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July Was Warmest Month On Record NOAA Reports, Lists All "Signifiicant Climate Anomalies And Events"

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While some, perhaps not California farmers, will disagree with NOAA's assessment of the world's atmospheric conditions, earlier today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared that July was the warmest month ever recorded for the globe and was also the record warmest for global oceans, putting a full stop to a year that has been characterized by numerous perplexing atmospheric outliers around the globe but perhaps none other more so than NOAA's earlier assessment that the winter of 2015 was also the warmest on record despite the much discussed US winter, where for the second year in a row the economic slowdown was blamed on a colder than usual winter. Go figure: perhaps here too we need double seasonal adjustments.

Among some of the highlights noted by NOAA:

  • The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for July 2015 was the highest for July in the 136-year period of record, at 0.81°C (1.46°F) above the 20th century average of 15.8°C (60.4°F), surpassing the previous record set in 1998 by 0.08°C (0.14°F). As July is climatologically the warmest month of the year globally, this monthly global temperature of 16.61°C (61.86°F) was also the highest among all 1627 months in the record that began in January 1880. The July temperature is currently increasing at an average rate of 0.65°C (1.17°F) per century.
  • The July globally-averaged land surface temperature was 1.73°F (0.96°C) above the 20th century average. This was the sixth highest for July in the 1880–2015 record.
  • The July globally-averaged sea surface temperature was 1.35°F (0.75°C) above the 20th century average. This was the highest temperature for any month in the 1880–2015 record, surpassing the previous record set in July 2014 by 0.13°F (0.07°C). The global value was driven by record warmth across large expanses of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

 

NOAA goes on to note some of the headline-grabbing "significant climate anomalies and events" including the Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Extent, Typhoon Nangka, the abnormally hot summer in western and central Europe coupled with the cooler than average weather in North Europe, the "widespread snow" in eastern Australia, the second warmest July in Africa, the fifth warmest July on record for South America, and the strange distribution of atmospheric conditions in the US, where the record California drought was contrasted with the cool Central states.

 

Some other highlights from the report:

  • The average Arctic sea ice extent for July was 350,000 square miles (9.5 percent) below the 1981–2010 average. This was the eighth smallest July extent since records began in 1979 and largest since 2009, according to analysis by the National Snow and Ice Data Center using data from NOAA and NASA.
  • Antarctic sea ice during July was 240,000 square miles (3.8 percent) above the 1981–2010 average. This was the fourth largest July Antarctic sea ice extent on record and 140,000 square miles smaller than the record-large July extent of 2014.
  • Austria  recorded its hottest July since national records began in 1767. The average temperature was 3.0°C (5.0°F) higher than the 1981–2010 average, beating the previous record of +2.7°C (+4.9°F) set just a few years earlier in 2006. Two major heatwaves, with temperatures reaching 38°C (100°F), contributed to this heat record. At some stations in major cities, including Innsbruck University, Linz, and Klagenfurt, it was not only the hottest July, but the hottest month ever recorded in the 249-year period of record. On July 7th, the daily temperature reached 38.2°C (100.8°F) in Innsbruck, its highest temperature in recorded history.
  • The heat waves extended to France, where the country had its third warmest July in its 116-year period of record. Overall, the temperature was 2.1°C (3.8°F) higher than the 1981–2010 average, with localized departures of more than 4°C (7°F) in the Massif Central to the North East and the Alps, according to MeteoFrance .
  • The Netherlands also experienced abnormally hot July temperatures at the beginning of the month. Under an intense heat wave that gripped much of western and central Europe, the southeastern town of Maastricht observed a temperature of 38.2°C (100.8°F) on July 2nd the highest temperature on record for that town and one of the highest for the country. The highest temperature ever recorded was 38.6°C (101.5°F) in Warnsveld in 1944. The heat did not last however. The temperature was below 0°C (32°F) at a station in Twente in the eastern part of the country on July 9th and 10th, the first time the temperature dropped below freezing in July since 1984.
  • Record-breaking heat was observed in parts of the southern United Kingdom at the beginning of July, including the highest temperature recorded in the country since August 2003. However, the heat did not last as westerly Atlantic air flowed in, bringing cooler-than-average temperatures for much of the remainder of the month. So, despite the early record heat, overall, the average July temperature for the UK was 0.7°C (1.1°F) lower than the 1981–2010 average.
  • Despite a heatwave over part of Sweden at the beginning of the month, temperatures remained cool for the reminder of July across much of the country. While temperatures across southeastern Sweden were slightly above average, other areas, particularly in the far north, were not. Pajala observed its coolest July since 1965 and Gaddede its coolest since 1951, although SMHI notes that the station has been relocated a few times over the years.
  • Norway experienced cooler-than-average temperatures for the third consecutive month. The average July temperature was 0.7°C (1.1°F) lower than the 1961–1990 average. Temperatures were as much as 3°C (5°F) below average at some stations in Finnmark.
  • A high pressure dome over the Middle East brought what may be one of the most extreme heat indices ever recorded in the world on July 31st. According to media reports, in the city of Bandar Mahshahr, the air temperature of 46°C (115°F) combined with a dew point of 32°C (90°F) for a heat index on 74°C (165°F). The highest known heat index of 81°C (178°F) occurred in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia on July 8th, 2003.

Putting this in context, in the 180 or so State of the Climate summaries since 2000, the NOAA has documented what it defines to be 13 of the 15 warmest years on record. Which means that the US government is hoping the population is not habituated to seeing such reports by now, especially not ahead of the politically important Paris climate conference this December, when a "comprehensive climate plan" is expected to be proposed. A plan which, just like the entire carbon credit fiasco, is certain to enrich some - such as Goldman Sachs - and do little for everyone else, because it is far better for financial elites and the political oligarchy to keep the world always one step away from a state of permanent crisis.

 

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Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:05 | 6449598 surf0766
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No one believes them. How many times were they caught manipulating the data, taking out the actual temps and putting in the temos from their models?

 

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:17 | 6449643 Stackers
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Exactly. They use the Fed's computers to come up with these "global average" temp

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516...

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:17 | 6449853 froze25
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Even the tree huggers are starting to doubt this Bullshit, they are finally starting to focus on GMO'S and the poison being shoved down our throats in food supposedly deemed safe from the treasonous FDA.  Credibility is rapidly going down the drain.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:41 | 6449931 tmosley
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Utter bullshit.  Their chart shows that my area was warmer than average, but this has been the coldest summer we have had in the 15 years I've lived here.  Only two days over 100 in July, and September is going to have highs in the 70's all month. Ridiculous for anywhere in Texas.

Anyone who buys these numbers is a fucking idiot.  Tyler is too, claiming they need a double seasonal adjustment when they have already had one to goalseek this AGW bullshit.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 22:10 | 6450023 James_Cole
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DEH MADE IT ALL UP, DEH IZ MANIPULATIN DEH DATA!!!!

-source: facebook, my ass, my neighbours ass, rupert murdochs ass

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 23:28 | 6450226 James_Cole
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Booker is a fucking joke, and people who take him seriously are mentally retarded.

