Is Global Warming becoming unstoppable?

[SirRumpole]

Japan is copping a record heatwave.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/deadly-heat-wave-hovers-japan-south-korea-56750471

 

[basilio]

An expansion story on the heat wave in Japan.

Japan heatwave declared natural disaster as death toll mounts

Japan's weather agency has declared a heatwave sweeping the country a natural disaster, with at least 65 deaths recorded in the past week.

An agency spokesman warned that "unprecedented levels of heat" were being seen in some areas.

More than 22,000 people have been admitted to hospital with heat stroke, nearly half of them elderly, emergency officials say.

The heatwave shows no sign of abating, forecasters say.

On Monday, the city of Kumagaya reported a temperature of 41.1C (106F), the highest ever recorded in Japan.

In central Tokyo, temperatures over 40C were also registered for the first time.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44935152

 

[Smurf1976]

Japan is copping a record heatwave

As is the US. As is the UK. And much of Europe. And......

One could be excused for thinking the planet was getting warmer or something like that.

 

[SirRumpole]

As is the US. As is the UK. And much of Europe. And......

One could be excused for thinking the planet was getting warmer or something like that.

It's probably just an unlikely coincidence of random events.

 

[Smurf1976]

It's probably just an unlikely coincidence of random events.

Ah yes, that's it, good to be reassured there's nothing to worry about.

The lack of intelligence of humans does amaze me sometimes. It's a bit like asbestos - everyone knows it's dangerous but the bit usually omitted from the story is that the dangers were proven beyond reasonable doubt and were known to insurers, medical people, factory inspectors and so on before most of it was used. So the vast majority of it was done with full knowledge of the consequences.

That about 2 million tonnes per annum of asbestos are still being mined and used overseas today, in many cases with zero effective safety controls, is just sad really. The very same products being removed at great cost in Australia, UK and other developed countries are still being manufactured and installed elsewhere.

Humans might be clever enough to put a man on the moon and make the internet work but at the same time we do some truly dumb things, not dealing with climate change and that we're still messing about with asbestos in 2018 being among them.

 

[luutzu]

It's probably just an unlikely coincidence of random events.

I think there are some 43 new weather event record being broken around the world so far this year.

 

[SirRumpole]

And the honest sceptics are being converted.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-10-25/climate-change-sceptics-converted/9053406

 

[Tisme]

I think there are some 43 new weather event record being broken around the world so far this year.

warmth or cold?

 

[explod]

warmth or cold?

It's a combination of both extremes.

Record cold snaps nearer to the equator and record heat snaps in the polar regions.

 

[Tisme]

It's a combination of both extremes.

Record cold snaps nearer to the equator and record heat snaps in the polar regions.

Yes I was reading the bom report for June (see link)

with my statistician hat on I think the asymmetrical nature of the min/max anomaly readings, the mean calcs are less indicative than median would but that would require the datasets to compare.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/month/aus/summary.shtml

 

[basilio]

There was a story written last year which looked at the unfolding consequences of CC with totally clear eyes.

The Uninhabitable Earth, Annotated Edition

The facts, research, and science behind the climate-change article that explored our planet’s worst-case scenarios.

By David Wallace-Wells

In the jungles of Costa Rica, where humidity routinely tops 90 percent, simply moving around outside when it’s over 105 degrees Fahrenheit would be lethal. And the effect would be fast: Within a few hours, a human body would be cooked to death from both inside and out. Fossils by Heartless Machine


July 14, 2017 2:06 pm

We published “The Uninhabitable Earth” on Sunday night, and the response since has been extraordinary — both in volume (it is already the most-read article in New York Magazine’s history) and in kind. Within hours, the article spawned a fleet of commentary across newspapers, magazines, blogs, and Twitter, much of which came from climate scientists and the journalists who cover them.

Some of this conversation has been about the factual basis for various claims that appear in the article. To address those questions, and to give all readers more context for how the article was reported and what further reading is available, we are publishing here a version of the article filled with research annotations. They include quotations from scientists I spoke with throughout the reporting process; citations to scientific papers, articles, and books I drew from; additional research provided by my colleague Julia Mead; and context surrounding some of the more contested claims. Since the article was published, we have made four corrections and adjustments, which are noted in the annotations (as well as at the end of the original version). They are all minor, and none affects the central project of the story: to apply the best science we have today to the median and high-end “business-as-usual” warming projections produced by the U.N.’s “gold standard” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans-annotated.html

 

[explod]

I can't tick you Bas because I do not like it.

Seeing 100 year wildfires, floods, windstorms happening daily around the planet is alarming indeed. And a bit of a search indicates that its underreported on our public media.

Pass the whisky.

 

[Darc Knight]

I can't tick you Bas because I do not like it.

Seeing 100 year wildfires, floods, windstorms happening daily around the planet is alarming indeed. And a bit of a search indicates that its underreported on our public media.

Pass the whisky.

If you don't like something in the Media you call it Fake News. Get with the program.

 

[basilio]

I can't tick you Bas because I do not like it.

Seeing 100 year wildfires, floods, windstorms happening daily around the planet is alarming indeed. And a bit of a search indicates that its underreported on our public media.

Pass the whisky.

Totally fair Plod. I don't like it either. It does scare the xhit out of me.

But if we ignore it, deny it, pretend it isn't real what are the consequences ? I suppose a relevant example we can relate to is ignoring cyclone warnings, or flood warnings or having a BBQ and bonfire with 50 drunken mates in the bush on a day of extreme fire danger.

 

[explod]

If you don't like something in the Media you call it Fake News. Get with the program.

When did I do that?

 

[Darc Knight]

When did I do that?

You didn't, that's the point I was trying to make.

 

[Tisme]

In the jungles of Costa Rica, where humidity routinely tops 90 percent, simply moving around outside when it’s over 105 degrees Fahrenheit would be lethal. And the effect would be fast: Within a few hours, a human body would be cooked to death from both inside and out. Fossils by Heartless Machine

You want to elaborate on that presumption?

http://cms.ashrae.biz/weatherdata/STATIONS/787620_s.pdf

 

[Tisme]

Found the cause:

 

[Darc Knight]

All you hear on Macquarie Radio is Alan Jones, Ray Hadley, Chris Smith and the other clones, calling climate change a hoax. If they're lying they should be locked up. If it's a clique of (global warming) Academics lying, they should be locked up. It's that serious.

 

[SirRumpole]

All you hear on Macquarie Radio is Alan Jones, Ray Hadley, Chris Smith and the other clones, calling climate change a hoax. If they're lying they should be locked up. If it's a clique of (global warming) Academics lying, they should be locked up. It's that serious.

If they are lying then people shouldn't listen to them.