might be nice, but February’s intense heat is a very bad sign

[JohnnyApplesack]

this is a ticking time bomb for the right and alt-right AGW deniers......just like last summer and summer before that, temps will keep rising until that moron Inhofe is driven out of town......unless he falls into a fracking quake first....


The United States hits record high temps, as a climate change denier takes the reigns at the EPA.

Meteorologists expect to see dozens of heat records broken this week, as an extended stretch of uncommonly warm weather continues across much of the United States.

Also this week, Scott Pruitt took the helm at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Pruitt, who has deep ties to the fossil fuel industry, has described climate science as a “religious belief” and said he expects to scrap the Clean Power Plan, an EPA initiative to limit carbon pollution from power plants.

Scientists have found that carbon pollution is warming the planet, producing more severe weather, including more extreme heat. February’s spate of record-high temperatures offers the most recent example of how this process plays out.


It might feel good, but February’s intense heat is a very bad sign

 

[JohnnyApplesack]

forgot to mention, AGW is much more threatening than 6 mos of Trump if that

long after Agent Orange is just a bad memory we'll be cooking like frogs slowing brought to boil

y'all enjoy

 

[TNHarley]

LOL
AGW was so 2014. They quit saying that when they finally gave up trying to prove it. Now, they use "climate change". You know what I mean.. raping the meaning of another term because they are failures.
Kinda like you.

 

[Sunni Man]

..............

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Damn those natural cycles for not being controllable. Someone should do something.

 

[Boss]

this is a ticking time bomb for the right and alt-right AGW deniers......just like last summer and summer before that, temps will keep rising until that moron Inhofe is driven out of town......unless he falls into a fracking quake first....


The United States hits record high temps, as a climate change denier takes the reigns at the EPA.

Meteorologists expect to see dozens of heat records broken this week, as an extended stretch of uncommonly warm weather continues across much of the United States.

Also this week, Scott Pruitt took the helm at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Pruitt, who has deep ties to the fossil fuel industry, has described climate science as a “religious belief” and said he expects to scrap the Clean Power Plan, an EPA initiative to limit carbon pollution from power plants.

Scientists have found that carbon pollution is warming the planet, producing more severe weather, including more extreme heat. February’s spate of record-high temperatures offers the most recent example of how this process plays out.


It might feel good, but February’s intense heat is a very bad sign

OMG.... THE ICE IS MELTING! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIEEEEE!

 

[saveliberty]

Makes sense, a bunch of celebrities are flying their jets in for the Emmys, so I am sure temps are rising...

 

[Boss]

Makes sense, a bunch of celebrities are flying their jets in for the Emmys, so I am sure temps are rising...

Hell... just the levels of collective steam coming out of their ears HAS to be causing SOME warming.... it's physics man!

 

[jc456]

o gawd!!!!! see my signature.

 

[jc456]

Makes sense, a bunch of celebrities are flying their jets in for the Emmys, so I am sure temps are rising...

Hell... just the levels of collective steam coming out of their ears HAS to be causing SOME warming.... it's physics man!

they don't get the other side of the globe has been freezing instead of us. dah don't they understand weather?

 

[RollingThunder]

LOL
AGW was so 2014. They quit saying that when they finally gave up trying to prove it. Now, they use "climate change". You know what I mean.. raping the meaning of another term because they are failures.
Kinda like you.

Where does the rightwing reality denial machine get these total retards???

Since you obviously had your head up your ass the whole time, ThoroughlyNuts, you must have missed the fact that 2014 was the hottest year on record....until it was surpassed by 2015, which was even hotter.....and then along came 2016, which was hotter than even 2015. The first seven months of 2016 were the hottest months of that name on record and August was tied with July as the hottest month ever recorded....September was only the second hottest month on record after September 2015. It is a measured and recorded fact that 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have happened since 2001.

Moreover, you poor delusional retard, the terms 'global warming' and 'climate change'.....which mean different things, climate change being currently an inevitable consequence of the un-natural, human-caused global warming the Earth is experiencing.....have both been in use in the scientific literature since the 1970s, and they are both still in use.

You are very gullible and pretty stupid, as you make obvious by repeating that thoroughly debunked, moldy old denier cult myth.

In the real world....