On a range of health issues, Booker has put forward a view that the public is being unnecessarily "scared", as detailed in his book Scared to Death. Thus he argues that asbestos, passive smoking[2] and BSE[8] have not been shown to be dangerous. His views on these matters go against scientific consensus, and as a result have attracted much criticism from other journalists as well as public bodies.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:05 | 6450396 EarthHuman
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You deniers are hilarious. Compare the charts of USO and GRN (carbon credits). I have been making good money trading carbon credits. Which do you think is a better long term investment? "Denier" lol what will you tell your grandchildren. Think of me in 10 years when Oil still has a 50 handle and carbon credits Keep going higher. Thats because even if we stop emitting greenhouses gases today, AT least another 1 degree celsius is "baked into the cake" and uneducated stubborn fools like yourselfs wont believe it until global warming hits them and hits them hard. Anyway this is me laughing all the way to the bank. Do you think the upcoming UN conference in Paris in December will make GRN more or less expensive. #Sheeple.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:46 | 6450450 Pinto Currency
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Typical.  Ad hominem attack on Booker as opposed to addressing the research of the scientists and statisticians.

That 0.04% CO2 in the atmosphere which is now up from 0.035% over the last 60 years is deadly (although nobody is explaining how the global mean temp can drop in the 17 years since 1998 despite the increase n CO2 during those same years).

Definitely need a tax to stop CO2 and weather.

The gold will be gone from the paper exchanges in NY and London.  Maybe you can trade carbon credits.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 02:01 | 6450469 James_Cole
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Typical.  Ad hominem attack on Booker as opposed to addressing the research of the scientists and statisticians.

There isn't anything to address on the latter. On the former, the man is simply a lobbyist for various corporate interests. If the guy who was demonstrably lying on asbestos is the best you got, then you AINT GOT SHIT. Go give your head a shake and stop being an idiot. 

Do scientists make incorrect predictions frequently? Yes. So fucking what, it's the nature of the beast.

Does your md make incorrect predictions frequently? Yes. Do you still take their remarks under advisement...?

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 06:37 | 6450714 TongueStun
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NOAA = LyingAssholes Spewing Shit for The Obowelmovement.

 

I guess NOAA assholes have never heard of Cooling Degree Days....not one asshole who says manmade global warming is real understands basic thermodynamic principles.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 06:47 | 6450727 Pinto Currency
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Again, it is not about Booker.

It's about falsified data identified here:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/massive-tampering-with-temperatures-in-south-america/

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 03:30 | 6450572 EarthHuman
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BLAH BLAH BLAH! Yay! you noticed me! Did you read the part where i said you are an uneducated chimp? Buy GRN. I <3 trolls :)

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 08:10 | 6450892 Lumberjack
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I see you've been around here only 2 weeks? I am a DENIER and really have a low opinion of 'believers' who deny the truth.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:02 | 6453639 EarthHuman
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Science, bitch!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 02:12 | 6450479 Rock On Roger
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I wish I could be as smart as an educated fool selling paper.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 03:04 | 6450543 donhuangenaro
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@earthhuman: what part of 'SCIENTIFIC FRAUD' you do not understand? :-P

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 22:47 | 6450114 Implied Violins
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I agree with everyone above. This is utter made-up BULLSHIT. Timed to make the pope's speech in September popular, as he will call for a global 'carbon tax' and Agenda 21 policies to 'save the world.'

Anyone (with an open mind) who still believes in global warming, go check out Suspicious 0bserver's You-Tube website and get caught up on TRUE science. He's nailed this bitch, for over two years now. We are entering a Maunder Minimum.

A few things that DO bother me, however: all that heat in the ocean (built up due to geoengineering) WILL have to be reconciled, somehow. If the PTB were to go cold-turkey on the chemtrails and allowed that permanent high around Alaska (kept in place for FOUR YEARS!!) to finally move out (which has been bottling up weather in the arctic), then all that meltwater in the arctic will finally sink to the bottom of the Atlantic, shutting down the warm water conveyer belt that keeps Europe from freezing up. If that happened, all that warm water in the Pacific WILL become precipitation, flooding out California...but north of us, it will fall as SNOW - and it will be "Day After Tomorrow" EPICNESS.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 23:28 | 6450225 ZerOhead
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The links between climate change on earth and solar output variability (TSI, solar wind, magnetic flux) is undeniable.

I like the Suspicious Observers site but I'm a little suspicious about Benjamin Davidson. The heat build-up in the ocean can be explained by the decrease in stratospheric ozone (more uv into ocean), break down in trade winds and change of jetstream from zonal to meridional flows.

Even HAARP couldn't fix this sucker... we are in for some very cold decades of weather with extreme variablity.

http://notrickszone.com/2015/07/10/mid-july-frost-surprises-central-euro...

 

Same shit happened during the Maunder and Dalton Minimums...

 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 00:05 | 6450308 DeadFred
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It warms my heart to see all these comments showing that the Gore et al. propanganda train has a lot of empty seats on board. Other than click bait why does Tyler post this offal? When .GOV is lying to you grab your wallet because they're after all your carbon credits (run through the Goldman Sachs coffers, of course). But what do you have against Ben? 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 00:21 | 6450332 Implied Violins
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To be fair to ZeroHead, when Ben first came on the scene Michael Janitsch (DutchSince) of HAARP exposure fame came out and bitchslapped his ass, wondering how someone totally unknown could come on the scene so suddenly with such perfectly produced daily videos that smacked of MONEY. Too bad he didn't look into Ben's background first and realize he was dealing with a LAWYER (Ben's degrees are in law), who got Janitsch nearly banned from You-Tube and shut him down for a time after Michael tried to sink him with a stupid defamation video. Of course, Ben's daddy did set him up with his movie connections, but at this point I am willing to believe that Ben is above-board and being honest.

There is one thing about Ben that does still bother me, though: he doesn't tackle geoengineering head-on, even though commenters on his videos constantly make comments about it. Apparently he does talk about it on his pay-per-view stuff, but I'm a cheap bastard so I haven't checked that out. Still, that one thing IS a big minus in my book, that he doesn't even comment on it one way or the other is very, very suspicious in my book...I just hope he does so, in the hopes that he can avoid the PTB's prying eyes.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:28 | 6450427 skepsis101
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I guess I am a bonafide tree hugger.  I love trees.  I could not live without trees.  Everywhere I have moved (too many peregrinations) I have planted trees.  Lots of trees.  Fruit trees, fir trees, deciduous trees . . . may the gods bless all the trees.  I cannot even imagine a world without trees.  Never there was a symbol (the foundation of human communication) more apt than the Tree of Life.   Uncounted numbers of human cultures have found awe and wonder in the meaning of trees.  The Baobob, the Cypress, the mighty Oak, the towering Redwood; different peoples, different continents, different cultures, all revered trees.  

Do I call BS on global warming?   Should I call BS on global warming?  I submit that not one ZH'er here can definitively state (as our meager lives are far too short a measuring stick), what truly is a trend vs. what is a cyclic variation.  So if I cannot say nor convince you that the planet is warming (whether human assisted or not), can you say it is not?   I say, perhaps we should ask a tree.

I live high in the Rocky Mountains of southern Colorado, over 9,000.  When I first hiked these mountains, 50 years ago, it was nearly impossible to find a dead or dying tree anywhere at any altitude.  Of course they had to exist, dead trees.  Nothing lives forever.  And one always did come across the lone snag perched on a rock face too far, or a lightening cleft trunk, a rotting monster that had seen too many years, or bleached carcasses washed up along a riverbank.  Of course, trees did die.  Have to die.  But the forests, whether alpine, desert, coastal, or plains always had a habit of such living vitality that they seemed to hide their own.  It's the vibrant breathing living trees that one sees and experiences.  A dead tree was a rare counterpoint.

