Of the 28 new fires reported July 16, Canada classified 15 as human-caused, eight as natural and five as undetermined.
Be careful with the darts Boyd!
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Most may be accidental, but also, arson to score political points or send a message has been going on for quite a while. It’s a social contagion and sick.
Luckily, no Tiger games in the D today.
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You can’t tee up softballs like that for me, Marty.
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Come on, don’t be a chicken. Let ‘er rip!
Wear a mask!
I feel so dirty saying that?
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That is so wrong.
Are referring to this (from Wikipedia):
Atmospheric carbon dioxide ((CO_{2})) levels have increased by roughly 54% over the last 300 years. While it sounds like a tiny fraction, just (0.04%) of our air is (CO_{2}). This small amount acts like a warm blanket, trapping heat to keep Earth livable.
So you see…
Carbon dioxide has not risen .04% over the last 300 years, it has risen 54%.
Global warming (which causes climate change) can result in some areas becoming greener while causing desertification at the same time in other places because it shifts weather patterns. So massive forests burn, and we can pray massive droughts don’t strike major food producing regions.
And glaciers are NOT growing, the are shrinking. FFS.
- Ice Loss: Between 2000 and 2023, glaciers outside of the major Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets lost around 270 billion tons of ice per year on average. [1]
- Historical Shrinkage: The World Glacier Monitoring Service reports that glaciers tracked worldwide have lost ice mass equivalent to nearly 27 meters of liquid water since 1970. [1, 2]
- Local Impacts: In Central Europe, for instance, glaciers have lost roughly 39% of their ice in little over 20 years. [1]
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Nasty. I shouldn’t complain about living in the rainforest I guess. Although it will make you crazy at times.
Two good reads
Abstract
Cloud absorption of solar radiation strongly influences Earth’s radiation balance and climate change. Whether numerical models
underestimate this absorption compared with observations has long been a highly debated issue in cloud—radiation research. Using stateof-the-art model-derived reanalyses, NCEP CFSv2, ECMWF ERA5, and NASA MERRA2, and the latest collocated satellite-surface
observation in 2012—2023, we reinvestigate this controversial issue. The results demonstrate the observed cloud absorption of solar
radiation still notably exceeds the modeled (regardless of model products), but their discrepancy has dropped a lot, particularly for
NCEP CFSv2 and ECMWF ERA5. While a further investigation is needed, the reduced discrepancy may reflect the progress of
shortwave radiation schemes in models, notably the integration of Rapid Radiative Transfer Model for General Circulation Models
(RRTMG) and the Monte Carlo Independent Column Approximation (McICA). Additionally, it is noteworthy that there is not a perfect
approach to obtaining the observed cloud absorption, and particularly the water vapor difference between clear and cloudy skies will
often result in its unrealistic overestimation. If the impact from the water vapor difference is corrected, NCEP CFSv2, ECMWF ERA5,
and NASA MERRA2 underestimate globally-mean cloud absorption by approximately 8.26, 14.50 and 16.51 W/m2
, respectively.
Additionally:
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Bored… taking a driving break
I think it’s a combination of both:
Humans have to have some type of toll but to what degree imho can’t be properly quantified
The climate has it’s known cycles of heating and cooling as well and I’m sure - to some degree - humans have to have an affect…
What I marvel at is thinking we can fix it all ourselves like little g gods and do it in ten years flat…. Foolish imo
Look at how to adoart to it, bs stopping it as we will not…
“Greenland”.
Antarctica.
The Arctic Ocean.
There are cherry picked numbers, and then, there is physical evidence.
Let’s review.
The Ice Age didn’t materialize.
Deforestation from acid rain didn’t materialize.
The Arctic Ocean has not been ice free, in fact, the ice has expanded, year over year.
Sea Lions no longer visit Antarctica because of the ice and cold.
I go with what my eyes see over what liars with a long history of lying tell me to believe.
You do you, though.
Oh, and btw, this is from Google, just now.
“The global polar bear population currently stands at an estimated 22,000 to 31,000 individuals, compared to an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 individuals roughly 40 years ago (the mid-1980s).”
Did you know that there have been Siberian Tigers spotted in Alaska recently? You’ll never guess how they got there.
Look it up.
Dude. No offense, we’re just not going to agree here.
“Greenland”.
Yes, the Greenland Ice Sheet is definitely melting. It is losing about 266 billion tons of ice every year. This massive ice loss is the top contributor to rising global sea levels. [1, 2]
Antarctica.
Antarctica’s ice sheet is losing ice at an average rate of about 135 billion tons per year. This melting is mainly driven by warmer ocean waters eroding the ice from below, causing glaciers to slide into the ocean faster and driving global sea-level rise. [1, 2]
The Arctic Ocean.
See below.
There are cherry picked numbers, and then, there is physical evidence.
Agree.
Let’s review.
Okay.
The Ice Age didn’t materialize.
?
Deforestation from acid rain didn’t materialize.
From Ecyclopedia Britannica:
The acid rain problem in Europe and North America has largely abated because of stronger SO2 and NOx emission controls, such as the U.S. Clean Air Act of 1970, the Canada–United States Air Quality Agreement in 1991, and similar measures in Europe. In the United States the first phase of emission reductions took effect in 1995, and subsequent reductions followed. Such effective emission controls have not spread to all countries, however. As developing countries such as India and China have industrialized, their emissions of SO2 and NOx have increased. This same pattern can be observed in some of the quickly growing urban areas in Latin America and Africa, which has resulted in more acidic rain and other acid deposition falling both within and downwind of those regions.
The Arctic Ocean has not been ice free, in fact, the ice has expanded, year over year.
No, sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is not expanding; it is shrinking overall due to rising global temperatures. However, there is a natural cycle of growth and shrinking, as well as new experiments designed to make specific areas of ice thicker. [1, 2, 3]
Sea Lions no longer visit Antarctica because of the ice and cold.
No, sea lions did not stop visiting Antarctica because it got colder there. In fact, true sea lions (like the South American or Australian sea lion) have never lived on the Antarctic continent because the water is too freezing and they lack the thick blubber needed to survive it. [1, 2]
I go with what my eyes see over what liars with a long history of lying tell me to believe.
Do you see smoke and haze?
You do you, though.
You too, you’re a good dude.
Oh, and btw, this is from Google, just now.
“The global polar bear population currently stands at an estimated 22,000 to 31,000 individuals, compared to an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 individuals roughly 40 years ago (the mid-1980s).”
Did you know that there have been Siberian Tigers spotted in Alaska recently? You’ll never guess how they got there.
No, wild Siberian tigers have never been officially spotted or documented in Alaska. There is no scientific, photographic, or physical evidence proving that wild tigers live anywhere in North America. [1, 2]
However, the persistent rumors and claims of “spotted” tigers in the state stem from three specific sources: April Fools’ jokes, cryptid lore, and unverified wilderness track reports. [1, 2]
Look it up.
Just did. Now THAT’S a hoax.
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Yep. My only agenda is “truth”.
I wouldn’t look to Facebook for truth, amigo.
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But, why did they name it “Green”land?
Duh!
Did you watch it?
Are you freaking kidding me, dude?
You mean you don’t know why?