Re: OT - Climate Changes

["Tony K" <bigtony@softhome.net>]

> Maybe this can lead to a discussion of how weather effects our 
>creativity.

I find that I like to 'get creative' and play when it's sort of dreary - 
rainy, snowy, dark.  But not so much when it's bright and sunny.  Might be 
because I like to play dark and dreary things. ;)  If it's sunny I want to 
be outside doing something fun, like fishing or walking or anything but be 
in my studio.

I was watching some programs about last years tsunami and apparently the 
earthquake also caused the earth to wobble and spin faster.  Not much, a 
few 
thousanths of a second, but it changed.  Gotta wonder what that kind of 
major event does to weather, currents, etc.

Tony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com>
To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 4:03 AM
Subject: OT: Climate Changes


> This is so off topic as to defy rational justification
> except that it affects many of the live loopers
> in Western Europe and the British Isles:
>
> I was talking with Luis Angulo (who is here visiting his family
> in San Diego from Northern Europe) and he told me that
> they had 3 solid weeks without seeing the sunshine in Radolfzell
> (by the Boden Zee).   I had also heard from Andy Butler mentioning
> that England was having a particularly severe winter this year.
>
> Anyway,  my wife found this fascinating flash demonstration of
> why global warming is having the effect of much colder winters
> for Western Europe and the British Isles.
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/gulf_stream_climate.swf
>
> The Gulf Stream coming up from the equator actually raises the
> air temperature of those regions by an astonishing 18 degrees Farhenheit
> and 10 degrees Celsius.
>
> Researchers have discovered that the circulation of the currents have 
> slowed
> a dismaying 30% over the last 12 years due to global warming trends.
>
> Maybe this can lead to a discussion of how weather effects our 
>creativity.
>
> I've often wondered if   Per Boysen, as an example, is more or less 
> creative/prolific
> when there is very little sun in the winter or when there is a lot of 
>sun 
> in the summer.
>
> I know I write much, much more in the winter than in the summer.