That’s what I get from looking at this picture
Temperature anomalies (degrees Celsius) for January to June 2010. Red dots indicate warmer-than-average conditions, and blue dots indicate areas that were colder than average. Credit: NCDC/NESDIS/NOAA. (via)
Also too: Northeast Passage, bitches.
beltane
It’s not even funny anymore. Reading about the heat wave in Moscow, with fires breaking out everywhere and people drowning in the river in a desperate attempt to cool off has made me feel we are doomed as a species. If the average American ventured out from his climate controlled little bubble of existence, there might be calls for change. Right now, though, too many people go from an air conditioned house to an air conditioned car, to air conditioned offices and malls; the only blast of hot air they feel is when they roll down their windows at the drive through.
licensed to kill time
♪♫ Happiness is a warm globe ♪♫
Chyron HR
Is that big patch of blue dots Algore’s new house, or is it Algore himself (to scale)?
HAR I CAN HAS HERITAGE MONEYS NOW?
winguts to iraq
i live in a blue dot!
Also, as mentioned before, as blue dots cover the South, Global Warming is a lie.
Abe Lincoln was wrong… should have let the South go when we had the chance.
peach flavored shampoo
If this map is accurate, Ice Road Truckers is about to be cancelled.
fucen tarmal
kinda ironic that it would be warmer than normal in the united states of canada, and cooler in jesusland, as the “debate” goes forward….
Linda Featheringill
Politically, we really should continue to raise hell.
On a personal basis, perhaps we should consider how to live under more hostile conditions. Just in case we cannot achieve a change quickly enough. Or if it is already too late to help.
Ash Can
I get the funny feeling NOAA wouldn’t be publicizing information like this if we were still under the Cheney/Bush reign of terror.
Poopyman
It would be interesting to see the data from the highest latitudes, although I can guess the results.
A few months’ anomalies don’t mean much by themselves, although it looks to be consistent with previous years’ data. I don’t think that seeing that recent data is consistent with models makes me feel very good about the whole issue, though.
chopper
man, canada is so not going to be ready for this.
Downpuppy
The Northeast Passage pic is from one of my favorite sites, NSIDC
Linda Featheringill
@peach flavored shampoo: ice road truckers? oh no! say it isn’t so!
Poopyman
@peach flavored shampoo:
Yeah, and the shit-tons of methane released by the melting permafrost pretty much guarantees they won’t renew it later, also, too.
jl
Slightly cooler and wetter than average in most of California.
Global warming cannot exist.
QED.
There is always an argument against doing stuff we should do anyway about fossil fuel use, regardless of global warming.
slag
@licensed to kill time:
♪♫ <–Nifty!
This is great, DougJ, but what, exactly are we supposed to do with this information? Cap & Trade is dead. Carbon fees are even less likely to go anywhere. What's Plan C, exactly? Hold our breath until some of those dots turn blue?
beltane
@winguts to iraq: Some say that an independent South would have created more wars down the line, but I figure that whatever threat they presented could have been handled the same way we took care of any other banana republic. They would be less of a threat standing outside of the tent pissing in, than standing inside the tent pissing in. If all we get is piss, better have them kept outside the tent.
DougJ
@slag:
I don’t view this as an activist blog. More snarktivist.
Redshirt
Follow my wingnut logic:
Science rejects God and Jesus, and there was that hoax; thus, all science data can be discounted as either outright lies, or as the work of godless monsters. Ergo, who cares what the data says?
Also, if the Democrats support it, that’s reason enough to oppose it, amiright?
Devilham
Al Gore is also a sex monster, let us not forget that
SiubhanDuinne
Yeah, but you know somewhere in the world it’s going to snow sometime next winter, and then there will be blue dots on the map and global warming will be a hoax again. But don’t worry, Al Gore will still be fat.
slag
@DougJ: Why not both? Otherwise, how does it differ from high school?
Punchy
NCDC — National Communistic Democratic Commies
NOAA — Negative Ocean Assholes, Also
NESDIS — Noobz Estimating Shit; Demoncrats Is Stoopit
/teatard
martha
Here in Cheeseland, everyone’s whining to high heaven about the heat (as usual). It’s summer folks and we suffer enough in the winter… That mini-rant aside, the fact that Lake Superior is something like 20 degrees warmer than normal scares the heck out of me. And, I kid you not, the corn is 8 feet high on August 2 and the soybeans are way taller than normal. It’s almost freakish.
