The Dream Continues To Live On !

The young amazing Colorado Rockies continue to astound and bring excitement (!!!) and smiles :) :) to fans like me as the last week of the MLB regular season starts. The Rockies have now won eight straight -one game shy of tying a club record - and today (Sunday 23 September) wrapped up an completely unexpected three game sweep of their fellow postseason aspirants San Diego Padres at Petco Park in San Diego. Colorado now stands at 84-72 - a new club record for victories - and are but a game and half out of the wild card spot. San Diego stands at 85-70 while Philadelphia sits at 85-71. The Padres play their last seven games on the road with three at San Francisco starting Monday and wrapping up their season with four at Milwaukee starting Thursday. Philadelphia plays their last six games at home with three starting Tuesday against the still alive tough Atlanta Braves and ending with three against the Washington Nationals over the next weekend. Colorado has three challenging games in Los Angeles starting Tuesday and wrap up their regular season at home starting Friday with three against the probable NL West Division Champion Arizona Diamondbacks.

Arizona is 88-68, just four games ahead of the Rockies and only 2 1/2 in front of the Padres, but before the Diamondbacks close their regular season with three in Denver against the Rockies, they have three games in Pittsburgh starting Tuesday against the hapless Pirates and should win at least two if not all of of those three games considering what is at stake for the D-backs. With the challenges facing San Diego and Colorado in this last week, it would seem unlikely they will be able to overtake Arizona for the divisional flag. Colorado needs to keep winning and hope to get some help from San Francisco, Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Washington this week. I would think 89 is the number the wild card winner will need to have. 5-1 is a tall order for the Rockies, but given what has happened so far, it is realistic and foreseeable. I will be intently watching and listening all week to see what eventuates.

GO ROCKIES !!!!!!

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20070923&content_id=2225810&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

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Climate Change Ramifications on the Very Land Americans Live On

A research project by scientists and students at the University of Arizona in Tucson has mapped out in great detail the consequences of the looming rise in sea levels on the coastal and low-lying areas in the United States and elsewhere. Scenarios ranging from a one meter to six meter rise in sea levels are presented and what is anticipated is greatly alarming. It is virtually certain before the end of the 21st Century we will see a widespread loss of land to the ocean and the wiping out of cities and homes of tens of millions, probably hundreds of millions across the planet. We can probably start to really see the beginning of this within the next two decades. Large parts of Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas will be consumed by the sea within the lifetime of children alive today. Philadelphia, Washington, and Orlando will be seaports. The physical size of Florida will decrease by greater than one-half. Miami, New Orleans, Gulfport-Biloxi, Savannah, Galveston, Corpus Christi, and other noteworthy cities will simply cease to exist.

And one has to little if any doubt that all this will happen, perhaps sooner and in more violent and sudden ways than is forecasted and expected. Mankind simply will not do what it takes to prevent any of this from happening.


http://tinyurl.com/2df72n


http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/cvi/


http://tinyurl.com/ca73h


http://www.architecture2030.org/current-situation/coastal-impact.html


http://www.geo.arizona.edu/dgesl/research/other/climate_change_and_sea_level/sea_level_rise/sea_level_rise.htm


http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20070923\Optimistic_Doomsayers_20070923.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1

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Autumn Commences in Wyoming

My favorite season of the year officially began this morning at 3:51 am MDT with the passing of the Autumnal Equinox. The next three months see a fast and steep decline in both temperatures and the amount of daylight hours. Here in Cheyenne, we have already seen a decline in average daily high temperature from 84 to 68 and in the lows from 56 t0 41 from their summertime peaks. Daylight has decreased from a peak of 15:09 to 12:08 in length. By the time the Winter Solstice arrives in December, daylight hours have dropped to 9:12 and the normal temps are at 37 for a high and 17 for a low with still another five weeks of decline before the numbers start to rise again the last week of January. Another regular climatological occurence begins to recommence again during the Autumn with the reappearance of the prevailing strong westerly winds that dominate the climate here on this part of the continent from Halloween until Easter.

All that being said, Autumn is still the best season of the year here. The cooler days are invigorating yet still warm, the sun shines the most during September and October, the sun angle brings a comfortable perspective to all that one sees, and annual changing of colors in the leaves on trees and shrubs and their subsequent falling is always a beautiful sight to behold and marvel at. I always enjoy getting out to take a walk and feel the wonderful weather during the next several weeks that we get to experience here in the Rocky Mountains and High Plains.