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Declaring Global Warming Inevitable, Scientists Look to Accelerate Evolution

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An international group of renowned climate scientists held a press conference this morning, announcing a new recommended course of action to combat rising global temperatures.

The group of climatologists, all of whom are members on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scheduled the press conference this morning so that it coincided with the 41st annual Earth Day, a holiday that has, since its inception, spread to numerous countries all over the world.

The members highlighted the pertinent research regarding global warming, covering rising sea levels, mass extinctions, and world epidemics with a seemingly apathetic and monotonous tone. Towards the end of the review summarizing the basic scientific ideas behind the theory, the climatologist explaining the material began to mumble and, eventually, walked out of the room while swearing passive-aggressively and declaring he would no longer waste his breath.

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  • IceKat
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    • Global Warming Inevitable?
      Data from satellites shows sea surface temperatures are 0.25C cooler today than they were this day last year.
      Lower troposphere temperatures are 0.28C cooler than this day last year.
      Near surface temperatures are 0.44C cooler than this day last year.

    • 1 year ago
  • IceKat
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      IceKat  
    • So what have we here? Global warming again!!! The earth underwent a cold phase called the Little Ice Age, the coldest period was during the 16th and 17th centuries. Before that there had been a warm period, the Medieval Warm Period, where temperatures were warmer than current temperatures. At around 1850 the world began to warm again. In the space of 150 years the planet warmed 0.7C reaching a peak in 1998. Since then temperatures have remained stable or have fallen. The global temperature anomaly (as of March 2011) stands at minus 0.1C.
      Basically, today's climate is stable, and the best climate we could hope for. People don't seem to understand how much worse things could have been had temperatures been the same now as they were during the Little Ice Age - cold kills more people than heat. Warm periods like this are known as optimums, and for good reason. Yet what do we find, people complain about it and try to blame someone for it.
      Just because the weather is different from what it was when you were a child (and people have very bad memories) it doesn't mean it's wrong, and it certainly doesn't mean it's bad.

      Sea levels rising? Sure, as they have been for centuries, but an acceleration in sea level rise? No, not now. Sea level rises have slowed down quite a bit recently. If sea level rises were as dangerous as stated, why is there a new airport being built on the Maldives? Surely it'll be swamped within years?

      "The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age."
      Great minds eh? That was an Earth day prediction back in 1970 by ecologist Kenneth Watt. Then Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day told us, "It is already too late to avoid mass starvation." and here we are today, growing food to burn.

      Isn't it time people actually started enjoying what we've got and not trying to blame people or make people pay for it? Listening to fallacious predictions being made by today's politically motivated activists won't get anyone anywhere, and it certainly won't change our climate one tiny bit. Kenneth Watt's prediction of an ice age in 2000 didn't work out too well for him, nature had other ideas. Nature always wins, no matter what man does.

    • 1 year ago
  • coolplanet
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      coolplanet  
    • IceKat:

      Get your nose out of your graphs and charts and take a look at the real world.
      Climate has been going berzerk all over the planet for several decades now.
      Arctic ice is melting 100 years earlier than anyone predicted and sea levels are rising twice as fast as the worst case scenerios.
      Floods, droughts, storms and fires are getting biblical.
      The recent cooling of the northern hemisphere is the result of severe warming in the Arctic pushing cold fronts south as the Arctic experienced the warmest winter on record.
      The Arctic sea will be ice free during summer in a few years if this keeps up.
      In the mean time enormous amounts of methane gas is being released by the rapidly melting tundra, amplifying the greenhouse effect a thousand fold.
      The denial from both the right and the left is sickening.
      We are clearly in a climate crisis but we cling to our political agendas.
      Can we let go of our big egos long enough to prevent a huge extinction event not seen on Earth in the past 65,000,000 years?
      I seriously doubt it.

    • 1 year ago
  • IceKat
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      IceKat  
    • coolplanet:

      Actually, you have a point. Maybe I should get my nose out of the graphs and scientific data and spend more time in the real world, after all, I haven't been in the Arctic much this year. Y'see, unlike most of the armchair activists here I do actually travel the world and see things for myself. My main sphere of real-world experience is within the Arctic, a place I've spent many a cold night.

