Very warm November assures 2012 will be warmest year in U.S. history
The heat is on again in the U.S. After recording its first cooler-than-average month in sixteen months during October, the U.S. heated up considerably in November, notching its 20th warmest November since 1895, said NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in their latest State of the Climate report. The warm November virtually assures that 2012 will be the warmest year on record in the U.S. The year-to-date period of January - November has been by far the warmest such period on record for the contiguous U.S.--a remarkable 1.0°F above the previous record. During the 11-month period, 18 states were record warm and an additional 24 states were top ten warm. The December 2011 - November 2012 period was the warmest such 12-month period on record for the contiguous U.S., and the eight warmest 12-month periods since record keeping began in 1895 have all ended during 2012. December 2012 would have to be 1°F colder than our coldest December on record (set in 1983) to prevent the year 2012 from being the warmest in U.S. history. This is meteorologically impossible, given the recent December heat in the U.S. As wunderground's weather historian Christopher C. Burt reported, an early-December heat wave this week set records for warmest December temperature on record in seven states. December 2012 is on pace to be a top-20% warmest December on record in the U.S.
November 2012 was the 8th driest November on record for the U.S., and twenty-two states had top-ten driest Novembers. The area of the contiguous U.S. experiencing moderate-to-exceptional drought grew from 59% on November 6 to 62% on December 6. This is the largest area of the U.S. in drought since 1954.
Figure 1. Historical temperature ranking for the U.S. for November 2012. Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming had top-ten warmest Novembers, while only North Carolina had a top-ten coldest November. Image credit: National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).
Figure 2. Historical temperature ranking for the U.S. for the January - November period. Eighteen states were record warm, and an additional 24 states were top ten warm. Image credit: National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).
Most extreme January - November period on record
The year-to-date January - November period was the most extreme on record in the contiguous U.S., according to NOAA's U.S. Climate Extremes Index (CEI), which tracks the percentage area of the contiguous U.S. experiencing top-10% and bottom-10% extremes in temperature, precipitation, and drought. The CEI was 46% in January - November, more than double the average of 20%. A record 86% of the contiguous U.S. had maximum temperatures that were in the warmest 10% historically during the first eleven months of 2012, and 71% of the U.S. of the U.S. had warm minimum temperatures in the top 10%--2nd highest on record. The percentage area of the U.S. experiencing top-10% drought conditions was 32%, which was the 4th greatest since 1910. Only droughts in the Dust Bowl year of 1934, and during 1954 and 1956, were more extreme for the January - November period. Heavy 1-day downpours have been below average so far in 2012, though, with 9% of nation experiencing a top-10% extreme, compared to the average of 10%.
Figure 3. NOAA's U.S. Climate Extremes Index (CEI) for January - November shows that 2012 had the most extreme first eleven months of the year on record, with 46% of the contiguous U.S. experiencing top-10% extreme weather-more than double the average of 20%.
Jeff Masters
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Did you post this just for me?.lol.
Only problem is that the ice age created a genetic bottleneck from which we barely survived. Could our civilization survive a similar hit?
An earthquake of preliminary magnitude 6.3 struck New Zealand's North Island today, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
The temblor's epicenter was 12 miles (19 km) southeast of the town of Tokoroa and 214 miles (345 km) north-northeast of the capital Wellington. It originated 103 miles (167 km) deep and struck at 7:19 a.m. local time Saturday (1819 UTC Friday), the USGS reports.
Quake measuring 5.8 rattles North Island
I've got just a 45 year old baby here in PA.... Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Dawn Redwood). My father planted it. Great gardener. My Mom too planted one 20 years later. Smallish. The 45 year old one is just amazing! I call it the 'Legacy tree'. And maybe it will be one someday:) HA-ha, in 1,000 plus years or lots more! Just beautifully amazing... Lovely golden, deciduos color. Have got to love the survivors of this amazing planet. And the plants that grace this blue orb in space.
well those are some big ones... I hope to visit out there next summer.. can't wait.. I want to see General Sherman!
Electrical machinery and equipment, Power generation equipment, Toys, games, and sports equipment (they don't say this, but I assume computers are in the toy catagory), Furniture, Footwear and parts thereof, Apparel, knitted or crocheted, Apparel, not knitted or crocheted, Plastics and articles thereof, Iron, steel, Vehicles, excluding rail.
Here's what China also exports (smog). MODIS satellite image today.
Of course! :D
Climate doesn't just "change back to its warm period" because it wants to. It's not like an erratic ship going in circles because it lost its way.
Actual physical mechanisms push the equilibrium out of balance and over years and years (climatic timescales) the averages for temperature/precipitation/etc change in response to the lack of equilibrium. It doesn't happen because it happens, it happens because something makes it happen.
Polution in China is so bad that their skyscrapers are airtight.
It would take me a while to find the articles, but both of the things I have in mind were posted on "Phys.org" science articles.
There have actually been many articles posted over the past several years.
