Heat wave smashes records around the world — a look at the sizzling temperatures

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They will go out of their way to hide the truth.

Not a f-cking thing in this Scientific American article is accurate.

It never drifted East, and its moving 40km a year not a few meters.

Earth Is Tipping Because of Climate Change
Melting ice and shifting rain patterns are causing the north and south poles to drift

By Shannon Hall on April 8, 2016

The north pole is on the run. Although it can drift as much as 10 meters across a century, sometimes returning to near its origin, it has recently taken a sharp turn to the east. Climate change is the likely culprit, yet scientists are debating how much melting ice or changing rain patterns affect the pole’s wanderlust.

The geographical poles—the north and south tips of the axis that the Earth spins around—wobble over time due to small variations in the sun’s and moon’s pulls, and potentially to motion in Earth’s core and mantle. But changes on the planet’s surface can alter the poles, too. They wobble with every season as the distribution of snow and rain change, and over long stretches as well. Roughly 10,000 years ago, for example, Earth woke up from a deep freeze and the massive ice sheets sitting atop what is now Canada melted. As ice mass fled, and the depressed crust rebounded, the distribution of the planet’s mass changed and the north pole started to drift west. This pattern can be clearly seen in data from 1899 onward. But a recent zigzag in the north pole’s path (and the opposite movement in the south pole) suggests a new change is afoot.

Around 2000 the pole took an eastward turn; it stopped drifting toward Hudson Bay, Canada, and started drifting along the Greenwich meridian in the direction of London. In 2013Jianli Chen, a geophysicist at The University of Texas at Austin, was the first to attribute the sudden change to accelerated melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The result startled his team. “If you're losing enough mass to change the orientation of the Earth—that's a lot of mass,” says John Ries, Chen’s colleague at U.T. Austin. The team found that recent accelerated ice loss and associated sea level rise accounted for more than 90 percent of the latest polar shift. Of course that includes ice lost across the world, but “Greenland is the lion's share of the mass loss,” Ries says. “That's what's causing the pole to change its nature.”


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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Could such a dramatic shift be so simple? In a new study published today in Science Advances, Surendra Adhikari and Erik Ivins, two geophysicists from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, think another mechanism might be at play: changes in the amount of water held within the continents. Like Chen’s team, Adhikari and Ivins compared data collected by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite, which measures changes in Earth’s gravitational field, with Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements of the north and south poles. But Adhikari and Ivins have a couple extra years of data. They also incorporated small-scale features within the GRACE data set that are more directly related to terrestrial water storage.

Although the predominant cause of the pole’s shift still turned out to be Greenland, a recent dry spell that has overrun Eurasia is also driving the pole toward the east, Ivans says. With less rainfall on a continent over time, it starts to shed some bulkAdhikari and Ivins think the sudden shift could be the latest in a series of decadal changes in drift that scientists have been unable to explain. Eurasia, which was quite lush 10 years ago, is not the only continent to experience a drought. “We think this flip is happening all the time,” Ivins says. “It’s a natural phenomenon that characterizes the entire Earth rotation time-series going all the way back to 1899.”

The data do not indicate whether the recent climate changes are man-made, but Chen personally believes the drastic shift in the pole has to be the result of human activities. Meanwhile Ivins thinks he will be able to tease man-made climate change from the data in another six months or so. Given that polar motion and climate variability seem to be inextricably linked, scientists can look at historical records of the pole’s motion (which date back to well before the advent of GPS and the GRACE satellite) and see changes in Earth’s climate. If those changes are less dramatic than the ones we see today, Ivins says, then scientists could say that global warming has a controlling influence on Earth’s poles.

Unf-cking believable.

Jet stream follows the geomagnetics.
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Yeah, Scientific American ... those lying weasels!

No one is smarter that a Random Internet Climate Expert!

Sez, a piece of glacier half the size of Manhattan Island just broke off from Greenland.

Glacier half the size of Manhattan breaks off Greenland | CBC News

FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS!! It broke off because itt's getting COLDER and the Greenlad Icecap is getting BIGGER!!
 
Walter

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Curious Cdn said:
Yeah, Scientific American ... those lying weasels!

No one is smarter that a Random Internet Climate Expert!

Sez, a piece of glacier half the size of Manhattan Island just broke off from Greenland.

