Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change

[LibertyBell]

5 hours ago, WolfStock1 said:

 

O....K....

Sorry, but lots of really wacked out stuff here. 

I'll happily buy land near sea level from anyone who happens to own it and shares your viewpoint.   I kinda like the beach - good sunsets and waves and all that (to answer your "why" point).

I won't, however, be investing in any boreal farmland futures.

Well if you dont know science you'd consider it whacked out. 

Putin has openly stated he's preparing for Siberia to become the world's new bread basket and he's quite excited about it and if you'd look at a map of what parts of the world are warming the fastest you'd definitely agree. And you don't think Trump wants Greenland only for military reasons do you?

As far as sunsets are concerned I've lived in many parts of the world and there is nothing like the colors you see in a desert sunset bar none. As far as locations one might want to live are concerned my main interest is astronomy and for that you want to get away from the ocean, water vapor is nothing more than an air pollutant that traps other air pollutants close to the ground and creates annoying and unhealthy haze. I spent decades living by the ocean so I know. The best place to live for low air pollution and the clearest skies is up in the mountains why do you think that's where the world's greatest and largest observatories are located and where the lowest asthma rates are?

[LibertyBell]

5 hours ago, Stormchaserchuck1 said:

It's always hard to break record, but Summer 2027 has the potential to be warm, being post-El Nino (one that will break the post-1948 record by 15-20%). This has nothing do with global warming:

 

I've been saying this for a long time I'm quite excited for the next two summers, my analogs are 1966, 1983, 1999 and 2010 for quite obvious reasons.  If the el nino is as strong as the one in 1998 it may actually take two years for all that extra heat to be released so our extra hot summers goals might not be fully realized until 2028.

On top of this we are also cycling back to a drier climate like we had in the 1980s and 1990s, when we had some of our most extreme summers and longest heatwaves, something I saw coming from a few years ago. The El Nino will only be a minor speed bump in that trend no matter how historic it is.

[LibertyBell]

5 hours ago, donsutherland1 said:

In the early release of data, July 2026 has dethroned July 1936 as the hottest month on record for the United States.

With July warming about 0.51° per decade since 1980, the longstanding Dust Bowl era record was bound to fall. July 2012 narrowly fell short of the mark. July 2026 surpassed it by more than 0.10°.

I really dont rank summers by average temperatures, summers should be ranked by extreme temperatures, length of heat waves and number of heat related deaths.

With that said I offer up my own list and 1936 is definitely near the top but there are several other extreme summers right up there with it. I'll do mine in chronological order.

1896

1911

1914

1936

1944

1948

1953

1955

1966

1977

1980

1983

1988

1991

1993

1995

1999

2002

2010

2011

 

Special mention needs to be given to the 11 year cycle which often include the hottest summers of their decade (1911, 1944, 1955, 1966, 1977, 1988, 1999, 2010).