Decade has had fewest 90-degree days since 1930 »
Posted By Spinward 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
August is the wettest and often the muggiest month of the year. Yet, summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has dominated much of the 21st Century's opening decade. There have been only 162 days 90 degrees or warmer at Midway Airport over the period from 2000 to 2008. That's by far the fewest 90-degree temperatures in the opening nine years of any decade on record here since 1930. This summer's highest reading to date has been just 91 degrees. That's unusual. Since 1928, only one year, 2000, has failed to record a higher warm-season temperature by Aug. 13.
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Spinward10 months, 3 weeks ago
With global warming behind us, scientists in Mexico are predicting a mini-iceage that could span the next 80 years.
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http://www.milenio.com/mexico/milenio/nota.asp?id=651680
If you've been learning Spanish as instructed by our Obamessiah, you would know that.
Meanwhile, cooler temperatures could spell trouble for crops in certain areas, yet Algore continues his illogical rants against all new scientific data to the contrary.-
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nostalgia10 months, 2 weeks ago
Russian scientist have been saying the same thing - a mini ice age
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Russian Scientist Say Buy Fur For Global Cooling
Earth is now at the peak of one of its passing warm spells. It started in the 17th century when there was no industrial influence on the climate to speak of and no such thing as the hothouse effect. The current warming is evidently a natural process and utterly independent of hothouse gases.
The real reasons for climate changes are uneven solar radiation, terrestrial precession (that is, axis gyration), instability of oceanic currents, regular salinity fluctuations of the Arctic Ocean surface waters, etc. There is another, principal reason—solar activity and luminosity. The greater they are the warmer is our climate.
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djn3nunez310 months, 2 weeks ago
Except global warming is not behind us.
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http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=5707df3f-8804-46db-9d71-ff7018935667
And the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, the world's leading satellite monitor of ice conditions in the Arctic Ocean, is now hedging its earlier bets that this year's Arctic ice minimum - typically reached in mid-September - would not be as extreme as last year, when 14 million square kilometres of sea ice shrank to just over four million between March and September.
It's now a "neck-and-neck race between 2007 and this year over the issue of ice loss," Mark Serreze, a senior climate researcher at the Colorado-based NSIDC, told the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper on Sunday. "We thought Arctic ice cover might recover after last year's unprecedented melting - and indeed the picture didn't look too bad last month."
But recent storms in the Beaufort region "triggered steep ice losses," he said, "and it now looks as if it will be a very close call indeed whether 2007 or 2008 is the worst year on record for ice cover over the Arctic."
The Canadian government's chief observers of Arctic ice conditions are expressing amazement at the state of the Beaufort Sea.
"We've never seen any kind of opening like this in history," CIS senior ice forecaster Luc Desjardins said of the Beaufort's exceptional loss of ice this summer. "It is not only record-setting, it's unprecedented. It doesn't resemble anything that we've observed before." -
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engineer10 months, 2 weeks ago
This represents the Chicago area. It does not represent the entire world!!!
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White_Knight10 months, 2 weeks ago
It's easier to grow food in a warmer climate, that's for sure.
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Solar activity is also down and the oceans are beginning to cool slightly... bad news for the globull warming guys.
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Jayson10 months, 2 weeks ago
Now, its one thing to buy carbon offsets and pay someone to get rid of your light bulbs, and being overwhelmed by Al Gore's scare tactics. But some "green" activities--buying used clothes, driving less, trying to make your home more energy efficient saves money and that's our bottom line for doing them. We also use cloth diapers and bring our own bags to the grocery store because plastic sits around in landfills forever. Some people that are trying to be more responsible are not fanatical.
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buckncindykill10 months, 2 weeks ago
Our parents did all those things you say are "green". Says alot about everyday people don't you think?
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Spinward10 months, 2 weeks ago
I am a true environmentalist and I am 100% for taking care of the only planet we have and I support people who are doing their part. Put garbage where it belongs, but products that are bio-degradable, recycle, and "leave no evidence" in your path.
