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The Science of Global Warming

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014 11:58 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



California drought linked to climate change


The atmospheric conditions associated with the unprecedented drought currently afflicting California are "very likely" linked to human-caused climate change, Stanford Univ. scientists write in a new research paper.

read more: http://www.rdmag.com/videos/2014/09/california-drought-linked-climate-
change?et_cid=4182602&et_rid=366206770&type=headline


Greenland More Vulnerable to Climate Change than Thought

A new model developed by researchers at the Univ. of Cambridge has shown that despite its apparent stability, the massive ice sheet covering most of Greenland is more sensitive to climate change than earlier estimates have suggested, which would accelerate the rising sea levels that threaten coastal communities worldwide.

read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/09/greenland-more-vulnera
ble-climate-change-thought?et_cid=4180715&et_rid=366206770&type=headline


Climate to Blame for Most of 2013 Wild Weather

Scientists looking at 16 cases of wild weather around the world last year see the fingerprints of man-made global warming on more than half of them.

Researchers found that climate change increased the odds of nine extremes: heat waves in Australia, Europe, China, Japan and Korea, intense rain in parts of the U.S. and India and severe droughts in California and New Zealand.

read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/09/climate-blame-most-201
3-wild-weather?et_cid=4180715&et_rid=366206770&type=headline


SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.


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Wednesday, October 1, 2014 5:24 PM

AURAPTOR

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Climate Change ! Is there anything it CAN'T do ?



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A professor is blaming climate change and overpopulation for the creation of the terrorist group ISIS.

Charles Strozier, Professor of History and the founding Director of the John Jay College Center on Terrorism and Kelly Berkell, research assistant at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, wrote a blog piece in the Huffington Post called “ How Climate Change Helped ISIS,” where they argue that a four-year drought in Syria, from 2006 through 2010, “devastated the livelihoods of 800,000 farmers and herders; and knocked two to three million people into extreme poverty.”

"If more Americans knew how glacial melt contributes to catastrophic weather in Afghanistan—potentially strengthening the Taliban and imperiling Afghan girls who want to attend school—would we drive more hybrids and use millions fewer plastic bags? How would elections and legislation be influenced?" Tweet This
“As the Obama administration undertakes a highly public, multilateral campaign to degrade and destroy the militant jihadists known as ISIS, ISIL and the Islamic State,” the two write, “many in the West remain unaware that climate played a significant role in the rise of Syria's extremists.”

“Many became climate refugees,” Strozier and Berkell write.
The pair offer a call to action for Americans to consider the link between melting glaciers and a stronger Taliban.

“If more Americans knew how glacial melt contributes to catastrophic weather in Afghanistan—potentially strengthening the Taliban and imperiling Afghan girls who want to attend school—would we drive more hybrids and use millions fewer plastic bags? How would elections and legislation be influenced?” they write.

“While ISIS threatens brutal violence against all who dissent from its harsh ideology, climate change menaces communities (less maliciously) with increasingly extreme weather.”

Neither Strozier or Berkell are climate scientists according to an article inClimate Depot. Strozier is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City andBerkell has a history of securities and corporate litigation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-b-strozier/how-climate-change-he
lped_b_5903170.html




Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Wednesday, October 1, 2014 6:58 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


algore's invention Global Warming.

Science.

Mutually exclusive terms.

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Thursday, October 2, 2014 2:31 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


And two of our dimmest bulbs show off their ignorance.

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Thursday, October 2, 2014 2:47 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


Of course, God didn't make us with Free Will so we could choose to stop doing stupid things and expecting different results.

We are all auto-moton monkeys, WE MUST OBEY!!!


SGG


Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
algore's invention Global Warming.

Science.

Mutually exclusive terms.

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Thursday, October 2, 2014 5:39 AM

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SGG - right about 1 thing... God didn't make us.

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Thursday, October 2, 2014 5:30 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Of course, God didn't make us with Free Will so we could choose to stop doing stupid things and expecting different results.

We are all auto-moton monkeys, WE MUST OBEY!!!


SGG


Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
algore's invention Global Warming.

Science.

Mutually exclusive terms.

Good thing God didn't also create the Sun, otherwise it might control the quantity of heat in the atmosphere of our planet.

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Thursday, October 2, 2014 5:58 PM

FREMDFIRMA


Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:
And two of our dimmest bulbs show off their ignorance.

One bulb, two voices.
Obvious as it is, why feed it by offering it a credibility so undeserved ?

