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The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record
New submitter NatasRevol (731260) writes The last three months were collectively the warmest ever experienced since record-keeping began in the late 1800s. From the article: "Taken as a whole, the just-finished three-month period was about 0.68 degrees Celsius (1.22 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th-century average. That may not sound like much, but the added warmth has been enough to provide a nudge to a litany of weather and climate events worldwide. Arctic sea ice is trending near record lows for this time of year, abnormally warm ocean water helped spawn the earliest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in North Carolina, and a rash of heat waves have plagued cities from India to California to the Middle East." Also, it puts to bed the supposed 'fact' that there's been a pause in temperature increase the last 17 years. Raw data shows it's still increasing.
bizwriter also wrote in with some climate related news: A new report from libertarian think tank Heartland Institute claims that new government data debunks the concept of global climate change. However, an examination of the full data and some critical consideration shows that the organization, whether unintentionally or deliberately, has inaccurately characterized and misrepresented the information and what it shows.
The Heartland Institute skews the data by taking two points and ignoring all of the data in between, kind of like grabbing two zero points from sin(x) and claiming you're looking at a steady state function.
lololololololol, were you expecting anything else?
You mean because global warming is real, we have no choice but to give far-left radicals everything they've been asking for for the past century? Wow, that's convenient. And it's mandatory, you say, or the earth dies? Ouchie!
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
In stead, they are tainted (nay, funded) by the widespread corporate anti-science that big business inflict on the planet.
Are you trying to imply that corporations, such as the cap-and-trade corporations Al Gore is associated with, are NOT big business? That universities are not big business? That EPA is not big business?
I'm just wondering about your logic here.
Further, by now there has been plenty of "anti-science" demonstrated on BOTH sides. It isn't very credible to single one side out without at least mentioning the failures of the other.
Is that how global warming works? It raises your core body's temperature?
And here I was thinking human's have the ability to control their body temperatures, silly me.
MABASPLOOM!
In one, he tells people to stop worrying about the ozone layer because "the Sun makes ozone." A half-truth: yes,
Not a "half truth", it is a fact. And since about 2000, the "size" of the ozone hole as gotten smaller and the minimum amount of ozone in the hole has gone slightly up. Data here. That's telling us that, indeed, the sun is making it faster than the CFCs that are still there are breaking it down. It also ignores the ozone levels over the rest of the planet, focusing on just one area.
It's interesting to note that the definition of the "hole" is not where there is zero ozone, but is just below an arbitrary limit set based on 1979 ozone levels.
Another similar fallacy: he says there are more trees in the USA now than when the first settlers arrived, so stop worrying about trees. I don't know, maybe that's true,
HE'S WRONG!!! but maybe he's right?
but he ignores the fact that we are cutting these trees down at a much higher rate than the settlers ever did.
And you ignore the fact that those clearcuts get replanted, so we're also planting trees at a rate much higher than the settlers ever did. Those trees that are cut down to go into building houses sequester a lot of carbon, and the growing trees suck up a lot of the carbon dioxide you exhale with every breath.
Forestry management is about ensuring rates of growth are higher than rates of depletion,
No, forestry management is about a sustainable use of forest resources. That's why harvests get replanted. By the way, I live in an area where logging is a large part of the economy (but not my employer) so I've seen both the cuts and the replants.