2011 Was Ninth Warmest Year On Record

[Guest]

NASA release a temperature analysis for 2011, which shows that last year was among the ten warmest years since 1880, when the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York began keeping record of global temperatures.

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[kcorp2003]

i hope i get snow in spring. My Christmas without snow kinda makes me sad. damn you greenhouse gas! i recycle everything properly, I use paper bags and turn off/unplug unnecessarily electrical device.. come on, it takes all of us to contribute! it's not that hard.

 

[techcurious]

I wonder how much increasing population (body heat) is affecting the rise in temperature..

 

[bennaye]

And in other news, this year's Australian summer was BY FAR the best one I've ever had. I don't even sweat at night.

 

[DSpider]

[citation][nom]techcurious[/nom]I wonder how much increasing population (body heat) is affecting the rise in temperature..[/citation]
It's the cows, didn't you hear? An average cow farts around 5 times more than a human.


PS: Why is this up on Tom's HARDWARE? Doing weather reports now?

 

[freggo]

I have a feeling it is not going to be much, hen again, it could make a nice doctoral thesis

 

[Guest]

@DSpider

Why is this on Tom's? Because Tom's is about twenty-first century technology: development, production, maintenance, consumption/use. And guess what? Many of those same industrial processes that are responsible for the existence and ubiquity of many of the gadgets in the world today on which we have come to depend are also responsible for the increased carbon emissions at the heart of the whole climate change issue. I'd say that this article is topical.

 

[Guest]

Honestly when I first saw the title here I thought ninth "warmest" year meant a lot of people overclocked their PCs hence the rise in temperature

 

[JohnMD1022]

James Hansen has a long record of falsifying data to support 'global warming'.

I wouldn't put too much faith in anything this serial liar has to say about climate, weather or anything else.

 

[joytech22]

NASA release a temperature analysis for 2011

"Released*"

Anyway.. We are causing this warmth.. We all know it.
But hey, Fermi needed to be sold you know?

Joking aside.. Because I suck at it.. -.-.. You know what would fix it?

Make EVERYBODY ride a push bike.
It'll solve a majority of weight issues around the world, clean the atmosphere faster etc..
Plus you won't see "tow bikes" or serious "bike crashes" and all the other crap..


Yeah.. this is going to get 20 thumbs down LOL I'm just pulling stuff out my fingers. (see what I did th--.. ehhh...)

 

[southernshark]

We have the technology to freeze this world. Only fools hold us back.

 

[ojas]

as long as one person goes to office in a mini-van, or unless petrol gets cheaper and gives more mileage than diesel, and factory owners are people in general are more paranoid about the stuff that comes out of their chimney, there's going to be a prob.

Alternative energy must drive alternative transportation and industrial process.

 

[SoiledBottom]

Ninth Warmest Year On Record

Coming in at number 8 for warm records "Winelight" from 1980 by Grover Washington jr. with the hit single...Just the Two of Us

Tomsguide...nothing but smooth warm sounds from today and years gone bye

 

[blubbey]

Winter's very warm where I am this year, I've been able to wear a shirt and shorts almost every day (it's not exactly warm but it's fine).

 

[srhelicity]

I'm happy to see nobody replying here has confused weather with climate, nor local / state / country with "global". When we talk about global climate change, we're talking about stuff on the order of 1-5 degrees F. We had the hottest summer ever recorded in Oklahoma this past year, but that was a state/regional WEATHER event, just like the big northwestern US snow-storm last week was a regional WEATHER event, just like the super-snowy winter last year in the northern US was a regional WEATHER event. I doubt many of us can "feel" the observed global warming since I doubt many in here can tell when the average yearly temp has risen 1-2 degrees F. The world (glaciers, ocean current, trees, etc.) certainly does, though! (I'm a meteorologist finishing my PhD, so I have some experience with this topic )

 

[serra]

As temperatures in the past continue to go down, the present will continue to be the 'warmest'. Look at the changes to the temperature record, the 1930s continue to cool, getting a little cooler each year. Soon enough, years like 1998 were warmer than the 1930s.

 

[CaedenV]

So after one of the coldest winters I have lived through, and a particularly mild summer, we ended up averaging above for the year because of an extended heatwave in August followed by a mild fall/winter?

Seriously, this is all nuts. It is not global warming, it is climate change. The climate changes over time. It did it for (if you subscribe to evolutionary theory) millions of years before we got here, and now it is somehow 'evil' because we are involved in the process? When are we going to realize that (contrary to popular opinion) we are a natural process? If we cause global warming, then we cause it. If we reverse it, then we reverse it. Back in the '80s it was all about the coming ice age (I love how 'the Day After Tomorrow' worked that in lol). Today it is all about global warming. In reality, both are about getting grant and research money, and not about hard science.
Do we need to consume less? Absolutely! But is has more to do with socio-economic reasons than any hard science. The people who set the price on power are unstable despots. The sooner we can get away from insane people controlling the market the better. On the flip side, the less we consume on things that maintain/operate equipment (like power), the more we can spend on making the newer/better equipment mainstream.
Was there a time when pollution was a major problem? Absolutely! Remember what SoCal looked like in the '70s and '80s (and even '90s)? It was like pea soup over a city (kinda like what many Chinese cities looked like when I was there ~10 years ago, but I hear those are getting better now). Have you been to SoCal recently? There are more people, but the air and the water are so much cleaner now! Sure, it is not perfect, but a lot has changed in the last 10-15 years, and I am sure that it will continue that trend.
How do we solve the problem of population growth and usage? You either start doing the inhumane thing of population caps, or decreasing the populace in one way or another, or you invest in the space program and pursue the dream of space exploration. Everything is finite, but the universe is big. If we do not learn to expand then we will doom ourselves eventually (be it hundreds or thousands of years in the future).

 

[memadmax]

Ugg, here we go again.....

You know what, this crap is all bs...

George Carlin said it best....

Do a youtube search for "George Carlin environment", it's funny as hell and a real thought provoker....

 

[kawininjazx]

Don't listen to anything NASA says about weather or climate, we already discovered the thousands of emails admitting to altering weather data to make global warming look real. It's all part of an agenda to make Al Gore more money with carbon credits.

 

[chunkymonster]

Stories promoting global warming remind me of the children's story Chicken Little...but instead of "The sky is falling!", we have politically corrupted scientists in collusion with the Eco-terrorists running around screaming, "The earth is warming, the earth is warming!". The thing that Chicken Little and the the AGW crowd have in common is getting whacked on the head!

Whether AWG is real or not the IIPC, NASA, and the eco-terrorists have made such a farce out of the situation that no one except those that drink the AWG kool-aid believe them.

THE EARTH IS WARMING! THE EARTH IS WARMING! WE MUST SAVE MOTHER EARTH, OUR GREAT GODDESS GIAI, AND INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL POPULATION CONTROL, NO LONGER USE ANY NATURAL RESOURCES, AND LIVE LIKE WE ARE BACK IN THE STONE AGE! SAVE MOTHER EARTH! SAVE THE GODDESS GIAI!

Bunch of AWG bull$h*t!!!!!!!!!!!