Submitted by Charlton Stanley (aka Otteray Scribe), Guest Blogger
Approximately 1,000 weather reporting stations all over the world have been monitoring local temperatures for decades. Temperature data have been compiled and analyzed by NASA scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
Nine of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since the year 2000. The tenth? From the 20th Century, that was 1998. Temperature rise is not completely steady and consistent from one year to the next. That is due to factors such as volcanic eruptions and other natural causes; however, trends are the important thing.
We can see from the short video below the flip that Earth continues to experience warmer temperatures than several decades ago. The average temperature around the globe in 2011 was 0.92 degrees F (0.51 C) warmer than the mid-20th century baseline. Weather experts warn that a consistent global average change of even a half-degree Fahrenheit can have catastrophic effects on global weather patterns. Anyone recall April and May 2011?
130 years in 27 seconds:
If that guy had a clue he would have known that before it was moving clockwise, High Pressure. It was moving under 100 mph plus winds counter clockwise due to the Great Arctic Cyclone of 2012 which blew the ice AWAY from the North Pole to warmer waters where it began to melt.
Now I know your not suppose to cherry pick years but when someone predicts like this and it fails we call it in the forecasting business a busted forecast.
Arctic WILL NOT BE Ice Free in 2013 LOL
By Paul Beckwith
On March 23, 2013, I made the following prediction:
“For the record—I do not think that any sea ice will survive this summer. An event unprecedented in human history is today, this very moment, transpiring in the Arctic Ocean.
The cracks in the sea ice that I reported in my Sierra blog and elsewhere have spread. Worse news is at this very moment the entire sea ice sheet (or about 99 percent of it) covering the Arctic Ocean is on the move (clockwise), and the thin, weakened icecap has literally begun to tear apart.
This is abrupt climate change in real-time.
http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/AdultDiscussionPlease
Arctic Sea Ice now over 1,7 million kilometers over last years record low caused by the Great Artic Cyclone of 2012. This is equivalent to 19,000 Manhattans.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/old_icecover.uk.php
Bron,
Some businesses are actually worried about rising sea levels and and see that as a potential economic problem:
Rising water levels threaten Boston’s waterfront
Business is booming from end to end of the waterfront, but the specter of surging sea levels has developers on edge
By Casey Ross
Globe Staff
August 04, 2013
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/08/03/water-threatening-waterfront-development/b4eCLXFdwk5d8hUHcYdIeI/story.html
Excerpt:
Boston’s effort to redevelop its waterfront is running into a major obstacle: Water.
From downtown to East Boston to Dorchester, rising sea levels are posing an increasingly urgent threat to developers’ plans to build hundreds of homes, offices, stores, and parks along Boston Harbor, with many acknowledging the need to reinforce existing properties and redesign new ones in case of flooding from another Hurricane Sandy-like storm.
“We can’t ignore it,” said Donald Chiofaro Jr. of the Chiofaro Co., which is seeking to redevelop the Harbor Garage along Atlantic Avenue. “We can’t allow ourselves to look the other way and end up in the same situation as lower Manhattan after Sandy.”
Several building owners are already preparing for the growing possibility of flood waters. At Fan Pier, developer Joseph Fallon has moved critical electrical systems higher in his buildings. Nearby, developers of a residential tower at Pier 4 are proposing to use special flood barriers for lower entrances. And the newly built Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown is surrounded by protective walls and landscaping buffers, and no patient programs are located on the ground floor.
In Boston, a city with more than $460 billion in real estate assets along the water, sea levels, projected to rise two feet by 2050, are not just an environmental concern, but a potent economic threat. Even now many waterfront buildings are only a few feet above the tide line, and a single storm surge could swiftly inflict massive financial losses and shut businesses for weeks — a combination that cost the New York area $50 billion after Sandy hit last year.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s administration is currently assessing the city’s vulnerabilities and options to strengthen coastal protections and safeguard waterfront properties. In many ways, the threat of rising sea levels is an exasperating irony for Boston, which has spent billions of dollars to reconnect the city to its harbor, only to have the water emerge as a major physical and economic threat.
