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UN: Warmer world in 2020 busted weather records, hurt people
ABC News / Disney ^ | December 2, 2020 | By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS

Posted on 12/02/2020 5:36:04 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

An overheating world obliterated weather records in 2020, creating an extreme year for hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, floods, droughts and ice melt, the United Nations’ weather agency reported Wednesday.

While the globe partly shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, extremes linked to human-caused climate change intensified, the World Meteorological Organization said in its State of the Global Climate report. The report kicked off a day when the United Nations pushed for new climate action with two reports and a major speech by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres describing the woeful state of the planet.

The U.N. is ramping up its efforts for a Dec. 12 climate summit in France on the 5th anniversary of the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

The WMO report found that worsening global warming is being seen in all seven key climate indicators, but it said the problem is more than measurements and is increasing human suffering in an already bad year.

This year is set to be about 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the last half of the 1800s, which scientists use as a baseline for warming caused by heat-trapping gases from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.

“There is at least a 1-in-5 chance of it temporarily exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2024,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said in a statement.

“2020 was a shocking year, not only because of COVID, but also because of the impacts from extreme events we saw,” said Cornell University climate scientist Natalie Mahowald, who wasn’t part of the WMO report.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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1 posted on 12/02/2020 5:36:04 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

wah, wah, owie! Oooh and aahh...lies and more lies


2 posted on 12/02/2020 5:38:23 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Stand Back Quitter Caucus. Go Sit Down. NO SURRENDER! )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Disney and the rest of the Fake Media better watch want they say. Project Veritas could be setting them up next! :)


3 posted on 12/02/2020 5:40:08 AM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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To: CincyRichieRich

Well then, can someone explain to me why in the winter that ended in March I was able to get in a decent amount of skating on the Rideau Canal as well as snowshoeing up in nearby Gatineau Park? According to Al Gore about some ten or fifteen years ago, I would only be able to dream of doing such things.


4 posted on 12/02/2020 5:41:32 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ah, the UN, your trusted source on everything except perhaps for health.
For that, we have the WHO.

Between both, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Be cautious.

Hmmmm, I believe I’ve heard something like that somewhere before. But this time, it’s really true.


5 posted on 12/02/2020 5:44:29 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
creating an extreme year for hurricanes

A lie. ACE is 430.8 (normally 542.6) See http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/ "global warming" is "global" and hurricane activity is down since the 1990s.

6 posted on 12/02/2020 5:45:39 AM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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7 posted on 12/02/2020 5:47:33 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

John Kerry & crooks hears your pain UN:

DC White trash ‘elites’ are ready for UN butt-kissers... Buy 50,000 books OR 10 ‘speeches’ and you’re two bit totalitarian hellhole can receive a billion taxpayer dollars for ‘food for your poor’...


8 posted on 12/02/2020 5:52:33 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats + thier butt boys in the press don't care if Biden 'wins' by cheating. Tonya Harding style)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

John Kerry & crooks hears your pain UN:

DC White trash ‘elites’ are ready for UN butt-kissers... Buy 50,000 books OR 10 ‘speeches’ and you’re two bit totalitarian hellhole can receive a billion taxpayer dollars for ‘food for your poor’...

SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS are fools for the picking...


9 posted on 12/02/2020 5:53:29 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats + thier butt boys in the press don't care if Biden 'wins' by cheating. Tonya Harding style)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is geological evidence that earth’s climate has been all over the place, even before people.

Climate change is about control and cash.


10 posted on 12/02/2020 5:55:17 AM PST by lizma2
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To: GOPJ

John Kerry was declared Climate czar to provide him an office where he can clandestinely operate to restore the peace mongering with Iran. He must have a base of operations to deal with the European American enemies intent on appeasing Iran


11 posted on 12/02/2020 5:57:26 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) t Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay My, o. h, my, what a wonderful day)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Blah, blah, blah—there is frost on the ground in Central Florida out my window even as I type this. This “Globull warming” stuff is to get people to kowtow and do their bidding. For example: the “stop using paper” movement.

