It’s January and the temperatures this week in Philly will reach 60 degrees by the weekend. Normally, temperatures would be in the 30s. I remember years when temperatures were close to zero in January. The facts speak for themselves. Last year, by far, was the warmest in over 100 years. I conclude that we are in a warming phase. But, so what? Some of it is probably being caused by human activity, some is being caused by solar activity, and some is just the normal heating and cooling phases the earth goes through. If we think we can control nature, we are fools. We just need to adapt to the changes as they occur. I’m going to adapt by not wearing a coat this weekend when the temperature hits 62 degrees. I’m growing to like Global warming.
It’s Getting Hot In Here: 2012 Hottest Year On Record
Submitted by Tyler Durdenon 01/09/2013 09:24 -0500
2012 was a historic year for extreme weather that included drought, wildfires, hurricanes and storms. But, as NOAA reported yesterday, 2012 marked the warmest year on record for the contiguous United States. The average temperature for 2012 was 55.3°F, 3.2°F above the 20th century average, and 1.0°F above 1998, the previous warmest year. Rainfall was dismal also at 26.57 inches, 2.57 inches below average, making it the 15th driest year on record for the nation. NOAA also adds that the U.S. Climate Extremes Index indicated that 2012 was the second most extreme year on record for the nation, nearly twice the average value and second only to 1998. 2012 saw 11 disasters that reached the $1 billion threshold in losses. Climate Central also confirms that fully two-thirds of the lower 48 states recorded their first-, second- or third-hottest years, and 43 states had one of their top 10 warmest years ever recorded. Globally, 2012 appears to be the eight warmest on record.
Hottest Year on Record
And one of the driest (least precipitation) on record…
With very significant events everywhere…
but it’s not just the US, the world saw extreme weather everywhere…
Source: NOAA and Climate Central
bluestem says:
“When you’re hot you’re hot, when you’re not you’re not,”……. Remember that oldie Admin? John
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9th January 2013 at 9:58 am
Wyoming Mike says:
We’re having -15 this weekend, global warming my ass!
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9th January 2013 at 10:09 am
Administrator says:
Wyoming Mike
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9th January 2013 at 10:19 am
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Boomer Cat
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9th January 2013 at 10:21 am
Pete says:
The politicians and bureacrats are so good at controlling and fine tuning the economy, I’m sure they’d do wonders with controlling the weather.
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9th January 2013 at 11:02 am
KaD says:
“I’m growing to like Global warming”
Up to a point. That point at which it’s no longer a laughing matter is when the great grain belt of the United States it so dry it will no longer grow ANYTHING. That is the point at which tens of millions of Americans become ecological refugees, because you can’t survive by eating nothing. Hopefully it doesn’t get to that point but we’ll see.
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9th January 2013 at 11:30 am
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KaD
They’ll always have KFC fried intestines as an option.
Why does the grain belt have to be in the Midwest? If the weather favors the grain belt being in the northeast and southest, so be it.
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9th January 2013 at 11:35 am
AWD says:
What happens when you pump 1 million metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere every single day? It warms up. Good thing admin doesn’t believe in global warming.
Australia is so hot they had to add new colors to the weather map
Posted by Olga Khazan on January 8, 2013
As scorching temperatures persist across Australia, the country’s Bureau of Meteorology added a new color to its weather forecasting map, extending the range to 54ºC, or 129ºF, from the previous cap of 50ºC, or 122ºF.
The new, deeper purple “dome of heat” swirls above South Australia, indicating temperatures above 50ºC in some areas.
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9th January 2013 at 11:49 am
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AWD
I love global warming. Short sleaves in January. Awesome!!!!
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9th January 2013 at 12:07 pm
Administrator says:
So AWD, what is your solution to global warming?
We breathlessly await your plan to change the climate back to the way it should be.
You certainly know what the temperature should be, right?
Should we ban all carbon fuels?
Carbon tax?
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9th January 2013 at 12:10 pm
AWD says:
My solution is simple.
1) Kill all Boomers.
2) Kill all Fat Phucks, regrdless of age.
Those two groups emit trillions of tons of CO2. Killing them saves the planet. Thanks for asking.
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9th January 2013 at 12:13 pm
ThePessimisticChemist says:
My god, that information goes back OVER 100 YEARS!
