Satellite data shows up climate forecasts
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Yahoo!, attributed to the Los Angeles Times: "With water running out, California faces grim summer of dangerous heat, extreme drought"
“The dice are loaded for a lot of big fires across the West,” said Park Williams, a climate scientist at UCLA. “And the reason for that is simple: The vast majority of the western U.S. is in pretty serious drought.”
Recently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the temperature outlook for the transition from spring into summer this year calls for above-normal readings for most of the West.
This year, forecasters at Colorado State University have predicted 19 named storms, including nine hurricanes. This would be the seventh consecutive above-average Atlantic hurricane season, according to Patzert.
That’s because there hasn’t been enough rain to grow the grasses that often serve as fuel for Southern and Central California’s lower-elevation fires, said U.S. Forest Service meteorologist Matt Shameson.
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WMO: "Four key climate change indicators break records in 2021"
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Yahoo!, attributed to USA Today:
"Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere soars to levels not seen for millions of years, NOAA says"
FACT CHECK: Climate change measured in decades, day to day temperature fluctuation common
The slowdown from the pandemic did cut global carbon emissions a bit in 2020, but they rebounded last year.
"It's depressing that we've lacked the collective will power to slow the relentless rise in CO2,” said geochemist Ralph Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “Fossil-fuel use may no longer be accelerating, but we are still racing at top speed towards a global catastrophe.”
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From Yahoo!, attributed to Huffpost:
"Climate Change Is Supercharging Most Infectious Diseases, New Study Finds"
More than half of all human infectious diseases in recorded history — Lyme, West Nile, hantavirus, typhoid, HIV and influenza, to name a few — have been exacerbated by the mounting impacts of greenhouse gas-driven climate change.
All we need is a world war. Ooops.
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Well, it can't be an official catastrophe unless it hurts wallets, right?
Yahoo!, attributed to Fortune:
"It gets hotter every year, and a new study shows how much climate change is already costing the global economy"
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And now some French cheese is affected...
The Robb Report:
"Drought Has Caused France to Stop Making a Cheese That’s Been Produced for More Than 2,000 Years"
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Yahoo! News: "U.N. chief: Current climate change pledges 'far too little and far too late'"
Despite pledges from world governments made at past U.N. climate change conferences in Paris and Glasgow, a study by the Met Office in the United Kingdom found that there is a 50-50 chance that the world will exceed 1.5°C of warming by the year 2026.
On Monday, Guterres made clear that current emissions trajectories looked even more grim in the decades ahead.
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Yahoo! "Climate change made this summer's drought 20 times more likely, study finds"
It focuses on the northern hemisphere. I hope those of you in the southern hemisphere don't feel too left out...I'm sure there's plenty of bad news for you, too.
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I hope OP is OK! But, yeah, if I'm checking correctly his last post was July.
I would miss his presence. At first his posts put me off, until I realized that rather than self-depreciating humor, he practiced self-appreciating humor...but it was humor. And, yeah, it's hard to tell OP's opinion some times; I'll give the benefit of doubt and assume he was trying to get us to question things without necessarily telling us what we should believe.
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I think the OP did occasionally provide some sober statistics that counter the prevailing views on climate change.
Although his sources are mostly questionable. it certainly is a good idea to scrutinise the prevailing views.
Current government initiatives to close down coal fired power stations and force drivers to switch to electric will impact on the poor in our society who will turn off their heaters in winter and freeze to death or sell their cars and rely on public transport limiting their employment prospects. If we are pushing people down this path then the reasons for the panic need to be very very robust.
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Welcome back, OP!
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Yahoo!: "2020 wildfire season in California wiped away 16 years of climate gains"
Sometimes you just can't win.
Sometimes I suppose an Optimist would say they broke even rather than having 30+ years of loss.
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Yahoo!, attributed to CBS News: "Expert identifies 'key culprit' in mass die-off of Alaska snow crabs"
According to an annual survey of the Bering Sea floor carried out by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, estimates for the crustaceans' total numbers fell to about 1.9 billion in 2022, down from 11.7 billion in 2018, or a reduction of about 84 percent.
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Have understood that by my extensive reading on this topic that , this planet goes through , has gone through repeated ice ages over the eons the planet has existed. Part of the process of ice ages maturing is global warming.
(As in a predecessor to the actual ice age.) . Am thinking all that can be done is adaptation to circumstances as they progress. Some people may believe decreasing green house gases may help or even delay the enevitable. But these things Will eventually happen regardless of our activities . Obviously stupid activities like Warfare, especially nuclear
Would probably hasten the progression of this situation.
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