R-Jud
@Devilham:
Sex poodle, I believe.
licensed to kill time
@DougJ:
Balloon Juice has Snarktivision(tm) !
DougJ
@slag:
Less secrecy about alcohol use.
Crashman
But… but… manbearpig!
Zifnab
@beltane:
If it makes you feel any better, we’re in a deep recession and belt tightening is all the rage. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before offices try to save a few bucks by ditching air conditioning in favor of letting the employees suffer.
Bill E Pilgrim
@DougJ:
That explains those Snark Blue ads that keep popping up.
It’s true you have to jump on it when you get the chance, everyone knows there are no second snarks in American lives.
jwb
@DougJ: I think of this blog as mostly political entertainment.
Mark S.
So? More CO2 is good for plants. Also, sunspots, too. And did they factor in that cities are hotter? All those metropolises in Northern Canada are of course going to appear warmer.
slag
@DougJ:
Clearly you didn’t go to my high school.
Zifnab
@slag:
Cap & Trade was very popular with the Wall Street crowd. Given their continuously impressive clout in Washington, I’m confident the Senate will… warm up to the idea? (zing!)… once a few more Republicans can be convinced it is what Reagen would do.
The fight isn’t between environmentalists and corporations, at this point. It’s between different groups of energy traders.
Spaghetti Lee
A warmer than normal Sahara? Ugh.
BombIranForChrist
I don’t want anyone to get me wrong. I 100% believe that climate change is happening and it is going to fuck us up.
But I would also like to see a baseline graph. What did this graph look like, say, in the 1880’s? 1950’s? Etc. I assume it would just be a lot of really tiny dots, but I am curious if there were any isolated anomalies anywhere.
Merely curiosity, not demagoguery. Demgogery. Demigogr’y. Something ..
General Stuck
is his data also too massaged?
licensed to kill time
@BombIranForChrist:
That is why we had to invade Iraq, because of Gog and Demigog. /Bush
Chyron HR
@Devilham:
You’re telling’ me!
(Bow-chicka-wow-wow)
Comrade Mary
Have you seen the terrifying video of Russian volunteer firefighters trapped on a burning road? (Don’t worry: they live.) When I first saw this posted elsewhere, many people’s first responses were that these were reckless jerks lucky to escape a horrible death. But they weren’t reckless: they got onto a road that they thought would be clear, couldn’t back up, and could only keep driving into hell.
If you don’t understand Russian, click the CC button at the bottom to get some English captions. A note from the YouTube poster:
Mark S.
Godzilla vs. Sex Monster.
Hey, I’d watch it.
S. cerevisiae
@martha: I live near Lake Superior and this summer the lake breeze barely cools at all. According to Dr. Jay Austin at UMD the lake is warming four times faster than the air around it (since 1979). See: Austin, J.A., and S. Colman, Lake Superior summer water temperatures are increasing more rapidly than regional air temperatures: a positive ice-albedo feedback. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L06604, doi:10.1029/2006GL029021. 2007.
The Populist
What I find fascinating about CLIMATE CHANGE denials? George fucking Schultz seems worried as hell about all this. He ain’t no tree hugger.
Cons can suck it. Wake up idiots.
Bill E Pilgrim
@BombIranForChrist: In the 1950s it featured Reddy Kilowatt and the dots showed where all the new nuclear power plants would be, and in the 1880s it showed where the gold mines were.
More seriously, my understanding is that this is the hottest year on record now. Not in just a few years, but ever. Since they started measuring.
@licensed to kill time: Demigog is such a half-pint, as demons go.
mai naem
You are sooo wrong about seeing Al Gore in that graph. As we all know, Al Gore is into earth tones so that he looks more manly. Also too, Al Gore is a commie/pinko DFH NYC mosque loving islamofascist who would never be seen dead wearing red, white and blue. I demand to see refudiation on this blog.
David in NY
@BombIranForChrist:
There is a baseline — the average temperature for all years up to last year. This average includes the heat wave of the last 15-20 years, so it is relatively favorable. What the chart shows is that this year, substantial portions of the world have been very much hotter than even that elevated average.
