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EPA Chief: Pause in global warming doesn't represent climate

Whitewing

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Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy told reporters Monday morning that the so-called pause in global warming was not representative of the broader trends in climate, which she says point to global warming.

“That is a short-lived issue that doesn’t represent climate,” McCarthy told reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor, adding that many other factors show the planet is changing because of human influence– though she did not elaborate on this point because the breakfast was nearing its end.

Satellite temperature data, which measures the lower parts of the Earth’s atmosphere, shows there has been no significant warming trend for the last 18 years or so. Surface temperatures from weather stations, buoys and ships show a lack of warming for about the last 15 years or so.

Scientists have struggled to explain the lack of warming in recent years, giving dozens of explanations for the pause, ranging from increased volcanic activity to natural ocean cycles. While scientists debate the causes of the pause, some are lowering their estimates of how much warming could occur in the future. Some scientists point to measures like warming ocean temperatures, melting Arctic Sea ice, extreme weather events or varying crop yields as evidence that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are having an impact on the planet, even though the temperature record may not currently reflect it.

Despite the lack of warming, the Obama administration has been pressing forward with climate rules to limit U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from the fossil fuels industry. The most contentious regulation so far has been the EPA’s rule to limit emissions from power plants, which will likely cause coal plants to shut down.

"If you look at the science… nothing tells us we are being overly aggressive” in what the agency is doing, McCarthy told reporters Monday morning. Most recently, the Obama administration announced a vague climate agreement with China for both countries to reduce emissions in the coming years.

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Steve

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It gets worse...

Though it seems counterintuitive – global warming bringing about extreme cold – the answer may be yes, according to scientists like Weather Underground's Dr. Jeff Masters and Dr. Jennifer Francis, a research professor at Rutgers University's Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences.

yep,.. we had record lows last night... because of global warming...
 

Steve

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someone forgot to turn off the snow machine...

Buffalo's first snowstorm of the season could give the area a year's worth of snow — around 8 feet — in just three days.

More than 5 feet of snow was already on the ground Wednesday, and another round of lake-effect snow is forecast to bring an additional 3 feet of snow to the Buffalo area on Thursday and Friday. The average snowfall for an entire year: 93.6 inches, or close to 8 feet.

we have friends up near there.. they were busy shoveling the snow off the roof today..

he said that the township fined him last year for plowing several friends driveways without mercantile license.. yesterday they called looking for snowplows..

he said they didn't like his answer.. :lol:
 

Steve

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The temperatures in the United States have dropped dramatically. Tuesday had the coldest morning since 1976. Freezing temperature blanketed the entire country

Record lows from Idaho to Nebraska and Iowa south to Texas and east through the Great Lakes, the eastern 2/3 of the US will shatter decades-long and in some cases, century-long records.


not that I am complaining,.. but really a bit of global warming wouldn't be such a bad thing... :shock:






as for the Buffalo snowfalls..
The national record for snowfall in a 24-hour period is 76 inches, up in the mountains of Colorado. Some suburbs of Buffalo approached that amount on Tuesday —
http://www.buffalonian.com/history/articles/1951-now/2001snowstorm/buffalostopsnows.html
 

Larrry

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Scientists have struggled to explain the lack of warming in recent years,

Translated..they don't understand .... but they are still claiming something they don't know....suck it up you leftwingernuts and regurgitate like you are told....tools
 

iwannabeacowboy

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Larrry said:
Scientists have struggled to explain the lack of warming in recent years,

Translated..they don't understand .... but they are still claiming something they don't know....suck it up you leftwingernuts and regurgitate like you are told....tools


"Scientists" aren't really explainers as much as they should be data collectors. And then, hypothesis testers. The only true known, is a proven failure. Hypothesis are not created to be proven right, as that is very poor science.

If the left let them be scientists and not grant writers trying to explain a false religion, there wouldn't be anything that needs explained.


"They know so much that just isn't so"
 

Whitewing

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Steve said:
someone forgot to turn off the snow machine...

Buffalo's first snowstorm of the season could give the area a year's worth of snow — around 8 feet — in just three days.

More than 5 feet of snow was already on the ground Wednesday, and another round of lake-effect snow is forecast to bring an additional 3 feet of snow to the Buffalo area on Thursday and Friday. The average snowfall for an entire year: 93.6 inches, or close to 8 feet.

we have friends up near there.. they were busy shoveling the snow off the roof today..

he said that the township fined him last year for plowing several friends driveways without mercantile license.. yesterday they called looking for snowplows..

he said they didn't like his answer.. :lol:

Told 'em to shove it up their global warming? :D
 

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