This is the 332nd consecutive month with an above-average temperature.

If you

there were 90+ degree days towards the end of October here in California, I don't remember that happening in the 15 yrs ive lived here. I know the weather is warmer here but gettng close to 100 in October can't be normal

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8 of the warmest years in records have been from the past decade

i'm just hoping we can steal a couple 'cool' years from the statistical pool and limp through a few more years. i'd like to get a couple more things done in life before the excrement hits the ventilator. :P

this area is notorious for miserable winters, but last winter was incredibly mild. eerily so, really.

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Don't you know anything? heat melting ice is just a 'theory'!

Jeez!

Palin/Putin 2016

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Um, you're wrong.

Because
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An astronomy proff explained that it's actually correlated with sun spots which are cyclical. There's no denying though that it has been aggravated (if at least a little bit) by our activities. There are tons of PhD's on either sides of the coin, and unfortunately many of them are on their respective sides for political reasons.

As for how it actually is, there are a bunch of articles for both sides, but neither side is clear cut. Both sides admit that there is global climate change, but obviously disagree on the causes etc.

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[QUOTE=Dave3]An astronomy proff explained that it's actually correlated with sun spots which are cyclical. There's no denying though that it has been aggravated (if at least a little bit) by our activities. There are tons of PhD's on either sides of the coin, and unfortunately many of them are on their respective sides for political reasons.

As for how it actually is, there are a bunch of articles for both sides, but neither side is clear cut. Both sides admit that there is global climate change, but obviously disagree on the causes etc.[/QUOTE]

:applause:

Nice to see a rational response for once, and not another rehash from Fox News or NY Times.

Just enjoy your ****ing interglacials people.

the world has been freezing cold and burning hot well before we got here. nothing we have seen in our brief time of measuring is anything close to world record anything. If humans had records back to the dawn of our existence I bet every heat record would have been broken long ago without our input.

nothing we are likely to be able to do to could cause an extended ice age. Nor could we make the world so sunny and humid that plant growth went so far that they generate enough oxygen to support 9 foot millipedes and giant spiders.


we really arent as significant as I think people want to believe.

The Earth's temperatures has fluctuated before.

Because of this, I'm certain that humans burning up all the natural resources into the atmosphere has a negligible effect. Sending millions of times more aggravating chemicals up into the atmosphere than what occurs naturally, the same atmosphere which has an utterly vital role in maintaining the Earthly status quo, I'm sure this all has a negligible effect.

100% sure. I base this on my shocking lack of common sense.

keep panicking doomsayers. The"its not that big a deal" side is undefeated and will be for quite some time.

[QUOTE=Kblaze8855]keep panicking doomsayers. The"its not that big a deal" side is undefeated and will be for quite some time.[/QUOTE]

the parts of the world that contribute most to pollution and emissions are on the better end of consequences. But tell that "it's not that big a deal" to people in developing countries of different ecological zones.

Or just think about severe droughts in the American heartland and hurricanes at the atlantic coast. Phenomena that are likely to occur more often due to climate change.

Even if they are its an issue of moving the extreme weather not creating something new. Whole lot of panic about where exactly the comfortable parts of the world will be in 1800 years. Time and money wasted trying to stop a ship too big to turn around.

If rather see the millions spent on this research and publicity used to help the people we have. talk to me about an odd weathered future when malaria isnt killing millions right now. Fighting whatever you blame for climate change is a losing battle.

There are people we can actually help now

Snowboarding is my favorite sport. I wait all year. Last year sucked. This is unacceptable to me.

The weather now is much better then it was in the 80's....

all positive's IMO.

WHAT? The Earth's climate is changing! NO FREAKING WAY! Surely this has never happened before!
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It's not just the peak it's the rate. Stop being such an idiot.

well... according to a lot of replies in this thread you'd think the OP had said "332 months in a row have been warmer than average [b]because of human activities.[/b]" AFAIK he didn't.

but whether it's man-made or natural, we still got a growing problem on our hands, no? :confusedshrug:

Love how global warming deniars try to say there are two sides to the debate. Uh, not according to scientists, the dudes that actually study the issue. Yeah, polar ice caps are melting and polar bears learning how to swim. Totally normal. Right...

Tell peeps on the east coast going through Sandy that this is all part of the plan...

[QUOTE=LA Lakers]Love how global warming deniars try to say there are two sides to the debate. Uh, not according to scientists, the dudes that actually study the issue. Yeah, polar ice caps are melting and polar bears learning how to swim. Totally normal. Right...[/QUOTE]
Did you know that the earth has gone through several hundred warming and cooling periods in it's 4.6 billion year old history?:confusedshrug:

Did you not know that millions of species have gone extinct in the past due to their inability to deal with the natural climate change?:confusedshrug:

Cool man, how much was a gallon of gasoline 4.6 billion years ago? Shits getting expensive nowadays.

