Global warming in action....right before our eyes

[Wyatt earp]

Don't let facts get in the way of a good fear mongering.....eh?

Your denier cult motto is "Don't let facts get in the way of being a good rightwingnut reality-denying nutjob".

What does that have to do with the fact we have had forrest fires, drought and all the rest in the past? Queen chicken little of the AGW cult......

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[Pumpkin Row]

I did just open my post with the fact that they're modifying the received temperatures, and that whether or not you trust them is up to you.

Yes, by making the past look warmer, and thus making the current warming look smaller. That simple fact destroys the basis of the denier cult's primary conspiracy theory, so they simply lie big and often by pretending the exact opposite of reality is true.

You're getting talking points from WUWT. Understand that WUWT is a pack of kooks, fraudsters, authoritarian thugs and paid shills, always raving about the VastSecretGlobalSocialistPlot. Whether you trust them is up to you. Just ask yourself this. What's more likely?

A. A vast secret global conspiracy composed of millions of people exists, and only a tiny handful of far right-wing political extremists understands the RealTruth.

B. Deniers have it wrong.

Oh, I thought you were describing the government in your post, for a second there. Since they're fraudsters, authoritarian thugs, and paid shills. It's more likely that it's a global conspiracy because every government can benefit from this, since the gullible people will demand something be done about it, allowing government power to expand, and the scientists make money off of this through grants.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

AGWCult is nothing more than fudged data and grabbing the top weather story and labeling it "Global Climate Warming Change" or whatever they call to today

They can't even have a consistent name for their fake "science"

 

[Wyatt earp]

A follow-up to the OP.

Cleanup Begins After Nearly 1 in 1,000 Year Flood Event Kills 23, Leaves Thousands Homeless in West Virginia
The Weather Channel - weather.com
By Eric Chaney and Sean Breslin
Jun 28 2016
(excerpts)
More heavy rainfall arrived in soggy West Virginia on Monday, bringing additional precipitation and flooding to a region that's dealing with tragedy and a prolonged cleanup. The widespread flooding killed 23, left thousands homeless and prompted Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to declare a federal disaster. According to the National Weather Service, "extremely rare amounts of rainfall" swamped entire areas of the state, washing out roadways, flooding and destroying structures and cutting off power to thousands. "Return period data suggest this would be nearly a 1 in a thousand year event," the NWS said in a statement.

Thousands of homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed when up to 9 inches of rain fell in a short span, causing perhaps the worst flooding West Virginia has seen. President Barack Obama signed a major disaster declaration Saturday, allowing federal money to be used to help individuals with emergency medical support, housing and a number of other immediate needs. Some relief workers who have provided aid during other natural disasters say this event is as bad as anything they've ever seen. "It parallels Katrina," Cindy Chamberlain, who oversees a donation center in Rainelle, told the Associated Press. "It is that bad."

(MORE: At Least 235 People Have Been Killed By Flooding in the U.S. in Nearly 18 Months)

We can expect to see a lot more extreme weather events similar to this throughout the Summer and Fall.....just in time for the election, when the American people are going to KNOW that the Repukingcon global warming/climate change deniers are insane stooges for the fossil fuel industry (who are still making huge profits selling the stuff that is causing the warming and these destructive events).

The Republicon Party Is in its death throes. The T'Rump is just a symptom of their insanity and corruption.

Same old song and dance.



According to the IPCC, temperatures were cold in 1871, sea level was much lower, and the climate was much more stable.

The animated gif below compares 1871 sea level in La Jolla, California vs. a recent high tide picture. There has been no change.

https://www.sandiegohistory.org/timeline/images/80-2860.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/090207-LaJollaCove.jpg


America’s largest and deadliest forest fire occurred this weekend in 1871, after weeks of intense heat, drought and wind.




15 Oct 1904 – Historic Forest Fires.


Chicago burned this weekend in 1871.


http://query.nytimes.com/


http://news.google.com/
Massive fires occurred in Minnesota in 1871


http://query.nytimes.com/
Florida was hit by two hurricanes within two weeks in August, 1871 – including a major hurricane. It has now been eight years since Florida was hit by any hurricane, and since the US was hit by a major hurricane.
In 1871, the New York Times was worried about climate change, just like they are now. Nothing has changed – intellectuals are just as stupid and misinformed as they always were.

