Polar Vortex Causes Hundreds Of Injuries
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In 1974, Time Magazine blamed the cold polar vortex on global cooling.
âScientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds âthe so-called circumpolar vortexâthat sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world.â
Forty years later, Time Magazine blames the cold polar vortex on global warming
âBut not only does the cold spell not disprove climate change, it may well be that global warming could be making the occasional bout of extreme cold weather in the U.S. even more likely. Right now much of the U.S. is in the grip of a polar vortex, which is pretty much what it sounds like: a whirlwind of extremely cold, extremely dense air that forms near the poles.â
âScientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds âthe so-called circumpolar vortexâthat sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world.â
Forty years later, Time Magazine blames the cold polar vortex on global warming
âBut not only does the cold spell not disprove climate change, it may well be that global warming could be making the occasional bout of extreme cold weather in the U.S. even more likely. Right now much of the U.S. is in the grip of a polar vortex, which is pretty much what it sounds like: a whirlwind of extremely cold, extremely dense air that forms near the poles.â
The Coast Guard said it was the earliest the ice had frozen here since the 1930s, and the river connecting Lakes Superior and Huron has been some of the toughest ice they have seen. With cutting through ice, the noise is loud and constant.
http://www.wwgp1050.com/2014/01/07/us-coast-guard-battles-ice-to-keep-shipping-channels-open/
http://www.wwgp1050.com/2014/01/07/us-coast-guard-battles-ice-to-keep-shipping-channels-open/
FC: Al Gore a great man and no doubt GW Bush a 'denier'
Al Gore has multiple houses but his main house in Nashville in 2006/2007 had energy bills of about $2400/mo--20X national average.
GW Bush: one house built of recycled materials, has a water recovery system and a energy bill of 1/4 of national average.
By the way, a similar comparison can be made on charitable contributions, but that is another story.
"But...but...but....but....Al Gore cares more!!!"
singed toe. If you continue to quote the very dumb, hateful, homophobic moron that is fucrum, I will gladly put you on ignore also. You're only slightly more worthy of consideration than lucrum. Which is to say, very little.
Now if, in the unlikely event he says something that shows true value, go ahead, please quote him, but if you continue to repost this kind of crap I will put you on ignore.
BTW, not that it matters, but for your information, I am not gay. In case you were confused.
Yes Gore has been involved with these very important issues for a long time. He is not doing it for money. Something the hypocritical "Christian Right" can't fathom.
So what? It amazes me what you moron deniers consider a good argument.
In the thirty years leading up to the 1970s, available temperature recordings suggested that there was a cooling trend. As a result some scientists suggested that the current inter-glacial period could rapidly draw to a close, which might result in the Earth plunging into a new ice age over the next few centuries. This idea could have been reinforced by the knowledge that the smog that climatologists call âaerosolsâ â emitted by human activities into the atmosphere â also caused cooling. In fact, as temperature recording has improved in coverage, itâs become apparent that the cooling trend was most pronounced in northern land areas and that global temperature trends were in fact relatively steady during the period prior to 1970.
At the same time as some scientists were suggesting we might be facing another ice age, a greater number published contradicting studies. Their papers showed that the growing amount of greenhouse gasses that humans were putting into the atmosphere would cause much greater warming â warming that would a much greater influence on global temperature than any possible natural or human-caused cooling effects.
By 1980 the predictions about ice ages had ceased, due to the overwhelming evidence contained in an increasing number of reports that warned of global warming. Unfortunately, the small number of predictions of an ice age appeared to be much more interesting than those of global warming, so it was those sensational 'Ice Age' stories in the press that so many people tend to remember.
Figure 1: Number of papers classified as predicting global cooling (blue) or warming (red). In no year were there more cooling papers than warming papers (Peterson 2008).
Note the "huge 50% recovery" that the right wing denial machine has harped upon that occurred over the last year. Doesn't look so impressive now does it? Of course if the bullshit denier articles in Forbes and similar places included this chart, the deception would not work so well.