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It's sad that environmentalism has been hijacked by extremists that are more bent on controlling the world's access to energy by using junk science and emotional rhetoric. COMMON SENSE and logic need to be what guides us, NOT alarmism. -
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Wolfie200710 months, 2 weeks ago
Actually, using clothe diapers may not be as green as you think. Washing, using chemicals, and drying use a lot of energy. So are you sure you're saving?
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RickyDawkins10 months, 2 weeks ago
The global average temperature has "actually" increased in the last 20 years.
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http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080417_marchstats.html
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buckncindykill10 months, 2 weeks ago
In the United States, the one country with the most accurate temperature measuring and reporting records, temperatures have risen by 0.3 degrees centigrade over the past 100 years. The UN estimate is twice that.
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Gee, let's get all the astro-physicists of the world together to tell us why that is.........-
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nostalgia10 months, 2 weeks ago
Have you ever read about the placement of the thermometers at the temperature stations in the US??
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Even that 0.3 degree increase may be totally inaccurate:
Surface temperature recording stations
temperature stations with sensors on the roofs of buildings, near air-conditioning exhaust vents, in parking lots near hot automobiles, barbecues, chimneys and on pavement and concrete surfaces -- all of which would lead to higher temperature recordings than properly established conditions.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58767
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canadianrancher5710 months, 2 weeks ago
I'm not get into whether its the libs or cons who are right on global temps going up or down but I do know that a lot of the population doesn't stop and think about thingsand the end result is there is a large amount of money getting into the hand of people who are playing this thing to the max, the dumbest new reporter can say something about global warming and it makes front page and the polliticians are playing it just as hard to get votes . As for Al Gore , now theres a guy that has exploited the stupidity of the masses while being a total hypocrite.
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simonsez10 months, 2 weeks ago
Bloomberg is losing it.
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Wait until the citizens find out about the grinding groaning noise these turbines make at all hours of the day and night; closing down bridges for weeks while they're installed, serious problems lifting them into positions on buildings, maintenance and repairs 1/2 mile in the air, wiring them into the grid, permits, graft, corruption, on and on and on.
It would be easier and less costly to drill for oil in central park ...
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4thchance10 months, 2 weeks ago
Well, that's the kind of thing that happens when we have idiots who call wolf. We had a global warming period, now it appears things are cooling back down again. That's how it's always been with weather.
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In the 1970s we went through a cooling trend, back then, all the environmentalists were claiming that "global cooling" is do to mans pollution....I say, you can't have it both ways!
Did you know, the #1 biggest cause of C02 gases being released into our atmosphere is NOT from auto exhaust, coal burning, or all the combined things that so many beleive. The #1 contributor to C02 gases in our atmosphere is WATER EVAPORATION. In fact, all other sources of C02 gases COMBINED being released in our atmosphere adds up to a tiny fraction of what water evaporation releases. It's such a small amount in comparison, that it can not even be calculated!
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RickyDawkins10 months, 2 weeks ago
http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2006/02/co2-lags-not-leads.php
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While there are indeed poorly understood ancient climates and rather controversial climate changes in Earth's long geological history, there are no clear contradictions to greenhouse theory to be found. What we do have is an unfortunate lack of comprehensive and well resolved data. There is always the chance that new data will turn up shortcomings in the models and unforeseen new aspects to climate theory, and I guarantee you scientists in the field are working hard to uncover such things - every scientist relishes the thought of uncovering new data that overturns current understanding. But it does not make any sense at all to reject CO2 as a primary driver of climate change today because it looks, through the foggy glasses of time, like CO2 has not always completely controlled climate changes in the past.
The climate system is complicated, even the configuration of the continents has a big effect, so one can not expect complete correlation on all timescales between temperatures and any single factor, such as CO2 concentrations, throughout its long and varied history.
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