Why Global Warming does not bother me.

[macdoc]

you finally topped your arable land aplenty misconception.

The wall would have to go well down below the water table to prevent intrusion. Look up what the Dutch spend on their tiny bit of coast line. You're being had by Ty

[Blind groper]

macdoc

I think your desire to discredit my posts has gotten the better of you.

Read my post again.

[macdoc]

Since Jan. 1, the United States has set more than 40,000 hot temperature records, but fewer than 6,000 cold temperature records, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Through most of last century, the U.S. used to set cold and hot records evenly, but in the first decade of this century America set two hot records for every cold one, said Jerry Meehl, a climate extreme expert at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. This year the ratio is about 7 hot to 1 cold. Some computer models say that ratio will hit 20-to-1 by midcentury, Meehl said.

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-summer-glo ... tists.html

Record-setting heat wave leaves 30 dead across the U.S.
BRETT ZONGKER AND RON TODT
Philadelphia — The Associated Press
Published Saturday, Jul. 07 2012, 6:46 PM EDT
Last updated Saturday, Jul. 07 2012, 7:18 PM EDT

Americans dipped into the water, went to the movies and rode the subway just to be in air conditioning Saturday for relief from unrelenting heat that has killed at least 30 people across half the country.

The heat sent temperatures soaring over 38-degrees in several cities, including a record 40.5-degrees in Washington, St. Louis (41), and Indianapolis (40), buckled highways and derailed a Washington-area train even as another round of summer storms threatened.

The heat sent temperatures soaring in more than 20 states to 40.5-degrees in Louisville, Kentucky, 38.5 in Philadelphia, and 35 in New York; besides Washington, a record of 40-degrees was set in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Baltimore set a record at 39-degrees.

At least 30 deaths were blamed on the heat, including nine in Maryland and 10 in Chicago, mostly among the elderly. Three elderly people found dead in their houses in Ohio had heart disease, but died of high temperatures in homes lacking power because of recent outages, officials said. Heat was also cited as a factor in three deaths in Wisconsin, two in Tennessee and three in Pennsylvania.

Officials said the heat caused highways to buckle in Illinois and Wisconsin. In Maryland, investigators said heat likely caused rails to kink and led a green line train to partially derail in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on Friday afternoon. No one was injured, and 55 passengers were safely evacuated.

Thousands of mid-Atlantic residents remained without power more than a week after deadly summer storms and extreme heat struck the area, including 120,000 in West Virginia and some 8,000 in the suburbs around Baltimore and Washington, D.C. In the Washington area, the utility company Pepco asked customers to conserve power, saying the heat was stressing the system.

“This is becoming a black swan of heat waves, in the sense that it’s such a long heat wave, such a severe heat wave and encompassing such a large area,” said Chris Vaccaro, spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

more

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/wor ... le4398115/

y'all fucked...

[maiforpeace]

I wouldn't worry about it, fracking will solve all our energy needs for air conditioning.

For one year that is.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[Tyrannical]

Tyrannical

As I pointed out before, your "Great Wall" would also need to extend up every river and every tributary. Both sides.

I do not think you need 50 feet (15 metres). A few metres high would be enough, but the sheer length of it would seem staggering. A lot, lot more than 7,000 miles. Even then, there would have to be utterly and amazingly powerful pumps to clear all the rainwater that would be trapped behind that wall. Pumps the size of whole towns.

The wall itself can contain the pump, and I bet a clever engineer could use Earth's tidal forces to power some type of gravity pump. But more than just a wall, it could be a huge revenue generating device from both electrical power and tasty seafood from aquaculture.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Why not flood gates?

[mistermack]

It's not surprising that it was an exceptional year. Most years only have 12 months.

Anyway, very few people dispute that the climate has warmed, so it's hardly surprising that records have gone.
That's pretty much inevitable. Records started at a particularly cold point in the cycle.

[macdoc]

are we having fun in denier land yet???




56% of the US in severe drought

80% some form of drought.....

You could try that Texas fix......mass prayer ........ course that didn't work either.

[mistermack]

Terrible. It could turn into a dust-bowl.

I'm sure that's never happened before.

[macdoc]

Welcome to the Rest of Our Lives



indeed

[Blind groper]

macdoc

While I do not dispute the basic message of that video, I was intensely put off by its emotional nature. When I see something that biased toward an emotional view, my bullshit alarm kicks in.

The basic message was correct, but why the hell do they have to spoil it with emotional bullshit?

[amused]

It's been very rainy and low temperaturey for this time of year here in Austin fuckin' Texas the last few days.

[Jason]

Well it's hot as hell in central BC without more than a few drops of rain for the last two weeks.

[amused]

Historically, you've been very good company.