Meteorologist: Heat wave shows global warming is real

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Kevin Cole

Omaha meteorologist John Pollack said Monday that he believes the heat wave gripping Nebraska, Iowa and much of the nation is a message from planet Earth that global warming is real.

“The Earth is saying that we can lurch from one climate to another year after year or we can commit to stopping global warming,” Pollack said. “Sticking your head in the sand and waiting for the sea levels to rise is not a valid solution.”

As with any individual weather phenomenon, it's difficult to make a direct link to global warming.

However, experts say extreme weather is a marker of the planet's changing climate.

FULL story at link.



Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20120717/NEWS/707179935/1694#meteorologist-heat-wave-shows-global-warming-is-real

[BamBamBane]

1. "D'uh" - Republican Reality Deniers (R)

[lovuian]

2. They are going to figure it out

when they are going to be miserably hot and thirsty
and there isn't going to be any place to run too


Mother Nature isn't Republican or Democrat

[Vinca]

3. Well . . . the meteorologist is obviously a Commie pinko socialist.

[tclambert]

12. "He's in league with Al Gore, I tellya!" - Sen. Inhofe (R-Oklahoma)

Sen. Inhofe was wearing a parka and woolly hat at the time, panting and sweating profusely, yet refusing to give in to "Al Gore's hoax."

[tru]

4. too late

I think it is probably too late to reverse catastrophic global warming, even if there was a massive effort, which there won't be. Obama seems oblivious.

[vlyons]

5. A few more years of withered corn, maize, and soy bean crops might persuade farmers.

Then of course, bread at $6/loaf, ground beef at $8/lb might persuade some consumers. But it's not going to be a few more years is it? How about 10 yrs of this? 15 yrs? 25 yrs? That the GOP denies climate change shows just how bankrupt is the Republican brand.

[jimmil]

6. Weather is not climate.

Not defending GW deniers but weather is not climate. It appears that some who are quick to jump on the band wagon during the winter months when deniers howl about how cold it is and smugly denounce global warming must remember a blade cuts two ways. What we are experiencing is simply weather. One year does not indicate a change in the climate or even a trend in weather patterns.

[rexcat]

7. Try this video...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101741649

[RC]

8. Maybe this will help

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This image shows the instrumental record of global average w:temperatures as compiled by the w:NASA's w:Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The data set used follows the methodology outlined by Hansen, J., et al. (2006) "Global temperature change". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 103: 14288-14293. Following the common practice of the w:IPCC, the zero on this figure is the mean temperature from 1961-1990. This figure was originally prepared by Robert A. Rohde from publicly available data and is incorporated into the Global Warming Art project.

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[cstanleytech]

17. Interesting graph RC, it kinda reflects

when we (humans) started really expanding the size of our cities and began paving even more and more roads.
I wonder if that was the real tipping point because after all with fewer trees to shade the earth and more roads and buildings to absorb that energy surely it was bound to have an impact.

[CreekDog]

9. Weather is part of climate

Earlier hurricane seasons, more dramatic shifts in weather are features of a changing climate.

[JDPriestly]

10. Weather is not climate. True.

But melting ice in the Antarctic and increasing acid in the oceans are. And combined with extreme weather climates and noticeable changes in the currents and paths of the winds around the world, extreme weather conditions are symptoms of a bigger problem.

Here is a resource for those who do not understand climate change:


Climate Change FAQ
QUESTION: If climate changes naturally over time, why isn't the current warming just another natural cycle?

ANSWER: Earth's climate does change naturally, but the current warming is not natural. Known natural causes of warming, such as the sun, have been constant in the past 30 years, so they cannot explain the warming of the past 30 years. The pattern of the current warming is also highly unnatural. For example, it is warming more at night than during the day; this is expected for CO2-caused heat trapping, because CO2 works at night, whereas natural warming would be more in the day. A long list of similar patterns (a "fingerprint" of human-caused warming) proves conclusively that the warming isn't natural.
QUESTION: It snowed last winter! There can't be global warming! (Or: My neighborhood is cooling! There can't be global warming!)

ANSWER: The warming trend is superimposed on significant natural variability.
QUESTION: Scientists can't predict the weather next week. Why do they think they can predict the climate in 50 years?

ANSWER: If you flip a coin, you can't predict whether it will land as heads or tails, but you can be absolutely confident that you have a 50% chance of heads and a 50% chance of tails. Predicting climate is predicting the probability of events, not the actual occurrence of events. Global warming is a forced problem. Imagine loaded dice, and that every week you put more loading weight in them. The loading factor here is CO2. More and more of it every year, known for 100 years to warm the planet.

http://aquarium.ucsd.edu/climate/

[harun]

14. It's the CO2 PPM. It is branded silly names like "Global Warming" to

distract from the real problem.

The CO2 PPM:

?w=610&h=329

[tclambert]

11. A message from planet Earth? I'm sure Pat Robertson sees the heat wave as a message from God,

that he hates homosexuals. You see, because heat and homosexuality are related in that, um, . . . yeah, I got nothin'. But I expect Pat Robertson will find a way to tie them together.

[GreenMask]

13. What about Europe...

Isn't Europe unseasonably cold right now?

[Uncle Joe]

15. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Omaha Steve.

[sarcasmo]

16. I always laugh at the local weather people when they say the average high is 82.

I would like to see the average high of the last 10 years not the average high for a 100 years.