Global Warming continued.......

[dawg80]

I'm convinced!

That's it, no more recreational vehicles. No more silly, useless 4-wheelers, playing in the mud, noisy useless motorcycles, no more noise pollution either, no more big pick-up trucks, with some snotty nose redneck high school kid who obviously can't afford a muffler, no more RVs, you don't need a gas-guzzling mobile house to see Yellowstone, no more joy rides on jets for Pelosi and other useless politicians, etc...

The Earth needs you. Park your guzzlers, get out your bikes. Ya might lose a little weight getting exercise...

[dawg80]

Dang! Jimena has weakened into a Cat 2.

First, we learn that the $800 billion stimulus didn't save a single job, and in fact, unemployment got worse. So, you can't rely on the federal government....who'd a thunk that!

But now! Sheeesh! We can't even depend on global warming. What is the world coming to?

[saltydawg]

World's oceans the warmest in 130 years.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...n5255754.shtml

"The average water temperature worldwide was 62.6 degrees, according to the National Climatic Data Center, the branch of the U.S. government that keeps world weather records. June was only slightly cooler, while August could set another record, scientists say. The previous record was set in July 1998 during a powerful El Nino.

Meteorologists said there's a combination of forces at work: A natural El Nino weather pattern just getting started on top of worsening man-made global warming, and a dash of random weather variations. The resulting ocean heat is already harming threatened coral reefs. It could also hasten the melting of Arctic sea ice and help hurricanes strengthen.

The Gulf of Mexico, where warm water fuels hurricanes, has temperatures dancing around 90. Most of the water in the Northern Hemisphere has been considerably warmer than normal. The Mediterranean is about three degrees warmer than normal. Higher temperatures rule in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

The phenomena is most noticeable near the Arctic, where water temperatures are as much as 10 degrees above average. The tongues of warm water could help melt sea ice from below and even cause thawing of ice sheets on Greenland, said Waleed Abdalati, director of the Earth Science and Observation Center at the University of Colorado.

Breaking heat records in water is more ominous as a sign of global warming than breaking temperature marks on land, because water takes longer to heat up and does not cool off as easily as land. "

[SicemDawgz]

World's oceans the warmest in 130 years.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...n5255754.shtml

"The average water temperature worldwide was 62.6 degrees, according to the National Climatic Data Center, the branch of the U.S. government that keeps world weather records. June was only slightly cooler, while August could set another record, scientists say. The previous record was set in July 1998 during a powerful El Nino.

Meteorologists said there's a combination of forces at work: A natural El Nino weather pattern just getting started on top of worsening man-made global warming, and a dash of random weather variations. The resulting ocean heat is already harming threatened coral reefs. It could also hasten the melting of Arctic sea ice and help hurricanes strengthen.

The Gulf of Mexico, where warm water fuels hurricanes, has temperatures dancing around 90. Most of the water in the Northern Hemisphere has been considerably warmer than normal. The Mediterranean is about three degrees warmer than normal. Higher temperatures rule in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

The phenomena is most noticeable near the Arctic, where water temperatures are as much as 10 degrees above average. The tongues of warm water could help melt sea ice from below and even cause thawing of ice sheets on Greenland, said Waleed Abdalati, director of the Earth Science and Observation Center at the University of Colorado.

Breaking heat records in water is more ominous as a sign of global warming than breaking temperature marks on land, because water takes longer to heat up and does not cool off as easily as land. "

I remember 97-99. Oh it was hot!!! I may could have been sold on global warming then.:icon_wink:

[saltydawg]

Increases in ocean levels and temperature higher than previously estimated.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0618143301.htm

"The oceans store more than 90 percent of the heat in the Earth’s climate system and act as a temporary buffer against the effects of climate change. The ocean warming and thermal expansion rates are 50 percent larger than previous estimates for the upper 700 meters of oceans, and greater than that for the upper 300 meters.
“This is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak,” Gleckler said. “Our ability to quantify structural uncertainties in observationally based estimates is critically important. This study represents important progress.”

[GonzoDawg]

You're storm and your theory are weak.

[saltydawg]

Ocean Temperatures Are Highest on Record


By CORNELIA DEAN
Published: August 14, 2009
Average temperatures of waters at the oceans’ surface in July were the highest ever recorded, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. The agency said the average sea surface temperature was 1.06 degrees higher than the 20th-century average of 61.5 degrees. Though July was unusually cool in some areas, like the eastern United States, analysts at the NOAA Climate Data Center said the combined global land and ocean surface temperature was 1.03 degrees higher than the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees, the fifth warmest since worldwide record keeping began in 1880. The agency also said that, on average, Arctic sea ice covered 3.4 million square miles in July, 12.7 percent below the 1979-2000 average and the third lowest on record, after 2007 and 2006.