2016 Was the Hottest Year on Record
Both NASA and NOAA declare that our planet is experiencing record-breaking warming for the third year in a row
Scientific American
By Andrea Thompson
January 18, 2017
(excerpts)
2016 was the hottest year in 137 years of record keeping and the third year in a row to take the number one slot, a mark of how much the world has warmed over the last century because of human activities, U.S. government scientists announced Wednesday.

2016 is a “data point at the end of many data points that indicates” long-term warming, Deke Arndt, chief of the monitoring branch of the National Centers for Environmental Information, said.

According to NOAA data, the global average temperature for 2016 was 1.69°F (0.94°C) above the 20th century average, and in NASA’s records, 2016 was 1.8°F (0.99°C) above the 1951-1980 average.

Each agency has slightly different methods of processing the data and different baseline periods they use for comparison, as do other groups around the world that monitor global temperatures, leading to slightly different year-to-year numbers.

But despite these differences, all of these records “are capturing the same long-term signal. It’s a pretty unmistakable signal,” Arndt said. Or as he likes to put it: “They’re singing the same song, even if they’re hitting different notes along the way.”

Several spots around the globe had record heat for 2016, including Alaska and a swath of the eastern U.S. The contiguous U.S. had its second hottest year on record, according to NOAA, but with the remarkable warmth experienced by Alaska factored in, 2016 would be the hottest for the country as a whole.

The first eight months of the year were all record hot globally; in NOAA’s data, they were part of an unprecedented streak of 16 record hot months in a row.

Of the 17 hottest years on record, 16 have occurred in the 21st century (the exception being the strong El Niño year of 1998).

While El Niño played a role in bumping up global temperatures during 2015 and 2016, the bulk of the warmth was due to the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases emitted by humans over the past century, particularly carbon dioxide.

In 2016, CO2 concentrations also permanently passed the 400 parts per million mark for the first time in human history; during preindustrial times, that concentration was 280 ppm.

As example of how greenhouse gases have affected global temperatures, 2016 was almost 0.5°F (0.9°C) warmer than 1998, both years that experienced comparably strong El Niños. Even 2014, before the most recent El Niño emerged, was warmer than 1998.

Nearly 120 nations, including the U.S., have ratified the 2015 Paris climate agreement and committed to keeping the worst impacts of warming from materializing by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The agreement cites a goal of keeping global temperature rise “well below” 2°C (3.6°F) above preindustrial levels by the end of this century, with a limit of 1.5°C as a more aggressive goal.

To show how close the world already is to surpassing those limits, Climate Central has been reanalyzing the global temperature data by averaging the NASA and NOAA numbers and comparing them to a baseline closer to preindustrial times. That analysis shows that 2016 was 1.2°C (2.16°F) above the average from 1881-1910.

The running average of global temperatures throughout 2016 compared to recent years.

“We have clearly passed 1 degree above preindustrial temperatures,” and likely won’t go below it without a major volcanic eruption (which tends to cool global temperatures), Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said.

When we might actually reach 1.5°C isn’t clear, Schmidt said, and depends both on how quickly greenhouse gases are emitted -- which depends on how quickly countries act to limit their emissions -- and just how much additional carbon dioxide can be emitted before the 1.5°C goal is breached, which is still somewhat uncertain.

“We’re closer than we would like to be,” he said.

With El Niño gone, and a weak La Niña to start off 2017, this year isn’t likely to continue the streak and best 2016, climate scientists say. But even if 2017 is cooler than 2016, it will only be a very slight dip compared to the long-term warming trend -- in fact, the U.K. Met Office expects that 2017 will still rank among the hottest years on record.

“It’s still going to be a top 5 year in our analysis. I’m pretty confident about that,” Schmidt said.

 

[jillian]

this is a ticking time bomb for the right and alt-right AGW deniers......just like last summer and summer before that, temps will keep rising until that moron Inhofe is driven out of town......unless he falls into a fracking quake first....


The United States hits record high temps, as a climate change denier takes the reigns at the EPA.

Meteorologists expect to see dozens of heat records broken this week, as an extended stretch of uncommonly warm weather continues across much of the United States.

Also this week, Scott Pruitt took the helm at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Pruitt, who has deep ties to the fossil fuel industry, has described climate science as a “religious belief” and said he expects to scrap the Clean Power Plan, an EPA initiative to limit carbon pollution from power plants.

