More Evidence For Those Who Still Doubt Global Warming
Finally, someone has published a study that I have long thought would be the simplest and most convincing evidence for global warming. In this article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5AB4GU20091112
The authors found that the number of record high temperatures from weather stations across the US is approximately twice the number of record low temperatures between 2000 and September 30, 2009. You statisticians out there would know that the number of record highs and lows should be about even in a static climate scenario. The article states that a similar study in Australia found approximately the same ratio of record high to record low temperatures, indicating that this warming is global and extends south of the equator.
Another study:
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5AB4FM20091112
shows that the rate of ice melt in Greenland increased between 2006 and 2008.
It is almost inconceivable to me that with this steady stream of increasingly convincing evidence there are still climate change doubters out there, however apparently with the "perfect storm" mixture of an economic crisis, a geographically localized cool summer in the US midwest, and political backlash against the current US president, many people are all too willing to listen to far right, agendaized radio and talk show hosts who would try and convince us that that our ever increasing CO2 and other gas emmisions have no effect on global climate, and all of these studies prove nothing, so there's no need to change our ways. That would be the easy thing to accept and the easy thing to do, and we all know that the easy way is usually the right way to proceed???
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5AB4GU20091112
The authors found that the number of record high temperatures from weather stations across the US is approximately twice the number of record low temperatures between 2000 and September 30, 2009. You statisticians out there would know that the number of record highs and lows should be about even in a static climate scenario. The article states that a similar study in Australia found approximately the same ratio of record high to record low temperatures, indicating that this warming is global and extends south of the equator.
Another study:
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5AB4FM20091112
shows that the rate of ice melt in Greenland increased between 2006 and 2008.
It is almost inconceivable to me that with this steady stream of increasingly convincing evidence there are still climate change doubters out there, however apparently with the "perfect storm" mixture of an economic crisis, a geographically localized cool summer in the US midwest, and political backlash against the current US president, many people are all too willing to listen to far right, agendaized radio and talk show hosts who would try and convince us that that our ever increasing CO2 and other gas emmisions have no effect on global climate, and all of these studies prove nothing, so there's no need to change our ways. That would be the easy thing to accept and the easy thing to do, and we all know that the easy way is usually the right way to proceed???
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