Glacier half the size of Manhattan breaks off Greenland | CBC News

FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS!! It broke off because itt's getting COLDER and the Greenlad Icecap is getting BIGGER!!
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It’s summer in Greenland, of course ice will melt. You lefties are always crying, “Wolf!” Give it a rest.
 
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It’s summer in Greenland, of course ice will melt. You lefties are always crying, “Wolf!” Give it a rest.
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White nationalist climate change denier does not think the weather is unusual
 
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Actually that is totally incorrect

This is about creating a boogie man in order to force slavery on smart people using the dumbed down peeps. ( like using Muslim illegal immigrants to topple the EU...or central american illegal immigrants to topple the US. )

Maurice Strong was a tyrannical COMMUNIST with nazi tendencies...like his followers all are.

Record warmth in summer, if true, (Its been proven enough times that part of the global warming scam is an OUTRIGHT DISHONESTY RE FACTS ) IS a prerequisite for a coming cold age.
(You need humidity in the atmosphere to create snow after all...)

Of course one would not expect a lawyer to do facts. That was a nice try to minimize them, but if I was the judge, I'd jail the lawyer for genocidal mopery - for the public good.

July 4, 2017 : Coldest July Temperature Ever Recorded In The Northern Hemisphere
Posted on July 5, 2017
Greenland just set the record for coldest July temperature ever reported in the Northern Hemisphere at -33C.
https://realclimatescience.com/2017/07/latest-from-the-greenland-meltdown/
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Last week CTV made the usual hysterical claim about record high temps. Then later it slipped out that tge daily temps around the area were the highest recorded since 1984.

In other words to a perfectly meaningless moronic comment.

CAGW has been the most egregious dishonest piece of pseudo science since the phlogiston theory.

The fact that it has become a main plank in the political Lefts Platform world wide proves that whatever it might be, it is NOT science.

Sigh
 
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Walter said:
The beauty of socialism, it could give a flying f*ck about the environment.
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Yeah right. It is capitalists advocating all those solar and wind farms and electric cars. Actually in the case of Elon Musk you are probably dead on.

taxslave said:
Still waiting for this fake heatwave to happen. At least there is no more snow on the road this week.
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Did you miss this? I thought you lived in the US.



4th July weather: Deadly heatwave expected to hit huge swathes of US on Independence Day




https://www.independent.co.uk/weath...emperature-fourth-states-latest-a8429451.html
 
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Deadly heatwave expected
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Well...yeah, an ice free arctic was expected by now...what ever happened to THAT PREDICTION?


You have said on several occasions that summer Arctic sea ice would disappear by the middle of this decade. It hasn’t. Are you being alarmist?

No. There is a clear trend down to zero for summer cover. However, each year chance events can give a boost to ice cover or take some away. The overall trend is a very strong downward one, however.

Most people expect this year will see a record low in the Arctic’s summer sea-ice cover. Next year or the year after that, I think it will be free of ice in summer and by that I mean the central Arctic will be ice-free. You will be able to cross over the north pole by ship.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/21/arctic-will-be-ice-free-in-summer-next-year

Brought to you by the same people as the "hillary will win by a landslide" folks.

Oh, High Bar...
:)
Didn't see you standing there...
 
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JLM said:
Probably part of the same one that hit Quebec and Ontario at the same time and has every summer in recorded history. Canada still hasn't seen anything since what hit British Columbia in July 1941.
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But it does prove another AGW dolt wrong.
 
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Heat warning issued for southern Ontario for Sunday and Monday
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Published:
August 4, 2018
Updated:
August 4, 2018 6:53 PM EDT
It is cooler down by the lake at Sugar Beach under the trees and umbrellas. Jack Boland/Toronto Sun
TORONTO — Environment Canada has issued heat warnings for much of southern Ontario, set to begin on Sunday.
The weather agency says parts of the region could feel like 40 degrees with the humidex.
It says a humid air mass will move into southern Ontario and could stay there until a cold front moves in on Tuesday.
The agency says daytime maximum temperatures are expected to reach 31 degrees Celsius or higher for both Sunday and Monday.
Overnight minimums will only fall to 20 degrees Celsius, providing little relief.
http://torontosun.com/news/local-news/heat-warning-issued-for-southern-ontario-for-sunday-and-monday
 
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Oooops! Sorry about the frying pan in the face MF! I didn't know it was supposed to be a pie.
 
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