On 12/07/2016 07:26 AM, Razer wrote:
On 12/07/2016 02:58 AM, John Newman wrote:
On Dec 7, 2016, at 1:26 AM, Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
On 12/06/2016 10:42 PM, John Newman wrote:
On December 6, 2016 11:46:18 PM EST, Razer <rayzer@riseup.net> wrote: The folks at Weather.com have asked Breitbart to kindly stop using their data to create #FakeNews.
https://weather.com/news/news/breitbart-misleads-americans-climate-change
ROTF! Yeah I caught that one too :) What's funny is it's actually one of the puff pieces of garbage news Zen forwarded in. Oil-money talks.
And rational thought walks.
John
It was almost 32 degrees F this morning at sea level on the Central California coast. This last summer it went to 100 degrees F for one day. About seven years ago it went to 105 for THREE DAYS breaking all records ... and one morning the following winter it was 28 degrees and stayed there for the better part of the morning leaving a slush puddle on the shady side of the building I worked in that stayed slush for two days. I've lived in the area for 40 years. When I arrived in 1976 I noted this was where all the Italian and Portuguese immigrants had settled on the coast in the 1800s because it's Mediterranean climate with two seasons. Spring and Fall, with a touch of mild winter in the 40s and summers that rarely cracked 80, was familiar to them (and wine grapes grew well). This is NOT a Mediterranean climate anymore. Some might say it's part of a natural cycle. That MIGHT be. But if so, it was long before anyone was keeping record, including the trees, whose inner growth rings can tell no lies.
Hypothesis of global climate change predicts increased variability in weather, and increased intensity of weather events. There's more water in the air, so higher energy density. Also, reduced temperature differentials between equator and poles reduces jet-stream stability, making seasons more chaotic. And extremes in El Nino / La Nina have been increasing. So anyway, what you're seeing isn't unexpected.
Rr