Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

It is supposed to get near 70F tomorrow and then struggle to get out of the 30s on Tuesday. This will be fun for my sinuses.

I am out for a while, bye everyone.

Quoting Jedkins01:


Actually its good people aren't that worried about Climate Change. What good will it do for people to panic about something which is out of their control? It's good for people to be aware of it, and do their part to be more eco-friendly, but people shouldn't be panicking over GW, people are already stressed out enough as it is.

Agree. Let's concentrate our efforts on cleaner air and water. Technology has come a long ways in those efforts and will continue to do so. Fossil fuels are gonna be with us a long time providing the good jobs we need. When the green energy sources make economical sense it will happen. Trying to undermine the fossil fuel industry for some unrealistic political agenda is wrong.

Quoting Jedkins01:



It's because they are more worked up about Climate Change and therefore they assume everyone else should too. I don't want to be critical but it's the truth. People have enough things in their lives to worry about as it is, we can't throw burdens upon them which is out of their control. I'm concerned over the destruction of natural Florida. However I can't be a hero of Florida nature and save it all. I can do my part. But I'm just a human. We live in a world where increasingly people are stressed out over Global issues which one man can't control, meanwhile their own family and personal life is getting out of control.

It's trying to fix problems from the wrong approach, it doesn't work. It creates stress, and division.

You write as though you're not aware that a large and growing number of people who truly do know about such things--a group which does not, by the way, include people like the Koch Brothers, Anthony Watts, or members of North Carolina's General Assembly--consider climate change the single largest threat mankind has ever faced in modern times. It's far more immediate and likely a threat than events such as a giant asteroid strike, or a supervolcano eruption, or global thermonuclear war, or a CME large enough to bring on long-term global chaos. Of course, it's true that how high the seas will rise over the next decade may not matter much to a man who's wondering what to feed his starving children for dinner tonight. But that doesn't take away the urgency or the reality of the situation.

Claiming that you can't be concerned with climate change because it's too "burdensome" makes as much sense as claiming that you can't worry about looking for a job because you're too busy digging through your sofa cushions for loose change. ;-)

Quoting wxchaser97:
It is supposed to get near 70F tomorrow and then struggle to get out of the 30s on Tuesday. This will be fun for my sinuses.

I am out for a while, bye everyone.

I almost laughed at that post, but then I realized its snot that funny.

Quoting yonzabam:
It's not that long since the average annual rise in atmospheric CO2 was 1.5 ppm. That was the figure that was, and often still is, quoted in the literature.

However, for the past ten years the average annual rise has been 2.1 ppm. This is a hugely important development which is largely being ignored. Maybe scientists don't want to be accused of scaremongering. The annual increase fluctuates a lot, and ten years isn't that long, so maybe they think it might be a 'blip'.

Those scientists who have drawn attention to it, have suggested increased industrialization and affluence in the east, particularly China, is the cause. While that will contribute, my own theory is that warming oceans are becoming less efficient carbon sinks.

The record year for high SSTs is the record El Nino year of 1998. Atmospheric CO2 surged by almost 3 ppm that year, another record. 3 ppm would have been equivalent to all anthropogenic CO2 for 1998.

The colder regions of the ocean absorb CO2, while the warmer regions outgas it. So, as the ocean warms, it will absorb a diminishing fraction of man made CO2. But, it gets scarier. There is no reason why the ocean would not warm to the point where it became a net emitter of CO2. This is a nightmare scenario. I have no idea to what extent the models factor this in, but it wouldn't surprise me if they ignore it completely due to the uncertainties involved.

There is a good correlation between global SSTs and annual rises in CO2. I posted a table illustrating the correlation on a local Internet forum a few years ago. I'll see if I can find it and repost it here, but as it's in tabular form, it might not cut and paste.

some of your facts need checking.

Quoting Hugo5:


some of your facts need checking.

Like which?