2012: Hottest Year On Record

Nature is a lot more resilient than most think. It always recovers from environmental catastrophe. In some cases it may take a couple lifetimes. But it will always prevail. When the human race can no longer sustain itself. Nature will recover all over again.

 

time to adapt folks! i spent the hottest day i've experienced hiking in a corn field yesterday. wasn't too bad!

 

We're not worried about nature, we're worried about ourselves.

 

Basically....

 

If we were more worried about nature than ourselves, we might be better off scaling back civilization completely or just going extinct. Nature doesn't really need our concern, though. I mean, we can certainly create tremendous ecological disturbances, but those will come back to bite us because we rely on nature, and then in the longer run, nature will repair itself and return to equilibrium.

 

Exactly. There's no "we" for me anyway - it's just a fiction. Me and a rainforest is as much "we" as me and the rest of humanity extending into the future, even more so - I am not going to experience these ecological disturbances far in the future so it's impossible for me to care.

Which is why people talk constantly about global warming while themselves still being part of the cause. Anyone who complains about greenhouse gases and drives a car or uses electricity should be shot dead or at least put in prison.

 

they obviously weren't monitoring Earth over 4bya.. earth was molten rock.. much hotter than by today's standards

 

this is basically anyone who claims to be an "environmentalist" and complains about greenhouse gases, global warming, etc.

I personally don't know anyone who truly walks the walk when it comes to the environment. I'm sure these people exist somewhere, but they're a rarity.

Its not really the fault of the individual. We're all ensnared in the same system.

 

When I was a kid it was lead paint turning kids into zombies, then CFC’s destroying the ozone, then acid deposition (or acid rain) destroying the forests, and now global warming -

hotwater

 

"In the future you would expect larger, longer more intense heat waves and we've seen that in the last few summers"


Ouch!

 

I wonder if there will be record cold winters aswell

 

shame about the u.k... what a disaster this year has been.

 

Last winter it wasn't... Probably one of the warmest on record for this area taking the whole season into account. There were a few days that broke records for cold also, but as a whole it was very mild without much snow either (another record broken, lack of snow)

Next winter? Who knows... Nothing is following normal patterns anymore.


I believe the day I posted that "Ouch!" it was over 100 degrees out and it's not August yet which is typically our hottest month.

 

It was the same here in the NE, I paid only $2,000 dollars for oil this past season which is the lowest amount I can ever remember. :2thumbsup:

Hotwater

 

We are in a moderate La Nina cycle, with a positive Arctic Oscillation. This allows the sub tropical jet stream to be dominate in the eastern half of the US. In turn, this lets warm air come up from the Gulf of Mexico, and keeps the colder air blocked up in Canada. This also promotes ridging over the west coast, again keeping things warmer than normal. La Nina occurs about every 5-7 years, so no, the trend isn't permanent. There isn't any thing abnormal about it- it's part of the earth's natural cycles. It happened long before humans were ever a factor. The earth is a dynamic planet, not a static one. If it were static (not changing), then chances are neither you nor I would be here.