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Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S., Dispelling Doubts About Climate Change
A poll released Tuesday showed that more people are starting to believe climate change is credible, partly due to the frigid weather which has gripped the United States.
The poll released by Associated Press showed that 48 percent of respondents found the science of human-induced climate change more convincing when the poll was taken in November 2018 than they did five years ago, compared to 14 percent who thought it less convincing.
Eighty-three percent of those polled who believe in climate change want the federal government to take actions to mitigate it, and 80 percent want their state governments to act, the survey found.
More people than expected supported a carbon tax to help curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to the survey.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/23/c_137768179.htm
Prolonged, Life-Threatening Cold to Grip Midwestern US This Week as Polar Vortex Plunges South
The coldest weather in years will put millions of people and animals throughout the midwestern United States at risk for frostbite to occur in minutes and hypothermia during the final days of January.
The deep freeze continued across the Upper Midwest on Sunday with temperatures plummeting well below zero in the morning. The low of 45 below zero F [-43°C] in International Falls, Minnesota, shattered the day's record of 36 below zero F [-38°C] from 1966.
As harsh as Sunday morning was, the worst is yet to come as the polar vortex gets displaced from the Arctic Circle and dives into the Midwest in the wake of the disruptive snowstorm starting this week.
https://news.yahoo.com/prolonged-life-threatening-cold-grip-165320957.html
Climate Change Cooks up Ideal Conditions for Snow
Look at all that snow in the Alps; has global warming taken a break? Alas, no, it turns out that the recent record-breaking dumps of snow across much of southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria are more likely a consequence of global warming. Why? Balmy temperatures in the North Sea and Baltic Sea are cooking up the ideal conditions to create snow.
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Global warming enhances the current snowfall … Anomalously high sea surface temperatures in the North Sea and Baltic are loading winds from the north with moisture,” tweeted Stefan Rahmstorf of the University of Potsdam last week.
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(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Monday January 28 2019, @10:39PM (3 children)
It is not about whether we can out-compete nature, it is about the balance that we are upsetting. You are correct in saying that things would continue to warm if we were to disappear tomorrow. This is a BAD thing. We have already set our course in motion, and it will take massive effort to turn it.
Humans might survive such massive changes in temperature, but it ain't gonna be pretty for civilization and there won't be 7+ billion of us anymore.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @11:05PM
Warmer temperatures are so much better than colder temperatures it isn't even worth discussing.
(Score: 2) by EETech1 on Tuesday January 29 2019, @02:42AM (1 child)
Humans put 37 Gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere last year.
37 trillion kilograms!
The same weight as 100 million 747s
Or 7.5 billion elephants.
Or 75 times your weight (as well as 75X every other human)
That can't be good!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 29 2019, @04:17AM
The dissolved CO2 in the oceans is extimated as 137,100 GT*. https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?s=n&v=0&id=100969 [harvard.edu]
37 GT is about 0.02 % of that. Assuming no compensating mechanisms, in fifty years we will have changed the CO2 by about 1% of its value.
*That page gives carbon mass. multiply by 44/12 to get CO2 mass.