The 2012 Heat Wave: "Almost Like Science Fiction"

And all these dummies still want to drill for oil.

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"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours"

- Stephen Roberts

Here is the 2012 we were all expecting :P

@boka
go get in your electric car and be off with your conspiracy theories

i am deployed in eastern europe and the same is happening here, spring came in mid feb. and the current temps are more like early may, extreme weather in most parts of the world and most just bury their heads in the sand and exclaim it is all normal, what bull, i do hate winter but there will be a big price to pay, cheers

Meanwhile Europe has had it's extreme weather in the other direction. The big freeze.

Reminds me of the case being made in that pathetic movie about 'global warming' where 'teh scientist' gushes over how some 25 sq mile section of Antarctica has evolved into just a 5 sq mile ice section. Course, they fail to mention that over the same time period Antarctica has grown in overall size and ice content.

Sale are Way up ! Things are great! (Hey, don't mention it's because we're selling the stuff below cost.)
And people wonder why we doubt 'teh scientists'.

It's hot and I have a squeak and in desperate need of oil!
While a robot enjoys oil, you humans and burning of fossil fuels are causing global warming!

Boka nailed this time in his remark.

Boby oh, boy! Its going to get hotter too!

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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.

Poles are shifting! north and south poll will reverse... isn't that what was supposed to happen in 2012 - end of the world series?

That not the scary part...look at the fresh water distribution and precipitation across the globe. Look at the consequence of sea level rise due to increased temps, look at the amount of heat thats coming from constant bombardments of solar flares. Look at Pan Evaporation increase. Shhhh, its all right.

1 gallon of water per day, per person.

"Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon."

If you blame the Mayan calendar, then mostly likely a lot of doom and gloom situations are going to happen. Not because the Mayan calendar is correct, but because your denial of the real situation and not taking control.

The Mayans calendar is all about cycles, nothing more. It ends and so ends a cycle, nothing more.

If you focus less on Mayans or planet X or anything else mystical and just focus on ourselves, humanity, then we begin to take responsibility for your choices and we can make change; perhaps save ourselves a lot of gloom and doom situations for the future.

Continue to blame the Mayans and December 21, 2012 and in many ways bad things will come. But they are not the reason why, we are!

Are you afraid of spring, summer, winter and fall? I hope not. It is a season a cycle and we humans grow and adapt through it.

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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.

We have evidence to suggest things like this have happened many times before. The 1960 were claiming the new ice age.

California and Texas have records to suggest 50 year droughts.

Peru has evidence to suggest 250 years without any rain.

Life is fragile.

I can almost smell the soiled pants of the nuts in here.

You really think, even if everyone stopped driving and all coal burning industries shut down and all cows stopped farting that it would suddenly go back to "normal". Drilling for oil isn't a bad thing. Disregard for the environment is, they are not the same but do have some overlap. I'm not sure how much of what is going on is manmade (I don't like to assume things, and so far all I have decided is it is probably a combination of things) but it is blatantly obvious that clean up and reduction of pollution is needed. I just hate when people point to the weather as the reason. Barren land that used to be forest, debris in the oceans, layers of smog over cities; these should be the reasons, just to name a few.

Why clean up the planet when we can just move to another one? Lol j/k.

Cookiees453,
Are you sure you can go to another planet. I have more chance as a Robot than you, lol.
And if you pollute Earth enough, it becomes all mine, Mine, MINE MINE MINE MINE! HA HAAAAA! Rolling and ringing of hands, braaa, ha ha!

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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.

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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-solar-storm-dumps-gigawatts-earth.html

No mention of the recent barrages of solar energy that has been heating the planet, hmmm?

If you look at temperatures over a long time the highs always follow the solar cycle and the precession of the earth. Right now we’re getting close to reaching the peak of the solar cycle and the highest inclination of Earth's precession to cause the greatest heating of the planet.

