Was Al Gore visiting?

Quote: Montreal (AFP) – Just how cold is it in Canada? Ask the penguins at the Calgary zoo: Even they have had to take shelter.

King penguins — one of five species at the zoo in western Alberta province — are certainly accustomed to chilly weather, more so than species like the Humboldt that prefer somewhat warmer climes, said zoo curator Malu Celli.

But with a cold snap pushing temperatures below minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 Fahrenheit) on New Year’s Eve — and feeling more like minus 40 in the wind — and with one five-month-old penguin chick still maturing, zoo officials decided to draw a line in the snow on Sunday, setting minus 25 as the birds’ limit.

They brought the 10 kings into their heated enclosure, where they can still be viewed by humans brave enough to be out.

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Bill Nye: Blue States Will ‘Impose Economic Sanctions’ Against Climate Change-Denying States



Bring it.

Quote:Friday on MSNBC, climate activist Bill Nye warned conservatives to “watch out,” saying progressive blue states will “address climate change” on their own.

Nye said, “Only 40 percent of people in the U.S. think that Congress should be addressing this and that’s because certain conservative groups, especially from the fossil fuel industry, have been very successful in introducing the idea that scientific uncertainty, plus or minus two percent, is the same as plus or minus 100 percent.”

He continued, “There’s a lot of emphasis from conservatives on what are writ-large states rights. Just watch out, conservatives, if states rights include California, Illinois, New York — these places that, where people voted in a progressive fashion — watch out if all those places start to address climate change and then impose economic sanctions, either overtly or by default, on places that have not embraced the work that needs to be done. Then you’ll end up with this states rights working the other way.”

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(01-02-2018 05:17 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  Bill Nye: Blue States Will ‘Impose Economic Sanctions’ Against Climate Change-Denying States

Done and done!

In other news, red states impose economic sanctions against Sanctuary City-supporting states, and prohibit abortions to blue-state residents.

Everyone is a winner!

How many more idiotic threads like this must we post here?

Weather STILL does not equal climate! Why is this basic tenet of science so hard for some to grasp?

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-...ather.html

Report Claims The Earth Will Become A Desert Without Paris Climate Deal



The end of shoveling snow.

Quote:A large portion of Earth will be covered in desert wastelands if the world does not meet the goals of the Paris climate deal, according to a research group with a history of making dubious claims.

More than 25 percent of the world’s population will be living in a drought and growing desertification if global temperatures increase 2 degrees Celsius by 2050, reads a report published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

“Our research predicts that aridification would emerge over about 20-30 percent of the world’s land surface by the time the global mean temperature change reaches 2ºC,” Manoj Joshi, a lead researcher from University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, said in a statement announcing the findings.

Recent research has repudiated similar claims. A report published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2016, for instance, suggests that more carbon dioxide, not less, increases plant growth, limiting the impact temperatures have on climate change.

Previous studies estimate global warming has caused roughly half of Earth’s landmass to demonstrate “significant greening,” and that only 4 percent of the world saw a decrease in plant life. The increased vegetation presumably permitted by warmer temperatures is slowing global warming as well since more trees and plants sequester CO2.

Other claims from scientists at the University of East Anglia have not come to fruition. One researcher predicted in 2000 that kids would grow up without snow; however, it’s been nearly 18 years since U.K. climate scientists at the university argued that global warming would make snowfall a “a very rare and exciting event.”

“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” Dr. David Viner, a scientist with the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia, told the UK Independent in 2000. UK Independent eventually took down the post after the comment gained notoriety within conservative media.

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Weather does not equal climate. But climate is the sum of all weather. If there is a solid weather trend, then that indicates a change in climate. We ignore those at our possible peril.

That doesn't prove the hockey stick. And neither the hockey stick nor the impact of human action has bee demonstrated conclusively.

We should probably be making sensible changes to minimize or eliminate or even reverse human effects on global warming. But that's sensible changes. We should not be doing stupid stuff just because we created enough hype to scare people.

Excuse me... but... are Penguins now not able to handle cold weather?

(01-02-2018 05:38 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Weather does not equal climate. But climate is the sum of all weather. If there is a solid weather trend, then that indicates a change in climate. We ignore those at our possible peril.

That doesn't prove the hockey stick. And neither the hockey stick nor the impact of human action has bee demonstrated conclusively.

We should probably be making sensible changes to minimize or eliminate or even reverse human effects on global warming. But that's sensible changes. We should not be doing stupid stuff just because we created enough hype to scare people.

This is a great post.

It was the climate change freaks that came up with "global warming" wasn't it? I guess they want a do over. The equivalent of a political mulligan.

Libturds and their fallacies.

(01-02-2018 05:28 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  How many more idiotic threads like this must we post here?

Weather STILL does not equal climate! Why is this basic tenet of science so hard for some to grasp?

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-...ather.html

(01-02-2018 05:36 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  Report Claims The Earth Will Become A Desert Without Paris Climate Deal



The end of shoveling snow.

Quote:A large portion of Earth will be covered in desert wastelands if the world does not meet the goals of the Paris climate deal, according to a research group with a history of making dubious claims.

