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Title: Greenland ice melt set record in 2010; Canadian arctic unusually warm
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URL Source: http://www.tbd.com/blogs/weather/20 ... rctic-unusually-warm-7616.html
Published: Jan 24, 2011
Author: TBD
Post Date: 2011-01-24 16:58:18 by go65
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Views: 3650
Comments: 18
Cold enough for you? It certainly is for some folks, who are using the frigid air and East Coast snowstorms to fire spitballs at global-warming believers. It’s true that the D.C. region has been locked into an unusually cold pattern, with temperatures in December about 5 degrees below average. But as mentioned before on this blog, that doesn’t mean everyone in the world is shivering. Here’s some more recent data on how D.C. is faring in comparison to other climates. The above map, courtesy of NOAA, depicts anomalies in mean surface temperatures from Dec. 17 to Jan. 15. The blue splotch near D.C. represents our below-average cold snap. The orange and red patches over the higher latitudes indicate areas where temperatures have been unusually high. (Green is 3 to 9 degrees above average; yellow 9 to 15 degrees; orange/red 15 to 21 degrees. Light blue is 3 to 6 degrees below average.) Greenland saw an unusually warm December, with temperatures at 15 to 20 degrees above average. The warmth helped set a new record in 2010 for the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, according to Marco Tedesco, a scientist with the City College of New York. Tedesco is studying the dissolving sheet because it is expected to greatly contribute to rising sea levels in the coming years, perhaps by as much as 3 feet by 2100. He reports that some places in Greenland had a melting season of 50 days beyond what was expected in 2010. An area the size of France was subject to melting last year that would’ve stayed frozen in 1979, he says. Here is Tedesco’s chart depicting how the weather is causing above-average anomalies in the country’s ice melt: The Canadian arctic was also oddly mild during this month-long period, with temperatures 37.8 degrees above average. Why was that? Bob Henson of the government-affiliated University Corporation for Atmospheric Research offers a couple explanations. One, vast areas of water in the Canadian seas refused to freeze this year. With no ice sheet, the water keeps on pumping warmth into the atmosphere. “The Meteorological Service of Canada was still writing marine forecasts as of 7 January, well beyond anything we have ever done,” said David Phillips, a climatologist with the government’s Environment Canada. Two, the massive storm systems we’ve seen over the past few weeks helped carry warm Atlantic air into Canada. So our local weather may share some of the blame for hungry hunters who are unable to cross ice sheets to get to their prey, as well as a general lack of fun. According to the New York Times: Iqaluit, the capital of the remote Canadian territory of Nunavut, had to cancel its New Year’s snowmobile parade. David Ell, the deputy mayor, said that people in the region had been looking with envy at snowbound American and European cities. “People are saying, ‘That’s where all our snow is going!’ ” he said. Feel free to insert your respective climate-change-is-real / global-warming-is-a-myth opinions on why these temperature abnormalities are happening. Just don't say that a particularly chilly winter in D.C. means things are cold all over.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Anomaly map for the northern hemisphere Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
I have seem some on the right wing denial camp now concede there is global climate change but they don't blame it on man made causes - its happening naturally. Before they were claiming there was no climate change at all. Progress?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
ME: Thanks for admitting that you ARE trying to spin this (AZ shooting, and terrorism) onto Palin, and conservatives in general. "There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." -- go65, LF's resident mental giant --
The Los Angeles Times reported … that Al and Tipper Gore greatly expanded their carbon footprint with the purchase of their fourth luxury home. The 'global warming' business has been very, very good to the Gores. ME: Thanks for admitting that you ARE trying to spin this (AZ shooting, and terrorism) onto Palin, and conservatives in general. "There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." -- go65, LF's answer to Ben Bernanke --
Just for clarity, since I haven't posted here in quite awhile... Are you guys the perfect stereotypes of the leftist? I mean, are there any issues the left espouses that you have not bought into?
I am an ex Conservative Republican so I know your positions well because I was once like you or associated with you types. I am an independent rationalist now. What I said was accurate in that "I have seem some on the right wing denial camp now concede there is global climate change but they don't blame it on man made causes - global warming is happening naturally as part of a warming cycle. Before they were claiming there was no climate change at all."
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
No, the claim all along was it was just weather in the short term, but when every heat spell or mild winter that came along was presented as PROOF of global warming (along with every other meteorlogical event with constant contradictions), the real RATIONAL thinkers followed suit to use these charlatans arguments against them.
LOL I am a life long Republican and Bush voter but... You dumbasses are so transparent.
