Heat wave smashes records around the world — a look at the sizzling temperatures
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So global change is going full swing......warmer summers and colder winters with every season running amuck somewhere and sometimes everywhere Unless the scientific weather gurus get their act together and explain what is happening because of human activity. the likelyhood many species will become endangered or extinct. Don't worry too much though, this old world has a penchance for eliminating many of the shit-disturbing species and conditions that threaten it's existance.
The girl guide and cub-scout motto is the one to be living by these days......_Be Prepared!
The girl guide and cub-scout motto is the one to be living by these days......_Be Prepared!
So what's the big deal then? If you're right and the world balances itself by getting rid of the problem species, the problem is solved... with an added bonus that many global warming fanatics wish for, the reduction or extinction of the human race. If you're wrong and this is merely one of endless natural cycles of the earth, then there is no problem to begin with. Win win, right?
Of course, if it were that easy, we would then need to find another excuse to justify wealth transfer around the planet.
Global temperature rises could be double those predicted by climate modelling
Temperature rises as a result of global warming could eventually be double what has been projected by climate models, according to an international team of researchers from 17 countries.
Sea levels could also rise by six metres or more even if the world does meet the 2 degree target of the Paris accord.
The findings, published last week in Nature Geoscience, were based on observations of evidence from three warm periods in the past 3.5m years in which global temperatures were 0.5-2 degrees above the pre-industrial temperatures of the 19th century.
The researchers say they increase the urgency with which countries need to address their emissions.
The scientists used a range of measurements to piece together the impacts of past climatic changes to examine how a warmer earth would appear once the climate has stabilised.
They found sustained warming of one to two degrees had been accompanied by substantial reductions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and sea level rises of at least six metres – several metres higher than what current climate models predict could occur by 2100.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...e-double-those-predicted-by-climate-modelling
Temperature rises as a result of global warming could eventually be double what has been projected by climate models, according to an international team of researchers from 17 countries.
Sea levels could also rise by six metres or more even if the world does meet the 2 degree target of the Paris accord.
The findings, published last week in Nature Geoscience, were based on observations of evidence from three warm periods in the past 3.5m years in which global temperatures were 0.5-2 degrees above the pre-industrial temperatures of the 19th century.
The researchers say they increase the urgency with which countries need to address their emissions.
The scientists used a range of measurements to piece together the impacts of past climatic changes to examine how a warmer earth would appear once the climate has stabilised.
They found sustained warming of one to two degrees had been accompanied by substantial reductions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and sea level rises of at least six metres – several metres higher than what current climate models predict could occur by 2100.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...e-double-those-predicted-by-climate-modelling
Inconvenient Science: NASA data show that global temperatures dropped sharply over the past two years. Not that you'd know it, since that wasn't deemed news. Does that make NASA a global warming denier?
Writing in Real Clear Markets, Aaron Brown looked at the official NASA global temperature data and noticed something surprising. From February 2016 to February 2018, "global average temperatures dropped by 0.56 degrees Celsius." That, he notes, is the biggest two-year drop in the past century.
"The 2016-2018 Big Chill," he writes, "was composed of two Little Chills, the biggest five month drop ever (February to June 2016) and the fourth biggest (February to June 2017). A similar event from February to June 2018 would bring global average temperatures below the 1980s average."
Isn't this just the sort of man-bites-dog story that the mainstream media always says is newsworthy?
In this case, it didn't warrant any news coverage.
In fact, in the three weeks since Real Clear Markets ran Brown's story, no other news outlet picked up on it. They did, however, find time to report on such things as tourism's impact on climate change, how global warming will generate more hurricanes this year, and threaten fish habitats, and make islands uninhabitable. They wrote about a UN official saying that "our window of time for addressing climate change is closing very quickly."
Reporters even found time to cover a group that says they want to carve President Trump's face into a glacier to prove climate change "is happening."
