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[stocks]

SHHH... Don't tell anybody, but..."It's almost like there are weather cycles."

Yes, and getting more and more severe, possibly a symptom of uh...uh...uh...

Gaia-worship is so "2007"

Did everyone hear that Al Gore took 100 million in oil money from Al Jazeera?

What's next? Will Big Al start work on a coal-burning airplane??

[diogenes227]

SHHH... Don't tell anybody, but..."It's almost like there are weather cycles."

Yes, and getting more and more severe, possibly a symptom of uh...uh...uh...

Gaia-worship is so "2007"

Did everyone hear that Al Gore took 100 million in oil money from Al Jazeera?

What's next? Will Big Al start work on a coal-burning airplane??

I think it was 70 million but what's a million here or a million there (except when it comes to taxes, of course), but have to agree with you -- truly becoming one of the major businessmen, and most successful entrepreneurs of the last ten or fifteen years.

At this rate maybe he'll run for President.

[voltaire]

Places in Australia experiencing up to 50 degrees celsius.

I have had 44 and it aint pleasant.

That is 115 F and in shade and without the blast of the winds.

Those that suggest a few more degrees makes no diff have no clue.

Here is South Australia for the next week.

[diogenes227]

We already knew it was a blazing hot year in the United States — the heat waves, the droughts, the wildfires — but NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center has made it official. All told, 2012 was the hottest year on record for the lower 48 states, shattering the previous record set in 1998 by nearly 1°F:

It's Official -- 2012 was the hottest year on record

[stocks]

Global warming has STALLED since 1998: Met Office admits Earth's temperature is rising slower than first thought

Earlier forecasts predicted a much steeper rise in global temperatures
But latest figures from Met Office show slower rise than previously warned
Figures raise questions about the true danger posed by greenhouse gasses

Dr David Whitehouse, science adviser to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said: ‘That the global temperature standstill could continue to at least 2017 would mean a 20-year period of no statistically significant change in global temperatures.

‘Such a period of no increase will pose fundamental problems for climate models. If the latest Met Office prediction is correct, then it will prove to be a lesson in humility.

They put out the information on Christmas Eve.

By putting out the information on Christmas Eve they were just burying bad news – that they have got their climate change forecast wrong.
‘For a science-based organisation, they should be more up front, both about their successes and failures.’


Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz2HU254Atc

[Rogerdodger]

The past week has seen four of Australia’s 10 hottest days on record. David Jones, manager of climate monitoring at the Bureau of Meteorology, told Associated Press: “There’s little doubt that this is a very, very extreme heatwave event. If you look at its extent, its duration, its intensity, it is arguably the most significant in Australia’s history.”

"10 hottest days on record"...EVER?

The oldest records I can find only go back to 1890's. Most are from the 1900's.

For how many millennia has Australia been around?

The Indigenous cultures of Australia are the oldest living cultural history in the world - they go back at least 50,000 years and some argue closer to 65,000 years. One of the reasons Aboriginal cultures have survived for so long is their ability to adapt and change over time. It was this affinity with their surroundings that goes a long way to explaining how Aboriginal people survived for so many millennia.

So is this the hottest weather in 50,000 to 65,000 years? (As China and Russia freeze.)

Myopia makes everything a scary crisis.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 09 January 2013 - 10:53 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

Adjusting to Climate Change
"One of the reasons Aboriginal cultures have survived for so long is their ability to adapt and change over time."

Did you miss the part where the Aborigines have been "Adjusting to Climate Change" for 65,000 years?

So really, what is new?

Edited by Rogerdodger, 10 January 2013 - 11:50 AM.

[voltaire]

We already knew it was a blazing hot year in the United States — the heat waves, the droughts, the wildfires — but NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center has made it official. All told, 2012 was the hottest year on record for the lower 48 states, shattering the previous record set in 1998 by nearly 1°F:

It's Official -- 2012 was the hottest year on record

diogenes

You can't win, lol.

Lies, darn lies and then statistics means the non believers will never capitulate.

If their behind was on fire, they would call it asspiration.

[stocks]

Adjusting to Climate Change
"One of the reasons Aboriginal cultures have survived for so long is their ability to adapt and change over time."

Did you miss the part where the Aborigines have been "Adjusting to Climate Change" for 65,000 years?

So really, what is new?

The climate of Greenland flipped to extreme cold after the medieval warming period. The local European farmers couldn't
adjust and died out. The local Inuit adjusted their fishing routine and are still with us.

Edited by stocks, 11 January 2013 - 07:27 AM.

[Rogerdodger]

"scientific research have revealed more severe drought periods within the past 2000 years."
It might help the fearful to be able to go back through 65,000 years of weather history.
But to those of us who's parents lived through the Dust Bowl of the 1930's, it looks a lot like just another weather cycle.
If this current cycle turns out to be more severe than the 1930's, that would only mean that it's the worst in 78 years...out of many thousands of years.


Federal meteorologists are saying that the drought is now second in size to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, according to an article by The Washington Post.
http://www.agprofess...11.html?ref=811

Similar conditions developed during the latter half of the 1800's, and a 9-year drought from 1858 through 1866.

From NOAA:
Drought is defined as a period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently long enough to cause a hydrological imbalance. For the Plains States, drought has been a recurring theme throughout the ages, with marked impacts on society tracing back as early as 1280, and more extensively during the past 100 to 150 years. A widespread meteorological network in place across Nebraska during the 1930’s provided the first detailed record of precipitation and temperature, documenting the “Drought of the Ages, ” a severe drought that lasted 10 years across the Central Plains.

While the “Dirty Thirty’s” serves as a measuring stick for present day climate change, other methods of scientific research have revealed more severe drought periods within the past 2000 years. Tree-ring growth studies in western Nebraska show the 1930’s drought was not that uncommon, and the “Dirty Thirty’s” actually pale in comparison to a 38-year drought that began in 1276, and another 26-year drought in the middle 1500’s.

SUV'S BELIEVED RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE AGES!

Edited by Rogerdodger, 11 January 2013 - 10:52 AM.