Scientifically interesting! HA! :-)
Climate is changing quickly, despite cool summer in Bay
Like an omen from the Book of Revelation, a wispy, silvery-blue noctilucent cloud hovered over Colorado late last month.
The timing couldn't have been more appropriate.
In other words, we believe and want climate warming to be true. Where is the scientific evidence? Just a bunch of rhetoric.
The cloud - the "miner's canary" of climate change, some call it - appears as global warming research is becoming a major scientific industry in fields ranging from atmospheric physics to biology.
Experts are increasingly convinced that carbon dioxide gas from the burning of fossil fuels is at least partly responsible for the marked warming of recent years.
What experts?? Here is a link of over 19,000 that disagree.
oism.org
And the warming is accelerating.
Based on what? This reporter saying it? Real scientific I guess.
"Almost every climate model says the same thing. . . . In the next decade, we might see the same amount of warming that we saw over the last century," says ocean chemist Peter G. Brewer of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Monterey.
What climate model? Let's not list them and describe the assumptions. Real science there. 19,000 disagree with Mr. Brewer.
What will global warming bring? Fewer fish and icebergs? More rain and a damper Big Apple? In the diverse world of global warming research, the latest news includes:
Based on what evidence? Real scientific there.
*Californians can look for rainier weather, because average temperatures are expected to rise from 2 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 100 years.
Based on what again? Real scientific again.
That could be especially bad for Californians if, as climate models project, the sea level rises by one to three feet around North America. Heavier rain and higher seas would increase coastal damage during storms, like the El Nino-generated storms of recent years.
*The Pacific ecosystem, especially fish that benefit much of the West Coast economy, could be threatened by global warming, Bay Area researchers warn.
More rhetoric and opinion. No facts. Zero real scientific data.
"There's lots of data showing there are big changes in marine ecosystems from the tropics to the poles," says biological oceanographer James P. Barry of the Monterey Bay Institute. For example, "if you look at the record from 1992 to now, there's just been a precipitous decline in salmon stocks - they're smaller and have less fat."
*An ominous absence of icebergs in the Grand Banks shipping lanes off Newfoundland might be an early warning sign of global warming, Science magazine reported July 2.
*New York City will suffer repeated flooding in the next century as global warming raises the sea level, soaking subways and turning parts of Brooklyn into wetlands, said a report issued jointly on June 29 by the Environmental Defense Fund and Columbia University.
More rhetoric and opinion. Zero facts, some maybe's. Not science.
Global warming might seem like an unreal issue to residents of Northern California: They are shivering through one of the chillier summers in long memory.
Unreal indeed except in the eyes of the California press. :-)
Indeed, the Northern California coast is likely to remain unusually cool through the summer, thanks to cold Pacific currents. So says the seasonal forecast by meteorologist Jim Wagner and his colleagues at the U.S. Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Md.
A little more rain and cool might be good for California. Maybe California's could afford to water their grass this year. :-)
The cold water is associated with La Nina following the warm-water El Nino of the winter of 1997-98, Wagner says.
Still, such short-term coolings can't obscure the long-term signal: It's getting warmer, all around the Earth.
New projections of global warming indicate it might be even slightly worse than originally foreseen. Previously, scientists expected an average planetary temperature rise of 1.4 to 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 100 years. Now they're looking at a rise of 2.3 to 7.2 degrees, says Tom Wigley, a climatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.
What projections? One persons opinion again. 19,000 disagree with Mr Wigley. But let's not write a balanced article when we can write such a blantantly biasd one huh? :-)
The rest of the article follows this same pattern of behavior. Scientific? I don't think so Christine. Opinion? Yes, with an obvious bias.
Michael
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