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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: November 4, 2013, 11:15 pm
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Oct. 30, 2013: Oped in Salt Lake Deseret News
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Gambling with our future
By DAVID FOLLAND
For a state without a lottery, horse betting or slot machines,
it’s surprising that the majority of our state and federal
representatives are gambling with our future. They’re gambling
that fossil fuels, especially tar sands, will be the fuel of the
future and that the continued use of them will not harm us. We
buckle up our children in sturdy car seats. Yet, with our
children’s future, it’s as if we’re tossing them in the back of
a pickup with no restraints.
The insurance industry is not taking such risks. They realize
that human-caused climate change has led to increased frequency
and severity of extreme and damaging weather. This has created
new odds, and insurers are factoring them into their insurance
premiums. To ignore what science has demonstrated would be folly
in their business.
And the recently released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report’s “Summary for
Policymakers” is not reassuring regarding our risks. This report
is very conservative by its structure. Thousands of scientists
throughout the world compile and summarize the findings of
peer-reviewed literature. The results must be acceptable to the
participating countries.
So now the IPCC reports with virtual certainty that the
documented warming is human-caused. And they conclude that if
greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, the earth will warm
to an additional 4 degrees Centigrade (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit)
and oceans will rise an average of 0.75 meters (29.5 inches) by
2100. They also emphasize that “most aspects of climate change
will persist for many centuries, even if emissions of CO2 are
stopped.”
How can we move quickly to clean energy and avoid the most
severe climate effects predicted by the IPCC? A few weeks ago,
conservative Republican and former Congressman Bob Inglis came
to Utah to seek support for a conservative solution that would
drive the transition to clean energy, a solution that is also
sought by the nonpartisan Citizens Climate Lobby. Inglis
proposed a revenue-neutral tax swap. A tax would be levied on
carbon at the source (mine well, or port of entry), and the
proceeds would be returned to households or used to reduce other
taxes. Such a tax would price the external cost we pay for
fossil fuels.
For instance, we now pay for the health costs of carbon
pollution-induced heart attacks, strokes and other diseases. The
fossil fuel companies are socializing these costs and
privatizing profits. These health and other costs of carbon
pollution would be priced into the fuel, so we would pay at the
meter or the pump.
Imagine a scenario where the science was ignored, yet we still
moved our society on to clean energy through a carbon tax. We
would stimulate innovation in the free market that would create
new jobs, strengthen our national security, while cleaning our
air and improving our health. What if we don’t act on the
science that is now so solid? The IPCC has made it abundantly
clear that the price of adaptation to unchecked greenhouse gas
emission is enormous.
In fact, a panel of scientists that introduced the report gave a
“carbon budget” for humanity. Burning more than one-sixth of the
known fossil fuels would raise the global temperature more than
2 degrees Centigrade (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a level beyond
which catastrophic and irreversible changes would occur.
Public policies have reduced our risk of injury and death from
all sorts of hazards, from terrorists on airplanes to fires in
buildings. Wouldn’t it be prudent to stop spinning the roulette
wheel on our future
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and reduce the
risks that the 5th IPCC has demonstrated so clearly?
David Folland, M.D., a retired pediatrician, is a volunteer with
the nonpartisan Citizens Climate Lobby.
WEB LINK:
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: Surly1 Date: November 5, 2013, 4:04 am
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Insurers live in the reality-based community.
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: November 5, 2013, 9:09 pm
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Yep. They know that River in Egypt will drown them if they
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: November 5, 2013, 9:27 pm
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[move]Wacky jet stream to blame for wild North American weather
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By John Upton
A lot of wild weather has afflicted North America this year:
deluges in Colorado and Alberta, a heatwave in Alaska, and
bitter cold in Florida. But there’s a high-altitude link between
each of these unusual events which itself might be tied to
climate change: erratic behavior by the polar jet stream.
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This famous current of air zips eastward at high altitudes from
the continent’s West, normally passing over North America
somewhere near Seattle. It is one of two jet streams in the
Northern Hemisphere — the other being the subtropical jet
stream. Together, these powerful currents have long held weather
patterns in their normal places, one year after another. But
something weird is going on up there.
Storm cloudsVagabond ShutterbugStorm clouds over Denver, Colo.,
Sept. 14.
The normally direct polar jet stream has been swinging wildly
this summer, dipping north and south like the line graph on a
U.S. jobs report. At times it splits in two. From Popular
Mechanics:
The jet stream is a year-round feature of our atmosphere, but
the double jet stream phenomenon is more common in winter. When
it shows up in the summer, watch out.
