Groundhog Decade: We’re stuck in a bad movie, where it’s always the hottest decade on record

[muriel_volestrangler]

Somewhere on a Hollywood movie set for Groundhog Day, Part 2: Bill Murray wakes up to find he’s just lived through the hottest decade on record, just as he did in the 1990s, just as he did in the 1980s. And he keeps waking up in the hottest decade on record, until he gains the kind of maturity and wisdom that can only come from doing the same damn thing over and over and over again with no change in the result. Ah, if only life were like a movie.

Somewhere in PA: Punxsutawney Phil saw the shadow of unrestricted fossil-fuel pollution from Homo “sapiens” sapiens today. That means global warming for another six thousand weeks — and then some (see NOAA: Climate change “largely irreversible for 1000 years,” with permanent Dust Bowls in Southwest and around the globe).

If we keep listening to the siren song of delay, delay, delay from the anti-science, pro-pollution crowd, then eventually people aren’t going to go through this elaborate charade of wondering whether some large rodent in Pennsylvania can predict the weather — the forecast will always be the same, “bloody hot”:

* M.I.T. doubles its 2095 warming projection to 10°F — with 866 ppm and Arctic warming of 20°F
* Hadley Center: “Catastrophic” 5-7°C warming by 2100 on current emissions path
* Our hellish future: Definitive NOAA-led report on U.S. climate impacts warns of scorching 9 to 11°F warming over most of inland U.S. by 2090 with Kansas above 90°F some 120 days a year — and that isn’t the worst case, it’s business as usual!”

http://climateprogress.org/2011/02/02/groundhog-day-movie-global-warming-hottest-decade-on-record/]

[Demeter]

1. Don't Even LOOK at the Econmy, Then

You'll just get terminally depressed.

[pscot]

2. I think events in the next 10 years

will create a profound shift in the way people think. The climate deniers are going to have the ground cut out from under them. People are going to start to die because of climate change. Food and energy will run short. The next forty or fifty years are going to suck. The way this year is beginning is just a preview of what's coming.