Sometime, around the turn of the millenium that experience began to change.  When you're riding a horse on a high and narrow rocky trail at 10,000 feet up, a dead tree across your path is more than a nuisance.  It can be dangerous.  Extensive deadfall, like in a vicious windstorm can be downright scary, and make you wish you had a mule under your saddle instead.  Except that rarity suddenly became more common.  For fifteen years now I have watched the once grand and green forest canopy of these incomparable mountains whither into naked twisted matchsticks.  What began slowly, barely noticeable, turned into all encompassing devastation in the last five years. Like collapsed tinker toys all akimbo, an eeriy scene right out of Cormac McCarthy's novel, "The Road".

Everything is dying.  Humongous douglas fir, ponderosa pine, blue spruce, aspen, and down lower even juniper and pinyon.  No longer just a tree here and there, but rather entire forests are utterly dead.  You climb up to Wolf Creek Pass over 11,000' high, the finest and greatest powder snow in the lower 48, and glass the landscape for 360 degrees, and you will not find one living tree.  Millions upon millions of dead trees as far as the eye can see.  You can drive for a hundred miles north to Gunnison and all you will see are dead forests, 100% dead.  Not dying, not browning, . . . just extinguished.  

My little rancho is heavily treed but interspersed with alpine meadows.  It's kind of a "Sound of Music" like atmosphere.  The beauty is breathtaking.  I smart at how lucky I am.  Never had to cut down a tree in the first twenty years, but I'm kept real busy these days, too much work for an old man.  Cutting trees.  At first it was a just couple here and there along the drive up to the house.  You call up the neighbors for free firewood.  But then it became more of a chore.  And a hazard (my granddad's ranch house was burned down twice in early California, so I know what loss is).  A lightening strike two years ago just one short canyon over the eastern horizon smoldered for two weeks before a good gust of wind came up.  Six days later 130,000 acres of some the prettiest forest in the entire country was nothing but char and ash.  So now i've timbered my 1,500th tree this week and I cannot keep up.  

Once I figured out what was going on I started to pay more attention.  In northern New Mexico I've noticed entire mountainsides of pinyon, one of the hardiest species out there, go brown.  Around Flagstaff in Arizona I've watched achingly as vast expanses of the Ponderosa belt rain down dead needles all the way to the Grand Canyon fifty miles to the north.  In the deserts of central Arizona stands of Palo Verde and even groups of healthy Saguaro, have begun to shrivel.  Driving along the southern coast of California last year, where my granddad homesteaded 1898, even the ubiquitous oaks were leafless and defenseless.   Hell, then just a long ugly drive across Los Angeles on every single block, in every city and neighborhood, you'd see lined up dead and dying trees.  Alberta and British Columbia, Alaska and the Yukon . . . all the way down the spine of the North America all manner of trees right down to my property are falling like flys. Billions and billions of flys.

I asked the silviculturists at the local Forest Service office if they have any historical records, or prehistoricall data, that can put what I see in perspective.  You do not want to know what they said, other than yes, a big change is coming.  And don't give me any malarkey about it's just the beetles, or a normal cycle, or some other nonsense.   Yeah, beetles are affected by the weather.  But that's the point, isn't it?  Cycles come and go, don't they?  Yes they do, but I doubt you all are prepared for this one.  After all, dinosaurs were part of a cycle too.  This is continental ecotonal change.  Is it climate change?  Is it Anthropogenic Global Warming?  Or is it the U.N.?  Or Agenda 21? Or actually Goldman Sachs, or George Soros, or carbon credits, or the Maunder Minimum that's at fault.  Hell, I'm no genius.  I don't know what it is.

But perhaps all you geniuses, instead of mouthing off about stuff you know nothing about, should just go ask a tree, while you still can! Fuck you all.  I'd take a tree over a human any day.

 

 

 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:35 | 6450435 James_Cole
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Great post.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:38 | 6450444 EarthHuman
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I agree that you are "no genius". Do you know who are? PhD climate researches who have spent their lives to study this terrible problem and the leagues of other scientist who now have a larger theory to tie into their research i.e. "why are ll the trees dying". lol "i know i'm no genius".

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:46 | 6450458 James_Cole
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Do you know who are [genisues]? PhD climate researches who have spent their lives to study this terrible problem

Probably they aren't.

i.e. "why are ll the trees dying". lol "i know i'm no genius"

Certainly the die-off is a multifaceted issue - everything is not AGW. Humility in the face of the unknown is a good thing.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 03:32 | 6450574 EarthHuman
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Climate change is not unknown. It is happening now and getting worse. Duh. Zero hedgers missing some big upside on GRN wow. Will it trade with an 11 handle today? To think I noticed this little ETN back in 2013 with a 4 handle. I should've gone all in!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 09:47 | 6451210 Arnold
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You sound like a Bitcoin rep to me.

Nobody mentions Icecores.

 publish or perish keep that .gov money flowing, til it doesn't.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 12:35 | 6451986 stilletto
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Yep, everything is always changing - naturally. So why are the trees dying? Possibly lack of water thru less rainfall? The sahara desert was green and had lakes 12,000yrs ago - it was kept that way by monsoon rains that powered inland due to heating in the warmer climate back then (hotter it gets the bigger the monsoons and hurricanes). But the climate cooled - naturally, and the lower heating led to the sahara drying out. The dry spell in California etc are all symptomatic of cooling over the oceans leading to less moisture pickup and less force to drive to rain inland.

Possibly your trees are dying at altitude due to lack of CO2? Co2 is heavier than air and the small amount (0.34%) in atmosphere is almost all within 10,000ft of sealevel. Thats one reason for the marked treeline on mountains (can be a cold line or a low CO2 line). Until proper studies are done then who really knows why the trees are dying back, but its dumb to just go 'trees die so must be mans fault' - thats not science. Alas the jerks at NOAA are not scientists (no more than economists are!) because they do not employ the scientific method of impartial obervation leading to a hypothesis. They have formed a hypothesis and now seek data and modify data to prove their religious hypothesis true. Sad the observed data doesnt fit. Thats why NOAA refuses to use accurate satellite data instead of the stuff they can observe and manipulate in their carpark.  

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 00:30 | 6460717 Mediocritas
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I value your observations more than 100% of the opinions contaminating the mental space.

Thankyou.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:33 | 6450429 skepsis101
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I guess I am a bonafide tree hugger.  I love trees.  I could not live without trees.  Everywhere I have moved (too many peregrinations) I have planted trees.  Lots of trees.  Fruit trees, fir trees, deciduous trees . . . may the gods bless all the trees.  I cannot even imagine a world without trees.  Never there was a symbol (the foundation of human communication) more apt than the Tree of Life.   Uncounted numbers of human cultures have found awe and wonder in the meaning of trees.  The Baobob, the Cypress, the mighty Oak, the towering Redwood; different peoples, different continents, different cultures, all revered trees.  

