pcola57's WunderBlog

Quoting trHUrrIXC5MMX:
Marvin... eh?

Nice blog (awesome picture there with the moon!

Since I do poetry in my school, that you wrote there just sound just like if it was recited out loud. Sorry if it sounds random...

Thanks anyway
Remember Jean Jacques Rousseau's philosophy?

Thanks for the thumbs up Max..
And yes my name is Marvin..
Been that all my life..Lol..
Funny you bring up poetry..
I always aspired to try my hand at it..
Just too lazy..
Would like you to return and give your opinion on the blog subject sometime.. :)

Quoting sandiquiz:
...this world we all live in together...

These are the most important words you have said, in my honest opinion. WE DO live on this planet together, and as such, should work together to make it a better place for every single one to live.
I have been on this earth for six decades, and my job was to teach thousands of young people to "love" this world and "protect" the environment they live in for their grandchildren's children .....
If I have succeeded in making only 25% of those I have come in contact with think about how they can improve this earth for the future, I shall feel my time wasn't wasted.

A great blog discussion should come from this, as long as everyone keeps it civil, as you asked:)

Well hello sandiquiz,
It's posts like your's that will help get others involved in this discussion..
Your opinion is respected and very welcome here..
People may agree/disagree with you here but no one will trash you..
Teachers have always been some of my most favorite Hero's..
Although some are my favorite villains as well..LOl..
All kidding aside, it is a fantastic career..
Wish I could go back and thank the one's who made a difference in my life..
So glad you stopped in and left your opinion..
I hope to see you posting and taking part in the discussions often..
Until next time.. :)

Ps..I'm only 4 yrs away from the sixth decade myself..Lol

Quoting trHUrrIXC5MMX:
Marvin... eh?

Nice blog (awesome picture there with the moon!

Since I do poetry in my school, that you wrote there just sound just like if it was being recited out loud. Sorry if it sounds random...

Thanks anyway.

Remember Jean Jacques Rousseau's philosophy?

I guess you mean this one Max..
From wikipedia..

Theory of Natural Human

"The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, 1754

Today's post..
2/18/13..
Quoting WU's Official Climate Change Stance..

Wunderground's Climate Change Position
Earth's climate is warming. This time, Humans are mostly responsible, and the overwhelming majority of climate scientists agree. Climate change is already causing significant impacts to people and ecosystems, and these impacts will grow much more severe in the coming years. We can choose to take economically sensible steps to lessen the damage of climate change, and the cost of inaction is much higher than the cost of action.

Quoting aquak9:
It's a pleasure to finally meet you.

--aqua

Hi ya aquak9..
I've see you posting since forever (like myself..LOL)..
Nice to meet you as well..
I decided to get a real blog going..
Whatcha think?
Hope you liked it here..
Come back anytime and post..
:)

Quoting lotis75:
One.... space..... after..... a..... comma..... Two.... spaces..... after..... a...... period..... Otherwise..... it's...... more..... difficult...... to...... read..... No...... offense.....

Thanks

No..Offense..taken..lotus75.. :)
My writing style is what it is..
Too old to change..
(EDIT: after re-reading my writing am going to go back and edit so as to improve reading clarity..)
What about the blog subject?
Any thoughts?

All Charts and Images in this post are from : EPA Climate Change Website


This figure shows the annual values of the U.S. Heat Wave Index from 1895 to 2011. These data cover the contiguous 48 states.

Data source: Kunkel, 2012


This graph shows the percentage of the land area of the contiguous 48 states with unusually hot daily high and low temperatures during the months of June, July, and August. The thin lines represent individual years, while the thick lines show a nine-year weighted average. Red lines represent daily highs, while orange lines represent daily lows. The term "unusual" is based on the long-term average conditions at each location.

Data source: NOAA, 2012


This graph shows the percentage of the land area of the contiguous 48 states with unusually cold daily high and low temperatures during the months of December, January, and February. The thin lines represent individual years, while the thick lines show a nine-year weighted average. Blue lines represent daily highs, while purple lines represent daily lows. The term "unusual" is based on the long-term average conditions at each location.

Data source: NOAA, 2012

All Charts and Images in this post are from : EPA Climate Change Website



This figure shows how annual average temperatures in the contiguous 48 states have changed since 1901. Surface data come from land-based weather stations. Satellite measurements cover the lower troposphere, which is the lowest level of the Earth's atmosphere. "UAH" and "RSS" represent two different methods of analyzing the original satellite measurements. This graph uses the 1901 to 2000 average as a baseline for depicting change. Choosing a different baseline period would not change the shape of the data over time.

