Climate change could mean the extinction of our species

[Ben]

Hi everybody on the northeast coast
of North America,

My local, radio-station triple w.cjad.com has just announced that a MAJOR
snow storm is coming to get us. They do weather forecasts every hour and
every half hour.

Snowstorm Barrels Into Northeast; City’s Subways and Buses Are Halted:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/ny...zard.html?_r=0

[Ben]

Climate-Denial Buffoon Inhofe takes Big $$ from Big Oil, Says Scientists Corrupt:

http://www.juancole.com/2015/01/buff...cientists.html

[trish]

Meteorologists (not climatologists) have been warning this storm may bring a record amount of snowfall. Fox News is saying “potentially historic.” So this may not be your “normal” snow storm; but we won’t know until its over.

This is not a climatic event nor is it an event that is being caused by climate change. Every weather event has its own individual cause. The climate system only determines the distribution of storm types over time and geography. A change in the pattern might be attributable to a changing climate. Indeed a change in pattern is predicted my current climate models (due to the anthropogenic warming of our planet).

The warming of the Earth’s atmosphere creates a steeper temperature gradient. The warmer air masses in the tropics roll down the gradient (hot to cold) displacing the colder masses at the poles, and pushes the cold air towards the tropics. This doesn’t happen in a uniform flow. The arctic Rossby wave system (for example) is forced into higher amplitude modes until some waves separate from the system and drip huge masses of cold air into localized regions in the tropics. These locals have colder weather than usual and sometimes more snow than usual.

[Ben]

Canadian writer, essayist and historian John R. Saul...

[martin48]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/big-gap-between-what-scientists-say-and-americans-think-about-climate-change/?WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20150204

"In 2014, the vast majority (87 percent) of scientists said that human activity is driving global warming, and yet only half the American public ascribed to that view. And 77 percent of scientists said climate change is a very serious problem. In comparison, only 33 percent of the general public said it was a very serious problem in a 2013 poll."

"The increased belief in climate change was reflected last week in the Senate, when 98 senators from both parties voted that climate change is real and not a hoax. Only one, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), voted otherwise. Going on the record on their beliefs was a historic step for Republicans who have otherwise insisted that "they are not scientists" when questioned on climate change. But about half the senators still maintained that climate change is not driven by human activity (E&ENews PM, Jan. 21). That vote was along partisan lines.
Among the public, too, climate beliefs correlate with ideology, the Pew pollsters noted. People who vote Republican are less likely to believe in climate change than people who vote Democratic."

[Dahlia Babe Ailhad]

Hi all,

I am "happy" (BRRRRR!!) to report that my city is as freezing as it should be for this time of year. Actually, a bit colder than normal, now.

xoxo

[Ben]

Fox News Host: Climate Change Hoax Costs Us Our Freedom!

[trish]

Just googled "number died shoveling snow and picked the first two links reporting separate instances.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...203-story.html

http://www.boston.com/news/weather/2...4EO/story.html

As explained in post#1213 ( http://www.hungangels.com/vboard/sho...postcount=1213 ) weather is distinct from climate, and that global warming does mean some places in the U.S. and Europe will have colder, wetter winters and some places will have hotter, dryer summers. The change in the pattern of Earth's climate may already be reflected in the rates of death due to snow shoveling and and forest fires.

[Dahlia Babe Ailhad]

Hi everyone,

It was -27 degrees Celsius (-16.6 F) earlier today.

Right now, it says -21 Celsius (-5.8 F) with a wind-chill-factor making it feel like -32 C (-25.6 F).

I am certain it will drop more later on, tonight.

xoxo

[sukumvit boy]

Leading climate change denier was paid 1.2 million by energy companies.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/22/80...-wei-hock-soon