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Post by swamprat on May 20, 2020 16:04:47 GMT
Global warming is making hurricanes stronger Posted by Deborah Byrd in EARTH | May 20, 2020
As Earth gets warmer, hurricanes are expected to get stronger. A study of 40 years of satellite data suggests it’s already happening.
Scientists study all the ways hurricanes are likely to change in this century as Earth gets warmer. They also want to know – and this is a hard question to answer – if hurricanes are already being affected by the Earth warming that’s happened thus far. This week, scientists at the University of Wisconsin weighed in with a new analysis of nearly 40 years of satellite imagery of hurricanes. Their results say that – over the past four decades – hurricanes have become more intense and destructive.
James Kossin is a NOAA scientist based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s lead author of the new paper published May 18 in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The analysis shows that Earth warming has increased the likelihood of a hurricane developing into a major one of Category 3 or higher, with sustained winds greater than 110 miles an hour (177 kph), by about 8% a decade. Kossin said in a statement:
"Through modeling and our understanding of atmospheric physics, the study agrees with what we would expect to see in a warming climate like ours."
He was even more definite about the link between global warming and stronger hurricanes in what he told the New York Times:
The trend is there, and it is real. There’s this remarkable building of this body of evidence that we’re making these storms more deleterious.
A visible light image of Hurricane Irma in 2017. Irma was the first Category 5 hurricane on record to strike the Leeward Islands (including the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico), followed by Hurricane Maria 2 weeks later. At the time, Irma was considered the most powerful hurricane on record in the open Atlantic region, outside of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, until it was surpassed by Hurricane Dorian just 2 years later. Image via GOES-16.
The study comes from scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Center for Environmental Information and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies. According to these scientists’ statement:
"The research builds on Kossin’s previous work, published in 2013, which identified trends in hurricane intensification across a 28-year data set." However, says Kossin, "that timespan was less conclusive and required more hurricane case studies to demonstrate statistically significant results."
To increase confidence in the results, the researchers extended the study to include global hurricane data from 1979-2017. Using analytical techniques, including the CIMSS Advanced Dvorak Technique that relies on infrared temperature measurements from geostationary satellites to estimate hurricane intensity, Kossin and his colleagues were able to create a more uniform data set with which to identify trends.
Kossin said: "The main hurdle we have for finding trends is that the data are collected using the best technology at the time. Every year the data are a bit different than last year, each new satellite has new tools and captures data in different ways, so in the end we have a patchwork quilt of all the satellite data that have been woven together."
Kossin’s previous research has shown other changes in hurricane behavior over the decades, such as where they travel and how fast they move. In 2014, he identified poleward migrations of hurricanes, where tropical cyclones are travelling farther north and south, exposing previously less-affected coastal populations to greater risk.
In 2018, he demonstrated that hurricanes are moving more slowly across land due to changes in Earth’s climate. This has resulted in greater flood risks as storms hover over cities and other areas, often for extended periods of time. He said:
"Our results show that these storms have become stronger on global and regional levels, which is consistent with expectations of how hurricanes respond to a warming world. It’s a good step forward and increases our confidence that global warming has made hurricanes stronger, but our results don’t tell us precisely how much of the trends are caused by human activities and how much may be just natural variability."
Still, with this study, scientific confidence in the link between global warming and stronger hurricanes continues to grow. As the Weather Channel pointed out in its May 19, 2020, article on this research:
"New algorithms by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) indicate that most of the years this decade are very likely to rank among the 10 warmest years, and according to a NOAA/NCEI statistical analysis, 2020 is very likely to rank among the five warmest years. What’s more, hurricanes rank as the costliest U.S. weather and climate disaster. Therefore, it’s important to understand the potential impacts climate change will have on hurricanes in the future."
Bottom line: As Earth gets warmer, hurricanes are expected to get stronger. A study of 40 years of satellite data suggests it’s already happening.
earthsky.org/earth/new-research-shows-hurricanes-are-getting-stronger
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Post by swamprat on Jun 23, 2020 0:16:43 GMT
Siberian town records 100 degree F day — the hottest in Arctic history By Brandon Specktor - Senior Writer - 22 June 2020
The new all-time high follows the world's hottest May on record.
Siberia — the land of black snow, blood rain and spontaneous solar eclipses — may have just set a dire new climate record. On Saturday (June 20), temperatures in the far-north town of Verkhoyansk broke 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) for the first time, according to news reports.
