Tag: Global Warming

Climate Change

Sorry California, Melting Snowpacks to Unleash More Epic Floods – Mother Jones

“As the monster snowpack looms, state water officials have warned farmers to “stay ongoing and prepared for the next several months—all the way through September.”

Source: Sorry California, Melting Snowpacks to Unleash More Epic Floods – Mother Jones

Information

Four ways to understand Australia’s cold weather right now

Four ways to understand Australia’s cold weather right now

Four ways to understand Australia’s cold weather right now
Trumpland

Confirmed Coronavirus Cases In U.S. Double To 1 Million In Less Than 3 Weeks | HuffPost Australia

Trump Gets A Fact-Check After Blaming Coronavirus On ‘Somebody A Long Time

Roughly 25% of known virus-related deaths have occurred in the United States.

HE’S YOUR PRESIDENT AMERICA

 Confirmed Coronavirus Cases In U.S. Double To 1 Million In Less Than 3 Weeks | HuffPost Australia

ALSO: Trump Tries To Wish Coronavirus Away As Death Toll Climbs

Climate Change

Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet: April 2017 was second-warmest April on record

April 2017 was the second-warmest April in 137 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

Source: Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet: April 2017 was second-warmest April on record

Enviroment

CNBC’s Joe Kernen Endorses EPA Head Scott Pruitt’s Claim That CO2 Is Not A Primary Contributor To Global Warming

From the March 9 edition of CNBC’s Squawk Box:

Source: CNBC’s Joe Kernen Endorses EPA Head Scott Pruitt’s Claim That CO2 Is Not A Primary Contributor To Global Warming

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky: Donald Trump’s election will accelerate global warming and humanity’s ‘race to disaster’ | The Independent

The renowned American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky has warned the US Republican party is now “the most dangerous organisation in world history” because of the denial of climate change by President-elect Donald Trump and other leading figures. Following the US elections, Professor Chomsky said it appeared humans planned to answer what he called “the most important question in their history … by accelerating the race to disaster”.

Source: Noam Chomsky: Donald Trump’s election will accelerate global warming and humanity’s ‘race to disaster’ | The Independent

Climate Change

Antarctic ice shelf collapse and unstoppable sea level rise ‘very likely’ without tough climate action, say scientists – Science – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Warming of 1.5 to 2 degrees above current levels could lead to unstoppable sea level rise, say scientists.

Source: Antarctic ice shelf collapse and unstoppable sea level rise ‘very likely’ without tough climate action, say scientists – Science – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Climate Change

Global warning slowdown an illusion — the world is heating up

Rigorous new research provides more proof that the world is continuing to warm and claims of any slowdown are unequivocally illusory.

Source: Global warning slowdown an illusion — the world is heating up

Climate Change

Here’s a 2-Minute Video Explaining Obama’s New Plan to Fight Global Warming
Bolt lies, hottest, NASA, NOAA

We may never have another coldest year in history: No matter what deniers try to tell you. Did you know the Republicans passed a bill which prevents scientists providing their results to the government climate authority.

We may never have another coldest year in history

Don’t let the polar vortex fool you. This year is the hottest on record — and things are only getting worse VIDEO

, Climate Central

This piece originally appeared on Climate Central.

A surge of Arctic air has left much of the continental U.S. shivering in unusually bitter November cold. But this early foray into winter weather is just a small blip in the overall global picture, which is of a warming world that is still on track to see 2014 set the mark for hottest year on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.

That warming — fueled largely by the manmade rise of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere — is so relentless, in fact, that the odds of seeing a record coldest year in the future are vanishingly small. As the animation below shows, the last time the world experienced a record-coldest year was in 1909, more than 100 years ago. But in that period, 18 records for warmest year have been set, with 2014 likely to be the 19th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UEiq2ro23Xc

Much of the central and eastern parts of the contiguous U.S. have been relatively cool all year, with a few states even possibly set to see a top 10 coldest year. But the year as a whole has actually been close to average for the country, and California is set to see its warmest year on record by a large margin.

The bigger picture is markedly different. The globe is bathed in warm spots, with the small cold spot centered over the Great Lakes area being just one of a handful of blue spots on the world map.

August, September and October of 2014 have all been the warmest such months on record, as shown by data from NASA, the Japan Meteorological Agency and NOAA, which released its October global numbers Thursday.

