2012 shatters heat records for continental U.S.
“Last year was the hottest on record for the continental United States, shattering the previous mark set in 1998 by a wide margin, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday.
The average temperature was 55.3 degrees, 1 degree above the previous record and 3.2 degrees more than the 20th-century average. Temperatures were above normal in every month between June 2011 and September 2012, a 16-month stretch that hasn’t occurred since the government began keeping such records in 1895.
Federal scientists said that the data were compelling evidence that climate change is affecting weather in the United States and suggest that the nation’s weather is likely to be hotter, drier and potentially more extreme than it would have been without the warmer temperatures.
Last year’s record temperature is “clearly symptomatic of a changing climate,” said Thomas R. Karl, who directs NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. Americans can now see the sustained warmth over the course of their own lifetimes, something we haven’t seen before.”
Of course, if you’ve got your head buried in the sand — or your eyes and ears fixed to Fox News — you probably STILL haven’t noticed what has become so glaringly apparent.
– Jay Bookman
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Regnad Kcin
January 8th, 2013
4:21 pm
Boris has an issue with women…
DownInAlbany
January 8th, 2013
4:22 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
January 8th, 2013
4:19 pm
You are deflecting from the subject at hand…again. Please try to focus. The subject here is: 2012 shatters heat records for continental U.S.
JamVet
January 8th, 2013
4:22 pm
alex, do you subscribe to the sunspots or cow flatulence theory?
LOL at you science-averse nitwits..
Georgia
January 8th, 2013
4:22 pm
The issue is not warming trends. The issue is the cause. Natural or manmade. Do we allocate tax resources to prevent whatever man is doing to cause the warming trend, or do we hold our nose while the planet passes a little hot gas and stfu?
Georgia
January 8th, 2013
4:26 pm
btw, I just installed some spyware, and it is warning me that the AJC website contains “malicious URL or Cookie” thingies and I have to override constantly to read the paper. Is the AJC the source of all that spam I get? Does anyone know what a “malicious URL” is?
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 8th, 2013
4:26 pm
Cherokee
January 8th, 2013
3:48 pm
I’m familiar with the insurance mechanism…a mechanism that touted Y2K coverage at a premium to limit ratio not far from unity. Would you really expect the insurance industry to not take advantage of this unproven issues? That may be what they teach you in underwriter training but a promise the board of directors is laughing to the bank.
GUY
I laughed when you mentioned Michael Savage…he is one of the worst. However it seems to me each pundit for both sides has an alter-ego on the other…
Joe Hussein Mama
January 8th, 2013
4:28 pm
DIA — “You are deflecting from the subject at hand…again.”
No, I’m following up on YOUR deflection, to wit “IF Al Gore had one ounce of credibility, he lost it by selling his station to the ARabs”
If you don’t want to be called out on your crazy bulldada, then try sticking to the subject YOURSELF, Cowboy.
“Please try to focus.”
Try focusing YOURSELF.
“The subject here is: 2012 shatters heat records for continental U.S.”
And now the subject is Crazy Bulldada DIA Said On Page 2. Too bad for you.
Towncrier
January 8th, 2013
4:28 pm
“Do you read drudgey? What is that?”
It is a sophomoric reference to perhaps the most well known news aggregation site on the Internet. One cannot properly be said to “read” this site since it is only a collection of links to actual news articles. I guess one could say you can “scan” it (or the HTML text for the links that serve as headlines).
Joe Hussein Mama
January 8th, 2013
4:29 pm
Georgia — “Does anyone know what a “malicious URL” is?”
It’s when your neighbor named Earl tries to break in and burgle your house.
Towncrier
January 8th, 2013
4:29 pm
“Does anyone know what a “malicious URL” is?”
I think any URL beginning with http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog might be deemed “malicious”.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 8th, 2013
4:30 pm
Georgia
January 8th, 2013
4:22 pm
We do neither. Since we have 50years or so before the sky falls according to these “scientists”, we need to have this issue vetted and challenged at every level before we throw money at it…seems this is the only “science” that is afraid of the most important part of scientific theory, discharging any and all challenges…what is wrong with skepticism?
