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Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com)
According to a new report released on Tuesday by the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the Arctic had its second-hottest year on record in 2018. "Arctic air temperatures for the past five years have exceeded all previous records since 1900," according to the annual NOAA study, the 2018 Arctic Report Card, which said the year was second only to 2016 in overall warmth in the region. Reuters reports: The study said the Arctic warming continues at about double the rate of the rest of the planet, and that the trend appears to be altering the shape and strength of the jet stream air current that influences weather in the Northern Hemisphere. "Growing atmospheric warmth in the Arctic results in a sluggish and unusually wavy jet-stream that coincided with abnormal weather events," it said, noting that the changing patterns have often brought unusually frigid temperatures to areas south of the Arctic Circle. Some examples are "a swarm of severe winter storms in the eastern United States in 2018, and the extreme cold outbreak in Europe in March 2018 known as 'the Beast from the East.'"
So what's to worry, it's colder than it was before. See? It's not getting warmer, it's getting colder!
(And yes, this is sarcasm. It's actually pretty sad that it is necessary to explicitly say so...)
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Since even the president of the US is convinced that global warming is a Chinese hoax, we have to be impressed by the way China is playing this game. The Chinese manage to really create ever warmer weather year after year, just to fool us into thinking global warming is real. They are truly brilliant.
You're right. The Earth has been both warmer and cooler in the past. What's your fucking point?
As coastal cities continue to flood, should we just say, "Well, we're not going to do anything about it, because it happened before in the pre-cambrian era?"
I don't respond to AC's.
Did you know the temperature of the whole universe used to be over a billion degrees and nobody died at all back then?
Did you know the arctic has actually cooled considerably since July?
Is this going far enough that I need to point out it's meant as parody? I seriously hope it is.
"it's okay when my house is flooded, because 1 billion years ago it was an ocean"
We are not measuring things on a geological scale, but in human terms. So your argument is invalid. During most of the 4.543 billion years that earths exists, it was not habitable by humans. And even during long periods when earth was more or less habitable, most places where people live now, were under water or otherwise inhabitable. Also, please google "xkcd 1732" and watch, then think again.
Its not sad, its pretty normal. We have literally the best moderation system on the internet here. Avoiding the echochamber of reddit and the lowest common denominator of youtube comments. I would argue its the SOLE reason that this website still exists. That and people can post pretty much anything they like.
Its like flat earhers or any other wacky conspiracy that no one of consequence really believes. Its impossible to ignore the climate changing over the last 20 or 30 years. The willfully ignorant will always exist, I wouldn't let it bother you.
As a potential lottery winner, I totally support tax cuts for the wealthy
No, they really weren't. Stop using Infowars as your encyclopedia. Find me a peer reviewed paper in a reputable journal that said that, with proof that other scientists backed the claim.
You won't find the paper.
That's because it exists only in fantasy.
Give over, you can live your life in fantasy but don't expect us to live in your fantasy too.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Initially? It has been discussed since 1895. It was confirmed by NASA in 1968. It was in textbooks in 1982. It was in the nrws in 1992.
Whose initial?
And who oversold it? The scientists? Or the deniers in their claims of what the scientists were claiming?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Having lived in Alaska, I take this as good news. Cold is bad
Just wait until you find out how much Alaskan infrastructure is dependent on what is currently permafrost remaining permafrost.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
It's interesting that there was no large drop in sea ice extent or area this year to match the exceptional warming.
No, it really isn't. What's most interesting isn't extent, it's mass. i.e., the thickness matters a lot more.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"