U.S. Warm Records Crushing Cold Records by Over 5-to-1 Ratio in 2017
"‘The doomsayers were right’: James Hansen’s 30-year-old climate warning rings true today 30 years after a brave scientist warned us about global warming, deniers run America."
An excellent and timely post, BOREALIS. Good one.
By Brian DoneganApril 19 2017 03:15 PM EDTweather.com
VIDEO - Warm Records Crushing Cold Records This Year
At a Glance
* There have been 29,618 total warm records tied or set in 2017 so far.
*Only 5,282 total cold records have been tied or set.
*Only the Pacific Northwest and far northern Rockies have seen below-average mean temperatures.
Above-average temperatures continue to dominate the majority of the United States in 2017, with the number of warm records crushing cold records by a ratio of more than 5-to-1 through mid-April.
Only the Pacific Northwest and far northern Rockies have seen mean temperatures that are colder than average through this point of the year, according to data compiled by the Southeast Regional Climate Center.
Warned 30 years ago, global warming ‘is in our living room’
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"“T-shirt weather in January, that never used to happen when I was a child,” Shook said. When Buel Mattix bought his heating and cooling system company 15 years ago in Salida, he had maybe four air conditioning jobs a year. Now he’s got a waiting list of 10 to 15 air conditioning jobs long and may not get to all of them.
And then there’s the effect on wildfires. Veteran Salida firefighter Mike Sugaski used to think a fire of 10,000 acres was big. Now he fights fires 10 times as large.
“You kind of keep saying ‘How can they get much worse?’ But they do,” said Sugaski, who was riding his mountain bike on what usually are ski trails in January this year.
Looking for signs of global warming? They’re all around you
GOTHIC, Colo. (AP) — David Inouye is an accidental climate scientist.
More than 40 years ago, the University of Maryland biologist started studying when wildflowers, birds, bees and butterflies first appeared each spring on this mountain.
These days, plants and animals are arriving at Rocky Mountain Biological Lab a week or two earlier than they were 30 years ago. The robins that used to arrive in early April now show up in mid-March. Marmots end their winter slumber ever earlier.
“If the climate weren’t changing, we wouldn’t see these kind of changes happen,” Inouye said while standing on a bed of wildflowers that are popping up on the first day of May as marmots snoop around nearby.
It’s been 30 years since much of the world learned that global warming had arrived. On June 23, 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen testified before Congress, explaining that heat-trapping gases spewed by the burning of fossil fuels were pushing temperatures higher.
But it turns out climate isn’t the only thing that’s changing: Nature itself is, too. That’s the picture painted by interviews with more than 50 scientists and an Associated Press analysis of data on plants, animals, pollen, ice, sea level and more.
You don’t need a thermometer or a rain gauge to notice climate change, and you don’t need to be a scientist to see it.
Evidence is in the blueberry bushes in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond, the dwindling population of polar bears of the Arctic and the dying corals worldwide. Scientists have documented 28,800 cases of plants and animals “responding consistently to temperature changes,” a 2008 study in the journal Nature said.
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