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[basilio]

Yep. Certainly been hot in the last couple of months - all around the world

'True shocker': February spike in global temperatures stuns scientists
Peter Hannam March 14 2016 - 12:30PM

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March records smashed in Australia

Global temperatures leapt in February, lifting warming from pre-industrial levels to beyond 1.5 degrees, and stoking concerns about a "climate emergency".

According to NASA analysis, average temperatures last month were 1.35 degrees above the norm for the 1951-1980 period.

They smashed the previous biggest departure from the average - set only in the previous month - by 0.21 degrees.

"This is really quite stunning ... it's completely unprecedented," said Stefan Rahmstorf, from Germany's Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research and a visiting professorial fellow at the University of NSW, noting the NASA data as reported by the Wunderground blog.

The blog's authors, Jeff Masters and Bob Henson, described February's spike as "a true shocker, and yet another reminder of the incessant long-term rise in global temperature resulting from human-produced greenhouse gases".

The monster El Nino event had contributed to the current record run of global temperatures by increasing the area of abnormally warm water in the central and eastern Pacific.

Compared with the rival record giant El Nino of 1997-98, global temperatures are running about 0.5 degrees hotter.

"That shows how much much global warming we have had since then," Professor Rahmstorf said.

The first half of March is at least as warm, he added, and it means temperatures "are clearly more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels".

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/env...ratures-stuns-scientists-20160313-gni10t.html
What a jump in Jan-Feb 2016 !

 

[wayneL]

Yep, if you make the past colder, good chance its gonna be hotter now.

 

[explod]

Yep, if you make the past colder, good chance its gonna be hotter now.

Who's made the past colder.

The earth is supposed to be cooling.

 

[wayneL]

Who's made the past colder.

The earth is supposed to be cooling.

1. BEST et al

2. Hiatus <> cooling. El Nino was alway going to be a warm year.

 

[luutzu]

1. BEST et al

2. Hiatus <> cooling. El Nino was alway going to be a warm year.

El Nino reaches all the way to Alaska Sifu?

Heard they have to train few a few carriage of ice for the annual dog sledge race; reroute a few tracks because of not enough ice to sledge on.

 

[basilio]

1. BEST et al

2. Hiatus <> cooling. El Nino was always going to be a warm year.

Wayne

Hmm. So we were all expecting see global average temperatures to jump by .6 C in just 14 months ?

Let's put a perspective on this Wayne. Since 1980 (when global warming really started rise) to 2014 the global temperate increased from .1C to .75 C above "normal".

In the last 14 months global temperatures have jumped .6 C. And there is 10 months to go this year.

Do we have a problem ?

 

[basilio]

The huge jump in global temperatures has been picked up and analysed by many media orgs.

There is a a longer story on this blog which picks up on how the extreme global temperatures have manifested around the world.

Interestingly the data set is so overwhelming Roy Spencer has agreed with the the NASA scientists.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t...ocking_global_warming_temperature_record.html

 

[Knobby22]

The huge jump in global temperatures has been picked up and analysed by many media orgs.

There is a a longer story on this blog which picks up on how the extreme global temperatures have manifested around the world.

Interestingly the data set is so overwhelming Roy Spencer has agreed with the the NASA scientists.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t...ocking_global_warming_temperature_record.html

Unfortunately a lot of the reef died this month near Cairns due to very high seawater temperatures. Mankind is still to o immature as a species.

 

[Glen48]

This can;t be good.... assuming a large Methane gas bubble/s were popping up a ship would go straight down or planes crash as there would be no air for the engines...



Has the secret of the Bermuda Triangle finally been discovered? Scientists find giant craters underwater which may explain how ships disappear without trace

Underwater craters found in Barents Sea off the coast of Norway
Caused by build-up of methane natural gas which then explodes
Could explain disappearance of ships in notorious Bermuda Triangle

By Sara Malm for MailOnline

Published: 00:05 +11:00, 14 March 2016 | Updated: 03:59 +11:00, 14 March 2016

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A discovery of giant underwater craters at the bottom of Barents Sea could offer a viable explanation to the disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle.

