“Five takeaways from the new report:
1. On the extreme weather front, the report concludes it is “very likely” that cold days and nights have decreased, while warm days and nights have increased, since 1950. More extreme precipitation has also likely increased worldwide, particularly in North America and Europe. That means that the top one percent of heaviest rain or snow storms are heavier now, as compared to then. In other words, when it rains hardest, it pours harder.
2. The oceans have warmed with “virtual certainty,” the report concludes, at a rate of about 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit (0.11 Celsius) per decade since 1970 in the upper 246 feet (75 meters) of surface water. Ocean warming accounts for more than 90 percent of the heat added to the atmosphere by global warming in that time, with most of it pumped into the top 2,300 feet (700 meters) of the oceans. “That doesn’t mean the oceans are saving us,” Stocker says. “It means it would be much worse without the oceans.”
All the excess carbon dioxide emitted by burning fossil fuels in that time has “very likely” also increased acidification of the ocean—which threatens corals, shelled sea creatures, and the oceanic food web—by 26% since the beginning of the industrial era. That means a pH drop of 0.1 delivered to the global oceans by humanity.
3. What about those polar bears? Sea ice (as well as glaciers and ice sheets) has declined overall since 1970. The loss of sea ice very likely accelerated since 1993. Only in Antarctica is sea ice cover growing, something predicted by climate change forecasts. In the Arctic, the average sea ice extent decreased around 3.5 to 4.1 percent per decade from 1979 to 2012. Similarly, permafrost temperatures have increased across most regions, although the amount varies, since the 1980s.
4. Sea level rise has happened, and will happen in the future, as a result of global warming, the report finds. On average, sea level has risen 7.5 inches (0.19 meters) since 1901, and will rise higher with “virtual certainty” in this century. Barring a collapse of Antarctic ice sheets, sea level rise is not likely to exceed 3.22 feet (0.98 meters) by 2100, the report says. (Read “Rising Seas” from the September issue of National Geographic magazine.)
5. More than half of the global warming observed since 1950 has a human cause, largely from the greenhouse gas effects of gases such as carbon dioxide emitted from burning fossil fuels. All of the effects seen in the report look “virtually certain” to continue in the future as long as emissions continue.
In so many words, it’s highly likely, or virtually certain, that we in the first world are going to experience either more or less heavy or light rainfall.
And it will at times be either quite hot or very cold, but the climate will probably become warmer or cooler if we try to stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer or continue to burn dead fossils.
Consequently, we should freeze in the dark or just kill ourselves; this, my friends, is the Artist formerly known as Global Warming.
And this is all they’ve got.
When trying to track temperatures in many areas, meteorologists are faced with UHI or urban heat islands. Large areas of pavement where it once had been open land. These get hotter in the sun than open land. Does it mean the whole world is getting hotter? No. We could not know whether it is from such temperature readings.
Just imagine for a second this is all true (it isn’t) and we are looking at severe storms and lots of people dying and losing a third of the population - wouldn’t that lower Greenhouse gases and fossil fuel usage - wouldn’t that be Mother Gaia fighting back and creating balance and harmony once again. What the elites don’t like is the randomness of this evolution - it might just kill one of them or their loved ones. They would rather put an impost on the average person who they then hope won’t be able to afford to have kids. Is it any wonder the lefties love China’s one child policy and abortion!