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....global warming idiot James Hansen has finally admitted that global temp has been at a standstill for over a decade. Imagine that.
1/18/2013 8:47 PM
you been outside lately?
1/18/2013 8:51 PM
From NASA's Facebook yesterday


1/18/2013 9:02 PM

The last four months of 2012 were the hottest on record in Australia. But January is shaping up to be even hotter.

Between Jan. 3 and Jan. 6, an amazing 18 different weather stations recorded all-time temperature highs, according to a special climate statement from the country’s Bureau of Meteorology. Those included a mark of 118 degrees in Eucla, Western Australia, and an unheard-of 107 in Hobart, Tasmania, which bills itself as the gateway to Antarctica.

But the bureau’s forecasters believe the worst is yet to come—which is why they’ve added a new color to their official weather maps, for temperatures up to 54 degrees Celsius (129 Fahrenheit). In other words, they believe the country’s all-time high temperature of 123 degrees, set in 1960, is about to go down, and hard.

Earlier today, the Sydney Morning Herald grabbed a screenshot of an official weather prediction map that showed a splotch of shocking purple over South Australia, the brand-new indicator for temperatures in excess of 50 Celsius (122 Fahrenheit). It appears the bureau has since eased its predictions for Monday, as the purple has receded for the time being. But the new color lives on in the temperature index to the right of the maps, reflecting a new climate reality in which a 129-degree day would no longer be off the charts.

Meanwhile, the country’s fire danger levels have been elevated to “catastrophic,” with over 100 blazes already burning in its most populous state, New South Wales.

Of course, it isn’t just Australia that’s getting toastier these days. After Europe’s 2003 and 2010 heat waves broke 500-year seasonal average temperature records, researchers predicted in the journal Science that such “mega-heatwaves” would become five to 10 times more common on the continent in the decades to come.

Here in the United States, July marked the hottest month on record, surpassing the worst of the 1936 Dust Bowl, and the corresponding drought took a significant toll on the country’s overall economic growth. On Tuesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that 2012 was the hottest year on record by a full degree.

Welcome to the 21st Century. It’s gonna be a scorcher.

1/18/2013 9:05 PM
Hahahaha.

It's been at a standstill. At the highest levels in recorded history.

JDORKBAKER
1/18/2013 9:06 PM
At least I can use less oil to heat my home in the winter.  Now I will have less of a "carbon footprint".
1/18/2013 9:43 PM
Climate change deniers are about as dumb as birthers.  Or not quite as dumb as Swampy, but its getting pretty close.  Oh, wait, I just remembered Swampy believes in the "legitimate rape" theory.  Case closed.
1/19/2013 12:51 AM
Gonna be in the single digits this week in Michigan...
1/19/2013 1:04 AM
Always goes back to the core issues...

1 Is this an unusual trend or part of a larger weather pattern that may encompass thousands of years.

2 Is any of it caused by man.
1/19/2013 3:06 AM
And weren't environmental conditions worse in the 60s and 70s...why wasn't it hotter then?  Winter is still effing cold where I live
1/19/2013 10:27 AM
And of course the weather alarmists needed to change the pitch from "Global Warming" to " Global Climate Change".

Global Warming had actual standards that had to be met. Now every time a tornado hits somewhere and a house is destroyed they can show the pisture and say "See"!
1/19/2013 11:26 AM

Steve Goreham, author and executive director of the Climate Science Coalition of America, discusses global climate change with Mike McConnell, WGN radio:
 

wgnradio.com/2013/01/18/climate-change/#VC64gD86evCC6A7B.99


Hit the small "play" button to access the interview.
 

1/19/2013 7:08 PM
I just love it. One of the biggest global warming whack jobs admits temp has been stagnant for a decade, and the rest of the global warming whack jobs freak.
1/19/2013 9:29 PM
The only whack jobs are the right wing loons that should be whacked. 
1/19/2013 9:46 PM
some of you still don't know the difference between climate and weather, and use daily or yearly examples to make some "point." The official definition of "climate" involves a minimum of 30 years.

Humans are taking millions of years of carbon that had been extracted from the atmosphere and "stored", which changed global climate, and are now, in the last 150 or so years releasing that carbon back into the atmosphere at a much faster rate that it was captured. It does not take a genius to see that humans do have a role in this. It does take an idiot or fool to flat out deny or refuse to consider the likelihood of it.



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