-F

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Thursday, October 2, 2014 6:35 PM

WHOZIT


OMG! The story is from a site that peddles lab equipment! I didn't bother to check their site but I bet they have a story on Zombies.

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Thursday, October 2, 2014 6:45 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:
Originally posted by WHOZIT:
OMG! The story is from a site that peddles lab equipment! I didn't bother to check their site but I bet they have a story on Zombies.

If they belief that the Political Science invention of Global Warming is included in "Science" then how far off can their Zombie creation be?

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Thursday, October 2, 2014 10:13 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:
Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:
Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:
And two of our dimmest bulbs show off their ignorance.

One bulb, two voices.
Obvious as it is, why feed it by offering it a credibility so undeserved ?

-F


Oh yeah, SOOOO very obvious.



*laugh*

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Friday, October 3, 2014 12:24 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. - Thomas Paine The American Crisis

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Friday, October 3, 2014 1:02 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



Climate Change: Going Beyond Dangerous



SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Friday, October 3, 2014 6:43 AM

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Monty Python is soooo funny.

Thanks


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Monday, October 6, 2014 11:28 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2
014/oct/06/tackling-global-warming-improve-health-save-lives-money


Tackling global warming will improve health, save lives, and save money

New research shows there are many benefits from tackling climate change


SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Monday, October 6, 2014 5:12 PM

AURAPTOR

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Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:

Tackling global warming will improve health, save lives, and save money



It's a floor wax !

It's a dessert topping !



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Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:19 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/10/another-month-another-
global-heat-record-broken?et_cid=4218826&et_rid=366206770&type=headline

Another Month, Another Global Heat Record Broken



Women shade themselves from the sun in the Chinatown section of downtown Los Angeles. Forecasters said the fall heat wave would push temperatures well above normal from San Diego to San Francisco. (AP Photo/ Nick Ut)

It sounds like a broken record: Last month again set a new mark for global heat. And meteorologists say Earth is now on pace to tie the hottest year ever recorded, or more likely, to break it. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday that last month the globe averaged 60.3 degrees Fahrenheit (15.72 degrees Celsius). That was the hottest September in 135 years of record keeping.

It was the fourth monthly record set this year, along with May, June and August.

NASA, which measures temperatures slightly differently, had already determined that September was record-warm.

The first nine months of 2014 have a global average temperature of 58.72 degrees (14.78 degrees Celsius), tying with 1998 for the warmest first nine months on record, according to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

"It's pretty likely" that 2014 will break the record for hottest year, said NOAA climate scientist Jessica Blunden.

The reason involves El Nino, a warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean that affects weather worldwide. In 1998, the year started off super-hot because of an El Nino. But then that El Nino disappeared and temperatures moderated slightly toward the end of the year.

This year has no El Nino yet, but forecasts for the rest of the year show a strong chance that one will show up, and that weather will be warmer than normal, Blunden said.

If 2014 breaks the record for hottest year, that also should sound familiar: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2005 and 2010 all broke NOAA records for the hottest years since records started being kept in 1880.

"This is one of many indicators that climate change has not stopped and that it continues to be one of the most important issues facing humanity," said University of Illinois climate scientist Donald Wuebbles.

Some non-scientists who are skeptical of man-made climate change have been claiming that the world has not warmed in 18 years, but "no one's told the globe that," Blunden said. She said NOAA records show no pause in warming.

The record-breaking heat goes back to the end of last year — November 2013 broke a record. So the 12 months from October 2013 to September 2014 are the hottest 12-month period on record, Blunden said. Earth hasn't set a monthly record for cold since December 1916, but all monthly heat record have been set after 1997.

September also marks the third month in a row that Earth's oceans broke monthly heat records, but these are all-time records for how much hotter than normal they were, Blunden said.

The U.S. as a whole was warmer than normal for September, but the month was only the 25th warmest on record.

While parts of the U.S. Midwest, Russia and central Africa were slightly cool in September, it was especially hotter than normal in the U.S. West, Australia, Europe, northwestern Africa, central South America and parts of Asia. California and Nevada set records for the hottest September.

If Earth sets a record for heat in 2014 it probably won't last, said Jeff Masters, meteorology director for the private firm Weather Underground. If there is an El Nino, Masters said, "next year could well bring Earth's hottest year on record, accompanied by unprecedented regional heat waves and droughts."

