Frozen Fountains in Phoenix


sr71

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May 22, 2007
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Calgary, Great White
Chip, I googled frozen fountains and saw the pictures. Sure hope you run antifreeze in the GT. Do you need some snow brush/ice scrapers?
 

ChipBeck

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Feb 13, 2006
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Scottsdale, Arizona
The last time I saw fountains freeze like this in Scottsdale was 1966 and I was in grade school. Global warming my a**! Below are photos of my next door neighbors driveway fountain. An amazing and very unusual sight in this part of the country.

Chip
 

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MNJason

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May 14, 2010
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San Diego
Whats the temp?
 

RALPHIE

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Mar 1, 2007
7,278
Hope your sprinkler systems survive....
 

djs

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Jun 7, 2007
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"Global warming my @$$."
C'mom Chip, aren't you a true believer? Just because temps are the coldest they been in umpteen years and everyone north of Orlando is diggin themselves out of record snowfalls doesn't mean we're all not going to roast to death in the next year or two!:willy
 

2112

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Guys, Get with the times;

It is Climate change, not Global warming. Climate change will be reversed by by bringing our economy down several notches and supporting other countries to bring their economies up to snuff.
 

MDT

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Jun 24, 2006
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Didn't the northern part of the United States used to be buried under a mile of ice? There are people living on coral islands worried about getting flooded out, but when did coral ever grow above sea level? Seems to be we are just swinging to the other direction from the last ice age. I know in the early 70's they were afraid we were entering another ice age, which to me would be much much worse.
 

ChipBeck

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Feb 13, 2006
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Scottsdale, Arizona
High School Debate

Gentlemen,

When I was in high school (1970-1974) the news media was screaming about global cooling, "The New Ice Age". We discussed it several times in class and the teachers were all 100% certain that the record cold was man caused. My son goes to that same school today and the teachers are 100% certain that global warming is man caused. Below is a Time Magazine cover from 1979. Some things never change.

Chip
 

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