What Are Some Effects of Global Warming?

in europe, there has been these effects: since the 1980s there has been a lot less snow during winter, mostly milder winters we could have up to 4 meters of snow, now as little as 1 meter but this varies a little, animals from further south have been migrating to northern parts of europe (wild boar from italy and other species) leading to greater Competition between them and our natural animals also we now have an increase in insects we never had here before lately that has been a concern, winters are shorter and summers are wetter because of increased rain during summers, weather has become more chaotic during summer and winter.. still this could all be a natural trend, every scientist is still arguing about it.. just adding a small correction to the year up top.

1. How do you refininish your gun stocks?

I usually use Birchwood Casey stain and finish, although for my M-1, which I expected to shoot in all kinds of weather in service rifle matches, I used a polyurethane finish for better moisture resistance. It's not GI and will not please the traditionalists, but it is very effective. My M-1 is not a collector's item, but a tuned rifle I used for years in service rifle competition. I highly recommend Birchwood Casey finishing products, which I have used on several stocks, both new and refinished. I have always achieved a nice finish. Follow the directions on the container and so will you.

2. What is the least expensive way to book a cruise?

I always book through a travel agent i use redhotescapes.com and I am also a past guest so I get past guest rates. Never book air through the cruise line its always more. I have my travel agent do that separately. As for flying if its the winter time I would go the day before if you are late because of weather and miss the boat its your expense to catch it at the next island. If you use AAA book the air separately And fly in the day before thats my advice. Vacations to go is about the same as anyone else after all the taxes etc. they advertise a low price and then once the fuel and surcharges are all added up there no different

3. What is the weather for Anaheim on Saturday?

Fri. Feb. 9: 68 F Sat. Feb. 10: 62 F Showers Sun. Feb. 11: 63 F Showers

4. Le Corbusier proposed 'one single house for all countries.' Why would he have done so and why is that seen as problematic today?

It is basically the same as providing the same number 41 black men's shoe to everyone.Le Corbusier insisted "the problems of architecture are the same everywhere and thus the answers must be the same". He also insisted all buildings ought to be based on three basic forms of nature: sphere, cone and cylinder. In his world there were no such things as 'history', 'culture', 'climate', 'weather', 'year cycle' or 'latitude'.In the vantage point of cultual evolution, architecture is a memeplex. It is a collection of memes which attempt to answer the challenges which both the nature, the milieu, the weather and the human culture sets it. The result is that architecture is a living thing. The challenges are different by each era, each culture, each climate, each latitude, each weather, each society. There simply is no one singular perfect solution for everything. The architecture mutates - just like organisms mutate in the biological evoution. They mutate so that they provide the most efficient solution to the challenge it is set.Visby, rosornas och ruinernas stadConsider Visby, Sweden. It is located at 54th latitude North, at the coast of Baltic. The climate is harsh. Rain is usual, it is windy there, and the snow comes usually in November and melts in March. The town has been built around a natural harbour with steep limestone cliffs to east. The street plan follows the natural contours.The solutions are those which correspond to the weather. Steep tiled roofs to counter the rainfall ans snowfall. Small but many windows to prevent heat loss. Dormer windows to provide natural light. Eaved roofs to prevent water seeping in. The buildings are low, the streets are narrow to prevent wind and weather rushing in, and the use of ground is highly efficient. The buildings are low as people want to live near the Earth. There are few, but neatly placed, decorations.You can say this kind of architecture belongs somewhere. It reflects its era, its milieu, the culture which created it. It is just as lagom as the Swedes (or gutar) themselves. Visby is a Medieval town and it emanates is history and the nature of the people who created it.Any place. Anywhere. Anywhen. Simply hideous.Consider these International Style high-rises. They are the same number 41 black men's shoe provided to everyone. They really do not fit anywhere. They suit poorly any climate. They are hot in the summer and cold in the winter. They are threatening. And only from the Hebrew letters you get to know they are from Israel. They could be just anywhere. They reflect no history, no tradition, no belonging. They are historyless and they are rootless. Just as your foot is likely to be smaller than #41, larger than #41, not fitting the last or you may be a woman or you do not like the colour black, these hideous high-rises are basically providing everyone the same solution which is equally bad to everyone. Cultural evolution does not work that way.The Greeks have an excellent metaphor - The Procrustes Bed for this situation. Every Finn who has served his or her country know that it is cosy to sleep in the half-platoon tent; when your head freezes in the winter frost and your feet get fried in the stove heat, by average everything is fine. It is exactly the same situation with architecture. Head freezes in the frost (here in Far North) and feet fry in the stove (near the Equator), in average everything is fine.Humans are no worker ants nor mindless drones who can be packed in beehives. Humans need beauty just as much as they need oxygen and water. Ugliness is threatening; it raises stress hormone levels and impairs health. Humans want to belong; they want to have communality; they want to have family line, legacy and history. In architecture, being timeless means being historyless.I am from Finland, and in Finland the Corbusian single solution for everyone is ingredients for catastrophe. We have four seasons, and our country is at the occlusion zone of Atlantic cyclones. In the spring, the snow melts and it rains. In the summer, it can be both scorchingly hot and freezingly rainy at one hour's warning. In the autumn, it is scourgingly rainy. And in winter, it falls snow. We have currently 70 cm of snow (3 Feb 2019) in Helsinki. The solutions provided - flat roofs, no eaves, ribbon windows, pilotis, shallow footings - simply mean moisture, mold and mildew problems, horrible heating bills and sick building syndrome. Almost 50% of all buildings in Finland built after 1930 are ready to be demolished. The upkeeping costs are nasty. And they give the feeling they really don't belong here. The architects of the past designed homes for human souls. Lecorbusian architecture is providing machines for living to machines of existence.Le Corbusier proposed 'one single house for all countries. ' Why would he have done so and why is that seen as problematic today?