We have another study indicating the rapidly worsening situation due to global climate change. A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows that the amount of man-made heat energy absorbed by the seas has doubled since 1997. That absorption is much higher than anticipated and portends greater threats to ocean life as well as the continuing worsening of intense storms.
More than 90 percent of the heat energy from man-made global warming goes into the world’s oceans instead of the ground. However, this study used data going back to the British research ship Challenger in the 1870s to track the rate of absorption and rise in temperatures. The results are very alarming. According to the report, the world’s oceans absorbed approximately 150 zettajoules of energy from 1865 to 1997, and then absorbed about another 150 in the next 18 years. To get an idea of the energy level: “if you exploded one atomic bomb the size of the one that dropped on Hiroshima every second for a year, the total energy released would be 2 zettajoules.” Thus, since 1997, Earth’s oceans have absorbed man-made heat energy equivalent to a Hiroshima-style bomb being exploded every second for 75 straight years.
The most alarming aspect is the exponential growth element. The pace of warming is speeding up. Even small increases in the ocean temperature can have massive impacts on ocean life and storms. Moreover, as the oceans warm, they absorb less . . . which means that heat stays in the air and on land surface.
The illustration below shows the increasingly hot areas in red as tracked through the years:
Study: Increased atmospheric Carbon Dioxide has increased U.S. forest health in recent decades
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112715007756
The journal Nature Climate Change says it all in its introductory paragraph; “We show that the multi-model …..”.
I’m sure I can concoct a ‘model’ that will show we are entering an ice age. Give us a break. As soon as the climate change scientists are off the government teat I may start believing their ‘research’.
Looking at the data, I see that in fact between 2004 and 2014 the average global temperature has INCREASED by 0.2 degrees Celsius, so no, the planet is not cooling. This on top of the fact that we are up on average about 1.0 degrees Celsius since the base period in the 1950’s. The long term trend is very clear. Someone who cherry picks there data can show that at times there really has been short periods where the global average actually did decline, but that is dishonest.
Also looking at the data, arctic sea ice is still below the average sea ice extent between 1981 and 2010, so no the arctic sea ice is not more expansive. That and the fact that the summer minimum is lower and longer is the really important data since that is when the dark arctic ocean water absorbs the most heat rather than reflect it .
J needs a lesson on how a power plant works, especially one that uses solar energy to produce the electricity. The solar power plant reflects the suns energy onto a tower filled with molten salt which is then used to generate steam which is then used to spin a turbine which is hooked to a generator. The steam is then CONDENSED and returned to the process. Boiler feed water is very high quality and very expensive, so it is not wasted. Some waste heat is dumped during the condensing stage using low quality water. This is what is happening in the cooling towers you may see as many power plant. What is coming out of those cooling towers is water, nothing else. In the case of a fossil fuel powered plant, there is ALSO a stack emitting the combustion products into the atmosphere. Using the suns energy to produce electricity is FAR less detrimental to the atmosphere than burning fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide has a very long term life in the atmosphere whereas water vapor is generally short lived.
A little lesson on nitrogen as well. Plants do not use nitrogen from the atmosphere; it must be fixed nitrogen in the soil. The earths atmosphere is approximately 79% nitrogen and is generally inert. We don’t significantly add nitrogen to the atmosphere and even if we added as much nitrogen to the atmosphere as we have added carbon dioxide, we would not even notice it probably. But, the amount of carbon dioxide we have added has literally doubled the amount in the atmosphere.
Facts:
90+% of the world’s collective brain power tells us that there is global warming and humans play a significant part, contributing to the phenomenon through various activities, such as burning fossil fuels
The advent of anything new will upset the status quo and in the case of responding to global warming by doing nothing, by denying it, or by dismissing 90+% of the world’s scientists’ findings is nothing more than maintaining the status quo.
The only thing mankind can do is to reduce mankind’s contribution to global warming by burning less fossil fuels, less carbon emitting substances, and as an added gesture reducing pollutants.
The economical change from energy derived from fossil fuels to energy derived from renewable sources will create enormous wealth; unfortunately not for the oligarchs funded by fossil fuels. The changes to the infrastructure will create energy efficiency a good thing regardless of the source. The technology involved in evolving renewable energy will advance technology in general and create enormous wealth-example the recent tech revolution that saved America’s a**. And so on; any fool off of the street, professional or amateur observer or not should be able to see this.
The worst thing for any economy or people is stagnation. The greatest advances in recent human history have been made through revolutions: industrial, agricultural, transportation, technological…., and now energy.
