As I noted a few days ago, the ratio of daily record high temperatures to record low temperatures recorded in the US sems to be on an exponential curve:

Ratios of Record daily high to record daily low temperatures - USA::

1950's - 1.09:1
1960's - 0.77:1
1970's - 0.78:1
1980's - 1.14:1
1990's - 1.36:1
2000's - 2.04:1
past year - 5.25:1 [correction 2.86]

EDIT:
Oops! I was mixing data. The 5.25 (up to 5.5 today) ratio is for all-time high vs all time low temperature records set. The rest of figures are for daily records set. The figures are still on the rise.

He meant it in the mathematical sense, that's why the temp vs time curve is called a 'hockey stick' plot. Since it is caused by CO2, it has little choice but to grow exponentially, as CO2 is also growing exponentially (i.e. its on its own 'hockey stick'): http://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-global-warming.htm An interesting artifact of exponential curves is that if you can define the point at which 'catastrophy happens', i.e. the system simply can't sustain the phenomonen anymore, you can zoom out and see that there's a period of time when the curve is horizontal, and then a knee, and then a period of time when the curve is vertical. It turns out that for global warming, assuming 6C of temp anomaly since 1900 is where the system breaks down, the knee is happening right now. That means that in our past, 'nothing was happening', and in our future, its going to become very real, very fast.

Climate changes. It always has. It always will. Who exactly ever doubted that? Not the people that actually labor out in it. A new derivatives market and subsidies will never change that.

interesting...I was just saying almost your exact words regarding Americans and '3rd worlders'... how long until the average American understands that, economically, we are all equally vulnerable, as, underneath it all, we all have nothing not purchased... in fact, when one actually considers the horrific environmental damage we are currently inflicting upon the living world, it is worse than having nothing... it is destroying the potential to have a future... humans are actively killing their only hope... anyway, I appreciate your passion, and you reflected my thinking...

The audacity of hope

Procreation should always include asking the question of what sort of life we are bringing our children and grandchildren into, but we whould never let a handful of elitists (01 to 02%) continue to procreate while we choose not to....think about it.

It is a mix of information I obtained here:

http://www2.ucar.edu/news/1036/record-high-temperatures-far-outpace-reco...

and information I researched myself here:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/records/:

And note - except for a couple weeks in December, and just in the southeast, even the supposedly "record cold" past winter saw far more record highs than record lows.:

Anecdotally speaking, this trend of setting record highs, but hardly ever record lows has become quite noticable. In particularly, the temperature does not fall nearly as rapidly at night - even on the clearest, calmest nights with snow cover - especially dramatic on hilltops. This is one of obvious expected effects of CO2 impeding radiational cooling. The SW Pennsylvania hilltop area where I live has become so frostproof that I was still picking tomatos in Novermber last fall.

"where I live we're going through another really moderate summer" That's like saying there's no such thing as AIDS because you don't have it. If it was meant to elicit sympathy, the effect is the opposite.

Except, of course, it's not just you driving back and forth to work. It's 150 million or so other folks driving back and forth to work. EVERY DAY. And, it's not just here in the usa, it's all over the world. Think about it.

GARDEN: Your DISHONESTY on this issue is morally repugnant. You're trying to obscure what's really going on by talking about carbon credits, or alleging, quite falsely, that the gargantuan weather events of the past 15 months are just a "natural occurrence." There's only 3 reasons why someone would STILL take this stance: (PARAGRAPH)---- 1. They are paid to 2. They are stupid, or incapable of taking in the magnitude of the evidence all around them 3. They are loyal to interests that either want to keep the population complacent, and that requires false information; or they wish to keep the corporate world busily churning out its products, and don't wish to see any perturbation in consumer spending models. (PARAGRAPH)------------------------------------- I'm sure you'll do your best to cover your arse; but I've seen you present these same talking points in this forum before. And it's sickening, right up there with a comment you posted suggesting that rape was no big deal (about a month ago) (PARAGRAPH)------------------------------------------ IF the public fully understood the truth, the will might be in place to make meaningful changes while there still is enough time to do so. You, on the other hand, by making light of all the catastrophic events that recently transpired, are basically singing a lullaby designed to keep them asleep... as the waters rise. If you have a conscience, you should be ashamed of yourself.

garden, ...............................You are an anti-science idiot. AND you have your bipartisan wacky nut-job conspiracy theories conflated. ........................................Repeat after me: A month is not a year is not a decade is not a century. Weather is not climate and local is not global. It's why they don't call it 'local weather inconvenience', but GLOBAL CLIMATE CATASTROPHE. ............................................Knowingly spreading climate denialism will soon be considered a crime against humanity. Stop before you are unbreakably linked to a shameless and psychopathic group of corporations and far-right ideologues. Look up the scientific truth.

"It kills me... your wall street sceam, are sceamers ..KNOWN AND ACKNOLEDGED ..I'SD LIKE ..."

I think that you will be ok- it won't kill you, BUT there has been an obvious and detrimental affect upon your ability to spell and make a cohesive statement.

Initiate: Do you remember TV's character, "Columbo," and how he would act stupid to either plant information or obtain it? There are people in this forum who are NOT here to learn anything, nor could truth be bothered to shift their opinions. That's because in their cases, it's really not about opinion, at all. It's about being here to frame issues in a way that fulfills certain industries, government agencies, and right wing think tanks. There is more than one type of embed in this forum. They generally take aim at important pundits from the Progressive Community, while also attempting to discred their theses. By pretending to be casual observers who don't see what everyone else who's informed sees, they use plausible deniability to plant doubts about not only the obvious, but the necessary. And by that I mean those areas that scream out for changed collective approaches. They are the preservers of a status quo so dangerous, deadly, and murderous, that they'd consign us all to early deaths while believing they're only executing their right to free speech (or some other virtual derivative of freedom that's rendered meaningless, since their stance is one intent upon annihilation of all sentient beings). The time for ignorance on this topic is long past... so anyone clinging to it, HAS to have suspect motives (unless they had a massive head wound some time ago.)

4 degrees C as Steiner claims is 7.2 degrees F. The difference between that and 10 degrees F is perhaps the margin of error on future projections.

Provided we keep our fingers off the nuclear arsenals I imagine that millions of humans might pass through the bottleneck, perhaps as many as 50-100 million.

There will be novel habitat for many new species to evolve and exploit but the Earth will be very different. It will take several millenia to capture and lay down the carbon and return to more moderate temperatures.

Yours does to me as well. I went back to the top and started again and read your comments from earlier in the thread, and yes, I can see that you had to be busy/angry/distracted when you wrote the one I made comment to, as the comment you posted at 11:47 am is lucid and one that I agree with in general.

At 3:39 pm, if I am correctly evaluating your intent, you are saying that money making / cap and trade SCHEMES will do nothing to stop climate change? I 100% agree with that. The part in all caps, I'm still not sure what your intent is, but I would say that by the earlier comment, you do know what's going on. I apologize to have "jumped" on you, but I really didn't know where your 3:39 post was coming from.

Many of us get carried away, etc because the stress being inflicted upon us by THEM can be unbearable at times. There are those who for whatever strange reasons feel the need to drop in and make some of the most outre comments, probably with the intent to rattle cages. There are many whose sole intent seems to be to admonish us to "work within the system", "behave like sheep", "understand that we are powerless against the mighty elites", etc. It makes me get carried away, too!

Keep on punchin', friend. I'm with you.

Bullshit.

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