655 record lows vs 66 record highs

[westwall]

Chris hasn't been posting these of late (go figure) so I thought I would post one for amusement.






HAMweather Climate Center - Record Events for The Past Week - Continental US View

 

[Oddball]

Do we really need my Algore meme anymore?

 

[boedicca]

It's cold. I wish I had fur lined gloves!

 

[Zoom-boing]

Yesterday it was like 55, today it was like 25, tomorrow it's going to like rain and Thursday it's going up to like 60. Climate change, fer shur!

omg, did I mention that it snowed like ALOT the other week? Swear to God!

 

[saveliberty]

Chris hasn't been posting these of late (go figure) so I thought I would post one for amusement.






HAMweather Climate Center - Record Events for The Past Week - Continental US View

Yes, I enjoyed setting him up for this months ago. I just lost interest in his babble. Thanks for following up. Now, someone will come along a tell us the Arctic ice is melting at an alarming rate! Please explain how the ice melts faster at 10 degrees versus 12 degrees.

 

[elvis]

Do we really need my Algore meme anymore?

absolutely.

 

[skookerasbil]

More Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops for the k00ks.

 

[skookerasbil]

Chris hasn't been posting these of late (go figure) so I thought I would post one for amusement.






HAMweather Climate Center - Record Events for The Past Week - Continental US View

Yes, I enjoyed setting him up for this months ago. I just lost interest in his babble. Thanks for following up. Now, someone will come along a tell us the Arctic ice is melting at an alarming rate! Please explain how the ice melts faster at 10 degrees versus 12 degrees.

LMAO.....thats pretty hysterical bro when you get right down to it. 12 degrees vs 10 degrees!!! I love when part timers in the ENVIRONMENTAL forums come in here and make the religion look even more like mental cases.

 

[Oddball]

Do we really need my Algore meme anymore?

absolutely.

By request, from the station that you made famous......

 

[Old Rocks]

Chris hasn't been posting these of late (go figure) so I thought I would post one for amusement.






HAMweather Climate Center - Record Events for The Past Week - Continental US View

HAMweather Climate Center - Record Events for The Past Week - Continental US View

Record Events for Tue Feb 8, 2011 through Mon Feb 14, 2011
Total Records: 2345
Rainfall: 221
Snowfall: 520
High Temperatures: 207
Low Temperatures: 666
Lowest Max Temperatures: 591
Highest Min Temperatures: 140

Yep, three times as many lows as highs. 666 low, 207 low.

Very interesting cluster of highs. Most in the northern tier, and same for record high minimum temperatures. And look at the mix of highs and lows in California. A very interesting map, indeed.

 

[uscitizen]

Umm the key word is global.

 

[westwall]

Umm the key word is global.

Yes indeed the northern hemisphere is pretty cold. It's winter after all. I am just mocking Chris' inanity.

 

[percysunshine]

Punxsutawney Phil said, just the other week, that we would have an early spring.

I suspect he is being paid by Al Gore.

 

[Old Rocks]

Actually, Walleyes, you do have a point. It is an unusually cold and snowy winter. Enough to affect crops, both in the US and Mexico.

One definite prediction of global warming is weather swings that are wider and wilder, with an overall warming.

 

[westwall]

Actually, Walleyes, you do have a point. It is an unusually cold and snowy winter. Enough to affect crops, both in the US and Mexico.

One definite prediction of global warming is weather swings that are wider and wilder, with an overall warming.

When you predict that anything is evidence of what you advocate all things are possible now aren't they Any theory that is unfalsifiable is automatically false olfraud, if you can't ever prove it wrong then it is by definition false.

You lose yet again.

 

[Old Rocks]

Really? Looks to me like we all are loosing at the grocery store.

 

[saveliberty]

Really? Looks to me like we all are loosing at the grocery store.

You can thank the comodities speculators for that.

 

[westwall]

Really? Looks to me like we all are loosing at the grocery store.

You can thank the comodities speculators for that.

Indeed.

 

[Old Rocks]

Oh my, the drought and fires in Russia have nothing to do with that. The floods in Queensland have nothing to do with that. Nor the nearly complete wipeout of Pakistan's agriculture. Then there were the localities in China that flood in the summer of 2010. Now we have the freezes in southern US and Mexico.

Ag Weekly Online: Twin Falls, Idaho

Commodity prices aren't the only things being impacted by the Russian drought, which is said to the worst in many years. A change in U.S. ag policy is also being sought, with Lester Brown, president and founder of the Earth Policy Institute, leading the call for the creation of at least a U.S. grain reserve and the repeal of the ethanol credits in the U.S.

Brown noted that the bottom line indicator for global food security is world carryover stocks or the amount of grain in the bin when the new harvest begins.

"The rule of thumb is that world grain reserves should not drop below 70 days of consumption," he said.

However, the USDA's Aug. 12 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report the ending stocks of grain is enough to meet 72 days of consumption, which Brown said is moving uncomfortably close to the 64 days of carryover stocks in 2007 that caused the large spike in world food prices.

 

[Old Rocks]

http://www.iatp.org/iatp/publications.cfm?refID=107886

Climate change destabilizing agriculture
In the past 20 years, the number of recorded natural disasters has doubled from roughly 200 to over 400 a year. The U.N. estimates that nine out of ten of these natural disasters are linked to climate change.2 The U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research released a report in October 2010 that shows the percentage of the earth’s land area facing serious drought more than doubled between 1970 and the early 2000s.3
The implications for agriculture are consistently sobering, not to say alarming, even allowing for the uncertainty that inevitably accompanies numbers generated from models and probabilities. An article from Environmental Research Letters by Wolfram Schlenker, a professor at Columbia, and David Lobell, from Stanford, suggests climate change will cause medium-term production drops in sub-Saharan Africa of, on average, 22 percent for maize (corn), 17 percent for sorghum, 17 percent for millet, 18 percent for groundnuts and 8 percent for cassava.4
These numbers in any context would demand urgent attention. But in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture in some countries is upwards of 40 percent of GDP, the implications are very serious indeed. Agriculture accounts for 80 percent of employment in some of these countries, leaving most of the population either directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture for their survival. By way of comparison, in the U.S., agriculture is 1.2 percent of GDP; in Brazil, it’s 6.1 percent.