Scientists have found that carbon pollution is warming the planet, producing more severe weather, including more extreme heat. February’s spate of record-high temperatures offers the most recent example of how this process plays out.


It might feel good, but February’s intense heat is a very bad sign

OMG.... THE ICE IS MELTING! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIEEEEE!

moron

 

[Lewdog]

It's supposed to be almost 80 degrees tomorrow here in Southern Kentucky, with the possibility of snow flakes Saturday. Seriously.. wtf.

 

[TNHarley]

LOL
AGW was so 2014. They quit saying that when they finally gave up trying to prove it. Now, they use "climate change". You know what I mean.. raping the meaning of another term because they are failures.
Kinda like you.

Where does the rightwing reality denial machine get these total retards???

Since you obviously had your head up your ass the whole time, ThoroughlyNuts, you must have missed the fact that 2014 was the hottest year on record....until it was surpassed by 2015, which was even hotter.....and then along came 2016, which was hotter than even 2015. The first seven months of 2016 were the hottest months of that name on record and August was tied with July as the hottest month ever recorded....September was only the second hottest month on record after September 2015. It is a measured and recorded fact that 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have happened since 2001.

Moreover, you poor delusional retard, the terms 'global warming' and 'climate change'.....which mean different things, climate change being currently an inevitable consequence of the un-natural, human-caused global warming the Earth is experiencing.....have both been in use in the scientific literature since the 1970s, and they are both still in use.

You are very gullible and pretty stupid, as you make obvious by repeating that thoroughly debunked, moldy old denier cult myth.

In the real world....

2016 Was the Hottest Year on Record
Both NASA and NOAA declare that our planet is experiencing record-breaking warming for the third year in a row
Scientific American
By Andrea Thompson
January 18, 2017
(excerpts)
2016 was the hottest year in 137 years of record keeping and the third year in a row to take the number one slot, a mark of how much the world has warmed over the last century because of human activities, U.S. government scientists announced Wednesday.

2016 is a “data point at the end of many data points that indicates” long-term warming, Deke Arndt, chief of the monitoring branch of the National Centers for Environmental Information, said.

According to NOAA data, the global average temperature for 2016 was 1.69°F (0.94°C) above the 20th century average, and in NASA’s records, 2016 was 1.8°F (0.99°C) above the 1951-1980 average.

Each agency has slightly different methods of processing the data and different baseline periods they use for comparison, as do other groups around the world that monitor global temperatures, leading to slightly different year-to-year numbers.

But despite these differences, all of these records “are capturing the same long-term signal. It’s a pretty unmistakable signal,” Arndt said. Or as he likes to put it: “They’re singing the same song, even if they’re hitting different notes along the way.”

Several spots around the globe had record heat for 2016, including Alaska and a swath of the eastern U.S. The contiguous U.S. had its second hottest year on record, according to NOAA, but with the remarkable warmth experienced by Alaska factored in, 2016 would be the hottest for the country as a whole.

The first eight months of the year were all record hot globally; in NOAA’s data, they were part of an unprecedented streak of 16 record hot months in a row.

Of the 17 hottest years on record, 16 have occurred in the 21st century (the exception being the strong El Niño year of 1998).

While El Niño played a role in bumping up global temperatures during 2015 and 2016, the bulk of the warmth was due to the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases emitted by humans over the past century, particularly carbon dioxide.

In 2016, CO2 concentrations also permanently passed the 400 parts per million mark for the first time in human history; during preindustrial times, that concentration was 280 ppm.

As example of how greenhouse gases have affected global temperatures, 2016 was almost 0.5°F (0.9°C) warmer than 1998, both years that experienced comparably strong El Niños. Even 2014, before the most recent El Niño emerged, was warmer than 1998.

Nearly 120 nations, including the U.S., have ratified the 2015 Paris climate agreement and committed to keeping the worst impacts of warming from materializing by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The agreement cites a goal of keeping global temperature rise “well below” 2°C (3.6°F) above preindustrial levels by the end of this century, with a limit of 1.5°C as a more aggressive goal.

To show how close the world already is to surpassing those limits, Climate Central has been reanalyzing the global temperature data by averaging the NASA and NOAA numbers and comparing them to a baseline closer to preindustrial times. That analysis shows that 2016 was 1.2°C (2.16°F) above the average from 1881-1910.

The running average of global temperatures throughout 2016 compared to recent years.