      But for the moment let's have a look at sea levels. Rising faster than predicted? No. Sea level rises have decelerated. Another recently published paper states:

      "Holgate noted that the deceleration he obtained was consistent with ‘‘…
      a general deceleration of sea level rise during the 20th century’’
      (pp. 243–244) that he said was suggested in analyses by
      Woodworth (1990), Douglas (1992), and Jevrejeva et al. (2006).
      We repeated the reanalysis of data presented in Douglas (1992)
      for the period 1930–2010 and obtained a deceleration of -0.015
      +/- 0.011 mm/y2 (SD), which is somewhat greater than the
      deceleration from 1905–2010."
      http://www.jcronline.org/doi/pdf/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-10-00157.1

      And concludes:

      "Our analyses do not indicate acceleration in sea level in U.S.
      tide gauge records during the 20th century. Instead, for each
      time period we consider, the records show small decelerations
      that are consistent with a number of earlier studies of
      worldwide-gauge records. The decelerations that we obtain
      are opposite in sign and one to two orders of magnitude less
      than the +0.07 to +0.28 mm/y2 accelerations that are required to
      reach sea levels predicted for 2100 by Vermeer and Rahmsdorf
      (2009), Jevrejeva, Moore, and Grinsted (2010), and Grinsted,
      Moore, and Jevrejeva (2010). Bindoff et al. (2007) note an
      increase in worldwide temperature from 1906 to 2005 of 0.74C.
      It is essential that investigations continue to address why this
      worldwide-temperature increase has not produced acceleration
      of global sea level over the past 100 years, and indeed why
      global sea level has possibly decelerated for at least the last
      80 years."

      So much for sea level rises swamping the planet, maybe that's because the ice caps aren't melting? How many years have they been predicting an ice-free Arctic? I guarantee you will never see an ice-free Arctic during the summer.
      As of today Arctic ice extent is similar to what it was in 2008. There is more ice now than there was in 2004/5/6/7. Ice thickness is also increasing. Severe warming in the Arctic? No. There was a hotspot near to Greenland but that has now gone. The reasons for the hotspot are well known but I won't go into it here (Look up: Rossby wave).
      Take Narsarsuaq in Greenland (Not in the Arctic circle) for example. Today's temperature is -7C. The average for this day is +9C The warmest temperature for this day was +12C in 2008. Hardly an indication of warming.
      Then pop over to Barrow Alaska. Average Max temperature for today is -12C. A record of +4C was set in 1931, and today's temperature is forecast to reach only -16C. I'm not sure about your world, but I cannot imagine ice melting at those temperatures.

      Floods, droughts, storms and fires are getting biblical? No. Not according to the data. Unfortunately data isn't available for centuries gone by, but there is still a lot of written evidence of weather more severe than what we are experiencing today. In fact there is data available that shows a decrease in severe weather, and severe weather events are easily explained.

      "The recent cooling of the northern hemisphere is the result of severe warming in the Arctic pushing cold fronts south as the Arctic experienced the warmest winter on record. "
      A cold front is the leading edge of a cooler air mass. Your assumption does not make sense.
      Warmest Arctic winter on record? No. And the data shows things were pretty cold there during the summer too. Last year's ice was slow to start melting and quick to re-melt, therefore a shorter melt season than of late was experienced.

      This is why data rules over what people believe. I doubt you or anyone else walks out of the door in the morning and thinks, 'ah, today is 0.2C warmer than it was this time ten years ago'. Data wins over peoples' perceptions. Just because someone believes it's warmer, colder, more ice... doesn't mean they're right.

    • 1 year ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • coolplanet:

      Roanoke+Virginia doesn't have any of that bad climate stuff happening. Which actually is kinda STRANGE because here next to the Roanoke Regional Airport there's a tendency for high speed Wind Shear, and we haven't even been having that!

      Something's real messed up! The snowstorms went around us then skipped over us when they ran up the coast. All of them did that.

      Another real strange thing happened also. A large company announced they were moving into Pulaski, about 70 miles south of here, but then the biggest tornadoes to ever hit Pulaski happened and damaged their buildings I think. Very strange, direct hit to new businesses => it's like the saviour gettin' slapped in the face.

    • 1 year ago
  • coolplanet
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      coolplanet  
    • IceKat:

      Okay then. We shall just have to wait and see.
      By then it will be far to late to do anything but shit ourselves.
      Your contrarian data on global warming is as flawed as the green data on nuclear energy and the threat of radiation.
      Denial apparantly IS a river in Egypt.
      May the gods help us all.

    • 1 year ago
  • coolplanet
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      coolplanet  
    • I feel like that all the time.
      I have closely follower global warming (mainly from personal observation) since the early 1980s.
      I see how it is accelerating much faster than anyone predicted.
      And i see that we are doing almost nothing meaningful about this emergency.
      We are waiting for politicians to actually DO something about it and think that switching to compact flourescent lightbulbs will somehow help at this point.
      With our complete apathy we have gotten to the sad point where bioengineering and nuclear power might be our only hope for averting a total climate meltdown happenning right now!
      It is extremely depressing because we have the technology today to stop it but are not taking the required urgent action, like simply planting trees.
      This is not all just the right's doing.
      The left is equally to blame.

    • 1 year ago
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