Boy, it's sure obvious here in Wisconsin. Was almost fifty here today. This is January 30th in Wisconsin!

Pray for rain.

What

Hey Obummer, why not a pipeline from the Mississippi River over to TEXAS????? Thousands of jobs, no pollution and a help to the farmers and ranchers.
STOP SITTING ON YOUR ASS and use that head for something!

Obama;s debt ceiling is so high that it's keeping the rain from making it to the ground..

obama's plan;just have the illegals piss on it as they migrate north...

plonitus

I'll call Gore an idiot just like I presently call him. An when is global warming going to become undeniable, 1000, 2000 years from now? One other thing, why was Greenland named Greenland? Just wondering.

Al Gore is still a clueless idiot and his myopic followers are still far loony left losers that want to believe in their mindless causes to the point that there is not enough cow piles and kool aide to satisfy their craven needs.

The weather will come and go, but man, in all of his industrial and scientific glory, might and ambitions, still has not the power to do a thing about it. This guilt trip about man's recent polution destroying the world is just a political ploy to gain power over your lives. The world was here long, long before man walked the land and will still be here long after man has left this globe join to his fate among the stars. Don't be a befuddled lemming and join the green loons and losers...

An old rancher in Oklahoma

It made me think. My Mommy told me babys came from the vagina.
MSNBC says it's the stork.

If it's a blue stork, it will be a male or a alpha lesbian.
If it's a pink stork, it'll be a girl or a male fag.

I'll keep reading MSNBC articles cause they are so acurate.

Sorry about the inconvienience if I'm not on subject.

It does not seem to me that arctic snowy owls migrating southward is any indication of a global warming trend. If that were the case, why would the arctic owls be in need of migrating to warmer climates? But there are other forces at work here of which you nor Mr. Gore seems to be aware. We are, and have been, living in the last days of this wicked system since 1914. Beginning with that year we have seen firsthand the ever increasing of all the signs that make the "time of the end" for Satan's system, that have been revealed to us in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew and the twenty-first chapter of Luke. Food shortages, caused by any number of things, is only one feature of that "sign." Revelation 11:18 brings out that Almighty God Jehovah is going to shortly bring to ruin those who ruin the earth; but that does spell doom for mankind, for those who worship Jehovah and exercise faith in his first-born Son, Jesus,' ransom sacrifice will have the opportunity to live forever on a cleansed earth; one where wickedness will have no place. (Matt. 6:9, 10; Psalm 37:9-11) So, even if Mr. Gore is right about a global warming trend, Jehovah God (Psalm 83:18) will not let things get to the point of killing off all mankind. (Daniel 2:44)

dwilli,

Yeah, but sometimes God decides to get rid of the wickedness, right? How many people on earth REALLY give a rats ass about anyone other than themselves when it gets down to it? Maybe 2%? So maybe he'll save 2% of us?

Question about your using the name Jehovah. Why didn't the man Jesus use that name instead of calling God "Father", and why did he say "hallowed be thy name" in that prayer of his? Just asking.

EXCELSIOR !!!!

Floyd... actually "Greenland" was called that as a diversion from "Iceland" by the Norsemen as a military tactic.

The thought process apparently was to divert attention from the inhabited "Iceland" by giving it an uninviting name while at the same time giving the less hospitable "Greenland" a more inviting name to potential invading armies. At least that's what I was told in one class I took more years ago than I want to admit to.

NC10T-3828813

I find your position fascinating! Could you please provide your sources so I can read more about this topic. Thanks!

I doubt this post will last over an hour

Looks like you're wrong.

So much for demonizing, eh?

The Bible tells of the hearts of men "growing faint out of fear and expectation" of the unknown. The Bible assures us also that not all mankind will be lost. To be sure, those who are ruining the earth as well as those who call themselves "Christian" but fail to exercise faith in Jesus' ransom sacrifice nor woship the heavenly Father, Jehovah God will be annihilated from the face of the earth at Armageddon; but that does not spell the end for humankind. Psalm 37:9-11, Matthew 5:5, and Matthew 6:9, 10 reveal the makeup of those humans that Jehovah God is desirous of allowing to make up his "grand new system" in which righteousness is to dwell. Since 1914, we have been living in what the Bible terms "the time of the end," so you can see that now is the time to take action in imitation of Jehovah God and his Son, Jesus Christ before it is too late.

