Some scary numbers

[ujoni08]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/ne ... h-20120719

[quote] If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere – the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average, the odds of which occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10-99, a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe.

(snip) Scientists estimate that humans can pour roughly 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by midcentury and still have some reasonable hope of staying below two degrees.

(snip) [The third] number is the scariest of all – one that, for the first time, meshes the political and scientific dimensions of our dilemma. [...] The number describes the amount of carbon already contained in the proven coal and oil and gas reserves of the fossil-fuel companies, and the countries (think Venezuela or Kuwait) that act like fossil-fuel companies. In short, it's the fossil fuel we're currently planning to burn. And the key point is that this new number – 2,795 – is higher than 565. Five times higher.

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[biffvernon]

It's a powerful piece, correctly laying the blame at the right doors.

[clv101]

June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere – the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average, the odds of which occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10-99, a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe.

That's just daft. Those 327 months aren't independent events!

[AnOriginalIdea]

If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States.

The US is but a small part of the landmass contained on this planet. How hot has it been in, say, the UK this summer?

Have you guys been burning up and dying by the dozens from the change to the GLOBAL climate?

[clv101]

If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States.

The US is but a small part of the landmass contained on this planet. How hot has it been in, say, the UK this summer?

Have you guys been burning up and dying by the dozens from the change to the GLOBAL climate?

If the US is small - the UK's a lot smaller!

The Northern Hemisphere was however the warmest May and June on record this year.

[UndercoverElephant]

The weather in the UK is irrelevant. We sit at the junction of four major weather systems, and right underneath the path of the jet stream, which wobbles about. Only global averages are worth taking note of.

[RenewableCandy]

CC is going to make the climate, on average, hotter and wetter. You're hotter. We're wetter. How fecking hard is that to understand??

[Little John]

CC is going to make the climate, on average, hotter and wetter. You're hotter. We're wetter. How fecking hard is that to understand??

nicely put

[SleeperService]

CC is going to make the climate, on average, hotter and wetter. You're hotter. We're wetter. How fecking hard is that to understand??

nicely put

Agreed and to show fairness a few years ago we were hot and the US was flooding.

It's not climate change it's climate chaos