Why are you who think this is a forgone conclusion afraid of skepticism?
stranger in a strange land
January 8th, 2013
4:30 pm
Meanwhile in China this winter – ships stuck in the ice
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 8th, 2013
4:31 pm
GEORGIA
I didn’t mean to insinuate you have an opinion one way or another..
Brosephus™
January 8th, 2013
4:33 pm
Does anyone know what a “malicious URL” is?
That comes after drinking MD 20/20 all night.
Erwin's cat
January 8th, 2013
4:34 pm
When they can create a model that can predict the past….then maybe
TaxPayer
January 8th, 2013
4:34 pm
Meanwhile in China this winter – ships stuck in the ice
Ice! In winter! You don’t say.
Peadawg
January 8th, 2013
4:35 pm
What’s up with Obama’s war on women and minorities? All of his appointees are old white guys.
Regnad Kcin
January 8th, 2013
4:35 pm
“Why are you who think this is a forgone conclusion afraid of skepticism?”
Stevie Ray – I like science. I’m all about skepticism.
So, what evidence do you want to offer to try to change the current theory? You seem really upset that you can’t offer this evidence, because some people (apparently?) don’t like skeptics (?).
So have at it – what evidence do you want to present that “they” won’t let you?
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 8th, 2013
4:35 pm
AL Gore selling his radio station is not a big deal in my book. The big deal is the millions he has and will make from his phony balony movie and scare tactics…Like the chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” per Nicholsons character..”you gottem all fooled chief, you got em all fooled!”
TaxPayer
January 8th, 2013
4:36 pm
The past has already been predicted as having happened. It’s true. It really did happen.
JamVet
January 8th, 2013
4:36 pm
Notwithstanding that the eminent scientist R. Limbaugh PhD-BS believes the answer is due to volcanoes, what do cons think about the equally esteemed and Republican proffered “wobbles in the earth’s orbit theory”?
Chuckle…
Regnad Kcin
January 8th, 2013
4:37 pm
“When they can create a model that can predict the past….then maybe”
E-CAT – they can’t even create a model to predict your state, without opening the box!
Erwin's cat
January 8th, 2013
4:38 pm
The past has already been predicted as having happened. It’s true. It really did happen.
It’s a shame that the models don’t agree with history…what is history doing wrong?
DownInAlbany
January 8th, 2013
4:39 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
January 8th, 2013
4:28 pm
I obliged you with my answer. I guess you do not intend to do the same?
TaxPayer
January 8th, 2013
4:41 pm
It’s a shame that the models don’t agree with history…what is history doing wrong?
What models. What history. What are you doing wrong.
TaxPayer
January 8th, 2013
4:42 pm
Where is the unskewed data when cons need it the mostest.
JamVet
January 8th, 2013
4:42 pm
btw, I just installed some spyware,
I would recommend against that.
Now, anti-spyware programs are a different story! (grin) And that depends on whether you are using something decent or just some hokey BS product. (And there are bunches of them out there…)
Joe Hussein Mama
January 8th, 2013
4:42 pm
DIA — “I obliged you with my answer.”
You most certainly have not. For the third time:
So is it selling something to the Ay-rabs that makes one lose credibility? ‘Cause we’ve sold ‘em lots and lots of fighter jets and AWACS planes. Therefore, the US and the Presidents and lawmakers who agreed to those deals are likewise without credibility, right?
Right?
Or is it just when a liberal sells them something?
“I guess you do not intend to do the same?”
How rude! You don’t answer, but then you demand an answer be given to you? Didn’t your parents teach you about politeness?
DownInAlbany
January 8th, 2013
4:45 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
January 8th, 2013
4:42 pm
DIA — “I obliged you with my answer.”
You most certainly have not. For the third time:
So is it selling something to the Ay-rabs that makes one lose credibility? No ‘Cause we’ve sold ‘em lots and lots of fighter jets and AWACS planes. Therefore, the US and the Presidents and lawmakers who agreed to those deals are likewise without credibility, right? No
Right? No
Or is it just when a liberal sells them something? Not just when liberals sell, no.
