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Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Riptide, Oct 23, 2015.

  1. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member


     
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  2. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

    That would simultaneously make the future very bright and very complicated.

    Just the thought of what the Saudis and Putin might do beyond their current atrocities…
     
  3. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    Fusion energy is freely available from 10 to 14 hours per day.
     
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  4. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    Count me as one of the believers. However, I hate when statistics are subverted to prove a point.

    For example, this weekend on a Tampa TV station, the weatherperson used a graphic to show Florida's winters are five degrees on average warmer than the 1970s. Wow, right? But the 1970s were a major anomaly compared to the rest of the century. The 1976-77-78 winters in particular were extremely cold, with snow flurries being reported as far south as Miami in January of 1977.

    The severe cold from those three consecutive winters, coupled with cirtus canker, pretty much permanently wiped out all the groves north of I-4. But for decades before that, Florida's winters were way more in line with what's been "on average" for the entire length of record-keeping. So is cherry-picking the nadir really proving your point?

    Again, it's the flucuations and increasing severity that concerns me. The barrier islands and coastline have been shifting for hundreds of thousands of years. It's us fools who think we can somehow build permanent structures on a pile of sand that are mistaken.

    As Jim Bouton wrote, "Tell your statistics to shut up."
     
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  5. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

  6. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    The juxtaposition of a twisting twister that twists ... with Christmas music on the radio says it all.

     
  7. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

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  8. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...12/13/arctic-alaska-greenland-climate-change/

    “As we see changes in the Arctic, its connectivity to the rest of the world only increases,” said Matthew Druckenmiller, the lead editor of this year’s assessment and a research scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center. “We will continue to see dramatic changes that will not only transform ecosystems but that will more and more highlight the winners and losers. And I think our context will be a lot more losers than winners.”

    Here are key findings from this year’s 133-page report, including additions on rainfall trends and observations by Arctic Indigenous people.
     
  9. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...active/2022/global-cool-spots-least-warming/?

    It has become common to focus on the fastest-warming places, regions where human-charged climate change is raising temperatures at an alarming speed. In the Arctic, where sea ice is rapidly disappearing, warming may be occurring more than four times faster than anywhere else on the planet. The World Meteorological Organization said recently that Europe, where extreme summer heat has killed thousands in recent years, is the fastest-warming continent.

    On the flip side of the world’s global warming hot spots: parts of the planet that are warming more slowly than others, often much slower than the global average of about 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since the middle of the 20th century, according to a Washington Post analysis of data from the nonprofit organization Berkeley Earth.


    But rather than offer lessons for how to limit temperatures from rising, these relatively cool spots offer yet another example of how humanity has damaged the planet.
     
  10. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

  11. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Ten degrees warmer in Bangor, Me. than north Jersey? What is that?
     
  12. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/17/colorado-river-crisis-conference/

    LAS VEGAS — The water managers responsible for divvying up the Colorado River’s dwindling supply are painting a bleak portrait of a river in crisis, warning that unprecedented shortages could be coming to farms and cities in the West and that old rules governing how water is shared will have to change.

    State and federal authorities say that years of overconsumption are colliding with the stark realities of climate change, pushing Colorado River reservoirs to such dangerously low levels that the major dams on the river could soon become obstacles to delivering water to millions in the Southwest.
     
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