Global Warming Today....

[neutral88]

I am going to post dates and records highs for three scattered US cities, lets keep track for the next few weeks and see whats up!!! The way I see it, if Global warming exists the earth is gradualy getting hotter, so 2008 for example should set more record highs on the average than 2007....but just to give global warming a chance, lets see how many record highs have been set since 2000....

Seattle
April 30...1976
May 1...1976
May 2...1991
May 3...1992
May 4...1992
May 5...1989
May 6...1992
MAy 7...1987
MAy 8...1987
May 9...1975

Key West
Apr 30...1983
May 1...1973
May 2...1953
May 3...1973
May 4...1956
May 5...1873
May 6...1991
May 7...1956
May 8...1873
May 9...1873

Bangor, Maine
Apr 30...2004
May 1...2004
May 2...2001
May 3...2001
May 4...2001
May 5...1960
May 6...1960
May 7...1964
May 8...1957
May 9...1979

Dallas
Apr 30...1981
May 1...1902
May 2...1902
May 3...1964
May 4...1909
May 5...1984
May 6...1984
May 7...1955
May 8...1952
May 8...1952

Looked all these up myself on weather.com


So far we got:

AFTER 1999= 5
Before 2000= 35

[sup-rbeast]

A better indication would be to look up the avg. yearly temps and compare them instead of individual days.

[neutral88]

Why would this not be sufficient, if the averages are gonna be higher, you should break a record high fairly often...

[sup-rbeast]

But an average shows an overall picture of the year's weather...A high or a low once in a while can selectively skew what is really going on with the weather..if that makes any sense. It would be the same as taking a statewide vote for governor vs. just letting 1 person out of every hundred vote.

Here is about what you are reading....

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Polar scientists on thin ice
The Deniers -- Part IV

Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post
Published: Friday, February 02, 2007

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December 15, 2006

A great melt is on in Antarctica. Its northern peninsula -- a jut of land extending to about 1,200 kilometres from Chile -- has seen a drastic increase in temperature, a thinning of ice sheets and, most alarmingly, a collapse of ice shelves. The Larsen A ice shelf, 1,600 square kilometres in size, fell off in 1995. The Wilkins ice shelf, 1,100 square kilometres, fell off in 1998 and the Larsen B, 13,500 square kilometres, dropped off in 2002. Meanwhile, the northern Antarctic Peninsula's temperatures have soared by six degrees celsius in the last 50 years.

Antarctica represents the greatest threat to the globe from global warming, bar none. If Antarctica's ice melts, the world's oceans will rise, flooding low-lying lands where much of the world's population lives. Not only would their mass migration spawn hardships for the individual families retreating from the rising waters, the world would also be losing fertile deltas that feed tens of millions of people. This chilling scenario understandably sends shudders through concerned citizens around the world, and steels the resolve of those determined to stop the cataclysm of global warming.
But much confounding evidence exists. As one example, at the South Pole, where the U.S. decades ago established a station, temperatures have actually fallen since 1957. Neither is Antarctica's advance or retreat a new question raised by the spectre of global warming: This is the oldest scientific question of all about the Antarctic ice sheet.

Enter Duncan Wingham, Professor of Climate Physics at University College London and Director of the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling. Dr. Wingham has been pursuing this polar puzzle for much of his professional life and, but for an accident in space, he might have had the answer at hand by now.

Dr. Wingham is Principal Scientist of the European Space Agency's CryoSat Satellite Mission, a $130-million project designed to map changes in the depth of ice using ultra-precise instrumentation. Sadly for Dr. Wingham and for science as a whole, CryoSat fell into the Arctic Ocean after its launch in October, 2005, when a rocket launcher malfunctioned. Dr Wingham will now need to wait until 2009 before CryoSat-2, CryoSat's even more precise successor, can launch and begin relaying the data that should conclusively determine whether Antarctica's ice sheets are thinning or not. Apart from satellite technology, no known way exists to reliably determine changes in mass over a vast and essentially unexplorable continent covered in ice several kilometres thick.

But CryoSat was not the only satellite available to polar scientists. Dr. Wingham has been collecting satellite data for years, and arriving at startling conclusions. Early last year at a European Union Space Conference in Brussels, for example, Dr. Wingham revealed that data from a European Space Agency satellite showed Antarctic thinning was no more common than thickening, and concluded that the spectacular collapse of the ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula was much more likely to have followed natural current fluctuations than global warming.

"The Antarctic Peninsula is exceptional because it juts out so far north," Dr. Wingham told the press at the time. As well, scientists have been drawn to the peninsula because it is relatively accessible and its climate is moderate, allowing it to be more easily studied than the harsh interior of the continent. Because many scientists have been preoccupied with what was, in effect, the tip of the iceberg, they missed the mass of evidence that lay beneath the surface.

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.ht...2b95c45dcf&k=0

and here is the page linking to it -- [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]


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http://network.nationalpost.com/np/b...e-deniers.aspx

Sorta like the World News that JohnBoy and Billy make fun of?

[BlueWahooChambordDevil]

[pvfan]

Why only compare America? Were not the only nation in the world.

[1inStripes]

Yeah if you want to truly see if global warming is true and making an impact, check out China. It is by far the most polluted world leader.

I've got it! BWC and Bush will line up a giant asteroid to hit the middle east , taking out Iraq and Iran- filling the air with dust, cooling the earth.

http://www.theonion.com/content/maga...asteriod_solve
same place he got the image of the flame thrower, isn't it BWC?

[neutral88]

Cause America is all I'm worried about...

If everybody else is getting hotter, and we're setting record lows at night from time to time, then it's not global warming, It's area warming...

Stripes, I could care less if the forecast is 2,000 degrees in China tommorow, sounds good to me [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif[/img]