[Climate Change] Lake Erie up to 60% Covered in Ice

HBO's Vice just showed episode 1 of season 3. This is a short clip of who is behind the deniers. http://youtu.be/nVtmzvHedD4. No surprise Koch and energy companies are behind it and the people who were successful for the PR work for the tobacco industry are now being used by the deniers.

On the show, they will also point out that the deniers will use "there is a lot more ice covering the planet". Although true, what is lost is that sea ice is not the same as land ice as the latter could be miles/kilometers thick.

 

We are literally burning time. I see no way out.

 

Will all the global warmists please do us a huge favor and tell us exactly when the earth will burn up and become uninhabitable? I know all of your previous predictions have been proven to be wrong, but no doubt this prediction will be accurate. Also, please tell us how much our taxes need to be raised by in order to ward off this urgent crisis.

 

Are straw-man fallacies the only ground you stand on in your refutations? No, scientists don't believe that climate change will make the planet uninhabitable. Far worse natural disasters have occurred on this planet yet it was never "uninhabitable" since life began on Earth.

 

Extreme Feb 2015. The Eastern US was hammered by cold while the rest of the world was warm to very warm. Weather seems to be getting "stuck" in places and we are seeing longer persistence pattern of extreme weather.

 

Koch industries basically admit they aren't funding science but speech in efforts to defeat any kind of sense that fossil fuels are warming the planet

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...stries-refuses-senators-climate-investigation

 

Exposes BP which talks a big game on addressing global warming as a fraud - they do that for their brand but behind everyone's back are giving money to climate skeptics. Also these guys are being appointed head of environmental committees and just are voices for the oil industry. Scary.

Climate-sceptic US senator given funds by BP political action committee

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...cian-jim-inhofe-bp-political-action-committee

 

Crater Lake now has less snow than the average amount measured on June 30.

 

Conspiracy theory? They admit to being anti-climate. Where is the conspiracy if it's out in the open!

 

Since several posters have brought up the North Eastern Winter as an argument global warming. This actually might be an affect of climate change as one of the predictions of climate change is that a warming environment causing ice sheets to melt would decrease the salinity of the Atlantic Ocean causing a slow down in the Gulf Stream bringing warm water to the north Atlantic. This could explain why the last two winters in the Northeastern US have had record cold while overall the planet has had record warmth.

My own personal comment is that this is interesting but as I've said before I wouldn't consider individual weather phenomena to be indicative for or against global warming but if this pattern persist it is definitely something to consider as more evidence.

http://ripr.org/post/atlantic-ocean-currents-slowing-down-due-climate-change

Atlantic Ocean Currents Slowing Down Due To Climate Change

The average global temperature has gone up over the last century due to the phenomenon known as global warming. But one region in the north Atlantic has seen the opposite trend. A Roger Williams University researcher explains this anomaly in a recent paper published in Nature Climate Change.

(A video by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the what's known as the Great Ocean Conveyer Belt, or the Thermohaline Circulation.)

Temperatures are cooling down in the north Atlantic because of a slowdown in ocean currents, which drive weather patterns. That’s the finding of a research team including Scott Rutherford of Roger Williams University. Rutherford said the changes are linked to climate change. A contributor to this slowdown is the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. He said there may also be a link to the recent cold winter in the Northeast.

“That's a maybe [to the question], ‘Are these cold winters and what we are seeing in the slowdown linked?’ Because we do see the temperature pattern of the slowdown reappear this past winter, and we haven't seen it in several winters before that,” said Rutherford.

Rutherford said the kinds of extreme weather events that we view now as very unusual may become usual in the future.

Rutherford said the melting of the Greenland ice sheet is also diluting the Gulf Stream, a salty warm current in the Atlantic Ocean that originates in the Gulf of Mexico. He is calling for more research into the impact this slowdown will have to ecosystems and sea levels.

He said this kind of ocean circulation slowdown is unprecedented in the past one thousand years.

 

No you are a climate skeptic because it doesn't meet your political agenda and your brain can't accept reality.

 

People have explained this to you a million times. Climate change does not occur on the order of 15 years BECAUSE OF THINGS LIKE EL NINO which are on the same scale.

 

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