What have we done?

[maryellen99]

This is awful news 🙁[link:http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/unprecedented-scientists-declare-global-climate-emergency-after-jet-stream-crosses-equator/|

[Kelvin Mace]

1. We don't care

All that matters is Candidate A, who is the one and true candidate, who is better than the Brand X candidate, will prevail.

[leeroysphitz]

2. Policy? What's that? n/t

[Svafa]

3. +1

[riderinthestorm]

10. Status quo is good! Incrementalism is best! nt

[Warpy]

4. The article cites the northern jet but the guy is pointing to the southern jet, which, in fact,

looks like it has come up above the equator. The northern jet over Asia looks like it needs a chiropractor but it's comfortably above the equator.

I have to wonder if this might be what's been shutting down storm activity in the Pacific this year. Storms have been trying to form off the coast of Mexico, only to fizzle out quickly.

I'm not ready to call for the end of life as we know it because we simply haven't observed the jet streams long enough to know what they do from time to time. It is a little worrying but it might fall into the category of weather, rather than climate.

[sylvanus]

5. Just on more anomaly, in an ever increasing list.

But don't worry your pretty little heads about it, just
keep on making them cute lil'babies and giving them all
the toys they want. Precious lil'dumplings gifts from heaven, the sixth
great extinction is for other folks, not YOU.

[B2G]

6. People are supposed to stop having babies? nt

[sylvanus]

8. Hell no! Keep having babies, lots and lots of babies.

I love squeezing their chubby little cheeks, and saying, " who's gonna have a wonderful
post-apocalyptic nightmare" "your are, you are!".
All wrapped up in your pink fleece (petro-chems), in your diaper (petro-chems), with your
little plastic ducky (petro-chems), in your crib made mostly with (petro-chems).
"Whose gonna get drafted to fight all those coming resource wars, climate refugees, and various unsavory types for the 1%, you are". You cuddly lil, carbon bomb.
Keep on having them babies, it's gonna all be ok.
Cause what we need most of all is more people. One of those precious little pumpkins
is gonna invent and iPhone app to take all the carbon outta the atmosphere.

Trust.

[B2G]

9. I assume you haven't procreated.

A silver lining if there ever was one.

[sylvanus]

31. Of course not. I, unlike most who express concern for the environment, am not a hypocrite.

I'm 48, married with 3 shelter dogs.
All of which have a smaller carbon foot print, than on
precious bundle of joy.
The worse thing you can do for the environment is have kids,
especially here in north america. (Do to the exponential amount of waste and energy usage.)
and.
What the hell is so bad about human extinction.
I'm not a human exceptionalist. Kinda a good Ol'fashioned nihilist.

[philosslayer]

32. If only more could be like you

At least for today, you are my hero

[JaneyVee]

29. Jeezus. Not having babies would also lead to mass extinction.

[Duppers]

17. Zactly.

Well said.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. Easy to solve...

All you have to to is convince the rich that they can still make money with [font color=green]green[/font] techno...oh fuck it.

We're all gonna fry.

[B2G]

11. He isn't a scientist at all. He's a novelist.

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[fleabiscuit]

15. Honest to God (if one subscribes to the notion) real, credible, working...

climate scientists have contributed articles mentioning their "bug-out' plans and places to go. I'm placing my bet on the Pacific Northwest coast. Although I wish that freaking nuke in Japan would get taken care of.

[senz]

30. Before you place your bug-out plans on the Pacific NW

read this:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

[ananda]

12. Geez

And the warnings have been presented to us ever
since the 70's as I remember.

[B2G]

14. In the 70'S they were warning about a new ice age. Nt

[fleabiscuit]

16. There was never any credible articles then about that then. It was a recent created hoax.

It is still sometimes propagated by the usual suspects in global warming denying circles.

[B2G]

20. It's not a recently created hoax.

It was actively pushed by the media back then.

[fleabiscuit]

23. If it is the "Time" article (I believe), then that is the one that was spoofed and spread.

Even though the publish date was back then, the cover was spoofed, but there is the original text still available on the intertubes.

[RobertEarl]

24. Climate signs then showed cooling

Climate signs now show warming.

I take it to mean we have altered nature so much that instead of cooling we have warming. That's how much we have altered nature.

[B2G]

25. WaPo published articles too

To name another. Most didn't cite sound science, bit thay didn't stop them.

[fleabiscuit]

26. Ya, nothing that was peer reviewed. nt

[HereSince1628]

19. Yes, I rememb erconcern about albedo and the reflective properties of dust

from human activity.

There was a Scientific American article from 76 ish that painted a cold doom

[snot]

13. Thank you; great post.

Can't resist noting, of the maps referred to in the video is v. cool, interactive, at https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/250hPa/equirectangular=-102.57,35.78,189/loc=-95.591,34.691 .

[lpbk2713]

18. The official GOP response ...

[maryellen99]

21. Pretty much says it all nt

[Aerows]

22. We've made a mess

and far too many people don't care.

[Agnosticsherbet]

27. I tried to verify this by looking for other scientific reports.

I found no other sources.

[petronius]

28. I am reminded of 'Canadian teen discovers lost Mayan metropolis' here

There's no doubt that weather and climate are changing, due to human activities, but upper-tropospheric winds cross the equator all the time. A couple of bloggers playing 'connect-the-dots' with a random day's map is not "scientists declare a global emergency," nor is the pattern shown to be "unprecedented"...