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Posted By Spinward 1 year, 4 months ago in Science & TechnologyAugust 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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Spinward1 year, 4 months ago
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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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nostalgia1 year, 4 months ago
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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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djn3nunez31 year, 4 months ago
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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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Jayson1 year, 4 months ago
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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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Spinward1 year, 4 months ago
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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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RickyDawkins1 year, 4 months ago
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i am not a true environmentalist like you spinward (har!), but i understand the crisis we all face
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"leave no evidence"
what about the pollution from cars?
do you have a catalytic converter on your car? why?
we need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, in order to save the planet (our only one) from an early demise.
why do you cons pretend that only the only way to pollute is by tossing gum wrappers?
al gore deserved to win the nobel peace prize, imo.-
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Spinward1 year, 4 months ago
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"we need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, in order to save the planet (our only one) from an early demise."
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--- Do you have evidence that reducing CO2 ppm from 365 to 364 will "save th planet"? I can't find any anywhere, while this WILL bankrupt the U.S.
"why do you cons pretend that only the only way to pollute is by tossing gum wrappers?"
--- That's laughable. I will be in a third-world country 9 months out of this year. Gum wrappers are the least of their problems
Al Gore KNOWINGLY lied throughout his movie... and I have the scientific proof to show.
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RickyDawkins1 year, 4 months ago
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guess again!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming-
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buckncindykill1 year, 4 months ago
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No need to. I have been studying this for over 20 years, along with 5 years of assistive research. So much of what is put out there as fact, is anything but. So, in 10 years when the Antarctic Ice sheet is "found" again; when we go through a substantial cooling period over the next half century, look back to this thread and remember what you read.
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White_Knight1 year, 4 months ago
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I believe you are correct.
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There is no data to suggest that we are "outside" of normal cyclical variations.
Temperatures have been higher in the past.
Greenhouse gas concentrations have been MUCH higher in the past.
Fewer glaciers have been in existence in the past.
Sea ice has receded further in the past.
Greenland actually used to be green....
Alarmism is uncalled for.
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RickyDawkins1 year, 4 months ago
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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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White_Knight1 year, 4 months ago
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Ricky, I have a link for you to see:
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http://www.surfacestations.org/USHCN_stationlist.htm
When you scroll to the bottom, I know it's boring stuff, you will see that 2/3 of the temperature stations surveyed are now within 10 meters of an artificial heat source... this causes 2/3 of our input data to be erroneously high.
Rural stations are showing warming, but at a MUCH milder rate.
It may be worth considering that the "facts" may be skewed unintentionally.
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buckncindykill1 year, 4 months ago
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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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nostalgia1 year, 4 months ago
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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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buckncindykill1 year, 4 months ago
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Good point, and yes I have. As a budding Meteorologist for the Navy some 20 years ago, we assisted researchers from Penn State and Florida State who attempted to "fix" some of those stations in midwest areas that have been engulfed by human encroachment. After a 3 year study at the National Data Climatic Center, it was determined that the overall temperature for the U,S. had actually decreased, but with the inability to precisely document thermal activity in the ambient, we adjusted the readings to take in to account those stations where the readings were suspect, but nonetheless recordadable. Hence the 0.3 degree centigrade increase.
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RickyDawkins1 year, 4 months ago
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The usa is only one of HUNDREDS of countries. It is common sense (something which cons seem to lack?) that some areas of the globe may be warming more slowly than others. in fact, some areas along the equator may indeed be cooling. HOWEVER, the MEAN temperature of Earth has risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, according to the millions of measurements around the globe.
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buckncindykill1 year, 4 months ago
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Have you ever put together a weather station? No? I didn't think so. The millions of readings are suspect at best. Not reliable readings in well over 200 countries alone. So musch so, we don't even use the information. Why? Because some of the equipment is broken, stolen or gone. Believe me, DO NOT trust temperature readings from anywhere but the U.S. and even then, only one's that have undergone refurbishment in the last 3 years. To date, that number is about 20% completed.
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White_Knight1 year, 4 months ago
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One other point worth noting is that almost all of the temperature reading stations in Russian Siberia were no longer monitored after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Obviously, if you remove the stations in the colder climates from your "average" readings, you will get an increase that does not have anything to do with the mean temperatures of the planet, but only the mean temperature at the remaining stations... most of which are in comparatively warm locations.
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buckncindykill1 year, 4 months ago
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Right. Take that one area that refutes Global Warming and you toss the data out. Typical left wing, liberal, know-it-all nonsense. If the template fits, wear it. And BTW, I have many more "areas" that consistently refute it. But, that data is bogus too right?
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ConsAreNonGrata1 year, 4 months ago
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When did I say the data was bogus?
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My commentary was on the shallowness of the data taken into consideration.
Why the strawman?
Oh, I know, it's the Con Culture of Lies and Incompetence.
We never get tired of the object lessons you provide, Cons.
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Spinward1 year, 4 months ago
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Cons are EVIL and I hate Cheney because he lied and killed Iraqi babies and crashed the economy and caused algae to grow in my pool and made the planet warmer and killed the polar bears and took food away from the needy and Bush lied and the mortgage industry killed the value of the dollar and the war for oil and... did I mention Bush lied *head turns completely around* and Christians hate America and cons want to pimp children for tax cuts for the big corporations who exploit the worker and then some rich guy who isn't paying his fair share!!!
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...and they want to know why we don't bother to debate them?
They're freaky!
It's like trying to read the Bible to that chick on the Exorcist!
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canadianrancher571 year, 4 months ago
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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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simonsez1 year, 4 months ago
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CO2 is not our enemy ...
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We live in a nice place in this country and it will continue to be nice for our grand children if they can get used to that groaning sound that wind turbines make ...
When something is subsidized, it invites corruption and excess.-
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Wolfie20071 year, 4 months ago
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Simon
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That's brilliant, you should write a letter to Bloomberg and tell him. I'm really not kidding, what I'm thinking is why no one has done that yet if they are so worried about glowbul warming? It would work in L.A. and all over the U.S.-
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simonsez1 year, 4 months ago
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Not necessary, wolfie.
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Power companies have to provide for peak periods and those generally don't happen at night. Excess electricity doesn't store so you might as well use it up if it helps downtown business.
If there was a chance of a brown-out, they would turn out some lights, but that almost never happens.
What you do have is the occasional failure of the grid system causing blackout.
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simonsez1 year, 4 months ago
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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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4thchance1 year, 4 months ago
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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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RickyDawkins1 year, 4 months ago
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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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White_Knight1 year, 4 months ago
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You may like this link, it's quite interesting:
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http://www.co2science.org/data/ushcn/ushcn.php
Not to blow the surprise, but it lets you look at the weather stations throughout the U.S. and plot the changes in temperature from year-to-year on a station-to-station basis.
Now, compare that to the survey of station locations:
http://www.surfacestations.org/
Some interesting truth starts showing up. Stations that are next to air-con vents and air-plane parking show increasing trends... Cooperstown, NY for example, from 1854 to current shows an increase, BUT Albany, NY shows a slight decrease.
I'm not here to say that doing research is fun, BUT it is much better than buying it from other people.
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