:Cough: :Cough: Galveston, TX. Long Island, NY. :Cough: :Cough:
He said "most" for a reason.
Funny thing about New Orleans when it flooded, the old French Districts were mostly fine - they built on the highest ground available, not being idiots. It was the newer areas.
1. As said above, what is your baseline. There has been severe weather since mankind has recorded such things. IMO, that is a very general and useless prediction that is so vague that any given data set can be used to prove or disprove.
That's the thing about specifying not even a rate, the baseline is irrelevant, really. But most of them are basically 50-60 years in the past, because that's when we start having good available data. Some go as far back as a hundred or two.
3. Several degrees,
on average. Basically
everywhere. By the vast majority of scientific estimates, by about 2030. Thus, specifying 1-2 locations that are colder
than average for a limited period over the course of not even a year, as is popular here to disclaim global climate change, isn't moving.
4. The extra CO2 isn't near what is has been in the not so distant past. Did I miss an extinction event?
Looks like you have. Or did you miss that
we might be in one right now?
As for CO2, No, it really isn't.
We're about 1/3rd higher than ever recorded.We're at 414 ppm and rising.
Before the 1800s we were at around 275(using ice core data).
Over the last 800,000 years, which I'd consider "distant past", the highest we got was about 300ppm. So we're about a third over the highest recorded value and rising.
Funny thing I remember reading is that plants grow better in higher CO2 concentrations. It has to do with their ability to absorb CO2 and reject O2 for photosynthesis. O2 likes bonding to the same molecule as CO2, so the plant has to spend energy kicking the O2 it doesn't need out to hopefully capture a CO2 molecule next. Thing is? This maxes out at around 300ppm, so plants aren't benefiting from higher CO2 levels anymore.
5. Where are you talking about? Do you have a link to something that says there are more hurricanes now?
http://www.stormfax.com/huryear.htmThrow the data into a spreadsheet and graph it.
6. Why do you hate gay rights?
Because they're trampling on the rights of others now.
Lesson in where not to stand if I find myself up North in Winter.
A lot of our roofs have cleats on them to prevent snow/ice falls over walkways and entrances.
As to melting glaciers -- let's not forget that the New York Finger Lakes were carved by glaciers, as was the coastline of Maine. The glaciers at one time extended as far south as roughly the line of U.S. Route 202 across Massachusetts. Should we be holding out for all of upper New England and New York state to be covered with ice again?
Gotta go with the slippery slope, do you? Sane people aren't demanding another ice age. Merely not pushing us into a hot age. The extremists would be pushing for about 300 ppm, the highest recorded natural level. I'd say that where we are
now is alarming enough, and that we really should have been hitting the brakes 20-40 years ago. Really, we've reached the point that coastal damage can only be limited.
