A short list of al the things global warming causes, or will cause
WARNING! It's a really long list, with a link for each entry
A short list of al the things global warming causes, or will cause
WARNING! It's a really long list, with a link for each entry
Every now and then a story appears, about THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE EVER, or "The hottest temperature ever recorded"
Usually in regards to global warming, of course.
The latest one on Antarctica, as well as the one from two years ago, might note "since record keeping started in 1961", which should trigger some skepticism, since that is a very short record, and it started during the coldest recorded era since records started.
Be that as it may, here is an example or two why it might not mean much.
Montana temperatures, warmest temperature ever recorded! 40.6 C
Then we look at a longer record, and see why it doesn't mean anything. Warmest temperature 43.3 C
Same for Michigan
Using a short record, warmest temperature ever! 36.1 C !!!!
Looking at a longer record, warmest recorded temperature 40.0 C
This is why skeptics and people who understand climate and weather don't freak out over a record temperature. Unless there is a long record of temperatures, extremes can't be known to be extremes.
A most gloomy view of world weather trends has emerged from the Central Intelligence Agency. The report was made public, with CIA permission, by the House Agriculture Committee to force decision makers in government to come to grips with what some committee members feel is a serious problem. Says one, “we must no longer accept with blind faith the notion that food production will continue to increase and climates will remain stable.”
The CIA “working paper contends that the global climate is cooling after 50 years of the most favorable farming weather since the eleventh century.
The economic and political impact, the report asserts, “is almost beyond comprehension" This is made crystal clear when one considers that the stability of most nations is indeed based upon a dependable source of food. Without that stability, the politics of food becomes the central issue of every government. Here are the major points made in the study: There is evidence that the main climatic shift over the last 10 years has been confined to the backwaters of the world where death through starvation and disease were already a common occurrence.http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/80491584/
However, Russia has already felt the impact through two crippling failures of its wheat crop in the last five years. And even the United States and Canada have fallen victim to reduced crop yields by slowly deteriorating weather and shorter growing seasons.
The data collected by the CIA also shows that the needed monsoon rains will fall more frequently throughout much of Asia, jeopardizing the critical wheat crop in India and the rice harvests throughout Southeast Asia. The report pointed out that a change of just one degree in the mean global temperature can cause a drastic reduction in productivity of farmland.