The only problem is illustrated by the oligarchs or status quo, their self appointed experts, and the still unfortunate number of a**e* pointing to the sun with the other ends buried in the sand, probably looking for more fossil fuels.
Only fools deny something because of a past paradigm without examining that something on its own merits. The cow is brown. The car is brown. Therefore the car is a cow, or the cow is a car.
No mention of cigarette smoking. There was a tv news show on about the pollution in Red China and they showed the cloud of pollution in some city where it was so thick that you could not see a whole building a block away. Yet all the dorks walking around were smoking cigarettes. Not that the cigarettes caused the smog. But when they all croak the global warming will be blamed not the suicide from tobacco. And when they croak the death certificate will say cause of death was cardiac arrest or somesuch even though the main illness was lung cancer and the cause of the cancer was the tobacco since age 12.
We from Planet Remulak put tobacco in the hands of farmers in the original 13 colonies so that there would be some limit to population. It has worked fine. Stay with it. Do not worry about the smog when you are a cigarette smoking dog. No offense to dogs on blog.
Congrats for getting the news to recognize what the IPCC wrote discovered in 2013.
http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/
The world have survived over hundreds of millions of years, with no global warming BS and it will continue to survive.
This mantra is another means for Liberals/Democrats to take our money for their nefarious purposes. Anyone who believes in “Global Warming”, is seriously misguided. Even scientists bicker over the facts and some have admitted to lying about the facts. Lmao!
I am a professional observer of human behavior. My specialty is assessing individuals for their veracity. However, I also have coached baseball, and taught middle school and high school, which helped me also understand group dynamics. Here is the dynamic. Thirty years ago the evangelical environmentalists meme was we were going to be out of oil. As that was proven to be a BIG LIE then another tactic became critical. As more oil is discovered, and the price of oil plunges, the spittle is forming in the corners of the evangelical environmentalists mouths. They are becoming frenetic and sadly desperate. A new lie was needed. Global Warming was it, and the doom and gloom and desperation has increased directly related to the discovery of new sources of carbon energy and the decrease in oil prices/
Do we need to conserve. YES! Do we need to have more fuel efficient vehicles. YES! We need to make incremental changes adjusting to our environment based on TRUTH, not on religious lies. Economics are a fundamental force of nature. When alternative sources of energy are developed that are ECONOMICALLY competitive, then they will compete in the marketplace. Evangelical Environmentalists want to usurp economics. It won’t work.
Hide the decline – satire on global warming alarmists
https://youtu.be/WMqc7PCJ-nc
Another Government / Media Lie
Global Warming is a scam
‘Global warming the greatest scam in history’ claims founder of Weather Channel
John Coleman, who co-founded the Weather Channel, “I have studied this topic seriously for years. It has become a political and environment agenda item, but the science is not valid.”
http://tinyurl.com/ph3ge6g
Labeling climate science as religion does nothing. It doesn’t address the data collected by universities worldwide, it ignores the data and the process by which the data were acquired.
Year to year the temperature fluctuates. But the general trend, beyond a tiny decade, swings upward significantly.
Skepticism is science. But questioning and flat-out denying aren’t the same. And when consensus builds, it does so because evidence increases. It isn’t the same as baseless faith, be it Islam or any other monotheistic nonsense.
Those who can: do. Those who can’t: preach. Those who can’t preach: preach to preachers. And that is true in religion, math, science, and all things debatable. For myself there is but one religion: Eighth Day Dog Adventism. For myself there is but one science: dog science. As to Math: I do not divide. As to debate: I fart.
For those of you who can get past the stink I think we should not worry about global warming. I am in North Carolina and it is 21 degrees F. I went out on all four paws, took a dump and retreated back to the dog pac bunkhouse and a warm propane fireplace is heating the room. Oh, I know that the heat will escape up the chimney into the atmosphere and warm the Earth. But let me give you non dogs some guidance: be firm in what you believe in. Believe in what you preach. If you cannot preach then eat a peach. Fart twice on Sunday if subjected to a sermon, whether it is on the mont or not. Those who go to church on Sunday, fart, and they are responsible for global warming.
Religious folk presuppose the answer then look for support in their holy book. Southern slavers looked in one verse and northern abolitionists another.
Global Warming is like religion and agnostics and atheists — those who want more evidence, and those who say man’s role is trivial, are apt parallels.
Of course the journal “Nature Climate Change” (note the title presupposes the answer) proclaims Climate Change is real. And Islam is a religion of peace …
When A. Einstein was told that 150 physicists disagreed with him he replied, “If I was wrong it would take just 1.”
