Drought Has Expanded Rapidly Across the Southern U.S. Since Fall and the Outlook Into Spring Is Worrisome
Drier-than-average conditions have impacted much of the South since early fall, resulting in a rapidly expanding drought across the region. Unfortunately, this trend in below-average precipitation is expected to continue into early spring.
The latest data released by the U.S. Drought Monitor this week showed that almost 58 percent of the contiguous U.S. is seeing at least abnormally dry conditions.
2017 Was Third-Warmest Year on Record for U.S
In 2017, the United States had its third-warmest year in 123 years of records, with record warmth felt in a handful of states in the South, according to a just-released government report.
A looming national issue
While the rest of the US hasn't been ordered to reduce water use, that doesn't mean we have a free pass to use as much water as we want. Many states — 4o out of 50 according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office— have at least one region that's expected to face some kind of water shortage in the next 10 years.
Nothing to worry about, LOL
https://weather.com/news/climate/news/2018-01-12-drought-south-increase-since-fall-dry-outlook
https://weather.com/news/climate/news/2018-01-08-united-states-2017-third-warmest-year-noaaI think many other countries will be laughing when the southern U.S. see's massive crop failures again but it won't be the U.S. farmers who are seeing ever increasing water shortages.
http://www.businessinsider.com/americas-about-to-hit-a-water-crisis-2015-4
I think CO2 and supposed climate change is the least of your worries and it could be an interesting summer. At the end of the day there is a great deal of speculation on both sides however I think all can agree that something is happening.
The Symptoms of Global… Warming?
Here’s an interesting article… the vicious cold which large swaths of the world finds itself beset with due to a weakened polar vortex has been claimed by the Klimate Katastrophe Kooks as “DUUURRRHHH! Pruuf!” of CAGW. Al ‘ManBearPig’ Gore himself said this was ‘exactly what we should expect from the climate crisis’.
“For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa’s drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south. Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast.”
{ASIDE: And there is drought in Africa… South Africa has declared a national emergency due to drought; there is drought in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia which UNICEF has said threatens 18.4 million people; OxFam says 30 million people in Yemen and Nigeria are on the brink of starvation due to drought. Zimbabwe and Uganda are also experiencing drought There’s also drought in India which the Indian government is attempting to ameliorate by teaming up with an Israeli firm to extract drinking water from thin air. Central America has severe to exceptional drought watches stretching from Baja, Mexico to Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, and Michoacan further south. And of course, scientists working in the Middle East are predicting “endless mega-droughts”.}
So that quote above looks pretty damaging to global warming skeptics, no? Except for the one sentence preceding it…
“Scientists have found other indications of global cooling.”
That’s from Time magazine, Jun 24, 1974.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060721203314/http://time-proxy.yaga.com:80/time/archive/printout/0,23657,944914,00.html
You’ll remember the 70’s as the era when the Klimate Katastrophe Kooks attempted to tell everyone they’d be buried under a mile of ice in less than a decade, unless governments threw money at the “experts” so they could spread coal dust on the poles ‘to save humanity!’. Now a lot of those same sort of Klimate Katastrophe Kooks are denying anything of the sort, saying Spock hosting a program extolling ice age freeze-porn was a “myth”, that the Newsweek, Time and hundreds of other articles weren’t “scientific studies” (yeah, but they were based upon those “scientific studies”… remember?).
“The scientists and computers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were confidently predicting that the frigid weather would continue. The chilling pronouncement of NOAA’s senior climatologist: ‘The forecast is for no change.'”
– Time Magazine, 1977
Hundreds of articles were written and many TV shows were aired, based upon the NOAA prediction of continued cold. They even trotted out Howard Kronkite (the most trusted man in America?) to push the ice-age scare:
http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/02/the-1970s-global-cooling-alarmism.html
And of course, you had the ever-ubiquitous humanity-hating anti-capitalists saying we needed to get rid of democracy ‘so we can save humanity’… same as today. Nevermind that capitalism has lifted more than half a billion people out of poverty in the past century, whereas their socialism has killed more than 124 million and impoverished even more in the past century. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
In point of fact, the Klimate Katastrophe Kooks admitted to what they now call a “myth”:
“One could effectively argue that in the early 1970s the prevailing view was that the earth was moving toward a new ice age. Many articles appeared in the scientific literature as well as in the popular press speculating about the impact on agriculture of a 1-2 C cooling.” – Climatic Change, Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 159–183, June 1985 Thomas R. Stewart, Michael H. Glantz
So the NOAA was pimping an ice age when they thought it’d get them more government money, and now they’re doing the same for CAGW, all while denying any involvement in what the Klimate Katastrophe Kooks now call a “myth”, despite their quotes from that period being readily available.
The parties will not be able to dismiss our result lightly. To refute it, they would have to show that our pre-industrial feedback fraction f = 0.08, obtained by theoretical means rooted in mainstream control theory, is incorrect; that our industrial-era value f = 0.05, obtained empirically from IPCC’s estimate of the net anthropogenic forcing to date and from the HadCRUT4 temperature record, is also incorrect; that our campaign of ten empirical calculations giving a mean feedback fraction f = 0.12, is incorrect; that the rate of observed warming over the past 68 years is either incorrect or irrelevant; that the rate of observed warming this century to date is also either incorrect or irrelevant; that the results from our test rig are inapplicable; that the results from a government laboratory are likewise inapplicable; and, above all, that it is justifiable to assume that control theory is wrong and that, per impossibile, 255.4 K of emission temperature generates no feedback at all, while the next 8 K of warming suddenly causes 24 K of feedback, as if by magic.
