R351594
4 months ago

Perhaps that’s why it’s “Climate Change” not “Global Warming” that is being touted. Some places will get hotter and some other places will get cooler. Temperatures will becomes more extreme in both directions.

Maybe that will make the mean temperature stay about the same over the years but that doesn’t mean things aren’t getting worse (climate wise).

R351598
4 months ago

incredible.

you losers are really stupid.

i mean, wow, you’re really this fucking stupid aren’t you?

holy shit. unreal, man. i can do this much drugs and be this drunk and still make you look stupid. jesus. seriously, get laid at least once before you die. get out of your parents basement, see a bit of the world, have some fun. you seriously suck so fucking hard at life it hurts all of us.

just foolin’ you guys rock keep up the good work yeah

R351603
4 months ago

you losers are really stupid

not the 1st time i’ve heard this…...

R351609
4 months ago

I haven’t like them ever since they sued professional wrestling

R351610
4 months ago

This morning at the pool a woman said I was just like Palin (the Rep. VP cand.), when I questioned her blaming all the hurricanes on climate change.

She said that it made her upset; that she thought of all the melting glaciers, and didn’t want to talk about it.

I mentioned solar activity affecting cosmic rays, clouds, cooling, but then dropped it.

Why is that regular people that are so so at regular things think that they can understand climate science? This is a field where people get PhD’s, do years of work, and still have problems predicting the weather a few days out?

Then a woman started complaining about how people should shower before getting in the pool, because of their sweat. I suggested that they ban sunscreen because of its chemicals and that sweat wasn’t going to hurt anything. This confused her…she had it all over her face. I mentioned that sunscreen was now dedectable in places in the ocean and it was affecting reefs. The National Geographic reports:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080129-sunscreen-coral.html

R351640
4 months ago

global warming is not a hot topic..

R351649
4 months ago

WWf is not blaming cooling on carbon but rather swings in extremes… as has always been the theory

me, if it turns out I can drive a 7000 lb SUV with no deleterious effects, then, awesome!

R351658
4 months ago

WWf is not blaming cooling on carbon but rather swings in extremes… as has always been the theory

No. I don’t think so. It started out as “Global Warming”. They changed it after the warming stopped.
They have always said the carbon causes warming.
This warming somehow results in heat being sucked out of certain areas causing the temperature to drop.

My question is;
Which places experienced extreme warming to a degree that would explain all this cooling?

R351659
4 months ago

seriously, get laid at least once before you die. get out of your parents basement, see a bit of the world, have some fun.

I love it when he says this to people who make 2 or 3 posts a day.

R351661
4 months ago

Summer has been one of Alaska’s coldest

High temperatures this season were 3rd lowest on record

Summer is officially over in Alaska, and if you got out in the sun to enjoy both days of it you were lucky.

Those were the two July days the temperature at the offices of the National Weather Service in Anchorage hit 70 degrees or better.

“Those temperatures occurred at the beginning of the month (of July) and were immediately followed by a long stretch of cool and wet weather.

“With only two days above 70 degrees this year, that sets a new record for the fewest days to reach 70,’‘ the weather-watching agency reported Friday.

Add to the lack of heat and sunshine what the agency calls “an astonishing 77%” of days colder than normal, and you get the picture.

This summer was every bit as bad as you thought it was.

Gardens didn’t grow. Salmon returned late. Bees didn’t make honey. Swallows didn’t breed.

On average, Anchorage sees 16 days that hit 70 or better.

Not this year. Not since 1980 has there been a summer less reflective of global warming than this one. Consider these 2008 benchmarks from the weather service that say this month won’t be any better:

Over the course of the past 87 years, September temperatures have reached 70 only 17 times, and two of those 70-degree days came in the same year, according to the weather service.

On average, a 70-degree September day comes along about once every five years, but those days also tend to come in warm years, not years like this one.

Overall, the weather service ranks the summer of 2008 as having the third coolest average high temperatures since record keeping began. Only the summers of 1973 and 1971 were worse. In overall average daily temperatures, 2008 ranked 11th place.

CLOUDS ARE GOOD?

All that stopped this summer from winning a place as coldest ever was, strangely enough, its cloudy grimness.

“What seemed like endless days of cloud cover kept the daytime highs averaging 3 degrees below normal,” according to the weather service. “Inversely, the cloud cover helped to keep overnight temperatures up.

“The minimum temperatures in the summer of 2008 only ranked as the 34th coolest on record.”

Now, there’s something to cheer about. That and the fact that, though the summer left the birds and the bees struggling, the mosquitoes seemed to be doing just fine.

So what can you expect from here on out?

“September climatologically opens with high temperatures around 60 and overnight lows in the middle 40s,’‘ says the local office of the weather service. Followed by October, when temperatures start to really drop, to the 20s and 30s by the end of the month.

That is the normal pattern.

This year?

The National Climate Prediction center is calling for “below normal temperatures along southern Alaska (through September).” Warm waters flowing north into the Gulf of Alaska mean Southcentral Alaska could be back to “normal” — if there is such a thing — by October or November.

That would be just in time for the snow-sport season that lasts about twice as long as summer.

Meanwhile, in case you forgot, the days are getting shorter, too.

R351662
4 months ago

R351682
4 months ago

No. I don’t think so. It started out as “Global Warming”. They changed it after the warming stopped.

nope

started as “Global Climate Change”, but someone decided that didn’t sound threatening enough around the mid 80s, and it changed to Global Warming

but the science behind it has always stated that warming trends in one area would be accompanied by cooling trends in others

Which places experienced extreme warming to a degree that would explain all this cooling?

the oceans are a good place to start looking

R351684
4 months ago

Funny that Watson doesn’t add the whole of Toni’s words…

Australia had its driest May on record, Perth had its wettest April on record, and Tasmania recorded its hottest ever temperature, according to Mr Toni.

The truth is that climate change is taking the form of extreme volatility, accentuating background mechanisms like el Nino and la Nina (which we are seeing right now). See the Met Office’s recent note on climate variability.

The current La Niña began to develop in early 2007, having a significant cooling effect on the global average temperature. Despite this, 2007 was one of the ten warmest years since global records began in 1850 with a temperature some 0.4 °C above average.

The La Niña has strengthened further during early 2008 and is now the strongest since 1988/89, significantly contributing to a lower January temperature in 2008 compared to recent years. In addition, global average temperature has been influenced by very cold land temperatures in parts of the northern hemisphere and extensive snow cover.

R351691
4 months ago

dude, if the world westling federation (WWF) says shit bout global hottening its legit.

shitsharingtiger, go outside today. i fucking dare you.

R351721
4 months ago

i usually heard it as global warming, but that within the warming trend we would see greater swings in extremes wet/dry cold/hot stormy/still

that was what i intended, apparently inadequately, to convey…

R351743
4 months ago

shitsharingtiger, go outside today. i fucking dare you.

LMAO!!!11
Check it out Liv

I spent today on Tiritiri which is an island bird reserve.
I was there taking silicon molds of Kiwi burrows for a display I have to make for DOC.
so classic…