If verified, that makes Saturday's high the hottest-ever temperature documented above the Arctic Circle, The Washington Post reported.
Verkhoyansk is a town of some 1,300 residents in the Siberian Arctic, about 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) east of Moscow. The town has one of the most extreme temperature ranges on Earth, with winter lows hitting an average of minus 56 F (minus 49 C) and a previous all-time summer high of 98.96 F (37.2 C), according to Brittanica.com. On Saturday, several weather stations reported a new high of 100.4 F — the town's all-time hottest temperature since record keeping began in 1885. On Sunday, June 21, the town also reported a high of 95.3 (35.2 C), showing the previous day's heat was not a blip.
That sweltering new high (which is still being verified) arrives on the heels of Siberia's hottest May on record, with average temperatures soaring roughly 18 F (10 C) higher than the May average from 1979 to 2019, according to a special report from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service.
This summer's high Arctic temperatures have already affected the region. Wildfires are running rampant, with 31 fires currently burning through 885,800 acres (358,472 hectares) of forest in the Sakha Republic (the region that includes Verkhoyansk), Russia's Federal Forest Agency reported today (June 21). Recently, Russian officials blamed an oil spill that leaked about 20,000 tons of diesel into a river in the Siberian Arctic on melting permafrost that allegedly caused the ground to sink below several oil tanks.
While remarkable, the news out of Siberia is also depressingly predictable. For years, average temperatures in the Arctic have been rising at a far faster rate than anywhere else in the world, largely due to melting sea ice induced by man-made global warming.
www.livescience.com/hottest-arctic-circle-temperature-ever-siberia.html
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2020 8:27:19 GMT
Liberal Environmentalist Apologizes for 'Climate Scare:' 'We Environmentalists Have Misled the Public' A prominent environmentalist and climate change activist has penned an open letter apologizing for what he calls a three-decade “climate scare.”Michael Shellenberger, the founder and president of the nonprofit Environmental Progress, has been on the front lines of the battle to warn of the irreversible effects of climate change for decades. On Monday, the activist wrote that he and others in his field have been guilty of misleading the global population about the dangers posed by climate change.“On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world,” Shellenberger wrote on the Environmental Progress website.“It’s not even our most serious environmental problem,” he added.Noting he has been an environmentalist for 30 years, Shellenberger further added he felt he needed to set the record straight, and his sources are the same often cited by green community leaders.“s an energy expert asked by Congress to provide objective expert testimony, and invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to serve as Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report, I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public,” he wrote. Read more @ www.westernjournal.com/liberal-environmentalist-apologizes-climate-scare-environmentalists-misled-public/?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation So finally his conscience got the better of him and won…. The Morning Briefing: Climate Alarmist Apologizes but I Still Want Reparations From Al GoreA Climate of IntoleranceThere are times when the climate hoax alarmists are so tedious that I almost wish that they were not only right, but that the planet would die really, really soon. Just so I can escape them.I’m of a certain age and can remember when the looming climate crisis was supposed to have us all freezing to death and be buried in the ice until invading intergalactic aliens discover our fossils millennia from now.Then, of course, the climate scare was all about Earth having, as Al Gore so infamously put it, “a fever” and being on the brink of boiling to death. In the fourteen years since Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth made that claim “global warming” has become “climate change,” largely because the alarmists keep being wrong about everything and they needed a malleable catch-all phrase to better market their snake oil.As has been written by me and many others, the climate change hoax movement has become the secular Left’s religion. It does not tolerate heretics. The Climate Church imposes its will on academia by controlling the grant money purse, effectively purging dissent.It’s a heckuva racket, I will grudgingly admit.Those who go against the grain and dispute any of the accepted climate teaching are branded “anti-science,” even though “climate science” has more to do with a bunch of computer models that keep being wrong than actual science. One of the more bizarre attacks that is deployed against skeptics is to say we “don’t believe in climate.”Not we “don’t believe in climate change,” but that we don’t believe in climate at all.Spoiler alert: every skeptic believes in climate and knows that climate changes. Read more @ pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2020/07/01/the-morning-briefing-climate-alarmist-apologizes-but-i-still-want-reparations-from-al-gore-n591020
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Post by mryelm on Jul 3, 2020 0:59:22 GMT
