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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>An interesting article on weather/farming/trade. </span><a href="https://www.axios.com/midwest-flooding-farm-crisis-corn-8fdc470d-d46f-4a7b-8fdb-4f3c8e7db120.html">https://www.axios.com/midwest-flooding-farm-crisis-corn-8fdc470d-d46f-4a7b-8fdb-4f3c8e7db120.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> AT <at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Cecil Bearden<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 23, 2019 7:04 AM<br><b>To:</b> at@lists.antique-tractor.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AT] OT Weird Weather<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>This record setting weather gives me plenty of time to think about why. Let me state that I am not a believer in Man-made global warming. The earth has gone through many cycles prior to man's existence. Now let's not start a political discussion here that is not my intent. Just thinking.<o:p></o:p></p><p>My farms are 50 miles apart as the crow flies. Both sit SE of gigantic wind farms. our storms used to come from the NW, but now when they get near the wind farms, they turn and go straight south... If you really look at wind generators, those fans are 300 ft diameter and sit about 300 ft above ground to the center. That means that the fan stirs up 450 ft of air so that when a low lying storm or tornado flows near, the heat from the ground is now mixed for450 ft.. Just a thought... The trend is to go to more wind generation and less fossil fuels... Has anyone done any study on the effect of wind farms.. ??<o:p></o:p></p><p>Another thought is that in the last 100 or so years every large nation has tried to weaponize weather. The jet stream is now flowing in a pattern that has been experienced before, but not for the length of time. Ralph has said that Canada is drier that ever, while we are so wet nothing can get planted. The pressure systems over Canada and Greenland are causing the jet stream patterns. <br><br>I won't go any further with my personal thoughts on this as I don't want to start a political flaming war... <o:p></o:p></p><p>Cecil<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>AT mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:AT@lists.antique-tractor.com">AT@lists.antique-tractor.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com">http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>