Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 8:31 pm
I always pictured you as a rugged wild west cowboy.
Global warming costs us.
Temperature rise due to natural conditions.
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While Republican lawmakers are split as to whether climate change actually exists
The north-western US has experienced 100 years of warming, leading to wildfires and infestations of pests like pine beetles. But the extra heat seems to be linked to natural changes in the winds of the Pacific rather than human-caused climate change.
However, since we became the undisputed greatest nation on earth in the 1980s, America has been obsessed with tax cuts, seeming to forget that revenue is what made us a great nation. We now have a continuous revenue problem that is destroying the infrastructure of our nation.
Right-wingers paint global warming as a fear-mongering leftist plot designed to kill jobs, hurt GDP, promote socialism, increase taxes, and take away our constitutional freedoms, the basic talking points of Big Oil and energy billionaires.
Wow. Worked for me this afternoon. Fucking pricks.TPRJones wrote:"YOU'VE REACHED A SUBSCRIBER-ONLY ARTICLE."
rth's average surface temperature was the warmest since record-keeping began in 1880, according to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
December also was the warmest month ever recorded, and was among five months that set records, the agencies reported Friday.
The combined land and ocean surface temperature was 1.24 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20thcentury average, according to NOAA. The five months that set records were May, June, August, September and December, NOAA said. October tied for warmest, according to the agency's report.
The data add to a two-decade string of record warmth planet-wide. Except for 1998, the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 2002, according to NOAA.
The opposite happened. Most climate models analyzed in the study predicted Antarctica would shrink between 1979 and 2005, but instead south pole sea ice levels increased during that time. Going a step further, sea ice levels have only increased since 2006, hitting all-time highs for sea ice coverage in September of last year.
A hundred years from now, humans may remember 2014 as the year that we first learned that we may have irreversibly destabilized the great ice sheet of West Antarctica, and thus set in motion more than 10 feet of sea level rise.
Because much of the California-sized interior basin lies below sea level, its overlying thicker ice is susceptible to rapid loss if warm ocean currents sufficiently thin coastal ice. Given that previous work has shown that the basin has drained its ice to the ocean and filled again many times in the past, this study uncovers a means for how that process may be starting again.