Data source: NOAA, 2012


This figure shows how annual average temperatures worldwide have changed since 1901. Surface data come from a combined set of land-based weather stations and sea surface temperature measurements. Satellite measurements cover the lower troposphere, which is the lowest level of the Earth's atmosphere. "UAH" and "RSS" represent two different methods of analyzing the original satellite measurements. This graph uses the 1901 to 2000 average as a baseline for depicting change. Choosing a different baseline period would not change the shape of the data over time.

Data source: NOAA, 201
Data source: NOAA, 2012


This figure shows how annual average air temperatures have changed in different parts of the United States since the early 20th century (since 1901 for the contiguous 48 states, 1905 for Hawaii, and 1918 for Alaska).

Data source: NOAA, 2012

Quoting aquak9:
G'morning

two comments, or questions.

I agree w/Lotus, my eyes are being fed too quickly and I can not breath between words when the spaces are lacking. That being said, I will still try to read all of your blog, I will just have to chew slower.

Question- were you a hard-core denialist before? how did you consider your opinion, or were you undecided? Did something or someone sway you? Mostly I am curious about what changes you are dealing with, in your own mindset.

Today I'm going to start to have an opinion..
No more hanging out in the gray areas and shrugging my shoulders..

It's hard to face a battle, when you don't know what side to defend, esp when humans use so many angry words. I let the weather help me decide- it's one of the few things left that humans can't control.

Good Morning aquak..

First off let me say that , now after looking at what both lotus and yourself have said about my spacing, I think I will go back and edit my postings..
I really never thought about it and will spend time on it today..
Thanks to both of you..

As far as being a denialist, I never was..
More like apathetic..
Whenever I saw a post/ article/ report by someone on Climate Change, I just breezed by it..
In my minds eye I thought it was just too complicated a subject for me..
However, after spending a short time reading the Climate Change articles posted in WU's Climate Change pages and other reports , I knew that it was a reality and the longer I thought on it, the more I became ashamed that I, a supposedly modern thinking man, was soo apathetic and passive..
Yes I was swayed...
And it was due to the tremendously reviewed and highly scrutinized data that eventually struck me as common sense answers to why we are experiencing such a dramatic change on this planet..
A shock to the man that I am as it were..
I keep thinking to myself now, how much could I do and how much could I have done??
So now what?
For me it boils down to this..
I want to make a difference..
I want to be a part of saving this planet from a future that is despicably irresponsible..
The only angry words that make me think are the ones I say to myself..
So when others say angry stuff to someone, I think to myself , how immature it is..
My approach to Climate Change is to be honest with myself and others..
Be able to help others and myself in understanding this issue..
With maturity and a level head..
I hope that helps with understanding me..
Like I said before..
No hidden agenda,politically or otherwise..
Just want the truth and then learn..

Thanks for your questions and observations aquak..
Talk to you again soon.. :)

Another excerpt for today from Robert Henson's book "Rough Guide To Climate Change,Second Edition".

But don't many experts claim that the science is uncertain?

There is plenty of uncertainty about details in the global-warming picture: exactly how much it will warm, the locations where rainfall will increase or decrease, and so forth. Some of this uncertainty is due to the complexity of the processes involved, and some of it is simply because we don't know how individuals, corporations and governments will change their greenhouse emissions over time. But there's near-unanimous agreement that global climate is already changing and that fossil fuels are at least partly to blame.

The uncertainty that does exist has been played both ways in the political realm. Sceptics use it to argue for postponing action, while others point out that many facets of life require acting in the face of uncertainty (buying insurance against health or fire risks, for example).

Quoting lotis75:
Quoting pcola57:


No..Offense..taken..lotus75.. :)
My writing style is what it is..
Too old to change..
(EDIT: after re-reading my writing am going to go back and edit so as to improve reading clarity..)
What about the blog subject?
Any thoughts?

My thoughts?... Well, first off, thank you for being understanding about my comment about punctuation and not getting upset about it. Most people wouldn't have handled themselves with such integrity. It was just constructive criticism and your punctuation "style" is nowhere near yours alone.

Now, my thoughts on climate change... Like you, I was "apathetic" or even skeptical. I guess I always will be since science has been wrong more than once. Afterall, it could be some yet unforseen event/process causing it. Maybe not, but it's possible. I do believe 100% that the climate is changing (natural or not). I have noticed a more than subtle difference with the weather of today than when I was a kid. Especially these last five years or so.

