On The Coldest Day In America In 20 Years, Here Are Al Gore’s Stupidest Global Warming Quotes
You do realize that the United States is just a small part of the entire planet, don't you? It's really mind numbing how absolutely moronic teabaggers are.
Australian Heat Wave Threatens Gadgets, Forces Experts to Redesign Temperature Maps
Australia needed new colors to show the forecast heatwave on their temperature map (they’ve since revised predictions down to 122ºF/50ºC).
Image courtesy Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology
What happens when a changing climate exceeds the operating parameters of the stuff we own? While we in the northern hemisphere make jokes about indestructible snow forts, it is getting hot in Australia. How hot? So hot that Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology had to add new colors to its weather map. Now, those unfortunate parts of Australia that achieve temperatures above 122ºF (50ºC) — temperatures that were, until recently, literally off the scale — will be marked in deep purple and terrifying hot pink. It is an interesting moment in data visualization history when climate scientists find themselves in the position of revising the upper bounds of temperatures they ever expected to depict.
An iPad that got too hot. Not good.
The move is a result of predictions of upcoming record temperatures, following an already seven-day record-breaking heatwave that’s brought with it more than a hundred wildfires and a “catastrophic“ danger to some of the most populous parts of the country. Let’s put that in a different perspective. In Sydney, temperatures reached 108ºF (42ºC) yesterday. According to Apple, that’s too hot to safely use your iPhone (they want you to keep it under 95ºF or 35ºC) and edging into being too hot to own an iPhone (113ºF or 45ºC).
A couple years ago, after a series of massive snow storms in the United States, The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal reflected on the prospects of cities as they find themselves in a new world. “What you need to know is that your city — pretty much wherever it is — was built for a climate that it may no longer have. That’s going to mean tough commutes during the winter and spending more money on air conditioning in the summer. It’s going to mean that your city shuts down more often because some freaky thing happened that no one can remember happening in their lifetimes.”
A man walks through the snow in Central Park on Jan. 3, 2014, the morning after the storm Hercules hit the Northeast. This is not proof that global warming doesn't exist.
An intense blizzard, appropriately named Hercules, has blanketed the Northeast. Antarctic ice locked in a Russian ship containing a team of scientists—en route, no less, to do climate research. Record low temperatures have been seen in parts of the United States, and in Winnipeg, Manitoba, temperatures on Dec. 31, 2013 were as cold as temperatures on ... Mars.
So as is their seasonal wont, here come the climate skeptics. Exhibit A:
Donald J. Trump ? @realDonaldTrump This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice
And Trump isn’t the only one. A similar reaction came from Rep. John Fleming, a Louisiana Republican:
John Fleming ? @RepFleming "Global warming" isn't so warm these days. http://cbsn.ws/1bC8P5l
U.S. ushers in 2014 with record-low temps, snow Arctic surge leads to record-breaking low temperatures in Wis.; heavy snow forecast in northern Plains and upper Midwest
And RedState’s Erick Erickson also piled on, blending global warming dismissal with religion:
Erick Erickson ? @EWErickson The difference between people who believe in the 2nd coming of Jesus and those who believe in global warming is that Jesus will return.
Meanwhile, the front page of the Drudge Report listed a variety of cold weather news items under the heading, “Global Warming Intensifies.”
Rush Limbaugh also weighed in, noting that the Green Bay Packers may face the San Francisco 49ers in subzero temperatures at home this weekend:
I would love to see Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Hillary sitting outside on the 50 yard line of Green Bay the whole game, and then afterwards do a presentation for us all on global warming. Sit there the whole game outside.
And last but not least, Fox Business’ Stuart Varney used the Antarctic ice story to claim that “we're looking at global cooling, forget this global warming.”
All of this is all wrong in ways that have all been explained before. So just a few brief observations:
1. Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.
2. Global warming is actually expected to increase “heavy precipitation in winter storms,” and for the Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence that these storms are already more frequent and intense, according to the draft U.S. National Climate Assessment.
3. Antarctica is a very cold place. But global warming is affecting it as predicted: Antarctica is losing ice overall, according to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. However, sea ice is a different matter than land-based or glacial ice. Antarctic sea ice is increasing, and moreover, the reason for this may be climate change! (For more, read here.)
Are you that ignorant because it's cold where you might be that does not mean anything in regards to Global Warming. It must be hard to stay willfully ignorant about so many things but I'm sure you and rooster can be a good example.
There is growing empirical evidence that warming temperatures cause more intense hurricanes, heavier rainfalls and flooding, increased conditions for wildfires and dangerous heat waves.
Climate Myth...
Extreme weather isn't caused by global warming
"The 30 major droughts of the 20th century were likely natural in all respects; and, hence, they are "indicative of what could also happen in the future," as Narisma et al. state in their concluding paragraph. And happen they will. Consequently, the next time a serious drought takes hold of some part of the world and the likes of Al Gore blame it on the "carbon footprints" of you and your family, ask them why just the opposite of what their hypothesis suggests actually occurred over the course of the 20th century, i.e., why, when the earth warmed - and at a rate and to a degree that they claim was unprecedented overthousands of years - the rate-of-occurrence of severe regional droughts actually declined." (source: CO2 Science .. http://www.co2science.org/articles/V10/N29/EDIT.php )
----- "Here we present a multi-step, physically based ‘probabilistic event attribution’ framework showing that it is very likely that global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions substantially increased the risk of flood occurrence in England and Wales in autumn 2000" -----
i didn't read that carefully enough the first time .. i don't believe you can be an honest conservationist and not accept the climate science at the same time ..
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