Al Gore say it ain't so: Study shows Alaska got colder from 2000-2010

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Na evylin, your the expert.

Torturing bottom fish is a regular habit for seals. They don't even eat the rat fish. They get bored, bring them up from the bottom until the fishes eyeballs pop out from the pressure change and then the throw them up in the air over and over and over until the fish either stops moving or they get bored.

As far as the male otters stealing the babies from the female otter...it has zero to do with survival and all to go with being larger and lazy. They do it because they know they can. When the female doesn't give up her food they kill the baby by holding it under the water until it drowns.

Iv's seen Alaska Brown bear use Parker squireles for a soccer ball and when it finally stopped moving they bit the head off and walked off leaving the head next to the body. Kind of like when the eagles around here get bored and kill ravens just to be killing something. They don't eat the ravens but they sure like killing them now and then.

Hey, whatever you say. You've seen it all!

[Dakine10 5,452]

For some reason, whenever anyone posts something about how normal the weather is, they'll bring up Al Gore. It doesn't have to make sense for them to do it.

It's that time of year. We can look forward to about 3 more months of this.

So if it's the hottest it's been in a 1000 years , what made it hot back then.... Just saying

I can't respond to this unless you let me know if you're being serious or not.

[aaydrian 479]

Na evylin, your the expert.

Torturing bottom fish is a regular habit for seals. They don't even eat the rat fish. They get bored, bring them up from the bottom until the fishes eyeballs pop out from the pressure change and then they toss them up in the air over and over and over until the fish either stops moving or they get bored.

As far as the male otters stealing the babies from the female otter...it has zero to do with survival and all to go with being larger and lazy. They do it because they know they can. When the female doesn't give up her food they kill the baby by holding it under the water until it drowns.

Iv's seen Alaska Brown bear use Parker squireles for a soccer ball and when it finally stopped moving they bit the head off and walked off leaving the head next to the body. Kind of like when the eagles around here get bored and kill ravens just to be killing something. They don't eat the ravens but they sure like killing them now and then.

All that still leads back to survival. Some animals 'killing for no reason' is just them either practising or investigating if what they just killed can be eaten/sustain them as other things in their diet did.

[james&olya 1,121]

What does this have to do with Al Gore? I've heard Al Gore talk about global warming, but I don't recall anything about localized weather phenomena.

It confirms what Al said about localized climate phenomena in relation to overall global warming! No surprise to climate scientists on this. It has been predicted all along that while overall global temperatures increase, the changes in climate patterns that result will include a few areas that actually get colder. The text of this article does explain a little of this.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

It confirms what Al said about localized climate phenomena in relation to overall global warming! No surprise to climate scientists on this. It has been predicted all along that while overall global temperatures increase, the changes in climate patterns that result will include a few areas that actually get colder. The text of this article does explain a little of this.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

so far it is colder here this year than it was last year and we already have more snaw than we did all last year.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I am already seeing migratory birds returning that usually don't show up until March. We had a particularly warm and dry October, and a mild and wet December, so it looks like the birds didn't fly as far south as they usually do. Or maybe, they are all getting that free Obama bird seed, and too lazy to migrate anymore.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

We're in for a warm spell this week. It's going to rain!

[scotinmass 588]

Maine

Sun Journal

2012 ties warmest year on record in Portland

Associated Press

The Associated Press

Maine

Monday, January 7, 2013 at 8:27 am

PORTLAND (AP) — The National Weather Service says 2012 is going into the record books.

Portland's average temperature for the year came in at 49.2 degrees, tying 2010 as the city's warmest year on record. Temperatures are recorded at the Portland International Jetport, where records have been logged since 1940.

The weather service says 2012 was highlighted by the second-warmest spring on record followed by the sixth-warmest summer. Nine out of the 12 months had above-normal temperatures.

Portland had more than 54 inches of precipitation for the year, more than 7 inches above normal.

The snowfall total came in at just shy of 63 inches, which was 1 inch above normal.

Lewiston Sun Journal

[Dakine10 5,452]

2012 hottest year on record in contiguous U.S., NOAA says

Last year was the hottest on record for the contiguous United States, shattering the previous mark set in 1998 by a wide margin, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday.