Hate to break your conspiratorial fantasies, but Cesium 127 wasn't created at Fukushima. Other radioactive elements like Iodine but not Cesium.

Ranchers in the Southwest,

We are praying for God to heal our land; to give you great wisdom in making very difficult decisions; for peace and strength as you, your families, and communities pass through this time of hardship. May you know and experience the presence of God and be witnesses to His goodness even as you pass through the dry valley of darkness.

God bless you.

Perry already prayed for rain. He needs to freakin stop.

A few years back tho.... things were very different.... Lake Sinclair was pretty low....

But again.... things come and go..... and taking jabs at fellow countrymen is why the tallywackers and Europe are laughing at us... we can't even stand by our own....

OH... and we have plenty of jobs here in Houston.... don't forget to close the door when the last one leaves Mich......

unfortunately, they will steal it from you first. Don't think they are putting all their oil rich money into political races for nothing. We know it here in Wisconsin.

Just don't spill any of that water from the pipeline into the oil in Texas. What would we do if the oil was contaminated?

You think you have plenty of water, supposedly the coke brothers have been siphoning it off for a few years now and shipping to other country's it has resulted in a loss of several inches supposedly? Any updates or truth in that rumor?

our #1 export is gas,so we need the pipeline.....wow our future is starting to look grim guys . wake up.
Vote Ron Paul!

i knew it all along lol

Funny -- but do Americans get sarcasm? I think so, but a lot of my friends don't.

I was thinking the same things as I read the article.

I like

Salmon better anyway!:)

Soylent green is an alternative meat.

The solution is simple, dont eat as much meat, dont eat those health killing big macs, and dont let the goverment allow Texas to take over nebraska. The big oil and cattle barons, know Obama's needs those electoral votes, and there big money. I got to think somehow Washington is going to help the big oil and big cattleman, in return for the electoral votes. Beef is too damm high, and always being recalled, live a simple life, with simple foods. Climate change is a hoax, billions of acres of land covered in dark asphalt, causing the heat to reflect back into the air. Rumor is Wal-Mart will buy all the climate changes, and make them in china, so at least the citizens can have cheap droughts and cheap heatwaves. America once the best of the world, now just once the best.

When waters scarce I give my cattle BEER. Keeps them happy, they mate more (even the ugly cows), and the meat comes tenderized....:)

Azrancher- I love it!

mmmmm! Beer can beef! LOL! Just like beer can chicken!

Kinda like Kobe beef but more redneck!

nobrent

what?

What he is trying to tell you is that the climate of the SW is predicted to become much like that of Western Africa. It will become increasingly hotter and drier with each passing year. Until people stop burning fossil fuels the trend will continue, and sadly for most Texans probably for hundreds of years after people stop burning fossil fuels.

Unfortunately, the inconvenient truth is just that, both inconvenient and the truth. I wish it weren't so, but all indications are that it is. Those who deny the longest, will suffer the most.

I have a camel for sale!

freedom- you couldn't be so wrong. I live in the south and we have been getting a lot of rain. My 4 acres of hard woods has 4 inches of water in it and the last rain was 5 days ago.

you own a swamp!?

Maybe. I don't doubt global warming, but Texas went through a similar drought during the 1950s and a La Nina weather pattern. This is not unprecedented.

thank you lee, all of the gloom and doom posters dont look at history such as the dust bowl. If you just watch the weather and look at the various temp and rainfall records you will see patterns of a hundred years ago that mirror these times. lets use a little common sense

lance,

I'd rather use scientific knowledge than "common sense" in this situation.

Exactly...... a good tropical storm and we will be over our drought.....

5 years ago when I built my house here... I remember floods and too much rain.... and we can head back into that in a month......

Nice that climatologists can predict up to 2020, and local weathermen were off on the good rain we had last week. Our cattle are not in Nebraska -- they are out in our pasture. They are for local use, not to feed anyone but family and friends. Grass fed, no hormones, no possibility of mad cow disease we've raised our own for years. Our low-line Angus yearlings fill a freezer and provide excellent protein with marvelous flavor. Yes, we've paid through the nose for hay this last year, but it's worth it.