“We have clearly passed 1 degree above preindustrial temperatures,” and likely won’t go below it without a major volcanic eruption (which tends to cool global temperatures), Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said.

When we might actually reach 1.5°C isn’t clear, Schmidt said, and depends both on how quickly greenhouse gases are emitted -- which depends on how quickly countries act to limit their emissions -- and just how much additional carbon dioxide can be emitted before the 1.5°C goal is breached, which is still somewhat uncertain.

“We’re closer than we would like to be,” he said.

With El Niño gone, and a weak La Niña to start off 2017, this year isn’t likely to continue the streak and best 2016, climate scientists say. But even if 2017 is cooler than 2016, it will only be a very slight dip compared to the long-term warming trend -- in fact, the U.K. Met Office expects that 2017 will still rank among the hottest years on record.

“It’s still going to be a top 5 year in our analysis. I’m pretty confident about that,” Schmidt said.

We have been keeping records for like 175 years. Your models don't mean shit. Your post don't mean shit.

 

[TNHarley]

It's supposed to be almost 80 degrees tomorrow here in Southern Kentucky, with the possibility of snow flakes Saturday. Seriously.. wtf.

I'm 25 miles from Murray and we hit 80 today. No joke.

 

[percysunshine]

forgot to mention, AGW is much more threatening than 6 mos of Trump if that

long after Agent Orange is just a bad memory we'll be cooking like frogs slowing brought to boil

y'all enjoy

Soooo ... Trump is irrelevent in the grand scheme of things. Whew...one less thing to worry about.

 

[RollingThunder]

LOL
AGW was so 2014. They quit saying that when they finally gave up trying to prove it. Now, they use "climate change". You know what I mean.. raping the meaning of another term because they are failures.
Kinda like you.

Where does the rightwing reality denial machine get these total retards???

Since you obviously had your head up your ass the whole time, ThoroughlyNuts, you must have missed the fact that 2014 was the hottest year on record....until it was surpassed by 2015, which was even hotter.....and then along came 2016, which was hotter than even 2015. The first seven months of 2016 were the hottest months of that name on record and August was tied with July as the hottest month ever recorded....September was only the second hottest month on record after September 2015. It is a measured and recorded fact that 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have happened since 2001.

Moreover, you poor delusional retard, the terms 'global warming' and 'climate change'.....which mean different things, climate change being currently an inevitable consequence of the un-natural, human-caused global warming the Earth is experiencing.....have both been in use in the scientific literature since the 1970s, and they are both still in use.

You are very gullible and pretty stupid, as you make obvious by repeating that thoroughly debunked, moldy old denier cult myth.

In the real world....

2016 Was the Hottest Year on Record
Both NASA and NOAA declare that our planet is experiencing record-breaking warming for the third year in a row
Scientific American
By Andrea Thompson
January 18, 2017
(excerpts)
2016 was the hottest year in 137 years of record keeping and the third year in a row to take the number one slot, a mark of how much the world has warmed over the last century because of human activities, U.S. government scientists announced Wednesday.

2016 is a “data point at the end of many data points that indicates” long-term warming, Deke Arndt, chief of the monitoring branch of the National Centers for Environmental Information, said.

According to NOAA data, the global average temperature for 2016 was 1.69°F (0.94°C) above the 20th century average, and in NASA’s records, 2016 was 1.8°F (0.99°C) above the 1951-1980 average.

Each agency has slightly different methods of processing the data and different baseline periods they use for comparison, as do other groups around the world that monitor global temperatures, leading to slightly different year-to-year numbers.

But despite these differences, all of these records “are capturing the same long-term signal. It’s a pretty unmistakable signal,” Arndt said. Or as he likes to put it: “They’re singing the same song, even if they’re hitting different notes along the way.”

Several spots around the globe had record heat for 2016, including Alaska and a swath of the eastern U.S. The contiguous U.S. had its second hottest year on record, according to NOAA, but with the remarkable warmth experienced by Alaska factored in, 2016 would be the hottest for the country as a whole.

The first eight months of the year were all record hot globally; in NOAA’s data, they were part of an unprecedented streak of 16 record hot months in a row.

Of the 17 hottest years on record, 16 have occurred in the 21st century (the exception being the strong El Niño year of 1998).

