[supermachone]

a change in nature? just little things, for example i use to see toads and grasshoppers all the time during summer months, but the past couple years i havent hardly seen any toads and the grasshoppers are still thick but only for about a month or 2, just curious if anyone else has noticed things like this, could just be my area, and im not tryin to tie this global warming either, but just somethin to think about, if anyone cares lol

[ItaliStang]

I've noticed there are barely any lightning bugs around my area any more...

but then again... me and my friend probably killed them all off with our baseball bats when we were kids...

smack 'em and they glow all the way till they hit the ground

entertained us for hours...

[silver99gt]

it must be a kansas thing. i think its weird that i have had to wear hoodies and jeans to work a lot lately. its only the first part of september and all of our doves are already gone south. as far as grasshoppers, our crops are stripped up here because of those bastards

[graystang01]

ive noticed it too.
ive only seen one snake this year and only 2 turtles.
hopefully ill see plenty of deer this year cuz i just bought a crossbow and i need to kill something lol

[ItaliStang]

I also noticed it was weird that we had little to no mayflies this year (our area of the city is right on the water, so we get tons of these every year... to the point we have to shovel them off the sidewalks)

also seemed odd that I spent my spring break last year in a foot and a half of snow...

[supermachone]

haha yeah i havent seen 1 snake this year, a couple turtles though, and i hear ya about it being cold already, past couple weeks its been cloudy and rainy, maybe cause the hurricane shit though

[supermachone]

i honestly think our seasons are starting to get off balance...kinda like when u set 2 clocks at the same time, one will eventually get ahead of the other...well our calenders are going to stay consistant, but theres no way the earth revolves around the sun the exact same amount of time or distance every revolution, so its fuckin with nature, but i dont expect the seasons to stay consistant with our calenders

[graystang01]

maybe the northern and southern hemispheres are in the process of flippin over

cuz when its summer down there its winter up here

and their toilet water spins backwards

[silver99gt]

Originally Posted by graystang01 ive noticed it too. ive only seen one snake this year and only 2 turtles. hopefully ill see plenty of deer this year cuz i just bought a crossbow and i need to kill something lol

you get to use crossbows, lucky......


on the other part i have seen lots of turtles and way way too many snakes. i hate snakes with a burning passion. I killed a rattler this year with 14 rattles, biggest one ive ever seen.

[graystang01]

virginia started allowin crossbows not to long ago

its the coolest thing ive ever bought lol

[Notcho]

I haven't seen as many bees as of late compared to how many I used to see.

Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left"

Not that I am an environmentalist or anything..

I believe the Earth changes gradually over time; it has been changing for as long as it has existed. In the past, we as humans never really watched, studied, or catalogued information like we do nowadays, and since technology has evolved, it has helped automate the collection and correlation of data through time. Therefore, awareness of this change is greater now than ever before; this new awareness is making some people worry.

As far as climate change, the world has changed climates many, many times; there have been several ice ages, and after the last one thawed, the melting ice created an inland seaway which actually divided North America in half. When the climate was more tropical there was a pluvial lake called Lake Bonneville that created the Great Basin. (ever hear of the Salt Flats? ) Then after the climate changed again it dried up leaving the Great Salt Lake.. So I say (along with my professors) that this whole climate change scare is part of an inevitable cyclical process of the Earth's ever-occurring development.

As for the people who believe we (humans) are the one and only cause of the 'global warming..' I suppose the dinosaurs and prehistoric plants caused the last major climate change...

[Dennis]

we used to have 4 season a year now we have 2. we used to have snow winters and hot summers now all we have is ice storms and heat waves which only last a week. we used to have avarage rainfall now all we have is flooding. in the last 2 years we have had 4 ice storms 5 floods one week of heatwave. our weather is all kinds of fucked up

[dr.gonzo!]

I have seen a lot of snakes/toads/mayflies/mesq/grasshoppers. they all came to MO lol

[07stanggt]

Originally Posted by silver99gt it must be a kansas thing. i think its weird that i have had to wear hoodies and jeans to work a lot lately. its only the first part of september and all of our doves are already gone south. as far as grasshoppers, our crops are stripped up here because of those bastards

All the doves already gone south. I killed my limit on opening day in about 1.5hours. maybe they came east

[AtlanticBlue99]

theres still plenty of deer here. i drove the route home (about 2 hours of US-78 backroads) every weekend last year, and if it was dark, I had to drive at 10 and 2 with my brights on and hoping the dumb deer could hear my offroad exhaust and move the fuck off the road. ive still seen my share of deer this year too, though im not on the road as much...

[stangfreak]

i haven't noticed any change