Global Warming

[Exterminator]

You two are fucking clueless.

[Locutus]

Yes, they are.  The headline on CNN's webpage right now is about hot zones called "the blob" in the Pacific ocean.  Sea surface temperatures in these zones are 5 - 5 1/2 degrees warmer than normal.  Some scientists think that these hot zones are contributing factors to the severe drought in California.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/22/us/pacific-ocean-blob/index.html

AN OCEAN IN HOT WATER

[Henry Hawk]

From YOUR source.....

"here are some that think it might be a Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a long-lasting El Nino-like pattern in the Pacific. Dennis Hartmann, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Washington, doesn't believe the answer is clear. "I don't think we know ..." he said in the university's news release. "Maybe it will go away quickly and we won't talk about it anymore"

[Locutus]

I hope that's the case Hank, but to so flippantly dismiss these ever growing problems,
as illustrated in the below comment, is dangerous.  The problem is, future generations of your grandchildren and grandchildren's children will be paying the price for the attitudes like the one below.

It's been handled in the past so it will be handled this time too. 

[Henry Hawk]

I hope that's the case Hank, but to so flippantly dismiss these ever growing problems,
as illustrated in the below comment, is dangerous.  The problem is, future generations of your grandchildren and grandchildren's children will be paying the price for the attitudes like the one below.

I'm tired of liberals who ASSUME we (conservatives) do not CARE about our planet.  I am all for being clean, earth-friendly, and efficient.  I may seem flippant, because I believe with all my heart, there is obvious corruption in the "Global Warming Community".  It is associated with United Nations, whom I also think is very corrupt. 

I'm not saying that man CANNOT contribute to Global Warming, I just believe it is NOT at state of emergency that the IPCC says it is.  I am NOT in favor of disrupting economies for something that MAY or MAY NOT be reasons.  When folks like Al Gore, who just over 9-years ago said we only had 10-years left to save the planet from turning into a total frying pan.  He is obviously wrong.  THAT is my only gripe.

Lets be realistic and logical and then maybe we can start working together to accomplish something good.

[Exterminator]

Like I said...clueless.

[me]

Like I said...clueless.

We know Ex but you'll get it sooner or later. 

[Palehorse]

Mile wide tornado rips through a rural area just south of Dallas Texas, producing soft-ball sized hail! 

[Bo D]

Global warming to push 1 in 13 species to extinction

It won't quite be as bad in North America, where only 1 in 20 species will be killed off because of climate change or Europe where the extinction rate is nearly as small. But in South America, that forecasted heat-caused extinction rate soars to 23%, the worst for any continent, according to a new study published Thursday in Science.

Univ. of Connecticut ecologist Mark Urban compiled and analyzed 131 peer-reviewed studies on species that used various types of computer simulations and found a general average extinction rate for the globe: 7.9%. That's an average for all species, all regions, taking into consideration various assumptions about future emission trends of man-made greenhouse gases. The extinction rate calculation doesn't mean all of those species will be gone; some will just be on an irreversible decline, dwindling toward oblivion, he said.

"It's a sobering result," Urban said.

Urban's figures are probably underestimating the real rate of species loss a little, said scientists not affiliated with the research. That's because Urban only looks at temperature, not other factors like fire or interaction with other animals, and more studies have been done in North America and Europe, where rates are lower, said outside biologists Stuart Pimm of Duke Univ. and Terry Root of Stanford Univ.

http://www.rdmag.com/news/2015/04/study-global-warming-push-1-13-species-extinction?et_cid=4547009&et_rid=54725525&location=top

[Palehorse]

. . .March 2015 was the warmest March since record-keeping began in 1880, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And the first quarter of 2015 was the warmest first quarter on record in those same 136 years.

That gives 2015 a stab at trumping the hottest year on record -- which was 2014. . .

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/09/world/global-warming-record-quarter/index.html

It would appear the spring periods wherein we would get days of a slow, steady, gentle rain are long gone; replaced by wicked and violent blasts of thunderstorms replete with twisters and straight line winds and triple digit temperatures. 

[Palehorse]

NASA: 10,000-year-old Antarctic ice shelf will disappear by 2020

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/16/us/antarctica-larsen-b-ice-shelf-to-disappear/index.html

. . .Larsen B measured 4,445 square miles in January 1995. It went down to 2,573 square miles in February 2002 after the major disintegration, and a month later Larsen B was down to 1,337 square miles.

At present the Larsen B remnant is about 618 square miles. . . .

Burn baby burn! 

[Henry Hawk]

. . .March 2015 was the warmest March since record-keeping began in 1880, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And the first quarter of 2015 was the warmest first quarter on record in those same 136 years.

That gives 2015 a stab at trumping the hottest year on record -- which was 2014. . .

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/09/world/global-warming-record-quarter/index.html

It would appear the spring periods wherein we would get days of a slow, steady, gentle rain are long gone; replaced by wicked and violent blasts of thunderstorms replete with twisters and straight line winds and triple digit temperatures. 

60's this week...we have had a beautiful, old fashion, Hoosier spring.

[Exterminator]

60's this week...we have had a beautiful, old fashion, Hoosier spring.

Still can't quite grasp the difference between weather and climate; huh?   

[me]

Still can't quite grasp the difference between weather and climate; huh?   

Better than you grasp weather cycles which may make it appear that the climate is changing.

[Palehorse]

Holy hell. . .