While El Niño played a role in bumping up global temperatures during 2015 and 2016, the bulk of the warmth was due to the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases emitted by humans over the past century, particularly carbon dioxide.

In 2016, CO2 concentrations also permanently passed the 400 parts per million mark for the first time in human history; during preindustrial times, that concentration was 280 ppm.

As example of how greenhouse gases have affected global temperatures, 2016 was almost 0.5°F (0.9°C) warmer than 1998, both years that experienced comparably strong El Niños. Even 2014, before the most recent El Niño emerged, was warmer than 1998.

Nearly 120 nations, including the U.S., have ratified the 2015 Paris climate agreement and committed to keeping the worst impacts of warming from materializing by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The agreement cites a goal of keeping global temperature rise “well below” 2°C (3.6°F) above preindustrial levels by the end of this century, with a limit of 1.5°C as a more aggressive goal.

To show how close the world already is to surpassing those limits, Climate Central has been reanalyzing the global temperature data by averaging the NASA and NOAA numbers and comparing them to a baseline closer to preindustrial times. That analysis shows that 2016 was 1.2°C (2.16°F) above the average from 1881-1910.

The running average of global temperatures throughout 2016 compared to recent years.

“We have clearly passed 1 degree above preindustrial temperatures,” and likely won’t go below it without a major volcanic eruption (which tends to cool global temperatures), Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said.

When we might actually reach 1.5°C isn’t clear, Schmidt said, and depends both on how quickly greenhouse gases are emitted -- which depends on how quickly countries act to limit their emissions -- and just how much additional carbon dioxide can be emitted before the 1.5°C goal is breached, which is still somewhat uncertain.

“We’re closer than we would like to be,” he said.

With El Niño gone, and a weak La Niña to start off 2017, this year isn’t likely to continue the streak and best 2016, climate scientists say. But even if 2017 is cooler than 2016, it will only be a very slight dip compared to the long-term warming trend -- in fact, the U.K. Met Office expects that 2017 will still rank among the hottest years on record.

“It’s still going to be a top 5 year in our analysis. I’m pretty confident about that,” Schmidt said.

We have been keeping records for like 175 years. Your models don't mean shit. Your post don't mean shit.

Your ignorance about the actual science involved in this matter, like what NASA does or what gets published in Scientific American for example, "don't mean shit" to the scientific understanding of the reality of our situation, ThoroughlyNuts. That is because you are just an ignorant denier cult troll, spewing your delusional anti-science nonsense and you "don't mean shit"!

In the real world.....

Paleoclimate: The End of the Holocene
Dr. Stefan Rahmstorf
RealClimate
16 September 2013
(excerpts)
Recently a group of researchers from Harvard and Oregon State University has published the first global temperature reconstruction for the last 11,000 years – that’s the whole Holocene (Marcott et al. 2013).

A while ago, I discussed here the new, comprehensive climate reconstruction from the PAGES 2k project for the past 2000 years. But what came before that? Does the long-term cooling trend that ruled most of the last two millennia reach even further back into the past?

Over the last decades, numerous researchers have painstakingly collected, analyzed, dated, and calibrated many data series that allow us to reconstruct climate before the age of direct measurements. Such data come e.g. from sediment drilling in the deep sea, from corals, ice cores and other sources. Shaun Marcott and colleagues for the first time assembled 73 such data sets from around the world into a global temperature reconstruction for the Holocene, published in Science. Or strictly speaking, many such reconstructions: they have tried about twenty different averaging methods and also carried out 1,000 Monte Carlo simulations with random errors added to the dating of the individual data series to demonstrate the robustness of their results.

To show the main result straight away, it looks like this:


Figure 1 Blue curve: Global temperature reconstruction from proxy data of Marcott et al, Science 2013. Shown here is the RegEM version – significant differences between the variants with different averaging methods arise only towards the end, where the number of proxy series decreases. This does not matter since the recent temperature evolution is well known from instrumental measurements, shown in red (global temperature from the instrumental HadCRU data). Graph: Klaus Bitterman.

The climate curve looks like a “hump”. At the beginning of the Holocene -- after the end of the last Ice Age -- global temperature increased, and subsequently it decreased again by 0.7 ° C over the past 5000 years. The well-known transition from the relatively warm Medieval into the “little ice age” turns out to be part of a much longer-term cooling, which ended abruptly with the rapid warming of the 20th Century. Within a hundred years, the cooling of the previous 5000 years was undone. (One result of this is, for example, that the famous iceman ‘Ötzi’, who disappeared under ice 5000 years ago, reappeared in 1991.)