The end is nigh folks.
@AWD – “What happens when you pump 1 million metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere every single day?”
Thanks for the Sesame Street science there chief. I’ll get to work on publishing your brilliance in just a few minutes.
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9th January 2013 at 12:20 pm
Ron says:
China and Russia have record cold right now. The only thing different here is snow fall started a month later than normal but we have had a good amount since then.
I considered texas as a place to move to but this drought stuff makes you wonder.
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9th January 2013 at 12:29 pm
fool on the hill says:
Admin,
Here in New Hampshire my woodpile is in great shape.
Lived in Del. thirty years ago and think the weather has followed me North.
Wonder if the bust of Ben made of pennys is still in front of the Betsy Ross house?
Tell the monkeys I was born in Boston, raised by a single war widow, am an ivy league engineer and a very good shot.
Miss the scrapple and pretzels though.
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9th January 2013 at 12:31 pm
Eddie says:
We’re over 400 ppm CO2 and headed nowhere but up with that.
Positive feedback loops have been triggered that are making the process accelerate. Current models are probably too optimistic (not that they’re particularly optimistic, but the reality is likely even worse.)
Enjoy the warm weather. There’s a famine blowiing in sometime in the not too distant future. And oxygen levels are dropping in the atmosphere, something that hasn’t gotten a lot of press, but you will be reading about it soon, I’m pretty sure.
I could link some articles, but I doubt anyone’s POV would be changed. And the process is almost certainly past any hope of turning it around, even if we did everything possible, which we are not going to do anyway.
So…we shall see. I hope we (and lots of other species) can adapt,
It’s been raining in central Texas for 24 hours. It feels like a small miracle. I sat up way past my bedtime watching the storm. In a dry country, a thunderstorm is a sacred event.
We won’t get enough to break the drought, but it will help.
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9th January 2013 at 12:50 pm
ThePessimisticChemist says:
I’ve little doubt that the weather is changing…but to act like CO2 is the primary cause of a climate change is just poor science.
@Eddie – “And oxygen levels are dropping in the atmosphere,”
This right here is the big problem. My personal belief is that the continual deforestation processes going on have caused far more problems than cow fars or my ford focus.
A massive population culling is coming, and I can’t entirely say that thats a bad thing.
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9th January 2013 at 12:55 pm
Kill Bill says:
Nice to see that AWD is embracing his inner Lanza
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9th January 2013 at 12:55 pm
ThePessimisticChemist says:
AWD’s hatred of fatties is damn near legendary. He even made it into a Family Guy skit!
As the fat guy strangler.
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9th January 2013 at 12:57 pm
Kill Bill says:
They dont know what the Earths normal temperature is.
Apophis, due tonite, if it were to hit earth, which it isnt, could start another ice age.
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9th January 2013 at 1:00 pm
Stalker says:
sesame street science says shooting stout seasoned stiffs solves social suffering
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9th January 2013 at 1:02 pm
Kill Bill says:
@Eddie – “And oxygen levels are dropping in the atmosphere,
I dont recall at the exact point of oxygen reduction that fires wont burn but were not that far from it.
Would be a ironic end to a carbon based oxygen breathing oil burning society.
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9th January 2013 at 1:04 pm
AWD says:
First of all,
Stucky (or whoever) can blow me for the dopple.. You dumbshits, please note the icon of a genuine AWD post.
Second, I support global warming. I would like nothing better than to have it be 80 degrees every day in Illinois. I like hot weather. I hate snow and ice.
Third, thanks for reminding me of my disdain for obese people. Maybe everyone else enjoys looking at people that look like they’ve swallowed a midget or have an 180lb tumor on their bodies. I don’t. It’s going to be all fun and games when millions of obese diabetics start getting their limbs amputated.
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9th January 2013 at 1:13 pm
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fool on the hill
The Ben Bust is still there.
I hate the cold, so global warming is fine with me.
I have a couple slabs of scrapple in the frig. I’ll fry it up over the weekend for the kids. Only Avalon won’t eat it.
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9th January 2013 at 1:15 pm
Kill Bill says:
Third, thanks for reminding me of my disdain for obese people -AWD
Spoken like a true doctor.
