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Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
What if it ends up being a quadruple dip this time? Would that be unprecendented? Interesting why we don't see triple dip el ninos-- or maybe we have further back in the record? -
I hate that the media keeps calling it "Superstorm." There is no such thing as a "Superstorm" scientifically speaking, it isn't defined in any text. Some of the insurance companies tried to screw people over because this wasn't officially a hurricane at landfall. Honestly who cares-- it was a hurricane when it caused the most damage and it only became not a hurricane a couple of hours before landfall. I'm so glad the NHC decided to change the way it handles these. Bloomberg was ridiculous in that he never understood that. I want a separate definition for temperate hurricanes vs tropical hurricanes. Because people respond to the word "hurricane" with more urgency just like they do to the word "blizzard" (which is why we need to separate a ground blizzard from a synoptic blizzard-- which should be any storm that is predicted to drop a foot or more of snow.)
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Right in 2011 we had the big heatwave in July, then the earthquake in August and then then historic rains in August with Irene and then a big weekend stalled front and then Snowtober just before Halloween. In 2012 we had Sandy just before Halloween and then the big snowstorm on November 7th which dropped 8 inches here and 14 inches in Freehold. Lots of downed tree branches and limbs because the snow was so wet. I remember in both early season snows, LGA had white rain while it was snowing at JFK. Wind from the north and northeast off the Sound made it milder on the north shore.
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How is it that Forky's posts always get the most different kinds of emojis? He maxed out with all 6 different kinds here lol.
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Chris do these above/below normal numbers mean anything when it depends on which site you're looking at? We can just say that the month was near normal overall.
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Might be more like warm first 10 days of November, Don?
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There's some kind of ground growth that's fiery red already. I wonder what it is. It looks like some kind of ground growing vine that's also made it up onto fences.
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wow nice for the marathon and for peak foliage viewing!
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Manhattan is not Queens (which is also part of the city.)
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I think Wednesday was actually warmer than Tuesday. I don't know if there were any 80 degree reports though.
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You can have big dogs AND torch.
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Oh you saw it too! That's what I was watching. The white blanket cover on the Alps thing is true (I posted a link about that.)
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We could also have a mild and snowy winter. That seems to happen more often now.
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The real classic winters during WW1 and WW2 were cold and snowy both here and in Europe. Thinking of winters like 1916-17 and 1917-18 and then 1941-42 and 1942-43.
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70s at least anyway. 80 in November hasn't happened since 1993 which was the latest 80 on record, on the 15th, the day after the marathon....and then the winter was amazing. Back then mild Novembers led to epic snowy winters.
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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.
