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Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

August 1981
> Hansen et al., 213 (4511): 957-966


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Science 28 August 1981:
Vol. 213 no. 4511 pp. 957-966
DOI: 10.1126/science.213.4511.957
•Articles


Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

J. Hansen,
D. Johnson,
A. Lacis,
S. Lebedeff,
P. Lee,
D. Rind,
G. Russell

+ Author Affiliations

Atmospheric physicists at the NASA Institute for Space Studies, Goddard Space Flight Center, New York 10025



Abstract

The global temperature rose by 0.2°C between the middle 1960's and 1980, yielding a warming of 0.4°C in the past century. This temperature increase is consistent with the calculated greenhouse effect due to measured increases of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Variations of volcanic aerosols and possibly solar luminosity appear to be primary causes of observed fluctuations about the mean trend of increasing temperature. It is shown that the anthropogenic carbon dioxide warming should emerge from the noise level of natural climate variability by the end of the century, and there is a high probability of warming in the 1980's. Potential effects on climate in the 21st century include the creation of drought-prone regions in North America and central Asia as part of a shifting of climatic zones, erosion of the West Antarctic ice sheet with a consequent worldwide rise in sea level, and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage.

 

[Old Rocks]

Not that you'll pay the slightest bit of attention but here you go. I believe this qualifies as an epic fail....


Extreme weather means more terrifying hurricanes and tornadoes and fires than we usually see. But what can we expect such conditions to do to our daily life?


While doing research 12 or 13 years ago, I met Jim Hansen, the scientist who in 1988 predicted the greenhouse effect before Congress. I went over to the window with him and looked out on Broadway in New York City and said, “If what you’re saying about the greenhouse effect is true, is anything going to look different down there in 20 years?” He looked for a while and was quiet and didn’t say anything for a couple seconds. Then he said, “Well, there will be more traffic.” I, of course, didn’t think he heard the question right. Then he explained, “The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change.” Then he said, “There will be more police cars.” Why? “Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.”

And so far, over the last 10 years, we’ve had 10 of the hottest years on record.


Not one of those claims has come true......



Stormy weather - Salon.com

You claim to have been a Geologist, but you are an epic failure at proving anything. Proving something means you find Hansen making the predictions and prove them false. It's means you quote Hansen and not some secondary "he said/she said" source, based on someone else's interpretation of what is said.

The general theme of what many scientists have said is there will be more exceptional weather and it will happen to the point where exceptional weather will become the new norm.

Oh you poor little troll you. You wanted proof, I gave it to you. You can also look up his 1988 Congressional testimony where he likewise made predictions that in the course of time have been up to 300% off.

Game, Set, Match.

Now, run along boy. I only converse with adults.

More yap-yap from someone that is rapidly descending to the role of a troll.

 

[westwall]

You claim to have been a Geologist, but you are an epic failure at proving anything. Proving something means you find Hansen making the predictions and prove them false. It's means you quote Hansen and not some secondary "he said/she said" source, based on someone else's interpretation of what is said.

The general theme of what many scientists have said is there will be more exceptional weather and it will happen to the point where exceptional weather will become the new norm.

Oh you poor little troll you. You wanted proof, I gave it to you. You can also look up his 1988 Congressional testimony where he likewise made predictions that in the course of time have been up to 300% off.

Game, Set, Match.

Now, run along boy. I only converse with adults.

More yap-yap from someone that is rapidly descending to the role of a troll.

What was that EVRAZ yapper? Were you who you claimed to be, you could NEVER work for a company like that. It would be so repugnant to you that it would make you physically ill.

So, clearly, you are not an environmentalist. You do more harm to the planet in a week than I have done in 20 years.

Continue yapping, we know what you are.

 

[Old Rocks]

drought in the USA

US Drought Monitor

Droughts Hit World’s Agricultural Regions: Without Water, U.S. Corn Crop Faces Setbacks | Circle of Blue WaterNews

Droughts Spur Food Shortages In China and North Korea
While the droughts in Europe and the United States are impacting commodity markets, droughts in Asia are creating localized food shortages, with the most severe effects being felt in North Korea. Reports suggest that areas of the country, as well as parts of South Korea, are experiencing the worst drought conditions in more than a century. North Korea has struggled to feed its population during past droughts — approximately 1 million people died in a famine there in the 1990s, food supplies ran low again in 2011, and now shortages are expected again this year.