Whether or not it's caused by humans is somewhat irrelevant to me. Either way, I believe we should be doing all we can to make the earth a better place for us all and those to come. Like Sandiquiz said, we all share this planet. Crisis or not, we should consume less, recycle more, produce less goods/packaging, etc., etc.

My honest opinion... There are too many people here on this planet. I'm not saying we should exterminate anyone or anything of the sort. I'm just saying we consume too many natural resources and pollute far too much. We should live simpler lives. But alas, humans are a virus.

Thanks so much for your post Lotus..
I / We here appreciate your honesty and respect your opinion..
Check back when you can and read responses to your post..
Also the punctuation suggestions helped.. :)
Peace..

2/20/2013

Todays post also from Robert Henson's book :
"Rough Guide To Climate Change,Second Edition".

Is a small temperature rise such a big deal?

While a degree or so of warming may not sound like such a big deal, the rise has been steeper in certain locations, including the Arctic, where small changes can become amplified into bigger ones. The warming also serves as a base from which heat waves become that much worse especially in big cities, where the heat-island effect comes into play. Like a thermodynamic echo chamber, the concrete canyons and oceans of pavement in a large urban area heat up more readily than a field or forest, and they keep cities warmer at night. During the most intense hot spells of summer, cities can be downright deadly, as evidenced by the hundreds who perished in Chicago in 1995 and the thousands who died in Paris in 2003.

How could humans change the whole world's climate?

By adding enormous quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere over the last 150 years. As their name implies, these gases warm the atmosphere, though not literally in the same way a greenhouse does. The gases absorb heat that's radiated by Earth, but they release only part of that heat to space, which results in a warmer atmosphere.

The amount of greenhouse gas we add is staggering – in carbon dioxide alone, the total is more than thirty billion metric tonnes per year, which is more than four metric tonnes per person per year. And that gas goes into an atmosphere that's remarkably shallow. If you picture Earth as a soccer ball, the bulk of the atmosphere would be no thicker than a sheet of paper wrapped around that ball.

Even with these facts in mind, there's something inherently astounding about the idea that a few gases in the air could wreak havoc around the world. However, consider this: the eruption of a single major volcano – such as Krakatoa in 1883 – can throw enough material into the atmosphere to cool global climate by more than 1°C (1.8°F) for over a year. From that perspective, it's not so hard to understand how the millions of engines and furnaces spewing out greenhouse gases each day across the planet, year after year, could have a significant effect on climate. (If automobiles spat out chunks of charcoal every few blocks in proportion to the invisible carbon dioxide they emit, the impact would be more obvious.) Yet many people respond to the threat of global warming with an intuitive, almost instinctive denial.

Climate change or global warming?

The phrases that describe climate in transition have a history of their own. Early in the twentieth century, researchers preferred climatic change or climate change when writing about events such as ice ages. Both terms are nicely open-ended and still used often. They can describe past, present or future shifts – both natural and human-produced – on global, regional or local scales.

Once scientists began to recognize the specific global risk from human-produced greenhouse gases, they needed a term to describe it. In 1975 Wallace Broecker, of New York's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, published a breakthrough paper in the journal Science entitled, "Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?" By the early 1980s the phrase global warming – without the "a" in front – was gaining currency among scientists. Meanwhile, the term global change emerged as a way to embrace all modes of large-scale human tampering with the planet. When 1988's watershed events arrived (see p. 250), the global-warming label broke into headlines worldwide and became standard shorthand among media and the public.

Of course, the planet as a whole is warming, but many scientists avoid that term, preferring 'global change' or more specifically global climate change. One of their concerns is that global warming could be interpreted as a uniform effect – an equal warming everywhere on the planet – whereas in fact a few regions may cool slightly, even as Earth, on average, warms up.

Politicians hoping to downplay the reality of global warming gravitate towards 'climate change' for entirely different reasons. US political pollster and consultant Frank Luntz has reportedly advised clients that 'climate change' sounds less frightening to the lay ear than 'global warming'. Scary or not, a number of other surveys support the idea that 'global warming' gets people's attention more quickly than the less ominous (though more comprehensive) 'climate change.' And a few activists and scientists, including the Gaia theorist James Lovelock, now favour global heating – a phrase that implies humans are involved in what's happening.

