Global Warming on Free Republic
Posted on 07/19/2012 6:12:02 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States.
That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere – the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average, the odds of which occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10-99, a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe.
Meteorologists reported that this spring was the warmest ever recorded for our nation – in fact, it crushed the old record by so much that it represented the "largest temperature departure from average of any season on record." The same week, Saudi authorities reported that it had rained in Mecca despite a temperature of 109 degrees, the hottest downpour in the planet's history.
Not that our leaders seemed to notice. Last month the world's nations, meeting in Rio for the 20th-anniversary reprise of a massive 1992 environmental summit, accomplished nothing. Unlike George H.W. Bush, who flew in for the first conclave, Barack Obama didn't even attend. It was "a ghost of the glad, confident meeting 20 years ago," the British journalist George Monbiot wrote; no one paid it much attention, footsteps echoing through the halls "once thronged by multitudes." Since I wrote one of the first books for a general audience about global warming way back in 1989, and since I've spent the intervening decades working ineffectively to slow that warming, I can say with some confidence that we're losing the fight, badly and quickly – losing it because, most of all, we remain in denial about the peril that human civilization is in.
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According to Nasa, (in spite of Jim Hansen’s presence) this is the 10th hottest year on record, so far.
It is not the hottest. This blather is indeed meant to instill panic.
Thanks Free ThinkerNY.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am not prepared to accept Bill McKibben's numbers. For all I know, he used the data which "got lost" by East Anglia.
Is this clown a statistician? or is he simply parroting something another criminal pulled out of his nether regions?
Until genuine peer review of his assertions is done by real scientists, I ain't buying a thing.
Since I wrote one of the first books for a general audience about global warming way back in 1989,
That makes you a scientist? Tell us about the book you wrote for actual real scientists, and then we can stop laughing at your strident hysteria and melodrama, and take you seriously. After reading the experts' reviews, that is.
Thanks.
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That’s my standard answer to ‘it’s the warmest it’s been since 19 or 18**’:
‘Well, exactly what the hell was happening in 19 or 18** to make it so warm?’
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That is the ultimate science journal right there.
So far, our AC bill is virtually zero! California is having a cold summer... it might have reached 80 today.
McKibben is an utter moron. The temperature each month is correlated to the previous month so he flunks based simply on that.. Natural increases from Little Ice Age dominated the 20th century so having "above average" months every month is expected not unexpected when the average contains part of the Little Ice Age. No, he is not parroting anyone, just a moron.
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