too late to help the already severely damaged corn crop <~~~ So stop throwing it away on ethanol.

there was a study done, by Pew i think, that showed people who deny the scientific findings of global climate change are also more likely to believe in other conspiracies such as gov't involvement in 9/11, world government, CIA killed Kennedy, faked moon landing etc. etc. it's a physical shortcoming in the brain. we can't blame those who refuse to believe in science, or facts. we must feel sorry for the poor teabilly d-stains.

co2 is also a solid go buy some dry ice it has mass it is also heavier than air

Mr grover, the gop, & the rushbo will tell you that the animals have lots of time. Same thing for the sea life. But i tell you the heat and drought is killing thousands and thousands of them. Take a walk around. How many birds are flying around. Hardly any. They don't like to fly in 100 plus temperatures. But mr grover. the gop, & the rushbo including the romeny man will tell you that we don't need wild life. We don't need sea life. But what would the pope and the creator say.

Mr grover, the gop, & the rushbo including the romney man should step up and take the full blame for the drought and heat wave along with the wild fires and for the global warming that we are experiencing.

These people don't take the blame for anything they have done. Look at the video again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykC-ioYJKOA

Many asked how could our gop leaders send a passenger jet into the pentagon on 911. They need to step up and take the blame for it too. But they never do. I tell you they take positions, take actions, but never the blame when 200 service men were killed because they did even attempt to shoot the jet down before it hit the pentagon.

The exact same thing for global warming. Hey look. It's 50 miles away, 30 miles, 20 miles, 10 miles. Order still stand. Of course. Global warming is here. But i tell you mr grover, the gop, & the rushbo should take the blame for that too.

Don't you just hate all those super bright, well-educated scientists telling you that global warming is for real. Isn't it rude to tell you how ignorant you are about real science? Someone should kill all those eggheads and stop global warming. Oops, the globe will keep warming with or without them. Scratch that.

Just keep telling the truth. God created the earth is six days. The earth is only 6000 years old. Dinosaurs are a hoax to confuse the faithful. Dinosaurs lived at the same time as Noah. They died because they couldn't fit on the ark. Abstinence education will prevent pregnancy. Critical thinking skills are dangerous because it might cause people to challenge their parents long held belief systems. (We can only hope.) Homosexuals choose to be gay. Keep it up. The truth will triumph, and the sun will rise in the west.

Its always amazing how so many choose to be happy with their delusions about how humans have not created this mess and that it's just all "natural". It's so easy to claim that just as it's so easy to sit back and say God does it all.

And to tell you the truth, if 98% of the climate scientists are correct, that co2 is causing global warming, then the amount of global warming is dependent upon the number of people on the planet. So let's look at the population numbers again.

0000 - 230M

1000 - 300M

1900 - 1.6B

1930 - 3B

2010 - 7B

2090 - 25B

The numbers of people are exploding by leaps & bounds. No longer increasing by millions as in year 0000, but by billions. 3.5 times more people every 80 years. And now 98% of climate scientists saying that people are causing a change in climate which already causing massive decreases in animal sea & plant life. That co2 emissions is directly related to the soaring growth in the numbers of people. It's why women all over the world support planned parenthood. To limit the population explosion. But mr grover, the gop, & the rushbo say bunk to science. That they have a war on science and a war on women too.

They cut funds to planned parenthood, contraceptives, family planning. Take the romeny man. Has 5 kids. Hey. That's increasing family size by 3.5 in less than 20 years. Not 80 as is the average. And santorum is ridiculous. He has 7 kids and if everybody was like him, we would have 1.1T people by 2090. What's wrong with that say mr grover, the gop, & the rushbo. 2T or 10T by 2090. Not a problem they will tell you.

But i tell you again. The wild animals & sea life are already dying by the thousands while the number of people continue to grow. We cannot continue to kill off the animals & sea life. Who needs wild life and sea life mr grover, the gop, & the rushbo will tell you. But what would the pope and the creator say.

This may be the effect of Global Warming. While one side of the USA is receiving heavy storms the Other side has no rain and water at all and there is drought. There are also wildfires. If only the water of the heavy of the heavy rainfall areas could be moved to the areas where there is drought. You could also set up big desalination plants along the coast and move the water to the interior where there is drought. Also we have to Plant more trees since trees Bring Rainfall. The forest cover must be increased so as to bring more rain. The American Scientists should use their highly advanced technology to bring excess water to the drought areas under a National Water Policy. This could go a long way in reducing if not eliminating Drought. GOD bless the Americans. GOD BLESS THE USA.

Kevin Valentine Moraes

Mira Road (Thane)

And how many solar panels are on your roof? Is a Leaf in your driveway. Are you a player or a poser? If you are a liberal, I'm guessing poser.