Wait.
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9th January 2013 at 1:16 pm
AWD says:
“Spoken like a true doctor.”
You, fortunately, don’t have my job. See, obese women (and men), but women in particular, have pores that close and are mashed, especially in the inguinal area (crotch). They get abscesses as a result, and some asshole doctor has to lance the “boil” and drain the fetid god-awful smelling puss out. And that’s after smelling the crotch in the first place, which smells like rotten fish floating in a sea of diarrhea.
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9th January 2013 at 1:23 pm
ThePessimisticChemist says:
@AWD – I was a late night EKG/monitor tech for 4 years at our local hospital (300 beds?). Its small, but given the number of obese I was extremely busy.
They stopped being people to me. They were just toads. Fat, rude, smelly toads.
Ever see them crouching in their special XXXX-wide hospital chair? WIth their hands propped up on the arms TRYING to shift their ponderous bulk a few inches because the remote just feel between fat folds 1 and 2?
They look like toads.
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9th January 2013 at 1:35 pm
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9th January 2013 at 1:50 pm
ThePessimisticChemist says:
I didn’t take this picture, but I did see this while trying to get my coffee today.
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9th January 2013 at 3:28 pm
AWD says:
The blimp on the right has a license plate,
it reads “Clasy Ldy” Yea, a real class act. Paid for with your money.
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9th January 2013 at 3:32 pm
Llpoh says:
I just think everyone should move someplace colder, like Detroit, or maybe the 30 bblocks in Phillie. Just move where it is colder, and nicer, like those places.
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9th January 2013 at 3:34 pm
ThePessimisticChemist says:
I just noticed my picture is too big for the web page. Sorry about that, but there was nothing I could do.
Fat people take fat pictures.
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9th January 2013 at 3:56 pm
AWD says:
I forgot to add that the only way to lance those “boils” in the inguinal area is by using my own small, but pointy, cock. My hands are too shaky with anger for me to use sharp medical instruments. You guys should try fucking fifteen fat ugly smelly vaginas every day before you judge me.
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9th January 2013 at 4:12 pm
AWD says:
Hilarious, another dopple. Thanks for the attention, there’s no such thing as bad publicity.
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9th January 2013 at 4:13 pm
ThePessimisticChemist says:
Some fat fingered fat fuck accidentally downvoted all of our hilarious posts while trying to upvote them.
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9th January 2013 at 4:24 pm
IndenturedServant says:
admin said:
“I’m growing to like Global warming.”
Me too! I hope it happens really fast. Rising sea levels will wipe out nearly every brain damaged progressive/liberal/democrat population center including Shitcago! Unfortunately Denver will still be there. I suggest that TBP visitors who live in such areas purchase property both higher and further inland and develop a bug out plan for your current location. You could also make some speculative real estate investments by purchasing property that might become coastal islands!
I_S
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9th January 2013 at 4:40 pm
Thinker says:
They’re saying our open sewer here in Chicago (aka, the Chicago River) may reverse flow back INTO Lake Michigan (where our drinking water comes from) if lake levels continue to recede. I’m sure you all know the history of the Chicago River flow.
We’re down about 19 inches right now.
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9th January 2013 at 4:59 pm
Novista says:
AWD
You might try to find Bernard Wolfe’s “Limbo” (1952) for his dystopian future where elective amputation is a recommendation. Progressives might like it too …
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9th January 2013 at 6:06 pm
Thinker says:
Latest update; this is getting scary.
Lake Huron, Lake Michigan hit their lowest water levels since record keeping began in 1918
By John Flesher, The Associated Press
..TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – Two of the Great Lakes have hit their lowest water levels ever recorded.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday that tests taken in January show that Lake Huron and Lake Michigan were at their lowest ebb since record keeping began in 1918.
The lakes were 29 inches below their long-term average and had declined 17 inches since January 2012. The other Great Lakes — Superior, Erie and Ontario — were also well below average.
Scientists say the drought and other natural forces, along with dredging of rivers that drain from the lakes, have contributed to the level drops.
Low water causes heavy economic losses by forcing cargo ships to carry lighter loads, leaving boat docks high and dry, and damaging fish spawning areas.
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9th January 2013 at 12:13 pm