I am agnostic. I look at GW atheists’ arguments. The data shows we are in a ten-year cooling period. Yes, the climate always changes naturally. The hokey stick keeps getting pushed farther into the future. Not in our lifetime, but in our children’s! The end-of-the-world predictions of preachers by the score.
The antithetical group proposes a mini-Ice-Age. To them it is all about the Sun. Cycles predict a mini Ice Age due to less of the single most important greenhouse gas, water vapor, evaporating from the seas.Every night a cloudless night — clear and cold. So far, just a small set of prophets of weather like 1400-1800.
In the time since Al Gore founded the Church of Global Warming there has been a schism. The Church of Climate Change was born when the predicted Global Warming hockey stick was not (yet) happening. As usual, preachings of this new Government established Church predict imminent disaster — the End is Coming Soon! Give us more money so we can save Our Great Country.
People can whine about carbon taxes all they want, but it doesn’t change the evidence gathered independently by myriad sources, from satellite monitoring to Antarctic ice cores. (I trust NASA a tad more than the snowman-brained James Inhofe.)
Millions and millions of cars and houses and buildings and industries use energy every day and pollute massively as a result.
To think we’re not contributing to an ecological imbalance is a wild mixture of ignorance and arrogance. Because whenever there is a reported threat to wildlife or plants or bodies of water or air quality, there’s often a verifiable connection with human activity.
If humanity stopped polluting completely, I think it’s still too late; we’re circling the drain, unfortunately. And so solutions no matter how radical seem futile.
Nevertheless, denying science doesn’t help.
Not to worry…a 15 year old Jewish boy says Jesus is already in Jerusalem but has not revealed Himself yet. Since the end is near it’s not a problem 🙂
Turleys problem is he loves the grand canyon but doesn’ t appreciate its powerful source. Loves zion. Ignores its maker. Loves the bad lands oblivious to how. Oblivous to the fact 99 is uninhabited. And dust be dust. Afraid to lunatic levels the planet he is a mere speck on….cant adapt. It can. Moreover the gov can say there is a “consensus” till the day is long. As an atmospheric scientist i know twenty who dont agree. And they know twenty. Etc. Then i went to law school. Took business and securities from the best. First time i heard of “carbon credits ” was international law. At boulder, suppose the next time that creek floods china will be to blame.
Yep ralph its all about carbon credits. In fact there is a place in arizona that captures the sun’ s energy by mirrors and turns it into electrcity here on earth…..captures what would be refected..,,and makes steam, green house gasses be damned. Full steam a head….and tree huggers dont even know what it takes to make a tree. Oh….co2 and nitrogen….their models dont even have a nitrogen parameter. Do you know how much nitogen gets to earth with storms?…..yuge.! Water and nitrogen are good. To god’$ green earth.
When fault or error begins to happen in any system, failures are rarely linear in their rate. It usually becomes more of a parabolic or exponential increase over time since multiple faults are spawned which increase the generations of failures.
Can someone explain to me why leftist dopes believe the following?
1. Islam is a religion of peace.
2. Climate change is real.
3. The more debt a nation racks, the wealthier the nation will be.
Now, anyone with a modicum of intelligence and common sense knows that these three statements are lies. But leftist dopes are different. They not only believe these things are true, but they insist on shoveling these lies at every opportunity.
I have already explained countless times what Islam is all about, so there’s no need to go into that again, though I realize that leftist dupes still cannot grasp reality. But let me try with the climate change lie.The most famous global warming con artist, Al Gore, famously said on Sept. 21, 2007, that “scientists reported with unprecedented alarm that the North Polar icecap is, in their words, ‘falling off a cliff.’ One study estimated that it could be completely gone during summer in less than 22 years. Another new study to be presented by U.S. Navy researchers later this week warns that it could happen in as little as seven years, seven years from now.” But the reality is that the North Polar icecap has EXPANDED–just the opposite of what Gore (disingenuously) “predicted.”
However, there is one very important fact about global warming that is true: global warming has heated up the bank accounts of the global warming scamsters to unprecedented “temperatures.” Al Gore’s bank account, for example, has gone from a mere $2 million “degrees” to over $200 million “degrees.” That’s a big increase in monetary heat! And that’s really what the global warming scam is all about: raising the monetary “temperatures” of the global warming insiders’ bank accounts at the expense of the taxpayers.
Our resident gumshoe will tell you that all that science is just so much scare tactics by the, well he’ll tell ya. He and Trump think that it’s all a hoax made up by the Chinese.