibly their deep roots) they are always the last trees to bud out. It's amazing how with all of the idiots promoting global climate change since 1998 and the increadible increase in CO2 documented since then, that 70 years old wives tales still hold true!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 6:35 PM Harry Ballsac wrote ...

SO much for global warming. the planet, as it turns out, has been COOLING for 10 years now. What will Al Gore have to do now. Oh I get it, WE MUST STOP GLOBAL COOLING Lol

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Monday, Apr 14 at 6:16 PM you are all IDIOTS wrote ...

no wonder we are destroying our planet, with hacks ilke you. i can't believe i'm the first person to post this kind of response! global warming isn't just about warming. it's about cooling, too, and weird weather all around. That's why it's also called 'CLIMATE CHANGE.' and average temperatures HAVE increased, dramatically, dramatically, dramatically, since the industrial revolution. www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

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Monday, Apr 14 at 6:16 PM Mike Up North wrote ...

Al Gore has gained so much weight at publicly funded dinners, explaining global warming, that he can't feel the draft of global cooling. Honestly, when these people die...they should all be dug up and rolled over in the garden, so we can at least us the crack-of-their-arse as a bicycle stand. Absolutely useless. Besides that, if this dull wether continues, what the hell are 6.6 billion people supposed to eat ???

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Monday, Apr 14 at 6:15 PM joseph william beverly wrote ...

democrats need fictitious causes like global warming and global freezing or no one would be foolish enough to vote for them

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Monday, Apr 14 at 6:14 PM AlGore wrote ...

Hey! I'm the one who invented the Internet, so you shouldn't doubt my superior understanding. Just because somewhere is cold doesn't mean that Global Warming is not happening. I just got a call from another Polar Bear who is hot under the collar because his ice cave is uncomfortably wet. It makes no difference that he is a Southern Polar Bear, we need to save him and his kind. Go to www. buycarboncreditsnow .com and help us save the earth!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 5:57 PM Hitlery Clintler wrote ...

Remember that neolithic silver mine recently found under a retreating glacier in the Alps? They went home one day late fall to their winter retreat planning to come back next spring to begin mining again, but spring never came. What came was the little ice age. Look at the geologic record, we are over due for the next ice age. It can start in one year as those poor ancient miners discovered. Anthropogenic global warming is a myth, just like "peak oil". Follow the money find the mythologists.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 5:39 PM Carl wrote ...

They're not using the term "global warming" so much anymore. They're using the term "climate change"! This way, no matter what the outcome is, they can still blame it on us humans.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 5:37 PM Mary Dupre wrote ...

Gore saw an opening to make so money but you don't tell Mother Nature what to do only the Sun can do that. Good grief, we could have had him for President. That was close!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 5:33 PM Andy wrote ...

Looks like the people who comment here have not exactly bought into the global warming scare by a 10:1 ratio. Are you going to believe the liberals or your lying eyes?

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Monday, Apr 14 at 5:25 PM Matthew wrote ...

.03% of the atmosphere cannot cause global warming. C02 is not a gas that can increase temperatures at ground level - C02 cannot insulate or reflect at that percentage, especially as it is dispersed throughout the atmosphere. It does not "layer" as ozone does. GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 5:19 PM timtan wrote ...

with this weather being so cold, now global warming will really begin, since we all have to turn our heaters on.... What a joke that people still believe that hoax!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 5:11 PM Concerned citizen wrote ...

Save the planet...End Global Weather!!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 5:04 PM Karen wrote ...

Record cold expected in southern Florida tomorrow. Low of 42. High of 72.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 5:04 PM a meteorologist wrote ...

what the average casual GW commentator does not realize is that the warming of the atmosphere does not ONLY warm the temperatures in your front yard, but it POLARIZES temperature swings greatly. this is a GLOBAL trend - look at the extreme snow in china, record heat in europe, extreme floods AND droughts on our own states - remember - the FROST on your lawn could be a function of the LARGER PATTERN - think globally!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 5:03 PM Roger wrote ...

I remember waterskiing on the Coralville Reservoir in April back in the 60's while attending the U of I. Must have been the global warming before the ice age of the 70's.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 4:57 PM CA gardener wrote ...

Here in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada (central California), we don't plant our gardens until after Mother's Day. I used to live in Iowa, and I remember getting 10 inches of snow mid-April. We took pictures and still have them. Chill!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 4:52 PM Steve, Phoenix wrote ...

Just call Al Gore he is incharge of the earth's weather.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 4:38 PM ken1716 wrote ...

You all miss the point. Before every ice age period, the Co2 level rises. this is everytime. The cooling id indeed due to climate change and the rise in temperature world wide and suprisingly, in local areas like antartica. With the rise in temps and the increase in fresh cold water flowing into the North Atlatnic, the Gulf stream is flowing at half speed now after stopping briefly in 2003. go ahead and scoff, but the evidence for a change in climate is clear. And the change cooling us.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 4:34 PM Bud Vogt wrote ...