“Usually at this time of year the jet stream is a single band
around the Northern Hemisphere,” [Texas A&M University
atmospheric science professor John] Nielsen-Gammon says. “But in
the last month what we’ve seen is a smaller jet stream over the
Arctic Ocean, and another jet stream in the midlatitudes.”
That article was published in June after more than 100,000
people were forced from their homes by flooding in Calgary.
Media and scientific interest in the jet stream’s newfound
vagaries rose again after the recent flood-inducing rainfall in
Colorado. From NPR:
During the summer, the double jet stream produced a very strange
temperature pattern along the Pacific coast, Nielsen-Gammon
says. Down in Southern California it was unusually hot — in
Death Valley the temperature reached 129 degrees. Meanwhile, up
in British Columbia, it remained unseasonably cold.
Even farther north, in Anchorage, Alaska, residents experienced
a relative heat wave, with a record number of 70-degree days.
But even farther up in the Arctic, temperatures were relatively
cold again.
The double jet stream also played a big role in the Colorado
flooding this month, [Rutgers University researcher Jennifer]
Francis says. High up in the atmosphere, one stream was carrying
moist air from the Pacific to the Rockies. Then, lower down, an
unusual eddy was pulling in more moist air from the Gulf of
Mexico. Finally, an unusual bulge in the jet stream was causing
all this weather to stall near Boulder.
There’s no scientific agreement right now on what role, if any,
climate change is playing in the polar jet stream’s erratic
behavior. But Francis points out that it is the product of vast
temperature differences between the equator and the North Pole.
As the globe warms, the Arctic heats at a disproportionately
fast rate, and that chips away at the temperature gradient. If
that turns out to be what sent the jet stream into a weird spin
cycle, then the Northern Hemisphere has a lot more extreme
weather coming its way.
“It could be drought.It could be heat waves. It could be
flooding due to prolonged rainfall,” Francis told NPR. “All of
those kinds of patterns should be becoming more likely.” :P
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John Upton is a science fan and green news boffin who tweets,
posts articles to Facebook, and blogs about ecology. He welcomes
reader questions, tips, and incoherent rants:
johnupton@gmail.com.
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: November 9, 2013, 12:48 am
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All the panel members agree that STEP 1 is to STOP ALL FOSSIL
FUEL SUBSIDIES IMMEDIATELY.
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NOTE: At the 22 minute mark some interesting scientific data
about Mercury and Venus sheds light on OUR Climate Energy
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: November 10, 2013, 12:58 am
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Global average temperature SEPTEMBER 2013
Global Highlights
•The combined average temperature over global land and ocean
surfaces for September 2013 tied with 2003 as the fourth highest
for September on record, at 0.64°C (1.15°F) above the 20th
century average of 15.0°C (59.0°F).
•The global land surface temperature was 0.89°C (1.60°F) above
the 20th century average of 12.0°C (53.6°F), marking the sixth
warmest September on record. For the ocean, the September global
sea surface temperature was 0.54°C (0.97°F) above the 20th
century average of 16.2°C (61.1°F), tying with 2006 as the
fourth highest for September on record.
•The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature
for the January–September period (year-to-date) was 0.60°C
(1.08°F) above the 20th century average of 14.1°C (57.5°F),
tying with 2003 as the sixth warmest such period on record.
Temperatures
In the atmosphere, 500-millibar height pressure anomalies
correlate well with temperatures at the Earth's surface. The
average position of the upper-level ridges of high pressure and
troughs of low pressure—depicted by positive and negative
500-millibar height anomalies on the September 2013 height and
anomaly map September 2013 map—is generally reflected by areas
of positive and negative temperature anomalies at the surface,
respectively.
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The above is planet earth, September 2013. As you know, when
it's summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it's WINTER in the
Southern Hemisphere. So, uh, don't you think there SHOULDN'T BE
so many high temperature anomalies in the Southern Hemisphere in
September ??? That is the end of WINTER THERE! But just look at
the few and far between cold temperature anomalies versus the
MASSIVE areas of high temperature anomalies.
Of course the Koch brothers may see, hear and speak
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about all the above
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More info at the NOAA web site. Pick a year and a month! They
give you the full no spin scoop using the only perspective that
MATTERS when a GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE is in progress; I.E. GLOBAL
average temperatures and anomalies above or below average.
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What about September 2012?
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As you can see, a lot of heat records were set (don't get fooled
by the bright red - look at the 2013 legend for a different
record heat temperature ;)). BUT, 2013 was right up there with
high anomalous temperatures. It did NOT have to match all the
2012 heat RECORDS to have a higher average temperature.
