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In this Sept. 30, 2011, file photo, sailboats and a floating dock lie on the dry, cracked dirt in a harbor at Lake Hefner in Oklahoma City as drought continues to be a problem across the state. The relentless type of heat that has blistered the U.S. and other parts of the world in recent years is due to man-made global warming, a new study from a top government scientist says.
The relentless, weather-gone-crazy type of heat that has blistered the United States and other parts of the world in recent years is so rare that it can't be anything but man-made global warming, says a new statistical analysis from a top government scientist.
The research by a man often called the "godfather of global warming" says that the likelihood of such temperatures occurring from the 1950s through the 1980s was rarer than 1 in 300. Now, the odds are closer to 1 in 10, according to the study by NASA scientist James Hansen. He says that statistically what's happening is not random or normal, but pure and simple climate change.
"This is not some scientific theory. We are now experiencing scientific fact," Hansen told The Associated Press in an interview.
Hansen is a scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and a professor at Columbia University. He has called for government action to curb greenhouse gases for years. While his study was published online Saturday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, it is unlikely to sway opinion among the remaining climate change skeptics.
However, several climate scientists praised the new work.
In a departure from most climate research, Hansen's study — based on statistics, not the more typical climate modeling — blames these three heat waves purely on global warming:
—Last year's devastating Texas-Oklahoma drought.
—The 2010 heat waves in Russia and the Middle East, which led to thousands of deaths.
—The 2003 European heat wave blamed for tens of thousands of deaths, especially among the elderly in France.
The analysis was written before the current drought and record-breaking temperatures that have seared much of the United States this year. But Hansen believes this too is another prime example of global warming at its worst.
In an opinion column published Saturday in The Washington Post, Hansen said his predictions in the late 1980s of the dire consequences of steadily increasing temperatures have proven to be worse than he thought.
“Our analysis shows that it is no longer enough to say that global warming will increase the likelihood of extreme weather and to repeat the caveat that no individual weather event can be directly linked to climate change. To the contrary, our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change.
The deadly European heat wave of 2003, the fiery Russian heat wave of 2010 and catastrophic droughts in Texas and Oklahoma last year can each be attributed to climate change. And once the data are gathered in a few weeks’ time, it’s likely that the same will be true for the extremely hot summer the United States is suffering through right now.
These weather events are not simply an example of what climate change could bring. They are caused by climate change. The odds that natural variability created these extremes are minuscule, vanishingly small. To count on those odds would be like quitting your job and playing the lottery every morning to pay the bills."
The new research makes the case for the severity of global warming in a different way than most scientific studies and uses simple math instead of relying on complex climate models or an understanding of atmospheric physics. It also doesn't bother with the usual caveats about individual weather events having numerous causes.
The increase in the chance of extreme heat, drought and heavy downpours in certain regions is so huge that scientists should stop hemming and hawing, Hansen said. "This is happening often enough, over a big enough area that people can see it happening," he said.
Scientists have generally responded that it's impossible to say whether single events are caused by global warming, because of the influence of natural weather variability.
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However, that position has been shifting in recent months, as other studies too have concluded climate change is happening right before our eyes.
Hansen hopes his new study will shift people's thinking about climate change and goad governments into action. He wrote an op-ed piece that appeared online Friday in the Washington Post.
"There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate, but we are wasting precious time," he wrote.
The science in Hansen's study is excellent "and reframes the question," said Andrew Weaver, a climate scientist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia who was a member of the Nobel Prize-winning international panel of climate scientists that issued a series of reports on global warming.
"Rather than say, 'Is this because of climate change?' That's the wrong question. What you can say is, 'How likely is this to have occurred with the absence of global warming?' It's so extraordinarily unlikely that it has to be due to global warming," Weaver said.
For years scientists have run complex computer models using combinations of various factors to see how likely a weather event would happen without global warming and with it. About 25 different aspects of climate change have been formally attributed to man-made greenhouse gases in dozens of formal studies. But these are generally broad and non-specific, such as more heat waves in some regions and heavy rainfall in others.
