is the weather changing or 1961 all over again.

[SASKFARMER]

My Dad always talks about 1961 the year he and mom built the new yard site because it had a natural spring to water the cows. They got trees that year and planted them at the farm. Funny those trees are still standing but the wet years did take their toll and most of the originals should be taken out as they are top dying.

My youngest planted some 300 new ones this year and we are watering every day.

The garden has got 6000 gal so far and probably after today that total will be 9000.

We have so far been lucky to have the inch plus in 4 little showers of rain in April. Yes, that and last falls snow and rain that caused the harvest to go into November also has helped.

But as i stated in the Friday Crop Report on a Thursday we have two weeks till shit gets real. Well as of today that is down to 10 days.

[SASKFARMER]

Is something up with the site the last two days with posting threads or liking comments.

[Guest]

Went to saskatoon yesterday , rained enough to wet the dirt tisdale, melfort , gronlid , lots of lightning and black clouds when we got home and sfa came out of it. In the wet years we woulda got 5” out of that kind of cloud
Wonder when the leaches are gonna realize that the host is starving ?
Better get your fungicide before its all gone, lol

[SASKFARMER]

Again the crop report had 2 weeks till a rain event comes or shit will go sideways fast.

That is down to 10 days today.

Weather forcast changed again and chance tonight. Maybe thursday and then cool all weekend with chance of rain. Cool and rain probably just piss all.

[SASKFARMER]

I agree on case. this give it all till the end is bullshit.

Just because the JD weather station says the top three inches is dry don't worry the bottom 3 meters is wet.

The insurance that says go for broke and put all the groceries because you're covered and then ask the guy at his auction how well that worked out for them.

Or the give it everything because it might rain this summer or if it doesn't till Sept 1 the one kernel you have left in the head will be plump and you will do better than the neighbours.

This is Saskatchewan and this is a mini-drought. We were skunked in May but got all quarters seeded and most are end to end like they use to be. We were so proud of that fact.

Well in the wet year's rain didn't make grain but in a dry spell, one shower makes you look like an amazing farmer and the next guy a total putz.

[chuckChuck]

https://science2017.globalchange.gov/

Climate Science Special Report
Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I

This report is an authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a focus on the United States. It represents the first of two volumes of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, mandated by the Global Change Research Act of 1990.

Highlights of the Findings of the U.S. Global Change Research Program Climate Science Special Report
Recommended Citation

The climate of the United States is strongly connected to the changing global climate. The statements below highlight past, current, and projected climate changes for the United States and the globe.

Global annually averaged surface air temperature has increased by about 1.8°F (1.0°C) over the last 115 years (1901–2016). This period is now the warmest in the history of modern civilization. The last few years have also seen record-breaking, climate-related weather extremes, and the last three years have been the warmest years on record for the globe. These trends are expected to continue over climate timescales.

This assessment concludes, based on extensive evidence, that it is extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century. For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational evidence.

In addition to warming, many other aspects of global climate are changing, primarily in response to human activities. Thousands of studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water vapor.

For example, global average sea level has risen by about 7–8 inches since 1900, with almost half (about 3 inches) of that rise occurring since 1993. Human-caused climate change has made a substantial contribution to this rise since 1900, contributing to a rate of rise that is greater than during any preceding century in at least 2,800 years. Global sea level rise has already affected the United States; the incidence of daily tidal flooding is accelerating in more than 25 Atlantic and Gulf Coast cities.

Global average sea levels are expected to continue to rise—by at least several inches in the next 15 years and by 1–4 feet by 2100. A rise of as much as 8 feet by 2100 cannot be ruled out. Sea level rise will be higher than the global average on the East and Gulf Coasts of the United States.

Changes in the characteristics of extreme events are particularly important for human safety, infrastructure, agriculture, water quality and quantity, and natural ecosystems. Heavy rainfall is increasing in intensity and frequency across the United States and globally and is expected to continue to increase. The largest observed changes in the United States have occurred in the Northeast.

Heatwaves have become more frequent in the United States since the 1960s, while extreme cold temperatures and cold waves are less frequent. Recent record-setting hot years are projected to become common in the near future for the United States, as annual average temperatures continue to rise. Annual average temperature over the contiguous United States has increased by 1.8°F (1.0°C) for the period 1901–2016; over the next few decades (2021–2050), annual average temperatures are expected to rise by about 2.5°F for the United States, relative to the recent past (average from 1976–2005), under all plausible future climate scenarios.

The incidence of large forest fires in the western United States and Alaska has increased since the early 1980s and is projected to further increase in those regions as the climate changes, with profound changes to regional ecosystems.

Annual trends toward earlier spring melt and reduced snowpack are already affecting water resources in the western United States and these trends are expected to continue. Under higher scenarios, and assuming no change to current water resources management, chronic, long-duration hydrological drought is increasingly possible before the end of this century.

The magnitude of climate change beyond the next few decades will depend primarily on the amount of greenhouse gases (especially carbon dioxide) emitted globally. Without major reductions in emissions, the increase in annual average global temperature relative to preindustrial times could reach 9°F (5°C) or more by the end of this century. With significant reductions in emissions, the increase in annual average global temperature could be limited to 3.6°F (2°C) or less.

The global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration has now passed 400 parts per million (ppm), a level that last occurred about 3 million years ago, when both global average temperature and sea level were significantly higher than today. Continued growth in CO2 emissions over this century and beyond would lead to an atmospheric concentration not experienced in tens to hundreds of millions of years. There is broad consensus that the further and the faster the Earth system is pushed towards warming, the greater the risk of unanticipated changes and impacts, some of which are potentially large and irreversible.