Do I still think Global Warming is a Myth? With respect,Yep ! I think anthropogenic global warming is a engineered myth, and a well done propaganda at that! Of course I do know the earth is and has been warming and cooling for 400 million years without help from us humans. Or is that we humans? Anyway, the man caused guilt trip/myth has been with us for hundreds of years. (see below) FROM ; www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/08/120_years_of_climate_scares.html1895 - Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again – New York Times, February 1895 1902 - “Disappearing Glaciers…deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation…scientific fact…surely disappearing.” – Los Angeles Times 1912 - Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age – New York Times, October 1912 1923 - “Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada” – Professor Gregory of Yale University, American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, – Chicago Tribune 1923 - “The discoveries of changes in the sun’s heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age” – Washington Post 1924 - MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age – New York Times, Sept 18, 1924 1929 - “Most geologists think the world is growing warmer, and that it will continue to get warmer” – Los Angeles Times, in Is another ice age coming? 1932 - “If these things be true, it is evident, therefore that we must be just teetering on an ice age” – The Atlantic magazine, This Cold, Cold World 1933 - America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise – New York Times, March 27th, 1933 1933 – “…wide-spread and persistent tendency toward warmer weather…Is our climate changing?” – Federal Weather Bureau “Monthly Weather Review.” 1938 - Global warming, caused by man heating the planet with carbon dioxide, “is likely to prove beneficial to mankind in several ways, besides the provision of heat and power.”– Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 1938 - “Experts puzzle over 20 year mercury rise…Chicago is in the front rank of thousands of cities thuout the world which have been affected by a mysterious trend toward warmer climate in the last two decades” – Chicago Tribune 1939 - “Gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right… weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer” – Washington Post 1952 - “…we have learned that the world has been getting warmer in the last half century” – New York Times, August 10th, 1962 1954 - “…winters are getting milder, summers drier. Glaciers are receding, deserts growing” – U.S. News and World Report 1954 - Climate – the Heat May Be Off – Fortune Magazine 1959 - “Arctic Findings in Particular Support Theory of Rising Global Temperatures” – New York Times 1969 - “…the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two” – New York Times, February 20th, 1969 1969 – “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000″ — Paul Ehrlich (while he now predicts doom from global warming, this quote only gets honorable mention, as he was talking about his crazy fear of overpopulation) 1970 - “…get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters – the worst may be yet to come…there’s no relief in sight” – Washington Post 1974 - Global cooling for the past forty years – Time Magazine 1974 - “Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age” –Washington Post 1974 - “As for the present cooling trend a number of leading climatologists have concluded that it is very bad news indeed” – Fortune magazine, who won a Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics for its analysis of the danger 1974 - “…the facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure…mass deaths by starvation, and probably anarchy and violence” – New York Times Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age CUT FOR BREVITY hERE IS THE LAST ENTERY IN THE ARTICL;E; OOPS CAPS SORRY MY FELLOW MEMBERS!; 2013 – Global-warming ‘proof’ is evaporating. The 2013 hurricane season just ended as one of the five quietest years since 1960. But don’t expect anyone who pointed to last year’s hurricanes as “proof” of the need to act against global warming to apologize; the alarmists don’t work that way. New York Post, Dec 5, 2013 2014 – Climate change: It’s even worse than we thought. Five years ago, the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change painted a gloomy picture of our planet’s future. As climate scientists gather evidence for the next report, due in 2014, Michael Le Page gives seven reasons why things are looking even grimmer. –New Scientist (undated in 2014) I love my spaceship earth, and think we shouldn't mess it up willy nilly. I do love all of you like brothers and sisters.... till next time; : {>
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Post by mryelm on Jul 3, 2020 1:35:53 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Jul 12, 2020 15:39:58 GMT
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Post by nyx on Jul 14, 2020 16:32:32 GMT
Sunday it was 128 F in Furnace Creek, Death Valley, California, the hottest place on the planet.
This heat is moving eastward.
The south and east coast should receive high temperatures this week.
Stay cool!
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Post by maxxhazzard on Jul 18, 2020 12:43:56 GMT
u guys make me laugh... there is no climate change... the climate is ruled by science of an extraterrestrial nature and the more arrogant humans become natural disaster will arise... look what is happing to china.. they repress their ppl and bingo... washed away
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Post by maxxhazzard on Jul 19, 2020 17:10:05 GMT
absolutely ... global warming is poppy cock..... I hv no dough that weather is controlled by a power greater than ourselves.. u can call them G*d or ETs either way its not us...
