tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046701423623795423.post7128536683647368497..comments2024-03-25T04:43:08.153-07:00Comments on Arctic News: February TemperatureSam Caranahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12376449209858411775noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046701423623795423.post-4680808953197395212016-03-24T07:31:19.048-07:002016-03-24T07:31:19.048-07:00Believe it or not, I could never accept the terms ...Believe it or not, I could never accept the terms and conditions on FB.<br />Anyhow, that's not my point...<br />I was very happy to see your blog on Thom Hartmann's show :-)))<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFff2gYO7qI&feature=autoshare<br />Excellent job my friend :-)<br />Keep fighting<br /><br />JackA. Randomjackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06761239182569631894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046701423623795423.post-88342581369293330422016-03-21T18:52:10.374-07:002016-03-21T18:52:10.374-07:00Thanks Jack, as also discussed at the Arctic-news ...Thanks Jack, as also discussed at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/arcticnews/permalink/10154077159614679" rel="nofollow">Arctic-news group</a>. I think that unmasking Arctic warming is also due to sulfate reductions in North America. The impact of emissions from North America on the Arctic is both directly (much of the emissions from North America move toward the Arctic, due to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force" rel="nofollow">Coriolis force</a> and due to changes in wind patterns) and indirectly (impact of emissions from North America on Gulf Stream). Sam Caranahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12376449209858411775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046701423623795423.post-62838289070327544862016-03-21T17:55:50.235-07:002016-03-21T17:55:50.235-07:00Hello Sam
look what I just came across
European cl...Hello Sam<br />look what I just came across<br />European clean air policies unmask Arctic warming by greenhouse gases<br />The drastic cut in sulfate particle emissions in Europe partly explains the amplified Arctic warming since the 1980s, shows a new study. Sulfate emissions, which cause, for example, acid rain, peaked in the 1980s in Europe and North America, which led to the implementation of strict regulations to reduce them. The new study shows that these policies had a profound effect on the Arctic. <br />https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160314141410.htm<br />I thought it should interest you :-)<br /><br />JackA. Randomjackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06761239182569631894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046701423623795423.post-14356870146038107472016-03-21T06:09:36.831-07:002016-03-21T06:09:36.831-07:00If it's any comfort, the only way aerosols wil...If it's any comfort, the only way aerosols will be halted is if civilization collapses, in which case, they will probably increase temporarily as everything burns out of control, from cities to wildlands. This extinction actually most closely resembles the Greatest Mass Extinction - the Permian. It's the only one where most plant and insect species also died, because it wasn't climate change, it was poison from the erupting traps. And that is actually what we are repeating today, not merely climate change. We are releasing NOx and SOx, which is making the atmosphere toxic to trees and killing them - that is a large reason the temperature is spiking and CO2 levels are increasing. The forest sink is failing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn1Xy_j48k0Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046701423623795423.post-2800003707124178542016-03-20T20:21:39.083-07:002016-03-20T20:21:39.083-07:00Thank you very much Sam
It's nice to have some...Thank you very much Sam<br />It's nice to have someone like you as a mentor :-)<br /><br />Have a nice day<br />JackA. Randomjackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06761239182569631894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046701423623795423.post-8383750216951680312016-03-20T02:21:30.770-07:002016-03-20T02:21:30.770-07:00Yes, global CO2 levels grew more in 2015 than in a...Yes, global CO2 levels <a href="http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2016/03/ten-degrees-warmer-in-a-decade.html" rel="nofollow">grew more in 2015</a> than in any year since the record started in 1959. Since global <a href="http://www.iea.org/newsroomandevents/pressreleases/2016/march/decoupling-of-global-emissions-and-economic-growth-confirmed.html" rel="nofollow">energy-related CO2 emissions have hardly grown</a>, the growth is likely due to land changes, deforestation and extreme weather causing droughts, wildfires, desertification, erosion and other forms of soil degradation. Sam Caranahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12376449209858411775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046701423623795423.post-78725693238670191262016-03-19T18:25:01.622-07:002016-03-19T18:25:01.622-07:00Hello Sam
Could recent accelerated increase in atm...Hello Sam<br />Could recent accelerated increase in atmospheric CO2 levels be mainly driven by carbon feedback's like forest fires and dying trees?<br /><br />JackA. Randomjackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06761239182569631894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046701423623795423.post-27900016067187359792016-03-18T05:31:20.318-07:002016-03-18T05:31:20.318-07:00We are facing mass extinction on 3 fronts Alex, 3 ...We are facing mass extinction on 3 fronts Alex, 3 converging fronts...<br />1 - Loss of Bio-diversity not related to AGW, but to lose of habitat and over-exploitation of resources, like over-fishing. According to Dr. Reese Halter, Pacific Tunas will be all but gone by 2030 for example.<br />2 - Ocean acidification, a direct consequence of our CO2 emissions. If the oceans die we die is not an over statement.<br />3 - Man made Global Warming which will 1st put out plant life regardless of methane hydrates. A UN study (but not the only one) says that plant life will die off at 2.5°C of average global warming.<br />It's biologist that most worry of the impacts of global warming (or climate change if it makes a difference). <br />Rising sea levels is only a minor inconvenience in the big climate change picture, it's temperature rise we really need to worry about in the shorter term.<br /><br />JackA. Randomjackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06761239182569631894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046701423623795423.post-24819448725389214412016-03-15T22:20:46.475-07:002016-03-15T22:20:46.475-07:00Thanks Sam. That makes sense to me now.
