Claim: ‘Every branch of the U.S. Military is worried about climate change’
UN: World not close to avoiding dangerous warming
http://news.yahoo.com/un-world-not-close-avoiding-dangerous-warming-151627596.html…
It Figures! Salon Blames Buffalo Lake Effect Blizzard On Global Warming
It Figures! Salon Blames Buffalo Lake Effect Blizzard On Global Warming
For a year and a half I went to school at SUNY Oswego which among other things was known for its sunsets. Every night we would watch the sun go into Lake Ontario. Along with that beauty we had lake effect snow, and we could see it coming. Sometime we would see the snow rolling in over the lake from Canada. And when we got the snow, there would be a foot on campus and maybe only an inch of the white stuff a few miles away.That’s what has been happening in Buffalo this week—to the extreme.But because that’s what they do best, a global warming enthusiast at Slate is blaming this week’s snow on Global Warming. (Buffalo is supposed to be hit again on Thursday).Now most people’s first reaction would be “wait a second, snow needs cold and global warming is…well warm.” Lets forget the obvious logic and look at their argument. The short answer is: yes. Global warming is probably juicing lake-effect snows, and we’ve had the data to prove it for quite some time. A greater fraction of wintertime precipitation in the Northeast has fallen during extreme events over the past few decades. And the writer offers the chart below:Courtesy of NOAAYou know, the writer seems to be correct about the wintertime precipitation, but he is forgetting one important thing. Notice the red vertical line I added that. The red line I added happens to be placed on the year 1996. September 1996 was the last time the Earth showed any global warming. So the worst years in the chart above occurred after the Earth stopped warming, the heavier snowfalls must have a different cause (perhaps they can blame Bush).The author continues:Lake Erie is warming (along with the rest of the planet) by a steady but measurable amount. Since 1960 that trend has been about a half of a degree Fahrenheit per decade. More important than this, though, Lake Erie has been losing its ability to freeze over in the winter, with a decline of about one sub-freezing day per year in recent decades.Lake Erie’s ice cover has been slipping in recent decades, which is helping it to produce more lake-effect snow. But wait I couldn’t find a chart going back to 1960-2014 (the author’s go up to 2007)but the NOAA says this past winter …
‘Once Again with the Global Meaningless Temperature’
Carbon Fee Bill Introduced in the Senate – Sen. Whitehouse & Sen. Schatz co-sponsors
Whitehouse pointed out the environmental impact of carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels. He said it is “changing the atmosphere and the oceans. We see it in storm-damaged homes and flooded cities. We see it in drought-stricken farms and raging wildfires. We see it in fish disappearing from warming, acidifying waters. We see it in shifting habitats and migrating contagions.” And those things, he said, carry costs to homeowners, businesses and taxpayers—the “social cost of carbon.”…