This single-year snapshot of the planet’s warmth fits with the pattern of ever-warmer temperatures that has been in place over the past century, particularly since the early 1980s as the warming fueled by an accumulation of greenhouse gases clearly emerged. The animation shows just how much warmth has dominated the temperature records since they began in 1880

Record cold years are plentiful in the early decades, but they stop in 1909. From there, it’s a  steady march upward, with the expected year-to-year ups and downs that come from natural variation. Warm records are set through the 1930s and 40s, with a long stretch of no records until the 1980s, when the global warming signal firmly emerges from the noise of natural variation.

After that, a string of record hot years follows. And though many of the years in between weren’t records, they still ranked among the warmest. In fact, all but one of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century (1998, when there was a very strong El Niño, is the exception).

How temperatures across the globe ranked from January through October 2014.
Click image to enlarge. Credit: NOAA

“The globe continues to warm just as climate models have long-predicted,” climate scientist Michael Mann, of Penn State, said in an email.

The steady uptick in warming, even with a relative slowdown in recent decades, means that the likelihood of seeing a record cold year in the future is, according to a quick calculation by Mann, “astronomically small.”

The final year in the animation, 2014, is of course not yet over. But with the October numbers now in, the year-to-date is the warmest on record, measuring 1.22°F above the 20th century average of 57.4°F, according to NOAA data. The chances of 2014 becoming the warmest year are now quite high. Even if November and December only rank in the top 10 warmest, which is likely, 2014 will take the title of warmest year.

“It’s becoming pretty clear that 2014 will end up as the warmest year on record,” Deke Arndt, chief of climate monitoring for NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, said during a press conference.

And as the animation shows, it’s a long-term trend that is likely to continue until the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are significantly curtailed.

Mann said of the possible record, “hopefully it will also drive home the urgency of reducing carbon emissions if we are to avoid dangerous interference with our climate.”

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Here’s a Thought – Refutation of a Scientific Consensus is not just “I Disagree”

 

If you want to put up alternative theories you have to find some kind of credible evidence to support them … if you can’t do that you tend to resort to name-calling, calling global warming things like a religion or a cult or some kind of conspiracy.

Australia’s “Chief Scientist,” Ian Chubb. (Via The Guardian)

He has a point, doesn’t he? (Chubb was responding to Tony Abbott business adviser Maurice Newman advising Australia and the world on Friday of the “perils” of “ignoring nature’s warnings” or global cooling for which we are “ill prepared.”)

Yet it’s what’s repeatedly missed on Climate Change refutation. (Though maybe something else besides true scientific analysis is driving climate change refutation):
Calling AGW a cult or religion isn’t a reason why a radical increase to long term greenhouse gases – to levels not seen on earth in millions of years – would not lead to a similar major shift in climate. Particularly given that climate is ultimately a longer term response to energy changes: And a major increase in atmospheric thermal absorption and re radiation, constitutes a major change in long term energy.

One of the major Climate Change refutation sites is run by a well known college science professor, Judith Curry, who always seems to write posts strongly slanted towards refuting climate science; although without basic analysis as to why basic climate science, on the issue of AGW – as opposed to the ongoing process of scientific correction and adjustment itself – is wrong.

My question for Judith Curry – among others -, has still gone unanswered:

…Since it is so important for the diversity of scientific thought – …and despite the clamor for diversity and challenge, [the fact that] this leading site, for laying out the myriad errors of climate change skepticism arguments, is nevertheless, among many similar ones, decried, denigrated, and dismissed as unworthy and worse – what, exactly, is the “contrarian” position?

Let’s discuss it, as a viable… theory for the idea that the climate [nevertheless won’t significantly shift,  as a result of our ongoing accumulation of increased atmospheric re radiation of energy capacity in response to geologically radical changes to our atmosphere’s long lived greenhouse gas concentrations to levels not seen on earth in at least several million years, and still rising fast]….

But first, please, tell me what it is.

Notice, again, no one answered what it was.

In part because CC refutation is not about saying why, based upon geophysics, the earth, for some odds reason, won’t shift – or why it doesn’t face a large threat of shifting. It is about taking the ongoing process of science itself, and using selected mistakes, corrections, adjustments downward, cherry picked, and often even misrepresented parts itself, as false refutation for the separate underlying theory itself.

That’s not skepticism.  It’s self reinforcing, selective goal oriented refutation itself – something very different from rigorous objective scientific examination, while serving the purpose of convincing itself it is not.