Your turn.
“I guess you do not intend to do the same?”
How rude! You don’t answer, but then you demand an answer be given to you? Didn’t your parents teach you about politeness? Momma tried…
DannyX
January 8th, 2013
4:47 pm
“It is a sophomoric reference to perhaps the most well known news aggregation site on the Internet.”
“Landslide Watch: Romney Up In VA, OH, FL, WI, MI, PA, NC, and CO
Good times…good times
DownInAlbany
January 8th, 2013
4:47 pm
You don’t answer, but then you demand an answer be given to you?
Show me where I *demanded* anything or admit that you are a liar!
TaxPayer
January 8th, 2013
4:50 pm
Did Drudge ever admit that Obama won. Did Karl.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 8th, 2013
4:52 pm
Regnad Kcin
January 8th, 2013
4:35 pm
So you want me to play climate scientist and direct you to substantive research questioning the politically correct position? There is plenty out there that is discounted…better yet shouted down by attacks on the authors…here are a few..
Case in point, see the attached document. If I offered an opinion which the low was 5 and the high is 100, my number is not credible since the wider the deviation, the less credible is my data. If you notice in the article, there are so many vagaries in the core metrics used by various groups that a statistically relevant projection is irrelevant.
I’d start with the pure metrics and vet everyone of them…identifying all scientist of any opinion to challenge the credibility of all…if it is possible to get to a consensus regarding metrics, we may have something…until then we got nothing. Temperatures, ocean levels, differences in regions, ice plugs, accuracy of one temperature gauge versus another…any or all of these may suggest that looking beyond the span of time where verifiable data was available is not appropriate..
Too many variables. Consensus assigning algorythmic weights to all of these (there may even be hundreds of variables we don’t know exist)agreed measures..who knows, we may reach a consensus….of course, you can’t factor for the cash and political incentives…meaning you know the answer before you do the work.
JamVet
January 8th, 2013
4:53 pm
Heu cons, whatever became of Rick Perry’s theory that we are entering a new age of global cooling?
Are yo good Republicans on board with that or not?
It would be one thing if the scientifically stupid were relegated to a few minor players in the lunatic fringe. But it is not; it is part and parcel of the insanely ignorant GOP.
And that is but one fo the reasonw hy they have almost zero credibiltiy among the more informed in this country and around the world…
Al Gore
January 8th, 2013
4:55 pm
I am proposing a new carbon tax on babies. People are the problem. We need fewer people. Problem solved.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 8th, 2013
4:56 pm
Erwin’s cat
January 8th, 2013
4:38 pm
Great quote: Those in control set the table..
“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.” ― George Orwell
Joe Hussein Mama
January 8th, 2013
4:56 pm
DIA — “Right? No”
Then explain yourself. Are your pwecious feefees hurt because big bad Al Gore wouldn’t sell Current to Glenn Beck?
“Or is it just when a liberal sells them something? Not just when liberals sell, no.”
Then explain yourself. Do Presidents, Senators and Congressmen lose credibility when selling arms and ammo to Ay-Rabs?
“Your turn.”
To use your word, no. Your answer is short on detail and context, and you’re not getting any longer an answer from me than you give me.
So if all you have to say is “no,” then that’s all the answer *you’re* getting. No.
JamVet
January 8th, 2013
4:56 pm
I did find one very famous and extremely credible scientific organization that thinks anthropogenic climate change is a myth!
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/green.htm
Joe Hussein Mama
January 8th, 2013
4:57 pm
DIA — “Show me where I *demanded* anything or admit that you are a liar!”
“Your turn.”
Redcoat
January 8th, 2013
4:58 pm
Climate change?………yeah it happens?…..and you say I got to pay who?…… how much?……… to do what?
Towncrier
January 8th, 2013
4:59 pm
“So, what evidence do you want to offer to try to change the current theory? You seem really upset that you can’t offer this evidence, because some people (apparently?) don’t like skeptics (?).”
