Excerpt: "An 'unprecedented' March heat wave in much of the continental United States has set or tied more than 7,000 high temperature records, and signals a warming climate, health and weather experts said on Friday."
Over 7,000 temperature records have been broken in the United States this month. (photo: News One)
Earth Sends Climate Warning by Busting World Heat Records
25 March 12
n "unprecedented" March heat wave in much of the continental United States has set or tied more than 7,000 high temperature records, and signals a warming climate, health and weather experts said on Friday.
While natural climate variability plays a major role, it is the addition of human-spurred climate change that makes this particular hot spell extraordinary, the scientists said in a telephone and web briefing.
"This heat wave is essentially unprecedented," said Heidi Cullen of the nonprofit science and communication organization Climate Central. "It's hard to grasp how massive and significant this is."
Since March 12, more than 7,000 high temperature records have been equaled or exceeded, Cullen said, citing figures from the U.S. National Climatic Data Center.
These records include daytime high temperatures and record-high low temperatures overnight, which in some cases are higher than previous record highs for the day, Cullen said.
"When low temperatures are breaking previous record highs, that's when you see this is incredibly special," she said.
Cullen noted that this warmth is part of a trend that is pushing the spring season earlier by an average of three days in the contiguous 48 U.S. states.
The date of first leafing - the day when buds burst open - has moved forward from March 20, where it was during the 30-year period from 1951 to 1980, to March 17, where it has been for the period from 1981 to 2010.
Juicing Pollen With Carbon Dioxide
An online report (http://climatecentral.org) accompanying the briefing shows that some states have an even earlier spring, with Montana, Washington state, Oregon, Nevada, Utah and Connecticut seeing spring arrive five days or more ahead of the previous average.
This early wake-up call for plants and animals can have disastrous health consequences, especially for children, said Dr. Aaron Bernstein of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School.
Pollen counts are breaking records around the United States, Bernstein said, noting that allergies cost the U.S. economy between $6 billion and $12 billion annually.
The early heat stimulates growth in plants and the pollen season has gotten longer by one to two weeks over the last half-century, while the higher levels of carbon dioxide in the air stimulate pollen production in highly allergenic plants like ragweed, Bernstein said.
The rates of sensitization to pollen in the United States are also on the rise, he said, which means people who never suffered from pollen-related allergies may feel them now.
"As we juice these plants with carbon dioxide, we're going to make people have greater allergy symptoms," Bernstein said.
"Most likely the weird weather arises from natural variation on top of a warming climate," said Michael Oppenheimer, a geoscientist at Princeton and a veteran participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "What we're seeing now is not surprising in the greenhouse world ... It's just the beginning of our experience with the new atmosphere."
Oppenheimer was a lead author of the panel's path-breaking 2007 report that analyzed research by hundreds of scientists and found there was a 90 percent probability that climate change is occurring and human activities contribute to it.
That report projected an increase in heat waves, droughts, floods, severe storms and extreme temperatures as a result of human-spurred global warming, caused in part by rising emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide emitted by fossil fuel burning.
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This dome will of course be protected by a firey moat, genetically modified giant three headed bears and nuclear missile armed drones...
Let's say the GW deniers are wrong (spoiler alert: they are), and we continue to avoid taking action until Florida begins to submerge. What are the consequences (aside from having wiped off the face of the planet all the small island nations of the world – which would happen before Florida goes under)? Drought, famine, flooding, food shortage, hunger, forced human and animal migration, suffering, death and wildlife extinction on a massive global scale.
I am at a total loss, just given the clear choices, how anyone in his/her right mind could choose B.
Barry Commoner said that by the time the average person sees the devestation it will be too late to do anything about it.
You might want to look him up.
WRONG, children. The "90 percent probability that climate change is occurring and human activities contribute to it," is their same old pap, pushing the One World Gubermint CARBO-TAX - that won't change it.
What is 100% then? Poor old - mute and defenseless - CO2, responsible for all food and life, is the ba-ad 'patsy'. The 'fall guy'.