Another upcoming study by Kevin Trenberth, climate analysis chief at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, links the 2010 Russian heat wave to global warming by looking at the underlying weather that caused the heat wave. He called Hansen's paper an important one that helps communicate the problem.
But there is bound to be continued disagreement. Previous studies had been unable to link the two, and one by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concluded that the Russian drought, which also led to devastating wildfires, was not related to global warming.
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White House science adviser John Holdren praised the paper's findings in a statement. But he also said it is true that scientists can't blame single events on global warming: "This work, which finds that extremely hot summers are over 10 times more common than they used to be, reinforces many other lines of evidence showing that climate change is occurring and that it is harmful."
Skeptical scientist John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville said Hansen shouldn't have compared recent years to the 1950s-1980s time period because he said that was a quiet time for extremes.
But Derek Arndt, director of climate monitoring for the federal government's National Climatic Data Center, said that range is a fair one and often used because it is the "golden era" for good statistics.
Granger Morgan, head of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, called Hansen's study "an important next step in what I expect will be a growing set of statistically-based arguments."
In a landmark 1988 study, Hansen predicted that if greenhouse gas emissions continue, which they have, Washington, D.C., would have about nine days each year of 95 degrees or warmer in the decade of the 2010s. So far this year, with about four more weeks of summer, the city has had 23 days with 95 degrees or hotter temperatures.
Hansen says now he underestimated how bad things would get.
And while he hopes this will spur action including a tax on the burning of fossil fuels, which emit carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas, others doubt it.
Science policy expert Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado said Hansen clearly doesn't understand social science, thinking a study like his could spur action. Just because people understand a fact that doesn't mean people will act on it, he said.
In an email, he wrote: "Hansen is pursuing a deeply flawed model of policy change, one that will prove ineffectual and with its most lasting consequence a further politicization of climate science (if that is possible!)."
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Yep, there has never been climate change before. Wonder if dinosaur farts caused the big one. Could be cow farts doing this one. Don't get me wrong, I do believe the climate is changing, just as it has numerous times over the centuries. I wouldn't bet the farm on being able to stop it. Could also have something to do with tectonic plates shifting on the sea bottom. Molten magma could be warming the ocean. I personally think that anyone thinks he/she knows the answers is full of methane gases. I live in New England and I can't wait for the palm tree's to start popping up. Put some lime in the coconut........ Don't worry , happy.
"Yep, there has never been climate change before."
Nobody has said that, so what's your point.
" Could also have something to do with tectonic plates shifting on the sea bottom. Molten magma could be warming the ocean."
Except that it's not. Do you really think all of the climates scientists in the world haven't thought of that?
No one bites the hand that feeds them.
My Father told me that during the 30's an elite group of scientists proclaimed that mule gas was causing the devastating drought! It was, of course , a government funded study!!
Anyone that claims it because of money are completely ignorant of how science operates. You're confusing the groups that are privately funded by big oil and other special interest groups. That's the oldest excuse against AGW I've heard. Big fail.
Thats the problem today, all science is funded by someone and they have an agenda. Thats called weird science with all the crackpots claiming knollage, those who might won't be listened to.
No what's wrong is people like you with this idea in your head that science is full of crackpots. Beyond stupidity.
Then please explain why Alaska just had its 4th coolest July on record. Remember, the poles were supposed to be more sensitive, the heat was supposed to show up at the poles first. I guess that's why Antarctica is still gaining ice.
And apparently no one in the media has paid attention to the change in patterns in the Arctic from zonal flow to meridional flow. Which allows heat to push up from the equator in some areas (like the mid west) and for cooler air to push down from the north pole.
http://drtimball.com/2012/current-global-weather-patterns-normal-despite-government-and-media-distortions/
From June 28:
So now several weeks later the flow has moved the heat out of the mid west and is pushing heat into the west.
In fact the mid west heat is diminishing and the west is expected to get warmer for the next 10 days.
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp1.html
All normal, all natural. Unless you are living off of government provided grant money and have an agenda. Then it's all because of climate change.
