"You are getting weather and climate mixed up again and adding politics into the mix "
I like this. Maybe it's time for the Hail Mary (geoengineering), paid for by Kochs and Exxon, of course.
"Weather is like one play in a football game. Climate is the history of the NFL." We are now playing with steroidal bodies. Looks like Oz is matriculating that ball on down the field.
Politics has been in the mix for many years. That's why the air in LA is cleaner now than in 1970.
The California Air Resources Board, also known as CARB or ARB, is the "clean air agency" in the government of California. Established in 1967 when then-governor Ronald Reagan signed the Mulford-Carrell Act, combining the Bureau of Air Sanitation and the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board...
California is the only state that is permitted to have such a regulatory agency, since it is the only state that had one before the passage of the federal Clean Air Act.
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EVEN FREEZING TEMPS CAN BE EXPLAINED BY GLOBAL WARMING: LIVESCIENCE
By Arden Dier, Newser Staff
Posted Jan 7, 2014 11:48 AM CST
(NEWSER) – Given the deep freeze engulfing much of the country, you may have heard more than one person scoffing about global warming. Jokes aside, climate change is still very real, LiveScience insists. In fact, scientists believe much of the cold weather can actually be explained by global warming. For one thing, hot air holds more moisture than cold air, which makes for more snowfall and sea ice. Plus, as the Arctic ice cap melts thanks to rising polar temperatures, it pushes Arctic air south. Even the cold air now being swirled around by the polar vortex is probably due to ocean heat that's changed the wind's pattern.
For those still skeptical, one meteorologist explains it thusly: "Weather is like one play in a football game. Climate is the history of the NFL." Despite snowstorms, winter temperatures on the whole have risen, lakes freeze later in the season, and ice is much thinner than it used to be. Plus, spring arrives up to two weeks earlier than 20 years ago. Pair that with the fact that Australia—now in its summer—just finished its hottest year on record and topped out at temperatures of 125 degrees last week, and you've got yourself some serious global warming, LiveScience notes. |