In other words, the mainstream news covered stories that repeated what climate change advocates have been saying ad nauseam for decades.
That's not to say that a two-year stretch of cooling means that global warming is a hoax. Two years out of hundreds or thousands doesn't necessarily mean anything. And there could be a reasonable explanation. But the drop in temperatures at least merits a "Hey, what's going on here?" story.
What's more, journalists are perfectly willing to jump on any individual weather anomaly — or even a picture of a starving polar bear — as proof of global warming. (We haven't seen any stories pinning Hawaii's recent volcanic activity on global warming yet, but won't be surprised if someone tries to make the connection.)
We've noted this refusal to cover inconvenient scientific findings many times in this space over the years.
Hiding The Evidence
There was the study published in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate showing that climate models exaggerate global warming from CO2 emissions by as much as 45%. It was ignored.
Then there was the study in the journal Nature Geoscience that found that climate models were faulty, and that, as one of the authors put it, "We haven't seen that rapid acceleration in warming after 2000 that we see in the models."
Nor did the press see fit to report on findings from the University of Alabama-Huntsville showing that the Earth's atmosphere appears to be less sensitive to changing CO2 levels than previously assumed.
How about the fact that the U.S. has cut CO2 emissions over the past 13 years faster than any other industrialized nation? Or that polar bear populations are increasing? Or that we haven't seen any increase in violent weather in decades?
Crickets.
Reporters no doubt worry that covering such findings will only embolden "deniers" and undermine support for immediate, drastic action.
But if fears of catastrophic climate change are warranted — which we seriously doubt — ignoring things like the rapid cooling in the past two years carries an even bigger risk.
Suppose, Brown writes, the two-year cooling trend continues. "At some point the news will leak out that all global warming since 1980 has been wiped out in two and a half years, and that record-setting events went unreported."
He goes on: "Some people could go from uncritical acceptance of steadily rising temperatures to uncritical refusal to accept any warming at all."
Brown is right. News outlets should decide what gets covered based on its news value, not on whether it pushes an agenda. Otherwise, they're doing the public a disservice and putting their own already shaky credibility at greater risk.
Just the facts man.
Poor Buffy thinks a two year 'drop' is somehow convincing.
Deniers.
Just as dumb as Trumptards.
Poor Buffy thinks a two year 'drop' is somehow convincing.
Deniers.
Just as dumb as Trumptards.
BREAKING: 33 dead in Quebec heat wave
MONTREAL -- Quebec health authorities say 33 people in the province have died from heat-related complications over the last few days.
The number includes 18 in Montreal, which has been hit hard by muggy temperatures for several days.
Public Health Minister Lucie Charlebois told a news conference Thursday none of the deaths occurred in a hospital or long-term care facility and that the people who died were already suffering from health problems.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/33-dead-in-quebec-heat-wave-1.4001041
MONTREAL -- Quebec health authorities say 33 people in the province have died from heat-related complications over the last few days.
The number includes 18 in Montreal, which has been hit hard by muggy temperatures for several days.
Public Health Minister Lucie Charlebois told a news conference Thursday none of the deaths occurred in a hospital or long-term care facility and that the people who died were already suffering from health problems.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/33-dead-in-quebec-heat-wave-1.4001041
When I was in Athens in 1987, the temperature hit 50 degrees, a record. Athens at the time having very little air conditioning, a couple of hundred people died.
I left Athens and flew to Munich, where it was a record-low 15 degrees, the high for that July day.
I'm sure that with your deep understanding of climate science, you will conclude that this PROVES global warming 31 years later.
Luckily it's been windy up here in the North which has been keeping things reasonably cooler. Unfortunately it's been raining a lot and it's been muggy after every rainstorm because the wind had died down after every pour. 
But WAIT, there's more..
Heat-related deaths seem concentrated in Quebec, but there’s more to the story
The number of deaths linked to the current heat wave in Quebec stood at 33 on Thursday, according to public health officials, with 18 of those concentrated in Montreal and its suburbs.