One must think on a larger scale to see that climate change is very real. When global temperatures change it causes all kinds of weather anomalies. If the ocean is warmer, there is more evaporation which puts more moisture in the air, more moisture equals more weather (and, in some cases, cooler temperatures, like in Alaska). Here in the northeast, we had several years of pretty brutal and unusually cold winters, too. But due to our latitude, we also get a summer (which now has record heat). If you look on a global scale, you'll see that the poles ARE in fact melting away-Northern greenland has lost about 40% of the ice it had 100 years ago. Glaciers are melting at an alarming rate.
Saying that global warming isn't happening because Alaska is unusually cool is like saying that the sun no longer exists because it got dark last night.
Regarding the zonal flows; can you explain why ocean currents which have been established and consistent for thousands of years suddenly began changing in unison with industrialism? Or why average global temperatures also began to rise dramatically since industrialization? The change in weather patterns shifting in unison with CO2 emmissions, too?
Also, to correct your point--CENTRAL and EASTERN Antartica have gained land-ice--but overal,l ice amounts have diminished every single year since...you guessed it, industrialization and the increased CO2 production.
economykiller has no intention of thinking on a larger scale. It wouldn't fit the denier agenda.
Thats all you can say? Why not find out for yourself. AGW is real and not up for debate. It's over an we still have people like you? Unreal.
Will China and India stop buying cars and using gas just because scientists are saying humans caused global warming? I doubt it. They have over 50% of the world's population and are finally increasing their usage of such fuels at a expotential rate. What good will America do to stop using carbon based fuels today? Nothing.
We are well beyond stopping any type of warming, whether manmade or natural. We've all read that even if the whole world stops using carbon fuels today, there will be global warming for the next century. We just have to adapt and live to the changes which are coming.
The Earth will eventually take care of herself. The Earth's wobble will bring the Northern Hemisphere out away from the sun in a few more centuries and then we can all start crying about global cooling. Just like 11,000 years ago when the northern hemispehere had 2 miles of ice piled on top of it. The ocean's levels were a lot lower than they are today due to being in the form of ice. Logically the water will go back into the oceans when the ice melts. Just move away from the ocean's beaches when they start rising further.
One volcano has more impact than the exhaust of 2000,000 automobiles.
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Wrong misinformation queen. 3 days of human generated emission is equal to a year of ALL volcano's emissions on earth.
I have total faith in the American people. When a few thousand die from the heat, we will get busy on carbon emissions. Until then, don't move to Arizona, or any place where life can't exist with 120 to 130 degrees F°.
By the way, why aren't we planting trees? Don't they take in carbon dioxide and emit oxygen? Seems like I learned that in grammar school, but maybe that would be just to simple.
When are these remaining skeptics are just going to admit that they are just wrong and admit that humankind is in fact responsible for all this.
Hey War Machine as long as they are republicans, never. Even when this kind of thing happens..."Oh No, we're not responsible for this!?!?!? Yeah nbot a peep out of those idiots now.
Stevenso you do know car emissions are responsible for more of this, right? Proves my point. You are one of the idiots I speak of. Get a clue....
Calm down people. No one gets out alive.
It's a useless endeavor debating the under 90 IQ crowd...who don't get it and who will never get it...until water becomes scarce and the power grid is knocked out. We formulate our beliefs and our attitudes based on the inner condition of our souls. There are so many closed hearted stupid idiots in this country that are completely unconscious that their "beliefs" do not originate from their heads but from their hearts. Forget that, these idiots function entirely on beliefs and memes that come from outside of themselves...mainly from Fox and Limbaugh.
Did you say under 90 IQ? That is a racist Statement!!
The race of people that has below a 90 IQ is the Negro with an avg IQ of 82. WHy would you refer to them in your tweet? I do realize that B>H>Obama at 106 IQ is 3 standard deviations above the norm for his race but he is 1/2 white/arab.
Robert, How do you explain a person like myself (and millions like me), who have high IQs and test scores, graduate degrees, professional certifications and high paying jobs and don't buy into the global warming hoax one bit? The liberal idea that those that disagree with them have low IQs is one of the biggest head-in-the-sand lies going today. I'm a conversative person, but I am aware enough to know that ALL mainstream media lies, all day everyday. I see Fox and CNN as two ends of the same snake. You should read, "The Greatest Hoax" by Sen. Jame Infohe, or "Eco-Tyranny" by award winning Meterologist Brian Sussman.