Comparison with the PAGES 2k reconstruction

The data used by Marcott et al. are different from those of the PAGES 2k project (which used land data only) mainly in that they come to 80% from deep-sea sediments. Sediments reach further back in time (far further than just through the Holocene – but that’s another story). Unlike tree-ring data, which are mainly suitable for the last two thousand years and rarely reach further. However, the sediment data have poorer time resolution and do not extend right up to the present, because the surface of the sediment is disturbed when the sediment core is taken. The methods of temperature reconstruction are very different from those used with the land data. For example, in sediment data the concentration of oxygen isotopes or the ratio of magnesium to calcium in the calcite shells of microscopic plankton are used, both of which show a good correlation with the water temperature. Thus each sediment core can be individually calibrated to obtain a temperature time series for each location.

Overall, the new Marcott reconstruction is largely independent of, and nicely complementary to, the PAGES 2k reconstruction: ocean instead of land, completely different methodology. Therefore, a comparison between the two is interesting:

Figure 3 The last two thousand years from Figure 1, in comparison to the PAGES 2k reconstruction (green), which was recently described here in detail. Graph: Klaus Bitterman.

As we can see, both reconstruction methods give consistent results. That the evolution of the last one thousand years is virtually identical is, by the way, yet another confirmation of the “hockey stick” by Mann et al. 1999, which is practically identical as well (see graph in my PAGES article).

Conclusion

The curve (or better curves) of Marcott et al. will not be the last word on the global temperature history during the Holocene; like Mann et al. in 1998 it is the opening of the scientific discussion. There will certainly be alternative proposals, and here and there some corrections and improvements. However, I believe that (as was the case with Mann et al. for the last millennium) the basic shape will turn out to be robust: a relatively smooth curve with slow cooling trend lasting millennia from the Holocene optimum to the “little ice age”, mainly driven by the orbital cycles. At the end this cooling trend is abruptly reversed by the modern anthropogenic warming.

The following graph shows the Marcott reconstruction complemented by some context: the warming at the end of the last Ice Age (which 20,000 years ago reached its peak) and a medium projection for the expected warming in the 21st Century if humanity does not quickly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.


Figure 4 Global temperature variation since the last ice age 20,000 years ago, extended until 2100 for a medium emissions scenario with about 3 degrees of global warming. Graph: Jos Hagelaars.

Marcott et al. dryly state about this future prospect: "By 2100, global average temperatures will probably be 5 to 12 standard deviations above the Holocene temperature mean."

In other words: We are catapulting ourselves way out of the Holocene.

Just looking at the known drivers (climate forcings) and the actual temperature history shows it directly, without need for a climate model: without the increase in greenhouse gases caused by humans, the slow cooling trend would have continued. Thus virtually the entire warming of the 20th Century is due to man. This May, for the first time in at least a million years, the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has exceeded the threshold of 400 ppm. If we do not stop this trend very soon, we will not recognize our Earth by the end of this century.

 

[Moonglow]

this is a ticking time bomb for the right and alt-right AGW deniers......just like last summer and summer before that, temps will keep rising until that moron Inhofe is driven out of town......unless he falls into a fracking quake first....


The United States hits record high temps, as a climate change denier takes the reigns at the EPA.

Meteorologists expect to see dozens of heat records broken this week, as an extended stretch of uncommonly warm weather continues across much of the United States.

Also this week, Scott Pruitt took the helm at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Pruitt, who has deep ties to the fossil fuel industry, has described climate science as a “religious belief” and said he expects to scrap the Clean Power Plan, an EPA initiative to limit carbon pollution from power plants.

Scientists have found that carbon pollution is warming the planet, producing more severe weather, including more extreme heat. February’s spate of record-high temperatures offers the most recent example of how this process plays out.


It might feel good, but February’s intense heat is a very bad sign

Inhofe, are you one of them Okies?

 

[Moonglow]

It's supposed to be almost 80 degrees tomorrow here in Southern Kentucky, with the possibility of snow flakes Saturday. Seriously.. wtf.

it's called weather...

 

[Zander]

LWNJ's believe in nothing, so they'll believe in anything.