2013: 4th warmest year on record

Discussion in 'Politics' started by futurecurrents, Feb 13, 2014.

  1. jem

    jem

    The state is run by democrats and the entire water situation here is inept and insane. I am sure some day they are going to run us all out of San Diego by just cutting off our water unless we become members of the party.

    Its not far off... with employers having to swear they did not lay off workers because of obamacare.

    here was what you article explained...


    "They want to blame the drought for the lack of water, but they wasted water for the past five years," said Nunes.

    The two explain that California's system of aqueducts and storage tanks was designed long ago to take advantage of rain and mountain runoff from wet years and store it for use in dry years. But it's now inactive — by design. "California's forefathers built a system (of aqueducts and storage facilities) designed to withstand five years of drought," said Nunes.

    "We have infrastructure dating from the 1960s for transporting water, but by the 1990s the policies had changed," said Valadao.

    Environmental special interests managed to dismantle the system by diverting water meant for farms to pet projects, such as saving delta smelt, a baitfish. That move forced the flushing of 3 million acre-feet of water originally slated for the Central Valley into the ocean over the past five years.
     
    #111     Feb 17, 2014
  2. No they don't.

    You are just guessing.

    You are a an ignorant lying asshole who is not interested in truth, like 97% of the world's climatologists and all of it's science organizations agree about man-made global warming and CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Those are just the facts. Go ahead and ignore them but it makes you look like an idiot. Which is of course what you are. A twisted psychotic ideologically deranged and deluded idiot.

    You still don't understand what a greenhouse gas does. Amazing.
     
    #112     Feb 17, 2014
  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

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    #113     Feb 17, 2014
  4. jem

    jem

    1. how many times do I have to present this link to you... you troll. see its from nasa science right around the time they kicked the agw nutter, hansen, out.

    Yes by working in the upper atmosphere to repel the suns energy... CO2 calls the earth. The whole earth.

    http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/22mar_saber/


    Mlynczak is the associate principal investigator for the SABER instrument onboard NASA’s TIMED satellite. SABER monitors infrared emissions from Earth’s upper atmosphere, in particular from carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxide (NO), two substances that play a key role in the energy balance of air hundreds of km above our planet’s surface.
    “Carbon dioxide and nitric oxide are natural thermostats,” explains James Russell of Hampton University, SABER’s principal investigator. “When the upper atmosphere (or ‘thermosphere’) heats up, these molecules try as hard as they can to shed that heat back into space.”
    That’s what happened on March 8th when a coronal mass ejection (CME) propelled in our direction by an X5-class solar flare hit Earth’s magnetic field. (On the “Richter Scale of Solar Flares,” X-class flares are the most powerful kind.) Energetic particles rained down on the upper atmosphere, depositing their energy where they hit. The action produced spectacular auroras around the poles and significant1 upper atmospheric heating all around the globe.
    “The thermosphere lit up like a Christmas tree,” says Russell. “It began to glow intensely at infrared wavelengths as the thermostat effect kicked in.”
    For the three day period, March 8th through 10th, the thermosphere absorbed 26 billion kWh of energy. Infrared radiation from CO2 and NO, the two most efficient coolants in the thermosphere, re-radiated 95% of that total back into space.

    2. http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2014/02/new-paper-finds-negative-feedback.html

    New paper finds negative-feedback cooling from water vapor could almost completely offset warming from CO2
    A new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres finds water vapor can act as a negative-feedback cooling effect to significantly counteract anthropogenic global warming.

    According to the paper, "The satellite observations have shown that warming of the tropical Indian Ocean and tropical Western Pacific Ocean -- with resulting increased precipitation and water vapor there -- causes the opposite effect of cooling in the tropical tropopause region above the warming sea surface. Once the tropical tropopause cools, less water vapor is present in the tropical tropopause and also above in the stratosphere,

    Since water vapor is a very strong greenhouse gas, this effect leads to a negative feedback on climate change. That is, the increase in water vapor due to enhanced evaporation from the warming oceans is confined to the near- surface area, while the stratosphere becomes drier. Hence, this effect may actually slightly weaken the more dire forecasted aspects of an increasing warming of our climate, the scientists say."

    The paper itself says, "In the lower stratosphere, the changes in water vapor and temperature due to projected future sea surface temperatures are of similar strength to, though slightly weaker than, that due directly to projected future CO2, ozone, and methane," which would indicate that this negative-feedback cooling effect is almost equivalent to the warming effect of man-made CO2, ozone, and methane and could almost fully offset global warming.

    The paper is similar to another recent paper published in Nature Climate Change, finding warming of sea surface temperatures in the Indian and Pacific Ocean 'warm pool' is causing less water vapor to enter the top of the troposphere and could cause global cooling from this negative-feedback. The papers add to many others finding water vapor acts as a negative-feedback, not positive as assumed by IPCC climate models. Climate model false assumptions of positive-feedback from water vapor are the entire basis of Mann-made global warming alarm.

     
    #114     Feb 17, 2014
  5. LEAPup

    LEAPup

    Poor fucknuts and his global warming lunacy. Fox just showed satellite images of the Great Lakes from NOAA, and they're completely frozen over. The ice is at record levels. Yep, we're melting...:D
     
    #115     Feb 17, 2014
  6. stoic

    stoic

    ...imagine that.....Al Gore on trial for "Crimes Against Humanity"

    .....I hope its televised !!!
     
    #116     Feb 17, 2014
  7. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    Only a few years ago this statement would have been nothing more than a far fetched joke. Now it's become a plausible possibility.
     
    #117     Feb 17, 2014
  8. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    The web site OpenSecrets.org has done a great deal of useful work. Especially helpful are its lists of high-dollar political campaign donor organizations.

    The web site's 1989-2014 and 2012-specific lists, to name just two, demonstrate that the hyperventilating on the left and in the establishment press about the eeeevil Koch Brothers is completely out of line:

    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz2tcvloSv7
     
    #118     Feb 17, 2014

  9. No, sorry idiot. CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Do you know why it's called that? Is it cold in a greenhouse?

    You are one very confused right wing drone.

    Water vapor is also a greenhouse gas and due to global warming there is more of it. Clouds are pretty much net-neutral.
     
    #119     Feb 17, 2014
  10. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    Nation's Clown Shortage Is No Joke--But, It Might Be a Career Opportunity

    - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/timot...ht-be-career-opportunity#sthash.ODPSq2hH.dpuf
     
    #120     Feb 17, 2014