WhatCHu, you may well be an intelligent person, but that doesn't make you an expert in climate science. You reference documents from politicians who take money from the oil industry, and have obviously read none of the actual peer-reviewed science. I don't fault anyone for not knowing everything, but I do fault them for then thinking they do.
hot daddy, overt racism is probably not the best way to bolster your credibility. Lol
Good analysis of Hansen's "study". Let's leave out the hot dust bowl 1930s and the cooler 2000's. Let's just concentrate on the years 1955 to 1999. It is well known that there was a cooling trend back in the 1950s so it is obviously going to warm up. And since the year 2000 no statistically significant warming has taken place. I wonder why Hansen left that out of his "study"? No southern hemisphere data was used. Remember Hansen's is trying to say "global" warming. You can't just ignore half of the Earth when you say global. And the number of violent tornadoes and the total number of tropical cyclones have been trending down during the last 30 years of warming. I bet most people would take a little warming and have fewer tornadoes and hurricanes.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/06/nasas-james-hansens-big-cherry-pick/
Great Point EK.
hot daddy your just butt kissing a AGW denier.
Hmmm. I suppose the drought that completely wiped out the Myan culture was caused by global warming too. That must have been a real drag... driving a oil-burning car made out of stones... Oh well - more power to the lying democrat liberal progressives!
Ha blaming AGW on a USA political party. Brilliant. Another example of your agenda posts.
" I suppose the drought that completely wiped out the Myan culture was caused by global warming too."
Yes, it probably was. As this one probably is.
The heat wave is being caused by man, yes. But, not users of fossil fuels. It's being caused by governmnet weather control. Planes cris-crossing the country everyday keeping the normal weather patterns from forming. They fly over everyday, and create false weather and clouds, that prevent any precipitation from falling. Global Warming is HOAX!!! If you want to know more there are many studies and documentaries on the subject out there.
Careful your tin foil hat is showing.
I read one of the comments which suggests "it would not take a rocket scientist to see what Global warming or climate change is doing to our planet". But shouldn't the proof rely on some form of science or indeed scientists? Climatology and environmentalism are not or should they ever be recognized scientific venues. Simply stated because they rely on belief systems and promotions far more than any shred of observational proof.
Let me illustrate the point. Many times as the glaciers melt we find signs and sometimes perfectly preserved specimens, of what are now considered extinct lifeforms. It doesn't require rocket science, but simple observation within a moderate level of intelligence to understand that those creatures were not formed in the ice, but existed before the ice and it would be presumed during a time of warmer temperatures. Their very existence should be enough to put aside Al Gore's most frequent rantings. As an inconvenient truth that aligns with the ice sitting in his cocktail, not overflowing from the glass as it melts leaving the spill on the table to his own incompetence or lack of control, when he is intoxicated. So if carbon taxes that find their way into private hands, is the goal and he has one of the largest of those hands, how much credibility should we place on his theories, that don't hold much water? According to the devoted; by their incantations ad agency sound bite chantings and charts depicting junk science, we should be ashamed of ourselves, if we would like to do something more productive with our own money. Leaving him and his carney huckster brethren or their victim lemmings, in the unstable position, of having to earn what they consume. As the proceeds of legitimate work like the rest of us, not by feasting off the proceeds of organized crime. Every drop of water that was on this planet the day it was formed is still here, and so are we. Promote fear and you promote power over the fearful. Promote intelligence, confidence and science and you take those fears away from the victims to redistribute it where it belongs, in the hearts of the bullies and terrorists, who would do us wrong.
Kevin, you are not being logical. We all know very well that ice has come and gone many times, and the climate changes naturally. But that says nothing about whether we can change it ALSO.