One can start in these two places:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming
I think it all boils down to how much faith one has in current scientific knowledge. I personally liken the complexity of our world’s climate system to that of the human body. It is clear that medical science has only begun to understand the human body functions as an extremely complex chorus of subsystems. Many if not most of the drugs that prescribed for medical conditions are but crude attempts to hack the CNS. The mechanism of action of many drugs is unknown. That is why drugs can cause such harm to certain individuals (and why there are lengthy disclaimers at the end of drug advertisements) – even death: they are monkeying with things they don’t really understand. They are discovering now I hear that cancer treatments given decades ago are the likely cause of current ailments and diseases in some patients.
The moral: we should tread very lightly here.
barking frog
January 8th, 2013
5:01 pm
republicans breathe in air, extract oxygen and exhale carbon
dioxide. the solution is clearly to stop republicans from breathing.
Thulsa Doom
January 8th, 2013
5:01 pm
Respect Saban.
Damn it feels good to be a Crimson Tide fan.
DawgDad
January 8th, 2013
5:02 pm
JamVet:Your 4:53 pm post makes NO sense. Unlike many of those on the left, most of us in the GOP do not blindly believe much of anything spewed out by political leaders. I couldn’t possibly care less what Rick Perry’s theory is on anything.
Thulsa Doom
January 8th, 2013
5:03 pm
barking frog,
If Republicans were an offense you could just send the Alabama defense to stop them from breathing. The Bama D is good at strangling offenses.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 8th, 2013
5:03 pm
…most of us in the GOP do not blindly believe much of anything spewed out by political leaders.
The smoking gun is the mushroom cloud.
Thulsa Doom
January 8th, 2013
5:05 pm
Ya’ll do realize that these new temperature highs are usually by one or two one hundredths of a degree right?
DownInAlbany
January 8th, 2013
5:06 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
January 8th, 2013
4:56 pm
Your questions were simple yes or no type (even though they were pretty asinine). Now you want the expanded version. Heck, you’ve deflected all afternoon, now. Don’t bother responding…geez
barking frog
January 8th, 2013
5:06 pm
Thulsa Doom
You are correct.
Al Gore
January 8th, 2013
5:06 pm
All you cons need to get over me selling to Al Jazeera. Their money comes from oil, but it is green. Whatsamatter – you don’t like capitalism?
TaxPayer
January 8th, 2013
5:07 pm
Cons have faith. They don’t do science.
Towncrier
January 8th, 2013
5:07 pm
“The smoking gun is the mushroom cloud.”
And the mushroom cloud was in this Democratic presidential advertisement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_(advertisement)
JamVet
January 8th, 2013
5:07 pm
Climate change?………yeah it happens?
Tory, are you a subscriber of the sunspot theory?
I couldn’t possibly care less what Rick Perry’s theory is on anything.
Fair enough, but it is also obvious that that sentiment applies to virtually the entire scientific community on the entire planet.
THAT is not the Republican thing to do, is it?
Not that YOU or any other denier would ever dare read it, but here is one excellent article about the GOP’s huge problem on this matter…
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/09/12/839821/republican-meterologist-to-romney-top-10-reasons-the-gop-needs-to-accept-the-climate-reality/
(Note the last word in that URL, dawg.)
Soothsayer
January 8th, 2013
5:07 pm
Now see, if you were the quarterback of a BCS-winning team instead of the schlub you are, this could be your girlfriend.
DownInAlbany
January 8th, 2013
5:08 pm
Redcoat
January 8th, 2013
4:58 pm
Climate change?………yeah it happens?…..and you say I got to pay who?…… how much?……… to do what?
Maybe we can purchase carbon credits from Al Gorezeera?
Soothsayer
January 8th, 2013
5:08 pm
Congratulations, Thelma! Great game!
TaxPayer
January 8th, 2013
5:08 pm
The new highs are due to increases of one or two hundredths of a degree! Is that the latest from the con’s unskewed data source.
JamVet
January 8th, 2013
5:09 pm
Doomy, congrats on three in four.
NOW you can stand beside the BIG RED big boys. (grin!)
Hopefully, you won’t have to give any of them back like your cousins over in Auburn! (Bigger grin!)
