Sneering at Global Warming.
Ya know, in spite of all those Fox News anchors and Republicans saying ‘Global Warming’ with a snarky voice and Sneering about Al Gore, Wouldn’t it be a shit if Global Warming was real. That would be a real kicker wouldn’t it, especially in Texas.
Posted in 2003…
http://www.edf.org/article.cfm?contentid=3300
This reports “DIRE” droughts for Texas, but luckily the report adds that the future hasn’t been written yet… Oh Shit the report was written in 2009.
http://www.environmentamerica.org/news-releases/global-warming-solutions/global-warming-solutions/dire-impacts-of-global-warming-avoidable-with-a-clean-energy-economy
http://www.texasclimate.org/Home/ImpactofGlobalWarmingonTexas/tabid/481/Default.aspx
I know I should be more caring for Texas’ drought situation, but it is hard for me. When I was flooded out in 1997 it was a Woman in Texas that told me I ought to move cause thhe MidWest floods all the time.
And I am glad the Ayn Randiest state is also broke. Dang, what was that German word.
KY balanced the Budget without cutting MediCaid or State workers benefits, or any Union busting. But hell we have a Democrat for Governor. And Democrats are obviously smarter than Republicans.
Turn off Fox, Read a book and think for yourself. OR move to Texas and secede. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.
Schadenfreud. Or something spelled sorta like that.
I hate the Texas mentality too.
Roscoe, it should have been called “climate change”. “Global warming” is a misnomer. I think the media choose the term “global warming”. It appears to be having affects much earlier than predicted and we may not have a chance to change it.
Climate change has been discussed for a very long time—remember the the decade long midwestern drought (the Dust Bowl) when farmers plowed under vast acreages of prarie grass which ended up actually changing the macro climate? The term Global Warming in conjunction with Climate Change (I believe)was first used in a 1975 Science article by geochemist Wallace Broecker of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory: “Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced <i.Global Warming?”
Broecker’s term was a break with tradition. Earlier studies of human impact on climate had called it “inadvertent climate modification.”
This was because while many scientists accepted that human activities could cause climate change, they did not know what the direction of change might be. Industrial emissions of tiny airborne particles called aerosols might cause cooling, while greenhouse gas emissions would cause warming. Which effect would dominate?
The first decisive National Academy of Science study of carbon dioxide’s impact on climate, published in 1979, abandoned “inadvertent climate modification.” Often called the Charney Report for its chairman, Jule Charney of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, declared: “if carbon dioxide continues to increase, [we find] no reason to doubt that climate changes will result and no reason to believe that these changes will be negligible.”
In place of inadvertent climate modification, Charney adopted Broecker’s usage. When referring to surface temperature change, Charney used “global warming.” When discussing the many other changes that would be induced by increasing carbon dioxide, Charney used “climate change.”
I’ll bet you $50 that the same folks that sneer at it today will be telling their grandkids that the elitist scientists and liberals caused the whole thing when it all finally becomes undeniable. 😉
I think for the last several years, every time it snowed some idiot would make jokes about Al Gore and global warming. One day those same idiots will be eating their words because there sure as hell won’t be any food for them to eat. I understand our current weather patterns here in the US and other places are caused by La Nina which is a direct cause from warmer oceans, which is a direct cause of polar ice melt, which is a direct cause of greenhouse gases and on and on and on and on.
People better wake the fuck up. Maybe the only way to get that done would be to start denying it ourselves. After all anything that we believe in Republicans/Conservatives believe the opposite??!!!
ps lol ass and fuck all in the same week??? 😉
People need to know about Latent Heat
If you heat a pot of water on the stove, and add ice cubes, the water will remain near its initial temperature, until all of the ice cubes have melted. That is Latent Heat.
Once the ice cubes have completely melted, then the water heats up real fast.
Notice that I said “near its initial temperature” ? The process is a bit more complicated. What happens is that almost ALL of the water will remain at exactly its initial temperature until all the ice cubes have completely melted. However, a tiny portion of the water will display increasingly wild fluctuations while this is going on.
The Polar Ice Caps and every Glacier on Earth are melting. Most of the Earth is remaining near its usual temperature and climate, AND we are also getting increased Hurricane and Tornado activity. Just this Spring, we had a storm system with many, many F5, Finger of God tornadoes in it. Usually, we only get an F5 tornado once every few years.
Now all this ice melting off the Poles and the Glaciers has to go somewhere. Since the Earth spins like a top, that water is making its way towards the Equator. This is a massive redistribution of weight on the Earth, and the Earth has to adjust itself to it. That’s why we have been getting all these Earthquakes.
As the Polar Ice Caps melt away, the permafrost in the northern regions (like Greenland) is thawing out, and trapped in that permafrost are millions of tons of METHANE. Methane traps many, many more times the heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. So we are approaching what could very well be an unstoppable feedback loop