Why is it So Cold Right Now? (Polar Vortex)

[Exile]

Originally Posted by senormechanico

The next couple of years are going to be fun to watch.


GangGreen will set in with the socialists.


There's no question that it will be interesting to see the outcome of this.


I LOVE puns.

Nothing new here, just different slogans and an even more ludicrous cast. Otherwise same show that's already going sideways, with Dems in the US running for cover & Labourites in the UK bailing out altogether. NYC just lost 29,000 good paying jobs. Calif. is broke, with their taxpaying population & businesses being replaced with dependents, and have even had to (finally) abandon their bullet fantasy train ($3.5B wasted).

The more the MMGW cause continues to be co-opted by the hard Left the fewer the converts, no matter what the science has to say. The Trumpites must be pleased about their prospects for 2020.

[newhaul]

Originally Posted by Exile

Nothing new here, just different slogans and an even more ludicrous cast. Otherwise same show that's already going sideways, with Dems in the US running for cover & Labourites in the UK bailing out altogether. NYC just lost 29,000 good paying jobs. Calif. is broke, with their taxpaying population & businesses being replaced with dependents, and have even had to (finally) abandon their bullet fantasy train ($3.5B wasted).

The more the MMGW cause continues to be co-opted by the hard Left the fewer the converts, no matter what the science has to say. The Trumpites must be pleased about their prospects for 2020.

yep loss of 25,000 jobs with average salary of 120k and 27 billion in lost tax revenue .

Yep the MMGWC and their leftie wing are really doing good this time.
The feds want their 3.5 billion back from the contract breaching Californians.
Yep its a good time to be a conservative.

[senormechanico]

From a link posted here a week or two ago:


https://earth.nullschool.net/#curren...-18.328,83.894



I suspect more cold weather coming.

Have a look at the sag in the jet in the area over the East end of Asia to the West end of Alaska.

Another round of Polar Vortex coming our way in a week or so?

[newhaul]

Originally Posted by senormechanico

From a link posted here a week or two ago:


https://earth.nullschool.net/#curren...-18.328,83.894



I suspect more cold weather coming.

Have a look at the sag in the jet in the area over the East end of Asia to the West end of Alaska.

Another round of Polar Vortex coming our way in a week or so?

looking at the 1000hpa (about 100 meters) temps yes I would say we are in for some more snow this week .
https://earth.nullschool.net/#curren...-97.683,52.201

[CatNewBee]

Originally Posted by newhaul

but I want the green new deal .
I need financial stability because I am unwilling to work if I don't need to :-):-)

Yes, money for nothing and checks for free!

Butbthere is no paradise out there, what to spent the money on - tofu? no thanks, I prefer a steak and a diesel, even if I have to work for the money.

[SailOar]

Climate change will melt vast parts of the Himalayas, study says

(CNN) — At least a third of the ice in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, an area that includes the world's highest peaks Mount Everest and K2, could melt by the end of this century according to an assessment released Monday -- even if there is aggressive action to curb greenhouse gases and meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement.

Rising temperatures are a serious threat to the eight countries including China, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. Fresh water from the region's glaciers flows into 10 major river basins, contributing to the drinking water, irrigation and energy needs of approximately 1.9 billion people, or about a quarter of the world's population.

[CatNewBee]

Originally Posted by SailOar

Climate change will melt vast parts of the Himalayas, study says

NOPE, FAKE NEWS!

It will melt only the #ICE, the rocks will #REMAIN.

That is very irritating about the democrats, on one hand they cry abolish ICE, on the other hand they want to preserve ice. Kind of schizophrenic behavior. ;-) I know, why they fear global warming. It is about melting snowflakes...

[SailOar]

Climate change: World heading for warmest decade, says Met Office

The Met Office is forecasting that temperatures for each of the next five years are likely to be 1C or more above pre-industrial levels.

In the next five years there's also a chance we'll see a year in which the average global temperature rise could be greater than 1.5C.

That's seen as a critical threshold for climate change.

If the data matches the forecast, then the decade from 2014-2023 will be the warmest in more than 150 years of record keeping......

Last October, UN scientists published a special report on the long-term impacts of a temperature rise of 1.5C.

They concluded that it would take a massive carbon cutting effort to keep the world from tipping over the limit by 2030. The Met Office analysis now says there's a 10% chance of this happening within the next five years......

[Exile]

Originally Posted by SailOar

Climate change: World heading for warmest decade, says Met Office

Best get used to it, and move on to issues that us humans actually have some influence over.

[Reefmagnet]

Ahhh! I remember those brisk goldilocks days of the (18)50's. Attending ice fairs and whatnot was a jolly splendid pastime.

[SailOar]

The World's Oceans Could Change Color Thanks to Climate Change

A new study suggests that within the next few decades, areas of the ocean that look blue might appear to become “bluer.” The change won’t impact the actual water, but instead will be due to populations of marine phytoplankton that will fall as the seawater gets warmer. That phytoplankton contains the green pigment chlorophyll, which gives some ocean water a green tinge. When the number of those organisms drops, the color of the water will also appear to change......

The problem is also more than aesthetic. Many species of fish, squid, and shellfish use the phytoplankton as a food source. Without the phytoplankton to eat they might reduce in numbers or even die out entirely. Phytoplankton also absorbs carbon dioxide. If their number reduce, then so with the amount of carbon dioxide they’re able to absorb, ultimately leading to the level of greenhouse gases to rise.

[GordMay]

Originally Posted by SailOar

The World's Oceans Could Change Color Thanks to Climate Change

An interesting "canary in the coal mine"..
“Ocean colour signature of climate change” ~ by Stephanie Dutkiewicz et al.
☞ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08457-x

[CatNewBee]

... we like blue water sailing, don't we?

[senormechanico]

"The Sea, the Sky, the You and I...All Blues...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-488UORrfJ0