Earth's Hottest Month

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/ Earth's Hottest Month #41  
This thread would be easier to accept if we (south Texas) didn't have one of the coldest winters on record or coolest and wettest summers. We typically hit the 100+ temps by late March or early April and continues into September. I don't remember it hitting 100 yet this year. And I'm still mowing grass. 😏
What YOU are looking at is called weather and it happens outside YOUR window. Climate on the other hand affects large areas and is studied over many years to observe trends.
 
/ Earth's Hottest Month #44  
Reminds me of a previous post this morning:
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/ Earth's Hottest Month #45  
This thread would be easier to accept if we (south Texas) didn't have one of the coldest winters on record or coolest and wettest summers. We typically hit the 100+ temps by late March or early April and continues into September. I don't remember it hitting 100 yet this year. And I'm still mowing grass. 😏
That's because it went from 'cooling' to 'warming' to now just 'climate change'.

Also, when temps were first being recorded around 1850, it was right at the end of the 'Little Ice Age' which means we started out cooler then normal anyways. And not many years before that was the 'Year w/o a Summer' global cooling event that dropped the global temps by ~1*f that we also were still recovering from. Sure, we are supposedly higher in temps now than when these events started, but not by much, and the "highest recorded since the 1800's" temps are skewed as we started lower than normal to begin with.

edit: keyboard can't spell...
 
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/ Earth's Hottest Month #46  
Climate is what you expect.

Weather is what you get.


Bruce
 
/ Earth's Hottest Month #48  
FWIW...Bangor Maine recorded the coldest February ever this year...setting new all time records...
 
/ Earth's Hottest Month #49  
If you look at everything going on today, there is a tendency to try to redefine terms, or use confusing terms. They used to refer to "Global Warming", when there was too much push back, they changed it to "Climate Change". Climates always change, so more people will be onboard with that, but they mean Climate Change in one temperature direction.
I try not to lose sleep over things that is outside of mankinds control.
 
/ Earth's Hottest Month #50  
. . . But, there are circumstances where the inability to reach a constructive conclusion can wipe out humanity. And there are those who frivolously ensure this inability is sustained.
To your first point, we probably haven't reached a constructive conclusion on nuclear weapons, and they could certainly cause a near extermination event.

Climate change?
If we were to commit all of our resources, we might be able to forestall/delay a climate that would be incompatible with human life. We all believe we are more important and powerful than we are.

Surely, even the most narcissistic politician/"scientist" doesn't believe we can control the climate indefinitely? We can't even get a little extra rain in Cali after all these years and investments in cloud seeding. The real question is: how much convenience/freedom would you give and ask others to give, for an additional 5 years of having Florida slightly above sea level?

To your second point, frivolous is in the eye of the beholder. The goal is always money/power, never cleaner air or more freedom for the people. People lie, use bad statistics, and suppress history because it works. Until that stops, we are individually responsible to look at the media with critical eyes, and follow the money around our elected officials before we take a position on an issue.

Best,

ed
 
/ Earth's Hottest Month #51  
And back in the 80s, they were predicting a lot of things would be under water by now, and it never happened.

My electric utility does list the average monthly temperature, and I’ve been tracking that for years in my spreadsheet. There’s no definite trend.
 
/ Earth's Hottest Month #52  
As a degreed climatologist, I could really get down in the weeds on this and explain why it's all B.S.

But let's take a simpler approach. How long has Earth been here? Some say millions of years, which I personally do not believe. Others say tens of thousands of years. Nobody knows for certain. What we do know for certain is that worldwide temperature MEASUREMENTS, not assumptions from carbon dating, tree rings, and all that bologna, but actual measurements, using calibrated thermometers, has been going on for less than 150 years. Which means that we have a <1% sample size.

In 3rd grade, we all learned that you cannot use a less than 1% sample size to describe the whole. That's bad science and leads to bad information.

Furthermore scientific law states matter cannot be created nor destroyed. In other words, we can transform one thing into another (trees into lumber, oar into steel, herbs into medicines, etc.) but we can't create new things and we can't destroy what God has made. It's science. Therefore, humans cannot "destroy the planet" by simply living here.

Also of interest, every time the local TV meteorologist says "we set a new record high today", I find it amusing that the old record we broke was set in the 1800s or early 1900s, long before there were cars, hairspray cans, and interstate highways everywhere. It was just as hot back then as it is now.

As the old saying goes, "there is nothing new under the sun".
many unnatural new elements are created during high energy particle research.

CFCs are man made, did not occur in nature until we got here.

There is a museum in Kentucky that supports many of your points.
 
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/ Earth's Hottest Month #55  
And back in the 80s, they were predicting a lot of things would be under water by now, and it never happened.

My electric utility does list the average monthly temperature, and I’ve been tracking that for years in my spreadsheet. There’s no definite trend.

People forget their history and the mistakes are soon forgotten
That is why we are certain to make the same mistakes over and over again.
We just inked a “deal” (well maybe more like “coercion” and “bribery“ than a deal) to spend over 4 trillion to fundamentally change the USA forever. The sweetheart deals are indescribable.

I pray for this country to survive in its current form, with improvements added as we refine our society.
Now get ready birthing and non-birthing persons……changes are coming that you never thought possible….
 
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/ Earth's Hottest Month #56  
The earth is estimated to be a tad over 4.5 billion years old, so yeah, I don't believe it's millions either. ;)
 
/ Earth's Hottest Month #57  
The earth is estimated to be a tad over 4.5 billion years old, so yeah, I don't believe it's millions either. ;)
Note “estimated”
Science talk for “guess”
 
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