Paper is a renewable source, it’s extremely eco-friendly. Yet ecology crybabies would have you believe that we’re cutting down rainforests to make paper. That’s entirely untrue. You need a homogeneous source of trees for paper mills—not random bushes and shrubs, yet we are constantly told to “stop using paper”. That’s because you have a record of what you signed or get rid of books made of paper. Like they did with fur coats.

Whatever their controlling agenda is, it’s their goal to get people to comply with it. Much like “wear a mask and don’t go out because of Wu-Flu” because they need people to be afraid and mail in those ballots so they can steal elections.


12 posted on 12/02/2020 5:59:42 AM PST by Southern Magnolia
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t know about the rest of y’all, but for me, I’m comforted knowing that skipper john f’n kohn-heinz-kerry (who served in VN in case you forgot) may be “Reporting for duty!” as kuhlimate kuhzar to put an end to CLIMAGEDDON!. Pretty sure he has patronizing answers to the following:

1. Define the “correct” temperature range for the planet.

2. Define the “correct” humidity range for the planet.

3. Define the “correct” mean sea level for the planet.

4. Define the “correct” amount of precipitation for the planet.

5. Define the “correct” makeup of the atmosphere.

6. Define the “correct” amount of sea ice at the N/S poles.

7. Define/explain past glaciation and subsequent warming without any input from humans.

Regardless, it appears that folks like him and the obxxx family have special protections against “the most series problem facing mankind!” They can build/buy at the beach with no fear so.................................


13 posted on 12/02/2020 6:16:35 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It doesn’t matter what you think, or witnessed, the experts will tell you what happened. Now put on your mask and shutup.


14 posted on 12/02/2020 6:18:51 AM PST by robel
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It was so hot people stayed home instead of going to work.


15 posted on 12/02/2020 6:22:27 AM PST by dgbrown
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To: bert
Much bigger kickback potential from Iran's Mullahs than from UN thugs... Line up = Washington is BACK in business: minimum 10,000 book buys in this line... 'Speeches' for $10,000 a minute in this line...
16 posted on 12/02/2020 6:28:57 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats: Tonya Harding Biden - BLM lowlifes, Antifa thugs, and white trash with money.)
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To: lizma2
Following the sea temperature anomaly which tracts the temp of the entire world oceans and pits the current temp against a norm of 30 years from 1981 to 2010, the temps as measured by satellites is .015C above the 30 year average.
What is significant is the temps are .015C lower than they were six months ago or put another way, they have fallen by that amount in six months. The current trajectory is DOWN.

So, extrapolating a tad, lets suppose they continue at that rate? Are we looking at a cooler planet. The seas contain a huge amount of thermal energy. Is the lack of sun spots to blame?? Who knows but since these dopes like Kerry and the climate charlatans cannot explain what is a normal temperature for the planet, I care to not pay them much mind. I found these stats on the site named tropical tidbits which site plots these numbers as they are updated daily.

17 posted on 12/02/2020 6:48:01 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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To: Southern Magnolia

Yes...everything you said!!


18 posted on 12/02/2020 8:01:48 AM PST by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My, purely anecdotal, observations were that the summer of 2020 was one of the most mild and tolerable summer’s I’ve experienced in my 50+ years.

I picked up cycling to lose weight and get healthy and rode almost every morning. Humidity was high (As always in Arkansas) but the temperatures rarely strayed into the 90’s and when they did, they didn’t stay there long.

Other than the Covid nonsense, it was a great summer.


19 posted on 12/02/2020 8:21:28 AM PST by Outlaw76 (Free Men don't ask permission.)
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To: palmer

I swear I’ve heard “We will have more and more powerful Hurricanes” every year since Gore’s idiotic movie came out. This year we had more. For the last 14 years it’s been pretty quiet and when we do have one it’s not all that powerful.
Have they every gone back and said ‘Sorry ‘bout that, we were wrong.’ Nope.


20 posted on 12/02/2020 8:24:04 AM PST by Outlaw76 (Free Men don't ask permission.)
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