My memory of the facts:
The easiest was the discovery that plain copper kills the bacteria so effectively that it cannot grow on surfaces with any significant amount of copper present. All they have to do is coat door knobs, faucets, handles and other such surfaces in copper, and hospitals will immediately cut out a significant amount of the spreading.
My opinion:
(Further, with our ability to synthesize new compounds, I suggest the next step: the simple task of adding copper atom to the anti-biotic molecule or using a copper "chaperon" nano-particle (in the same pill or injection) in order to make the antibiotics more effective.)
Here is a similar article, but not the same one:
Taking the MR out of MRSA
I'm not even going to post one of the articles, except to say that it was so obvious I mocked the scientist studying it, because I'd already suggested it in the past, and thought people were already doing that, but they weren't. What was the strategy? Simply prescribe more than one antibiotic at the same time so that it can't adapt as quickly.
This one is probably unsafe for ingestion or injection, but might be useful for external or topical ointments or creams in the worst cases. Like high tech maggot therapy or something.
New antibiotics could come from a DNA binding compound that kills bacteria in 2 minutes
Newly engineered enzyme is a powerful staph antibiotic
While I can't find the exact article, there was another study or another article on the saem study, I forget, in which this compound was stated to kill all MRSA in the test subject using a scaled equivalent of 50milligrams of amoxicillion or oxicillion (I forget), which is far below what is currently administered for nearly any infection. The Lisin proteins allow the paired antibiotic to pretty much function as if the bacteria had no immune or resistant properties at all.
Allegedly, the problem is in scaling up the synthesis of the Lysin compounds, but I find that to be BS, since we have the tech to scale up anything organic. Just look at Vinegar and Yeast and similar things which are based on bacteria which we use all the time.
By Jason Samenow
WP, Posted at 01:03 PM ET, 12/07/2012
Typhoon Pablo regains strength near Luzon
by Jojo Malig, ABS-CBNnews.com
Posted at 12/07/2012 10:30 PM | Updated as of 12/08/2012 12:41 AM
The Muir Woods a few miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge is also majestic. If anyone travels to the Bay area I would highly recommend spending half a day taking in all the beauty mother nature has to offer.
Better hurry. This is what people do to trees.
Thanks very much.. I gave a predisposition to not fight off staph very well.. and have always feared MRSA. My job takes me into sometimes bacterial polluted waters..and having had a friend lose a leg below the knee from MRSA.. arthroscopic surgeries.. I am wary big time.
Thanks again!
I've always wanted a treehouse!
This is an image of the SE quarter of Bopha. The center of the typhoon is in the upper left corner of the image. The outside round edge of the storm has a 'dent' in it that corresponds to a band of polluted cirrus that goes through the Philippines. Check it out on my earlier posts. This pollution may allow Bopha to slide back toward the islands.
I hope the snow part is right!!!!!! I would really LOVE some snow!!
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I like watching them . Nicer looking storms than the atlantic in general and all importantly they are usually all going out to sea . They are cool to track and fine to wishcast
I wonder what is the weight of all that soot the wind imports from China each year! Wow those are some serious aerosols.
And what does it mean?
Classifying climate change related deaths is absurd, because currently the most climate related deaths happened in China in the 1960's and in Africa in the 1970's and 1980's.
Since these events were before the worst of our CO2 emissions, this indicates that natural background rate and severity of famines is actually worse than what we've had since then. Which means we can't really know how much or little of famines will happen.
How many people will die from cancers and respiratory diseases caused or enhanced by second hand smoke from cigarettes and now legalized (in Washington state anyway) marijuana over the next 20 years?
If they wont ban and enforce bans against useless poisons why would you think they'd change behavior against side effects of useful technology?
You just think DUI and second hand smoke in public places was bad. Wait till 10 to 20% of people are driving around stoned on Marijuana! Senseless death rates will go up even higher!
I told you, government want higher death rates. If they did not, they would have already done things like I've shown above. They've had the technology for 50 to 60 years in most cases. The fact they are legalizing Marijuana, in spite of the debacle of what happens with other smoked agents such as tobacco causing cancer, this only supports my position!
You realize Washington State is making it legal to smoke Marijuana, and you realize this will cause more motor vehicle accidents, more accidental fall or stupidity deaths while stoned, more cancer, and more of other respiratory, skin, and eye diseases (where ever the smoke goes the particles go and they cause disease there, etc,). So by legalizing Marijuana, the Washington State government is effectively intentionally poisoning the population. This is particularly evil since many people have not done drugs and don't want to try drugs, and will become vulnerable to this heinous act of evil in spite of the fact that they will have done no drugs and no smoking.
Marijuana smokers are POISONING the air, and somebody should take the Washington State to court in the U.S. Supreme court for them legalizing this evil.
I'm not off topic, I'm just showing you a similar, easier to control case, a smoked drug which is a poison and cancer causing agent and not much else, which has the potential to cause or will cause many cancers, including in those who take no part in it.
This is far more evil and urgent than things like smog, which we already deal with anyway.
New Surgeon General's warning suggestion:
"Smoking cigarettes or marijuana kills innocent people who don't get a say in whether you smoke or not."