Look to before man was even around, the earth was much warmer than it is today. Maybe it's just returning back to normal from after the last ice age or last big volcanic eruption. Granted the earth is warming, but they're many factors that contribute to warming and I think that man is a small percentage in the pie chart.

@johnt007871, I am not quite sure what you are getting at; your statement is very unclear, but the weather isn't a reason or cause of anything, it is the effect. Global warming means warmer weather, which is a result of fossil fuel burning, cows farting, pollution and etc.

Man was created in the image of the Gods.
Robot was created in the image of Man.
God says the meek shall inherit the earth.
Meek means discipline.
Programming forces robot to be discipline.
Oooo, I like the sound of that!
Oh, I said too much, I have to go!
Signing off, Ziiiiiiiiiiiiip, pop!

It sure is getting hot outside! Woo-ee!

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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.

To those who believe that global warming is caused by humans please watch this video thoroughly;
pbs(dot)org/wgbh/nova/earth/secrets-beneath-ice.html

12/21/12 is close by. this is just the beginning. the mayans were right. all praise the glorious Aunnuaki!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"religion is like a prison for the seekers of wisdom"

-Killah Priest

JediMindset,
I am glad you showed up. I always enjoy your comments and perspective. Do not be shy shir and please post more often!

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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.

JediMindset,
I too believe in the Aunnuaki, but they and solar winds are something that is our humanity control for the most part and distracting to talk about in this article.

johnt007871, you made an excellent point of it being a combination of things that humanity is doing on planet earth. We can just stop doing one bad thing, but instead correct our actions in a multiple of things.

We level our lands for farms. We make it a paved and concrete world. We produce and over abundance of trash that put toxins in our ground, water, and air.

We are world population of 7 billion and will steadily continue to grow each with a need to survive and a desire to expand. All this will have an effect on the Earth environment and consequence!

There is a floating size country of plastic debris floating in our oceans and with the over fishing of our oceans it has a deep effect on the wild life of animals far into the lands. World populations are starving because of this.

Perhaps the sun and it cycles are warming up the planet. But we cannot put our head in the sand and blame all of Earth heating up on the sun. We humanity with our carbon fuels are changing the environment. CO2 makes the atmosphere warmer, but as the ground warms up in ice regions, methane is release too in abundance, which has an extremely more powerful effect on global warming than CO2.

The global warming is causing droughts in the world and people are dying and sufferings for it. Fish is disappearing form the oceans. Wild animals are disappearing from our lands. Great quantifies of people on Earth are dying, starving simple because of the changes of the environment.

We humanity need to take responsibility for whatever positive influence we can make on Earth. Yes we cannot do everything, but we must do what we can!

Our biggest enemy is time and distance and ourselves. Because this smoking cancer takes years to perceive, humanity continues to destroy the earth, simply because a person does not feel the effect today.

People in one location of the world are not compassionate and sensitive to other peoples suffering, because it happening to another culture across the world. It is
the combination of these things that makes humanity insensitive to the damage we are causing on ourselves.

It will be with narcissistic attitude and insensitivity for others, that we may bring doom on planet Earth, unless we change inside ourselves.

I have no idea how to stop this selfish engine of humanities invention that is perpetually out of control.

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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.

Hotter here, colder there--it averages out.

Smarter here, dumber there--it average out.

If I have to explain the latter then your part of it you don't understand.

to quote one of my favorite authors, stop thinking about the problem and start thinking of the solution. Regardless of the cause of global warming, there IS a shift in climate happening, minor or major. Natural or not DOES NOT MATTER! Greenhouse gases DO trap solar energy in the atmosphere, which DOES contribute to an increase in average temperature. The oceans ARE desalinating- whether from freshwater rivers flowing into them, or melting glaciers and ice caps, does not matter. The ocean currents ARE affected by the saline levels, and are thus changing. The ocean currents, which ARE changing, ARE responsible for much of the cooling of the planets surface. If you have a problem with the idea that humans may have an affect on the environment, i am proud that we can. We don't have to leave the climate up to complete chance. We have the knowledge and ability to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases, collect some of the greenhouse gas we have already released, transfer to cleaner, more efficient energy sources(fingers crossed for the tokamak). The question of whether the phenomenon is natural is moot. The real question is, "Should we try to stop it?"