 

[mamooth]

Oh, I thought you were describing the government in your post, for a second there. Since they're fraudsters, authoritarian thugs, and paid shills. It's more likely that it's a global conspiracy because every government can benefit from this, since the gullible people will demand something be done about it, allowing government power to expand, and the scientists make money off of this through grants.

Since you're so proudly embracing a bizarre conspiracy theory which is contradicted by all the evidence, there's no point in treating you like a rational human being. Like the other hardcore denier conspiracy cultists, you're in the same category as flat earthers, chemtrail believers, antivaxxers, 9/11 truthers and JFK assassination conspiracy theorists.

 

[mamooth]

The animated gif below compares 1871 sea level in La Jolla, California vs. a recent high tide picture. There has been no change.

This is the kind of stupid we're up against. Some deniers are so 'effin dumb, they don't understand that pictures comparing two different unknown tide stages are totally meaningless.

 

[RollingThunder]

Back in 2004, leftards were saying that hurricanes would keep getting more powerful...

And, in the real world (not Denierstan) they have, DumbSchmuck. Too bad you are so severely retarded and such a crazy crackpot.

Storms are Getting Stronger
NASA Earth Observatory
(Government Publication - Free To Reproduce - No Copyright Restrictions)
What exactly does it mean for storms to get “stronger”? Does it mean faster winds? A larger wind field? Lower pressure at the center? More rain and snowfall? Higher storm surges?

“You have to remember that storms aren’t one-dimensional,” says Del Genio. “There are many types of storms, and sorting out how aspects of each type respond to warming is where the science really gets interesting.”

As Sandy was moving up the U.S. East Coast, unusually warm ocean temperatures allowed the storm to stay strong after it left tropical waters. (Map by Robert Simmon, using data from the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory.)

Rising sea levels exacerbated Sandy’s storm surge, for example, a direct link between global warming and storm damage. And abnormally high sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic probably intensified the storm. But pinning all of Sandy’s fury—its hybrid nature, the scale of its winds, its unusual track—on global warming is premature, says Shepherd, the current president of the American Meteorological Society.

Weather forecasters use terms like snowstorms, derechos, hailstorms, rainstorms, blizzards, low-pressure systems, lightning storms, hurricanes, typhoons, nor‘easters, and twisters. Research meteorologists and climatologists have a simpler way of dividing up the world’s storms: thunderstorms, tropical cyclones, and extra-tropical cyclones. All are atmospheric disturbances that redistribute heat and produce some combination of clouds, precipitation, and wind.

Tropical cyclones, extra-tropical cyclones, and thunderstorms are the three fundamental types of storms studied by the climate change community. (Image ©2013 EUMETSAT.)

Thunderstorms are the smallest type, and they are often part of the larger storm systems (tropical and extra-tropical cyclones). All storms require moisture, energy, and certain wind conditions to develop, but the combination of ingredients varies depending on the type of storm and local meteorological conditions.

For example, thunderstorms form when a trigger—a cold front, converging near-surface winds, or rugged topography—destabilizes a mass of warm, humid air and causes it to rise. The air expands and cools as it ascends, increasing the humidity until the water vapor condenses into liquid droplets or ice crystals in precipitation-making clouds. The process of converting water vapor into liquid water or ice releases latent heat into the atmosphere. (If this doesn’t make sense, remember that the reverse—turning liquid water into water vapor by boiling it—requires heat).

Storms feed off of latent heat, which is why scientists think global warming is strengthening storms. Extra heat in the atmosphere or ocean nourishes storms; the more heat energy that goes in, the more vigorously a weather system can churn.

Thunderstorms derive their energy from the heat released by the condensation of water vapor. This “latent heat” energy drives thunderstorm clouds high into the atmosphere. Thunderstorms dissipate when the cold downdraft created by falling rain drops stifles rising warm air. (Image adapted from NOAA National Weather Service Life Cycle of a Thunderstorm.)

Already, there is evidence that the winds of some storms may be changing. A study based on more than two decades of satellite altimeter data (measuring sea surface height) showed that hurricanes intensify significantly faster now than they did 25 years ago. Specifically, researchers found that storms attain Category 3 wind speeds nearly nine hours faster than they did in the 1980s. Another satellite-based study found that global wind speeds had increased by an average of 5 percent over the past two decades.