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:53 AM

AURAPTOR

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Friday, October 24, 2014 12:20 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/10/another-month-another-
global-heat-record-broken?et_cid=4218826&et_rid=366206770&type=headline

Another Month, Another Global Heat Record Broken



Women shade themselves from the sun in the Chinatown section of downtown Los Angeles. Forecasters said the fall heat wave would push temperatures well above normal from San Diego to San Francisco. (AP Photo/ Nick Ut)

It sounds like a broken record: Last month again set a new mark for global heat. And meteorologists say Earth is now on pace to tie the hottest year ever recorded, or more likely, to break it. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday that last month the globe averaged 60.3 degrees Fahrenheit (15.72 degrees Celsius). That was the hottest September in 135 years of record keeping.

It was the fourth monthly record set this year, along with May, June and August.

NASA, which measures temperatures slightly differently, had already determined that September was record-warm.

The first nine months of 2014 have a global average temperature of 58.72 degrees (14.78 degrees Celsius), tying with 1998 for the warmest first nine months on record, according to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

"It's pretty likely" that 2014 will break the record for hottest year, said NOAA climate scientist Jessica Blunden.

The reason involves El Nino, a warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean that affects weather worldwide. In 1998, the year started off super-hot because of an El Nino. But then that El Nino disappeared and temperatures moderated slightly toward the end of the year.

This year has no El Nino yet, but forecasts for the rest of the year show a strong chance that one will show up, and that weather will be warmer than normal, Blunden said.

If 2014 breaks the record for hottest year, that also should sound familiar: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2005 and 2010 all broke NOAA records for the hottest years since records started being kept in 1880.

"This is one of many indicators that climate change has not stopped and that it continues to be one of the most important issues facing humanity," said University of Illinois climate scientist Donald Wuebbles.

Some non-scientists who are skeptical of man-made climate change have been claiming that the world has not warmed in 18 years, but "no one's told the globe that," Blunden said. She said NOAA records show no pause in warming.

The record-breaking heat goes back to the end of last year — November 2013 broke a record. So the 12 months from October 2013 to September 2014 are the hottest 12-month period on record, Blunden said. Earth hasn't set a monthly record for cold since December 1916, but all monthly heat record have been set after 1997.

September also marks the third month in a row that Earth's oceans broke monthly heat records, but these are all-time records for how much hotter than normal they were, Blunden said.

The U.S. as a whole was warmer than normal for September, but the month was only the 25th warmest on record.

While parts of the U.S. Midwest, Russia and central Africa were slightly cool in September, it was especially hotter than normal in the U.S. West, Australia, Europe, northwestern Africa, central South America and parts of Asia. California and Nevada set records for the hottest September.

If Earth sets a record for heat in 2014 it probably won't last, said Jeff Masters, meteorology director for the private firm Weather Underground. If there is an El Nino, Masters said, "next year could well bring Earth's hottest year on record, accompanied by unprecedented regional heat waves and droughts."

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Friday, October 24, 2014 12:40 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Runaway Glaciers in West Antarctica
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory



SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Friday, October 24, 2014 8:34 AM

AURAPTOR

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Now we're just recycling old stories.

May 2014

Lame.

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Friday, October 24, 2014 12:33 PM

STORYMARK


Says the fuckwit that keeps bringing up the debunked antarctic ice bullshit every year.

Crassic, I believe is the word...



“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov

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Friday, October 24, 2014 5:59 PM

AURAPTOR

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Even a mouth breather like YOU should be able to figure out when the silly antarctic video was posted, genius.


Crassic, indeed.

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Friday, October 24, 2014 7:37 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Even a mouth breather like YOU should be able to figure out when the silly antarctic video was posted, genius.


Crassic, indeed.

Perhaps you give him far too much credit.

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Sunday, October 26, 2014 2:07 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Yes, meanwhile... to repeat a point... that apparent "pause" in global warming ... the one rappy made such a fuss about not two months back... was ended as 2014 will become the hottest year ever recorded, tying the old record of 1998.

There is evidence abounding of global climate change - warmer GLOBAL temperatures (not your backyard, rappy! The world average.) Melting Arctic ice. (Yep, it's still melting. Far much less ice than ... say ... 50 years ago). Melting glaciers. Melting permafrost. Melting ice shields in Greenland and the Antarctic. Yes, sometimes the warming pauses, or the ice rebuilds, but not to the point where it re-traces its steps to 50 or 100 years ago. Small reversals that people like to take comfort in, because it gives their denial another day of existence.