FACT: "THE SUN Sends Climate Warning by Busting World Heat Records,"
that ARE NOT man-made,
there's nothing we can OR WILL do to stop it,
increasing CO2 is a consequence of warming and
said plants require said CO2 (plus warmth) to produce oxygen.
ALLERGIES?
Look no farther than the CAUSE:
GMO 'Franken-food' and
New pesticides.
BTW. The Oppenheimer lot gave us the atomic bomb (AND nuclear power plants as a result of the guilt) really ought to keep their guilt-trips to themselves.
Man made climate change is a fact. If you don't like science, think about the tool you're using to write your comment. It wasn't invented by people who didn't believe in science.
It's most odd how the Nazis (National SOCIALISTS) took to communism like ducks to water - isn't it, Mrs. Merkle?
The sun is sending as much heat now as it did 50 years ago. The difference is that the greenhouse gases, of which CO2 is one, have been produced in ever increasing quantities by the famous industrial revolution beyond anything that has occurred since Homo sapiens evolved.
These gases are called "greenhouse" gases because they prevent heat from being reflected back into space as readily as before the way greenhouses do. While the mechanism is different from a real greenhouse, the end result is the same. That means that the cooling effect we used to get from radiating energy into space has been reduced so that the heat accumulates giving rise to global warming, of which the past spring has been a good example.
You now have no excuse to pretend that you don't understand what is going on.
Regarding allergies, I eat virtually all organic food with NO genetically modified ingredients, but my formerly mild allergies, including sensitivity to poison oak, have gotten much worse in the last year.
Regarding Oppenheimer, Robert and Michael are unrelated to each other, either by family or occupation. The former was a quantum physicist and the latter is an astrophysicist, by training.
Let's not let little things like basic facts get in the way of hysterics, silly 'greenie-house' theories and a good-ole yarn - eh?
That's what we need to do.
1. Climate changes. Period. Get used to it.
2. Global warming and global cooling are CAUSED BY THE SUN - AND they're CYCLICAL. Imagine that?
3. The ludicrous 'greenhouse gas THEORY' was started by the Soviets to 'hobble the west' DURING THE 'COLD WAR'. Ask Mr. Gorbachev who said, "It was successful beyond our wildest dreams." Now it's 'social engineering. AKA: Agenda 21. De-population anyone? Volunteers, please? Hmm, no takers. Thought so. Wonder why??? NOT!
4. So discredited 'GLOBAL WARMING' is now 'CLIMATE CHANGE' - adopted BY big business and the U.N. for a global 'green' carbon tax (nobody voted for) to fund 'science grants' plus One World Government (that nobody's voted for) AND the next CREDIT BUBBLE (run by the World Bank. PONZINOMICS that nobody's voted for). False economy cubed.
5. NO? Windfarms are unreliable, bio-fuel is wasteful and nuclear is suicidal - but they're officially subsidized BIG BUSINESS ... NOW. Mandatory 'SMART' METERS are deadly. http://devvy.net/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/alerts/326963794923/
6. It is about MONEY and CONTROL. Do not be surprised if they use HAARP for those ends (to nudge the jet streams and weather-systems with bursts of plasma ... heat).
7. A 'ROOF', repeat a 'ROOF', made of greenhouse gas, repeat GAS - of, duuh, THIN AIR???
WHAT ROOF Chicken Little?
--i
PS. Clean up the air and reclaim land organically and naturally with Cupressocyparis Leylandii.
To address your concerns:
Yes, global weather patterns are cyclic, and yes, there is a man-caused impact on global climate. They are not mutually exclusive. The question is, how much do humans influence it? The evidence continues to accumulate that it happens more than we previously thought, not less.
For a greenhouse "roof" examine some of the studies of the planet Venus-- interesting parallels.
I can't convince you of anything here in a paragraph, so I repeat: keep an open mind. It is part of scientific discovery, after all.
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