Hottest month on record, ( by a faction of a degree)

JULY

1936-avg. temp 77.43

2012-avg. temp 77.61

.2 hotter

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OH, NO Its global warming,, RUN, run, go give Al GORE another $ 100 MILLION

In an earlier post I talked about the problems with station siting and how man made structures are corrupting the temperature readings.

Here is the result of a special 112 station network that was specifically designed to study changes in climate. These stations have been prepared and selected because they are not influenced by man made heat sinks like buildings, roads, airports, parking lots, air conditioning units, etc.

The result?

The difference between the old problematic network and new USCRN is 2.1°F cooler.

This puts July 2012, according to the best official climate monitoring network in the USA at 1.9°F below the 77.4°F July 1936 USA average temperature in the NOAA press release today, not a record by any measure.

This result also strongly suggests, that a well sited network of stations, as the USCRN is designed from inception to be, is totally free of the errors, biases, adjustments, siting issues, equipment issues, and UHI effects that plague the older COOP USHCN network that is a mishmash of problems that the new USCRN was designed to solve.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/08/an-incovenient-result-july-2012-not-a-record-breaker-according-to-the-new-noaancdc-national-climate-reference-network/

So there is man made global warming but it has nothing to do with CO2. It has everything to do with man made things encroaching on weather stations.

Hey Wingers! Are you enjoying AGW so far?

Richard Muller, the skeptic turned warmist that believes global warming is man made.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48413979#.UCP2naAuhX0

Has this to say regarding the United States hottest July ever and the claim that it is proof of global warming.

Richard Muller: “Okay, let me give you a little background on that. The NOAA announced that this is the warmest year on record for the United States – that immediately surprised me because I’ve been looking at the world record, and I’d seen that the temperature had actually gone down, compared to the last five years.

So I looked it up, and sure enough, the 2% of the world that happens to be the United States is a record warm, the 98% of the world, the rest of it, was actually cool.

Okay, we’re having a heat spell. To call that “global warming” – and the globe isn’t warming - is just an attempt to grab headlines .. to get the public interested in this important issue.”

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/09/a-fascinating-new-interview-with-prof-richard-muller-quote-on-climategate-what-they-did-was-i-think-shameful-and-it-was-scientific-malpractice/

So even someone that believes in global warming is decrying the exaggeration that takes place.

Where is the honesty from the alarmists? More important, where is the integrity, investigation and lack of bias in the media? Where are the true Journalists?

Obviously we need to turn to wind power. Pay close attention to the graph. During the hottest part of the day the wind dies down.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/09/wind-power-not-coming-through-for-california-power-alert-issued-by-the-caiso/

Oops.

The US is 2% of the Earth and has a heat wave.

The other 98% of the Earth has had cooling.

Alaska had its 4th coolest July ever. The UK had its coolest July in 12 years. There is snow in South Africa for the first time since 1968.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_SOUTH_AFRICA_SNOW?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-08-07-17-06-15

Hey NBC! Where's the story on the unusually strong cold front bringing record cold to the US? Oh, that's right. Cold is just weather where heat is global warming and climate change.

I accept the science of humans changing the atmospheric chemical composition through globalized industrialization. Much to my frustration and concern for future generations, the political reality is that there are so many ignorant Americans (some by choice, some by circumstance) it will take many years of violent and powerful weather, unusually hot summers, drought, and increasingly acidic oceans before today's ignorant are dead and more informed voters decide to take action. The problem is that so much more pollution will have been added to the atmosphere by then that the train of climate change will have already left the station and the seas will inevitably rise. What I don't understand is that we buy insurance for our lives, homes, autos, and other valuables but we don't place a value on our planet by paying for insurance just in case the science is correct.

For those of us who don’t like to be ignorant about the science of altering the atmosphere's chemistry, I suggest the following books with a brief quote from each:

1. A Green History of the World, Clive Ponting, 1991 – “The net result of these human activities is the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen by a third in the last two hundred years – from about 270 parts per million in 1750 to 350 parts per million in the late 1980s. About half of this increase has occurred since the 1950s – carbon dioxide emissions rose from 1.6 billion tons a year in 1950 to 5.4 billion tons in the mid-1980s. Global use of fossil fuels is rising at about 4 per cent a year (which means a doubling every sixteen years) and carbon dioxide is increasing in the atmosphere at about .5 per cent a year. Carbon dioxide has provided by far the greatest volume of greenhouse gas emissions and contributed about two-thirds of the total warming effect so far.” [page 388]
2. The Little Ice Age, Brian Fagan, 2000 – “The Little Ice Age reminds us that climate change is inevitable, unpredictable, and sometimes vicious. The future promises exactly the same kinds of violent change on a local and global scale. If the present, unusually prolonged high mode of the North Atlantic Oscillation is indeed due to anthropogenic forcing, then we must also assume that global warming will accentuate the natural cycles of global climate on the largest and smallest scales. Some of these potential cycles of change are frightening to contemplate in an overpopulated and heavily industrialized world.” [page 214] “Over a century ago, Victorian biologist Thomas Huxley urged us to be ‘humble before the facts’. The facts stare us in the face, yet we do not display sufficient humility. The vicissitudes of the Little Ice Age remind us of our vulnerability again and again. In a new climatic era, we would be wise to learn from the climatic lessons of history.” [page 217]
3. The Long Summer, Brian Fagan, 2004 – “Short-term climatic events like droughts do not often leave a clear footprint. But the droughts of the Medieval Warm Period (or Medieval Climatic Anomaly, as it is often called) left giant tracks across the American west, wrought in deep-sea cores, pollen samples, tree rings, and ice cores from high in the Andes. From the California coast to the Maya lowlands to Lake Titicaca, five centuries of sudden aridity wrought havoc on human societies already living close to the environmental edge.” [pages 214-215]
4. The Weather Makers, Timothy Flannery, 2005 – “The concentration of C02 in the atmosphere in times past can be measured from bubbles of air preserved in ice. By drilling about two miles into the Antarctic ice cap, scientists have drawn out an ice core that spans almost a million years of Earth history. This unique record demonstrates that during cold times CO2 levels have dropped to around 160 parts per million, and until recently they never exceeded 280 parts per million. The Industrial Revolution changed that, albeit slowly, for even by 1958, when Keeling began his measurements of CO2 atop Mauna Loa, it was up to only 315 parts per million.” [page 29] “Today the figures are 380 parts per million….” [page 28]
5. Collapse, Jared Diamond, 2005 – “…the atmosphere really has been undergoing an unusually rapid rise in temperature recently and that human activities are the or a major cause. The remaining uncertainties mainly concern the future expected magnitude of the effect: e.g., whether average global temperatures will increase by ‘just’ 1.5 degrees Centigrade or by 5 degrees Centigrade over the next century. Those numbers may not sound like a big deal, until one reflects that average global temperatures were ‘only’ 5 degrees cooler at the height of the last Ice Age.” [page 493]
6. The Revenge of Gaia, James Lovelock, 2006 – “Predictions of climate change do not depend only on theoretical models in the form of computer simulations of the Earth. There is now a vast array of monitoring activities sustained globally. Air and sea temperatures are continuously measured, as are the gases of the atmosphere, the cloud cover, the floating ice and the glaciers and the health of the ecosystems in the ocean and on the land. The truth of the models is therefore continuously tested against the observations coming in from the real world.” [page 57]
7. Dead Pool, James Lawrence Powell, 2008 – “The question is not whether the earth has warmed, but why? The scientific consensus is that the cause is the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which absorb heat and trap it near the earth. In one of the most prescient predictions in science, in 1896 … Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius predicted the very rise that we now observe. Based on the knowledge that carbon dioxide molecules trap heat, Arrhenius calculated that if atmospheric carbon dioxide level were to double, global temperatures would rise between 7 and 11 degrees F. More than a century later with vastly more information, IPCC forecasts that by 2100, temperatures will rise between 2.5 and 10.5 degrees F, overlapping the range the Swedish chemist forecast long ago. Arrhenius thought it might take three thousand years for carbon dioxide levels to double, but sadly that is one forecast that he got wrong.” [pages 171-2]
8. The Flooded Earth, Peter Ward, 2010 – “Our planet did not break out of the 180-280 ppm range until about 1800, when carbon dioxide levels began to rise well beyond the old upper limit. By 1900, the level was 295 ppm…. From 1900 to 2000, CO2 levels went from 295 all the way up the current level of about 385 – a 90 ppm rise in just a hundred years. The rate at which carbon dioxide is increasing…is accelerating. Models using the latest values of the measured rise for the past decade, and projecting forward, lead to an estimate that CO2 levels will nearly double in the next two centuries. That is the level of the Mesozoic Period and will cause the ice sheets to rapidly melt – all of them.” [pages 56-7]

I make these suggestions to help frame the science behind the issues associated with human-caused changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere. Many people seem ignorant of the science behind climate analysis and content to put their heads deeply into the sand. The defining characteristic of humanity, complex intelligence, is enhanced by a broad liberal education. Thomas Jefferson had this to say about higher education including science: “the university [of Virginia] would be ‘now qualified to raise its youth to an order of science unequalled in any other state; and this superiority will be greater from the free range of mind encouraged there, and the restraint imposed at other seminaries by the shackles of a domineering hierarchy and a bigoted adhesion to ancient habits.’” [from Thomas Jefferson, Willard Sterne Randall, 1993, page 588]

If 2% of the Earth( the US) being warm proves global warming, then 2% of the Earth (the US) must prove global cooling.

https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/237564172462858240

Over 600 record LOWS set in the past week.

I guess this proves global cooling.

http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html?c=maxtemp,mintemp,snow

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/proof-of-global-cooling-660-record-lows-in-one-week/

I mean if warm if proof of warming then cool has to be proof of cooling.