I don’t know what you mean in asking for a “baseline graph” or in asking for what this graph would look like in other decades. There’s a baseline inherent in this graph. And this graph applies only to one year, measuring it against this baseline.
licensed to kill time
@Bill E Pilgrim:
I’d go for a half-pint of Demigrog right now, it’s HOT!
David in NY
@jl:
And hey, if this keeps up it looks like Siberia will be great. Let’s all move!
martha
@S. cerevisiae: I’m down in Madison and we’re definitely having a warmer summer than the past few years. However, last summer sucked so it’s not a good one to judge against. I’m one of those who does really want a real summer, so…
Thanks for the info–I knew I’d read some info about Superior but you gave me more.
Paul L.
It is a map of where the weather stations are?
Grim Days for Global Warmenists
In America, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been trumpeting that, according to its much-quoted worldwide temperature data, the first six months of this year were the hottest ever recorded. But expert analysis on Watts Up With That, the US science blog, shows that NOAA’s claimed warming appears to be strangely concentrated in those parts of the world where it has fewest weather stations. In Greenland, for instance, two of the hottest spots, showing a startling five-degree rise in temperatures, have no weather stations at all.
Bill E Pilgrim
@licensed to kill time:
Okay now you owe me one for handing you the straight line ;)
I almost wrote it as “grog” myself but decided to go with that and see who got it.
jrg
Next on Fox news: Global rise in temperatures coincides with increased gay marriages. Coincidence?
Our panel of semi-literate plumbers, talk-show hosts, and evangelical ministers will discuss the science behind the science.
Bill E Pilgrim
@David in NY: That’s just what I was thinking.
Montreal, the new Florida. Should be interesting.
martha
@S. cerevisiae: So, if we try to think positively, the lot that I’ve coveted on Madeline Island for the past 6 years may not be such a stupid idea? :) My husband keeps trying to tell me that I’ll hate it because I’ll freeze to death much of the year but it’s just so gorgeous…
Bill E Pilgrim
@The Populist: What’s really a shame is that by the time it’s so hot that no one even remotely sane can deny it, George Will will be so addled that he won’t know the difference.
Oh wait.
Already there, on both counts.
S. cerevisiae
Watts? Science? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!
The Populist
Oh and somebody please explain to me the con thinking on this issue.
(Not me, just using the following to lay out my confusion) I am an average median American living in a small rural town. I am high school educated, have a few kids, go to church and pay all my bills.
I listen to conservatives and vote that way. Now I am not idiotic (or at least I don’t think I am) but all the evidence laid out by people I follow tells me that global warming is a hoax. My one independent friend laughs at me for calling it Global Warming when in reality I am told it’s really climate change caused by greenhouse gasses. While the weather is hotter, Rush and Hannity and Beck all tell me it’s all bullshit. I want to believe what the tree huggers tell me but I have a hard time giving an inch on my belief liberals are evil. My kids deserve to have a safe environment but Rush says if we keep throwing money at this people will be out of work and the country will be broke. END
Now do I have the thinking right? Why is it so hard to accept the existential proof that something is wrong with weather patterns and that any inaction on this is more foot dragging by conservatives who will ultimately create a less livable planet for future generations? Why is it so wrong to invest in new technologies that make the environment better for all creatures of the world?
God, I am so angry that people will vote for cons solely because of misplace beliefs in strawman arguments (guns, god, gays).
S. cerevisiae
@martha: Yeah, but don’t trust the ice road.
licensed to kill time
@Bill E Pilgrim:
Oh man, I owe you a lot more than one. You slay me constantly on this snarktivist site with your wordplay. Merely a fleshwound!
handy
It’s grim days for all of us, sparky.
martha
@S. cerevisiae: Based on DougJ’s chart and the study you cited, I won’t!
Bill Arnold
You make creating a google-original word seem effortless.
S. cerevisiae
Who says there are no weather stations in Greenland? Check these temps in the mid 50s (F) from last February.
Poopyman
@Paul L.:
Oh please. Haven’t those “experts” ever heard of satellite data?
Great expert analysis there.
Bill E Pilgrim
@licensed to kill time: Why thanks. Funny, I was just laughing at your “Happiness is a warm globe” line, which I had missed the first time through.
