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The Top Weather/Climate Events of 2015 (wunderground.com)
Layzej writes: With only a few stations left to report, 2015 is virtually certain to beat 2014's record as the planet's warmest year since record keeping began in 1880. The new record was caused by the long-term warming of the planet due to human-caused emissions of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, combined with a extra bump in temperature due to the strongest El Niño event ever recorded in the Eastern Pacific. Record warm ocean temperatures in the tropics in 2015 led to a global coral bleaching event, which is expected to cause a loss of 10 — 20% of all coral worldwide. Weather Underground recounts several other records that accompanied the heat including the most intense hurricane ever observed in the Western Hemisphere, the ongoing agricultural fires in Indonesia — the most expensive disaster in Indonesia's history estimated at $16 billion in damages, flooding in America and India, and record central pacific hurricane activity.
But what about the icecaps??? They are huge
Have you ever fallen asleep at the keybhanusdiog?
Not according to satellite data.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Climate change deniers are the new tobacco industry cancer link deniers. For those scientists that actually study climate there is no doubt that climate is changing and that CO2 is the cause. Only shills and those duped by the shills still deny it.
Virtually every glacier in the world is in full-on retreat.
Ice chunks the size of small US states have broken off of Antarctica in the last few years.
Rising surface temperatures in the subarctic are melting permafrost, permitting decay (with associated methane release) and destabilizing shallow methane calthrate deposits of unknown but possibly substantial extent.
You must have been really upset when the Laurentide Ice Sheet almost completely melted. 5 million square miles of ice up to 2 miles thick just *melted*. Damn those cavemen. Why didn't they think that their campfires 10,000 years ago would melt all that ice and ruin the whole Earth's ice-based ecosystem?
A Hockey Stick believer? wow! I didn't know you still existed. Did you not notice the IPCC remove the Hockey Stick from AR 5 ever since Steve McIntyre and others discredited the analysis. But even if we pretend the Hockey Stick is true, you still need to explain the Minoan Warm Period, Roman Warm Period, Medieval Cold Period, Medieval Warm Period (ya know, when the Vikings farmed Greenland, and buried their people in places that are now colder with 'permafrost'), and the Little Ice Age that is well-attested as correlated with solar magnetic activity levels (observed through sunspots).
I can't believe that any Slashdotters are so behind the times they don't know the Hockey Stick has been *comprehensively* debunked (not least because 70% of its record is based on a single bristlecone pine) and there is a HUGE amount of observational data (eg. stalectite records around the globe) that show Mann's analysis was at best completely incompetent and more likely deliberately fraudulent (based on his re-created methodology).
You can conduct ad hominems against me personally if you wish - but it just shows you don't have the DATA to prove your case. In fact, because the CAGW crew cannot refute the actual paleo data that shows natural climatic variability (and there is a LOT - when you start looking) then the only thing you can do is conduct ad hominems and talk about "consensus" rather than OBSERVED REALITY.
So bring data next time.