All Charts and Images in this post are from : EPA Climate Change Website



This figure shows concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from hundreds of thousands of years ago through 2011. The data come from a variety of historical ice core studies and recent air monitoring sites around the world. Each line represents a different data source.

Data source: Various studies



This figure shows concentrations of methane in the atmosphere from hundreds of thousands of years ago through 2011. The data come from a variety of historical ice core studies and recent air monitoring sites around the world. Each line represents a different data source.

Data source: Various studies



This figure shows concentrations of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere from 100,000 years ago through 2011. The data come from a variety of historical ice core studies and recent air monitoring sites around the world. Each line represents a different data source.

Data source: Various studies



This figure shows concentrations of several halogenated gases (which contain fluorine, chlorine, or bromine) in the atmosphere. The data come from monitoring sites around the world. Note that the scale is logarithmic, which means it increases by powers of 10. This is because the concentrations of different halogenated gases can vary by a few orders of magnitude. The numbers following the name of each gas (e.g., HCFC-22) are used to denote specific types of those particular gases.

Data source: AGAGE, 2011; 7 Arnold et al., 2012; 8 NOAA, 2011; 9 Weiss et al., 2008; 10

Another excerpt for today from Robert Henson's book "Rough Guide To Climate Change,Second Edition"..

"Climate change or global warming?

The phrases that describe climate in transition have a history of their own. Early in the twentieth century, researchers preferred climatic change or climate change when writing about events such as ice ages. Both terms are nicely open-ended and still used often. They can describe past, present or future shifts both natural and human-produced on global, regional or local scales.

Once scientists began to recognize the specific global risk from human-produced greenhouse gases, they needed a term to describe it. In 1975 Wallace Broecker, of New York's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, published a breakthrough paper in the journal Science entitled, "Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?" By the early 1980s the phrase global warming without the "a" in front was gaining currency among scientists. Meanwhile, the term global change emerged as a way to embrace all modes of large-scale human tampering with the planet. When 1988's watershed events arrived , the global-warming label broke into headlines worldwide and became standard shorthand among media and the public.

Of course, the planet as a whole is warming, but many scientists avoid that term, preferring 'global change' or more specifically global climate change. One of their concerns is that global warming could be interpreted as a uniform effect an equal warming everywhere on the planet whereas in fact a few regions may cool slightly, even as Earth, on average, warms up.

Politicians hoping to downplay the reality of global warming gravitate towards 'climate change' for entirely different reasons. US political pollster and consultant Frank Luntz has reportedly advised clients that 'climate change' sounds less frightening to the lay ear than 'global warming'. Scary or not, a number of other surveys support the idea that 'global warming' gets people's attention more quickly than the less ominous (though more comprehensive) 'climate change.' And a few activists and scientists, including the Gaia theorist James Lovelock, now favour global heating a phrase that implies humans are involved in what's happening."

This post is from a WU recommended book Climate Change book by Robert Henson named "Rough Guide To Climate Change,Second Edition..


"Climate Change: A Primer"

Key questions and answers

Before exploring the various aspects of climate change in depth, let's quickly answer some of the most frequently asked questions about the issue. The following fifteen pages will bring you up to speed with the current situation and the future outlook. For more information on each topic, follow the reference to the relevant chapter later in the book.

The big picture

Is the planet really warming up?

In a word, yes. Independent teams of scientists have laboriously combed through more than a century's worth of temperature records (in the case of England, closer to 300 years' worth). These analyses all point to a rise of more than 0.7C (1.3F) in the average surface air temperature of Earth over the last century (see the graph on the inside front cover). The chapter Keeping Track (p.171) explains how this average is calculated. The chart overleaf shows how warming since the 1970s has played out regionally.

In recent years global temperatures have spiked dramatically, reaching a new high in 1998. An intense El Nino (see p. 118) early that year clearly played a role in the astounding warmth, but things haven't exactly chilled down since then. The first six years of the twenty-first century, along with 1998, were the hottest on record and quite possibly warmer than any others in the past millennium (see p. 220).

Apart from what temperatures tell us, there's also a wealth of circumstantial evidence to bolster the case that Earth as a whole is warming up.