“Any drop in production is likely to add to the shortfall of food supplies and worsen food insecurity in the country,” states a report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

According to the FAO report, 196,882 hectares (486,506 acres) of cropland, or 17 percent of the total national area cultivated for food crops, have been affected by the drought. The agency, which has called for international food assistance for 3 million people in the country, estimated that North Korea would need to import 739,000 metric tons of cereals for 2011-2012. It has since stated that “more imports, commercial or food aid, would be required during the next four lean months until the harvest of the main season in October-November to help maintain food rations.”

A drought in China has also impeded crop production. Arable land totaling 5.17 million hectares (12.8 million acres) in Henan, Anhui, Shandong, and Inner Mongolia is being affected by the dry spell. Furthermore, 4.28 million people and 4.85 million heads of livestock in Yunnan, Hubei, and Inner Mongolia are short of drinking water, Xinhua reported. The Chinese government called for a Level IV emergency response plan to deal with the drought in Hubei Province, where city and county governments have allocated $US 1.2 million (7.72 million RMB) to ease shortages of drinking water and food.

 

[Old Rocks]

Inland thinning of West Antarctic Ice Sheet steered along subglacial rifts : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

Current ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) accounts for about ten per cent of observed global sea-level rise1. Losses are dominated by dynamic thinning, in which forcings by oceanic or atmospheric perturbations to the ice margin lead to an accelerated thinning of ice along the coastline2, 3, 4, 5. Although central to improving projections of future ice-sheet contributions to global sea-level rise, the incorporation of dynamic thinning into models has been restricted by lack of knowledge of basal topography and subglacial geology so that the rate and ultimate extent of potential WAIS retreat remains difficult to quantify. Here we report the discovery of a subglacial basin under Ferrigno Ice Stream up to 1.5 kilometres deep that connects the ice-sheet interior to the Bellingshausen Sea margin, and whose existence profoundly affects ice loss. We use a suite of ice-penetrating radar, magnetic and gravity measurements to propose a rift origin for the basin in association with the wider development of the West Antarctic rift system. The Ferrigno rift, overdeepened by glacial erosion, is a conduit which fed a major palaeo-ice stream on the adjacent continental shelf during glacial maxima6. The palaeo-ice stream, in turn, eroded the ‘Belgica’ trough, which today routes warm open-ocean water back to the ice front7 to reinforce dynamic thinning. We show that dynamic thinning from both the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Sea region is being steered back to the ice-sheet interior along rift basins. We conclude that rift basins that cut across the WAIS margin can rapidly transmit coastally perturbed change inland, thereby promoting ice-sheet instability

 

[Old Rocks]

Opening the fabled Northwest Passage: triumph or tragedy?

With decreasing Arctic sea ice, many ships and smaller boats have made the transit over the past two decades. Now, it seems that the Northwest Passage will soon be officially open for summer business.

Maybe we should consider 2012 as a banner year for the Arctic, just as 1912 marked both triumph (Amundsen) and tragedy (Scott) in the annals of Antarctic exploration.

 

[westwall]

What was that EVRAZ yapper? Were you who you claimed to be, you could NEVER work for a company like that. It would be so repugnant to you that it would make you physically ill.

So, clearly, you are not an environmentalist. You do more harm to the planet in a week than I have done in 20 years.

Continue yapping, we know what you are.

 

[Old Rocks]

Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

August 1981
> Hansen et al., 213 (4511): 957-966



Potential effects on climate in the 21st century include the creation of drought-prone regions in North America and central Asia as part of a shifting of climatic zones, erosion of the West Antarctic ice sheet with a consequent worldwide rise in sea level, and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage.

That was Hansen's predictions in 1981, and as has been demonstrated in the posts, all the predictions have come true.

 

[PUCrussel]

it is interesting