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India Records Its Hottest Day Ever As Temperature Hits 51C (123.8F) (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A city in northern India has shattered the national heat record, registering a searing 51C -- the highest since records began -- amid a nationwide heatwave. The new record was set in Phalodi, a city in the desert state of Rajasthan, and is the equivalent of 123.8F. It tops a previous record of 50.6C set in 1956."Yesterday (Thursday) was the hottest temperature ever recorded in the country... 51C in Phalodi," said BP Yadav, a director of India's meteorological department, on Friday.
nuclear winter will do that + cool us down for some time.
If this trend continues, and it looks like it will, we will see "environmental refugees" increase. It will become more difficult to support life in certain parts of this planet, places that have had human civilization for quite a long time.
Sure, technology could alleviate many of the problems of living in a place with extreme heat, but that requires money and political will.
We have already seen the warnings about areas of the Middle East becoming uninhabitable later this century.
Where will these people go?
Who will support them?
How will governments deal with the crisis?
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
You know it's a bad sign when the weather report for the day is "sous-vide".
The only cure is more cowbell...
The rising sea levels will soon put a soothing cool around their ankles, nothing to worry about.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The only way to make progress is to start with yourself....I think I learned that from a self-help book.
Facts will never get in the way of ideology...
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
Now the PHB's won't have to even bother with H1B paperwork...the new hires can just claim climate-change refugee status.
Scruting the inscrutable for over 50 years.
I’m starting with the man in the mirror //
I’m asking him to change his ways //
And no message could have been any clearer //
If you wanna make the world a better place //
(If you wanna make the world a better place) //
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change //
(Take a look at yourself, and then make a change)
I disagree on the terrorism part when looked at over a longer period of time. It's only currently that a lot of terrorist are muslims, most likely due to the wars we're fighting in the middle east.
But what the hell's up with the greenhouse gas argument? Do you get gassy from schawarma or something?
Eat the rich.
Look at how many temperature records have been broken over the last 20-25 years.
http://imgur.com/gallery/5IbCK...
Eat the rich.
Weather isn't climate when it doesn't fit the narrative. Weather is climate when it does. Cue the armchair scientists.
Meanwhile, I don't think anyone really gives a crap if it's man made climate change or not. We need to treat the planet better either way.
OB xkcd.
the trend is sure to continue because we're coming out of an ice age.
Nope. The ice age ended ten thousand years ago, and the hottest years of the post-ice-age holocene was eight thousand years ago. So, no, we're not warming due to coming out a glaciation, because that warming already finished eight thousand years ago.
the stability of the global climate in the last 200 years or so is an exception, not the rule.
Nope. The current warming is exceptional: warmer than it's been over the last 2000 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What's more important, though, is that the cause is well understood. We know why the climate is warming, because we have very good measurements of other possible causes, such as solar variation, and they aren't large enough to create the temperatures we see. So, the worry isn't about the small amount of warming we've already seen-- the worry is that we are still emitting carbon dioxide, and the physics of carbon dioxide hasn't changed.
Unfortunately the record is invalid because at teh time everyone there was pretending to be from Birmingham.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Who is doing the weighting (adjusting) and how? What #define-s do they use in their code? Would they not stop "adjusting" before the results show the trend, which they sincerely believe must be there? See, what is "sold" to the public as objective recordings of scientific instruments are, in fact, results of "adjustments" by unknown programs using unspecified parameters...
How would you know? I'll bet you've never even tried looking for those "unknown programs" and "unspecified parameters".
You can start looking here. There are lots of links to NOAA's methods and reasons for adjusting temperatures and even a couple of graphs that compare adjusted to raw temperatures.
Or you can check out the BEST temperature record which is not funded by the government. This page describes how they process the data set and this page contains links to the code they use to process the data.
No one has destroyed any of the raw data. Some have deleted their copies of the data when they no longer need it.
But I seriously doubt you'll take the time to look into it for yourself and you will continue to gullibily believe the people who tell you those things. Unfortunately for you the real world will continue to respond to anthropogenic influences and if you live long enough you will find many of the things scientists are predicting will come to pass.