Mpls
Less than 2 weeks ago, Chicago had a 7.5 inch rain event requiring rescue squads to deploy in some suburbs. Estimated damage was I believe $17-24 million.
24 hours earlier a different storm system dumped about the same amount of rain on Milwaukee, but in even fewer hours, shutting their airport for almost a day, causing a huge sink hole, and costing millions in damage and disruption.
Sioux Falls SD has had 17 inches of rain since June, something like 3x normal.
The climate modeling has predicted lots of ‘freak’ weather events increasing. Guess there here.
Or it’s God saying to some modern-day Noah “Gather ye planks, ’cause there’s gonna be another doozy”.
Mart
Odd, I see Al Gore getting a BJ from a prostitute.
Mpls
@Bill Arnold
D’oh. Snarktivist was used on July 12, 2005, on a comment about Karl Rove. Dang.
russell
On the bright side, this removes my last reason for not moving to Canada.
DougJ
@Mpls:
I thought I might have heard it before.
Comrade Mary
What’s a cubit?
Chyron HR
@Paul L.:
This is America. Speak English or get out.
S. cerevisiae
@Mpls: Warmer air can hold more water vapor, and more energy in the system overall can alow all this water to be released quickly. See: Groisman et. al. 2004 J. of Hydrometeorology V 5, 64-85
Just Some Fuckhead
Looks like the jet stream has dropped southerly a bit.
Mpls
@S. cerevisiae: Huh?
Whocouldanode that science™ has a way of calculating air’s ability to hold water. I mean, if air had water in it, it wouldn’t look like air any more, would it?
uncle rameau
I lived near St Louis for the 60’s, less than a mile from the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi, and now live in deepest, darkest Upper Canada, and I can’t tell much difference between this summer and the swampy summers of my Florissant youth. Great lakes are very warm, too.
S. cerevisiae
Mpls: Like Lake Superior fog – once driving near Nipigon I literally had to open my car door to see the line on the side of the road and creep along until I could pull off the road and wait for it to lift.
jeffreyw
Local weather guys are all going on about how unusual confluence of factors have led to dew points so high that they are saying most of us have never seen the heat index so high as it is today and probably will never see it so high again in our lifetimes. I have 106 on a mercury thermometer in the shade, and that calculates, with dew point temp at 76, to a heat index of ~130. Fuckin hot out.
Mpls
@S. cerevisiae:
Not that different from driving to Grand Marais during lake effect snow in winter!
Mpls
@jeffreyw:
But they’re probably dead wrong about how we’ll not see this again…
wrb
Pfft.
Pablum. Milky-bland with uncooked lumps.
Coddling these apple-juicers
This the new super buffalo hot wing dish:
The microscopic plants that support all life in the oceans are dying off at a dramatic rate, according to a study that has documented for the first time a disturbing and unprecedented change at the base of the marine food web.
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Scientists have discovered that the phytoplankton of the oceans has declined by about 40 per cent over the past century, with much of the loss occurring since the 1950s. They believe the change is linked with rising sea temperatures and global warming.
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If the findings are confirmed by further studies it will represent the single biggest change to the global biosphere in modern times, even bigger than the destruction of the tropical rainforests and coral reefs
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Phytoplankton are microscopic marine organisms capable of photosynthesis, just like terrestrial plants. They float in the upper layers of the oceans, provide much of the oxygen we breathe and account for about half of the total organic matter on Earth. A 40 per cent decline would represent a massive change to the global biosphere.
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Phytoplankton are microscopic marine organisms capable of photosynthesis, just like terrestrial plants. They float in the upper layers of the oceans, provide much of the oxygen we breathe and account for about half of the total organic matter on Earth. A 40 per cent decline would represent a massive change to the global biosphere.
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“If this holds up, something really serious is underway and has been underway for decades. I’ve been trying to think of a biological change that’s bigger than this and I can’t think of one,” said marine biologist Boris Worm of Canada’s Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He said: “If real, it means that the marine ecosystem today looks very different to what it was a few decades ago and a lot of this change is happening way out in the open, blue ocean where we cannot see it. I’m concerned about this finding.”
