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  1. 7 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

    DCA's climo is just awful as you get to Mid-March.  The last time there was a 6"+ snowstorm in Mid-March or later was the '93 superstorm.  Prior to that was 1942.  

    IAD has at least scored a couple of other times, in 1964 and 2014. 

    All of BWI's 6"+ events appear to be 1964 or prior, with the exception of '93.

    But I'm sure we'll score in the warmest year on record.

     

    I think they got 7+ inches in the St Paddy's Day storm in 2014.  Need to go by storm totals not daily totals.  DC also got dumped on in the March 1999 storm.  March and December are actually very comparable in the snow department.

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  2. It's fascinating how people of a certain political persuasion are suddenly concerned about birds and whales when it comes to the windmills?  They've never cared about impacts on wildlife when it comes to any other industry.  But they suddenly want to save the whales and sing kumbaya when it's about those pesky windmills. 

    Offshore oil rigs kill plenty of whales.  Skyscrapers kill one billion birds per year.  But I've heard nary a peep about these concerns.  It only seems to matter if it's those darn windmills doing it.  Which makes me think it's a bad faith argument made by those who have an agenda.

    But yes, we should strive to reduce impacts to wildlife as much as we can, whether it be windmills or oil rigs.

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  3. 6 hours ago, dseagull said:

    You are describing an argument as "dumb."  This is not an argument that I made.

    Any argument involving a characterization of Earth's climate a bazillion years ago is dumb.  Usually this argument is cleverly masked as "well, the climate has always changed".  Yes, the Earth was a furnace a billion years ago.  Who cares?  Humans didn't exist back then.  Stick with the climate record from 5000 years ago to today.  

     

    6 hours ago, dseagull said:

    You bring nuclear detonations into the conversation.  I did not even begin to go in that direction.

    It is a notional example which illustrates how anthropogenic forces can easily overwhelm natural forces in a very short period of time.  Unless you don't believe in the nuclear winter theory.  Which is fine.  Hopefully it will always just be a theory.

     

    6 hours ago, dseagull said:

    However, I stand by my statement and scientific fact that natural forces will always be greater than anthropogenic.  This has been proven through core samples. 

    Anthropogenic forcing has only been a factor since the Industrial Revolution.  Of course core samples from thousands of years ago will show natural forces exceeding anthropogenic forces - because there was no anthropogenic forcing back then.  Do you think the cavemen starting some fires is anthropogenic forcing?

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  4. 5 hours ago, dseagull said:

    Natural forces will always far exceed the anthropogenic.

    I'm not sure about that.  Seems like that statement is an article of personal faith, not anything based on evidence.  If the world were to unleash all the nuclear weapons in existence, I'm sure the climate would change pretty quick.  Man can affect climate.  Urban heat islands are anthropogenic.  The Dust Bowl was anthropogenic.

    Hundreds of years of continuously releasing CO2 that is deeply sequestered underground is a radical experiment that hasn't happened before.

     

    3 hours ago, dseagull said:

    We have had swings of nearly 10 degrees centigrade over relatively short geological time spans.  

    Modern civilization began around 5000 years ago.  Our modern industrial society began about 170 years ago.  All of these things occurred within the bounds of a relatively stable and hospitable climate and a very short geological timespan.  Humans have been around for millions of years, and yet modern civilization only began 5000 years ago.  Some people think a inhospitable climate is the one of the reasons it took so long.  Simply claiming that there were rainforests in the North Pole back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth is, frankly, a dumb argument that doesn't prove or disprove anything.

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  5. 2 hours ago, dseagull said:

    Mankind operates under an assumption that "we" are at the center of the universe.  That's well documented.

    Where is this documented?  Man being the center of the universe and the most prized, special creation tends to be a prevailing view amongst most organized religions.  But I'm not aware of scientists viewing the world that way.  If anything, they're the ones who push back against that philosophy.

  6. 2 hours ago, dseagull said:

    Very curious as to what folks on here would say, as the meteorological field seems very divided on where we lay in the current evolution of climate on the planet.  

    Meteorology and climatology are two different fields.  Climatology should actually be easier to predict compared to weather.  Meteorologists assume climate models are like the 16-day GFS.

    And are we seriously debating the veracity of climate change based on a random thermometer in Chester County, PA?  LOL

  7. 46 minutes ago, Cobalt said:

    This is a common myth, during the 1970s the amount papers discussing global warming far exceeded those that mentioned the potential of the Earth cooling.

    Yes, can confirm.  There was a famous Newsweek article in 1975 about an impending ice age, which is frequently cited by "skeptics".  But if you actually read that article - something that very few of these people have actually done - a non-trivial portion of the article talks about how there's a growing view amongst scientists that the world is actually going to warm due to CO2.  But the media sensationalized the ice age stuff back then.

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  8. it's hilarious when people say there were tropical rainforests in the north pole a billion years ago, or there was an ice age 25000 years ago.  modern civilization began about 5000 years ago.  the climate has been relatively stable during that whole time (other than some minor cold/warm periods like LIA or MWP).  that should be your basis of comparison.  talking about how the earth was a sauna back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth doesn't prove or disprove anything, nor is it even relevant. 

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