We do not believe in magic.
You've been lied to. Don't be gullible. Figure things out for yourself. Don't rely upon the so-called 'experts', because they have an agenda.
As an argument one could take climate change out of the equation. So lets say the record heat waves and drought are a short term phenomena of less than 50 years. That does not change the fact
that all water bodies have been proven to be becoming more acidic due to acid rain from fossil fuel pollution.
Over time spans of 25 to 60 years, two-thirds of the rivers had become significantly more alkaline and none had become more acidic.
The increase in New England and New York occurred primarily before the mid-1950's. Since the mid-1960's, there has been no significant change in the acidity of precipitation in this region.
The decrease in pH from 6.05 in the mid-1950's to recent (1978) values of about 4.1 was attributable almost entirely to the decrease in alkaline dust.
The increase in New England and New York occurred primarily before the mid-1950's. Since the mid-1960's, there has been no significant change in the acidity of precipitation in this region.
The decrease in pH from 6.05 in the mid-1950's to recent (1978) values of about 4.1 was attributable almost entirely to the decrease in alkaline dust.
Since 1957 more than 200 samples of rain water have been analysed at the Meteorological Observatory of Dresden‐Wahnsdorf. At four mountain summit stations and one coastal station fog water was sampled and analysed.
The yearly mean of the pH has remained constant since 1958.
...all water bodies have been proven to be becoming more acidic due to acid rain from fossil fuel pollution.
Okay cycle
If I have to be the only adult in the room before Matt has to close yet another thread then so be it. It seems obvious you have no intention of debating anything like a responsible adult. Good luck with that.
You've been wrong about everything you've posted thus far... Occam's Razor asserts that you're simply tired of being proven wrong
I was going to make a public post, but I'm pretty sure Russ is already annoyed enough about the other thread and where that one went.
But I'm just going to leave this here.
https://www.pmel.noaa.gov…/co2/story/What+is+Ocean+Acidification%3F
That is your personal opinion
and I disagree because the premise of most all of your posts is that a cause (fossil fuel related pollution) has had literally no effect on the environment.
Not only that but in many cases you have proposed that the cause has had an opposite effect to that known to the scientific community.
In any case your opinions are in disagreement with the consensus of the scientific community
and in fact the premise of most all science which is that every cause must have an equivalent effect. I guess the obvious place to start is...
1) Do believe the billions upon billions of tons of hydrocarbon gasses released into the atmosphere annually have had no harmful effects on people?
2)Do believe the billions upon billions of tons of hydrocarbon gasses released into the atmosphere annually have had no harmful effects on plants and animals?
3)Do believe the billions upon billions of tons of hydrocarbon gasses released into the atmosphere annually have had no harmful effects on the atmosphere or our water bodies?.
Here is an informative link to what actual scientists think---
https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy/coal-and-other-fossil-fuels/hidden-cost-of-fossils#.WrETtE2Wy70
Apoc4lypse
There in lies the problem and cycles claims directly contradict what may be the largest scientific research institution on the planet filled with the best scientists.
So who is one to believe?.... tens of thousands of the best scientists using the latest state of the art equipment "or" some anonymous guy on the internet who is afraid to post his real name.
The American Physical Society has explicitly rejected the discussed letter: “The American Physical Society did not sign the letter because it was presented as a fait accompli, and there are significant differences between the letter and the APS Statement on Earth’s Changing Climate.”
According to Richard’s analysis, the 485 new papers underscore the “significant limitations and uncertainties inherent in our understanding of climate and climate changes,” which in turn suggests that climate science is not nearly as settled as media reports and some policymakers would have people believe.
You see real scientists with real credibility use there real names and they take responsibility for their claims unlike this absurd nonsense we see on the internet where ... b0B302 thinks climate change is a Chinese hoax because XYZ.com posted some fabricated and misleading data.
In my opinion anyone who claims to have compiled data or facts who is afraid to post their real name has zero credibility.
The scientific consensus is clear. Building on two previous studies, a landmark 2013 peer-reviewed study evaluated 10,306 scientists to confirm that over 97 percent climate scientists agree, and over 97 percent of scientific articles find that global warming is real and largely caused by humans.
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Cycle,
You're pretty good at digging up data. What do you have in regards to ozone, specifically the ozone layer?
I keep hearing about ozone layer depletion and I'm quite curious as to whether this is solar related or some other cause. There was a big push a while back about fluorocarbons and how freon and other such pressurized gases released into the atmosphere where causing major damage. I never really bought into the story, but I'm still curious what you might know about it.
Results of a new study link a recent, temporary shrinking of a high atmospheric layer with a sharp drop in the sun's ultraviolet radiation levels.
The solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation is a primary energy source for planetary atmospheres and is also a tool for remote sensing of the planets.