“If this holds up, something really serious is underway and has been underway for decades. I’ve been trying to think of a biological change that’s bigger than this and I can’t think of one,” said marine biologist Boris Worm of Canada’s Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He said: “If real, it means that the marine ecosystem today looks very different to what it was a few decades ago and a lot of this change is happening way out in the open, blue ocean where we cannot see it. I’m concerned about this finding.”
continues
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/the-dead-sea-global-warming-blamed-for-40-per-cent-decline-in-the-oceans-phytoplankton-2038074.html
wrb
Pfft.
Pablum. Milky-bland with uncooked lumps.
Coddling folks as if they were apple-juicers
This is the new super buffalo hot wing dish with the wasabi smeared on thick:
The microscopic plants that support all life in the oceans are dying off at a dramatic rate, according to a study that has documented for the first time a disturbing and unprecedented change at the base of the marine food web.
__
Scientists have discovered that the phytoplankton of the oceans has declined by about 40 per cent over the past century, with much of the loss occurring since the 1950s. They believe the change is linked with rising sea temperatures and global warming.
__
If the findings are confirmed by further studies it will represent the single biggest change to the global biosphere in modern times, even bigger than the destruction of the tropical rainforests and coral reefs
__
Phytoplankton are microscopic marine organisms capable of photosynthesis, just like terrestrial plants. They float in the upper layers of the oceans, provide much of the oxygen we breathe and account for about half of the total organic matter on Earth. A 40 per cent decline would represent a massive change to the global biosphere.
__
Phytoplankton are microscopic marine organisms capable of photosynthesis, just like terrestrial plants. They float in the upper layers of the oceans, provide much of the oxygen we breathe and account for about half of the total organic matter on Earth. A 40 per cent decline would represent a massive change to the global biosphere.
__
“If this holds up, something really serious is underway and has been underway for decades. I’ve been trying to think of a biological change that’s bigger than this and I can’t think of one,” said marine biologist Boris Worm of Canada’s Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He said: “If real, it means that the marine ecosystem today looks very different to what it was a few decades ago and a lot of this change is happening way out in the open, blue ocean where we cannot see it. I’m concerned about this finding.”
continues
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/the-dead-sea-global-warming-blamed-for-40-per-cent-decline-in-the-oceans-phytoplankton-2038074.html
S. cerevisiae
@wrb: Ahh yes, our Soylent Oceanographic Report. Now I need a drink.
moops
Just find some way to let Goldman Sachs wet their beak in a Cap and Trade system and it will be approved in no time.
and by “wet their beak” I mean…….
djork
If we are to believe that map, then the Dems are fuct this November. Hell, they’ve lost Africa!!!
S. cerevisiae
For clarity I meant “our” as in for our time, not meaning I had anything to do with the actual study.
Spaghetti Lee
@djork:
Ah come on, now. Have faith in the Falkland/Mongolian/Swedish coalition!
Arclite
Hmm, so the organization that brings us news of global warming and that the ice is all going to melt and the sea level will rise and many places will flood is called NOAA. Clearly, this is a biblical sign. Time to build an ark…
Cermet
As a kid/teen I use to ice skate here in Maryland but now – the last ten years, we haven’t had even a single freeze that would provide enogh ice to cover a pond even for a few weeks, much less ice skate on. This is not a minor change but our climate has changed – we are FUC&!
S. cerevisiae
More good news – read it and weep.
grumpy realist
Honestly, there’s probably little we can do. Or rather, the idiots will refuse to admit that global temperature change is occurring until after a sizable percentage of human population has migrated/died.
I thought “conservation” and “conservative” used to contain at least some level of prudence. As in “we’ve only got one planet we’re living on right now, we might want to make sure we’re staying in equilibrium with it.” Now “conservative” means “my right to drive the bus in a straight line even thought we damn well see my track goes right off the cliff.”
Pray to God as much as you want; I doubt He’ll be able to trump Mama Nature.
Will the Earth survive? Of course. Will life survive? Undoubtedly. Come back in 500 years and I guarantee that we’ll have at least a few plants and cockroaches around. Humans? Again, very likely to to have at least a few around scratching out a subsistence agriculture existence somewhere. Large number of humans with a high level of civilization and technology? Well, that’s a different question…
cckids
Most deniers I know acknowledge that the planet is warming, but refuse to believe that human activity has anything to do with it. And until they get some proof, why should we attempt to do anything about it?
Oh, I dunno, a**, maybe because by then it will be too late?