The observed increase in carbon emissions over the past 15–20 years has been consistent with higher emissions pathways. In 2014 and 2015, emission growth rates slowed as economic growth became less carbon-intensive. Even if this slowing trend continues, however, it is not yet at a rate that would limit global average temperature change to well below 3.6°F (2°C) above preindustrial levels.

[farming101]

A bit of a change for the next weekend.
European model says it might snow in a few localities by Monday? Really? I guess I don't believe it

[chuckChuck]

Its time for the flat earthers to provide the scientific evidence that the Climate Science Special Report from the USA is wrong.

If you can't get beyond your political opinions and personal observations and provide peer reviewed evidence from climate scientists to back your claims up then it is time to give up. Nobody is listening to your denials. Not one prominent Conservative politician in Canada says that the science that proves human caused climate change is wrong!

[mustardman]

Question is, was the weather in 1961 changing?
Article in “Nature” magazine that says anthropogenic climate started in the 1800’s due to industrial revolution

[chuckChuck]

https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/13/
The world’s oceans have absorbed about 93% of the excess heat caused by greenhouse gas warming since the mid-20th century, making them warmer and altering global and regional climate feedbacks. Ocean heat content has increased at all depths since the 1960s and surface waters have warmed by about 1.3° ± 0.1°F (0.7° ± 0.08°C) per century globally since 1900 to 2016. Under a higher scenario, a global increase in average sea surface temperature of 4.9° ± 1.3°F (2.7° ± 0.7°C) by 2100 is projected, with even higher changes in some U.S. coastal regions.

The world’s oceans are currently absorbing more than a quarter of the CO2 emitted to the atmosphere annually from human activities, making them more acidic (very high confidence), with potential detrimental impacts to marine ecosystems. In particular, higher-latitude systems typically have a lower buffering capacity against pH change, exhibiting seasonally corrosive conditions sooner than low-latitude systems. Acidification is regionally increasing along U.S. coastal systems as a result of upwelling (for example, in the Pacific Northwest) (high confidence), changes in freshwater inputs (for example, in the Gulf of Maine) (medium confidence), and nutrient input (for example, in agricultural watersheds and urbanized estuaries) (high confidence). The rate of acidification is unparalleled in at least the past 66 million years (medium confidence). Under the higher scenario (RCP8.5), the global average surface ocean acidity is projected to increase by 100% to 150% (high confidence).

[farming101]

https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/13/
The world’s oceans have absorbed about 93% of the excess heat caused by greenhouse gas warming since the mid-20th century, making them warmer and altering global and regional climate feedbacks. Ocean heat content has increased at all depths since the 1960s and surface waters have warmed by about 1.3° ± 0.1°F (0.7° ± 0.08°C) per century globally since 1900 to 2016. Under a higher scenario, a global increase in average sea surface temperature of 4.9° ± 1.3°F (2.7° ± 0.7°C) by 2100 is projected, with even higher changes in some U.S. coastal regions.

The world’s oceans are currently absorbing more than a quarter of the CO2 emitted to the atmosphere annually from human activities, making them more acidic (very high confidence), with potential detrimental impacts to marine ecosystems. In particular, higher-latitude systems typically have a lower buffering capacity against pH change, exhibiting seasonally corrosive conditions sooner than low-latitude systems. Acidification is regionally increasing along U.S. coastal systems as a result of upwelling (for example, in the Pacific Northwest) (high confidence), changes in freshwater inputs (for example, in the Gulf of Maine) (medium confidence), and nutrient input (for example, in agricultural watersheds and urbanized estuaries) (high confidence). The rate of acidification is unparalleled in at least the past 66 million years (medium confidence). Under the higher scenario (RCP8.5), the global average surface ocean acidity is projected to increase by 100% to 150% (high confidence).

That's nice.
What do you see for next weekend?

[helmsdale]

Congratulations CHUCK2 and mustardman! Your last posts have elevated you to: Troll level 9.

Only one more achievement level to go and you'll enter the Hall of Fame as level 10 super trolls! I'm so proud of you, as are all of your Agriville comrades.

Please take the day to bask in this most prestigious achievement.

It takes a special kind of individual to make it to level 9, but a few more arguements in favor of anthropogenic climate change, preferably tomorrow at the earliest, and dog gone it you'll make it to level 10!

Keep up the good work gentlemen.

[Oliver88]

Congratulations CHUCK2 and mustardman! Your last posts have elevated you to: Troll level 9.

Only one more achievement level to go and you'll enter the Hall of Fame as level 10 super trolls! I'm so proud of you, as are all of your Agriville comrades.

Please take the day to bask in this most prestigious achievement.

It takes a special kind of individual to make it to level 9, but a few more arguements in favor of anthropogenic climate change, preferably tomorrow at the earliest, and dog gone it you'll make it to level 10!

Keep up the good work gentlemen.

These kind of posts will have the editor of the Country Guide phoning them and asking them for opinion pieces. 😂

Another one to add to the ignore list.

[bucket]

All I can add is that I learned /learnt a new word....

In my next career I want to be the guy that thinks up farm chemical names and words that make people look down their nose at you...

the dumb****led farmer ..TM

[chuckChuck]

Question is, was the weather in 1961 changing?
Article in “Nature” magazine that says anthropogenic climate started in the 1800’s due to industrial revolution

Humans have made massive physical changes to the worlds landscape which also cause climate change. Break up all the grasslands and cut down all the forests and guess what happens. Then add in all the extra carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Climate change occurs because of several factors. It would be hard to put a percentage of human caused climate change on a particular year. The most important evidence is in the trends. Natural variabilty still exists from year to year and season to season but the trends over long periods of time tell the story.