2015 on track to be Earth's warmest year since the 600s
Source: USA Today
Fueled by a combination of man-made global warming and the natural El Niño climate cycle, 2015 remains on pace to be the warmest year since records began in 1880, federal scientists announced Wednesday, smashing a record set just last year.
But going back even farther, before instrumental records, 2015 will almost certainly be the Earth's warmest year since the 600s that's before the Crusades, the fall of the Mayan Civilization and the Viking invasions of Europe.
Current temperatures are unprecedented for at least 1,400 years, according to the most recent United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which met last year. Climate scientists can tell that by analyzing ice cores, lake sediments and tree rings to determine the air and sea temperatures of past centuries and millennia.
The warmth back in the 600s was at the tail end of a natural warming cycle that had begun after the most recent ice age. . .
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/10/21/2015-earths-warmest-year-climate-change/74324378/
We continue to ignore this at our peril. But that eminent scientist, Rush, says it's all a hoax - so What, Me Worry?
http://twitter.com/NOAA/status/656850066586644480/photo/1
forest444
(5,902 posts)given that most Republicans are on track to becoming the most medieval since the 600s.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)grandkids will be able to grow food on a too hot planet.
You can't breed your way to a better future. You have to fix the adults first.
HoosierCowboy
(561 posts)Create a Climate Change Denier Registry. When there's no more food because of AGW, they'll be eaten first, along with their offspring.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)led to our demise.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)That's the number Dr. James Powell identified, counting climate scientists who authored or co-authored 24,000 peer-reviewed papers on climate change. He found 5 peer-reviewed papers that rejected man-made climate change, with only 4 authors.
The only logical conclusion we can reach is that Al Gore has found a way to corrupt 99.996% of all climate scientists, recruiting over 69,000 of them to support his hoax. No other explanation can possibly exist . . . or could it?
progressoid
(49,991 posts)That's what the AM radio and facebook keep telling me!1!!
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)I dont have a 10000 sq foot house to heat and maintain.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)therefore what?
does that invalidate climate change science? or gore's advocacy?
chernabog
(480 posts)EEO
(1,620 posts)Climate Change Reframed for GOP: "Oceans Invading U.S."
http://www.theniladmirari.com/2015/10/climate-change-reframed-for-gop-as-oceans-invading-united-states.html
Myrina
(12,296 posts)... question is, how far out of balance is everything going to get before the NEXT ice age starts up to cleanse the planet, and is there anything we can actually do at this point - or are we officially over the edge?
frizzled
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NickB79
(19,253 posts)Through natural processes.
And because of the knock-on effects of carbon in the atmosphere, the planet will keep warming for many hundreds of years to come just based on the current atmospheric carbon load, so ultimately we could see warming of 8-10C as the permafrost thaws and methane vents out.
frizzled
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V0ltairesGh0st
(306 posts)I look at these pictures with absolute despair for California. Stop Drinking Bottled water people....it only exacerbates the problems where they bottle it.
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