The average temperature was 55.3 degrees, 1 degree above the previous record and 3.2 degrees more than the 20th-century average. Temperatures were above normal in every month between June 2011 and September 2012, a 16-month stretch that hasn’t occurred since the government began keeping such records in 1895.

Federal scientists said that the data are compelling evidence that climate change is affecting weather in the United States and suggest that the nation’s weather is likely to be hotter, drier and potentially more extreme than it would have been without the warmer temperatures.

Last year’s record temperature is “clearly symptomatic of a changing climate,” said Thomas R. Karl, who directs NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. Americans can now see the sustained warmth over the course of their own lifetimes — “something we haven’t seen before.” He added, “That doesn’t mean every season and every year is going to be breaking all-time records, but you’re going to see this with increasing frequency.”

Alaska and the Pacific Northwest didn’t experience record-setting heat last year; a cool-weather pattern over the Pacific Ocean kept temperatures lower.

Although the new analysis focuses on the United States, it has triggered an intense debate over whether global temperatures will reach dangerous levels by the century’s end. In 2009, the world’s leaders pledged to keep global temperatures from rising above pre-industrial levels by 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Now many academics and policymakers say that goal may be out of reach.

“We have to begin the conversation about cruising past 2 degrees, because we’re on course for that,” said John Podesta, who chairs the liberal think tank Center for American Progress. “It’s hard to contemplate and scary to contemplate, but it has to be addressed at this point.”

Vanderbilt Law School professor Michael Vandenbergh said today’s leaders will be judged harshly by future generations for not focusing on climate change.

“A hundred years from now, they’re not going to be talking about health care or the fiscal cliff,” he said. “But they will ask, ‘What did you do when we knew we were going to have serious climate change?’ ”

John R. Christy, who directs the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, said some researchers are exaggerating the severity of the threat. He said that the right climate target is “in the mind of the beholder,” given that rising energy demand is a sign that many poor people are struggling “to be lifted out of their current condition.”

“No one in Washington can stop that,” he said. “And, right now, carbon is the most accessible and affordable way to supply that energy — so CO2 emissions will continue to rise because of the undeniable benefit carbon energy brings to human life.”

Last year, the United States experienced several weather events — including extreme storms, a historic drought and wildfires — that many scientists say can be exacerbated by climate change.

Some scientists, however, think it is premature to blame droughts or hurricanes on human-caused warming. Georgia Institute of Technology atmospheric scientist Judith A. Curry said in an e-mail that the global average temperature for 2012 will not set a record — last year will probably be the eighth warmest. “Natural variability continues to dominate the occurrence of extreme weather events,” she said.

Nonetheless, many scientists are worried about rising emissions. The International Energy Agency estimated last month that coal will come close to surpassing oil as the world’s top energy source in 2017 , when an additional 1.2 billion metric tons will be burned annually. In late November, the World Resources Institute reported there are nearly 1,200 proposed coal plants around the globe, three-quarters of which are planned for China and India.

By Jan. 1 of this year, the Kyoto Protocol was supposed to have cut the world’s greenhouse gas output by 5 percent compared with 1990 levels. While the signatories as a whole are likely to meet that target, in part because of the shutdown of Eastern European factories during the 1990s, global carbon emissions overall rose 54 percent during that same period, according to the Global Carbon Project.

As a result, many experts are engaged in a discussion over whether they should continue pressing for ambitious carbon cuts in the near term or adjust their goals in the face of the prospect of a much warmer world.

[natty bumppo 289]

Animals are way nicer to each other than people are.

num num num ...

polar bears like baby white seals ... they devour them faster than my twins eat timbits (blink twice it's game over. i gotta get more if i want some)

[james&olya 1,121]

So if it's the hottest it's been in a 1000 years , what made it hot back then.... Just saying

When they say this, the context is that in 1000 years of record keeping, the current year being referenced was the hottest ever seen. I believe what you are confusing this with is the similar sounding but very different in meaning "it is the hottest it has been since 1000 years ago." Grammar and definitions matter for those of us working in a fact based reality!