Current Consequences..... Video:
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/10/meterologist_record_heat_wave_in_russia
Solutions....allow temperatures to increase dramatically....Video:
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/10/bolivian_un_ambassador_despite_extreme_weather
Retired Monk - "Ideology is a disease"
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Moscow Weather is not Global Warming.
Record Low Temperatures Grip Siberia
Who would've guessed that Siberia would've experienced low temperatures in winter?
That's a part of it . Extreme temp fluctuations at far north and far south latitutudes. are among the indicators. .Cold in winter...warm enough in summer to melt centuries- old ice.
We can always say 3 times, "polar ice is not melting", click our red slippers and go back to Wonderland with Alice. That might at least be better than doing what we are now doing...not much.
Fairy tales can be comforting diversions until you come to the end of the story and face the real world..
Retired Monk - "Ideology is a disease"
Well, and understanding that Siberia was tropical prior to "global warming" proves that climate changes all the time anyway, and plates move. So, there's obviously nothing to fear here!
Nothing to worry about at all for Californians. Half the state is heading north. The area west of the San Andreas Fault is heading for cooler latitudes.
Of course, it may take awhile before it comes to rest at the southern coast of Alaska.
That's a good thing. A fast move would have given them Sarah Palin as Governor.
What do consequences of global warming look like? Extremes in rainfall:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10973725
Extremes in drought and heat: 100+ in Moscow...for weeks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10809115
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10913434
Then, of course, the dead mountainsides of Colorado.
Retired Monk - "Ideology is a disease"
One of the things proposed by those denier idiots to global warming is El Nino/La Nina. I mean how stupid does a person have to be to think that a component of earth's system would not be affected by the addition of greenhouse gases while at the same time being the cause of changes to earth's system? Well, El Niños Are Growing Stronger, NASA/NOAA Study Finds indicates that climate change, anthropogenic global warming caused by human activity, is driving changes to El Ninos:
""Our study concludes the long-term warming trend seen in the central Pacific is primarily due to more intense El Niños, rather than a general rise of background temperatures," said Lee.
"These results suggest climate change may already be affecting El Niño by shifting the center of action from the eastern to the central Pacific," said McPhaden. "El Niño's impact on global weather patterns is different if ocean warming occurs primarily in the central Pacific, instead of the eastern Pacific."
So, due to anthropogenic global warming, El Ninos will do what they do but affect weather patterns even more.
Yeah, all the planets in our solar system are warming up.
Mars is losing its polar caps...
What are we going to tax next to save mars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG!!!!!!!!
Of course mars is losing its solar caps. The last of its water to go. As it melts little by little over time....it disappears, forever. The atmosphere isn't dense enough to retain it. Unlike the earth, there is never any precipation to replace it.
Probably retaining a life support system on our own planet should be of concern. We don't live on mars.
Playing the fiddle while Rome burns probably isn't the wisest thing to do..
Retired Monk - "Ideology is a disease".
Actually Mars lost most of its water a long time ago as it has no magnetosphere to protect its atmosphere from the solar wind. Its atmosphere is pretty tenuous and so is incapable of acting as a "global warmer", although it does offer a bit more than a vacuum.