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Yeah that was mentioned on the nightly newscast so I haven't been able to find anything about that 75% number but here is something I just found about the white blankets they lay down. https://www.livescience.com/61951-swiss-glacier-blanket.html This year, like every year, a group of Swiss will traipse up through the mountains to the Rhône Glacier, hauling huge white blankets. As E&E News reported in a recent article on geoengineering, the annual hike is part of a doomed effort to protect the massive blocks of ice from the rising summer heat. The Earth is getting warmer, and glaciers around the world are retreating and shrinking. As Live Science has previously reported, humans appear to have caused 69 percent of glacial melting between 1991 and 2010 — and warming has only accelerated in the nearly eight years since.
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Meanwhile in the Swiss Alps, which contain 75% of the world's freshwater, the glaciers are projected to be completely gone by 2031. Scientists there are laying white blankets on the snow there to make it melt at a slower rate.
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Dejavu all over again. Reminds me of the Yankees postseasons over the last 13 years lol.
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2001 was the longest growing season but this seems to be similar so far. The record from yesterday was from 2001 too.
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Just as you wrote that the sun broke fully through the clouds, Don and the temperatures here are now in the 70s!
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I'm curious if this overperforming warmth will end the negative anomalies in the city too. On Long Island it looks like it's close to a 0.0 departure now.
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Around normal back here near JFK too?
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Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
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Was the 78 at KFRG a record? I see the record at NYC is 79
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Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/cop27-world-track-increase-emissions-106-by-2030-un-report-2022-10-26/ This is only if the nations keep their current pledges It could be far worse than this. LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - If countries fulfill their current climate commitments, global greenhouse gas emissions will rise by 10.6% by 2030 compared to 2010 levels, according to a United Nations report released on Wednesday. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says a 43% reduction in emissions by 2030 is needed to limit warming to 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. With world leaders expected to gather in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt for the COP27 climate summit from Nov. 6, experts said more action was urgently needed.ister now Advertisement · Scroll to continue Report an ad "At the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow last year, all countries agreed to revisit and strengthen their climate plans," said Simon Stiell, executive secretary of UN Climate Change in a statement. "The fact that only 24 new or updated climate plans were submitted since COP26 is disappointing." These include Bolivia, Vanuatu and Uganda, as well as the large emitter nations of India and Indonesia. The latter, which sees most emissions come from deforestation and peatland clearance, now says it will cut emissions levels by at least 31.89% by 2030. Globally, inadequate pledges put the world on a path to warm by 2.5C by 2100. Still, a 10.6% increase in emissions represents slight progress. Last year's UN assessment found countries were on track to up emissions by 13.7% by 2030. -
but that is only against the newer normals?
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the sun is out here!
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the warmest in our area!
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Yep I had the fan on all day. Loved the sun though.
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I turned on the fan
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Don, how warm did Farmingdale, KFRG get?
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with all this warmth how is it that October will end up below normal? October wasn't that cold (we didn't have any temps below 40)
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nothing beats the sun!
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Wow I wonder if anyone around here hits 80. I see there are widespread 80s to our west, I was wondering if that would get here if the sun broke out.
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I got my wish-- it's been sunny for hours here. But the humidity is high so it feels like a sauna lol
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I wish we'd get that here, still socked in.
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Walt, I was hoping you'd have more sunshine in the forecast lol. I hate these inconsequential tropical lows that gum up the works and slow everything down.
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Might be more like a 2020-21 kind of winter. ENSO only has a 15-20 percent influence on our weather after all.
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Yup, there's a list of el ninos that were among our worst snowfall winters of all time, 72-73 and 97-98 being among them.
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Our locals like Lee Goldberg explained that enso only has a 15-20 percent influence on our weather. He compared how different the 20-21 and 21-22 la ninas were from each other.