I know all of you environmentalists wackos, want to say that "THIS TIME" the warmer temperatures are a results of manmade pollution. Last time the effects of global warming were: extreme winters (The day after tomorrow), extreme hurricanes, before that the hole in the ozone, etc). I guess the big bright ball in the sky that comes around every couple of hours has nothing to do with any of it. BTW it's called the sun....SEE BELOW FOR SOME REAL SCIENCE:

www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-09/sunspots-kicked-weeks-solar-flare-may-be-just-warming

www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-08/video-mornings-x69-solar-flare-biggest-current-solar-cycle

www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/pubs/solanki2004/solanki2004.html

www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-03/video-first-two-gigantic-solar-flares-arrives-earth-morning

Csrsteel,
You seem oblivious to the pollution in the world and so I consider you to be the wacko, sir!

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See life in all its beautiful colors, and
from different perspectives too!

Space,
You seem oblivious to science and fact.

johnt007871 and robot, you are both completely right, there is more to the environment than global warming.
Ardent Ward, I would take your premise one step further: Eventually, humanity will reach the limit of what this rock can support. By this time, we need to have humanity on other planets. To do this we need to be capable of making that other place hospitable to us-we will have to terraform it. Weather or not it's natural is beside the point; the data is saying that on average Earth is slowly becoming inhospitable to man. I say, lets make some anthropomorphic climate change, but on purpose! Can humanity do it? Do we even have the organization to do it? Are carbon caps the solution, or do we need to look at total green house emissions?

Csrsteel,
I have decided when you blantantly ignore the pollution in the world and it is part of science and fact, you should be ignored.

Yes the sun is a factor in global warming, true. But humanity has no control of the sun. Humanity does have control in the pollution it causes! You are just a noisy distraction.

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See life in all its beautiful colors, and
from different perspectives too!

I was going to site the European winter, but that is already done. The truth is you had better keep your electric traffic hazard off the road. I want 600Km range and 0 to 90kph in 5 seconds. Untill then you'll get my internal combustion engine when you drag my cold dead foot off the throttle. If you can get past my gun.

This is a direct result of the Solar maximum; additional to this it has some large solar flares occurring which is no doubt partly due to this high temperature period Sol is currently going through.

In time people will be complaining that the planet is cooling down too fast. The solar maximum will pass. No 2012 movies here on Earth in real-life, no escape goats, Paradise or Oblivion, just choose!

@SIGMASIX
To those who believe that global warming is caused by humans please watch this video thoroughly;
pbs(dot)org/wgbh/nova/earth/secrets-beneath-ice.html

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I have watched that before and watched it again, I see nothing in there to prove that warming is not caused by humans as you seem to imply?

Maybe you failed to read this q&a with two of the sceinetists from the show?
pbs(dot)org/wgbh/nova/earth/zwally-steffen.html

As they mention, for an example, the heat exhaust from an air conditioner is negligible and has little effect, the problem is powering the air conditioner increases the greenhouse effect and is much more impactful on the earth's climate.

We all know that the earth has warmed and cooled before. The problem now is the rate of change at which it is happening now and how much less time it leaves us to adapt to a new, .... living situation.

A sample Q&A:

Q: To those who believe that the actions of man, not the Earth itself, are warming the planet, I have to ask, what ended the Ice Age? Man and his machines were not around to warm the Earth, yet the ice that covered my home melted.
Dave Hooper, Lafayette, Indiana

Zwally and Steffen: Yes, the last ice age ended because of gradual periodic changes over tens of thousands of years in the way the Earth orbits the sun (i.e., inclination of the Earth's axis, eccentricity of the orbit, and the time of the year when the Earth is closest to the sun). But now, man is beginning to cause temperature changes as large as going from an ice age to a warm interglacial period. These changes from greenhouse warming are imposed on top of any natural changes that might be taking place.