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Post by swamprat on Aug 14, 2020 14:30:11 GMT
Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return Even if the climate cools, study finds, glaciers will continue to shrink
Date: August 13, 2020
Source: Ohio State University
Summary:
Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island have shrunk so much that even if global warming were to stop today, the ice sheet would continue shrinking.
The finding, published today, Aug. 13, in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, means that Greenland's glaciers have passed a tipping point of sorts, where the snowfall that replenishes the ice sheet each year cannot keep up with the ice that is flowing into the ocean from glaciers.
"We've been looking at these remote sensing observations to study how ice discharge and accumulation have varied," said Michalea King, lead author of the study and a researcher at The Ohio State University's Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center. "And what we've found is that the ice that's discharging into the ocean is far surpassing the snow that's accumulating on the surface of the ice sheet."
King and other researchers analyzed monthly satellite data from more than 200 large glaciers draining into the ocean around Greenland. Their observations show how much ice breaks off into icebergs or melts from the glaciers into the ocean. They also show the amount of snowfall each year -- the way these glaciers get replenished.
The researchers found that, throughout the 1980s and 90s, snow gained through accumulation and ice melted or calved from glaciers were mostly in balance, keeping the ice sheet intact. Through those decades, the researchers found, the ice sheets generally lost about 450 gigatons (about 450 billion tons) of ice each year from flowing outlet glaciers, which was replaced with snowfall.
"We are measuring the pulse of the ice sheet -- how much ice glaciers drain at the edges of the ice sheet -- which increases in the summer. And what we see is that it was relatively steady until a big increase in ice discharging to the ocean during a short five- to six-year period," King said.
The researchers' analysis found that the baseline of that pulse -- the amount of ice being lost each year -- started increasing steadily around 2000, so that the glaciers were losing about 500 gigatons each year. Snowfall did not increase at the same time, and over the last decade, the rate of ice loss from glaciers has stayed about the same -- meaning the ice sheet has been losing ice more rapidly than it's being replenished.
"Glaciers have been sensitive to seasonal melt for as long as we've been able to observe it, with spikes in ice discharge in the summer," she said. "But starting in 2000, you start superimposing that seasonal melt on a higher baseline -- so you're going to get even more losses."
Before 2000, the ice sheet would have about the same chance to gain or lose mass each year. In the current climate, the ice sheet will gain mass in only one out of every 100 years.
King said that large glaciers across Greenland have retreated about 3 kilometers on average since 1985 -- "that's a lot of distance," she said. The glaciers have shrunk back enough that many of them are sitting in deeper water, meaning more ice is in contact with water. Warm ocean water melts glacier ice, and also makes it difficult for the glaciers to grow back to their previous positions.
That means that even if humans were somehow miraculously able to stop climate change in its tracks, ice lost from glaciers draining ice to the ocean would likely still exceed ice gained from snow accumulation, and the ice sheet would continue to shrink for some time.
"Glacier retreat has knocked the dynamics of the whole ice sheet into a constant state of loss," said Ian Howat, a co-author on the paper, professor of earth sciences and distinguished university scholar at Ohio State. "Even if the climate were to stay the same or even get a little colder, the ice sheet would still be losing mass."
Shrinking glaciers in Greenland are a problem for the entire planet. The ice that melts or breaks off from Greenland's ice sheets ends up in the Atlantic Ocean -- and, eventually, all of the world's oceans. Ice from Greenland is a leading contributor to sea level rise -- last year, enough ice melted or broke off from the Greenland ice sheet to cause the oceans to rise by 2.2 millimeters in just two months.
The new findings are bleak, but King said there are silver linings.
"It's always a positive thing to learn more about glacier environments, because we can only improve our predictions for how rapidly things will change in the future," she said. "And that can only help us with adaptation and mitigation strategies. The more we know, the better we can prepare."
This work was supported by grants from NASA. Other Ohio State researchers who worked on this study are Salvatore Candela, Myoung Noh and Adelaide Negrete.
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Post by swamprat on Aug 14, 2020 17:27:48 GMT
World-renowned climate scientist dies in ice accident in Greenland By Yasemin Saplakoglu - Staff Writer - 14 August 2020
Konrad Steffen was one of the world's leading experts on climate change.
Climate scientist Konrad Steffen stands on the ice in Greenland in 2008. (Image: © Jim Kastengren/CIRES and CU Boulder)
Konrad Steffen, a world-renowned climate scientist, died at the age of 68 on Saturday (Aug. 8) in an accident in Greenland.
