It's actually statistically skewed.
Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across U.S.
UCAR - University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
November 12, 2009
(excerpts)
BOULDER—Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. The ratio of record highs to lows is likely to increase dramatically in coming decades if emissions of greenhouse gases continue to climb.
"Climate change is making itself felt in terms of day-to-day weather in the United States," says Gerald Meehl, the lead author and a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The ways these records are being broken show how our climate is already shifting."
The study, by authors at NCAR, Climate Central, The Weather Channel, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters. It was funded by the National Science Foundation, NCAR's sponsor, the Department of Energy, and Climate Central.
If temperatures were not warming, the number of record daily highs and lows being set each year would be approximately even. Instead, for the period from January 1, 2000, to September 30, 2009, the continental United States set 291,237 record highs and 142,420 record lows, as the country experienced unusually mild winter weather and intense summer heat waves.
This graphic shows the ratio of record daily highs to record daily lows observed at about 1,800 weather stations in the 48 contiguous United States from January 1950 through September 2009. Each bar shows the proportion of record highs (red) to record lows (blue) for each decade. The 1960s and 1970s saw slightly more record daily lows than highs, but in the last 30 years record highs have increasingly predominated, with the ratio now about two-to-one for the 48 states as a whole. [ENLARGE] (©UCAR, graphic by Mike Shibao.)
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It's actually statistically skewed.
Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across U.S.
UCAR - University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
November 12, 2009
(excerpts)
BOULDER—Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. The ratio of record highs to lows is likely to increase dramatically in coming decades if emissions of greenhouse gases continue to climb.
"Climate change is making itself felt in terms of day-to-day weather in the United States," says Gerald Meehl, the lead author and a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The ways these records are being broken show how our climate is already shifting."
The study, by authors at NCAR, Climate Central, The Weather Channel, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters. It was funded by the National Science Foundation, NCAR's sponsor, the Department of Energy, and Climate Central.
If temperatures were not warming, the number of record daily highs and lows being set each year would be approximately even. Instead, for the period from January 1, 2000, to September 30, 2009, the continental United States set 291,237 record highs and 142,420 record lows, as the country experienced unusually mild winter weather and intense summer heat waves.
This graphic shows the ratio of record daily highs to record daily lows observed at about 1,800 weather stations in the 48 contiguous United States from January 1950 through September 2009. Each bar shows the proportion of record highs (red) to record lows (blue) for each decade. The 1960s and 1970s saw slightly more record daily lows than highs, but in the last 30 years record highs have increasingly predominated, with the ratio now about two-to-one for the 48 states as a whole. [ENLARGE] (©UCAR, graphic by Mike Shibao.)
We're stuck in the world we live in and need to be able to compete and exist. Life is about tradeoffs and accepting them. Goofball trolls litter forums like this with their idea's of k00k..........they live in a world that screams out, "We can do anything if we just have the collective will..........there are only solutions!!"
Far left k00ks like this guy ^^^^ has lots of difficulty navigating in the real world.......in fact, hes a hater of his own country. Despises capitlaism becuase he's a fcukking loser who has to find somebody else to blame for his misery and fcukked up personal life decisions that led to a perpetual state of epIc fAiL.
Know that this is????
Its a GE AC6000CW.........6 thousand horsepower. There are thousands and thousands of these roaming the countryside on any given day. Cost? Well over a million dollars. They pull freight loads of millions of tons across hundreds of miles and are bought by railroads to make a profit. Americans dont eat without them. They run on diesel fuel..........because it is cheap relative to any other form of fuel to get them moving. They are built to last 30+ years. The one pictured is about 10 years old....engines replaced every year or so.
Think a big windmill on top is going to work on one?
How about some solar panels?
Corn?
The dreamer asshole haters of the world can sit around and be miserable and haters all they want but its not going to change dick.
But thats not real life..............and the above picture of that beautiful machine is the grim reality that the k00ks simply cannot accept.
So nextt ime you are cruising down the road and happen upon one of these monster GE engines........or four or five in tendem........remember that for the next 30 years, they'll be out there pulling 100+ cars and feeding America!!!
k00ks like Rolling Thunder want shit like this..............
Doesnt cut it.............
Diesel-electric locomotives are not hybrids.