TaxPayer
January 8th, 2013
5:11 pm
Ice melting. Hmmmm. What could it mean. What do the thermometers say.
Thulsa Doom
January 8th, 2013
5:13 pm
JamVet,
We are in rareified air sir. The only 2 dynasties since 1950- Bama and Nebraska. Ya gotta love that.
Nancy Pelosi
January 8th, 2013
5:13 pm
Can we pass the Cap and Trade bill so we can see what is in it?
Georgia
January 8th, 2013
5:15 pm
Man made temperature warming? I think we’re talking about planet formation here, which means solar formation because planets are a necessary part of solar formation, which means we’re actually talking about galaxy formation, because stars are a necessary part of galaxy formation, which means we’re talking about black hole formation, because galaxies are a necessary part of black hole formation, which means nobody knows the why, how, what, when, where or who of global mean temperature fluctuations. Hell, they’ve only been recording daily temperatures for a hundred years or so, when the earth is five billion years old. The mathematically reliable sample just isn’t there, and never will be, not for us. Maybe about the time the sun explodes, (5 billion years) we’ll have an idea about temperature fluctuations. If I were serious, I would google it, and find out how old our modern atmosphere is. Apparently the atmosphere evolved from the eons of constant volcanism. There’s too many variables to have an informed opinion. I hate hooey more than I hate the Seahawks, man.
DannyX
January 8th, 2013
5:16 pm
Towncrier, your wiki links on opposing scientific views to global warming are weaki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
Thulsa Doom
January 8th, 2013
5:16 pm
Soothsayer
January 8th, 2013
5:08 pm
Congratulations, Thelma! Great game!
Soothsayer,
Thanks to you and JamVet. I think the only question entering the game was whether or not we could run the ball on their vaunted defense. We rammed it down their throat on the 1st drive. After that I knew it wouldn’t be long before we completely broke their will. It was an awesome, dominating performance. Its another gilded age for Bama fans so we’re about as ecstatic as can be.
Bob
January 8th, 2013
5:17 pm
Jamvet, are you referring to this “wobble” therory ? http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/green-sahara-african-humid-periods-paced-by-82884405
TaxPayer
January 8th, 2013
5:18 pm
I think we’re talking about planet formation here
No. We’re talking about observed temperature trends.
Thulsa Doom
January 8th, 2013
5:18 pm
Congrats to Notre Dame for what still has to be considered a fine season. 12-1 is still outstanding.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 8th, 2013
5:18 pm
DIA — “Your questions were simple yes or no type”
No, actually they weren’t.
“(even though they were pretty asinine)”
If you want asinine, look at your own statements and claims throughout this thread, Champ.
“Now you want the expanded version.”
I’ve been *expecting* the expanded version since I first asked you to explain yourself. Predictably, when called on your bulldada, you beg off and try to dodge away. Man up and have some self-respect, guy.
“Heck, you’ve deflected all afternoon, now.”
Nope. I’ve pinned you down at *least* three times on your bullspit claims and assertions. And after the third time I did it, you tried to play threadmarm and get back to the original topic, as if you hadn’t steered off course *yourself* a page earlier.
“Don’t bother responding…”
Right back at you, Punkin. I prefer to have discussions with adults who don’t go dodging and leaping away every time they’re asked to explain themselves.
Towncrier
January 8th, 2013
5:20 pm
“Not that YOU or any other denier would ever dare read it, but here is one excellent article about the GOP’s huge problem on this matter…”
From the site info page:
‘ThinkProgress was voted “Best Liberal Blog” in the 2006 Weblog Awards and chosen as an Official Honoree in the 2009 and 2012 Webby awards.’
How about this: both sides should stop pointing the other to political sites to “prove” the other wrong? This should be a strictly scientific question until the anthropogenic contribution (large or small) to global warming is decisively settled.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 8th, 2013
5:21 pm
How about this: both sides should stop pointing the other to political sites to “prove” the other wrong?
drudgey spammers say, “What”?