Rappy loves ignorance. He revels in it. It is his religion, and he practices it every day.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

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Sunday, October 26, 2014 4:11 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yes, meanwhile... to repeat a point... that apparent "pause" in global warming ... the one rappy made such a fuss about not two months back... was ended as 2014 will become the hottest year ever recorded, tying the old record of 1998.

There is evidence abounding of global climate change - warmer GLOBAL temperatures (not your backyard, rappy! The world average.) Melting Arctic ice. (Yep, it's still melting. Far much less ice than ... say ... 50 years ago). Melting glaciers. Melting permafrost. Melting ice shields in Greenland and the Antarctic. Yes, sometimes the warming pauses, or the ice rebuilds, but not to the point where it re-traces its steps to 50 or 100 years ago. Small reversals that people like to take comfort in, because it gives their denial another day of existence.

Can you report on Obammy's plans to cool down that pesky Sun? With algore's invention of Global Warming on Earth spreading throughout the Solar System and warming up every planet at the same rate as Earth, even the planets on the opposite side of the Sun as Earth, we will need to get this Global Warming under control, and cooling down that Sol seems like the best option - so what is Bobo's plan? He already cut NASA funding so they can switch to racial sensitivity training and Voter Registration Drives under the guise of Science. What other Science will he invent, or fake, or denigrate?

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Sunday, October 26, 2014 5:23 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Wait a second. Do you really think that JSrapturd is making any attempt at a logical argument? Does it really seem like he is making any dismal attempt to sound sane or rational? Do you think his posts are anything more than inane blathering, with no apparent desire to make any sense?
If you keep arguing with a retard, and again argue with the retard, do you expect different results? I acknowledge your efforts at trying to educate the ignorant, but at what point do you decide to give up? There are quite a few reasonable participants in this forum which can benefit from your wisdom and knowledge, but clearly this one is a dying lump of cerebral debris. I applaud your efforts, but please don't overexert on behalf of the eternally ignorant.

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Sunday, October 26, 2014 6:54 PM

JONGSSTRAW



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Sunday, October 26, 2014 7:50 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER


Trends


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Sunday, October 26, 2014 11:15 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:
clearly this one is a dying lump of cerebral debris
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Like I said elsewhere, rappy loves ignorance. It's his religion and he practices it every day!

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Monday, October 27, 2014 2:15 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Well - I admit. I lifted the paragraph from JS'rap' - he was exhorting the rapturd to give it up. But it was SO exquisitely descriptive of the right whinge contingent, I just turned it around and it worked - beautifully.

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Monday, October 27, 2014 5:52 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Rappy loves ignorance. He revels in it. It is his religion, and he practices it every day.






Every remark in that quote is a intentional lie, and you know it.

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Monday, October 27, 2014 8:07 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Every remark in that quote is a intentional lie, and you know it.
Please provide tangible proof. Even your sworn oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, will not be sufficient.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, October 27, 2014 9:36 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Having a difference of opinion does not make one a liar.

Some are so obsessed with conformity & adherence to their totalitarian views, they'll say anything to belittle, attack & personally insult those who don't agree.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Monday, October 27, 2014 11:00 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Some are so obsessed with conformity & adherence to their totalitarian views, they'll say anything to belittle, attack & personally insult those who don't agree.


Do you mean like this? This was JS'rap's' post to you:

Wait a second. Do you really think that he is making any attempt at a logical argument? Does it really seem like he is making any dismal attempt to sound sane or rational? Do you think his posts are anything more than inane blathering, with no apparent desire to make any sense?
If you keep arguing with a retard, and again argue with the retard, do you expect different results? I acknowledge your efforts at trying to educate the ignorant, but at what point do you decide to give up? There are quite a few reasonable participants in this forum which can benefit from your wisdom and knowledge, but clearly this one is a dying lump of cerebral debris. I applaud your efforts, but please don't overexert on behalf of the eternally ignorant.

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Monday, October 27, 2014 9:48 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2014/Oct/NR-14-10-02.html#.VE71
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The Antarctic Ocean is a remote place where icebergs frequently drift off the Antarctic coast and can be seen during their various stages of melting. This iceberg, sighted off the Amery Ice Shelf, also has bands of translucent blue ice formed by sea or freshwater freezing in bands between layers of more compressed and white glacial ice. Image by Andrew Meijers/BAS

Livermore scientists suggest ocean warming in Southern Hemisphere underestimated

Anne M Stark, LLNL, (925) 422-9799, stark8@llnl.gov

LIVERMORE, California -- Using satellite observations and a large suite of climate models, Lawrence Livermore scientists have found that long-term ocean warming in the upper 700 meters of Southern Hemisphere oceans has likely been underestimated.