Do I call BS on global warming?   Should I call BS on global warming?  I submit that not one ZH'er here can definitively state (as our meager lives are far too short a measuring stick), what truly is a trend vs. what is a cyclic variation.  So if I cannot say nor convince you that the planet is warming (whether human assisted or not), can you say it is not?   I say, perhaps we should ask a tree.

I live high in the Rocky Mountains of southern Colorado, over 9,000.  When I first hiked these mountains, 50 years ago, it was nearly impossible to find a dead or dying tree anywhere at any altitude.  Of course they had to exist, dead trees.  Nothing lives forever.  And one always did come across the lone snag perched on a rock face too far, or a lightening cleft trunk, a rotting monster that had seen too many years, or bleached carcasses washed up along a riverbank.  Of course, trees did die.  Have to die.  But the forests, whether alpine, desert, coastal, or plains always had a habit of such living vitality that they seemed to hide their own.  It's the vibrant breathing living trees that one sees and experiences.  A dead tree was a rare counterpoint.

Sometime, around the turn of the millenium that experience began to change.  When you're riding a horse on a high and narrow rocky trail at 10,000 feet up, a dead tree across your path is more than a nuisance.  It can be dangerous.  Extensive deadfall, like in a vicious windstorm can be downright scary, and make you wish you had a mule under your saddle instead.  Except that rarity suddenly became more common.  For fifteen years now I have watched the once grand and green forest canopy of these incomparable mountains whither into naked twisted matchsticks.  What began slowly, barely noticeable, turned into all encompassing devastation in the last five years. Like collapsed tinker toys all akimbo, an eeriy scene right out of Cormac McCarthy's novel, "The Road".

Everything is dying.  Humongous douglas fir, ponderosa pine, blue spruce, aspen, and down lower even juniper and pinyon.  No longer just a tree here and there, but rather entire forests are utterly dead.  You climb up to Wolf Creek Pass over 11,000' high, the finest and greatest powder snow in the lower 48, and glass the landscape for 360 degrees, and you will not find one living tree.  Millions upon millions of dead trees as far as the eye can see.  You can drive for a hundred miles north to Gunnison and all you will see are dead forests, 100% dead.  Not dying, not browning, . . . just extinguished.  

My little rancho is heavily treed but interspersed with alpine meadows.  It's kind of a "Sound of Music" like atmosphere.  The beauty is breathtaking.  I smart at how lucky I am.  Never had to cut down a tree in the first twenty years, but I'm kept real busy these days, too much work for an old man.  Cutting trees.  At first it was a just couple here and there along the drive up to the house.  You call up the neighbors for free firewood.  But then it became more of a chore.  And a hazard (my granddad's ranch house was burned down twice in early California, so I know what loss is).  A lightening strike two years ago just one short canyon over the eastern horizon smoldered for two weeks before a good gust of wind came up.  Six days later 130,000 acres of some the prettiest forest in the entire country was nothing but char and ash.  So now i've timbered my 1,500th tree this week and I cannot keep up.  

Once I figured out what was going on I started to pay more attention.  In northern New Mexico I've noticed entire mountainsides of pinyon, one of the hardiest species out there, go brown.  Around Flagstaff in Arizona I've watched achingly as vast expanses of the Ponderosa belt rain down dead needles all the way to the Grand Canyon fifty miles to the north.  In the deserts of central Arizona stands of Palo Verde and even groups of healthy Saguaro, have begun to shrivel.  Driving along the southern coast of California last year, where my granddad homesteaded 1898, even the ubiquitous oaks were leafless and defenseless.   Hell, then just a long ugly drive across Los Angeles on every single block, in every city and neighborhood, you'd see lined up dead and dying trees.  Alberta and British Columbia, Alaska and the Yukon . . . all the way down the spine of the North America all manner of trees right down to my property are falling like flys. Billions and billions of flys.

I asked the silviculturists at the local Forest Service office if they have any historical records, or prehistoricall data, that can put what I see in perspective.  You do not want to know what they said, other than yes, a big change is coming.  And don't give me any malarkey about it's just the beetles, or a normal cycle, or some other nonsense.   Yeah, beetles are affected by the weather.  But that's the point, isn't it?  Cycles come and go, don't they?  Yes they do, but I doubt you all are prepared for this one.  After all, dinosaurs were part of a cycle too.  This is continental ecotonal change.  Is it climate change?  Is it Anthropogenic Global Warming?  Or is it the U.N.?  Or Agenda 21? Or actually Goldman Sachs, or George Soros, or carbon credits, or the Maunder Minimum that's at fault.  Hell, I'm no genius.  I don't know what it is.

But perhaps all you geniuses, instead of mouthing off about stuff you know nothing about, should just go ask a tree, while you still can! Fuck you all.  I'd take a tree over a human any day.

Oooooooooops!  It's late.

 

 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 04:05 | 6450602 OldPhart
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I'm in the So. Calif Mojave Desert aka the High Desert.  We haven't had any temperatures that would be normal.  It's fucking August and we've yet had a day at 115 or so.  This summer, in fact, has been much cooler than usual.  Most days have been in the 90's.  A couple over 100. 

Exactly how many hurricanes were generated in July, or this year?  One? (well, two now, but a 75 mph wind is a breeze here.)  In the Pacific (didn't we used to call them Typhoons, when did they become fucking hurricanes?), that brought a shitload of rain into the desert.

Way back in 2006 or so, the site Human Events, had someone show how the original data used to claim global warming was fudged by computer programming.  I read the programming...I did the math.  Global warming is as much bullshit as global cooling was back in the 70's.  It's a funding scam. 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:34 | 6453757 EarthHuman
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You are definately representing the "high" desert. Put down the joint and go back to school.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:40 | 6449660 Billy the Poet
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AGW proponents have recently been caught altering decades old temperature records in order to make the past appear to have been cooler than it was. They have also changed the pre-1990 rate of sea level rise because the current rate shows no increase and so the past records must be altered to fit current models.

 

“We are looking at all the available sea-level records and trying to say that Greenland has been melting at this rate, the Arctic at this rate, the Antarctic at this rate, etc.,” she continued. “We then sum these contributions and add in the rate that the oceans are changing due to thermal expansion to estimate a rate of global mean sea-level change.”

To the researchers’ surprise, Hay said, it quickly became clear that previous estimates of sea-level rise over most of the 20th century were too high.

“We expected that we would estimate the individual contributions, and that their sum would get us back to the 1.5 to 1.8 mm per year that other people had predicted,” Hay said. “But the math doesn’t work out that way. Unfortunately, our new lower rate of sea-level rise prior to 1990 means that the sea-level acceleration that resulted in higher rates over the last 20 years is really much larger than anyone thought.”

 

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/01/sea-level-correction/

 

Note how they are very concerned because now that they have altered past data they can conclude that the seas are rising very quickly!

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:47 | 6449744 ebworthen
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Cell Input::  = H7 X 2

"Hey Boss!  My orders just doubled, better approve that overtime for me!"

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:08 | 6449831 Falconsixone
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Might not be as hot if "They" hadn't burnt up the ozone layer with harrp because it was fun.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:26 | 6450426 EarthHuman
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Buy GRN. Short USO. Sheeple.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:55 | 6449782 ajax
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FYI  All of July through to the 13th of August saw the most insufferable humid heat I have ever known in Switzerland and throughout Eastern Europe. Insufferable. Humid heat without the storms of the HOT 2003.