There is also evidence that extra water vapor in the atmosphere is making storms wetter. During the past 25 years, satellites have measured a 4 percent rise in water vapor in the air column. In ground-based records, about 76 percent of weather stations in the United States have seen increases in extreme precipitation since 1948. One analysis found that extreme downpours are happening 30 percent more often. Another study found that the largest storms now produce 10 percent more precipitation.

Increases in global temperature have raised atmospheric humidity. (Graph by Robert Simmon, based on data from the NOAA National Climatic Data Center.)

William Lau, a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, concluded in a 2012 paper that rainfall totals from tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic have risen at a rate of 24 percent per decade since 1988. The increase in precipitation doesn’t just apply to rain. NOAA scientists have examined 120 years of data and found that there were twice as many extreme regional snowstorms between 1961 and 2010 as there were from 1900 to 1960.

But measuring a storm’s maximum size, heaviest rains, or top winds does not capture the full scope of its power. Kerry Emanuel, a hurricane expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, developed a method to measure the total energy expended by tropical cyclones over their lifetimes. In 2005, he showed that Atlantic hurricanes are about 60 percent more powerful than they were in the 1970s. Storms lasted longer and their top wind speeds had increased by 25 percent. (Subsequent research has shown that the intensification may be related to differences between the temperature of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.)

 

[RollingThunder]

Don't let facts get in the way of a good fear mongering.....eh?

Your denier cult motto is "Don't let facts get in the way of being a good rightwingnut reality-denying nutjob".

What does that have to do with the fact we have had forrest fires, drought and all the rest in the past?

What does "the fact that we have had forrest fires, drought and all the rest in the past" have to do with the scientific fact that global warming is increasing the numbers and intensity of such events, dumbshit?

Climate change is making floods, fires and droughts more frequent and severe.
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More frequent and severe weather
NRDC
(excerpts)
Higher temperatures are worsening many types of disasters, including storms, heat waves, floods, and droughts. A warmer climate creates an atmosphere that can collect, retain, and drop more water, changing weather patterns in such a way that wet areas become wetter and dry areas drier. "Extreme weather events are costing more and more," says Aliya Haq, deputy director of NRDC's Clean Power Plan initiative. "The number of billion-dollar weather disasters is expected to rise." According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in 2015 there were 10 weather and climate disaster events in the United States—including severe storms, floods, drought, and wildfires—that each caused at least $1 billion in losses. For context, each year from 1980 to 2015 averaged $5.2 billion in disasters (adjusted for inflation). If you zero in on the years between 2011 and 2015, you see an annual average cost of $10.8 billion.

The increasing number of droughts, intense storms, and floods we're seeing as our warming atmosphere holds—and then dumps—more moisture poses risks to public health and safety, too. Prolonged dry spells mean more than just scorched lawns. Drought conditions jeopardize access to clean drinking water, fuel out-of-control wildfires, and result in dust storms, extreme heat events, and flash flooding in the States. Elsewhere around the world, lack of water is a leading cause of death and serious disease. At the opposite end of the spectrum, heavier rains cause streams, rivers, and lakes to overflow, which damages life and property, contaminates drinking water, creates hazardous-material spills, and promotes mold infestation and unhealthy air. A warmer, wetter world is also a boon for food-borne and waterborne illnesses and disease-carrying insects such as mosquitoes, fleas, and ticks.

 

[LaDexter]

"Storms are getting stronger" over the "record warm oceans..."

This below is 8 months old...

LMFAO!!!

NOAA: Hurricane Drought Hits Record 118 Months

As of today, it has been a record 118 months since the last major hurricane struck the continental United States, according to records kept by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Hurricane Research Division, which list all hurricanes to strike the U.S. mainland going back to 1851


So, in conclusion, storms are getting stronger, except they aren't, because the oceans are warming, except they aren't, which is why we are having A NEW ALL TIME RECORD LOW STAT ON 'CANES RIGHT NOW...

 

[mamooth]

And LaDexter again shows the kind of stupid we're up against, being he's a guy who thinks the continental USA is the whole planet.

 

[RollingThunder]

There is no doubt that the globe is warming. It is unlikely that we will ever know why however.

Idiotic anti-science ignorance spewed by someone too stupid to realize how ignorant they are.

 

[LaDexter]

And LaDexter again shows the kind of stupid we're up against, being he's a guy who thinks the continental USA is the whole planet.

We have satellite records since the 1970s, a historic low in Atlantic 'canes.

We have 180 years of data from land, apples to apples, and we are at AN ALL TIME LOW on that series...