That's probably what the right wing thinks or is told to think by their gurus but science does not work like that. In any case, I am for scientific upgrading of technology. There is no need to base civilization on the need to burn fuel that came from the time of dinosaurs. If we are unsure if climate change is as advocated we should still upgrade ourselves. If you live in an old house you will see that it was once lit by gas light. The pipes are still there and wires were placed in as an upgrade. Why not produce nuclear energy that is clean. You have 'socialist' hippy loving France that is powered by safe nuclear energy. Mostly because they socialized the program under govt control. In America they let private energy companies run their own nuclear program and we get the mess we have now. Japan subsidizes solar panels on roof homes. The Dutch are producing windmills. Coal is cheap energy but it does pollute - let's clean up the exhaust via govt funding. Do you hate the future?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
You dumbasses are so transparent. Anyone who is proud of voting for Bush is a dumbass.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
The "proof" of global warming is rising average global land/sea temperatures consistent across multiple data sources, both terrestrial and satellite. Something that folks like yourself can only dismiss with a wave of the hand and a claim of some massive conspiracy.
Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
I supported Nixon in 1968, but fortunately, I couldn't vote at age 14. My Repug family sent me to expensive schools, forced me to go to am Christian church until I got big enough to fight back and stay away from a religion I never bought into, not to mention the barber chair. I did vote for McGovern the first time I voted, and got in trouble in school for an innocent Nixon campaign slogan I had written on the chalk board: "Why pull out in the middle of a screw, vote for Nixon in '72." Well, I liked it, that was the important thing. ;-D
I doubt that. so I know your positions well I doubt that as well. I am an ex Republican Conservative.
Your just a conservative who hates the fact the Republican party failed your ideology. I find the entire Republican Conservative ideology a failure and much prefer European style Christian democracy and their social market as my conservative base these days.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Can I help you pack? :o)
I like how right wing hacks rather force people out rather than allow for change. It's like the old south wanting others to leave their peculiar institution alone or leave. Tough. You will be dragged kicking and screaming into reality or YOU CAN LEAVE.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
So now I'm a hack? LOL! I knew it wouldn't take you long. You started that way so I know it's your nature. Here's reality for you....I'm not leaving and my country will not be dragged into your socialist utopia. I come from a long lineage of Americans who stood and fought and I have no plans to change that. It's a family tradition. ;o)
What waste of resources.
#2. To: go65 (#1)
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#3. To: go65 (#0)
by go65
Brian S(ocialist): I have never hidden that fact...
#4. To: go65 (#0)
Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have added a Montecito-area property to their real estate holdings, reports the Montecito Journal... The couple spent $8,875,000 on an ocean-view villa on 1.5 acres with a swimming pool, spa and fountains, a real estate source familiar with the deal confirms. The Italian-style house has six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathrooms.
Given the ocean-view, Gore really can't be too concerned with rising sea levels. A little sleuthing led me to this delightful listing, which I believe is the new Gore residence as: (a) it recently dropped off the listing agent's "for sale" site; and (b) it meets the fairly unique criteria specified by the Montecito Journal.
Don't you love these hypocritical Climatards? (That's the term they prefer, I hear).
They want to control your lives: how big your car can be, how much water your toilet can hold, the kind of light bulbs you can use. They even think there are limits on how much money you should be able to make.
But they put no limits on what they can have. Kind of like the old Soviet Politburo. Which is the kind of society they intend for us.
Brian S(ocialist): I have never hidden that fact...
#5. To: Godwinson, go65 (#2)
#6. To: We The People, go65 (#5)
Are you guys the perfect stereotypes of the leftist?
#7. To: Godwinson (#6)
What I said was accurate in that "I have seem some on the right wing denial camp now concede there is global climate change but they don't blame it on man made causes - global warming is happening naturally as part of a warming cycle. Before they were claiming there was no climate change at all."
#8. To: Godwinson (#6)
I am an ex Conservative Republican
#9. To: no gnu taxes (#7)
No, the claim all along was it was just weather in the short term, but when every heat spell or mild winter that came along was presented as PROOF of global warming
#10. To: no gnu taxes (#8)
I am a life long Republican and Bush voter but...
#11. To: no gnu taxes (#7)
No, the claim all along was it was just weather in the short term, but when every heat spell or mild winter that came along was presented as PROOF of global warming (along with every other meteorlogical event with constant contradictions), the real RATIONAL thinkers followed suit to use these charlatans arguments against them.
#12. To: no gnu taxes (#8)
"I am a life long Republican and Bush voter but..."
#13. To: Godwinson (#6)
(Edited)
I am an ex Conservative Republican
#14. To: We The People (#13)
I am an ex Republican Conservative.
#15. To: Godwinson (#14)
#16. To: We The People (#15)
#17. To: Godwinson (#16)
#18. To: Ferret Mike (#12)
sent me to expensive schools,
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