"This underestimation is a result of poor sampling prior to the last decade and limitations of the analysis methods that conservatively estimated temperature changes in data-?sparse regions," said LLNL oceanographer Paul Durack, lead author of a paper appearing in the October 5 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.

Ocean heat storage is important because it accounts for more than 90 percent of the Earth's excess heat that is associated with global warming. The observed ocean and atmosphere warming is a result of continuing greenhouse gas emissions. The Southern Hemisphere oceans make up 60 percent of the world's oceans.

The team found that climate models simulate the relative increase in sea surface height -- a leading indicator of climate change -- between Northern and Southern hemispheres is consistent with highly accurate altimeter observations. However, separating the simulated upper-?ocean warming in the Northern and Southern hemispheres is inconsistent with observed estimates of ocean heat content change. These sea level and ocean heat content changes should be consistent, and suggest that until recent improvements occurred in the observational system in the early 21st century, Southern Hemisphere ocean heat content changes were likely underestimated.

Since 2004, automated profiling floats (named Argo) have been used to measure global ocean temperatures from the surface down to 2,000 meters. The 3,600 Argo floats currently observing the global ocean provide systematic coverage of the Southern Hemisphere for the first time. Argo float measurements over the last decade, as well as data from earlier measurements, show that the ocean has been gradually warming, according to Durack.

"Prior to 2004, research has been very limited by the poor measurement coverage," he said. "By using satellite data, along with a large suite of climate model simulations, our results suggest that global ocean warming has been underestimated by 24 to 58 percent. The conclusion that warming has been underestimated agrees with previous studies, however it's the first time that scientists have tried to estimate how much heat we've missed."

Given that most of the excess heat associated with global warming is in the oceans, this study has important implications for how scientists view the Earth's overall energy budget, Durack said.

The new results are consistent with another new paper that appears in the same issue of Nature Climate Change. Co-author Felix Landerer of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who contributed to both studies, says, "Our other new study on deep-ocean warming found that from 2005 to the present, Argo measurements recorded a continuing warming of the upper-ocean. Using the latest available observations, we're able to show that this upper-ocean warming and satellite measurements are consistent."

Other Livermore authors include Peter Gleckler and Karl Taylor. The study was conducted as part of the Climate Research Program at Lawrence Livermore, which is funded by the Department of Energy's Regional and Global Climate Modeling Program. Work at NASA is a part of the newly formed NASA Sea Level Change Team (N-SCLT) and is supported by a NASA ROSES Physical Oceanography grant.






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Groundwater is Warming Up



Cisterns are commonly used in areas where water is scarce, either because it is rare or because it has been depleted due to heavy use. Image: Chris Zielecki


Global warming stops at nothing – not even the groundwater, as a new study by researchers from ETH Zurich and KIT reveals: the groundwater’s temperature profiles echo those of the atmosphere, albeit damped and delayed.

For their study, the researchers were able to fall back on uninterrupted long-term temperature measurements of groundwater flows around the cities of Cologne and Karlsruhe, where the operators of the local waterworks have been measuring the temperature of the groundwater, which is largely uninfluenced by humans, for 40 years. This is unique and a rare commodity for the researchers. “For us, the data was a godsend,” stresses Peter Bayer, a senior assistant at ETH Zurich’s Geological Institute. Even with some intensive research, they would not have been able to find a comparable series of measurements. Evidently, it is less interesting or too costly for waterworks to measure groundwater temperatures systematically for a lengthy period of time. “Or the data isn’t digitalized and only archived on paper,” suspects the hydrogeologist.

Damped image of atmospheric warming

Based on the readings, the researchers were able to demonstrate that the groundwater is not just warming up; the warming stages observed in the atmosphere are also echoed. “Global warming is reflected directly in the groundwater, albeit damped and with a certain time lag,” says Bayer, summarizing the main results that the project has yielded. The researchers published their study in the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.

The data also reveals that the groundwater close to the surface down to a depth of around sixty meters has warmed up statistically significantly in the course of global warming over the last 40 years. This water heating follows the warming pattern of the local and regional climate, which in turn mirrors that of global warming.