Oh - and Robert - I agree... forget the 90 and under crowd... I have an IQ of 154. Just because you refuse to buy the global warming crap spewed by the left in order to control the masses doesn't automatically rank you amongst the dim-witted. The Earth has weathered eons of changes – warming and cooling periods NOT CAUSED BY MAN. Volcano eruptions alone that spew more “greenhouse gasses” with one eruption than the whole of mankind can in a year on this miserable little rock. You idiots here depend on the internet so much for your “facts”, and you believe whatever you’re told by some government bureaucrat. I pity you.
If you are were real scientist, which you aren't, you would not make such a comment. FAIL.
Wrong again. 1 Year of ALL volcano's on this planet = 3 days of human related greenhouse gases. You have earned a ban fail for misinformation.
Greg, you are an idiot and have no right to even try to comment on SaneScientist's valid post. You must be a paid DNC troll if not then just a basement dewelling koolaid snorting fool.
His post is wrong. You're a dwit for even suggesting otherwise. Lemming.
hot daddy, even if Greg hadn't been correct (which he was) your vitriolic insults seem unwarranted.
So jock are you sayng I'm wrong?
Well, real impressed your all such experts on climatology. The real science suggests none of us really know jack about the climate, we've learned a little about the seasons pulled a lot of data we cannot yet decipher but not much else. The question of pollution is always something we have been able to control yet because of indifference, special interestsand politics, we have yet to see the importance of keeping our house clean, if it's loud muffle it, if it leaks, seal it. Not rocket science. We should have been doing it all along by saying "we" I mean everyone on this planet, but just like morality, you can't legislate common sense, nor can we plan the future for everyone. Well, once we develope a list of prioritys concerning pollution everything else will fall in line.
Stalagmite records provide evidence that there were at least seven major droughts during the Holocene era in eastern North America. Some of these, from about 6,300 to 4,200 years ago, were particularly pronounced, lasting for decades or even entire centuries.
I guess those cavemen should have put a carbon tax on their campfires.
Its called climate change, it means that the climate is changing, just like it has done for thousand and millions of years. All these scientists want if more money for studies.
I still remember back in the 70's when they were all yelling, "The New Ice Age is Coming.".
The problem is Liberals will believe anything, jut look at the President we have.
The problem is Liberals will believe anything, jut look at the President we have
Yeah, canon. That's why the republiturds and 'baggernuts looked so hard for WMDs for the Bush/Cheney Crime Syndicate's war criminals BS!
BTW: Obama/Biden win in 2012! No doubt!! Whine on...b/c the scared, offshore bank client ain't winning! Now, go back to breathing coal dust.
60 -40 split with Romney Winning in November. EAT ME.
60 -40 split with Romney Winning in November. EAT ME.
H*E*L*L NO! Unlike you filthy republiturds and slimey 'baggernuts, I like to see, feel & touch what I eat! Besides, it's obvious you swallow BS lies and right-wing fairytales. Eat coal dust.
BTW: Obama/Biden win again in 2012! No doubt!!
canon, son't worry about the liberals, or the conservatives. Climate change is science, so listen to scientists. They know very well that the climate has always changed. And one of the main reasons for those changes has been changes in the amount of greenhouse gasses. Hmmm, do you think maybe if we change the amount of greenhouse gasses, it might change the climate?
Guess what folks.....the Earth has a dynamic climate. What does that mean? Well, it means that the climate is in a constant state of flux. It is constantly changing.
We look at the last 20, 30 or even 40 years, and we say "terrible things are happening to the climate, and it's all mans fault!"
Guess what? There has been a climate on this planet for at least 3.5 billion years. You can not make a scientific proclamation about the effect man has had on climate change with such a small sample. Even going back to the start of the industrial revolution means your sample includes only .0000001% of the data set.
Is it warmer now than it was 200 years ago? Yes. Warmer than it was 1200 years ago? No. Warmer than it was 2 million years ago? No. Warmer than it was 65 million years ago? No.
Do you see the pattern? In the last 2.5 billion years, the Earth has been 100% covered by glaciers twice. The last time was ~650 million years ago and that thaw-out gave us the Cambrian Explosion. But, for 90-95% of Earths history, there has been NO permanent ice at all on the Earth. No glaciers, no polar ice caps. For most of the polar zones history, the average yearly temp has been 50-60 degrees. (fahrenheit)
So is the climate changing? Yes it is. Is man the cause? No. Is man contributing to it? Most likely. Can we stop it? Not a chance.
