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Title: We are already at 2 degrees Celsius above normal!
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Boston Globe
URL Source: http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/ ... z5MHZkH8aD0HIDJrcYJ/story.html
Published: Mar 6, 2016
Author: Boston Globe
Post Date: 2016-03-06 09:57:57 by interpreter
Keywords: None
Views: 3018
Comments: 25
Thursday, while the nation debated the relative size of Republican genitalia, something truly awful happened. Across the northern hemisphere, the temperature, if only for a few hours, apparently crossed a line: it was more than two degrees Celsius above “normal” for the first time in recorded history and likely for the first time in the course of human civilization. That’s important because the governments of the world have set two degrees Celsius as the must-not-cross red line that, theoretically, we’re doing all we can to avoid. And it’s important because most of the hemisphere has not really had a winter. They’ve been trucking snow into Anchorage for the start of the Iditarod; and Arctic sea ice is at record low levels for the date. The future is clearly coming much faster than science had expected. February, taken as a whole, crushed all the old monthly temperature records, which had been set in … January. January crushed all the old monthly temperature records, which had been set in … December. Bigger storms: The highest wind speeds ever measured came last month when Tropical Cyclone Winston crashed into Fiji. Entire villages were flattened. In financial terms, the storm wiped out ten percent of the nation’s gross domestic product, roughly equivalent to fifteen simultaneous Hurricane Katrina’s. This was followed by the highest wind speeds ever recorded in our hemisphere, when Patricia crashed into the Pacific coast of Mexico. http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/03/04/why-degree-temperature-jump-more-important-than-trump-hands/lCyz5MHZkH8aD0HIDJrcYJ/story.html We have to do something. I hope and pray that Obama appoints an environmentalist to the Supreme Court who will reverse the court's decision to scuttle the EPA's Clean Air Act that is our only hope. Otherwise the earth is doomed.
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#1. To: interpreter (#0)
Doomed? Sounds to me, rather, like we will have warmer winters, with the climate patterns moving north. Texas will become Mexico, Kansas will become Texas, Minnesota will become Kansas. Manitoba, and Siberia, will become Minnesota. Sounds to me, net net, like a huge boon for Canada and Russia, and a massive increase in arable land, as the vast Canadian and Russian plains become temperate like the American northern Midwest, with hugely increased productivity over vast areas. With global warming, it looks to me like we increase the store of the world's prime farmland eightfold. That doesn't seem like a bad thing. So they'll have tornadoes in Boston? Big deal. They've had tornadoes in Detroit since settlement, and that doesn't change anything. Global warming, net, net, seems like a positive good for mankind, because MOST of the world's landmass is locked in ice and snow in Canada and Russia, or in plains with growing seasons too short. Global warming returns all of those vast areas, which used to have lush rainforests (judging by the dinosaur bones) back into habitable areas. The cost of food over the next few centuries should steadily plummet, as more and more farmland opens to exploitation.
El Niño has nothing to do with this I spose?
'What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?'
BTW, how could the EARTH be doomed by warming? Seems like the sky is falling rhetoric is key to understanding what is going on. Getting people to react emotionally seems to be important. 'What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?'
The weather observatory on Mount Washington recorded wind speeds of 231 mph in 1932 . What wind speeds were recorded for Patricia ?
"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools." Plato
That doesn't seem like a bad thing. Wrong. Global warming is causing severe drought in much of the world, and is decreasing prime farmland, not increasing it. The most severe and longest drought in recorded history is now plaguing Syria and Iraq, once the most fertile land on earth, and most of the millions of immigrants flooding Europe and the US are fleeing the drought, not ISIS. Scientists say that if nothing is done about global warming, most of the Middle East will very soon be too hot and dry for human survival. And they say that GW will trigger the earth's 6th mass extinction of animals, and it will likely be worse than any mass extinction in the earth's history. That does not sound like a good thing to me.
Yes, the current El Nino is by far the biggest and severest El Nino on record and it is a result of Global Warming. The oceans are warming faster the land, and scientists (and the Revelation) say all the creatures in the sea will soon be dead. Red tides (which a Catholic priest called El Nino because they trigger the return of the Christ-child), and the resulting kill-off of all fish, are last plague #2, and global warming is last plague # 4. Scientists say the two plagues are related, and warming oceans are contributing to red tides and fish kills, as well as the severest storms in history.
Air conditioner. Problem solved.
It would seem to me that the longest and most prolonged drought in history is in Northern Africa, picture Egypt now in its how many thousands of years, and no cars in sight.
How do scientists know what NORMAL is? I am guessing they are imputing data to fit their scenario. Without global warming, they are simply out of a job.