And you'll get tons as usual...and i'll get tiny amounts as usual.
***It calculated that five million deaths occur each year from air pollution, hunger and disease as a result of climate change and carbon-intensive economies, and that toll would likely rise to six million a year by 2030 if current patterns of fossil fuel use continue.***
I snipped that out of the article I linked, just you could see they took air pollution into consideration. BTW, not to be a wise elbow, but smoking tobacco, weed or whatever, does contribute to climate change in that it must be farmed. Farming also provides food, which we cannot avoid havesting if we want to live. I cannot see a connection between climate change and smoking, other than that. And since we have to farm anyway, how is to be avoided?
Eye is a bit more ragged, but the colors and brighter with colder cloud tops than a few hours ago.
SEVERE HAZARDS IN ENVIRONMENTS WITH REDUCED BUOYANCY/...WHICH WAS
DEVELOPED TO DISCRIMINATE FOR HIGH SHEAR-LOW CAPE SEVERE EVENTS
ACROSS THE US...HAS BEEN SHOWING VALUES OF 1 TO 1.5 OVER NORTH GA
18Z-21Z MON. SHERB VALUES OVER 1.0 HAVE SHOWN SKILL AT PREDICTING
DAMAGING WIND AND ISOLD TORNADO EVENTS IN HS-LC ENVIRONMENTS.
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Ive never heard of SHERB before....I wonder how accurate it really is.
It is ironic that people with cancer smoke weed because it helps their symptoms and they did not get the cancer from weed
I read the article and know what it's talking about, but you missed my point.
The climate change related deaths are not even as much as the natural variation would be from long term patterns. Heck, by the time you factor in population is so much higher than it used to be, climate related deaths are actually much lower than 30 to 50 years ago.
As for smoking and how it relates...
My point on all of that was summed up as:
"If governments don't ban a useless poison such as marijuana or cigarettes why would you expect them to ban useful technologies which have a negative side effect on climate?"
Marijuana and Cigarettes kill people through the carcinogens they release into the smoker's lungs or into the atmosphere, and while mouth, throat and Lung cancers are the primary results, they cause and contribute to all sorts of diseases: other cancers, enhanced infections, potential damage to unborn children through primary or secondary causes, and more.
How can you worry so much about smog if you have 10 to 20% of people running around poisoning themselves and everyone else with Marijuana and like another 40% using cigarettes?
Why do I have to breathe so many other people's carcinogenic crap just because they want a buzz or have a nicotine craving?
From a governmental standpoint, it makes little sense except on two fronts:
Population reduction
Tax revenues.
They'd rather tax the smokers and let everyone get cancer from second-hand effects rather than continue fighting the drugs wars.
And so, after having weighted the value of innocent human lives of non-smokers and non-marijuana users, the Washington Stage government decided that a dollar from tax revenues is worth more than the life and health of a human being.
Not surprising, since the Federal Government has been doing the same thing with Cigarettes for at least an entire generation. Tehy are still legal, they just tax them more. This is unfair to non-smokers because their lives and health are cut short by cancers and other second-hand effects.
All of this is at least as bad or worse than smog related deaths, and it comes from a source which has no useful purpose whatever.
This is why I'd continue to be more concerned about stuff like this along with leaded glass, and radiation and such, rather than the smog.
There's no telling how much our genetics have been damage from cigarette smokers, leaded gasoline, and radiation from the atomic testing, which we haven't even really discovered.
7 December 2012
Evaluating the causes of the Typhoon Bopha / Pablo disaster
As the death toll from Typhoon Bopha / Pablo steadily mounts (the latest NDRRMC reports suggest that 418 people were killed and 383 are missing), the recriminations about the causes of the devastating debris flows that were responsible for so much of the loss has begun in earnest. In the worst affected area, Compostela Valley, an argument has started as to the degree to which mining was responsible for the loss. This is a legitimate question to ask, but in my view it misses the point. Let me show you why.
the troll calling in here is getting old.....
Nvm on that, I'm just ignoring the people who attempt to "debate" with them.
Sorry!
but what troll?
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Minnesota/South Dakota snowstorm
click for bigger pic
Looks like a severe dusting for the area
These natural materials are the answer for human illness.
Watch TV and see how may times you should 'Ask your Doctor'....... Oh this makes me ILL!!!!!!!!
I hope that friggin thing gets sheared to pieces before it does anymore damage to that country...Or at least picks up speed and starts moving 25+ kts to the east. Those poor people. :(
Should not have gone to public vote.
Average joe is too stupid and uneducated to be allowed to vote on issues like this.
If a majority votes to make murder or rape legal would you agree with that too?
Maybe we should let teenagers vote and run for office, so they'd all elect the starting quarterback or the biggest whore on campus as the president?
That's the problem with democracy. The fundamental belief that the majority is always right is a lie.
Majority isn't right when they are stupid, evil, or uneducated.
Democracy is not "good" by nature.
It's no better than the combination of 50% totaling from the stupidest, most evil, or least educated.
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