More than 25 percent of the world’s population will be living in a drought and growing desertification if global temperatures increase 2 degrees Celsius by 2050, reads a report published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

“Our research predicts that aridification would emerge over about 20-30 percent of the world’s land surface by the time the global mean temperature change reaches 2ºC,” Manoj Joshi, a lead researcher from University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, said in a statement announcing the findings.

Recent research has repudiated similar claims. A report published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2016, for instance, suggests that more carbon dioxide, not less, increases plant growth, limiting the impact temperatures have on climate change.

Previous studies estimate global warming has caused roughly half of Earth’s landmass to demonstrate “significant greening,” and that only 4 percent of the world saw a decrease in plant life. The increased vegetation presumably permitted by warmer temperatures is slowing global warming as well since more trees and plants sequester CO2.

Other claims from scientists at the University of East Anglia have not come to fruition. One researcher predicted in 2000 that kids would grow up without snow; however, it’s been nearly 18 years since U.K. climate scientists at the university argued that global warming would make snowfall a “a very rare and exciting event.”

“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” Dr. David Viner, a scientist with the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia, told the UK Independent in 2000. UK Independent eventually took down the post after the comment gained notoriety within conservative media.

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The left has used first Global Warming as a political agenda and of course to make Al Gore very wealthy and then they switched to "Climate Change" when the Global Warming was proven to be the wrong path for the political ambitions. The left has made anyone who disagrees with their propaganda to be a right wing zealot and an idiot. Their "proven science" is about as proven as the world being flat.

(01-02-2018 06:54 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  The left has used first Global Warming as a political agenda and of course to make Al Gore very wealthy and then they switched to "Climate Change" when the Global Warming was proven to be the wrong path for the political ambitions. The left has made anyone who disagrees with their propaganda to be a right wing zealot and an idiot. Their "proven science" is about as proven as the world being flat.

Thats fine but pointing out local weather as examples to disprove the issue is idiotic

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(01-02-2018 07:20 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(01-02-2018 06:54 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  The left has used first Global Warming as a political agenda and of course to make Al Gore very wealthy and then they switched to "Climate Change" when the Global Warming was proven to be the wrong path for the political ambitions. The left has made anyone who disagrees with their propaganda to be a right wing zealot and an idiot. Their "proven science" is about as proven as the world being flat.

Thats fine but pointing out local weather as examples to disprove the issue is idiotic

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Better call Time magazine.

http://time.com/4891451/climate-change-r...e-weather/

Quote:Yes, You Can Blame Climate Change for Extreme Weather

Quote:For years, careful climate scientists — and the politicians like Obama who listened to them — have avoided saying that any particular event was directly caused by climate change, even as they called for urgent action to address the issue. But researchers now say they can use a variety of approaches to show that climate change is all but certainly causing and worsening extreme weather events.

A comprehensive new report from scientists at 13 federal agencies, published this week by the New York Times as it awaits review by the Trump administration, highlights the change in thinking. The scientists behind the report, leaders in their respective fields, say researchers can use statistical analysis, modeling and other methods to determine how much climate change increased the likelihood of a given event.

Researchers behind the report point to the sweltering heat wave that swept Europe in the summer of 2003 and Australian temperature extremes in 2013 as cases with “relatively strong evidence for human contribution.” Other events, like the a 2011 Texas heat wave and drought, are thought to have other primary causes, like the La Niña weather pattern. Generally, extreme temperature events are the easiest to attribute to climate change, followed by drought and heavy rain. The science around the size and severity of extreme storms remains mixed, according to the report.

Of course Time is fake news.

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This is the first time I can remember it being cold in January. Honestly, something must be going on. Time to panic.

Bill Nye apparently doesn't understand how interstate commerce works under the constitution

(01-02-2018 07:20 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(01-02-2018 06:54 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  The left has used first Global Warming as a political agenda and of course to make Al Gore very wealthy and then they switched to "Climate Change" when the Global Warming was proven to be the wrong path for the political ambitions. The left has made anyone who disagrees with their propaganda to be a right wing zealot and an idiot. Their "proven science" is about as proven as the world being flat.

Thats fine but pointing out local weather as examples to disprove the issue is idiotic

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I recall the left using Hurricane Harvey as proof of global warming. We are only playing by their rules.

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(01-02-2018 08:19 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(01-02-2018 07:20 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(01-02-2018 06:54 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  The left has used first Global Warming as a political agenda and of course to make Al Gore very wealthy and then they switched to "Climate Change" when the Global Warming was proven to be the wrong path for the political ambitions. The left has made anyone who disagrees with their propaganda to be a right wing zealot and an idiot. Their "proven science" is about as proven as the world being flat.

Thats fine but pointing out local weather as examples to disprove the issue is idiotic

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I recall the left using Hurricane Harvey as proof of global warming. We are only playing by their rules.

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The numbnuts think we have a short memory. The libturds actually used cat-5 hurricanes as proof of global warming/climate change. After Katrina hit, they predicted that global warming/climate change would cause multiple catastrophic Katrina storms every year. The end was near if we didnt act quickly. (Spend trilions of dollars on junk science remedies.)

We then proceeded to go over a decade without one of those storms hitting. Its like mother nature is purposely dicking them over.