Aside fro...Thanks Sam. That makes sense to me now.<br />Aside from the clathrate threat, which is huge and hard to pinpoint, the great unknown still hanging on human action is the aerosols. Suppose China cleans up its air... but India and Indonesia fill in the same. Suppose a giant computer breakdown or terrorist attack closes down trade, industry and shopping (as 911 did in America). The cloud could clear, we may jump up so that even deniers have to notice, and nobody knows if once we jump up, if the heating process ever goes back. We may be encountering a set of stairs, which only go up.Alex Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11141662062651853725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046701423623795423.post-23096425608023162772016-03-15T21:44:55.373-07:002016-03-15T21:44:55.373-07:00The 2.3°C is indeed a land only figure, as it says...The 2.3°C is indeed a land only figure, as it says in that sentence and as illustrated by the image directly above that sentence. This figure is for a 1200 km smoothing radius. Selecting a 250 km smoothing radius results in a 2.51°C rise from 1890-1910 (land only), or 2.81 from the start of the industrial revolution. As discussed in the post, the rise was even higher on the Northern Hemisphere. <br /><br />NASA doesn't offer direct links to these images. They can be created by going to <a href="http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/maps/" rel="nofollow">this page</a> (for maps) and then making the respective selections there. Sources and parameters selected to create the images in the post are mentioned on the images. Sam Caranahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12376449209858411775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046701423623795423.post-24198399013642987082016-03-15T10:06:43.887-07:002016-03-15T10:06:43.887-07:00I got stuck on this statement:
"Rise 1900-201...I got stuck on this statement:<br />"Rise 1900-2016: In February 2016, it was 2.3°C (4.14°F) warmer on land than it was in 1890-1910."<br />This highest estimate for the Feb rise over this period is 1.75 deg C, but perhaps your number is for LAND only, rather than a global average? I followed your source link, but it is just the general GISS page over at NASA. Can you take us to a more specific map or link which gives the 2.3 deg C number?Alex Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11141662062651853725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046701423623795423.post-90314749368154521422016-03-15T06:39:17.524-07:002016-03-15T06:39:17.524-07:00Act of God writ of law is warranted to enable test...Act of God writ of law is warranted to enable test snap System Isolation Not @ pecuniary value applied on Open System Earth Biosphere yet we value pecuniary now and have invoked in so doing the wrath of 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. The Biosphere Open System Not of Midas Touch ta. Ta Not.Dale Lananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05409842680440987251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046701423623795423.post-26859325287069879452016-03-14T13:31:21.305-07:002016-03-14T13:31:21.305-07:00Carbon dioxide and methane release from thawing te...Carbon dioxide and methane release from thawing terrestrial permafrost a third of which would be thawed at 1.5 degrees C by the end of the century. This event would double the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.<br /><br />And there are many others. How long will the oceans continue to absorb CO2? How much longer will the forests of the northern hemisphere cope with warming particularly the higher night time minimums? How much longer until the AMOC completely breakdown and renders the tropics uninhabitable? And so on...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17297894155332175892noreply@blogger.com