Scientists have found craters up to half a mile wide and 150ft deep, believed to have been caused by build-ups of methane off the coast of natural gas-rich Norway.

The methane would have leaked from deposits of natural gas further below the surface and created cavities which finally bursts, scientists say.

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Big boom: Scientists have found craters up to half a mile wide and 150ft deep in Barents Sea, believed to have been caused by build-ups of methane off the coast of natural gas-rich Norway (stock image)
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Big boom: Scientists have found craters up to half a mile wide and 150ft deep in Barents Sea, believed to have been caused by build-ups of methane off the coast of natural gas-rich Norway (stock image)

'Multiple giant craters exist on the sea floor in an area in the west-central Barents Sea ... and are probably a cause of enormous blowouts of gas,' said researchers from the Arctic University of Norway told the Sunday Times.
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'The crater area is likely to represent one of the largest hotspots for shallow marine methane release in the Arctic.'

The explosions causing the craters to open up could potentially pose risks to vessels travelling on Barents Sea, scientists say.
Mystery: Scientists believe similar methane craters could explain loss of ships in the Bermuda Triangle
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Mystery: Scientists believe similar methane craters could explain loss of ships in the Bermuda Triangle
Discovery: Scientists found the giant craters on the sea floor in an area in the west-central Barents Sea
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Discovery: Scientists found the giant craters on the sea floor in an area in the west-central Barents Sea

It could also possibly explain the loss of ships and aircraft in the controversial area referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, according to the experts.

The area stretches from the British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean to the Florida coast, to Puerto Rico.

Russian scientist Igor Yeltsov, the deputy head of the Trofimuk Institute, said last year: 'There is a version that the Bermuda Triangle is a consequence of gas hydrates reactions.

'They start to actively decompose with methane ice turning into gas. It happens in an avalanche-like way, like a nuclear reaction, producing huge amounts of gas.

'That makes the ocean heat up and ships sink in its waters mixed with a huge proportion of gas.'
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[Logique]

Extreme El Nino event, as the BoM website attests.

No that this stopped the alarmist opportunists.

 

[orr]

Who's made the past colder.

The tragedy to anyone with the capacity to think seriously about the consequences of unabated human exploitation of fossil fuel resources is that; this is the cold past...

As Australia, currently, points in the 'Direction of Inaction' and in the most outrageously expensively way at that... If only there had of been another way??? that would have collected revenue lowered emissions, forged and developed the industries of the future.

Thank god the bean counters of every bank on the planet see the absurd folly of Mining the Galalie Basin. And you'd go along way into the back end of the 'bell curve' to find much support for the chanced distruction of the Liverpool Plains and of accelerating pollution of the atmosphere... but here you'll find an ex-PM backbencher.

 

[basilio]

Extreme El Nino event, as the BoM website attests.

Yep we do have an El Nino event. Yes climate scientists expected an increase in global temperatures as a consequence.

Problem is the magnitude of the increase is way out of line with previous experience. It also comes on top of a steadily increasing rise in temperature associated with global warming unconnected with El Nino.

The big concern is if we are reaching the critical tipping points in a number of areas. For example the warming of the Arctic oceans and the Tundra is releasing millions of tons of methane and methane hydrates. There is a risk that this current burst of intense warming could create an unstoppable flow of methane that would create runaway global warming and cook our planet within 20 years.

Runaway

Though not being communicated, the alarming data above for 30 May 2015, looks like the state of the climate is set up for feedback runaway global climate.

​​From the very start the big concern about global warming has been the possibility of a 'runaway' global warming and climate change.

'Runaway' (self accelerating) global heating and climate change is the planetary tipping point of all the many tipping points combined and self reinforcing . ​​

This is the greatest single danger to the survival of humanity and also the survival of potentially almost all life on the planet. ​​A global heating runaway wiping almost most life we know is possible- because it happened 250 million years ago in the End Permian extinction event and 55 million years ago with the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM). Current research confirms both of these extinction events were driven by very large emissions of carbon to the atmosphere.