I am moving to Iceland.

 

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 22:11 | 6450026 James_Cole
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Switzerland aka no air con, good times bitchez

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:18 | 6449646 Haole
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Too many people are devout believers in this incidious fraud.   I know some pretty sharp people who will say adamantly and condescendingly that "the science has been proven" but oddly, when one requests that they explain the science, excuses take priority somehow.   Wait until global cooling is blamed on human activity, it's coming.

I am utterly ashamed and actually sick and tired of being part of humanity now.

 

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:51 | 6449709 Billy the Poet
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Ask folks if they agree with climate scientists like NASA's James Hansen who says that carbon is a more dangerous pollutant than radioactivity. Ask them if they want fewer coal fired power plants and more nuclear plants as the AGW scientists suggest.

 

Top climate change scientists' letter to policy influencers


"Quantitative analyses show that the risks associated with the expanded use of nuclear energy are orders of magnitude smaller than the risks associated with fossil fuels."

 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/03/world/nuclear-energy-climate-change-scient...

 

There is simply no doubt that these scientists are insane.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:13 | 6449842 Maxter
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They will find a way to link global cooling to global warming somehow.

 

Biggest fraud of the century (after 911)

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:37 | 6449916 techpreist
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Pretty easy actually.

Let's say we put more energy into the system and heat the oceans up a bit. This means much more water vapor coming out of the oceans. This in turn heads up into the atmosphere, where it radiates away its heat and comes back down as rain and snow. The result: in some places you may actually get a rapid increase in glacier sizes because of the extra snow, and the temp change may be debatable as the water vapor acts as a secondary conduit of heat off the planet.

Therefore, global warming can cause an ice age :D

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 04:11 | 6450608 OldPhart
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Not to mention that the rise in CO2 means increased crops, increased forestation, and increased food production and increased OXYGEN.  WHICH IS A HIGHLY FLAMMABLE GAS!!!!!! Man, that CO2 has got to go, we can't have deflationary food prices!  That would be unAmerican!!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:28 | 6450428 EarthHuman
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You are sick and tired of Humanity? Move to Mars, haole. Your CO2 emissions are not welcome here. Buy GRN. Short USO. Remember my words. you will cringe in 10 years when you look at those charts. Wake up sheeple!

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:23 | 6449661 killallthefiat
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In southeastern North Carolina, July was a piece of cake (by historical standards).  August is pleasant and I think THE best in my 20 years here.  Thank you Al Gore for your efforts to prevent warming.

However, I would NOT recommend that anyone else move here.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:51 | 6449760 Cruel Aid
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yep, from a hot border state, it flies in the face of empirical evidence. Absolutely cooler for years now and looking forward to a nice cold and snowy winter.

A lot of these idiots are lecturing to people with history and good memories to counter any bogus manipulated data.

These people should be rounded up. destroying raw data is a major crime.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:54 | 6449777 Billy the Poet
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The Pittsburgh region did not catch fire in July.

 

http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/pittsburgh-pa/15219/july-weather/1310?m...

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:57 | 6449786 Cruel Aid
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that is temp paradise. Nice. we just got an insane august cool front. lol these effers, killing me.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:14 | 6449844 Peak Finance
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Same here in South Florida, mild and dry so far, with even some cool nights. 

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:48 | 6449756 MD
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What is it going to take to convince you people that greenhouse gas emissions are, at the VERY least, contributing to warmer global temperatures?

We know for a fact that CO2 and methane act as greenhouse gases.  We have been measuring these quantities in our atmosphere for decades, and we can test their concentrations further back in time by measuring air bubble trapped in glaciers.  We know from the historical record that the current period has a spike in CO2 concentrations that corresponds with the past century.  We have data showing temperatures warming, ice cover melting, etc.

EVEN IF this is all the result of a "natural cycle" (like some 400-year sun flare cycle or something), you can't deny that human activity is at least EXACERBATING the situation.

The story here is one of humans depleting resources and increasing pollution around the globe, unchecked.  This causes economic collapse.

But no - global warming is a librul conspiracy.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:01 | 6449804 Billy the Poet
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What entities have the biggest carbon footprints? Governments, of course. And what happens any time that someone suggests that government should be downsized? Liberals scream bloody murder. Liberals will go on and on about the benefits of big government usually highlighting the interstate highway system and then they cry that climate deniers are destroying the planet with exhaust emissions.

Physician heal thyself.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:47 | 6449956 techpreist
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In my own case, I am actually generally accepting of the idea behind global warming, but my 'skepticism,' if you can call it that, comes out of the public choosing to ignore far larger problems. For example, the wiping out of a wide variety of smaller family farms in favor of corporate farms that grow as much GMO corn as treated land can bear. During the winter in Iowa you can see brown patches where the state's famous black soil has been completely stripped by current ag practices, andof course all of the ammonia fertilizer washing off the fields and ultimately to the Gulf of Mexico is non subtly screwing with the chemical equilibirum of the ocean.

If/when the ocean finally yields to what Monsanto, ADM, et. al. are putting into it, I wouldn't be amazed if we get something out of the Book of Revelation:

A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 23:31 | 6450232 Tom Servo
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What do you mean, "YOU PEOPLE", because we don't believe NOAA's fraudulent data about a trace gas causing warming?

Look at Al Gore buying oceanfront property in CA, if he was a true believer, he would be moving his insanely large carbon footprint house to future oceanfront property in Arizona....

 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 04:14 | 6450610 OldPhart
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Similar to California's plan to take the 10% of the water used by regular people, and reduce it by 20%.  It's asinine.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:03 | 6449809 Superdave532
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It's the hysteria that goes into the predictions that really fucks everything up.  You could very well be right, and honestly I'm inclined to agree with you.  However, when you have dipshits such as Al Gore charting infinitely high temperatures predictions in that documentary a couple decades ago that haven't panned out, you turn some people off to the whole idea.

Same thing in the gulf - for the last decade we've been told that increasing temperatures would lead to constant and severe hurricane activity.  Outside of Katrina and Ike, there have been almost zero notable events.  3 hurricanes in 15 years since the prediction of dozens is kind of fucking ridiculous.

I think that we are making changes.  I think there's a decent chance that we're not  going to like those changes.  But the people running these studies and forecasting these ridiculous predictions are only adding to the problem.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:09 | 6449832 Billy the Poet
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'I made a mistake': Gaia theory scientist James Lovelock admits he was 'alarmist' about the impact of climate change
  • British scientist admits he had 'extrapolated too far' in earlier book
  • Claims other environmental commentators such as Al Gore did the same

Five years ago, he had claimed: 'Before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.'

'I made a mistake.'

He said: 'The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing,' he told   'We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear cut, but it hasn’t happened.

'The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world.

'[The temperature] has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.'

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134092/Gaia-scientist-James-Lovelock-I-alarmist-climate-change.html#ixzz3jPXrGQlB
Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:24 | 6449867 Haole
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Carbon Dioxide is rising!?

Oh no, more plant food!!

.03% or so of CO2 in our atmosphere has questionable effect on atmospheric warming, ocean acidity, you fricking name it.  Anyone that claims CO2 is a dangerous "greenhouse gas" is a bona fide charlatan without high school science at their disposal.

Oh, and what percentage of methane is actually derived from human activity again?