That's right LongFarms, weather just happens, like you said, and it will pass. 'xept climate change - when it happens - aint' gonna pass in your lifetime, or mine, or even my childrens me thinks. I hate to burst your bubble of optimism, but you have no idea what's coming, still

cuz *this* climate change is like no other. U know those dinosaurs died out, and stuff? and the little ice age? and something else Fox News babbled about the other day? So *all of that* and then some more is happenning right now in the neighbourhood near you (Texas) only much faster, like a fast forward on them old video players - you remember them right? So what's next? heck, nobody knows, and we cannot predict even with the best of research cuz none of the studies or findings we can surmise from the past applies to the climate change we are experiencing now. Cuz nothing like this ever happend before on this blue stellar ball called Earth.

I'd love to see y'all non-believers choke on admitting that Al Gore was right. To heck with his "monied agenda", that y'all Texans and other Red-Staters seem be so concerned about. This cattle from Texas is just the begginning of the worst migration this planet has ever ever experienced. Just wait till them Mexicans and "all" of the Texans - not just the cattle and everybody else from down below starts migrating North-er, eating your grass, drinking your water, breathing your air.Yeah. THAT's when I want to hear about the financial angle of Al Gore, when you are fighting for that little trickle down of muddy water from the mud hole in Minnesota. I WILL be there to remind y'all about all those billions Al Gore and the unholy climate scientists DID NOT make cuz y'all fine folks saw thru them and woulldn't buy into their "global-warming/climate-change" mumbo-jumbo. That'll be bloody funny. If you are a heartless kind man that is.

Cuz you know best, red-staters, cuz you are so down to Earth and shoot-from-the-hip kinda folks, you don't beleive in no junk science from blue-state bleeding-heart liberals. Right???? See y'all in H*ll, thatnks to the preview - by Texas.

anothernewvoter- I guess you don''t own a vehicle or use electricity that comes from and electrical plant. It is funny to see other people putting down Texas because they drill for the oil that you use. I bet you are one of those hypocrites that blame the government for making you by foreign made products. If would be more willing to listen to all of you climate change believers when I hear of you all selling your cars, etc and and see you riding a buggy or bycycle

@kjunme

Yup, I am one of them hypocrites driving a big gas-guzzler SUV Dodge Durango 2004 Special Edition. With a sticker "Republicans for Voldemort" on the back. It's an attention grabber, that's for sure. Gets folks talking - "how cum u bleeding heart liberal driving a big gas guzller blah-blah-blah"

Cuz I am like you from a red-state-know-it-all place in the god-forgotten middle of nowhere. I do know that if I stop driving this and start riding a bicycle - or even start sucking up Co2 like the plants do - nothing will change anyways. As long as there are folks like you who are h*ll-bent on not letting the proverbial Al Gore and "'hore scientists" making a buck and voting them non-believers in the congress and such. Ain't gonna change a darn thing. I don't know what it will take to convince you. Surely not me getting out of my SUV and on a tricycle. A mud-hole in Minnesota - maybe. it'll be too late by then though.

that's why I am saying - "see y'all in h*ll - previewed by Texas", "you bring us more non-beleivers like Bush and Perry", we'll have fun reminiscing. they know how to make us simple folks laugh.

NewVoter--"simple" doesn't begin to describe you. The thinly disguised smugness and pleasure you take from the misfortune of others speaks more about your character than your over-the-top hero worship of a pompous jackass like Gore. He may BE right about global warming--but he's also gotten rich off backing the pseudo-science that promotes it, and he's done damn little himself to lower HIS carbon footprint. I'll take the word of people like LongFarms any day--people who draw their living from the land, know it intimately, and have seen floods, droughts, storms and survived them all. They're a tougher breed than all the bilious dimwits in the "blue states" you seem to be so proud of. I'm currently exiled to live in one of the bluest (but not for long, I hope), and it's full of sanctimonious blowhards just like you.

Hey,
Another Texan

If those babies are grass fed, I'd like some Rib Eyes if you could spare some.

I have two freezers and they are getting empty.

I won't charge storage fees.

The BBQ pit is on standby all the time.

Not lookin at flippin burgers but could do some fast feral hog sausage mix.

Good cookin, God bless, and hope your doin well.

@Agdoc

You are correct, "simple" I am not. Smug and pompous - guilty as charged. Taking pleausure from the misfortune of others - this is where you are dead wrong, sir/madam. I hate seeing this, and reading this, even it is in Texas, where voters stubbornly vote non-science-believers into the high office, who stubbornly deny science and keep us all back from acting in a way that would actually matter.

That picture at the top of the article - that brought memories from my childhood. My grampa was a cowboy/cattle herder in the Southern Russia, when I was little, and he looked just like that. He let me ride on his horse - I was what, 4 or 5 then.