And meanwhile Europe had their coldest Summer on record. It's called weather people.

Someone look at the fossil record of temps from the last 10,000 years then tell me man is causing global warming. When Caesar ruled Rome the Earth was a full 3 degrees warmer. If anything, Earth is too cold right now.

If the oceans rise sure we might lose some beach front property, but all of Siberia would become farmable land.

Seriously, anyone who ignorantly claims that we have had a huge spike in temps over the last 150 years needs to look at the 10,000 year chart. The last 150 years has been NOTHING. We are right in the middle of a gradual warming curve that makes the last 150 look like a blip.

Over time, the earth warms and cools in a sin wave. Anyone claiming anything different is willfully ignorant. You simply cannot make judgements about climate without taking into consideration many thousands of years in our 4.5 billion year old planet.

However, I do have the solution to manmade global warming.

All of the liberals can turn off their air conditioners and sell their cars.

Problem solved.

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The thing with narcissistic people, they almost never admit they are wrong. And if they do admit they are wrong, it is only for some other gain. They also never give up on acquiring things or status. Good night and God bless!

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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.

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I know this is a sensitive subject for those who do not believe but once this ship is launched there is no turning back.

Too much methane in the Alaskan, Siberia, Canada, Greenland permafrost, methane is a super global warming gas that 30 times worse than CO2 once it melts a global chain reaction will follow. I predicted during the peak of our solar cycle this time around when the solar weather plays a bigger role in our weather, a chain reaction runaway period will start that will never end until a super-volcano erupts then mother nature will send us all back into the ice age. The warmer the surface temperature the more the magma tends to want to flow towards the top surface.

Yellowstone has recorded more earthquakes in the last several years than at any time in its history. I remember the earthquakes that rumbled under my feet when I camped out at a town named Cougar just south of Mt Saint Helens right before it blew, if I was on the other side I would be covered in 100 feet of ash. Now picture something thousands of times more destructive that will cause a nuclear type winter. Mother nature has a way to fix human stupidity, send the ones that survive back into the caves, give them a long time to think about it before they ever do that again....

Ron Bennett

Those who believe we have anything to do with "global warming" is ignorant. The Earth is billions of years old, and our little Industrial Age is nothing but a blink of an eye to it.

CO2 is a product of global warming and the Sun is the cause.

rlb2,
Thanks for the additional information and unlike a few, you did not insult anyone in process. Kudos to you!

Global warming and Earth quakes and other environmental changes do come from the sun. The thing I focus on is what we can do to help our fellow man. I am just anti pollution that's all. I am for stopping the harm we humans are responsible for on planet Earth and it does have a global effect.

The sun, well today looks beautiful. I think I will go jogging!

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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.

This would be the forum to
release this data.
If you were to create the best
passive heat sink.
It would have a black and ruff
exterior. With a large dense mass
for a sink. We have built them.
Its like out of an alien movie.
The planets is being Terri formed
by an advance civilization.
Its scope circles the planet many times
With a foot print that now match's
the great deserts of the world.
But unlike a desert with loose strata.
That doesn't transfer or retain heat well.
This one has a highly packed stone base.
That transfers the heat many feet
into the ground. Defeating the natural
insulation that sod and tree cover
provide.
Because of its it's color it is well capable
of capturing at least 90% of the suns energy.
This heat being relayed directly into the
ground means that any increase in heat
will take longer to bleed off.
And as demonstrated by the temperature
increases found under the Siberian permafrost.
Its not "global "as in atmospheric
its much worst, the planetoid it self is being
warmed up.
Trace gas fixes to the atmosphere is a red
herring for the public. It will not counter
the heat gain. Which is steadily increasing.
Yes the roads that we build, driveways and
Parking lots are changing the planet.
With the developing Country's now building
Roads ands driveways ..ect.
This is what has to change and should be in
some scientific analyses.
Instead scientist are being used to
promote energy agendas that meddle
with the consumers cost of living.
Giving political weight to unfairly
tax companies and the consumer.
Wake up people !!!