Do you know that I always try and include a reference to the East Anglia scandal when I converse with others and believers completely dismiss it as if nothing had happened.  Quite amazing really.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:31 | 6449894 Billy the Poet
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If the AGW crowd is correct in saying that carbon is a pollutant then a mass extinction of all life on Earth, which of course is carbon based, would clean things up nicely. Kill a tree, save a rock.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:40 | 6449924 Haole
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I think that's precisely part of the predictive programming agenda being continually run.  People are being conditioned to accept having their standards of livings destroyed and being desensitized to hardship, macabre suffering and death.   It's for the country.  It's for the planet.  It's for your own good. 

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 23:03 | 6450163 Implied Violins
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Absolutely correct. You get an "A". And if anyone tries to put that in front of your name, fuck 'em.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:14 | 6450407 EarthHuman
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What universitiy is your science degree from?

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:44 | 6450453 Rock On Roger
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Probably the same one you got your degree in spelling and quality control from.

 

universitiy

 

 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 03:33 | 6450575 EarthHuman
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Ur mom

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:16 | 6449850 Peak Finance
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MD, you are going to look like a giant asshole in about 7 years when the minimum REALLY starts to kick in. Global COOLING is what was prediced when real non-political non-marxist scientists studied climate back in the 70's

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:39 | 6449879 Haole
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Too late, people like these said New York was going to be under water this year,  7 years ago.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 22:36 | 6450094 Buster Cherry
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Yeah, the Galveston jetties are still as visible today as they were when I first saw them in 1966.

I have an old July 1965 newspaper I showed my wife after she expressed concern about global warning. The weather for ast said the high would be 95.degrees, which is what it gets to be to this day.

Sometimes warmer, like when we get a westerly wind, sometimes cooler, like when we're lucky enough to have a front come thru and the wind comes from the north. 

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:25 | 6449873 armageddon addahere
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How exactly does carbon monoxide increase temperatures? Latest figures show an increase of 100 parts per million in 100 years or 1/10000th of the atmosphere. The equivalent of adding $100 to a $1,000,000 bank account.

How does this make the world burn up? And why have none of the predictions made 20 - 30 years ago come true? If the CO2 is up why isn't the temp, if the "models" are accurate?

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:26 | 6449877 froze25
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If the church of global warming would of stuck to real numbers and fixing the stats to make the models work, educated people without solving the problems with Laws and taxes and threats of force for disagreeing. Maybe I would consider the possibility of there being some truth to it.  But they had to go all Nazi with it and try to put their hand in my pocket.  So they can take a walk with their BS.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:31 | 6449897 r00t61
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You could start by offering some solutions that don't involve legions of goons with badges and guns enforcing "cap and trade" schemes - while an even larger army of bureaucrats sitting in offices redistribute out the emission vouchers in accordance with the standard statist principle:

All animals are equal

But some are more equal than others

 

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:36 | 6449915 stilletto
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Just making statement like 'We know for a fact that CO2 and methane act as greenhouse gases' is meaningless. We dont know. There is no experimental or historical or tested proof that CO2 causes warming - and you havent shown it! There is proof that warming causes a rise in CO2 which why we can find those records of rising CO2 in the ice which warming caused. Just warm your garbage and measure the increased CO2 that comes of it! And yes we have records of many ice ages that have come and then melted - last one finished about 17,000yrs ago - how many power stations caused that? That climate was changing before mankind even evolved! So yes, science proves that human activity has an insignificant impact on climate. 

As for NOAA. They use adjusted surface measurements and will not release their raw falsified data for scrutiny. Time and again their reports are proved completely invented as they dont agree with the satellite data. They claimed last winter was the warmest ever but satellite measured data didnt even put it in the top 6 for the last 20yrs. But propaganda is now Govt sanctioned and Obomo the loon said the science is settled! Which it bloody isnt so it shows he's a braindead moron!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:40 | 6450447 EarthHuman
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You are ignorant.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 06:47 | 6450726 froze25
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You are brain washed.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:05 | 6453649 EarthHuman
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Lern da science, kid

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 22:45 | 6450112 gmak
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Nonsense. No one denies the impact of CO2. What we disagree on is the extent of that impact. To believe that an addition of .01% of gas to the atmosphere leads to catastrophe but that a giant nearby ball of atomic fire has no impact is the height of madness. 

 

Explain the last 18 years. Explain how we have had warmer periods with less CO2 in the past and colder periods with more CO2. 

 

The changes in temperature (even the fudged and manipulated data) are well within natural variability - or doesn't that count anymore?

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 23:47 | 6450268 Itchy and Scratchy
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The terrifying fact is that most people have been convinced by the snake oil environmental salesmen that produce phoney data along with a hallucinating hypothesis. The other scarey thought is that MD might stand for medical doctor! Say it ain't so doc!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 00:01 | 6450275 bh2
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"global warming is a librul conspiracy"

No, actually, it's the systematic (and now increasingly absurd) attempts to foment public panic over "global warming" by continuous outrageous claims about its effects which have inevitably led to the steady decline in public support.

Cry wolf too often and too loudly and eventually your cries will be ignored. "You can fool some of the people all of the time, ..." etc.

If you believe human activity "contributes" to climate change in a significant way, but cannot formulate a rigorously testable hypothesis of that significance which it is possible to falsify by objective evidence, then you are entertaining an idea which is no more than a superstition -- not a scientific proposal at all, and surely not one actionable at great public expense.

"Having data" (and relevant data at that) is a necessity for testing whether an hypothesis is true or false. But regardless of quantity, "having data" is not a substitute for proposing a rigorously testable hypothesis. That's what science is about. Unlike politics.

What makes unfalsifiable assertions so dangerous is that they are often accepted at face value as proven merely because they are superficially plausible.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:13 | 6450404 EarthHuman
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Don't fee the trolls, bro. I don't know why this forum, which sheds so much light on the corruption of wall st, is not able to stiumale an articulate discussion about the latest peer reviewed research regarding Climate Change. In the mean time, check out GRN. Watch out, tho, it is very hot right now and the market cap is small. Funny tho, GRN has a market cap less than $2M while the yearly markt for carbon credits is in the billions and growing.

Anway I hear you but I don't think this is the right website to change people's minds. I am just hear to shame them, so they will remember my words in a decade when they finally wake up. Of course some people will never change their minds despite all the data. Just like some people are still predudiced against minorities or gays even after all the struggle for rights and recognition these groups have gone through. 

 

You might as well try to tell the "Deniers" that the Earth is round or that gravity is a proven theory or that smoking causes cancer. #Sheeple

 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:35 | 6450433 Rock On Roger
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Peer reviewed research can be as fraudulent as any other hype.

http://retractionwatch.com/

 

The earth turns and the sun burns.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 03:34 | 6450576 EarthHuman
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Your peers have reviewed you and concluded you are a highly intelligent bonobo. I dare you to look at a chart of GRN.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 06:29 | 6450711 Itchy and Scratchy
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Stop trying to pump and dump your worthless stock scam and go back to your media Matters mob!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:07 | 6453655 EarthHuman
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Doofus, in ten years time compare the charts of GRN and USO. I will still be here. I bet you one bitcoin that GRN will have appreciated more. HA! I dare you to take my bet!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 04:32 | 6450616 OldPhart
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How to find a shill.

