2007 second-warmest year in 100 years: NASA
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Scientists at the US space agency NASA say 2007 was the second-warmest year in a century.
The scientists from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York have released a computer animation to accompany their findings.
It shows sea ice cover in the Arctic at a record low.
They also predict that a record global temperature can be expected within the next three years.
Brrrr - Man It's Cold
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MIAMI (CBS4) ― South Florida had to bundle up Thursday as temperatures dropped into the low 30s in the early morning hours.
CBS4 Weather Center said temperatures across the region tied or broke some of the coldest temperatures on record. At Tamiami Airport, the thermometer dipped to 35-degrees, the coldest temperature ever recorded at the airport.
Ft. Lauderdale, at 39-degrees, tied the record cold temperature set back in 1979. Miami, which also recorded a temperature of 39-degrees, missed its record cold mark of 35-degrees set back in 1898. Miami Beach, however, broke the record at 41-degrees; its previous record cold temperature was 42-dregrees set back in 1979.
Key West also tied their record low temperature of 45-degrees set in three previous years. The previous record low for the Southernmost City was 46-degrees set back in 1898.
The lowest temperature recorded across the was 20 degrees in Cross City, about 90 miles southeast of Tallahassee, according to the National Weather Service.
To our north, Citrus growers across the middle part of the state spent Wednesday night into Thursday morning trying to save their crops from the cold snap that brought temperatures into the 20s and teens overnight.
As I mentioned above, a whole district council in Devon has banned them (but obviously not individual packaging on food), and it has been an uqualified success. HM government has picked up the ball and will be implementing it UK wide in 2009.Has anyone really tried to shop at a supermarket without using plastic bags. How do you handle a variety of fruit and veg without the readily available plastic bags. OK you say we did without them before they were invented. Fair enough but then the green grocer came to the door, (the housewife would have been at home) Then there is the meat section, even with the plastic wrap the meat will weep into the nice green enviro bags and turn them into bacteria ridden health hazzards.
Try getting a heap or loose toilet rolls next just for fun or unwraped chocolate, that would be funnier.
Of course don't forget to buy up on bin liners because you won't have those free handy "singlet" plastic bags any more.
If anyone thinks plastic carry bags are waste then just refuse or recycle them, don't deprive others of them.
I can tell you of a market stall holder who had a 50% drop in sales when his market managers banned plastic bags from the market.
I would sooner see petrol rationing introduced befor the banning of plastic bags. Think about that.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/17/2140238.htm?section=justin
NASA predicting getting hotter etc
Suzuki is a biologist, not a climate scientist.I guess the good news is that when you hug a tree you hug a piece of carbon - so all causes benefit
btw wayne - it would appear that you and David Suzuki dont have much in common on the carbon question
You choose two names out of a list of hundreds to create a straw man argument. I'd say you are clasping at straws.wayne
I can tell you, if I ever do one of the tourist space trips, I'd probably go with NASA Airlines
.... rather than with SPRINGER-BALL Airlines.
PS I think the original caption was something about "ok folk, it seems we're not rocket scientists after all"
I wonder if they've ever apologised to the people who died of smoking under their encouragement. ?
Top post roland.
I think it's fair to say that 7m is not only "worst case scenario" but (about) 5 - 10 times what the IPCC would say ...
In the link below, they predict 600mm for A1F1 scenario - (and only a fractino of that IF we get our act together bigtime!!) - eg 180 or 200mm.
BUT having said that, since that 4th IPCC report, I believe they have updated their estimates, and higher ocean level increases are likely across all scenarios
https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=243897&highlight=upgraded#post243897
BUT having said that, since that 4th IPCC report, I believe they have updated their estimates, and higher ocean level increases are likely across all scenarios
Hi 20/20, these palm fronds will get a bit wet when it happens.(below)
I saw these guys drilling ice cores in Antarctica on t.v. and they reckon there is a flowing river about two miles under the polar ice cap.Hows that.Ice cores to prove up a bit of how the planet constantly changes.
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