Wrong. More air-conditioners require more power plants and that would increase global warming, because most poor countries (and much of the US) rely on coal-powered power plants, the biggest cause of GW.
Areas that have always been dry don't count. Iraq and Syria, also called the Garden of Eden in the Bible, and the Fertile Crescent in history books, is where farming began and the first civilization sprang up.
They have about 300 years of recorded temperatures, plus they drill holes into millions of years of ice deposits at the poles, and study tree rings, etc.
Manbearpig
They don't go by recorded temperatures. They go by computer models and "normalized" data.
So, the drought is killing the Muslim regions. Poor Muslims. Seems like God is judging. You only hear the bad. You don't hear about extended growing seasons in Ontario and Michigan and Minnesota, how they're opening vineyards in Quebec, how Russian yields are up. Seems like global warming is really fucking over the people who hate us, but turning the great, well-watered plains of the colder northern countries into the American Midwest. That doesn't wipe out farmland over time, it opens up plains that used to be frozen to be prime farmland. If the animals among the mass extinction are humans, then that seems like a good thing, if you're among those Northern humans whose regions are benefitted by becoming balmier. Who wins? Russians, Canadians, Swedes, Finns, Scots, Michiganders, Minnesotans and North Dakotans, and Argentines (at the other end). Who loses? Middle Easterners, North Africans, Saharan Africans, Chinese...in short, our enemies and archrivals. AWWWWWWWWWWWW, poor babies.
You may be right about God judging the Muslims, but scientists are predicting that sea level will soon rise by 22 feet if nothing is done about global warming. That's enough to flood half of Florida and all of Manhattan, and displace about half of the world's population. Is that what you want?
When scientists compared tree ring data from locales where the temperature had actually been measured, it showed a quite different story than that of current theory. It seems that there were multiple rings in a 1 year period, and the thickness of the rings did not relate to warmer or cooler temperatures in anything close to 100% accuracy. In short, tree ring data is not a good yard stick, drilling ice is also a poor method. It can suggest atmospheric gases throughout the planet, but it cannot prove it.
We all have to get used to change, change is inevitable that populations choose to locate next to the sea is unfortunate but living at sea level invites disaster. If one million can move out of Syria in a year all those affected can move quickly. It is a complete fallacy that humans can stop climate change, the process is moving with its own momentum and has done for millennia
Please document all those areas on the planet that have always been dry. I will help you out by limiting the time frame to just a few million years. If you wish please document what areas on the planet have gone dry in the past 300 years. потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
Let's not lose our marbles, ladies and gentlemen.
What should the temperature be at any given moment? What is the ideal temperature for the world?
Won't reach my house. It will get me closer to shoreline property. Can't wait to sell at a premium.
The Coldest Winter Since ´95 - ICELAND, WEATHER
Ah but you have to look at the mean still being affected by 1987 and as they discard older lower, numbers it rises crafty these scientists
The deserts of Northern Africa have always been dry? How about the Mojave desert in the American SW? Wasn't it a few hundred feet underwater?
Otherwise the earth is doomed.
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#5. To: Vicomte13 (#1)
With global warming, it looks to me like we increase the store of the world's prime farmland eightfold.
#6. To: Dead Culture Watch (#2)
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El Niño has nothing to do with this I spose?
#7. To: interpreter (#0)
#8. To: interpreter (#5)
#9. To: interpreter (#0)
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#10. To: Roscoe (#7)
Air conditioner. Problem solved.
#11. To: jeremiad (#8)
It would seem to me that the longest and most prolonged drought in history is in Northern Africa, picture Egypt now in its how many thousands of years, and no cars in sight.
#12. To: jeremiad (#9)
How do scientists know what NORMAL is? I am guessing they are imputing data to fit their scenario. Without global warming, they are simply out of a job.
#13. To: interpreter (#10)
More air-conditioners require more power plants and that would increase global warming, because most poor countries (and much of the US) rely on coal-powered power plants, the biggest cause of GW.
#14. To: interpreter (#12)
They have about 300 years of recorded temperatures
#15. To: interpreter (#5)
#16. To: Vicomte13 (#15)
#17. To: interpreter (#12)
#18. To: interpreter (#16)
#19. To: interpreter, jeremiad (#11)
Areas that have always been dry don't count.
#20. To: interpreter (#0)
Otherwise the earth is doomed.
#21. To: interpreter (#0)
#22. To: interpreter (#16)
ut scientists are predicting that sea level will soon rise by 22 feet if nothing is done about global warming.
#23. To: interpreter (#0)
#24. To: randge (#20)
#25. To: interpreter (#11)
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