Soothsayer
January 8th, 2013
5:22 pm
Georgia, man, would mind if I keep a copy of your intellectual treatise to refer to later. Rarely have I seen someone delineate the problem in such a concise, condensed discourse. Of course, those doubters who creep in from the periphery seek to discredit your profound intellectualism should be cast aside like so much flotsam and jetsam. No, perserverance is what counts. Perservere regardless of the doubters. Maintain the straight course. Do not veer from it. Hold fast.
Towncrier
January 8th, 2013
5:23 pm
Okay…I’m out guys. Goodnight all.
Georgia
January 8th, 2013
5:23 pm
Can I make a difference in global warming? Yeah, like I can buy a Prius and make up for Krakatoa.
JamVet
January 8th, 2013
5:25 pm
For no reason at all, except that it popped into my brain earlier today.
That and it is one helluva great song!
You were the sunshine, baby, whenever you smiled
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VSuO7Vtlzo
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 8th, 2013
5:27 pm
Yeah, like I can buy a Prius and make up for Krakatoa.
This rationalization brought to you by the Koch brothers.
DannyX
January 8th, 2013
5:28 pm
“How about this: both sides should stop pointing the other to political sites to “prove” the other wrong?”
How about this, NO.
But I can understand why a conservative would want such a deal, conservative websites are generally laughingstocks and the enemy of reality.
Nice try though. Yes, you should be embarrassed by them.
Steve
January 8th, 2013
5:29 pm
Why do people politicize science? The planet is warming. This is not politics people. So ridiculous. It’s embarrassing to read some of the idiocy in here.
Road Scholar
January 8th, 2013
5:30 pm
Jay: Now you’ve done it! The heat source is the repubs constantly saying “No”, them acting as children, and trying to scare everyone that they are not getting their way! Just remember…..freedom is wonderful…as long as you do it the way the repubs say it should be done!
JamVet
January 8th, 2013
5:32 pm
Georgia, so you are in the R. Limbaugh PhD-BS camp on this matter.
That’s it! I’m finally convinced!
ALL of those dozens and dozens and dozens of incredibly famous and prestigious institutions and thousands and thousands and thousands of eminently qualified experts together, are all full of crap.
And you relative handful of nobodies have got this right.
Schnort…
Halftrack
January 8th, 2013
5:37 pm
There is not enough record for climate changing. If Antartica used to be a flourishing continent in days of old then the world must have been hotter everywhere. In the 1950’s, scientist were claiming a small ice age was about to happen. As we can see, all this fuss about climate is useless chatter.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 8th, 2013
5:38 pm
As we can see, all this fuss about climate is useless chatter.
“We”?
Joe Hussein Mama
January 8th, 2013
5:39 pm
Halftrack — “If Antartica used to be a flourishing continent in days of old”
OMGWTFLOLBBQ
Bob
January 8th, 2013
5:46 pm
Has earth even seen a time when it was not in some type of climate change ? How many ice ages have we had and how many warming periods followed ? The left claims those on the right to be deniers but I don’t see the right denying something that has been around since earth was formed, climate change. It was a good thing warming periods have happened in the past, you can’t grow crops in ice and earth was once covered by it. It did not melt because of mankind and it did not freeze because of mankind.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 8th, 2013
5:47 pm
One person announces his departure, a sock-puppet immediately emerges.
Bob
January 8th, 2013
5:49 pm
Joe Hussein, why was Greenland called Greenland if it is “normal” for it to be covered with ice ?
JamVet
January 8th, 2013
5:51 pm
Bob,
I’m sure those thousands of experts – who are in near unanimous consensus – never even considered that before! You should alert them to this new data!
JamVet
January 8th, 2013
5:53 pm
why was Greenland called Greenland if it is “normal” for it to be covered with ice ?
Oh my Lord, you did not just write that, did you???
Now that is what i would call horrifyingly ignorant!
Slightly paraphrased for freshness…
We have the purpose of keeping scientifically illiterate ignoramuses from controlling the anthropogenic climate change debate in the United States.
Tundra Dude
January 8th, 2013
5:54 pm
Jay Bookman
2012 shatters heat records for continental U.S.
Last time I checked, the US is only a small portion of planet earth.
Anybody have 100 year data on China…?