[QUOTE=LA Lakers]Love how global warming deniars try to say there are two sides to the debate. Uh, not according to scientists, the dudes that actually study the issue. Yeah, polar ice caps are melting and polar bears learning how to swim. Totally normal. Right...[/QUOTE]
No one on either side is denying the occurrence. The debate lies in the cause.

I hope polar bears are great swimmers since there isnt much land left for them. And as far as our species surviving, something like 98% of the species on this planet are extinct. Dont see what would make us an exception. And hey, nothing like speeding up the extinction process by destroying the planet we live on!

[QUOTE=LA Lakers]I hope polar bears are great swimmers since there isnt much land left for them. And as far as our species surviving, something like 98% of the species on this planet are extinct. Dont see what would make us an exception. And hey, nothing like speeding up the extinction process by destroying the planet we live on![/QUOTE]
in fact we're already in the middle of one of the greatest extinction periods in earth's history.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction[/url]

[QUOTE=gigantes]well... according to a lot of replies in this thread you'd think the OP had said "332 months in a row have been warmer than average [b]because of human activities.[/b]" AFAIK he didn't.
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I do believe we are causing increased climate change. As do something like 97% of climate scientists.

[QUOTE=KevinNYC]I do believe we are causing increased climate change. As do something like 97% of climate scientists.[/QUOTE]
Where'd you hear this bullshit statistic? Your ass?

[QUOTE=LA Lakers]Tell peeps on the east coast going through Sandy that this is all part of the plan...[/QUOTE]

I was hit by Hurricane Sandy. Hurricanes were happening before my bloodline, and will continue to happen.

[QUOTE=KevinNYC]I do believe we are causing increased climate change. As do something like 97% of climate scientists.[/QUOTE]


Lies...



- No scientist worth a salt has ever said "Climate change" is from Humans "green house gases"


- The whole " Global Warming" now changed to " Climate change" ( because no one can prove that the Earth is Warmer now then it was 100 years ago) is so full of political agenda and Greed I'm not sure how anyone would take any side as Truthful

- Fact is the Earth may or may not be a little bit warmer....but it has gone through many climate changes .....with or without Humans.

not sure why we have to have the Bureaucratic furbor not seen since Prohibition or the Ronald Raygun Nuclear 80's....

- Just another agenda filled doomsday scheme....lets all get in Bunkers...this time instead of a Nuke...it's a Giant Tidal wave from a melting Iceburg:rolleyes:

Why would humans be the exception when things go extinct? Is that a serious question? Cavemen survived greater climate change than humanity has the ability to cause. And they did it with sticks and stones. Fear mongering isn't only bad when republicans do it.....

[QUOTE=KevinNYC]I do believe we are causing increased climate change. As do something like 97% of climate scientists.[/QUOTE]
i'm well aware of both facts, but at some point don't you have to give some form of credit to people who picked up on that agenda from the first post?

to me this is part of why we keep failing-- we keep underestimating the decision-making processes of our fellow man, thinking that their thoughts are informed by the same stimuli that inform our own. i.e., our square block keeps getting more exactingly-refined and perfected with time, yet we somehow keep trying to jam it in to the same triangular hole time and time again. why is that?

[QUOTE=KevinNYC]I do believe we are causing increased climate change. As do something like 97% of climate scientists.[/QUOTE]
All respectable scientists acknowledge that CO2 emissions have a net positive effect on flux, what is blown out of proportion by the media and card stacking environmentalists is the question is the forcing significant, and its not by itself. What is not understood and still open for study are the feedback loops and the earth's response to said increased carbon emissions.

[QUOTE=shlver]All respectable scientists acknowledge that CO2 emissions have a net positive effect on flux, what is blown out of proportion by the media and card stacking environmentalists is the question is the forcing significant, and its not by itself. What is not understood and still open for study are the feedback loops and the earth's response to said increased carbon emissions.[/QUOTE]

Under what authority can you say "it's not by itself"?

If you don't think that humans are a direct result to global warming you're a ****ing idiot. Seriously. Read a god damn book, you god damn morons.

It's been "below" average here in the state of North Carolina.

[QUOTE=Michael_Wilbon]If you don't think that humans are a direct result to global warming you're a ****ing idiot. Seriously. Read a god damn book, you god damn morons.[/QUOTE]

Balla_Status anyone?

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It's not even about reading a book ... in fact, that statement is rather moronic in itself. It's much more about just simply experiencing life in the past three decades, especially the last one.