Is global warming real?

Vikrant

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A small city in northwest India climbed to a searing 51 degrees Celsius - or 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit - on Thursday afternoon, and broke the country's record for all-time hottest temperature. The previous record, 50.6 degrees Celsius, was set in 1886.

The record was broken in Phalodi, which is just 125 miles away from the city that, up until this afternoon, claimed fame as the hottest location in India - Pachpadra.

April and May tend to be the hottest months in northwest India, and this year has been exceptionally so.

Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian at Weather Underground, posited that April's heat wave was the most intense ever observed in Southeast Asia.

In India it lasted for weeks - but the heat never truly dissipated, dragging on into May. Hundreds of people have died from heat-related illness. Northern India and Nepal have been battling their worst wildfires in years. Officials have on occasion banned daytime cooking in an attempt to prevent accidental fires that killed nearly 100 people in late April.

The India Meteorological Department issued a "severe heat wave warning" for a huge swath of the country on Thursday, which will continue through Saturday. The department expects temperatures will remain above average through at least May 27.

A similar period of extreme heat killed over 2,500 people in 2015.

India Just Set A New All-Time Record High Temperature - 51 Degrees Celsius
 
Global warming contributing to earlier springs...
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Spring Comes Earlier to Urban Environments
May 26, 2016 - Spring comes earlier to dense cities, and while that might be great for city gardeners and outdoorsy types, it might be bad for native birds and insects.
Writing in the journal Environmental Research Letters, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison say plants in urban areas begin budding earlier in the spring than their suburban counterparts because cities act as “heat islands” due to the amount of concrete and pavement and relative lack of vegetation. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the “annual mean air temperature of a city with 1 million people or more can be 1 to 3 degrees Celsius warmer than its surroundings.” The observations were made in Madison, Wisconsin, thermometers placed around the city. The measurements were then compared to satellite imagery showing when vegetation began to turn green.

They found that the urban growing season was not lengthened uniformly in the city. For example, in the areas with the highest density, the growing season was extended by a week, but parks had relatively normal growing season length. "With a better understanding of the impacts of urbanization on vegetation, we can create more sustainable cities that behave more similarly to the natural areas they have replaced," says lead author Samuel Zipper, of the UW-Madison Water Sustainability and Climate Project, a program funded by the National Science Foundation. "Every little bit of greenness counts within a city."

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The skyline of Japan's capital, Tokyo.​

But using satellite imagery has drawbacks, as researchers said the types of plants need to be accounted for. For example, grassy lawns in the suburbs became green before trees in urban areas, even though the temperatures were higher in the city. "The degree to which the potential growing season gets longer is related to urban density, but the actual growing season depends on what is growing on the ground," Zipper said.

Researchers say that the earlier urban spring could have “cascading effects on urban ecosystems that may be harmful to birds, butterflies and other wildlife in search of food and habitat.” While the study only examined one city, the researchers say it furthers understanding about how urban development can influence a variety of natural cycles such as plant growth and water and carbon cycles.

Spring Comes Earlier to Urban Environments
 
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We will likely see specific perpetrators of the 'hoax' idea that came from big energy be put on trial for crimes against humanity. I'm sure to some it still feels like it's 'ok' to play this game, that there won't be any consequences from getting the brain-challenged rubes to carry their water for them and carry the 'hoax' lie forward.

But in the end, someone will pay for it. There won't be any 'we didn't know'. It is quickly sizing up the same way the tobacco industry went down a couple decades ago. Their lies killed millions.

The Global Warming deniers in the energy industry have committed crimes on a much larger scale, and the clock to a trial date is ticking.
 

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