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Last year was the hottest on Earth since record-keeping began in 1880
Last year was the hottest on Earth since record-keeping began in 1880, scientists reported on Friday, underscoring warnings about the risks of runaway greenhouse gas emissions and undermining claims by climate change contrarians that global warming had somehow stopped. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesOH MY GOD (from an atheist) the runaway greenhouse gas emissions Giant is coming to get us all!!!!
Jan 17th, 2015 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0We are all going to die in the warm sunshine that very few people on the planet experienced but many died of in the snow blizzards.
Ah, of course, the snow blizzards were formed using the energy from the INCREASED temperatures. WOW, I wish I could work up scams like this guy.
““Climate change is perhaps the major challenge of our generation,” said Michael H. Freilich, director of Earth sciences at NASA” and I should point out that without this load of horse shit NASA would be penniless and I would be out on the street.
“Some experts think the weather pattern that produced those American extremes is an indirect consequence of the release of greenhouse gases, though that is not proven.”
So it's just an OPINION then! I know somebody who will be impressed by that one.
The new republican congress will defund this malarky at Nasa and anywhere else they can find it.
Jan 17th, 2015 - 01:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We will leave very hot things here. Until the Gulf Stream disappear!
Jan 17th, 2015 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And a new ice age happens ...
3. I'd be more worried about the climate changed you caused by deforestation. San Paulo is and has been in a drought for a long time
Jan 17th, 2015 - 04:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not too much water left
Not even enough to keep it on at night
Silly Marxists.
I'm still amazed that people who are seemingly rational when it comes to the Falkland Islands can be so ignorant with regards to climate change. Our climate is changing and it is in part due to our use of fossil fuels. Virtually all of the experts agree on this.
Jan 18th, 2015 - 03:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#4 Given that the entire state of California has been in drought for a considerable amount of time (largely due to how water is used) perhaps you should rethink your gloating.
@ 5 inthegutter
Jan 18th, 2015 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I know you live in the UK.
The problem with these particular climate change wonks (NASA) is:
1) they are proven liars;
2) they distort the information due to ‘calibration’ problems;
3) they compare apples with oranges without qualifying what they are up to;
4) they have no role in space exploration (NASA are not really doing any) and without this little hot potato they would be out of a job;
5) there are more, equally qualified scientists who disagree with what is happening;
6) we still haven’t seen a hockeystick;
7) what’s the weather like in the UK?:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/11353510/Britain-braced-for-coldest-night-in-three-years-with-an-icy-week-ahead.html
8) Yes, our climate is changing and yes, let’s say it is fossil fuels, yes it makes sense to cut out waste if only to extend the time period to zero fuels. But don’t let’s panic and kill our society with taxes to ‘pay’ for our ‘abuse’ according to many ‘scientists’ when the phenomenon has been around for such a short time AND these wonks have been so wrong over many things. Remember the ozone layer debacle?
#6
Jan 19th, 2015 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Points #1, 2, 3, 4, 6 are true to some extent. Science (especially climate science), unfortunately, isn't always as definitive as we would like, largely due to the huge number of effects and the difficulty modelling.
#5 I disagree here. Virtually every established group in the world comes to the same rough conclusions.
#7 So? It was cold last night (well not so cold in rural Sussex). We also just had the warmest year on record. Individual fluctuations are meaningless, it's the long term statistical trends which matter.
I don't believe in destroying our economy (who would) but I do strongly believe moving away from fossil fuels in favour of Nuclear and Renewables This is not just for climate change mitigation but:
- Energy security (esp. if Russia is going to continue to act like a twat)
- Security of energy prices: oil prices fluctuate all over the place, renewables don't.
- Even in the UK pollution from fossil fuels (mostly cars) causes massive public health effects.
- The UK is a net importer of fossil fuels, moving to UK based renewables (and low energy economy in general) will help our economy (balance of payments etc.).
#8 You mean the way that CFCs were fucking up the Ozone layer and we got together to enact legislation to ban them?
@ 7 inthegutter
Jan 19th, 2015 - 04:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 07) that's the point: it IS statistical date that counts and NASA have consistently muddied the water (literally) on this so no one can tell what is what.
I agree with the nuclear option especially with fuel cell technology starting to appear in upmarket cars.
8) And have you seen the size of the 'hole'? It's no smaller at all according to Australia who are REALLY at risk. Now NASA 'claim' it's the nanotechnology particles in aerosols, but they can't give ANY evidence so it's an 'opinion'.
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