HERE'S THE MONEY QUOTE: (please compare with the same money
quote for September 2013 above 8) )•The average combined global
land and ocean surface temperature for January–September 2012
was the eighth warmest such period on record, at 0.57°C (1.03°F)
above the 20th century average.
It's getting hotter every year. Don't let the Mendacious Snow
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I'll report on October as soon as the data is in.
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: November 11, 2013, 2:02 pm
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Weather Screenshot at 2:34 pm November 11, 2013
Look at the upper left corner. Such a well defined low pressure
area (not quite as severe as a hurricane but a major bad weather
maker just the same :o) in NOVEMBER is an example of what we
are going to GET from Global Climate Change born of Global
Warming.
WHY? Because earth's climate is a function of free energy in the
atmosphere. The planetary internal heat provides some, the
rotation provides more and the sun provides most. The more free
energy in the atmosphere, the more severe weather, PERIOD.
Burning fossil fuels is THE reason for Global Warming, period.
Only logic challenged morons or conscience free psychopaths in
the pay of the fossil fuel industry continue to advocate for the
fossil fuel burning, severe weather fueling, positive feedback
free energy build up. Have a nice day. >:(
[quote]SHORT TERM...A DEEP AND VERTICALLY STACKED LOW CENTERED
NEAR 45N 140W IS HELPING TO PUMP UP AN UPPER RIDGE OVER
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: November 12, 2013, 1:55 pm
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This is a preliminary post that I will modify with more details
from the following report ASAP:
A Brief Overview of Long-Term Snow Climatology for Burlington,
VT
By John Goff
NOAA/NWS Burlington, VT
Snowfall records in Burlington run from 1906 to present.
No attempt is made to correlate the trends with Global Warming.
However, the correlation, which die hard deniers will insist is
not causation, IS THERE.
[quote]First Measurable Snow
Discussion: Using simple linear regression the data shows wide
variability though the first snowfall appears to occur
approximately 6 days earlier than 100 years ago (from November
12th to the 6th).[/quote]
November 12, 2013 we had our first "snow" in Colchester, which
is just north of Burlington. It's 30F outside which is pretty
normal for November. The roads are clear (no plows came out) and
the leaves are mostly visible (so it's more of a light dusting)
but "measurable" snow is 0.1 inch or more so it qualifies. ;D
The GW deniers will jump on the above to say, "SEE? it's snowing
EARLIER so that PROVES there is NO Global Warming!".
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But read on and get the FULL PICTURE (i.e. Days with measurable
snow on the ground, amount of snow and last snow in Spring).
[quote]Last Measurable Snow
Discussion: Again the data shows considerable variability though
a discrete trend of earlier last snowfalls from approximately
April 18th to April 10th is noted.[/quote]
This study was prior to the winters of 2010, 2011, and 2012
where the snow disappeared nearly a month early. However the
long term trend was already present. Global Warming Science
predicted a positive feedback would occur in earlier last snow
(acceleration of the trend) well over a decade ago.
[quote]Frequency of Measureable Snow by Winter
(Number of days with snowfall greater than a trace)
Discussion: Wide variability, though with a [size=14pt]steady
upward trend in the period of record (44 to 58
days).[/size][/quote]
Global Warming Science predicted an increase in frequency of
precipitation throughout the year in the New England area well
over a decade ago.
[quote]Seasonal Snowfall by Winter
Discussion: Wide variability from year to year, though with a
steady upward trend showing a 27 inch
increase in the period of record (from 60 to 87 inches).[/quote]
Global Warming Science predicted an increase in amount of
precipitation throughout the year in the New England area well
over a decade ago.
[quote]Days with Measureable Snow on the Ground by Winter
Discussion: Significant variation, though data shows a slight
decrease of approximately 5 days through the period of record
(from 95 to 90 days).[/quote]
Global Warming Science predicted an increase in average
temperatures globally throughout the year well over a decade
ago. Less snow remaining is a unction of MUCH higher
temperatures when you take the increased frequency and amount of
snow accumulation into consideration.
Also consider that this study was prior to the winters of 2010,
2011, and 2012 where all trends accelerated due to the slowing
of the jet stream as the temperature gradient between the poles
and the equator lessened. This is the giant oxbow loops that
give us wild weather extremes.
Global Warming Science predicted the slowing of the jet stream
well over a decade ago.
the.
The data is CLEAR. Global Warming, caused by the burning of
fossil fuels is HERE. We stop burnig fossil fuels or we are
history, PERIOD.
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: November 12, 2013, 6:26 pm
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[move]Big Oil
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gets the
PROFITS and we-the-people get to PAY THE TRUE COST
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Other than the meteor impacts, all the above is being caused by
burning fossil fuels.
