It's official...

shack

Today is the hottest day in "recorded" history. They started keeping records 141 years ago and it has never been this hot at 106. Same thing for my daughter in CO. Not quite as hot...but they have the fires all around them. Maybe there is something to this "global warming" thing after all....

PreCd

It is hot my friend. I worked outside from 10 to 3pm and called it quits. Drank two 32 oz. bottles of water in 5 hours and still was thirsty. Hot.........

amulford

What are you talking about? There is no global warming

Wait till the weather patterns make use of all this warmer air. We're going to have to up the hurricane scale to 10 pretty soon.

Jstas

Recorded history is a pretty short amount of time in the grand scheme of things.

BlueFox

Don't worry. It is just going to get worse and worse. :eek:

Polkersince85

I think the U.S., Russia and China should get together and stretch a solar shade in space between the Earth and the Sun. The thermometer in my pickup showed 114 F out on the highway this afternoon.

dkr919

halo71

109 on the thermometer on my porch

txcoastal1

We had relief rain today but early this week was 106 w/80% humidity

I just feel bad for the northeast w/o power and lots of clean up

Hang in there

DMara

And it's just the beginning of summer... :frown:

gdb

I've owned a 6500 watt generator ever since the good old Y2K panic. (remember that?) A whole bunch of people in MD/DC might be w/out power for up to 7 days fer crapsake !:eek:

GlennDog

We (the US) made our mistakes with gas guzzling, inefficient carbon based what-evers. Now (since we know better) we should be teaching the "emerging markets" that we all can protect the planet from global warming. . . . a very hard thing to implement.

G

Toolfan66

We have been breathing smoke along the front range for days, has made for some crazy looking sunrises and sunsets. The loss of homes in this state the last month is very sad to say the least...

Toolfan66

Check out this time lapse video..

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBA7eHY022k



Gives you the feeling of end times or the pits of hell.

AsSiMiLaTeD

Hell, it's not even hot yet...

obieone

Soooooo, we're back to calling it 'global warming', are we?:rolleyes:

shack

From this afternoon...the ambient reading on my car. It was at 110 just seconds before I took this picture. I guess the airflow cooled it down....:rolleyes:

gwg_97

About 62F and liquid sunshine here in the Pacific Northwest. The salmon are loving it.

shack

obieone wrote: »

Soooooo, we're back to calling it 'global warming', are we?:rolleyes:

So what would you call it when the average temperature "globally" has increased over a period of years? "note"...not saying what has caused it...just that it is happening.

This figure shows how average temperatures worldwide have changed since 1901. Surface data come from a combined set of land-based weather stations and sea surface temperature measurements, while 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 trend.

Data source: NOAA, 2010

BlueFox

Let's go to Antartica, and cool down.

Antarctica's Ice Shelves Melting Quicker Than Scientists Previously Thought

"Global sea levels could rise at a significantly higher rate than had been previously predicted, a new study, published this week in the journal Nature, revealed.

The findings, which came from research led by glaciologist Hamish Pritchard of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), show that the western side of Antarctica is shedding 23 feet of ice sheet each year, from a mixture of causes, most of which are man-made."

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/04/26/antarctica-melting-quicker-than-scientists-thought_n_1454848.html

rebuy

Do you think it might be hot because it's SUMMER?
It is generally hotter in summer than in other times of the year if my memory serves me well.
I really do not think my Camry is to blame for global warming, if in fact we do have global warming.
I'm sure all the rock and roll guys driving around in busses and using massive amounts of electricity contribute to climate much more than me. Al Gore also fits into this category since he consumes more power at home in a month than I do all year, but he is excused because he can afford to buy "carbon credits".

janmike

Stay COOL my friends. Could not imagine living in that heat.
A nice 72F today here in Yellowknife.
Boy do I not miss Southern Ontario!

gwg_97

BlueFox wrote: »

"Global sea levels could rise at a significantly higher rate than had been previously predicted, a new study, published this week in the journal Nature, revealed.

