Four degrees of warming 'likely'

chas · **Posted:** Sun Nov 28, 2010 8:45 am

All I know is, around here we had a NASTY winter and a NASTY summer.

I just got back from my folks's place on the coast. I'm 90% certain that the sea level is a foot or two (half a meter) higher than it was 10-20-30 years ago. Of course, it's difficult to judge relative to things like beaches and swamps, but relative to jetties, breakwaters, and sea walls, it looks higher. I'd love to retire there, but I just don't know if it'll be practical or even possible in another couple of decades.

hans · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:19 pm

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In 2010, global average temperature was 0.53°C (0.95°F) above the 1961-90 mean.

Over the ten years from 2001 to 2010, global temperatures have averaged 0.46°C (0.83°F) above the 1961-1990 average, and are the highest ever recorded for a 10-year period since the beginning of instrumental climate records. Recent warming has been especially strong in Africa, parts of Asia, and parts of the Arctic, with many subregions registering temperatures 1.2 to 1.4°C (2.2 to 2.5°F) above the long-term average.

2010 was an exceptionally warm year over much of Africa and southern and western Asia, and in Greenland and Arctic Canada, with many parts of these regions having their hottest years on record.

Over land few parts of the world were significantly cooler than average in 2010, the most notable being parts of northern Europe and central and eastern Australia.

WMO: 2010 equals record for world’s warmest year

hans · **Posted:** Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:02 pm

Animals and plants are shifting their natural home ranges towards the cooler poles three times faster than scientists previously thought.
Species flee warming faster than previously thought

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Analysing the range shifts of more than 2,000 species - ranging from butterflies to birds, algae to mammals - across Europe, North and South America and Malaysia over the last four decades, they show that organisms that experience the greatest change in temperatures move the fastest.

The team found that on average organisms are shifting their home ranges at a rate of 17km per decade away from the equator; three times the speed previously thought.

Organisms also moved uphill by about 1m a year.

"Seeing that species are able to keep up with the warming is a very positive finding," said biologist Terry Root from Stanford University in California, US.

She added that it seemed that species were able to seek out cooler habitats as long as there was not an obstacle in their way, like a highway.

mutepointe · **Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:22 am

Some folks will still have their heads in the sand even when we'll be dealing with malaria in the USA.

Innocent Bystander · **Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2011 11:42 am

http://www.livescience.com/15640-species-shifting-climate-change.html

Butterflies moving to Scotland... Yez are whit? :-?

I.D.10-t · **Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:05 pm

mutepointe wrote:

Some folks will still have their heads in the sand even when we'll be dealing with malaria in the USA.

Not like we haven't before. Wonder if they would allow massive pesticide spraying these days.

hans · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2011 2:13 am

Global warming 'confirmed' by independent study
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15373071

"Since the 1950s, the average temperature over land has increased by 1C, the group found."

One degree increase in global land temperatures in my lifetime, and rapidly increasing further apparently. And all the increase in violent weather and flooding coming with it. It deeply disturbs me.

Whistlin' Will · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:50 am

hans wrote:

One degree increase in global land temperatures in my lifetime, and rapidly increasing further apparently. And all the increase in violent weather and flooding coming with it. It deeply disturbs me.

So what's to say it won't be down 2 degrees in another 50 years?

mutepointe · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:10 am

The very people who are ignoring climate change are going to dismiss any study done by any group with the name "Berkley". Everybody knows about Berkley. And forget about proving anything scientifically.

dwest · **Joined:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:13 am **Posts:** 7113

mutepointe wrote:

The very people who are ignoring climate change are going to dismiss any study done by any group with the name "Berkley". Everybody knows about Berkley. And forget about proving anything scientifically.

Berkeley is full of befuddled warmists, Berklee probably is too.

hans · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:53 am

Melting Arctic link to cold, snowy UK winters

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The progressive shrinking of Arctic sea ice is bringing colder, snowier winters to the UK and other areas of Europe, North America and China, a study shows.

As global temperatures have risen, the area of Arctic Ocean covered by ice in summer and autumn has been falling. .... this affects the jet stream and brings cold, snowy weather.

Whether conditions will get colder still as ice melts further is unclear.

"For the past four winters, for much of the northern US, east Asia and Europe, we had this persistent above-normal snow cover," Dr Liu told BBC News.

"We don't see a predictive relationship with any of the other factors that have been proposed, such as El Nino; but for sea ice, we do see a predictive relationship."

Funnily enough we here in the North of Scotland escaped the worst of the snowy weather, and it had been mild, with a really early spring start and lots of flowers out now.

dwest · **Joined:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:13 am **Posts:** 7113

We have native plants that are blooming two weeks earlier than the earliest record,(22 yrs.), I have for this area. We have several neotropical migrants who are here early, some by as much as four weeks. My wife's petunias planted last spring are still hale and hearty which means we haven't had a hard freeze the whole of winter.

Doug_Tipple · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 5:27 am

mutepointe wrote:

The very people who are ignoring climate change are going to dismiss any study done by any group with the name "Berkley". Everybody knows about Berkley. And forget about proving anything scientifically.

Those same people are probably going to dismiss my comments entirely only because I live on Berkley Steet. Knock on wood, but my snowblower hasn't been out of the garage all winter. I did have to shovel a little wet snow a couple of times. The only thing that we have blooming in our yard right now is crocuses, but the daffodils are not far behind.

hans · **Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:21 am

"Climate-heating carbon emissions set a record high in 2011, in a 3.2 percent increase over the previous year, the International Energy Agency reported this week. The main reason for this dangerous increase is that governments are failing to implement policies to prevent catastrophic increases of global temperatures.

A new report released on the last days of international climate talks in Bonn, Germany this week reveals that the planet is heading to a temperature rise of at least 3.5 degrees Celsius, and likely more, according to the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), despite an international agreement to keep global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius.

Not only are pledges inadequate, but countries are unable to fulfill even those pledges, a new CAT analysis shows. CAT is a joint project of Dutch energy consulting organisation Ecofys, Germany's Climate Analytics, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. "

Read more: Global Temperatures Rising on a Devastating Trajectory

Angel Shadowsong · **Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:53 am

Every little step we do counts.

Minimize the use of Facebook and we will save much on electricity, and minimize the carbon footprint in this world. :lol:

Instead of playing whistles everyday, play it every other day! :lol:

Every air you expel is increasing carbon dioxide that increases temperature.

Better yet reduce your air consumption/emission....example:

If there is an opportunity to walk, walk and do not drive.

You achieve many things when you walk. You have help our Earth and you will lose those unwanted calories that can make you fat and you strengthen your heart.

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