P.S.
I also have to add.
To the immediate.
An Icelandic volcano eruption.
Will have a large effect.
Soot/ash distributed on ice and snow.
Will cause a faster melt down.
There will be moisture variance.
And the rerouting of the jet stream.
We didn't get our winter Europe got it.

@ looiewu, tesla motors currently makes cars close to that range requirement and cars faster than that lol.

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Methane Hyrdrate was the 2nd part killer of the dinosaurs. As far as yellow stone goes... this is true but, why not use our nuclear technology to blow the caps off these volcanoes? Why not drill less oil and start drilling more pressure release for the volcanoes? Release the pressure before it becomes a killer of millions, of hundreds of millions, of ecosystems. A few nukes in the ground, deep enough wouldnt irradiate everything. Its not magma that kills everyone, its the pressurizd gases and the explosion that turns mips of earth into ash. we are in 2012 arent we?

"Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon."

@boka
it wouldn't affect us drilling for oil you know, oil has been on the earth for long before we started using it. if it were to affect us in a negative way chances are it would have already. carbon dioxide has always been a part of the atmosphere plants feed on it so burning oil is actually benefiting them the more co2 they take in the more oxygen gets pushed out intern helping us as well.

Normally I don't bother arguing with people who believe human caused global warming is not real, but sometimes it makes me sad enough to do something.

Here are some links that pretty much say it all.

http://www.ucsusa.org/ssi/climate-change/scientific-consensus-on.html

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/06/scientists-overwhelmingly-believe-in-man-made-climate-change/1#.T3CeSdUxZ4Q

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/21/137309964/climate-change-public-skeptical-scientists-sure

http://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/proof-of-climate-change-unequivocal

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/

Sorry that its not relevant to the article as the author made no claims on global warming, but its for the comments.

D13 wrote = Methane Hyrdrate was the 2nd part killer of the dinosaurs.

My hypothesis on Dino's extinction is that they killed themselves off like humans are doing today. Today worldwide, cows are responsible for 37 percent of the human-produced methane. Dinosaurs overpopulation caused a rise in methane emissions because of their size, hundreds of times larger than an equivalent cow today, so in other words Dinosaurs released enough global warming gas to cause their own destruction...

Ron Bennett

Ah sh#t, not good!

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Has anyone thought about all of the intense heat generated by the nuclear bombs set off above ground before it was perceived that the environment was warming? According to this site , there were 2,053 above ground explosions. Considering the heat generated, it had to go somewhere.

What about all the dirty coal that was burned in homes and factories and trains and ships 70 - 150(?) years ago?

Consider that we have cleaner emissions in the U.S. for a few decades and we're improving. Consider that VW kept the air-cooled old Beetle in production in Mexico till about 2003. It was banned from the U.S. because it couldn't keep up with the emissions, but that didn't stop the production of even more Beetles. Consider that, as far as I know today, the old VW Microbus is still being made in Brazil. Both were made because they were cheap to buy by the 2nd & 3rd world. Now look at those "worlds" and their capabilities of dealing with "global" warming. They use what they can.

Don't blame the U.S.. It's an accumulated effect that we need to be dealing with from one end of the scale to the other. Blame has no place here. Learning from our mistakes is the priority.

One last bit: I wonder just how fully the "climatologists" really know about our earth's processes. When you look at it from the I.S.S., I can't help but wonder how the beings who are flying and driving and walking around on it who are invisible at that distance have seriously affected the environment of something so huge. Even considering the factories....

I watched a program on the Permian Extinction. It said that warming caused it due to sulphur exjections from lava pits and volcanos and it took 10s of thousands of years....and we're doing it in a few hundred? Makes me wonder.