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Post by throttleup on Sept 6, 2016 23:20:50 GMT
OI, some of us don't live that relatively far from GW 😉 Sorry about that acid! May you and your be spared!
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Post by throttleup on Sept 6, 2016 1:28:00 GMT
Well it has not turned into the year I was hoping for! We got just the right weather to give us the ice I thought we needed to take into winter but it appears last winters 'warmth' meant the ice went away even with $hiite weather most of the season... We now need to rely on winter to be long and ultra cold over the basin and wrapped up in a vortex that doesn't have a want to visit other parts of the planet throughout its period of maximum impact!!! Should next year see the return of the perfect melt storm we're gonna need thicker, colder, ice than we took into this melt season!!! Sadly , looking at the Atlantic ice front ( sst's and salinity) we look to be losing even more of our good ice as I type, losses that can continue throughout winter if the winds blow right!..... that would be bad. GW, For your sake I certainly hope your winter is "long and ultra cold." The thought of that freezing ice will keep you warm all winter long...
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Post by throttleup on Jul 26, 2016 23:58:28 GMT
Climate change is real. As is global warming...But then, there are people who live in eternal denial and think that the global warming phenomenon is a hoax. Unfortunately, global warming has been reduced to the most popular essay or debate topic rather than being treated as a serious issue! I'm least surprised that there are so many descriptive essays on global warming than any other topic out there! I don't think the climate change is "abrupt". It is something we set off back when we first took our planet for granted and it is apparent that we are in no mood to stop! Zoey, Climate change can be quite abrupt; it just depends what scale you're using. If you're using weekly, monthly or yearly scales you won't see it. Modern day "climatology" is grouped in 30-year chunks and even that is far too small for some of the major cycles that affect the planet. As a result, you'll miss the forest for the trees. Also, the planet is a living thing, but it isn't conscious. It has no idea when we "took it for granted." Significant climate change happened many, many times well before humans made prints in the dirt. Earth took a lot of very hard slams, climate wise, before we showed up. She recovers...
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Post by throttleup on Jul 13, 2016 22:19:26 GMT
I don't know about the rest of the posters here, but I'm going to take advantage of cheap real estate along the shores of northern Hudson's Bay before the prices start going through the roof! And with no polar bears you can sleep outside on your deck on those warm Arctic nights watching the aurora! Nice!
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Post by throttleup on Jul 13, 2016 22:12:58 GMT
Does lightning melt ice? This could be serious! Are the polar bears alright??
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Post by throttleup on Jun 12, 2016 3:20:42 GMT
The human race NEEDS the Arctic ice fee during the summer so that ships can use the shorter route and emit less CO2. It is a win win for humanity. Lower freight costs and lower CO2 emissions. The faster the Arctic becomes ICE free during the summer the better! Besides, the last time this happened the world was a MUCH more hospitable place for humans! Sig, you don't appear to have got the memo. The world being good for humans is a the disaster that the environmentalists are trying to prevent. Ice in the Arctic should increase until Iceland is at the edge of the permanently frozen ice. Temperatures in northern Europe should never go above 55F / 13C, winters should start in October and no sign of spring until April and be continual hard frosts. That would be nirvana for the warmists. Quite right, nautonnier. One wonders if they would add up the mounting body count with the same glee they use today when watching ice melt, breakup, etc.
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Post by throttleup on Jun 9, 2016 21:32:39 GMT
Kiwi, You have always been a man of class and intellect. Certainly, a rare breed these days. My sincere best wishes to you and yours.
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Post by throttleup on Jun 4, 2016 14:41:04 GMT
Apparently Houston has seen a 167% increase in the most extreme rainfall events since the 50's? It's the wettest permanent drought I've ever seen...
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Post by throttleup on May 29, 2016 15:12:11 GMT
From the letter: Can you conclude probably ? ? ? It's definitely possible!
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Post by throttleup on May 13, 2016 19:04:38 GMT
I'm excited and just peed my pants a little bit. Look out for the yellow snow!
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Post by throttleup on Apr 28, 2016 21:15:11 GMT
What has been will be again...On a longer time scale, there is supporting evidence from the National Oceanographic Data Center that something significant is indeed occurring in the Atlantic Ocean. Since around early 2007, there has been a definitive downward trend in “monthly heat content anomaly” in the top 700 meters of the northern Atlantic Ocean (arrow region). The heat content in this part of the Atlantic Ocean ramped up rather sharply beginning around the middle 1990’s and seemingly peaked during early 2007. Global monthly heat content anomaly (GJ/m2) in the uppermost 700 m of the North Atlantic since January 1955. The thin line indicates monthly values and the thick line represents the simple running 37 month (c. 3 year) average. Data source: National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), climate4you.com. Last period shown: October-December 2015.If the Atlantic Ocean is indeed slipping back into a colder-than-normal phase (i.e., negative AMO) then this would quite likely have a significant impact on Northern Hemisphere (NH) sea ice areal extent. The NH sea ice areal extent was generally at above-normal levels before the middle 1990’s (arrow in plot below) which is when the Atlantic Ocean temperature phase change took place from cold-to-warm. Once the warm phase of the Atlantic Ocean became established in the late 1990's, the NH sea ice areal extent trended sharply downward from positive levels into well below-normal territory. In recent years, there has been a jagged, but generally sideways trend in NH sea ice areal extent at those well below-normal levels. However, if these recent signs of a possible long-term Atlantic Ocean temperature phase change from warm-to-cold are real and sustained (sometimes there are false starts), then the NH sea ice areal extent will very likely return to above-normal levels in the not too distant future - just as it was during the last cold phase pre-mid 1990’s. More at link: www.vencoreweather.com/blog/2016/4/28/215-pm-atlantic-ocean-showing-signs-of-a-significant-long-term-shift-in-temperatures-from-warm-to-cold
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Post by throttleup on Apr 26, 2016 23:46:00 GMT
Congrats to Icefisher! Missed it by that much. I need a better model...
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Post by throttleup on Apr 3, 2016 3:25:59 GMT
Ratty's Rorschach test! :-)
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Post by throttleup on Mar 28, 2016 21:28:49 GMT
Neil, I'll take 22 April at high noon local time. This is so exciting! ;-)
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Post by throttleup on Mar 15, 2016 19:12:31 GMT
Code: I am talking on a National Scale. The wild fire extent per year is put out by the US Government. I don't remember the link, but I remember what I read. Perhaps this is what Sig had in mind... Link: www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm
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