 

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FUCK YOU, YOUR AGENDA, YOUR COMPANY and the fucking horse you rode in on!

 

SHUT.THE.FUCK.UP!!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:08 | 6453658 EarthHuman
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MOAR

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:12 | 6453669 EarthHuman
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Wow you don't even know how to read a stock chart. How is your portfolio these days? I just traded GRN for $11, three-year high. It had a 4 handle two years ago. SHEEPLE!!!!!!!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 06:52 | 6450734 froze25
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Deniers huh? I prefer anti-bullshitters. Or accepters of logic and reason.  What sealed the deal for me was the shrinking of Mar's ice caps that happened the same time earth's shrunk, since then both of grown.  It's solar cycles.  Not CO2, your doctrine is wrong.  Now do something of value, fight GMO'S. 

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:59 | 6449795 Superdave532
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I have no doubt that we are manipulating the climate, possibly in a meaningfully negative way, but after so many absolutely pathetic predictions and, as you mentioned, fabricated data, I have zero faith in groups such as this to produce results with any kind of reliability.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:19 | 6450415 EarthHuman
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We are "manipulating the climate" everytime you step on the accelerator or turn on a light switch connected to a fossi-fuel power plant, you are very gradually contributing to this massive and obvious problem. I have a bachelors's degree in science from a major university. What is your background relating to interpreting the data?

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 06:33 | 6450713 Itchy and Scratchy
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A B.A. In science from a major university LOL! Well you must be the worlds leading authority LOL! Now go get a real science job and stop bothering the sane people with your mind numbing idiotic pretences!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:14 | 6453689 EarthHuman
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I beat you. I have a Bachelor's of SCIENCE, not ART, from a major university. HAHAH BA in science. I also have a BS in english. Y'all are like the Church giving Gallileo the inquisition. So foolish!!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 08:18 | 6450925 Lumberjack
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You talking about all that ozone electric car motors produce?

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 22:27 | 6450074 Cynicles
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Manipulate data?
They manipulate the weather. 

Contrails did not form clouds b4 this century.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:11 | 6453675 EarthHuman
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Your tin-foil hat isn't thick enough!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 00:38 | 6450359 Cynicles
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duplicate comment deleted

-Cynicles

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:05 | 6449599 buzzsaw99
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bullshit

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:05 | 6449601 viator
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NOAA = BLS

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:07 | 6449605 knukles
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Whatever.  If the NOAA says it, it's gotta be screwed up, a la goobermint.
But that's being kind.  It's propaganda manipulation for political ends.  NWO, Agenda 21, etc., etc., etc

http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2015/08/20/the_latest_climate_kerfuf...

http://realclimatescience.com

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:14 | 6449631 IridiumRebel
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136 years sums up a multi-million year planet, Knuks. The planet is on fire.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:01 | 6449805 DaddyO
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Some good info on Climate Change from one of my favorite sources...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PDC5s3VD7I&list=PLHSoxioQtwZcqdt3LK6d66...

DaddyO

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 08:20 | 6450929 Lumberjack
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Knuckles, did you know Lisa Jackson from the EPA sits on the board of the Clinton Foundation? 

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 18:41 | 6456580 knukles
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Lumberjack, that kind of stuff no longer surprises me one iota.  The complicity and breadth of the extortion of the peasantry is mind-boggling, and's never changed a wit from medieval times.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:08 | 6449612 poland spring
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Soon nature will be thinning the herd.  Hopefully sooner rather than later.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:08 | 6449615 coast
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I guess Al Gore was right..  (I am trying to beat the record on down votes)  :-)

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:16 | 6449636 Whootie_who
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"..surpassing the previous record set in 1998 by 0.08°C"

funny 17 years... and an insignifigant amount of warming 0.08c/17... kind of destroys their *theory* than human emmitted c02 CAUSES the planet to warm doesn't it.... yes infact THEIR own data says there has been NO WARMING for 17 years... 17 years of unmittigated co2 emmisions

 

the CAGW hoax is officially dead

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:18 | 6449649 Whootie_who
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And what brilliant goal seek science is this... hotest year evah (are there not four month left to eliminate that 0.005 degrees?) This is worse than GS calling the SP EOY PIN

 

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:20 | 6449640 Deez Nuts
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Deez Nuts will cool the heels of the global warming alarmists!

I will spank a PETA girl with a dead duck stuffed with foie gras, tar and feather the greenpeace eco-terrorists!

 

VOTE FOR DEEZ NUTS 2016!

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:17 | 6449642 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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All of these temperatures fall within the margin of error, so technically, it was a tie. The last 18 years have been flat.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:18 | 6449648 Tallest Skil
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http://realclimatescience.com If you want a point by point teardown of the claims they make. Here's the archive (many older posts) https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:24 | 6449657 HopefulCynical
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AGW has a political and economic agenda, which involves forcing carbon taxes on all us peasants.

This money then goes into the carbon offset credits derivatives trading market, which was dreamed up by Algore and the Vampire Squid. The Vampire Squid can then manipulate this market to make the peasants' $$$ rain down into their pockets without having to do actual work, thus providing them with a replacement for the CDO/CDS market that crashed in 2007 - 2008.

NOAA is merely another bankster propaganda tool. The Sun is going quiet, and another solar grand minimum is only a decade or so away. The banksters know this, which is why the lying and hysteria surrounding AGW has reached a fevered frenzy in the last couple of years. The parasites know they're running out of time.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 01:24 | 6450423 EarthHuman
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I think the carbon market is better regulated than it used to be. I agree that it is still susceptible to fraud, just like any market. I think it would be better to have a straight tax on CO2 and then we wouldn't have to makeup "offset" projects. The tax would discourage consumption of the chemical that is detroying our home. The tax revenue could offset income tax. This plan is working in Vancouver. By the way the carbon credit market is very healthy, if you were thinking of investing. Take a look at the chart of GRN, and then compare it with USO. Do you think there will be more or less demand for carbon credits after COP21 in Paris in December? Your ignorance will be revealed to you in twenty years and you will think on my words with guile. You will then look at the profits you could have made in GRN over the net years and cry.

 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 14:07 | 6452398 HopefulCynical
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AGW is utter bullshit, a complete lie. Earth's climate is in a constant state of flux, but human CO2 emissions have fuck-all to do with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Mx0_8YEtg

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:19 | 6453712 EarthHuman
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Your ability to comprehend scientific theories and research result and conclusions is utter bullshit. Please buy some oceanfront real estate.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:26 | 6449666 loregnum
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Even if the info is accurate (as stated, they have been caught bullshitting before so why should anyone believe them now), so what? Records will happen and I doubt people back in the 40s were going all doom and gloom when temps were higher than those before.

Also, these are records going back to the 1880s. How does one take 135 years worth of data and extrapolate that into a planet's history to say that yes, humans are this big problem. Climate patterns ARE GOING TO CHANGE NATURALLY so fuck, why can't it be changing naturally right now if it indeed is? So because (far too many) humans are alive that they must be in control of nature? Brilliant.

I also like how it barely beat the record of 17 years ago. Wow, doom and gloom!

Sickens me people buy into this shit but then again, humanity has been brainwashed into guilt trips over everything. Humanity is also by and large stupid.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:25 | 6453724 EarthHuman
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"How does one take 135 years worth of data and extrapolate that into a planet's history to say that yes, humans are this big problem."?

