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Faygo Kid

(21,477 posts)
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 02:32 PM Oct 2015

2015 on track to be Earth's warmest year since the 600s

Source: USA Today

Fueled by a combination of man-made global warming and the natural El Niño climate cycle, 2015 remains on pace to be the warmest year since records began in 1880, federal scientists announced Wednesday, smashing a record set just last year.

But going back even farther, before instrumental records, 2015 will almost certainly be the Earth's warmest year since the 600s — that's before the Crusades, the fall of the Mayan Civilization and the Viking invasions of Europe.

Current temperatures are unprecedented for at least 1,400 years, according to the most recent United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which met last year. Climate scientists can tell that by analyzing ice cores, lake sediments and tree rings to determine the air and sea temperatures of past centuries and millennia.

The warmth back in the 600s was at the tail end of a natural warming cycle that had begun after the most recent ice age. . .

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/10/21/2015-earths-warmest-year-climate-change/74324378/



We continue to ignore this at our peril. But that eminent scientist, Rush, says it's all a hoax - so What, Me Worry?

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forest444

(5,902 posts)
1. Which makes sense,
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 02:52 PM
Oct 2015

given that most Republicans are on track to becoming the most medieval since the 600s.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
2. And no one wants to give up trips through the coffee bar drive through just so the great, great
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 03:05 PM
Oct 2015

grandkids will be able to grow food on a too hot planet.



You can't breed your way to a better future. You have to fix the adults first.

HoosierCowboy

(561 posts)
13. My Solution
Sat Oct 24, 2015, 10:48 AM
Oct 2015

Create a Climate Change Denier Registry. When there's no more food because of AGW, they'll be eaten first, along with their offspring.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
15. Irony. The last thing we eat would then be more fossil fuel-driven protein, like the kind that
Sat Oct 24, 2015, 11:54 AM
Oct 2015

led to our demise.

tclambert

(11,080 posts)
3. Darn that Al Gore and his 69,000 co-conspirators!
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 03:25 PM
Oct 2015

That's the number Dr. James Powell identified, counting climate scientists who authored or co-authored 24,000 peer-reviewed papers on climate change. He found 5 peer-reviewed papers that rejected man-made climate change, with only 4 authors.

The only logical conclusion we can reach is that Al Gore has found a way to corrupt 99.996% of all climate scientists, recruiting over 69,000 of them to support his hoax. No other explanation can possibly exist . . . or could it?

progressoid

(49,827 posts)
6. Yup. And they're all making money on this hoax too!
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 03:51 PM
Oct 2015

That's what the AM radio and facebook keep telling me!1!!

 

Travis_0004

(5,417 posts)
7. i would bet my carbon footprint is smaller than Al Gore
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 04:01 PM
Oct 2015

I dont have a 10000 sq foot house to heat and maintain.

maxsolomon

(32,992 posts)
8. your point being? that he's a hypocrite?
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 05:06 PM
Oct 2015

therefore what?

does that invalidate climate change science? or gore's advocacy?

EEO

(1,620 posts)
4. Time to reframe climate change for the GOP...
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 03:26 PM
Oct 2015

Climate Change Reframed for GOP: "Oceans Invading U.S."
http://www.theniladmirari.com/2015/10/climate-change-reframed-for-gop-as-oceans-invading-united-states.html

WASHINGTON (The Nil Admirari) - Today, climate change scientists reframed their argument to appeal to Republicans by releasing "Oceans Invading U.S," a new documentary film warning Americans about a slow, insidious invasion of American soil by tyrannical oceans that surround the United States. TNA viewed the 10-minute film, which asserted, "true patriots must defend America by starving the communist-fascist oceans of an anti-American, possibly Muslim, substance called carbon dioxide."

Myrina

(12,296 posts)
5. What goes up, must come down ...
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 03:34 PM
Oct 2015

... question is, how far out of balance is everything going to get before the NEXT ice age starts up to cleanse the planet, and is there anything we can actually do at this point - or are we officially over the edge?

NickB79

(19,114 posts)
14. The best science so far indicates it will take tens of thousands of years to scrub all that carbon
Sat Oct 24, 2015, 11:18 AM
Oct 2015

Through natural processes.

And because of the knock-on effects of carbon in the atmosphere, the planet will keep warming for many hundreds of years to come just based on the current atmospheric carbon load, so ultimately we could see warming of 8-10C as the permafrost thaws and methane vents out.

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