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Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
Sun Dec 25, 2016, 08:54 PM Dec 2016

Arctic temperatures soar to 30 C above normal

Source: CBC

The Arctic continues to run a fever.

On Thursday, the temperature there was almost 30 C warmer than average, and it continued into Friday morning. Ocean buoys recorded temperatures near the North Pole of 0 C or warmer. That's right: It's warmer in the Arctic than it is in Thunder Bay, Ont.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/arctic-temperatures-warmth-1.3910765



Not exactly breaking news of course. Just more of the same worrying trend.
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Arctic temperatures soar to 30 C above normal (Original Post) Locut0s Dec 2016 OP
...but...but.. tRump says it's all a hoax!! Jack-o-Lantern Dec 2016 #1
Unfortunately... I think we are about to crash through several elbows jimlup Dec 2016 #2
We're done geomon666 Dec 2016 #3
When it starts costing Trumpster because of climate... pbmus Dec 2016 #4
Bizzarro World jpak Dec 2016 #5
Yep, all the cold air escaped south elmac Dec 2016 #6
Indeed it's an insanely complicated chaotic system of feedback loops... Locut0s Dec 2016 #7
Will we ever learn to respect the earth? efhmc Dec 2016 #8
Pretty soon the GOP will be breaking out beach chairs... Historic NY Dec 2016 #9

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
2. Unfortunately... I think we are about to crash through several elbows
Sun Dec 25, 2016, 10:36 PM
Dec 2016

the curves all show elbows from our perspective of the last 10 years or so. The Republican ignorance of climate change is about to get a lot more willful not that it isn't already.

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
6. Yep, all the cold air escaped south
Mon Dec 26, 2016, 01:22 AM
Dec 2016

and put parts of the lower 48 in a deep freeze. Will only get worse as climate change is just too complicated for wingnuts.

Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
7. Indeed it's an insanely complicated chaotic system of feedback loops...
Mon Dec 26, 2016, 02:23 AM
Dec 2016

Climate scientists very smartly stopped using the term "global warming" a while back in favour of climate change because people too slow on the uptake actually wanted to use the argument that "it's snowing outside" the climate can't be warming etc. When indeed all along the models have shown as much as anything extreme unpredictability and the destabilization of regular climate patterns. Climate change deniers, wingnuts like to make the claim that the systems are just too complicated for us to understand and therefore there's no way to predict that we could be having an effect. The climate has "always" changed and other moronic arguments. Never mind the fact that the science of what we are actually doing to change the climate is actually exceedingly simple even if the outcome is not. We are increasing CO2 levels to those not seen for millions of years, full stop. That's GOING to have an effect. Sure the specifics of that effect are hard to predict exactly, but it isn't going to be good. The wing nuts arguments are kind of like saying there can't possibly be any effect of giving a speeding car an extremely sharp nudge because the physics of exactly where the car is going to end up is just too complicated, therefore there's no way said violent shove could possibly have a bad outcome. Umm no.

efhmc

(14,709 posts)
8. Will we ever learn to respect the earth?
Mon Dec 26, 2016, 03:37 AM
Dec 2016

It has to be an individual commitment. We can not rely on the government, especially now.

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