Rebecca is trying to get her audience hysterical about “climate change” and massive sea level rise, so she prints a graph which shows that sea level rise rates have been unchanging and slow over the past century – at two mm/year.
Do you have to prove that your brain is barely functional in order to write or comment at Romm’s site?
Note that the graph shows that sea level rise has slowed since 1960.
We have a huge forest fire burning just west of Fort Collins. It started yesterday afternoon and has already burned over 15,000 acres. The sun is completed blotted out.
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Is the EPA stupid, criminal, or both?
Thawing Permafrost
Permafrost refers to a layer of soil or rock that is frozen all year round. Permafrost is found throughout much of Alaska, parts of Canada, and other countries in the far north. You might think a place with permafrost would be barren, but plants can still grow in the soil at the surface, which is not frozen during warmer parts of the year. However, there may be a thick layer of permafrost underneath. As air temperature rises, so does the temperature of the ground, which can cause permafrost to thaw (or melt).
What’s happening now?
Ground temperatures have increased throughout Alaska since the late 1970s, and permafrost has already thawed in many places.
Thawing Permafrost | A Student’s Guide to Global Climate Change | US EPA
Complete BS. In 1954, Canada had to relocate their largest Arctic community – due to melting permafrost. That was 25 years earlier than the EPA’s claim.
Romm says that Antarctica is rapidly melting, at 143 degrees below the freezing point.
Weather Forecast Vostok, Antarctica | Vostok Weather | Wunderground
Sweden’s reindeer population is on the verge of extinction – because it’s too cold for them. The beasts – famous for their survival in Arctic conditions – have been struggling to find food on their mountainside habitats which are still covered in thick snow. “We’ve had bad years before but we are really worried how this will work out. “I’ve already started finding dead reindeer calves on the mountain,” said herder Mikael Jonsson from Rans Sami village.
h/t to http://iceagenow.info/
Electricity is very expensive in Colorado because of green energy regulations, so NCAR is building their latest climate supercomputer in Wyoming.
New Wyoming supercomputer expected to boost atmospheric science The National Center for Atmospheric Research’s machine is one of the fastest computers ever built, its sheer speed designed to burst through the limits of chaos theory.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research’s supercomputer has been dubbed Yellowstone, after the nearby national park, but it could have been named Nerdvana. The machine will have 100 racks of servers and 72,000 core processors, so many parts that they must be delivered in the back of a 747. Yellowstone will be capable of performing 1.5 quadrillion calculations — a quadrillion is a 1 followed by 15 zeros — every second.
That’s nearly a quarter of a million calculations, each second, for every person on Earth. In a little more than an hour, Yellowstone can do as many calculations as there are grains of sand on every beach in the world.
“These are chaotic systems, but it’s just math,” said Richard Loft, director of technology development at NCAR’s Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. “We play statistics in the climate game. We feed in the basic laws of science, and out comes something that looks like the Earth’s climate. It’s an instrument. This is a mathematical telescope.”
New Wyoming supercomputer expected to boost atmospheric science – latimes.com
I know Richard, and he is a very bright computer scientist. The problem is that many of “the basic laws of science” are not understood and not modeled. For example, clouds can’t be modeled with any degree of accuracy more than a few minutes in advance. Scientists also have little predictive skill for ocean patterns like ENSO more than a few weeks in advance.
NCAR can throw a ton of hardware at climate modeling, but all it will do is generate GIGO faster than before.
Obama has borrowed nearly as much money as all other presidents combined, and yet has managed to keep unemployment over 9% during most of his term.
Table 1.1—Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits (-): 1789–2017