The findings, which came from research led by glaciologist Hamish Pritchard of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), show that the western side of Antarctica is shedding 23 feet of ice sheet each year, from a mixture of causes, most of which are man-made."

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/04/26/antarctica-melting-quicker-than-scientists-thought_n_1454848.html

We're gonna need a bigger boat!

BlueFox

gwg_97 wrote: »

We're gonna need a bigger boat!

Imagine NYC under just 1" of water.

BlueFox

Lasareath wrote: »

Been there many times. feet all wet except when I have my Ecco Track 2 Elites on!

Really? The subways, and every thing else under the street, is underwater. I pay attention to the news, but I missed that.

nooshinjohn

I guess that increased solar activity has absolutley zero to do with temperatures and weather paterns here on earth. Only a creature as arrogant as man could assume that he has the power to alter the climate of something as vast as a planet. Pretty soon we will possess the power of the Death Star or Red Matter, or even the Genesis Device. Manmade global warming is as much scienc fiction as anything that has come from Hollywood.

http://www.space.com/2942-sun-activity-increased-century-study-confirms.html

Now am I saying polute till hell freezes over? NO, but I am saying lets be a bit more pragmatic about claims of the sky falling without first admitting to ourselves that all of the knowlege of humankind since the monkeys started walking upright until today is less that a trillionth of what we need to have in order to understand our own bodies, much less our planet and the universe. The truth be told, humanity to this day is dumber than a box of rocks.

Only in the minds of the whack-jobs on BOTH sides have they become Gods.

tonyb

There's a difference between climate change and man-made global warming. Climate patterns always change and thats something we will have to deal with and adjust to. There have been times when both polar caps were completely ice less......before man even set foot on the planet. Even just a 1% shift of the earths axis can change weather patterns considerably.

We have some very smart people on this forum. To take a small fraction, 140 years out of a timeline thats 4.5 billion and claim the worlds going into the crapper because of man seems a little rediculous. The earth will shed man,the species, before man can ever kill the planet.
When you really think about it, man is a pretty fragile species.

I'm just wondering if I should start changing my landscaping to cactus and replace the grass with sand. I like to be ahead of the curve when patterns settle down.:cheesygrin:

Toolfan66

tonyb wrote: »

There's a difference between climate change and man-made global warming. Climate patterns always change and thats something we will have to deal with and adjust to. There have been times when both polar caps were completely ice less......before man even set foot on the planet. Even just a 1% shift of the earths axis can change weather patterns considerably.

We have some very smart people on this forum. To take a small fraction, 140 years out of a timeline thats 4.5 billion and claim the worlds going into the crapper because of man seems a little rediculous. The earth will shed man,the species, before man can ever kill the planet.
When you really think about it, man is a pretty fragile species.

I'm just wondering if I should start changing my landscaping to cactus and replace the grass with sand. I like to be ahead of the curve when patterns settle down.:cheesygrin:

Didn't the earth move off its axis from the earthquake in Japan? I thought they (who ever that was) said it did.

Strong Bad

I'm still wondering where the ice age is that scientists were predicting back in the '70s. They had people scared shitless (including a young ME) with all this talk of the next impending ice age that was on the way.

I'm of the mindset that we're in a warming trend, not because of anything man did, but because thats the way things are going naturally. Solar activity is going nuts lately. This planet is billions of years old. We have absolutely no way to tell what type of warming or cooling trends took place thousands or even millions of years ago. I do recall however, one statement that was made by some prominent climate scientist that said "The earth is at it's warmest in about 140,000 years." To this I say...what was the climate like 200,00 years ago? How about 400,00 years ago? We're so fixated on ONLY what we've been able to record and document that it literally blinds us to the full picture.

Yep, we're in a nasty warming trend. When mother nature is done PMSing, she'll calm down and chill out.

shack

There are many reasons that there is climate change on our planet....but anyone who believes the the actions of humans have had no impact on the change....is a fool. To what degree is open to debate.

George Grand

Lasareath wrote: »

Been there many times. feet all wet except when I have my Ecco Track 2 Elites on!

Good looking Frankenstein boots Sal.