2012: Most Extreme Weather Ever

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The republicans, and other members of America’s ignorant and unwashed, refuse to believe the climate is changing, and they vociferously deny that man made global warming exists.  The deniers range from your ignorant neighbor, ill advised family member, or your local politician.

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It doesn’t matter that the vast majority of the world’s scientists, close to 99%, agree that the climate is getting warmer.  If that isn’t enough, all one has to do is step outside in places where there should be snow, like Chicago, Illinois, to know that temperatures in the sixties [in January] just isn’t right.

Climate change is the inevitable storm that will affect each and every person on the planet in a most dramatic way within the next 20 years, whether it’s sea level rise, wiping out entire shorelines and islands, to dying crops and wildlife.  In Australia the continent has become so warm the map has been changed.  In the Western states water will be a commodity more precious than oil, and this will happen, despite the crazy republicans, and those others who acknowledge the science, but refuse to act, such as Barack Obama and many of his democrats.

This past year was the clearly the hottest on record for the 48 contiguous states in the United States, the NOAA announced today, featuring the warmest spring ever, the second warmest summer, the fourth warmest winter, and an above-average autumn. Overall, the average temperature was 55.3 degrees F, or 3.2 degrees F above the 20th-century average. If that wasn’t enough, it also the second-most extreme year on record, based on the US Climate Extremes Index, which takes into account factors like tropical storms, precipitation, and extreme temperatures.

The index came in at almost twice its average level, which makes sense given that 2012 saw 11 disasters that caused more than $1 billion in damage. Precipitation was significantly below average, as you might expect given the massive drought that hit much of the country this summer. The warmth also helped cause the drought; the lack of snow kept the soil dry, and the warm spring pushed up the growing season, draining what water there was from the soil faster.

It’s only just begun.

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Reply to  Professor Mike
11 years ago

I think it’s somewhat like smoking. I don’t care how much they damage themselves until they start taking me with them. Then there is going to be a big problem.

As I said, the total causes are not clear, but to insist that all the heat pollution we are pumping into the environment is not having an effect is being stubbornly stupid.

Reply to  James Smith
11 years ago

Yes,James it’s denial, just like ‘smoking’. Ask my deceased parents who both died of lung cancer, one was 59, the other 62. I used to nag them about it but to no avail. Also had an aunt who died of throat cancer at 30. She was also a heavy smoker. But, it’s like talking to a brick wall. The last thing my mother said to me as she was dying and losing her sight was, “Ricky, I wish I had of listened to you about smoking.” Sad! Let’s see what the people on the coast say when the ocean swallows them up~

Reply to  RickRay
11 years ago

Like you, both of my parents died from the effects of smoking. Also, aunts, uncles, and most recently, a friend of lung cancer.

I don’t think rising sea levels will be the worst effect. If all of the ice on the planet melted, the sea would not rise that much. The other effects, violent weather, deserts expanding and potable water becoming more scarce will be much more serious.

11 years ago

The questions I inevitably ask climate change deniers are:

Do you deny that the sea levels are rising?

Do you deny that the ice packs and glaciers are shrinking?

Do you deny that the average global temperatures, as measured by reputable scientists, are rising?

I freely admit to them that yes, the climate has grown warmer and cooler in past geological ages. There is not evidence that it has ever changed this rapidly, though.

The total causes are not yet know, climatology is much more complex than most would think. It isn’t clear him much effect human intervention has upon it. Considering the 7 billion people on the planet and our collective energy use, it’s certain we do have some effect. We are almost certainly not the only cause but we are having an effect.

BTW, most decline to answer my questions, much as the religious reich does about their “faith.” Maybe denying climate change has become a religion, also based upon myths, lies and, in this case, bad science.

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