​​The PETM is the closest distant past analog to our GHG emissions global warming situation today. Research published October 2013 by Morgan Schaller and James Wright leads to their definite finding that following a doubling in carbon dioxide levels, the surface of the ocean turned acidic over a period of weeks or months and global temperatures rose by 5 degrees centigrade – all in the space of about 13 years. Scientists had previously thought this process happened over 10,000 years.

These mass extinction events involve the emission of an enormous emission of carbon as CO2 and methane. In the Arctic several times atmospheric methane is stored frozen in permafrost and subsea floor frozen solid methane gas hydrate. The permafrost is thawing as the Arctic temperature rapidly increases (Arctic amplification). Arctic methane hydrate is destabilizing in at least three locations, mainly a process that has been going on for a long time, but that ocean warming will make worse

http://www.climateemergencyinstitute.com/runaway.html

 

[Tisme]

Yep we do have an El Nino event. Yes climate scientists expected an increase in global temperatures as a consequence.

Problem is the magnitude of the increase is way out of line with previous experience. It also comes on top of a steadily increasing rise in temperature associated with global warming unconnected with El Nino.

The big concern is if we are reaching the critical tipping points in a number of areas. For example the warming of the Arctic oceans and the Tundra is releasing millions of tons of methane and methane hydrates. There is a risk that this current burst of intense warming could create an unstoppable flow of methane that would create runaway global warming and cook our planet within 20 years.

No good worrying about it.....someone else will fix it.

 

[Ijustnewit]

Yep. Certainly been hot in the last couple of months - all around the world



http://www.canberratimes.com.au/env...ratures-stuns-scientists-20160313-gni10t.html
What a jump in Jan-Feb 2016 !

Well Bas the heat is still on and I think the news of the hottest February on record will be left high and dry by the numbers coming out of March. An interesting point by Australia's Chief Climate Scientist Alan Finkel last night on Q&A , he says basically whatever we are doing to reduce our emissions is making zero difference to holt the climbing World Temperatures.

 

[SirRumpole]

Well Bas the heat is still on and I think the news of the hottest February on record will be left high and dry by the numbers coming out of March. An interesting point by Australia's Chief Climate Scientist Alan Finkel last night on Q&A , he says basically whatever we are doing to reduce our emissions is making zero difference to holt the climbing World Temperatures.

Would be interesting to know the areas of the increase in emissions.

More coal fired power stations, bushfires or volcanos ?

Who has the answer ?

 

[SirRumpole]

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...-emissions-jump-in-2015--20151225-glv017.html

 

[explod]

Would be interesting to know the areas of the increase in emissions.

More coal fired power stations, bushfires or volcanos ?

Who has the answer ?

Methane release from under melting permafrost.

The horse has bolted I'm afraid.

 

[basilio]

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will do nothing to slow down increases in temperature in the near future. In fact (unfortunately) if by some miracle we closed down all coal fired power stations over a few years the global temperature would spike even higher.. (You can work that out for yourselves)

Our temperature is going up because of the GG gas emissions over the past 10-30 years. There is a lag in the effect. Climate scientists agree that there is at least another 1C degree warming in the pipeline from the current CO2 levels. All the efforts to reduce emissions are aimed at slowing and stopping additional warming from 2030 on and praying like hell that we don't go past tipping points which make the whole exercise futile. When the temperature spikes like it has this year it suggests that

1) We have already passed any remotely safe levels because if we are at 1.3C over normal now we are tracking for an inevitable 2.3C plus figure

2) We might have hit a tipping point which is accelerating global warming and will not be reversed for hundreds of thousands of years. For example methane emissions might be out of control in the Arctic or tundra regions

 

[Knobby22]

A couple of nukes will produce some global cooling. South Korea are keen to help.

 

[basilio]

A couple of nukes will produce some global cooling. South Korea are keen to help.

Yeah it could indeed. Maybe..... Not quite sure how the firestorms will help.

Sounds a bit like multiple amputations with a chainsaw to stop a raging infection. You'd ceratinly get the end one way or another a lot quicker.