Follow the money. That will lead you to all of the Climate change pushers. More money for studies, Carbon tax credits againts industry, more green energy stimulus.
Its all about money.
Thank God people wised up and told Al Gore to stick it.
Otterman, all climate scientists know how dynamic the climate is; they also know that we are affecting it.
And what we do, we can choose not to do.
Okay so you still think that there is no man made global warming. You think that it is caused by mother nature. Lets see some of the things that is caused by mother nature. Rain storms, volcano's, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, snow storms, sand and dust storms just to name a few.
The number one general rule of storms is that they continue until the unbalance that created it is corrected.
There was never in the history of the New world when colonists first settled in South America that a hurricane hit that continent. In fact scientists said that a hurricane hitting South America was IMPOSSIBLE! Until 2005 that is and scientists had to rewrite the books when a HURRICANE HIT BRAZIL! Does anyone remember that one! What was the cause of that?
Also in 2005 the Gulf of Mexico was experiencing unprecedented warm waters. When Hurricane Katrina reached the gulf it was a catagory one hurricane but when it got into the gulf it revved up to a catagory 5 hurricane. Also to be noted that the United States was also experiencing the hottest temperatures on record. We all know what happened next after Katrina hit the Gulf of Mexico and what happened to New Orleans. What was the cause of that?
Volcano's. The pacific rim is also called the ring of fire because of its hotbed of volcano's and underwater earthquakes. Since this pacific rim has been going on for over millions and millions of years it has still produced the same amount of greenhouse gases today as it was for the past 4.3 billion years. No change to global climate even when man was still trying to perfect fire.
Sand storms. Yes sandstorms occur every now and then but the biggest one was during the dust bowl in the 1920s and 30s. But that was due mostly to poor irrigation and farming practices. But mostly drought in certain areas of the country that dried up that farmland. Remember one thing, in the midwest there is only one to two inches of dirt. Everything else underneath it is just sand.
Tornadoes: Like I said in my past post, in Europe prior to the 1800's tornados in europe occured once every 7 to 9 years. Only after the industrial revolution from the beginning of the twentieth century up to now, that number decline to one every three to five years. Why?
Here in the U.S. We had just experience over 100 hundred tornados within a thousand square mile radius along the Southeast United States. Awesome isnt it! Considering that the Southeast portion of the U.S. is not exactly tornado alley, Thought that was the mid-west. Why?
Tornados in New York City! Never thought that was even possible but then again no one would ever think that even the big apple would ever experience an earthquake either. Everyone has that mindset that it can't happen there, Wrong! A tornado did actually hit NYC and when I heard it on the news I was shocked because of all those tall buildings but it did happen. Why?
Take a look at the Mississippi River lately? It's drying up! there are now places along that river that even the smallest of boat can't navigate! That was in the news yesterday! Go figure. WHY?
The earth has been operating the way that it has well before mankind's technological development of machines and the industrial age began. Only after the industrial age was well under way that we as a species started polluting the air, land, and water. We are the ones that started that and not God, mother nature or even the tooth fairy. We did. We throw chemicals and other pollutants up in the air, we cut down trees mercilessly, we destroy entire animal species and put them into extiction. We change the natural environment with our dams, and skyscrapers just because we need breathing room. Tell me that this is not our fault also and I will tell you that youre a fool.
Speaking of breathing room there is one thing on this planet that acts like we do. Just like us it goes into a place, populates it, absorbs all the resources that is there and then it moves on. wanna know what it is!
A VIRUS!
OK. Man has changed the "natural planet". That is what man does. The Egyptians, The Romans, The British, The Americans, The Chinese, etc. Man will take what he finds and make use of it. What is the point of your post??????????????
What we do, we can choose not to do.
hot daddy-4087878
OK. Man has changed the "natural planet". That is what man does
But does man have too continue changing the "natural planet"? That is the correct question.
What is the point of your post??????????????
Iterating the abuses of Mankind upon the world that we live in. The fact that we as the dominant species of this planet need to make changes to reverse what we have done to our mother earth before we kill her.