So as far as I am concerned - it's my grampa there, taking his cows to Nebraska, many of which will die, along with their newly-born calfs. Am I taking pleasure seeing this? I would - if I were a heartless psycopath, but I am not. Thank goodness my heart is bigger than you can possibly imagine, and I feel as sorry for those Texans whose voting choices put us closer to extinction a little faster than could've been if they made different voting choices - as sorry for them as I would for my old, hard-working grampa.

So, what would it take you Texans to finally beleive that global warming is real, it is caused by man, and there is something as humanity we still can do to avert the worst?

NewVoterdude,

That "monied agenda" of Gore's that the reich loves to talk about is just a diversionary tactic to keep us from looking at the fortunes that will be pocketed by folks like the cokes and big energy...... by not having to be environmentally regulated. It's a smoke and mirrors game, a shell game. Lots of money on the table. Enough to make anything Gore gained looked like small chump change.

hello......you had almost 100 days consecutive of 100 degree heat last summer! and were praying for rain.have fun with that.

hello....he said it's raining, and the drought may be over. What does your statement have to do with that? Do try to be less of a moron.

It's going to take ALOT of days of soaking rain over several months to put the wells and resevours ANYWHERE close to noramal.

No, it isn't. He still gets to live in Texas, while you're stuck in whatever s***hole you call home.

wow, I thought that whole article was about how much of a hell hole Texas is... My bad, oh....Wait I understand, your been watching Faux News again. Where the only thing that matters is what they want you to hear.

Wonder how many acres all those homes in forecloseure account for. Sickening. Even worse are those that move to the country, buy 10, 20, 30 etc. acres and it's taken out of production forever. Never maintained again....

right kattlequeen...there's plenty of country for sure. suburban neighborhoods suck and hicks "I got me 80 acres for my house" and a big ole' driveway for my big ole truck i need to drive to work at the factory everyday yeeehaw!

Yeah, let's all live in one them thar cities where we can hear our neighbors belch through the walls, worry about being mugged just stepping out to get a cab--which we have to do since there's no place for a car, much less one of them "big ole trucks"--pay ruinous prices for a condo that used to be a small apartment, and we wake up every morning to the unmistakable stench of....city. Or how 'bout one them thar suburbs? Row houses, HOA's, driving 10 miles to get anywhere and then wondering why you wanted to get there in the first place, the only "fine dining" the nearest Mickey D's. Frankly, I'll take the country--80 acres or 800, it's all good.

First rebuttal, cattle don't walk up here they are hauled in trucks. Second, the Nebraska sand hills is the largest stabilized area of dunes in the Western Hemisphere. Most of the North Central and NW and parts of the SW are sandhill grazing lands that do not have crops planted on them. Third we produce enough food here to feed ourselves plus export nearly half as much again of some commodities (a lone bright spot in our ever growing trade deficit). We also have nearly doubled yields in the past 30 years or so all the time using less energy and resources per bushel/lb/bale produced. At the same time we have cut erosion 10 fold. It seems we have met the challenge to date.

The thing is George, the cattle that they're moving to Neb. are not slaughter cattle. They're mama cows and their babies, they graze grass.

The majority of cattle ranchers in TX and elsewhere, are not also grain farmers. Therefore do not get a big grain check. This is most likely out of their pockets, they're just trying to keep their herds instead of selling out and paying 1/3 of it to the government in taxes, just to buy back later at higher prices.

wow longfarms. cool . neat info. thanks. and I just thought Nebraska was just a bunch of drunken weirdos (my brother in law) that's awesome I will try and keep him from going back there and fckn that place up .

The drunken part is pretty accurate for the most part. :-)

1surrviivor--bitter much?

Need to study.

Little boys that lie grow up to be weathermen!

Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological elemental measurements in a given region over long periods.

Weather is the present condition of these elements and their variations over shorter periods.

The climate is dictated largely by what happens with El Nino Southern Occilation (ENSO) in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. It is the world's predominant gyre and it shift from very warm and hot (El Nino) to slightly cool (La Nina) over a period of several years. Studying the rate of heating and its extent allows climatologists to model wind and current patterns elsewhere and coupled with increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can predict now with relatively good accuracy. What they are predicting is increasing high temperatures and dryness in continental interiors, much warmer nights, and when precipitation, when it does occur to often be much more extreme than it is now (air is hotter so it hold more water). Most of the warming will be in the arctic and high temperate regions, but the number of very hot days will increase dramatically the world over, over previous historical patterns.

