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This is awful news 🙁[link:http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/unprecedented-scientists-declare-global-climate-emergency-after-jet-stream-crosses-equator/|
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)All that matters is Candidate A, who is the one and true candidate, who is better than the Brand X candidate, will prevail.
leeroysphitz
(10,462 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Warpy
(111,138 posts)looks like it has come up above the equator. The northern jet over Asia looks like it needs a chiropractor but it's comfortably above the equator.
I have to wonder if this might be what's been shutting down storm activity in the Pacific this year. Storms have been trying to form off the coast of Mexico, only to fizzle out quickly.
I'm not ready to call for the end of life as we know it because we simply haven't observed the jet streams long enough to know what they do from time to time. It is a little worrying but it might fall into the category of weather, rather than climate.
sylvanus
(122 posts)But don't worry your pretty little heads about it, just
keep on making them cute lil'babies and giving them all
the toys they want. Precious lil'dumplings gifts from heaven, the sixth
great extinction is for other folks, not YOU.
B2G
(9,766 posts)sylvanus
(122 posts)I love squeezing their chubby little cheeks, and saying, " who's gonna have a wonderful
post-apocalyptic nightmare" "your are, you are!".
All wrapped up in your pink fleece (petro-chems), in your diaper (petro-chems), with your
little plastic ducky (petro-chems), in your crib made mostly with (petro-chems).
"Whose gonna get drafted to fight all those coming resource wars, climate refugees, and various unsavory types for the 1%, you are". You cuddly lil, carbon bomb.
Keep on having them babies, it's gonna all be ok.
Cause what we need most of all is more people. One of those precious little pumpkins
is gonna invent and iPhone app to take all the carbon outta the atmosphere.
Trust.
B2G
(9,766 posts)A silver lining if there ever was one.
sylvanus
(122 posts)I'm 48, married with 3 shelter dogs.
All of which have a smaller carbon foot print, than on
precious bundle of joy.
The worse thing you can do for the environment is have kids,
especially here in north america. (Do to the exponential amount of waste and energy usage.)
and.
What the hell is so bad about human extinction.
I'm not a human exceptionalist. Kinda a good Ol'fashioned nihilist.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)At least for today, you are my hero
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Well said.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)All you have to to is convince the rich that they can still make money with [font color=green]green[/font] techno...oh fuck it.
We're all gonna fry.
B2G
(9,766 posts)robertscribbler
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fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)climate scientists have contributed articles mentioning their "bug-out' plans and places to go. I'm placing my bet on the Pacific Northwest coast. Although I wish that freaking nuke in Japan would get taken care of.
senz
(11,945 posts)ananda
(28,834 posts)And the warnings have been presented to us ever
since the 70's as I remember.
B2G
(9,766 posts)fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)It is still sometimes propagated by the usual suspects in global warming denying circles.
B2G
(9,766 posts)It was actively pushed by the media back then.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Even though the publish date was back then, the cover was spoofed, but there is the original text still available on the intertubes.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Climate signs now show warming.
I take it to mean we have altered nature so much that instead of cooling we have warming. That's how much we have altered nature.
B2G
(9,766 posts)To name another. Most didn't cite sound science, bit thay didn't stop them.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)from human activity.
There was a Scientific American article from 76 ish that painted a cold doom
snot
(10,502 posts)Can't resist noting, of the maps referred to in the video is v. cool, interactive, at https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/250hPa/equirectangular=-102.57,35.78,189/loc=-95.591,34.691 .
lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)maryellen99
(3,785 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)and far too many people don't care.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)I found no other sources.
petronius
(26,597 posts)There's no doubt that weather and climate are changing, due to human activities, but upper-tropospheric winds cross the equator all the time. A couple of bloggers playing 'connect-the-dots' with a random day's map is not "scientists declare a global emergency," nor is the pattern shown to be "unprecedented"...