Steffen, the Director of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, researched climate change for more than 40 years, focusing on its impacts on the Arctic and Antarctic, according to a statement. His decades-long research in Greenland, specifically, confirmed that climate change is causing Greenland's ice sheet to melt with increasing speed, according to The New York Times.
He died near a research station known as "Swiss Camp" that he had founded in Greenland 30 years ago. Steffen had fallen into an ice crevasse and drowned in the deep water within it, according to the Times. Researchers at the station told the Times that these crevasses were known hazards but high winds and recent snowfall made them hard to see.
Ryan R. Neely III, a climate scientist at the University of Leeds in England, who studied under Steffen, told the Times that crevasses used to be unheard of in that area, but warming had caused stresses on the ice sheet and subsequent cracks. “In the end,” he said, “it looks like climate change actually claimed him as a victim.”
Steffen made a major impact on the field of climate science, and often brought his research on climate change to political leaders and the public, according to The Washington Post.
He returned to the camp, consisting of a lab hut and another hut for communal dining, each spring, according to the Post. Sometimes the camp would collapse, and be rebuilt. Steffen would often construct most of it himself, according to the Post. While there, he would only sleep three to four hours a night and often worked with bare hands in the frigid cold, according to the Post.
Steffen was born in 1952 and earned his doctorate from ETH Zurich in Switzerland in 1984. In 1990, he became a professor of climatology at the University of Colorado in Boulder and served as the director of the university's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) from 2005 to 2012, before leaving to direct the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research. As of 2012, he was also a professor at ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, according to the statement.
"I take some small comfort knowing he was where he wanted to be, doing what he wanted to be doing," the current CIRES director Waleed Abdalati, who earned his PhD under Steffen's mentorship, said in a statement from CIRES.
Steffen "always had a smile and a kind word to say," according to the statement. "And it seemed, at times, like he could do anything: brief Congress, ford a meltwater river on a snowmachine, mesmerize journalists with tales of his time on the ice."
www.livescience.com/konrad-steffen-death.html
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Post by swamprat on Aug 20, 2020 14:16:48 GMT
Heating our climate damages our economies: Study reveals greater costs than expected Date: August 19, 2020
Source: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Summary:
Rising temperatures due to our greenhouse gas emissions can cause greater damages to our economies than previous research suggested, a new study shows.
Rising temperatures due to our greenhouse gas emissions can cause greater damages to our economies than previous research suggested, a new study shows. Scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Mercator Research Institute for Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) took a closer look at what climate change does to regions at the sub-national level, such as US states, Chinese provinces or French départments, based on a first-of-its-kind dataset by MCC. If CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels are not reduced rapidly, a global warming of 4°C until 2100 can make that regions lose almost 10% of economic output on average and more than 20% in the tropics.
"Climate damages hit our businesses and jobs, not just polar bears and coral reefs," says Leonie Wenz from PIK, one of the two authors of the study. "Rising temperatures make us less productive which is relevant in particular for outdoor work in the construction industry or agriculture. They affect our harvests and they mean extra stress and thus costs for our infrastructure as for instance computer centres need to be cooled. By statistically evaluating climate and economic data from the past decades, we found that the aggregated economic damages from rising temperatures are even greater than previously estimated because we looked at the sub-national effects which provide a more comprehensive picture than national averages."
Damages from weather extremes would come on top
Previous research suggested that a 1°C hotter year reduces economic output by about 1%, whereas the new analysis points to output losses of up to three times that much in warm regions. Using these numbers as a benchmark for computing future damages of further greenhouse gas emissions, the researchers find significant economic losses: 10% on a global average and more than 20% in the tropics by 2100. This is still a conservative assessment since the study did not take into account damages from, for example, extreme weather events and sea-level rise, which will also be substantial but are hard to pin down for single regions.
The new insight was made possible by building a novel MCC-dataset of climate and economy for 1500 regions in 77 states around the world that, for some regions, dates back to the 1900s. Data coverage is best for industrialized countries, however, with economic information lacking in particular for large parts of Africa. While the calculations show a substantial impact on economic production, they do less so for permanent economic growth reductions, which might be a reason for hope once emissions are reduced. Importantly, the damages are distributed very unevenly across the world with tropical and already poor regions suffering most from continued warming whereas a few countries in the North might even profit.
