this summer the u s of a is getting a preview of what is in store for us as a result of global warming
http://news.yahoo.com/summer-global-warming-looks-171056052.html
http://news.yahoo.com/summer-global-warming-looks-171056052.html
a preview of what global warming will look like
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Billy the Great Khan
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I love how every year that it's hot Global warming is at fault, but a couple years ago when we had 6 months of fucking winter, it was just an exception.
then how do you explain the weird weather?
i suppose that i should have said global climate change rather than global warming
oh well
.... The day after tomorrow, after tomorrow, after tomorrow, after ....
cawacko
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I was reading the Best of the Web the other day from the Journal and came across this response to the OP article.
When the weather is cold, we think it's cool to make fun of global warmism. Invariably when we do so, global warmists get hot under the collar. You fool! they thunder. Climate isn't the same thing as weather! Of course we understand that. Cool down, it's a joke.
It's a joke designed to make a point--a point worth revisiting now that it's hot out. And it is hot: As we write, Google informs us that the temperature in New York, outside our lovely air-conditioned apartment, is 88 degrees. Over the weekend we were in Tennessee, and at one point our rental-car thermometer informed us the outside temperature was 111, albeit on blacktop.
We'll give you three guesses what Associated Press blames for the heat:
If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks.
Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. And a powerful freak wind storm called a derecho.
These are the kinds of extremes climate scientists have predicted will come with climate change . . .
They are also the kind of extremes anyone who lives in the Northern Hemisphere can predict will come with July. News flash: Summer is hot. And actually, the AP dispatch switches midsentence from global-warmist alarmism to an acknowledgment that weather isn't climate:
. . . although it's far too early to say that is the cause. Nor will they say global warming is the reason 3,215 daily high temperature records were set in the month of June.
Scientifically linking individual weather events to climate change takes intensive study, complicated mathematics, computer models and lots of time. Sometimes it isn't caused by global warming. Weather is always variable; freak things happen.
Tell that to the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson, whose column today begins pretty much the same way the AP story does: "Still don't believe in climate change? Then you're either deep in denial or delirious from the heat. As I write this, the nation's capital and its suburbs are in post-apocalypse mode. About one-fourth of all households have no electricity, the legacy of an unprecedented assault by violent thunderstorms Friday night. Things are improving: At the height of the power outage, nearly half the region was dark."
It's even scarier than that. Last night the sun fell into the ocean, leaving the Earth both hot and dark. (Flat, too, according to Thomas Friedman.) Fortunately, by morning there was a new sun. But if the obstructionist Republican Congress doesn't act quickly to solve this problem, it's only a matter of time before we run out of suns.
Seriously, though, when we point out cold weather to mock global warmists, we're satirizing the sort of cherry-picking arguments that global warmists routinely put forth. When it's hot in July, it's global warming. When it's cold in January, climate isn't weather. You science-hating idiot.
The Washington Post reports that a new survey finds public concern about global warming cooling: "Just under four in 10 polled say global warming is extremely or very important to them, the lowest percentage since 2006 and down from 52 percent in 2007. Just 10 percent say it is extremely important to them personally, down from 15 percent in 2011 and 18 percent in 2007."
The average man, it would seem, knows enough to be skeptical of overheated rhetoric and fallacious arguments. Why are so many journalists by contrast so credulous?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304708604577504832203888456.html
When the weather is cold, we think it's cool to make fun of global warmism. Invariably when we do so, global warmists get hot under the collar. You fool! they thunder. Climate isn't the same thing as weather! Of course we understand that. Cool down, it's a joke.
It's a joke designed to make a point--a point worth revisiting now that it's hot out. And it is hot: As we write, Google informs us that the temperature in New York, outside our lovely air-conditioned apartment, is 88 degrees. Over the weekend we were in Tennessee, and at one point our rental-car thermometer informed us the outside temperature was 111, albeit on blacktop.
We'll give you three guesses what Associated Press blames for the heat:
If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks.
Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. And a powerful freak wind storm called a derecho.
These are the kinds of extremes climate scientists have predicted will come with climate change . . .
They are also the kind of extremes anyone who lives in the Northern Hemisphere can predict will come with July. News flash: Summer is hot. And actually, the AP dispatch switches midsentence from global-warmist alarmism to an acknowledgment that weather isn't climate:
. . . although it's far too early to say that is the cause. Nor will they say global warming is the reason 3,215 daily high temperature records were set in the month of June.
Scientifically linking individual weather events to climate change takes intensive study, complicated mathematics, computer models and lots of time. Sometimes it isn't caused by global warming. Weather is always variable; freak things happen.
Tell that to the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson, whose column today begins pretty much the same way the AP story does: "Still don't believe in climate change? Then you're either deep in denial or delirious from the heat. As I write this, the nation's capital and its suburbs are in post-apocalypse mode. About one-fourth of all households have no electricity, the legacy of an unprecedented assault by violent thunderstorms Friday night. Things are improving: At the height of the power outage, nearly half the region was dark."
It's even scarier than that. Last night the sun fell into the ocean, leaving the Earth both hot and dark. (Flat, too, according to Thomas Friedman.) Fortunately, by morning there was a new sun. But if the obstructionist Republican Congress doesn't act quickly to solve this problem, it's only a matter of time before we run out of suns.
Seriously, though, when we point out cold weather to mock global warmists, we're satirizing the sort of cherry-picking arguments that global warmists routinely put forth. When it's hot in July, it's global warming. When it's cold in January, climate isn't weather. You science-hating idiot.
The Washington Post reports that a new survey finds public concern about global warming cooling: "Just under four in 10 polled say global warming is extremely or very important to them, the lowest percentage since 2006 and down from 52 percent in 2007. Just 10 percent say it is extremely important to them personally, down from 15 percent in 2011 and 18 percent in 2007."
The average man, it would seem, knows enough to be skeptical of overheated rhetoric and fallacious arguments. Why are so many journalists by contrast so credulous?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304708604577504832203888456.html
USFREEDOM911
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UH; what happened to the coming Ice Age we were warned about, during the 60's?
we blew it away with CO2 and methane
USFREEDOM911
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How are you attributing this to "we"?
imo mankind has contributed to global climate change
of course nature has contributed also, but i think that man has contributed the most
of course i could have meant just you and me, but i do not think that you thought that
just stirring the pot
what global warming means where i live, it probably means just more rain which would be a good thing
wanderingbear
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I dont know why conservitives try to denigh what is cleally obviouse.
USFREEDOM911
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Well DQ 0.10; while you are entitled to your own opinion ("...but i think that..."), you're just not entitle to your own facts and you've presented nothing to back up your "opinions" and since you've presented no "facts", then your opinion can just be ignored.
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wanderingbear
Radical liberal
fuck off.I have never denighed anything that was cleally obviouse.
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Meanwhile in the UK, we have hardly had a summer. March was a very warm month but since then it has been mostly cold and wet. Prior to April, we were in a near drought situation with little rainfall over two successive winters yet now we are getting rain by the bucketload. Indeed, they are predicting up to 100mm of rain in the next two days!!
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/one-months-rain-due-fall-two-days-112523980.html
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The sheer irony of USF correcting spelling is just exquisite.
Dixie - In Memoriam
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We've been having "weird weather" since we've had weather. Some years are very cold, some years are very hot, some are very wet and some are very dry. We even had a year or two where it was too windy and dry, and it caused massive dust storms across the Midwest. During the American Revolution, it was snowing in Washington as late as June. From 1600-1800, the River Thames held an annual "frost fair" on the frozen river, they stopped in 1814, because the river no longer froze solid. Think about that... for 200 years, the river froze solid enough to have a fair on it... then suddenly, it didn't! Thank god we didn't have Warmers back then!
Then what we need to do, is plant more trees and eat more cows! Problem solved!