Ryt_Rick wrote: Too hot and it must be climate change/global warming... too cold, then it must just be a weather glitch or :can't hear .
No it must be global cooling when it is too cold.
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Something the Dog Said wrote: It is not just Enviros who are concerned but homeowners who depend on their local water supplies. My biggest concerns with fracking are the water use (1 - 5 million gallons per well) and disposal of the contaminated water.
Talking with oil industry people, the wells are too deep to affect the local water wells, but it is a concern about how much water they use for fracking and other gas drilling processes. I used to hunt with a guy whose job was to buy the water from locals to feed the wells.
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Heatwaves Were Much Worse Through Most Of US History - Posted on July 8, 2012
We are bombarded with statistics comparing the number of record lows to record highs, the number of record highs, etc. So I decided to look at what the actual numbers are in the USHCN database.
The graph below shows the number of daily record highs set per year for all USHCN stations (through 2011) which have records going back at least to 1930. The results are astonishing. 1934 and 1936 both set nearly five times as many record daily highs as 2011 did. It appears that the entire period from 1910 until 1960 was hotter than recent decades.
There have been 372,989 correctly recorded daily high temperature records in the US since 1895. 84% of them were set when CO2 was below 350ppm.
Compare the number of record highs in the 1930s to the past decade. You can see that the 1930s were consistently much hotter.
that graph is misleading. It does not graph the actual temperatures, just the number of record highs as of the particular date. So there were more "record" highs in the 30's. That does not mean that the 12 month and six month periods of time are not higher now that at any other time since 1895. Perhaps you could show us a timeline of actual temperatures.
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I am waiting for all the progressives to post pictures of the $40K electric cars they are driving, and the $25K solar panels they installed on their roofs, and the fart bags they installed on their butts. Until then it's just the same ol whining, and do nothing about it complaining. Walk the talk or shaddup! LOL
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If the only thing they do is buy yet another vehicle to drive umpteen miles in, install solar panels so they can continue to gorge on energy, and don't stop eating beans then you're right, it's all talk.
It takes a lifestyle change, and on more than just an individual scale, to get us back to levels of CO2 that won't mean drastic changes for the coming decades and millennia.
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SC, I know you were looking at solar panels. And I like electric cars myself. I just hear a lot of do nothing whiners waiting for some magic government worldwide solutions, and not many doers. JMO Its easy to bitch and complain. Harder to act. There are many products available on the market right now, more than ever before. That's not a bad thing. I don't see much individual action though, other than "someone else should do something about this, geez". JMO
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Republicans are red, democrats are blue, neither of them, gives a flip about you.
Compare the number of record highs in the 1930s to the past decade.
Has anyone else figured out that U.S. weather records only go back to the 1870s or 1880s? So, of course there would be more "record highs" in the 1930s than there would be after more than 100 years of record keeping, since there were only 50 years of records in the 1930s.
Compare the number of record highs in the 1930s to the past decade.
Has anyone else figured out that U.S. weather records only go back to the 1870s or 1880s? So, of course there would be more "record highs" in the 1930s than there would be after more than 100 years of record keeping, since there were only 50 years of records in the 1930s.
I can't believe have I had to point this out.
Great point, Raees. I applaud you in recognizing that accurate weather records date only to the 1870's or so. This is a minute period of time, and they clearly do not provide enough data to support the outrageous claims made by proponents of AGW.