Ice on land and at sea is melting dramatically in many areas outside of interior Antarctica and Greenland. Montana's Glacier National Park is expected to lose its glaciers by 2030. Arctic sea ice has lost nearly half its average summer thickness since 1950, and by mid-century the ice may disappear completely each summer, perhaps for the first time in more than a million years. The warmth is already heating up international face-offs over shipping, fishing and oil-drilling rights in parts of the Arctic once written off as inaccessible.
The growing season has lengthened across much of the Northern Hemisphere. The most common species of Japan's famed sakura (cherry blossoms) now blooms five days earlier on average in Tokyo than it did fifty years ago. At some higher latitudes, the growing season is now more than two weeks longer than it was in the 1950s hardly a crisis in itself, but a sign that temperatures are on the increase.
Mosquitoes, birds and other creatures are being pushed into new territories, driven to higher altitudes and latitudes by increasing warmth. The range of twelve bird species in Britain shifted north in the 1980s and 1990s by an average of 19km (12 miles). And Inuits in the Canadian Arctic report the arrival over the last few years of barn swallows, robins, black flies and other previously unseen species. (As we'll see later, however, not all fauna will migrate so successfully.)"

Quoting indianrivguy:
Nice blog Marvin, I will be back!
Marty

Hey there Marty..
Glad you stopped by..
Am posting alot of info here lately..
Hope you enjoy..
And please comment if you would like to..
Later..:)

Quoting BriarCraft:
Great blog! Lots of good, unemotional, scientific, verifiable information here. And some worthwhile opinions, too.

I commend you for abandoning your apathy. Apathy is, after all, rather pathetic. Too many people fall into that trap, thinking "How can I possibly make a difference? How can what I do possibly matter?" And the truth is, if everyone thought that way, nothing would get done, nothing would be invented, and we would live in a mountain of our own refuse. So no, one person is unlikely to change the world, but how about a thousand or a million or a billion of us? At the very least, we can limit how much we consume. At the very least, we can reduce the amount of garbage we generate. This seems like an appropriate place to insert one of my favorite quotable quotes:

Whether you think you can.
Or think you can't.
You're right.
~Henry Ford

Thinking about the global warming vs. climate change terminology, I prefer climate change, primarily because of the deniers who point at some record low temperature and say "Doesn't feel warmer to me!" I had trouble understanding why there could be so many record cold temperatures in recent years until I read Ricky Rood's explanation in January 2010 and again in February 2011. It's well worth reading, if you have the time.

I'll be back to do some more reading. You've got enough good stuff here to keep me occupied for a couple of hours, at least.

Hello BriarCraft
So good of you to drop in and post..
I like that Henry Ford quote..
And thanks for the link to Dr. Rood's post..
I think it is good reading and recommend it as well..
He makes alot of good points..
And your point concerning apathy being pathetic rings true..
Do come back and enjoy the reads in here..
Your opinion is respected here..
Post when you can.. :)

Quoting trHUrrIXC5MMX:
why do you put my name and bold it Pcola57?

just curious

I do that in here Max because it helps catch folks eyes..
If your scrolling through and you see your name is in bold, folks might be more apt to read the responses I post..
I do that with all my replies..
Not just yours my friend..
Peace and see you in Dr. Masters blog.. :)

Quoting ihave27windows:
Just wanted to stop in and say Hi!

Hi! =)

And "Hi" to you 27.. :)
Good to see you here again..
You know , just a little "Hi" or "Hello" can make someones day..
Thanks for making mine.. :)

All Charts and Images in this post are from : EPA Climate Change Website



This figure shows how the total annual amount of precipitation in the contiguous 48 states has changed since 1901. This graph uses the 1901 to 2000 average as a baseline for depicting change. Choosing a different baseline period would not change the shape of the data over time.

Data source: NOAA, 2012



This figure shows how the total annual amount of precipitation over land worldwide has changed since 1901. This graph uses the 1901 to 2000 average as a baseline for depicting change. Choosing a different baseline period would not change the shape of the data over time.

Data source: NOAA, 2012


This figure shows the rate of change in total annual precipitation in different parts of the United States since the early 20th century (since 1901 for the contiguous 48 states, 1905 for Hawaii, and 1918 for Alaska).

Data source: NOAA, 2012

All Charts and Images in this post are from : EPA Climate Change Website



This figure shows the percentage of the land area of the contiguous 48 states where a much greater than normal portion of total annual precipitation has come from extreme single-day precipitation events. The bars represent individual years, while the line is a nine-year weighted average.

Data source: NOAA, 2012


This figure shows the percentage of the land area of the contiguous 48 states that experienced much greater than normal precipitation in any given year, which means it scored 2.0 or above on the annual Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI). The thicker orange line shows a nine-year weighted average that smoothes out some of the year-to-year fluctuations.

