New study connects global warming to recent year heat

[UnrepentantLiberal]

Associated Press
August 4, 2012

WASHINGTON — The relentless, weather-gone-crazy type of heat that has blistered the United States and other parts of the world in recent years is so rare that it can’t be anything but man-made global warming, says a new statistical analysis from a top government scientist.

The research by a man often called the “godfather of global warming” says that the likelihood of such temperatures occurring from the 1950s through the 1980s was rarer than 1 in 300. Now, the odds are closer to 1 in 10, according to the study by NASA scientist James Hansen. He says that statistically what’s happening is not random or normal, but pure and simple climate change.

“This is not some scientific theory. We are now experiencing scientific fact,” Hansen told The Associated Press in an interview.

Hansen is a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and a professor at Columbia University. But he is also a strident activist who has called for government action to curb greenhouse gases for years. While his study was published online Saturday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, it is unlikely to sway opinion among the remaining climate change skeptics.

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[ananda]

1. That last paragraph really bugs me.

It should read like this:

Also, Hansen is a brave activist voice in the cause of finding solutions
to human caused global warming. Many other scientists and people
have joined him in this worthy effort, and hopefully many more will
as we all now see what is happening.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

5. Some say the Earth is round...

others would disagree...

[NYC_SKP]

2. "But but if the oceans are rising, then how come the water is so low???"

Answer:

Because that's a picture of Lake Hefner in Oklahoma, a state which is practically on fire this summer, moran.

K/R

[jtuck004]

11. Not the first time...for boats sitting on dirt at Hefner or these temps. Lived with that

shit for 50 years. Streets buckling, wildfires, any plastic thing in your car becomes one with the car. This is mostly old hat.

It really impresses people who've never lived it, though

[lunatica]

3. They can ignore the scientists but there's no way to ignore the weather.

[RobertEarl]

4. OMG! We're doomed!

What are we gonna do now?

[UnrepentantLiberal]

6. Post to Free Republic?

[moondust]

7. Send it to Inhofe.

Whose state happens to be on fire.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Wonder if boat owners still have to pay mooring fees there

[Bette Noir]

9. I live in the Pacific Northwest. On the coast. Where it's never hot.

Today, it was 95 degrees at 6 pm.

[Betsy Ross]

10. It was so cold in the SF Bay Area today

I spent it wrapped in an electric blanket and whining. Of course the heat is worse. It is cold here but we still have drought conditions. But this may be the second year in a row that it has been too cold for growing tomatoes around the inner bay.