Answer: Ice-cores, numb nuts! Hundreds of thousands of years of air trapped in underground antarctic ice. Jeezus read a scientific abstract now and then. They are free. Yes climate changes for other reasons, but not as quickly as we are seeing now. The other factors (the Sun's intensity, tilt of the earth, Milankovich cycles) have been considered, but concluded to cause not nearly as much warming as CO2. That's right i said MILANKOVICH CYCLES, ignorant shepherds! And methane is 20x more potent that CO2 as a greenhouse gas. So all the "clean energy" from natural gas is negated by the massive off-gassing caused by opening up old wells and tracking them.

SHEEEEEPLE AWAKE

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:26 | 6449667 gwar5
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They already still recording data from heat islands like airport tarmacs in major cities to produce false high heat data.

Apparently that kind of cheating is no longer enough. Another clever way they're creating fraudulent data is to record hot temps, and then (oops!) when they finally get caught, they blame the 'equipment' and then refuse to adjust for the years of faulty high temperatures that were produced.

Mysteriously, faulty equipment everywhere on the planet never seems to record lower temperatures by mistake. 

http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2015/08/20/the_latest_climate_kerfuf...

 

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:30 | 6449675 Zen Master
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Joe Pesci sum it up pretty well:

https://youtu.be/g4bftQ4xxFc

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:33 | 6449684 Zen Master
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Arnold weighs in too:

https://youtu.be/c4psKYpfnYs

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:33 | 6449689 thecondor
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This is total bull shit. How the hell did this eve make it on ZH?  

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:27 | 6453732 EarthHuman
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Tyler Durden posted it because he is smart and has ears and eyes. It is not a repost. He wrote the article and used breaking scientific news. SUMMER IS COMING! Y'LL KNOW NOTHING!

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:43 | 6449738 kchrisc
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They lie about everything. Why would they lie about this?

Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:43 | 6449739 Chuck Knoblauch
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Stop spraying the planet fucktards.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:45 | 6449746 Ms No
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I think it would be nice to see some indepedent studies on how radiation can affect rain patterns, ice caps and wildfire potential.  It's still hibernation season here, 117 one day last week about 108 right now and jack shit for monsoons, can't wait until fall. 

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 20:55 | 6449784 George Washington
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Maybe ... or maybe not ...

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:00 | 6449791 q99x2
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NOAA like the FDA works for the NWO. We've entered a grand solar minimum. Denver just set cold records last week. It freakin snowed in the Galapagos this year.

Start studying agricultural futures. The crop seasons are shortening for the last two years.

Just to let you know. Anyhow there will be anomalies as we get farther into it. But, they always start off this way: extremes.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:32 | 6449901 Haole
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Word.

Many people somewhere are going to be begging for global warming someday if that minimum comes to pass.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:27 | 6453734 EarthHuman
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fing haole go back to Pluto

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:04 | 6449814 Zen Master
Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:07 | 6449826 SMC
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Zero Credibility.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:07 | 6449827 Non Passaran
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WTF is it with this climate alarmist bullshit on ZH?
One article per week.
I might as well subscribe to the Guardian.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 03:36 | 6450577 EarthHuman
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BRINNNNG BRINNNNG Wake up sheeple the alarm has been sounding for decades! You are so ignorant. Oh well i am laughing all the way to the bank with my carbon credits lol. Seriously tho, do you have kids bc when they get to the eigth grade they will be like "ur dumb".

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:10 | 6449834 bigkahuna
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OK ZH, stop eating the beans. Yer farts are blowing up my climate!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:28 | 6453738 EarthHuman
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Cow farts are high in methane

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:13 | 6449845 Duc888
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Fear not, the worlds short bus riding window lickerz have just declared a "jihad" on Glo-Bull Warming. So I guess they'll all stop selling oil tomorrow at 8 am then, right?

http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/20/islamic-leaders-want-a-jihad-against-g...

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:21 | 6449863 Joebloinvestor
Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:23 | 6449865 Government need...
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Good thing those corrupt NOAA bastards are monitoring the shit that really matters.  Cyanide'n'coal dust from China and lethal radioactivity from Fuckushima. The rest is 'just' tyranny.  

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:26 | 6449882 Why.Not.
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NOAA reports to Obama. Next question.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:30 | 6449887 jmc8888
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NOAA? They're like the BLS

Anomalies?  Also called WEATHER

Remember... we're supposed to now be getting Hurricane Katrina's every year... AND WORSE...

Yet it's 10 years later... and crickets.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:31 | 6449893 rejected
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At least a Werewolf can be killed by a silver bullet. This GW monster appears immune to everything.

NOAA can't predict weather three days in advance,,, half of the time they can't predict 3 hours. 

The extent in lying and bullshitting these people will do to get control of everything is amazing. They want to control the very thing which is the base for life on our planet. And just like everything else they touch,,, they'll screw it up. And when they do...

What planet are we going to move to?

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:36 | 6449909 adr
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Wasn't there supposed to be ten Katrina's per year by now.

Funny how we haven't had almost any major atlantic hurricanes in ten years.

To make it look like storms were increasing they started naming thunderstorms.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:36 | 6449913 Lookout Mountain
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So what makes this report less of a lie than what NOAA has already been caught telling?

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:39 | 6449926 SgtShaftoe
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I don't believe anything the government says.  That said, for those that are worried about carbon;  I have the super secret answer for you:  agriculture.  If exploitative agriculture in the USA was converted to a soil building system, like a permaculture system, all the carbon released into the atmosphere since 1900 would be sequestered in mulch, compost and soil. 

So to all the nanny state fart-sniffing busybodies:  You better all fucking have a compost pile as big as a house before you go around feeling high and mighty.  I had 80 yards and have used 60 or so this year.  Plant some shit bitchez!!

 

 

 

 

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 22:01 | 6449993 presk_eel_pundit
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I prefer my CO2 sequestered in beer.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:40 | 6449928 NoWayJose
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Fortunately we have excellent data from 1880, especially over the Oceans and the Amazon jungle, to compare this with!

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:43 | 6449944 IndianaJohn
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The sea surface temperature map shows where Algore has been swimming.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 21:45 | 6449950 NoWayJose
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All you need are two charts - one showing a gradual rise in global temperatures, overlayed with another chart showing a much more recent and parabolic rise -- in grants to global warming researchers!

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 23:30 | 6450231 Itchy and Scratchy
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Jose I'm putting your comment as #1 ever on this site!????

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 22:10 | 6450022 35 Whelen
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It's amazing what you get when you adjust data again and again and again until it's tortured beyond recognition.

Strangely, if you used satelite data since the time it was available, there'd be no record.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 22:27 | 6450076 Stay Frosty
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GHCN-M version 3.3.0!?   Well…the Gonads Hot Cold Neural – Moist data show my 100K sq mile pixel around Kansas “Near Average”.  We’ve got 55 degree low coming in two days.  In fucking August!

Please make them stop.  I can't fucking take it anymore.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 03:42 | 6450584 EarthHuman
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Holy Moly you must be the smartest scientist on Earth. Your observatoin about one season in one part of this vast planet has completely rocked my understanding of a sciencifically accepted theory! Tell me more troll!

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