Like other forms of CHERRY PICKING by the FRAUD, only the data showing growing 'canes matters, and the rest is just subjected to "corrections" (FUDGING).

The data has spoken - we are at a 180 year LOW in Atlantic 'canes, when our Tippy Toppiest "top climate scientists" are telling us the oceans and the atmosphere are "warming." Bullshit. Like the Marshall islands, the Tippys lie, fudge, and cherry pick, and hope you don't notice..

 

[mamooth]

Again, dumbass, whole world.

Even for you, you're being remarkably stupid and dishonest.

 

[LaDexter]

Idiotic anti-science ignorance spewed by someone too stupid to realize how ignorant they are.

Parroting is idiotic. Failing to answer questions is COWARDLY. You are 100% proof of both...

 

[LaDexter]

Again, dumbass, whole world.

Even for you, you're being remarkably stupid and dishonest.

Why does one Earth polar circle have 9 times the ice of the other, and what does CO2 have to do with that??


LOL!!!!

 

[RollingThunder]

And the retard chorus spews more deranged nonsense in the face of the evidence that they are deluded, confused, anti-science, crackpot cultists.

Again, if you cultists were as rational and grounded in reality as the Heavens Gate or Jonestown cults, we might be able to communicate with you. Alas, you have utterly no grasp on reality and spend your days in Gaia filled fairy tales. Note the drooling retard who posted the OP. This insane cultist post that his goddess is working "right before our eyes." But does the snivling little moron offer this amazing proof that his religion IZ TWO the real faith? Fuck no, we just get the same tired bullshit that his church chants incessantly. Not a shred of evidence, just the usual, self-serving rationalizations of weather patterns. You are no different that the fool with the "End is NEAR" sign who wanders around shrieking at light posts to REPENT.

Ahhh....another sniveling shit denier cult dingbat, wandering, lost and confused and completely blinded by his crackpot rightwingnut ideologies, in an insane fantasy world of his own creation.

 

[Pumpkin Row]

Oh, I thought you were describing the government in your post, for a second there. Since they're fraudsters, authoritarian thugs, and paid shills. It's more likely that it's a global conspiracy because every government can benefit from this, since the gullible people will demand something be done about it, allowing government power to expand, and the scientists make money off of this through grants.

Since you're so proudly embracing a bizarre conspiracy theory which is contradicted by all the evidence, there's no point in treating you like a rational human being. Like the other hardcore denier conspiracy cultists, you're in the same category as flat earthers, chemtrail believers, antivaxxers, 9/11 truthers and JFK assassination conspiracy theorists.

Personally, out of what you listed, I only really believe the JFK assassination theory. Then again, I don't think someone who's in denial of Hillary being under criminal investigation has any ground to call others "bizarre conspiracy theorists". You sound like someone who just instantly believes everything the government has to say, which just makes you gullible.

 

[mamooth]

Personally, out of what you listed, I only really believe the JFK assassination theory.

So that's a second goofy conspiracy theories you've confirmed believing in.

Then again, I don't think someone who's in denial of Hillary being under criminal investigation

And a third.

It's as Lewandowsky reported in his paper. Those who fall for one conspiracy theory, like global warming denial, tend to fall for a bunch of them.

http://websites.psychology.uwa.edu....yetalPsychScienceinPressClimateConspiracy.pdf

 

[Uncensored2008]

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Ahhh....another sniveling shit denier cult dingbat, wandering, lost and confused and completely blinded by his crackpot rightwingnut ideologies, in an insane fantasy world of his own creation.

So, I'm an Infidel then?

Say, when DOES Hale-Bopp pass by again? Do you have your black tennies?

 

[Pumpkin Row]

Personally, out of what you listed, I only really believe the JFK assassination theory.

So that's a second goofy conspiracy theories you've confirmed believing in.

Then again, I don't think someone who's in denial of Hillary being under criminal investigation

And a third.

It's as Lewandowsky reported in his paper. Those who fall for one conspiracy theory, like global warming denial, tend to fall for a bunch of them.

http://websites.psychology.uwa.edu....yetalPsychScienceinPressClimateConspiracy.pdf

And those fully content with being willfully ignorant of anything the government doesn't want them to know have a negative perception of "conspiracy theories". The name itself is all it takes for government lapdogs to laugh and pretend they have nothing going for them, and likely not even look into them. It's okay, the government loves employing thoughtless sheep, so you do have a sort of future, just not as a thinking American.