2012: Hottest Year On Record

This summer is going to suck arse

 

I don't doubt that in the slightest... Of course many around here have their fingers in their ears while they scream "it's not happening"... Something about climate and tea parties just don't mix.

 

I know we had to buy less kerosene to heat our house with last Winter.

 

I didn't have heat at all last winter except for a couple of space heaters and there were only a couple of days when it felt cold in my house

 

Mmm gotta love that happening.

 

I don't do heat well. I am not looking forward to this summer. We have already had days over 90 degrees and it is not even summer yet. The other problem is very little rain.

 

I missed out on a nice winter this year and sure hope its not going to be like this next year. Summer is going to be long, hot and dry I fear.

 

Last winter was the warmest I can ever remember and the least snowiest along with week of 70 and 80 degree temps in March - unheard of in recorded history


Hotwater

 

Yeah, I live in Wisconsin and winter was like a walk in the park.

 

Same here... I didn't even have a working furnace... Most days I didn't need one so it was okay. This summer? I don't think will be so "okay"... we are already in a drought.

 

Might want to fix that for this upcoming winter from the look of it.

 

No doubt... but it's not an easy fix.

 

-99F degrees with a windchill of -137 F

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/NZSP.html

Well at least it's cold somewhere....

Hotwater :freezing:

 

Aesthete posted a picture showing prediction for late 2012/first 2013.

This is average temperature? Low temperature?

Older generations tell me many times about the risk of "next ice age" being much greater than risk of "global warming." I believe this 'global warming' will pass as history has proven other 'climate change theories'... as "a load of crap." I'm going to go grab some information on "next ice age"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

"In their June 24, 1974 issue, Time presented an article titled Another Ice Age? that noted "the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades""

"An April 28, 1975 article in Newsweek magazine was titled "The Cooling World", it pointed to "ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change" and pointed to "a drop of half a degree [Fahrenheit] in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968." The article claimed "The evidence in support of these predictions [of global cooling] has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it." The Newsweek article did not state the cause of cooling; it stated that "what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery" and cited the NAS conclusion that "not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions." The article mentioned the alternative solutions of "melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting Arctic rivers" but conceded these were not feasible. The Newsweek article concluded by criticizing government leaders: "But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies...The longer the planners (politicians) delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality." The article emphasized sensational and largely unsourced consequences - "resulting famines could be catastrophic", "drought and desolation," "the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded", "droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons," "impossible for starving peoples to migrate," "the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age."


http://www.iceagenow.com/ <---Is this meant for comedy or are they serious? I can't decide...

 

I really feel bad for you, having kerosene heat! I sell heating oil/kerosene and the prices for kero are ridiculous! I have oil heat and that's bad enough!

I believe that this winter was the warmest, however I'm still waiting for summer to kick in!

:toetap05:

 

Stopped reading here, though I should have stopped much earlier. Here's some advice: don't get your scientific information from Time.

 

I agree with you that even though climate change is occurring and carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, we can't be sure of the magnitude of its contribution to global warming. It's not something that can be studied in the context of a controlled experiment because the climate is much more complex. Furthermore, a runaway global warming scenario which fuels much of the panic over anthropogenic contributions is even less certain, as the magnitude of carbon dioxide's positive radiative forcing declines with increasing concentrations (absolutely no one will dispute this), and although positive feedback processes can occur (e.g., warmer oceans dissolving less carbon dioxide and decreased snow cover in the winter, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, resulting in decreased albedo) so do negative ones (e.g., increased cloud cover). The rate of warming certainly has not accelerated despite ever increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Computer models should almost never be trusted when predicting future climate conditions because they're only as good as the assumptions behind them. Does anyone seriously think that in 20-30 years almost all these models will not have been replaced with new and improved ones? That's how science works.

I do have to point out, though, that even at the height of the global cooling panic, global warming was still more of a concern in the scientific community. Nowadays it's much different; it's almost like a religion. It's difficult for scientists to publish research deviating from the so-called "scientific consensus" on anthropogenic global warming. The whole field of climatology is basically dependent on research grants it wouldn't be getting if climate alarmism weren't the trend in the field.

 

A very good point that more fear=more funding therefore it would be very beneficial to emphasize 'extreme global warming' evidence and deny any evidence of there being nothing to worry about.

 

global warming is a bitch

 

I'm not complaining.. ya'll have no idea how much more fishing I was able to do through the months of jan-march