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USA Today’s Doyle Rice almost always is on top of the latest hypothetical global warming scare study, and a couple of days ago he noticed a doozy.
USA Today’s Doyle Rice almost always is on top of the latest hypothetical global warming scare study, and a couple of days ago he noticed a doozy:
Hot enough for you?
A worst-case scenario of global warming, in which temperatures would soar some 21 degrees, is that much of the world may simply become too hot for humans to live in, according to new research published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“We found that … a 21-degree warming would put half of the world’s population in an uninhabitable environment,” says study co-author Matthew Huber of Purdue University.
While the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that the result of business-as-usual warming would be 7 degrees by 2100, eventual warming over several centuries of 25 degrees is feasible, says Huber.
Next on Rice’s radar: “What if Superman grew up in Germany instead of America?”
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KJW | 5.12.10 @ 2:11PM
Paul,
Forgive me, but you missed an opportunity to ask an intriguing question.
At the core of so many of the left's loony ideas is a basic hatred or at least distrust of human life (witness their embrace of abortion, abandoning the elderly and the sick, the belief that our planet will soon become overcrowded, etc.)
Given what you said, wouldn't there be some on that particular political direction who, if they were honest, would WANT global warming? After all, the greatest biodiversity occurs in equatorial/tropical nations as Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia. If these global warming proponents would just sit back and relax while letting global warming happen (and if something other than money wasn't motivating so many of them) couldn't they could kill two birds with one stone (no pun intended) - ending up with more animals and plants PLUS 1/2 less human beings?
Apologies in advance for the question posited above - I honestly feel mentally ill simply asking it.
JP| 5.12.10 @ 2:26PM
KJW,
That's not a silly question. But, many people do not realize that if GHG (greenhouse gases) are the real culprit to the warming circa 1975-1997, the warming in the tropics would be aloft (Google tropespheric tropical hotspot, and global warming) and not at the surface. This AGW signature has been predicted by the IPCC for years but has failed to materialize.
big booty@ | 5.17.11 @ 10:39PM
Nothing is silly !! i dont know why it was seen as silly.. i find it very important..
JP| 5.12.10 @ 2:22PM
But of course it is not warming. Just last week NASA posted a quick blurb that the March-April global oceanic heat content posted its greatest month to month loss for the period March-April 2010. It is the oceans that retain long term heat, not the land (as every 9th graders should know). And ocean heat content (esp. that in the tropics) makes up a big part of our heat budget. If oceans are cooling the land-sea couplet will also cool.
Another interesting sidenote are the roll of volcanos in the short to medium time frame. High latitude volcanos exhaust SO2 into the stratosphere, which in turn cools the stratosphere. This in turn warms the lower tropesphere. That is, the artic regions actually warm. This helps to induce a negative Artic Oscillation (or AO). For the northern hemisphere, a negative AO means cooler, wetter mid-latitude weather patterns. This also could teleconnect with the Pacific ENSO patterns. Which explain how the globe overall significantly warmed these last 12 months while the mid-latitudes cooled.
But with ENSO going neutral, as well as cooling in the North Pacific, we could be seeing a rather dramatic drop in global temps for 2011-2012. The Iceland volcanic erruptions will only exasperate things.
One last thing: since the beginning of the recession, CO2 levels worldwide have dropped about 5%.
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