Sep 7, 2013 - Scientists say atmospheric pollution contributed
to half of the extreme weather-related events of last year.
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Climate Change, Extreme Weather Link Becoming More Apparent
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[move][I]And the lying, doubletalking mouthpieces for Big Oil
are quick to respond with MORE lies to keep the fossil fuel pigs
from having to pay the damages...
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Don’t blame climate change for extreme weather
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Climate change alarmists running out of ways to scare people
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: November 15, 2013, 8:47 pm
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Vast Majority of Americans Want Action on Climate Change,
Whitehouse Gives Weekly Speech
SustainableBusiness.com News
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has come out in favor of a
carbon tax once again.
Out of the 103 ways it identifies to reduce the US deficit, the
carbon tax comes out on top.
The US would raise slightly over $1 trillion over 10 years if it
implements a carbon tax that starts at $25 per ton and increases
2% a year.
This is very close to climate legislation introduced in the
Senate earlier this year - $20 per ton, rising 5.6% a year -
which would generate even more revenue, says CBO.
It would raise prices at the gas pump by about 21 cents to a
gallon if costs are passed to consumers, says Resources for the
Future, and would not negatively impact total US employment.
While there's no chance it will pass in the near future given
the current dynamics playing out in Congress, Democrats are
laying the groundwork.
Weekly Push for Action on Climate
Once a week for the past 50 weeks, Senator Whitehouse (D-RI)
takes the Senate floor to talk about climate change.
Week in and week out, he urges Congress to move on climate
change.
"I am here for the 50th time, to urge my colleagues to wake up
to what carbon pollution is doing to our atmosphere and our
oceans," he says, but no one listens.
He runs through the data over and over again that demonstrates
global temperature rise, concomitant increases in atmospheric
carbon levels and the impact on our oceans.
"We are a great country, but not when we're lying and denying
what's real," he says "The atmosphere is warming; ice is
melting; seas are warming, rising, and acidifying. It is time
for the misleading fantasies to end."
He calls for the carbon tax supported by CBO. Perhaps polluters
will take a second look at this option, he says, when EPA's
rules on carbon emissions from existing power plants go into
effect.
Other senators have joined him from time to time - Senator
Schumer (D-NY) spoke on climate change on the anniversary of
Superstorm Sandy. Senators Schatz (D-HI) and Blumenthal (D-CT)
connected the dots between climate change and ocean health, and
Senator King (I-ME) talked about the impact of climate change on
the fishing industry.
While hammering away at these facts has so far not changed the
political discourse, at least this political leader is giving it
air time. The fossil fuel industry and its paid-off politicians
would prefer silence on the issue.
"It is time to wake up. It is time to turn back from the
misleading propaganda of the polluters, the misguided extremism
of the Tea Party, and the mistaken belief that we can ignore
without consequence the harm our carbon pollution is causing. It
is time to face facts, be adults, and meet our
responsibilities."
Whitehouse remains optimistic, especially because there are
signs that people are ready to fight climate deniers and boot
them out of Congress.
When asked why he's doing this, Whitehouse says, "I very much
want my grandchildren to know that I fought the good fight. But
much more than that, I want to turn this around," he told
columnist Ezra Klein.
Thank you, Senator Whitehouse, you are our voice.
Watch Whitehouse give his 50th speech:
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Americans Agree
In 46 states surveyed, at least 75% of resident acknowledge the
existence of climate change.
Surprisingly, percentages are the same in "blue" and "red"
states: Massachusetts (88%); Rhode Island (87%); New York (84%);
California (82%); Oklahoma (87%); Texas (84%); and South Dakota
(83%).
At least 67% of people in those states want government to
regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Again, percentages are the
same regardless of the state: New Jersey (80%); Connecticut
(80%); California (80%); Georgia (85%); Arkansas (85%); and
Kentucky (79%).
After analyzing this public opinion data, Jon Krosnick, a
professor at Stanford University, told the Guardian, "To me, the
most striking finding is that we can't find a single state where
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This disputes the widely-held belief that Republicans deny the
existence of climate change. It is not US citizens that are
calling climate change a "hoax" or preventing action on it, it
is their so-called representatives on state levels and in
Congress. >:(
Unfortunately for their residents, the reddest states are those
that are most unprepared for climate-related disasters because
their elected officials lag blue states on acknowledging the
problem and are therefore not taking action. >:(
"Americans recognize we have a moral obligation to protect the
environment and an economic opportunity to develop the clean
energy technologies of the future. Americans are way ahead of
Congress in listening to the scientists," says Rep. Henry Waxman
(D-CA), who chairs the Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change
with Senator Whitehouse.
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