The groundwater reveals how the atmosphere has made several temperature leaps at irregular intervals. These “regime shifts” can also be observed in the global climate, as the researchers write in their study. Bayer was surprised at how quickly the groundwater responded to climate change.

Heat exchange with the subsoil

The earth’s atmosphere has warmed up by an average of 0.13 C per decade in the last 50 years. And this warming doesn’t stop at the subsoil, either, as other climate scientists have demonstrated in the last two decades with drillings all over the world. However, the researchers only tended to consider soils that did not contain any water or where there were no groundwater flows.

While the fact that the groundwater has not escaped climate change was revealed by researchers from Eawag and ETH Zurich in a study published three years ago, it only concerned “artificial” groundwater. In order to enhance it, river water is trickled off in certain areas. The temperature profile of the groundwater generated as a result thus matches that of the river water.

The new study, however, examines groundwater that has barely been influenced by humans. According to Bayer, it is plausible that the natural groundwater flow is also warming up in the course of climate change. “The difference in temperature between the atmosphere and the subsoil balances out naturally.” The energy transfer takes place via thermal conduction and the groundwater flow, much like a heat exchanger, which enables the heat transported to spread in the subsoil and level out.

The consequences of these findings, however, are difficult to gauge. The warmer temperatures might influence subterranean ecosystems on the one hand and groundwater-dependent biospheres on the other, which include cold areas in flowing waters where the groundwater discharges. For cryophilic organisms such as certain fish, groundwater warming could have negative consequences.

Consequences difficult to gauge

Higher groundwater temperatures also influence the water’s chemical composition, especially the chemical equilibria of nitrate or carbonate. After all, chemical reactions usually take place more quickly at higher temperatures. Bacterial activity might also increase at rising water temperatures. If the groundwater becomes warmer, undesirable bacteria such as gastro-intestinal disease pathogens might multiply more effectively. However, the scientists can also imagine positive effects. “The groundwater’s excess heat could be used geothermally for instance,” adds Kathrin Menberg, the first author of the study.


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Climate worsening watery dead zones




This handout photo provided by the Smithsonian shows dead juvenile menhaden fish floating to the surface during a dead zone event in Narragansett Bay, R.I. Image: AP Photo, Andrew Altieri, Smithsonian

Global warming is likely playing a bigger role than previously thought in dead zones in oceans, lakes and rivers around the world and it's only going to get worse, according to a new study.

Dead zones occur when fertilizer runoff clogs waterways with nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorous. That leads to an explosion of microbes that consumes oxygen and leaves the water depleted of oxygen, harming marine life.

Scientists have long known that warmer water increases this problem, but a new study Monday in the journal Global Change Biology by Smithsonian Institution researchers found about two dozen different ways—biologically, chemically and physically—that climate change worsens the oxygen depletion.

"We've underestimated the effect of climate change on dead zones," said study lead author Andrew Altieri, a researcher at the Smithsonian's tropical center in Panama.

The researchers looked at 476 dead zones worldwide—264 in the U.S. They found that standard computer climate models predict that, on average, the surface temperature around those dead zones will increase by about 4 F (slightly more than 2 C) from the 1980s and 1990s to the end of this century.

The largest predicted warming is nearly 7 degrees (almost 4 C) where the St. Lawrence River dumps into the ocean in Canada. The most prominent U.S. dead zones, the Gulf of Mexico and the Chesapeake Bay, are projected to warm 4 degrees (2.3 C) and nearly 5 degrees (2.7 C) respectively.

Warmer water holds less oxygen, adding to the problem from runoff, said co-author Keryn Gedan, who is at both the Smithsonian and the Univ. of Maryland. But warmer water also affects dead zones by keeping the water more separate, so that oxygen-poor deep water mixes less.

"It's like Italian dressing that you haven't shaken, where you have the oil and water separate," Altieri said.

When the water gets warmer, marine life's metabolism increases, making them require more oxygen just as the oxygen levels are already dropping. Other ways that climate change affects dead zones includes longer summers, ocean acidification and changing wind and current patterns, the study said.

Donald Boesch, a Univ. of Maryland ecologist who wasn't part of the study and works at a different department than Gedan, said there is not enough evidence to say that climate change has already played such a big role in the spread of dead zones. But he said the study is probably right in warning that future warming will make the problem even worse.

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