We hit it today finally...
http://www.wfaa.com/weather/dfw-reaches-100-degrees-for-the-first-time-this-year/279909915
Dallas hasn't even officially hit 100 degrees yet and we are 3 weeks into July which definitely isn't normal...we should hit that century mark in the next day or so though..
We hit it today finally...
http://www.wfaa.com/weather/dfw-reaches-100-degrees-for-the-first-time-this-year/279909915
Dude you should see the Middle East. I know we have it bad in TX but damn they hit a record 129-130F (54C)
https://www.wunderground.com/blog/J...alltime-temperature-record-kuwait-fries-in-54
no wonder they're always so angry over there.
500 million people live in the Middle East and North Africa - a region which is very hot in summer and where climate change is already evident. The number of extremely hot days has doubled since 1970. "In future, the climate in large parts of the Middle East and North Africa could change in such a manner that the very existence of its inhabitants is in jeopardy," says Jos Lelieveld, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Professor at the Cyprus Institute.
Solution! They can move to what is currently the Tundra! They should be able to start vast orange orchards in a few years there! (Joking)Explains Texas too.
Unfortunately it will probably get worse before it gets better. Temperature increases could force significant refugee crises by the mid-late 21st century.
http://m.phys.org/news/2016-05-climate-exodus-middle-east-north-africa.html
People think Europe has a refugee crisis now.....
Explains Texas too.
Unfortunately it will probably get worse before it gets better. Temperature increases could force significant refugee crises by the mid-late 21st century.
People think Europe has a refugee crisis now.....
Canadians will NEVER go for it.Solution! They can move to what is currently the Tundra...
Explains Texas too.
Unfortunately it will probably get worse before it gets better. Temperature increases could force significant refugee crises by the mid-late 21st century.
http://m.phys.org/news/2016-05-climate-exodus-middle-east-north-africa.html
People think Europe has a refugee crisis now.....
I think this is the case for something like eleven months in a row, IIRC. Worrying me more is an expert I saw on TV the other day saying we are "already past the tipping point," there's no stopping the global warming freight train. I suppose that means we can't stop the ice caps from melting, the oceans from rising. I think we should pay a great deal of attention to what the climatologists, etc. are saying.
A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.
The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.
According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008.
Have the Believers shut the airlines down yet, or are they still being hypocrites?
you are a curious fellow, chucky2.
you are a curious fellow, chucky2.
Oh for fucks sake, get the chicken littling under control.
In other news, we need to adjust the historical record to add another 19% warming.
Oh for fucks sake, get the chicken littling under control.
If you think global warming is chasing people out of the Middle East, you seriously have not been paying attention at all. The whole region has run amok and descended into massive tribal warfare across countries.
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses
But it might only take a few decades for Antarcticas growth to reverse, according to Zwally. If the losses of the Antarctic Peninsula and parts of West Antarctica continue to increase at the same rate theyve been increasing for the last two decades, the losses will catch up with the long-term gain in East Antarctica in 20 or 30 years I dont think there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses.
Zwallys team calculated that the mass gain from the thickening of East Antarctica remained steady from 1992 to 2008 at 200 billion tons per year, while the ice losses from the coastal regions of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula increased by 65 billion tons per year.
The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away, Zwally said. But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for.
The findings do not mean that Antarctica is not in trouble, Zwally notes. "I know some of the climate deniers will jump on this, and say this means we don't have to worry as much as some people have been making out," he says. "It should not take away from the concern about climate warming." As global temperatures rise, Antarctica is expected to contribute more to sea-level rise, though when exactly that effect will kick in, and to what extent, remains unclear. [Nature, 10/2/15]
Between 2011 and 2014, Greenland lost around one trillion tonnes of ice. This corresponds to a 0.75 mm contribution to global sea-level rise each year about twice the average of the preceding two decades.
I've noticed that recently the global warming denialism here has decreased. That's good, but it's also sad that the people who argued to vehemently against obvious science will never come back and acknowledge their mistake.
We need a way to turn the heat from summer months into stored energy. However I think the Jurassic era if I'm not mistaken was typically a lot warmer than it is now. Likely it will continue to warm and eventually gradually fall into another ice age.
You may be confused. The article says warming in the Middle East will be an issue in the late 21st century. We are currently in the early 21st century. Although if the summer time temperatures were consistently in the 110-120'sF I'd probably move.
As for your NASA article, it's true that the study showed increasing snow pack in the Antartic. However it's not all good news. The rate of snow pack increase is slowing and will turn negative in about 20 years.
You know I would give some credence to that if a SINGLE CLIMATE SCIENTIST has predicted the increasing ice in Antarctica. They all predicted the opposite. NOW they can explain why it happened but I sure as hell put no credence in their predictive capabilities about the impact of a warming climate and neither should you. They always predict the worst and then explain why it didn't happen. This cycle has occurred all my life. The oil would definitely run out by 2000, the population bomb would wipe out humanity, etc.... What these scientists can not predict and never have predicted is how advancing technology inevitably overcomes with ridiculous ease the worst predictions they make.
The HARD limit is when the fossil fuels become so rare as to be economically unfeasible. That will happen. THAT IS THE TIMELINE ULTIMATELY THAT HUMANITY HAS TO SWITCH OVER. All the fearmongering in the world is not going to change that.