Study: Weak sun could offset some global warming in Europe and US
Global warming in northern Europe and the eastern US could be partially offset in future winters because of the sun entering a weaker cycle similar to the one which enabled frost fairs to take place on the river Thames in the 17th and 18th century, according to new research.
However, the study said any potential weakening in solar activity would have only a small effect on temperature rises at a worldwide level, delaying the warming caused by emissions from cars, factories and power plants by around two years.…
Britain faces FREEZING winters as slump in solar activity threatens ‘little Ice Age’
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/586404/Britain-freezing-winters-slump-solar-activity
Climate experts warn the amount of light and warmth released by the sun is nosediving to levels “not seen for centuries”.
They fear a repeat of the so-called ‘Maunder Minimum’ which triggered Arctic winter whiteouts and led to the River Thames freezing 300 years ago.
The Met Office-led study warns although the effect will be offset by recent global warming, Britain faces years of unusually cold winters.
A spokesman said: “A return to low solar activity not seen for centuries could increase the chances of cold winters in Europe and eastern parts of the United States but wouldn’t halt global warming.
“Return of ‘grand solar minimum’ could affect European and eastern US winters.”…
EPA Chief: ‘Climate Deniers’ Aren’t ‘Normal’
http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/23/epa-chief-climate-deniers-arent-normal-human-beings/
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told an audience Tuesday gathered at a White House conference “normal people,” not “climate deniers” will win the debate on global warming.
McCarthy’s remarks came as she was talking about the reasons why the EPA put out a report on the negative health impacts global warming will have on public health. She said the agency puts out such reports to educate the public, not answer critiques from global warming skeptics.
“I am doing that not to push back on climate deniers,” McCarthy told doctors, health professionals and others gathered at a White House summit. “You can have fun doing that if you want, but I’ve batted my head against the wall too many times and if the science already hasn’t changed their mind it never will.”
McCarthy then remarked how “normal people,” and not skeptics would eventually win the global warming debate. Implicit in her remarks is the contention that skeptics are somehow not “normal people.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/23/epa-chief-climate-deniers-arent-normal-human-beings/#ixzz3dvsT91dF…
Socialist Bernie Sanders to Bill Maher: Pope Francis’s Forceful Stance on Climate Is ‘a Miracle for Humanity’
Sanders to Maher: Pope Francis’s Forceful Stance on Climate Change Is ‘a Miracle for Humanity’
http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/23/bernie-sanders-bill-maher/
Sanders went on Real Time with Bill Maher to talk about his…
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Analysis: Pope’s climate encyclical ‘reads like the Unabomber Manifesto’
Skeptics Have it Wrong?! Pope Francis’s New Encyclical Isn’t What You Think –
…Global Warming Causing Hot Dogs To Slip Out Of Buns
We know that global warming is a big threat. Oh, it may help us with our mummy problem, and be a boon for great tits, but itcauses more problems than it solves –shrinking horses, causing seals to beoversexed, causing poison ivy to becomeeven itchier, making trees less colorful, making trees more colorful, making reptiles walk uphill, destroying opium in Afghanistan, and even increasing cannibalism to unacceptable levels, with that last prediction courtesy of former CNN founder and exotic diner Ted Turner.
And now it turns out that global warming is causing a new problem: it is shrinking the size of our buns.
Long-term global warming could cause loaves of bread to shrink in size due a reduction in the amount of protein in grains, Australian scientists have found. Loaves based on 2050 atmospheric carbon dioxide levels predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were baked by researchers at the Victorian government and Melbourne University. They emerged smaller and crumpled compared to their present-day counterparts.
The implications for this are manifold. With smaller bread, buns will be smaller, and hot dogs will slip out of buns. Salsa dripping from smaller tacos and burritos will create slip and fall hazards, and predictably, areas with undocumented migrants will be hardest hit. And what are we going to do when sandwiches become more wich than sand?…