Post #336,961
12/8/10 9:02:04 PM
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"Last Year Ranks Among Hottest on Record"
A scorching summer that killed thousands in Russia and exceptionally mild winters in the Arctic were among extreme weather events that have put 2010 on track to be one of the three hottest years on record, U.N. experts said Thursday.
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Parts of Greenland, where glaciers are threatened with summer melt, had an annual average temperature of 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, said the WMO's preliminary report, released on the sidelines of a 193-nation U.N. conference on climate change.
Moscow had 33 consecutive days when the thermometer topped 86 degrees and one day when it cracked 100, a new record. Russian officials ascribed 11,000 excess deaths to the heat wave and the peat fires that raged on the capital's outskirts.
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"The year 2010 is almost certain to rank in the top three warmest years since the beginning of instrumental climate records in 1850," the WMO said.
Recent anecdotal evidence reinforces the science. Northern permafrost is thawing underneath buildings in Alaska, northern Canada and Siberia, causing them to tilt and crack. Children are swimming in normally frigid waters in the Arctic Ocean and American robins have appeared in Canada's far north for the first time. Sea ice has retreated north of Russia, opening the possibility of a summer passageway for shipping.
http://www.foxnews.c...s-hottest-record/
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
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Post #336,976
12/9/10 1:28:49 AM
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Sounds like weather too.
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Post #336,990
12/9/10 11:34:42 AM
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if AGW is correct should be hottest on record doncha think?
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Post #337,035
12/9/10 8:55:18 PM
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rising global temperatures are not linear
in every place measured; however, the overall cumulative average for the planet is definitely trending upwards.
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
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Post #337,042
12/9/10 9:15:41 PM
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flat for a while
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Post #337,051
12/9/10 9:37:21 PM
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rising over a longer period of time
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
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Post #337,056
12/9/10 10:00:11 PM
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1/2 degree since 1900
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Post #337,063
12/9/10 10:30:29 PM
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And your source is ?
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
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Post #337,065
12/9/10 10:34:31 PM
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here ya go, it appears 6/10ths of a degree, my bad
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Post #337,068
12/9/10 11:07:07 PM
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The slope's increasing.
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Post #337,072
12/10/10 5:33:48 AM
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the old hockey stick
nudge
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
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Post #337,071
12/10/10 5:33:48 AM
12/10/10 5:34:11 AM
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dupe
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Edited by beepster
Dec. 10, 2010, 05:34:11 AM EST
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Post #337,083
12/10/10 8:19:45 AM
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yeah I know the trick hadnt been applied to the first graphs
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