Posted on 05/14/2018 7:54:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BILLINGS — Mild-mannered Cathy Whitlock is blunt when she talks about climate change in Montana.
“Spoiler alert,” she said. “The climate is getting warmer, and we’re going to have to deal with it.”
Whitlock is in a position to know. As a professor at the Department of Earth Sciences at Montana State University she’s spent decades analyzing mud core samples drilled from lakes around the world to examine climate and fire going back thousands of years. She also recently co-wrote the 2017 “Montana Climate Assessment” report.
What the assessment revealed is that the climate is continuing to get a little warmer and a little wetter.
That may not sound like a big change, but consider this: 2016 was 99.4 percent warmer than any time in the past 11,000 years — that’s way back when the last ice age ended. “Since the Industrial Revolution, global climate has changed faster than at any other time in Earth’s history,” the report noted.
“So we’re in uncharted territory here,” Whitlock said.
Skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers take note: If the trend continues, Whitlock said Montana could see a 20 to 60 percent decrease in snowpack. Temperatures would be warmer year-round, meaning less snow and more rain.
Last year, the president announced the United States would withdraw from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement in which 195 nations agreed to limit emissions that cause climate change. In October, Trump prevented government scientists from even presenting their climate-change research at a Rhode Island conference.
“I really am worried about us going into the future,” Whitlock said. “We need a serious conversation that elevates climate change as a topic. It’s going to factor in to every decision we make.”
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If it gets warmer maybe Montana would become more livable than 3-4 months a year.
Pizza won’t taste as good either... and popcorn will be soggy. These people never give up on the BS...
What does that even mean?
That Montana's typical average annual temperature of 280°K jumped to 558°K in 2016?
Somehow I missed that story.
Flathead math checker needed for the FlatheadBeacon.
Bad pizza is still pizza
It’ll be good for recreation!
More boating, fishing, water skiing and jet skiing!................
Next to the last paragraph....blame TRUMP.
Around the mid-1980s our nephews visited and one about 5 yrs old said something while playing on the floor with empty pop (you say “soda”) 2 liter bottles.
I asked his dad “I can’t understand what he said.”
” He said he’s going to use these but save one for the Earth. They’re teaching them in school to prevent global warming by recycling plastic.” Imagine how much propaganda they absorbed by the years they became leaders and educators themselves. Scary.
““I really am worried about us going into the future,” Whitlock said. “
Get bleeding ulcers worrying about it, bitch.
Fixed
Longmire will now have to put his home on stilts!
Professor Warns of Climate Change’s Effects on Recreation
Less skiing and more roller skating and picnicking and swimming and fishing.
So is she saying the climate in Montana has been the same since the Dinos roamed and we are now EFFING it up?-)
Oranges in Russia! Forest in the Sahara.
The possibilities are endless. :)
"...2016 was 99.4% warmer than any time in the past 11,000 years..."
2016 was 99.4 percent warmer than any time in the past 11,000 years — that’s way back when the last ice age ended.
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The ice age didn’t end. We are in an interglacial period, which just happens to be cooler than the last interglacial period, which was long before Al Gore got his fleet of SUV’s.
More PHD BULL SHIT.
“It is comical how the leftwingers fabricate these ridiculous climate/weather numbers.”
Piled Higher and Deeper ...
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