It is up to each of us not only as citizens of the United States but as citizens of our world that we need to say to our politicians in one voice that we need to make dramatic changes to our environment and to save what we have left. We have the technology to make products using cleaner sources of energy. We have the technology to make hybrid cars, trucks, trains and planes using bio-fuels that will save our environment instead of destroying it.
But we need to implement those technologies now and develop new technologies that will guarantee that we continue unimpeded by the use of fossil fuel.
It's true our time on this planet is limited.
He will bring to ruin those ruining the earth.
The threat of manmade global warming due to the increased production of carbon dioxide (Greenhouse Gas) has been taught in our schools since the 60's, but still there are those who believe that it is all a natural cycle of the earth. We had our chance to spend money on solar, wind, tidal power etc. for all those years while 95% of all the funds went to oil and coal production. Still with all the signs that global warming is happening now before our eyes, there are the right wing, brainwashed individuals who still do not believe the earth is getting warmer!
The only natural thing going on here is the dying off of many life forms which has happened before man inhabited this planet and will happen after he is long gone!
So don't worry! It is all a natural cycle!
1975. The fear? Global cooling. The dangers?
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/1975-newsweek-explains-how-global-cooling-causes-droughts-floods-dry-spells-and-heatwaves/
http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
Now it is global warming. And guess what? The exact same dangers. Droughts, floods, and local increased temperatures (heatwaves).
So it doesn't matter if the world is cooling or warming. The doom and gloom people claim both will cause the same things to happen.
He's going to find a way to prove this, even if he is wrong. Face it, this sentence says it all: "The research by a man often called the "godfather of global warming". He isn't going to accept being wrong. Even though the original report on Global Warming to the UN stated a conclusion of "inconclusive" in their findings. If I go out and tell enough people "The sky if falling!" enough times, some would probably believe me. Look at how many people believe in global warming. I'm not sure if it's a lack of education, or lack of common sense.
Bullshi!
How quickly we forget the record coldest July of 2009 in many parts of the country that just experienced record hottest July of 2012
Here's the link from NOAA.gov
Oh my gosh. Global warming skeptics are the same people who don't believe rattle snakes are dangerous until one bites them in the a$$! I did a Thesis on global warming in 1986, just a humble college student with an interest in the environment. Things ARE much worse now then scientists EVER predicted in the 1880's. Most of us who have been concerned about global warming for twenty or thirty years have thrown our hands up and simply wait for the inevitable to occur. I'd say with 63% of the country in draught, crops dying and resovoirs drying up, the wait isn't long. Don't worry though, get in your cars to drive a mile and turn up your air conditioners...excelerated global warming isn't real
Hey...just like 1934-1936! Hint: Look up "Dust Bowl." 1934 was on record as the hottest year in the Continental US. 2010 just climbed to the top by a few hundredths of a degree above that--assuming no math error as was the case when 1998 allegedly broke the record of 1934. Here is the thing. Most of the mainstream climate scientists are or were of the opinion that man did not begin contributing enough CO2 to the atmosphere to do anything until 1950. So, how to explain 1934?
How also to explain that our current cycle of heating isn't part of a roughly thousand-year cycle that has happened more than three times prior to this one? Anyone who looks seriously at the proxy data can see that there is a roughly thousand-year cycle that has happened in the past, including the Minoan Warm Period, the Roman Warm Period, the Medieval Warm Period (which some wish to rid us of by renaming it the MCA or MCO or by localizing it to one hemisphere only), and it looks like the current period is one of those. Take a look at this proxy and see whether you can see the cycle:
http://images.intellicast.com/App_Images/Article/194_2.jpg
Also, take a look at the steep upward curve in the forefront of the Medieval Warm Period and compare it to the present.
For anyone wondering where the chart at the above link in 848.1 came from, it came from the presentation paper at the end of the following link. It is recommended that interested onlookers read the entire paper and examine the evidence for themselves rather than believing whatever they read on this subject that is supportive of a one-sided view.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/2007%2005-03%20AusIMM%20corrected.pdf