Trapped in an icy prison: 1,000 ships stranded in frozen ocean as China is gripped by extreme cold snap
China is enduring its most brutal cold snap in 28 years
http://bit.ly/RzSBWa
What global warming?
Alaska is headed for an ice age as scientists report state’s steady temperature decline
http://bit.ly/WeGPgB
godless heathen
January 8th, 2013
5:59 pm
Has the rate of change of global temperature over the past 150 years exceeded the rate of change of global temperatures of any other 150 year period over the past 10,000 years?
Please show your work.
stranger in a strange land
January 8th, 2013
6:03 pm
Meanwhile in russia – Abnormally low winter temperatures in Russia continue to claim more and more lives. Twenty-one people froze to death in only one day; 147 others were hospitalized with frostbite. The cold weather in central Russia is not going to get any warmer soon. December 19, the cold has reached St. Petersburg, where temperatures fell below -20 degrees Centigrade. It is 30 degrees below zero in the Ivanovo region, -22C in the Kaluga region….
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 8th, 2013
6:04 pm
We’ve had other industrial revolutions in the past 10,000 years?
Please show your work.
Real Scootter
January 8th, 2013
6:04 pm
why was Greenland called Greenland if it is “normal” for it to be covered with ice ?
Because it was discovered by a guy name Green?
stranger in a strange land
January 8th, 2013
6:04 pm
tundra dude – my point earlier
Oscar
January 8th, 2013
6:07 pm
Orin T. Green- Born in Oslo on 1124. Quite a sailor and exployer.
Real Scootter
January 8th, 2013
6:09 pm
Oscar
January 8th, 2013
6:07 pm
OMG!!!! Then I was right? Whew
Oscar
January 8th, 2013
6:15 pm
Tundra – Climate change. Extreme variations in weather in various points on the earth with an overall increase in temperature with local fluxations whichmay be colder than average.
td
January 8th, 2013
6:15 pm
Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of Chicago?
Body count: In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago.
More than 500 Murdered in 2012!!!!
For the same time frame 221 people were killed in Iraq AND Chicago has one of the strictest gun laws in the entire US.
President: Barack Hussein Obama
Senator: Dick Durbin
House Representative: Jesse Jackson Jr.
Governor: Pat Quinn
House leader: Mike Madigan
Atty. Gen.: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
Mayor: Rahm Emanuel
The leadership in Illinois – all Democrats.
Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago .
Of course, they’re all blaming each other.
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!
Chicago school system rated one of the worst in the country.
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!
State pension fund $78 Billion in debt, worst in country.
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!
Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax 10.25% highest in country.
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois.
And he is going to ‘fix’ Washington politics for us???
George Ryan is no longer Governor, he is in the big house. Of course he was replaced by Rob Blajegovitch who is…that’s right, also in the big house.
And Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned a couple of weeks ago. That is because he is fighting being sent to…that’s right, the big house.
The Land of Lincoln, where our governors make our license plates.
But you know what? As long as they keep providing entitlements to the population of Chicago, nothing is going to change, except that the state will go broke before the country does. Chicago and Illinois….set the pace for the rest of the country…
JamVet
January 8th, 2013
6:18 pm
stranger, are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 8th, 2013
6:18 pm
OMG!!!! Then I was right? Whew
I think you just got punked.
Logical Dude
January 8th, 2013
6:23 pm
I could try to write a pursuasive argument in support of Climate Change as caused or enhanced by humans.
But really, the WHOLE FREAKIN WORLD except for a small subset of American Republicans have seen the data and come to the same conclusion. Human caused/enhance climate change IS HAPPENING.
The question should not be “is it happening?” Sheesh, even Mitt Romney knows it’s happening. The questions should be:
What should we do about it?
How can we act now to slow/reverse the damage that humans are causing to the planet?
Because by some of the responses on this blog, I can give a gold medal winning plate of evidence and those people will still say “I don’t believe you.”
And they’ll keep saying “I don’t believe the house is warming” even when the fireplace spits out flames and has caught the christmas tree on fire, and they are breathing acrid smoke and suffocating on the floor.