Global Warming & Climate Change Discussion

[R-T-B]

Bastards....

Im telling Wendy on you lot.

It's ok. Dorset is known for a different thing, afterall:

Now that was kinda mean. I'm going to go away, now...

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Obesity among Welsh women has a direct correlation with global warming. Mainly to do with the consumption of icecream and blue pop.

 

[R-T-B]

Obesity among Welsh women has a direct correlation with global warming. Mainly to do with the consumption of icecream and blue pop.

Thanks for bringing it back to the subject.

 

[dorsetknob]

In Wales they call them Loppies
because they got lop sided short legs on one side because of constantly walking on hills " short legs stop them from falling on the Steep hillsides

 

[R-T-B]

In Wales they call them Loppies
because they got lop sided short legs on one side because of constantly walking on hills " short legs stop them from falling on the Steep hillsides

Thank you.

I did not know that.

I will totally pull this out at the next awkward dinner conversation. (It should get rid of awkward/unwanted guests quickly)

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

It should be spelled with a double L

Lloppies

In its annual Arctic Report Card , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday tallied record after record of high temperatures, low sea ice, shrinking ice sheets and glaciers.

Study lead author Jeremy Mathis, NOAA's Arctic research chief, said it shows long-term Arctic warming trends deepening and becoming more obvious, with a disturbing creep into seasons beyond summer, when the Arctic usually rebuilds snow and ice.

http://www.noaa.gov/

 

[john_]

Nice to see something good associated with global warming for once.

No, no, no no no no. It's NOT good. My mother's village is not the whole planet Earth. So, while it is good for lemon trees and oranges trees, it is probably not so good for other plants. And most importantly, while it might look good to have less cold every winder in Athens, it probably also means that other places of the planet, that where hotter than Athens but fertile, could be facing problems like desertification.

 

[the54thvoid]

could be facing problems like desertification.

I love dessert!

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Kara Sea and Barents Sea stands out in that picture. The positioning of that hot spot is rather odd...

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

97.2% of scientists agree that this thread has contributed significantly to the amount of hot air circulating on this website.

 

[magibeg]

Kara Sea and Barents Sea stands out in that picture. The positioning of that hot spot is rather odd...

Those types of heat maps can look really strange because it's not related to how warm the area is but how warm it is compared to average. Could even be a case of a persistent high pressure system or a shift in ocean currents but I really have no idea at all haha

 

[FordGT90Concept]

The heat is most likely coming from the Atlantic but there's really no thermal signature that indicates that. I'm thinking the heated current that used to pass through the Fram Strait stopped moving. The Beaufort Gyre also isn't as cold.

 

[qubit]

Snow falls in the Sahara desert for the first time in 37 years. More "ammo" for the climate change deniers. In reality, it's just a freak event.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Sahara-time-37-YEARS.html?ito=social-facebook

 

[dont whant to set it"']

Sorry I have not experienced a desert,but from what I've read/ heard temperatures reported are low as waters freezeing point or maybe lower ,so if precipitation in form of snow in a desert... well I leave it for your imagination, you are typing about a desert|sand not a salt plain desert like at or above 12000ft.
Smog is if if it aint an unquestionable after effect by human/s activity.
There are of options for a "greener" outlook yet all disturb the global economics, undeterminable.
I'd like to think that mankind could mastered more than fision since fision,practicly...?
Humans beeing humans do I fail at stuping downandorandorup level,worth my energy?No so far and a predictable no further, to be proven wrong gladly.
Ps: there is no smiley "depicting" a retarded'whatemacallithuman' ,a smiley peeling a bannana does not cut it.

 

[Tatty_Two]

It's not just cold that is an ingredient for snow, moisture is also necessary and that's where deserts tend to struggle.

 

[john_]

First snow in 37 years.

I think the correct question here is how often was snowing in the Sahara desert, 100 or more years ago.

 

[magibeg]

First snow in 37 years.

I think the correct question here is how often was snowing in the Sahara desert, 100 or more years ago.

There is a clue from the article:

"The Sahara Desert covers most of Northern Africa and it has gone through shifts in temperature and moisture over the past few hundred thousand years.

Although the Sahara is very dry today, it is expected to become green again in about 15,000 years."

 

[dorsetknob]

"People lived on the edge of the desert thousands of years ago[37] since the last ice age. The Sahara was then a much wetter place than it is today. Over 30,000 petroglyphs of river animals such as crocodiles[38] survive, with half found in the Tassili n'Ajjer in southeast Algeria. Fossils of dinosaurs, including Afrovenator, Jobaria and Ouranosaurus, have also been found here."
wilki


Cave man Started Global warming by burning things in the Ice Age to keep warm

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

A 70-mile long crack in the Larsen C ice shelf grew another shocking 11 miles in December alone. That leaves just 12 miles before an iceberg the size of Delaware ( or a quarter the size of Wales) snaps off into the Southern Ocean.

Lead researcher, Swansea University's Professor Adrian Luckman, said the iceberg was now 'hanging by a thread'.

When it calves off, the Larsen C Ice Shelf will lose more than 10 per cent of its area, fundamentally changing the landscape of the Antarctic Peninsula, and making the shelf less stable, the experts said.

The current event is not an ice shelf collapsing, but Larsen C may, in years or decades to come, follow the course of the Larsen B Ice Shelf which splintered and collapsed in the space of a month in 2002, they said.

Speaking to the BBC, Professor Luckman, said: 'If it doesn't go in the next few months, I'll be amazed.

 

[qubit]

I'm sorry Caps, but that's not happening, because global warming isn't happening, just like the esteemed president-elect Trump says.

There, fixed!

 

[FordGT90Concept]

 

[qubit]

I think this is a good explanation of why we can't just pin today's climate change on the planet and that it's man that's done it.

The article shows a great XKCD infographic explaining it.

http://www.sciencealert.com/why-4-5...mperatures-can-t-explain-climate-change-today

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

The info grahic is reeeeeeaàly long on mobile in landscape........

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Here's a really unexpected turn of events:
The blue-collar climate plan

GOP-proposed carbon tax.

Why it might work? Deregulate environmental protections and replace the lot of them with taxes (including carbon tax) to disincentives using pollutants. Give profits back to citizens to invest.

I approve of this idea. Instead of the EPA harassing people and businesses, change the market to achieve the same goal. People will pay more for fuel and the like but they can use the refund/credit, for example, on a down payment for a hybrid car or to offset the additional cost if they have to stick with an oil burner.


Trump hasn't commented on it yet so there's no guarantee it could happen but this is seriously an about-face that at least has a chance.

 

[R-T-B]

Trump hasn't commented on it yet so there's no guarantee it could happen but this is seriously an about-face that at least has a chance.

Reading the article, it said the backers themselves would be "very surprised" if Trump went for it.

That being said, a snowballs chance in hell is better than no chance.