Got in trouble with my wife for leaving the Xmas lights up. Last week wife came home driving in 3 inches of fresh snow, guess what greeted her? Yep! Her house lit up in the true Christmas spirit, she even had the tree back up lit and blinking. Wish ole Al Gore could have stopped by and shoveled my side walk. Yeah, yeah global warming will bring on the new ice age and the end of us woolley mammoths. Stay warm my Father's home state.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 4:25 PM Sandy Yago wrote ...

A big hearty hello from sunny San Diego! We also had a cold winter here, we had days when the temp barely made into to 65! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 4:23 PM USARules wrote ...

It's all Al Gore's fault for inventing man made Global Warming. If he had kept his mouth shut we wouldn't of even noticed.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 4:14 PM Dayahka wrote ...

We need to call in that great climate scientist and global warming evangelist, Al Gore, to explain this strange situation for us. Maybe he can blow some hot air and warm up the earth.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 4:14 PM Donny wrote ...

Once again, Algore and his "global warming" minions end up with egg on their faces...

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Monday, Apr 14 at 4:07 PM artmuroff@gmail.com wrote ...

Al Gore says that you can't trust the media; it's really warm in Iowa.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 4:01 PM Eric wrote ...

It's in the 40's today here in Alabama. We're getting a cold rain (with a little sleet in the forecast for good measure) and they're putting out freeze warnings for the next two nights. Normally I would have had my garden in by the last week of March. This type of weather is becoming more the rule than the exception.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 3:57 PM Seph wrote ...

How dumb do so many people have to be.. Someone decided to call it global warming, and in the 70's they called for Global Cooling. Read the news planet-wide, not just in your dense corner of the globe, and you will see that it is Global Extremes that have been ongoing for years. Hottest years ever, coldest years ever. Begin to see a pattern. A pendulum swinging. The right question to be asking is what will happen when the weather gets really crazy? Cause it will. The ants burn down the anthill.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 3:42 PM JoeB wrote ...

Iowa, Call for Al Gore!! He is able to generate a lot of hot air talking about YOUR current problem with "global warming!"

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Monday, Apr 14 at 3:41 PM Texas Gardener wrote ...

Down to 38 last night in Dallas! Global warming my a....

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Monday, Apr 14 at 3:39 PM IowaBoy wrote ...

Fools! cars exhale carbon monoxide. People exhale carbon dioxide.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 3:39 PM IowaBoy wrote ...

Idiots. Cars exhale carbon monoxide. People exhale carbon dioxide.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 3:38 PM IowaBoy wrote ...

Idiots! global warming is caused in part by carbon MONOXIDE...not Carbon Dioxide! You exhale carbon dioxide...your car exhales carbon monoxide. Now...for a primer on global warming. One of the many effects of GW (hah..."GW"...that's not ironic) is increased moisture in the atmosphere, which helps create an increase in erratic weather. These erratic weather patterns create increased cold snaps in summer and increased warm snaps in winter. Over time small changes will add up.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 3:36 PM Thomas wrote ...

To Gardener: Even though it is freezing at night, it is warm during the day. I bought my plants a couple weeks ago and just wheel them in at night. Some of the plants I have are now sold out around here.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 3:19 PM Frank DeCrescenzo Jr. wrote ...

Must be all that Global Warming. Is the sky still falling Mr. Gore?

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Monday, Apr 14 at 2:51 PM Stewart wrote ...

Global warming, indeed.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 2:49 PM James Boyd wrote ...

Get Al Gore to explain it. He's the "expert." He has made it rioch with his lies. So what? Americans usually are deranged fools anyway. Nearly everyone in government is an idiot. JWB

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Monday, Apr 14 at 2:33 PM Ross wrote ...

While we are freezing the global warming hysterics are still plotting massive tax increases to fix an imaginary problem.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 2:31 PM Scott wrote ...

It's snowing today in North Carolina.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 2:25 PM John wrote ...

Ofcourse, it's global warming. You will also have to buy more caron credits because your body uses too much oxygen

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Monday, Apr 14 at 2:15 PM Mark wrote ...

We had 71 degrees Sunday and 75 degrees on Monday. The forecast high for Tuesday is 44 with rain/snow followed by overnight lows of 28. Typical schizophrenic Spring weather in Pocatello.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 2:03 PM D. Smith wrote ...

There are a lot of people in Iowa that would like to see this so called "Global Warming"!!!!!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 2:01 PM Bob wrote ...

This Global warming is freezing me to death !

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Monday, Apr 14 at 1:45 PM Andrew wrote ...