Don't eat something that eats with its pecker.

...or anything that can lick it's own behind.

Good point. Gymnasts are now off my list.

ha!

LOL

The Bible tells us that Satan is the god of this system. He controls all that happens in this world. But the Bible also assures us that there is a "new earth we are awaiting according to his [Almighty God, Jehovah] promise. The Bible also assures us that only the righteous ones will be accepted into that new world following Armageddon. (Psalm 37:9-11; Daniel 2:44; Matthew 5:5; Matthew 6:9, 10) So, in spite of those who would destroy our home, Jehovah God is not going to let things get so far out of hand that we destroy ourselves. The "time of the end" has been progressing toward Armageddon since 1914, when the Gentile Times ended, so the time is now to turn around and worship the heavenly Father, Jehovah God and imitate the Way of Truth that Jesus taught his followers would set them apart from this wicked system of things.

I have no interest in what goes on on BLM land, but I will play devils advocate as I feel a little mischievous. Why are horses a better fit for grasslands than cattle? Horses are not native and have only been part of the landscape here for 400 years. Ruminants such as bison were here for tens of thousands of years. Although there are minor differences in bison and cattle they are nearly the same animal and can actually be hybridized. If we aren't going to use bison in the ecosystems of the west then cattle are the most logical substitute.

most blm land isn't in texas neither are the wild horses. wyoming, the western slope of colorado, utah that is where most are and for us last year was one of the wettest in decades. not to worry the horses, elk, deer, antelope aka wild rats with horns, they all have plenty to eat. besides that except for the high country there isn't much snow cover down low so the food that normally is buried deep under the snow, too deep for most to get at is helping them all get through this winter better than most winters. no need to go vegetarian yet, none at all.

Eat more beets, yum, yum. How many of you posters here actually know that food doesn't come from stores?

The cows don't have upper teeth and don't eat grass as short as horses do, making them far less destructive to the root system. Horses are not native here and the land has not evolved to accomodate them. Sell them to Mc Donalds.

True, cows eat differnt graze than horse do, but put cows on public lands, and don't keep up the land because you lease it and don't own it outright, and downhill the situation goes....

Horses are much more mobile than cows, and have a wider range. They too thrash up the turf, but not as quick as a huge herd of cattle will! They'll strip the landscape of grass, and erosion and topsoil loss will follow quickly.

There are so few horses in comparison to the number of cattle. Also, the fossil evidence shows that horses were here in the U.S. before the current herds millions of years ago. Horses graze and move on. Cattle stay and completely erode an area. As for eating horse burgers, 123freedom, you are a monster who never loved the beauty of a horse or appreciated that the horse helped humanity for thousands of years on the farms, in battle, and for transportation. Not to mention that they are a beautiful creature.

we tried it back during the drought in the 70's a total waste of money unless they are doing something different now.

Eat your beef, just don't bend your elbow so often. Moderation in all things!

Tried exercise lately? I'm your age and have eaten been all my life, I'm not fat. I work hard everyday, out in all kinds of weather.

If you aren't harvesting the beets your are missing out

Feed them sage, oh but cattle would die from that, only buffalo could eat that kind of food

Wow lilian that is an idea. Im guessing that you would like the job handeling the buffalo. Ive had that job and you cant make money from animals who thrash any kind of facilities or equipment they come in contact with. Cattle can be gentled down. Id like to see you in a pen of buffalo. If your gona give ideas maybe you should check into logistics first.

Thought she was being sarcastic Outdoors, but you probably knew that.

An old Wisconsin farm kid here. Hay here in Arizona is $20 a bale for horse hay. Cow hay a bit less. I can recall $1 a bale. Global warming???? I recall years of nothing but mud and years of no rain. About the only thing the weatherman can predict is the temp and wind.

Molon Labe

Gasland. watch it!

You people are all idiots, you have no idea where food comes from. It comes from the store, the store makes all the food. Farmers,? they don't matter food comes from the store, the stores make it and they sell it. Continue to eat your food from the store cause they are looking out for your best intersts.. Again eat more beets but only if you buy from the store. Who cares who grows the food or the food.

while your at it, drink more wine, it comes from the store too.

oh wait, it is the farmers who make the food. Silly silly me

oops, don't forget the beets