Data source: NOAA, 2012

All Charts and Images in this post are from : EPA Climate Change Website



This chart shows annual values of the Palmer Drought Severity Index, averaged over the entire area of the contiguous 48 states. Positive values represent wetter-than-average conditions, while negative values represent drier-than-average conditions. A value between -2 and -3 indicates moderate drought, -3 to -4 is severe drought, and -4 or below indicates extreme drought. The thicker line is a nine-year weighted average.

Data source: NOAA, 2012


This chart shows the percentage of U.S. lands classified under drought conditions from 2000 through 2011. This figure uses the U.S. Drought Monitor classification system, which is described in the table below. The data cover all 50 states plus Puerto Rico.

Data source: National Drought Mitigation Center, 2012
Experts update the U.S. Drought Monitor weekly and produce maps that illustrate current conditions as well as short- and long-term trends. Major participants include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Drought Mitigation Center. For a map of current drought conditions, visit the Drought Monitor website at: http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu

All Charts and Images in this post are from : EPA Climate Change Website



This graph shows the number of hurricanes that formed in the North Atlantic Ocean each year from 1878 to 2011, along with the number that made landfall in the United States. The blue curve shows how the total count in the red curve can be adjusted to attempt to account for the lack of aircraft and satellite observations in early years. All three curves have been smoothed using a five-year average, plotted at the middle year. The most recent average (2007-2011) is plotted at 2009.

Data source: Knutson, 2012


This figure shows total annual Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) Index values from 1950 through 2011. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has defined "near normal," "above normal," and "below normal" ranges based on the distribution of ACE Index values over the 30 years from 1981 to 2010.

Data source: NOAA, 2012


This figure presents annual values of the Power Dissipation Index (PDI). Tropical North Atlantic sea surface temperature trends are provided for reference. Note that sea surface temperature is measured in different units, but the values have been plotted alongside the PDI to show how they compare. The lines have been smoothed using a five-year weighted average, plotted at the middle year. The most recent average (2007–2011) is plotted at 2009.

Data source: Emanuel, 2012

Quoting trHUrrIXC5MMX:
I know your profile picture artist pretty well...

This one is the one that leaves me thinking for a while...

Very cool..
Thanks for that Max..

A quick post..
Someone asked if I minded receiving a WU mail recently..
I want to reply that I do not mind at all..
This is a social arena and I get WU mail at times..
I mention this as some may feel a little apprehensive about a post or whatever and want a private reply..
I encourage you to do that as it may be your preffered method of communicating..
Nothing wrong with that..
Just thought I would clear that up..
:)

Quoting WunderGirl12:
Thanks pcola! :-)

Well hello WunderGirl12..
Good to see you here..
Hope you see something you like..
I have alot of posts here on Climate Change..
I realize you are young and that the topic seems a little hard to understand..
But I encourage you to check them out and post a opinion..
If you stop and think about it , your generation will experience more Climate Changes than I will in my lifetime..
We , my generation , were supposed to watch over this plant we call home and be good stewards of it..
Well some of us are trying..
Others not so much..
That leaves you with a mess..
Speaking for myself , I'm truly sorry and am trying harder now..
So please drop in any time and just say hey or even learn some things or leave a comment..
Your certainly welcome here..
No one will trash your opinion here I assure you..
So until next time..
Peace.. :)

Top 10 Warmest Years (1880–2012)
National Climate Data Center

The following table lists the global combined land and ocean annually-averaged temperature rank and anomaly for each of the 10 warmest years on record.

Rank 1=Warmest
(Note: 2006,2009,2007 tie for 6th)

Period of Record:1880-2012

1 Year 2010 Anomaly (C) 0.66 Anomaly (F) 1.19
2 Year 2005 Anomaly (C) 0.65 Anomaly (F) 1.17
3 Year 1998 Anomaly (C) 0.63 Anomaly (F) 1.13
4 Year 2003 Anomaly (C) 0.62 Anomaly (F) 1.11
5 Year 2002 Anomaly (C) 0.61 Anomaly (F) 1.10
6 Year 2006 Anomaly (C) 0.59 Anomaly (F) 1.07
6 Year 2009 Anomaly (C) 0.59 Anomaly (F) 1.07
6 Year 2007 Anomaly (C) 0.59 Anomaly (F) 1.06
9 Year 2004 Anomaly (C) 0.58 Anomaly (F) 1.04
10Year 2012 Anomaly (C) 0.57 Anomaly (F) 1.03