Must be all that global warming cooling things down.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 1:42 PM Margeaux wrote ...

In Port Huron, Michigan on Sun April 13,2008, we woke up to a blanket of snow! Cuddle alert.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 1:41 PM killerbee wrote ...

I tried to get to the Global Warming rally in Detroit but with the snow we had on April 13 the roads were too dangerous. I did say hi to my golf clubs in the basement.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 1:31 PM Adrian Vance wrote ...

If you look at the last 600,000 years of weather as recorded in ice and sea bottom mud cores you will see that we at the fourth peak in a very regular 120,000 year cycle and are overdue to fall into a deep ice age. God bless global warming.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 1:05 PM Mike M. wrote ...

With the acceleration of human CO2 output in the last ten years,( with Canada and most European signers of Kyoto having gone well over their CO2 limits and paying heavy fines as a result by the way), liberals are becoming ever so more hard pressed to explain why 'global warming' seems to have stopped? Plants are green; most all plants love having more CO2 - a LOT more....

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Monday, Apr 14 at 1:04 PM Aaron wrote ...

This is by far not the latest spring! In 2001, Des Moines still had snow on the ground until May 5th. This past weekend's snow was only one day later than last winter's last snow.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 12:43 PM Donna wrote ...

AHHHHHH! You are not alone. Is that any comfort? We in the Puget Sound south of Seattle have had ONE spring day: April 12. The weather changed immediately on April 13 - and onward to today and the rest of the week. Wind, rain and just plain cold. Coldest spring (?) in memory. Who is controlling the weather? Surely not global warming is it? DUH!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 12:27 PM Patrick Henry wrote ...

Must be due to global warming.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 12:22 PM Mark wrote ...

We seem to have turned the corner. Instead of going up, temperatures are now heading down. We should hurry and pass anti-global warming laws and carbon taxes before bitter rural Americans figure out what is happening.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 12:18 PM Lew wrote ...

$40 billion a year spent on "global warming" and the weather still stays cold! The global average temperature has not changed over the past 100 years, our atmosphere is a fluid and what is cold here may be warm elsewhere. Solar activity goes up and down and moisture ladened air can miss us or flood us. Our global temperatures are very predictable, changes up and down, always. Nothing we can do to "fix it". Carbon dioxide makes you garden green but does not trap heat in our atmosphere.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 11:42 AM Terry Lee wrote ...

With impending global cooling forcasted by many reputable scientists and meterologists over the next 10 years, I fear plant businesses may suffer some. Hopefully they are incorrect and there will actually be severe global warming so the planting business can flourish like never before.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 10:57 AM Rex wrote ...

Yes it is the climate change! We must do something about global warming before we all freeze to death! You humans are so silly. Give a chimp a few extra chromosomes, sit back and watch the fun!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 10:42 AM Walt Cunningham wrote ...

Must be that durn human-induced global warming.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 10:40 AM Glenn wrote ...

More proof of global warming. NOT!

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Monday, Apr 14 at 10:19 AM Thomas wrote ...

I'm only 40 and I remember spring coming this late before. It hasn't happened lately, but it has happened. The last snow sometimes comes in mid-April around here.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 9:47 AM George wrote ...

You have seen it this cold this late before; you just don't remember when last it happened. This time in 10 years you will say the same thing when the temperatures are warm enough to start planting plants.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 9:12 AM sullinsea wrote ...

My first spring in the upper midwest around St. Cloud, MN was 1971. We planted a vegetable garden in early to mid May. I went to NJ to visit family. When I returned on June 1st we had to replant the garden - there had been 6 inches of snow on Memorial Day.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 8:38 AM S Walker wrote ...

Why can’t the weather just stay the same everyday. It’s all mans fault.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 8:21 AM tomntana@dishmail.net wrote ...

Have they forgotten last May? Many plants and fruit trees (buds) were lost to a a May frost/freeze TMW. Newton

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Monday, Apr 14 at 6:49 AM Bubba wrote ...

To be expected this year and for the next 3 or 4 years. We're at the low point - beginning - of the current Solar Cycle, which has been unusually calm so far - almost no sunspots. So less heat is hitting the planet. No big deal. Happens every 11 years or so.

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Monday, Apr 14 at 6:32 AM Don Phillips wrote ...

Can you imagine how cold it would be if it wasn't for "Global Warming"?

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Sunday, Apr 13 at 8:48 PM A Gardener wrote ...

Don't buy your flowers now and put them in the garage! They need light. I went to Peck's and put a hold on the plants I want and will pick them up when the weather warms. Sounds like the buy now advice is designed just to sell more plant material. Seriously, it's crazy to plant tender things now. Right now is the time to plant onions, strawberries, tougher cold tolerant plants.

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