The economic cost of each tonne of CO2 emissions: 70-140 US-dollars
The findings have important implications for climate policy, and namely CO2 pricing. "If you update the widely-used climate-economy model DICE developed by Nobel prize winner William Nordhaus with the statistical estimates from our data, the costs of each tonne of carbon emitted to society are two to four times higher," highlights the lead-author of the study, Matthias Kalkuhl from MCC. "According to our study, every tonne of CO2 emitted in 2020 will cause economic damage amounting to a cost between 73 to 142 dollars in 2010 prices, rather than 37 dollars shown by the DICE model. By 2030, the so-called social cost of carbon will already be almost 30 percent higher due to rising temperatures."
By way of comparison: the carbon price in European emissions trading currently fluctuates between 20 and 30 euros per tonne; the national carbon price in Germany rises from 25 euros next year to 55 euros in 2025. These current carbon prices thus reflect only a small part of the actual climate damage. According to the polluter-pays principle, they would need to be adjusted upwards significantly.
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1. Matthias Kalkuhl, Leonie Wenz. The impact of climate conditions on economic production. Evidence from a global panel of regions. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2020; 103: 102360 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2020.102360
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200819102815.htm
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Post by nyx on Aug 21, 2020 2:13:48 GMT
The Farmers Almanac 2020-2021 winter prediction is a warm winter.
So get out the sun screen.
The only exception is the upper mid-west were it will be colder.
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Post by mryelm on Sept 26, 2020 18:50:27 GMT
Siberian town records 100 degree F day — the hottest in Arctic history By Brandon Specktor - Senior Writer - 22 June 2020
The new all-time high follows the world's hottest May on record.
Siberia — the land of black snow, blood rain and spontaneous solar eclipses — may have just set a dire new climate record. On Saturday (June 20), temperatures in the far-north town of Verkhoyansk broke 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) for the first time, according to news reports.
If verified, that makes Saturday's high the hottest-ever temperature documented above the Arctic Circle, The Washington Post reported.
Verkhoyansk is a town of some 1,300 residents in the Siberian Arctic, about 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) east of Moscow. The town has one of the most extreme temperature ranges on Earth, with winter lows hitting an average of minus 56 F (minus 49 C) and a previous all-time summer high of 98.96 F (37.2 C), according to Brittanica.com. On Saturday, several weather stations largely due to melting sea ice induced by man-made global warming.
www.livescience.com/hottest-arctic-circle-temperature-ever-siberia.html
I agree climate change and global warming is happening as we forum together. I don't agree that the cause is man and woman adding greenhouse gas etc into our environment. We as a species take ourselves, and our abilities far too seriously. Climate change and global warming and cooling is a natural process that has been around for at least 4or 500 million years! Now climate change is a political weapon. With the media supporting insane claims of the newly green left and democratic party. GW or climate change is a great weapon! Its creates fear, and isn't easy to understand the science. Fear is a way to control people. When fear is created and when it happens fast, its like a large stock market correction. People notice immediately! stampeding to the bank for a money run! I am not saying we shouldn't care for our planet. I am a fairly green individual, and like to design earth friendly building materials like reactive home siding and roofs (that regulate inside temps by routing airflow etc) . That said we shouldn't cash all in on risky green investments etc. Obama wasted billions funding solar companies that a K1 student would know they would fail. Then we have the horrific pair of Harris/Biden. Thier recommendations , ie banning fracking and anything using fossil fuels etc, would collapse the economy, especially when combined with the other ideas they want to implement. If Biden wins suicide will be on the menu. (not really, homicide ? nah, a general screaming and pulling on hair fit seems to be in the cards. Oh yeah I will have a fine excuse to start drinking again, anything to numb the pain! Ok that's the plan if Biden wins, addiction is painful, but it would be less painful than watching those Marxist fools destroy our nation and the world. oh the graph....I did add titles but didn't add data of course. It shows 00 million years of climate change and many many many examples where the earths avg temp far exceeded our current avg temp. The pic doesn't look right! Hmm it can be seen @ ; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/media/File:All_palaeotemps.svg; {> Attachments:
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Post by robosapien on Sept 26, 2020 21:12:16 GMT
There have been at least five significant ice ages in Earth's history, with approximately a dozen epochs of glacial expansion occurring in the past 1 million years.
All without human intervention, so yes there is climate change, it happens with or without us.
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