Meanwhile, in Ontario, where the heat has been just as oppressive and relentless over the last five days, the official tally still sits at zero.
That may lead to the conclusion that Quebecers are somehow more vulnerable to extreme temperatures, but experts and publicly available statistics suggest that it’s more complicated than that.
First — and perhaps most importantly — Quebec is somewhat different in how it records heat-related deaths. The province’s extreme heat plan allows health officials to work in tandem with first responders and emergency rooms to quickly track down potential cases of heat-related illnesses and deaths, according to officials.
In Ontario, it takes much longer to associate a death directly with the heat.
“A thorough death investigation conducted by our office takes time to complete and we endeavour to provide confirmed information as opposed to speculative information,” said Cheryl Mahyr, a spokesperson for the coroner’s office in Ontario.
That doesn’t mean there haven’t been any, however.
Not even the number of emergency department visits tied to current heat wave is available yet in Ontario. That data won’t be released until August, said a spokesperson for the health ministry.
Lifesaving AC
Air conditioning units can mean the difference between life and death for these vulnerable populations, said Dr. David Kaiser of Montreal’s public health department, and not a single one of the people who died in Montreal this week (as of Wednesday) had an AC unit in their home. In some of their apartments, temperatures had spiked to over 40 C.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4314088/heat-wave-deaths-quebec-ontario/amp/
Heat-related deaths seem concentrated in Quebec, but there’s more to the story
The number of deaths linked to the current heat wave in Quebec stood at 33 on Thursday, according to public health officials, with 18 of those concentrated in Montreal and its suburbs.
Meanwhile, in Ontario, where the heat has been just as oppressive and relentless over the last five days, the official tally still sits at zero.
That may lead to the conclusion that Quebecers are somehow more vulnerable to extreme temperatures, but experts and publicly available statistics suggest that it’s more complicated than that.
First — and perhaps most importantly — Quebec is somewhat different in how it records heat-related deaths. The province’s extreme heat plan allows health officials to work in tandem with first responders and emergency rooms to quickly track down potential cases of heat-related illnesses and deaths, according to officials.
In Ontario, it takes much longer to associate a death directly with the heat.
“A thorough death investigation conducted by our office takes time to complete and we endeavour to provide confirmed information as opposed to speculative information,” said Cheryl Mahyr, a spokesperson for the coroner’s office in Ontario.
That doesn’t mean there haven’t been any, however.
Not even the number of emergency department visits tied to current heat wave is available yet in Ontario. That data won’t be released until August, said a spokesperson for the health ministry.
Lifesaving AC
Air conditioning units can mean the difference between life and death for these vulnerable populations, said Dr. David Kaiser of Montreal’s public health department, and not a single one of the people who died in Montreal this week (as of Wednesday) had an AC unit in their home. In some of their apartments, temperatures had spiked to over 40 C.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4314088/heat-wave-deaths-quebec-ontario/amp/
You must remember in school when praying, not understanding the words you were saying but just repeating after the teacher
That is what climate change believers do just by rote....not understanding a damn thing about climate, just repeating what their gurus are saying.... the gullible fools!
Climate change not one heat wave but a pattern of extremes: Waterloo scientist
A University of Waterloo climate scientist says the scorching heat wave that set records in Ontario and Quebec over the Canada Day long weekend can't be directly attributed to climate change.
But Blair Feltmate also says that suggesting the two aren't linked would be like arguing that no particular home run can be attributed to steroids when a baseball player on a hitting streak is caught doping.
Feltmate, who is also the head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation, says while one isolated event might be normal, the world and Canada are seeing more extreme weather events — patterns that can be attributed to climate change.
The heat wave, which kept the usual crowds away from Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill, marked the highest-ever humidex in the national capital — and is poised to become the longest extended high-humidity and heat event in the city's history.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitc...tern-of-extremes-waterloo-scientist-1.4733222