RTC:
The earth has been going through warming and cooling periods for millions of years.
So what if it gets a little warmer. You have to raise the average annual temperature by more than a few tenths of a degree to melt the poles.
manipulating and screwing up the economy isnt enough for libs? Now they want to screw with the weather?
That will work out just like every other jack
booteder rigged scheme they ever had.Hey Troll Blow: Do you still get paid, even though you’ve succeeded in increasing the certainty in global warming for most of the participants on this board? BTW, the majority of this country, including Republicans, believe global warming is occurring as a result of human activity.
Every post of yours has been specious and without merit. Moreover, you’re insincerity is readily apparent; I don’t think you believe a word of what you’ve posted concerning climate change and that’s what separates you from the genuinely deluded and ill conservatives who participate here.
Good luck, you sack. I look forward to ignoring you.
Suck on this:
http://www.www.alternet.org/story/152849/huge_blow_to_science_deniers%3A_koch_funded_researchers_confirm_global_warming
Dredd:
Why do you think man is the cause of global warming when the sun is what powers the earth?
Why is CO2 any different than any other gas in our atmosphere? What is so special about CO2? If it was such a great insulator they would use it in double pain windows.
BAM report:
(Government Climate Change Report – 7).
Bron 1, August 7, 2013 at 4:56 pm
how much is the average temperature going to rise? [too much]
how much does the average earth temperature have to rise to melt the ice caps? [already taking place now]
why is a small rise in average earth temperature a bad thing? [see 1958 video above]
doesnt warmer weather mean a longer growing season? [yes, things will be growing on the outside of the tall buildings that have been abandoned]
more food more people, just like in the middle ages. Why would it be bad for the earth to have a billion or 2 more people? [yeah, let’s get back to the middle ages and the dark ages soon as we can so we can then get back here and the …]
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Bron, beef up on these issues.
It is not like drag racing on your cul de sac with your homies.
Bill McKibben cross-examines Alex Epstein on Arctic Ice and storms;
Debate: CIP vs. Greenpeace on “Green Energy” HD
how much is the average temperature going to rise?
how much does the average earth temperature have to rise to melt the ice caps?
why is a small rise in average earth temperature a bad thing?
doesnt warmer weather mean a longer growing season?
more food more people, just like in the middle ages. Why would it be bad for the earth to have a billion or 2 more people?
Ode to the dementia of the denialists:
For those who can’t watch a long video (~1 hr) that I posted upthread –a lecture by a professor concerning the history of climate change science, as well as denialism, here is a McQuickie for you.
It is a 1958 video talking about “what some scientists say”:
lottakatz 1, August 6, 2013 at 10:13 am
… Climate scientists have been saying for years, like over 10 years, that the first big climate (climate-long term) change in response to global warming is probably going to be an ice age.
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Wrong.
James Hansen, in ~1981, and other scientists before him such as Dr. Revelle, predicted a melting of the polar ice caps.
An Ice age coming out of global warming is an Oil-Qaeda lie with footprints going back to the Marshall Institute.
Which should be obvious – warm does not produce cold.
See the video of a History of Science professor giving the history of both climate science and denialism I posted early on in this thread.
Since Congress is now in recess for the entire month of August, it would be interesting to take readings of CO2 emissions in Washington, D.C. over the next several weeks.
I’m just surprised that “Douchebag” is their own district. I am not surprised, however, that King is their representative.
Juliet,
I saw that statement by King. It was definitely a coffee spew moment. How long is it going to take professional religionists to figure out he just threw them under the bus?
Who would have suspected religion is not science?
Cow Farts & Climate Change – 04-19-2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eSyO1bVVP0
I thought cows farted methane.
Juliet,
Rep. Rohrabacher: Global Warming May Have Been Caused By ‘Dinosaur Flatulence’
By ThinkProgress
February 10, 2007
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2007/02/10/10241/dino-flatulence/