These are the Morons Who are Running Climate with Our Government

[Terrel L. Shields]

 

[Meandering]

So much for summer! The start of July was the coldest in Britain for 20 YEARS, Met Office confirms​

The Met Office has confirmed that temperatures were persistently below average across the UK for the first two weeks of July.

yeah, yeah, it's just weather.

 

[Meandering]

Biden admin will ban federal government using plastic cutlery to combat climate change

eat your fast food with your fingers while you watch all those private planes fly over head.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

What uses more energy- make plasticware or use hot water to wash metal spoons and forks that use energy to make?
Straws?

producing a plastic straw requires 39 kilojoules of energy and produces 1.5 grams of carbon dioxide emissions. However, producing a paper straw requires 96 kilojoules of energy and produces 4.1 grams of carbon dioxide emissions.​

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Grocery bags?

making 1,000 paper bags required 2,622 megajoules of energy, which is equivalent to about 20 gallons of gasoline. The process also uses a lot of water, up to three times more than making plastic bags, and produces 50 times more water pollutants.​

Plastic bags​

The process of making plastic bags uses petroleum, but it requires less energy than paper bags. In the same study, making 1,500 plastic bags required 763 megajoules of energy, which is equivalent to about 6 gallons of gasoline. Plastic bags also produce fewer carbon emissions, wastes, and harmful byproducts than other bag options.

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[Tom D]

cow burps and flatulence.
All that methane in our environment has a huge impact on the warming of our planet. Livestock — mainly cows — are responsible for 14.5% of global planet-warming gas pollution, according to UC Davis. But a solution to the rather strange climate conundrum may be lingering in an unexpected place: your poke bowl.

As detailed by Civil Beat, recent research found adding red algae — yes, a type of seaweed — to a cow's diet could lead to a nearly 80% reduction in its methane output.

The particular seaweed in question is a popular Hawaiian algae called limu kohu. You may be familiar with this variety of seaweed from your poke. It's deep red and thread-like in appearance, adding a distinctive bitter or iodine taste to the dish. While that may not sound delicious, the name limu kohu translates to "pleasing seaweed."

The red algae is certainly pleasing to cows — and their digestive systems. Trials by red algae feed additive brand Symbrosia found making the seaweed just 0.5% of a cattle's daily diet could result in a sustained 80% methane reduction.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

As more and more studies show that CO2 is not the Forcing mechanism it was painted to be, methane is now the number one culprit since it is a "fossil fuel"...don't ruminate (bad pun) about the age of cows. Others are arguing the fluorocarbons are the forcing agent - the temperature knob on the climate...so to speak. yet no one talks about the biggest "green house gas" - water vapor.

And some still argue that solar is not the temperature control of the planet, well... if the sun disappeared tomorrow, we would be an instant ball of ice. Don't feed me that BS.

Large increases in CO2 do not result in equal 'forcing' in the environment

The effect of increasing the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) on global average surface air temperature might be expected to be constant. However, H. He et al. found that this is not the case. Doubling the atmospheric CO2 concentration increases the impact of any given increase in CO2 by about 25%, owing to changes induced in the climatological base state. The more anthropogenic CO2 emissions raise the atmospheric CO2 concentration, the more serious the consequences will be. —H. Jesse Smith (Science, Nov 23)​

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Another published lie has been made claiming polar bears are declining in number and it's all due to 'climate change'. Making a claim that all bears are declining based upon a small area (the archipelago of Svalbard) they are claiming all sorts of things that basically are untruth or distortions. In the 1960s there were an estimated 12,000 polar bears. Today about 32,000.

The polar bear species is declining because of disappearing Arctic sea ice. In 2021, scientists in Norway found polar bears were inbreeding as the species fights to survive. A study found that on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, polar bear populations have seen a 10% loss in their genetic diversity from 1995 to 2016.​

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A 2020 study found that the melting sea ice is starving polar bears, and that within the century, polar bears could be extinct, and declining genetic diversity increases the risk of extinction.​

OTOH

London, 27 February: 2023 marked 50 years of international cooperation to protect polar bears across the Arctic. Those efforts have been a conservation success story: from a population estimated at about 12,000 bears in the late 1960s, numbers have almost tripled, to just over 32,000 in 2023.​

Despite this dramatic increase in polar bear populations, claims that their numbers are falling due to climate change still dominate most media coverage. Since 2004 we have been told that polar bear numbers in Western Hudson Bay have been steadily declining, but a new study made public in 2023 reveals that this isn’t actually true. In the State of the Polar Bear Report 2023, published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) on International Polar Bear Day, zoologist Dr. Susan Crockford provides the details on this explosive news.​

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Among other issues addressed in this year’s report, Crockford explains that population surveys of Western Hudson Bay polar bears completed in 2011, 2016, and 2021 generated lower estimates than a survey done in 2004. However, these differences in bear counts are not statistically significant from each other, which means there has been no negative trend during the last 20 years.​

 

[Tom D]

The Atlantic Ocean is cooling at an exponential rate, and nobody is sure why. It's been more than a year of record-high global sea temperatures, including being close to the collapse of the AMOC. Despite those troubles, though, the Atlantic is now experiencing something quite baffling-temperatures are cooling, and scientists are scrambling to figure out what's going on.

It is the potential of two La Niñas that has scientists so intrigued about what the climate and ocean temperatures will look like for the rest of the year, especially since the record-high temperatures have gone on for so long. There's also a lot of unpredictability here that has left scientists scrambling, too, and while a La Niña in the Atlantic isn't wholly unexpected, scientists don't seem to have been expecting it this year.

And with the Atlantic's cooling rate already speeding up and the Pacific set to start cooling off in the next couple of months, we're likely going to end up with a bit of a "tug of war" between the two oceans as they fight to cool themselves off, scientists say.

On Tuesday, July 30, 2024, the Greenland ice sheet posted a remarkable ≈3 Gigaton July gain. Data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) show this to be one of the highest daily summer additions since records began in 1981. This figure is only bested by the ≈4 Gigaton set at the beginning of the month on July 1, 2024.

On August 14, 2024, temperatures in Antarctica hit extreme lows, with Dome Fuji AWS registering -73.5C (-100.3F) and Vostok dropping to -75.5C (-103.9F). Accompanying the anomalously cold, Antarctic sea ice is up 1.5 million square kilometers compared to the same date last year—an area more than twice the size of Texas.

There has been no statistically significant increase in the frequency of heatwaves in the U.S. since 1895. There is a slight downward trend.
Much of South America, including Brazil, is grappling with a fierce
cold wave that has meteorologists reaching for the record books.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

It's weather in the NE, but climate change in Texas...

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

FYI - NOAA is predicting a large number of hurricanes this year. Could happen but the window will be closing in about 4 weeks.

Anyway NOAA's prediction success rate is 52% - 50% is a coin flip. So much for the experts.