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Human-induced climate change makes heatwaves 30 times more likely
CNN ^ | December 6, 2018 | By Matthew Robinson

Posted on 12/06/2018 9:16:15 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Human-induced climate change has made the United Kingdom's record-breaking 2018 summer heatwave around 30 times more likely than under normal conditions, the country's meteorological body has said.

The UK as a whole endured its joint hottest summer on record in 2018, and the hottest ever for England.

"Our provisional study compared computer models based on today's climate with those of the natural climate we would have had without human-induced emissions," said Professor Peter Snott from the Met Office and Exeter University.

Snott noted that the "rapidly increasing changes" stem from an increase in the concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere.

Kathryn Brown, the head of adaptation in the UK's Committee on Climate Change, which advises the government, told CNN that the report reinforces that the government must redouble its efforts to address the impacts of high temperatures and lack of rain.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 300percent; globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fraud and extortion. They are threatening us with climate doom if we don’t give them huge amounts of money. These people belong in prison, or at the end of a rope.


21 posted on 12/06/2018 9:56:36 AM PST by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 2)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Often it seems that the whole thing is big joke they’re all in on. I was reading an article in the Wall Street Journal recently in which the author was discussing how free market policies can be “pro-climate.” What does that even MEAN?

What would you do if you’re “anti-climate”? Open your windows in the winter while running the furnace full blast? Collect rain in a bucket and then toss it back into the air ... “Fly! Be free!”?


22 posted on 12/06/2018 9:57:20 AM PST by Tax-chick (Ask me about my Marine!)
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To: VietVet876

It’s probably all those old dripping Limey bikes still in circulation.


23 posted on 12/06/2018 9:58:07 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: thoughtomator
They are threatening us with climate doom if we don’t give them huge amounts of money.

The threat only works if you're frightened by the prospect of "climate doom." Personally, I'm fine with it. I hate the climate.

Lots of other people aren't falling for it, either ... see France, riots and burning ... but that may not prevent their taking the huge amounts of money.

24 posted on 12/06/2018 9:59:57 AM PST by Tax-chick (Ask me about my Marine!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Meanwhile, in Greenland the ice sheet is expanding.

“As noted in the previous post, exceptional winter snow accumulation and heavy, summer snowfall, drove the net snow input mass to 130 billion tons above the 1981 to 2010 average. This was followed by a near-average melt and runoff period, resulting in a large net mass gain for the ice sheet in 2018 of 150 billion tons. This is the largest net gain from snowfall since 1996, and the highest snowfall since 1972.” https://nsidc.org/greenland-today/

The oceans will recede if this continues.


25 posted on 12/06/2018 10:01:50 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Tax-chick

> The threat only works if you’re frightened by the prospect of “climate doom.”

It also works if you’re frightened by the prospect of being targeted, harassed, persecuted, or otherwise maliciously attacked, or alternatively losing out on opportunities, for being identified as a nonbeliever. That’s how this extortion racket is enforced in real-world terms.


26 posted on 12/06/2018 10:02:54 AM PST by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 2)
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To: thoughtomator
the prospect of being targeted, harassed, persecuted, or otherwise maliciously attacked, etc.

That's a different threat.

27 posted on 12/06/2018 10:04:30 AM PST by Tax-chick (Ask me about my Marine!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

By “bikes” do you mean Enfield, Norton, BSA, Triumph, Matchless? The ones with real soul that will actually run with the Nigel The Factory Tech option?


28 posted on 12/06/2018 10:05:31 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: ClearCase_guy
Actually 29.7 times more likely.

So they were like, WAY off! And people wonder why nobody likes scientists...

29 posted on 12/06/2018 10:05:50 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: rjsimmon

This is how we fix climate change. Tell every country who is dealing with self made pollution to clean up its act. It has one year to develop a plan that will take five years to complete. If the country doesn’t comply and complete pollution mitigation within those five years, they will be denied access to markets.


30 posted on 12/06/2018 10:08:06 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("We The People" has turned into "You, The Subjects.")
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To: VietVet876

“Hope his daughter does not end up marrying...”

Oh yeah, like WHO is going to marry a woman named Snott?


31 posted on 12/06/2018 10:08:28 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (You may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you...)
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To: Tax-chick

> That’s a different threat.

They act on this threat day in, day out.

That’s why this is an actual extortion racket and the perpetrators belong in jail.


32 posted on 12/06/2018 10:09:31 AM PST by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 2)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

How you end climate change: Ban the use of private jets.

Our elite betters will give up the gig in a heartbeat and have to come up with a new scam.


33 posted on 12/06/2018 10:10:49 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (You may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you...)
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To: thoughtomator

Good points.


34 posted on 12/06/2018 10:11:17 AM PST by Tax-chick (Ask me about my Marine!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a pile of Obama droppings


35 posted on 12/06/2018 10:11:32 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Our provisional study compared computer models based on today's climate..."

I like this computer model, personally...

And this one...


36 posted on 12/06/2018 10:13:35 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It makes cold weather more likely too!

And halitosis!


37 posted on 12/06/2018 10:15:41 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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To: VietVet876

Yes sir !
Limey fan here.

BSA ? check.
Norton ? check.
A-H 3000 ? check.
4 Jaguars ? check


38 posted on 12/06/2018 10:16:20 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What is really a big disconnect though is that all the doom & gloom has been around predicting a 2C degree increase over the next 80 years and the need to stop it from happening.

Two degrees.

How on earth does that map to insane claims of “heat waves of today being due to warming”? Even if I buy that temperatures will only increase, which I don’t but, there’s no way it would be PERCEIVABLE TODAY.

I was in Europe a few weeks back and they were all taking about how they’re “witnessing global warming” due to it being warmer than usual. SMH - even with the claims being made you wouldn’t be able to FEEL IT NOW. Then on the last day of the trip the temperature PLUNGED...aaaaaand back to normal.

Funny when you point out it is unusually cold you get the response, “it’s just weather, not climate”. When you get an unusually warm moment it’s back to “climate change”.

This is all nonsense. CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere, we only impact a margin of this and I’m supposed to believe that the earth is so fragile that tiny changes in this trace gas will cause death and destruction? ...when the earth has been warmer and had higher CO2 levels in the past? SMH - that’s just idiocy!!


39 posted on 12/06/2018 10:16:59 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Jewbacca

And minorities. Don’t forget them. And women too. Women and minorities are always hardest hit by everything.


40 posted on 12/06/2018 10:23:37 AM PST by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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