https://usm.maine.edu/planet/sun-getting-hotter-if-so-why-will-earth-eventually-become-too-hot-life

 

I most certainly encourage everyone to actually click on this link and see for themselves what utter fraud and laughable right wing false propaganda we haw going here. The first two are more than 50 years old and were predicted on the first Earth Day. The Ice age one is from 1958 and quotes Betty Friedan. And the other two have actually come true. The ice caps continue to melt at a record pace. And famine has actually taken over the world which is why there is a constant stream of migrants trying to flee starvation including those coming to our southern border.

This is just sad and sick bullshit that insults the intelligence of anyone who actually bothers to read it instead of falling for the just flat out fucking lying misdirection from our resident fraud.

 

'Quad-State Tornado' crossed four states in four hours, a rare December tornado
The National Weather Service will confirm if a single tornado tracked over 200 miles from Arkansas to Kentucky, which could set the record for longest tornado in U.S. history
Dec. 11, 2021, 8:29 AM MST / Updated Dec. 11, 2021, 2:36 PM MST
By Kathryn Prociv and Nicole Acevedo
One of the deadly tornadoes that erupted under the cloak of darkness overnight Friday into the early hours of Saturday, leaving at least 70 dead, may have set the record for the longest continuous tornado in American history.

The devastating outbreak, which included more than 30 tornado reports across six states stretching across the Mississippi Valley, Southeast and Midwest, is also an extremely rare event this late into the year.

One tornado, being called the "Quad-State Tornado" ripped across four states in four hours (Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky), slamming communities such as Monette, Arkansas, and Mayfield, Kentucky, which were two of the hardest hit towns.


Drone video captures Kentucky tornado devastation
Dec. 11, 202100:47
There were at least eight tornado emergencies issued, a designation which is reserved for the most life-threatening tornado events when a confirmed large and dangerous tornado is headed toward people.

The tornado that devastated the town of Mayfield was produced by a parent thunderstorm that traveled more than 230 miles across four states over the course of four hours.


Heavy damage downtown after a tornado swept through the area on Dec. 11, 2021 in Mayfield, Ky.Brett Carlsen / Getty Images
The National Weather Service will perform the official tornado survey to confirm if it was a continuous tornado or several tornadoes produced by the same storm. If confirmed as one single and continuous tornado, it will set the record for the longest “long-track” tornado in U.S. History.

The longest on record is the “Tri-State” tornado from 1925, which tracked 219 miles across Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.

While the National Weather Service provides the official intensities of the tornadoes after conducting storm surveys, there are several indications that the tornadoes, including the Mayfield one, were in the strong to violent categories, which meteorologists consider EF3, EF4 or EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.

One such indicator was debris lofted high into the air. Radar suggested that the Mayfield tornado threw debris over 30,000 feet into the air. That's the altitude commercial airplanes fly.

And this event was rare for December.

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The devastation in Mayfield, Ky., at first light on Dec. 11, 2021, after multiple tornadoes tore through parts of the lower Midwest.Ohio Valley Aerial / via Facebook
Since 1950, there have only been 19 F/EF4 tornadoes in the U.S. during the last month of the year and only 2 F/EF5 tornadoes.

The last EF4 tornado to strike the U.S. during the month of December was during the Christmas Outbreak of December 2015.

The last EF5 tornado to strike the U.S. during the month of December was in 1957.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weathe...tates-four-hours-leaving-trail-death-rcna8465

 

Climate crisis, eh stumbler?

 

At the end of the Ice Age, when the glaciers started melting, Sea levels rose ! The only obvious conclusion here is: The glaciers have never stopped melting, and humans had nothing to do with what was happenning by natural forces !

 

Tornado outbreak offers a grim climate warning

Andrew Freedman

An aerial photo shows a damage as cleanup efforts continue after tornado hit Mayfield, Kentucky, on Dec. 12, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images


The deadly tornado rampage across a six-state region Friday night into Saturday bears the hallmarks of climate change-related trends that scientists have been studying more closely in recent years.

Why it matters: Climate change is altering the environment in which tornadoes form in ways that raise the odds of sparking dangerous severe weather outbreaks across the South and Mid-South, particularly during the fall and winter when the jet stream dives toward the region.

• The weekend outbreak illustrates an extreme scenario of what can happen when all the ingredients that cause devastating tornadoes come together in spades. These include a record warm, humid air mass and powerful winds that shift in speed/direction with height, which is known as wind shear.
• But the attribution of individual outbreaks, and to some extent overall trends, is trickier with tornadoes, researchers say, since they are small-scale phenomena when compared to other extreme events such as heat waves.
• Increasingly, though, climate change clues are emerging, and they're not encouraging.
• Tornado risk is increasing in the Mid-South and Southeast compared to the Plains states, and tornado occurrence is becoming more variable from year-to-year. A new study shows that as temperatures increase, so do key ingredients for severe weather outbreaks.

The big picture: The latest outbreak stands apart from anything previously seen during the month of December. In some respects, what occurred was worse than anything that came before it, no matter what month you look at.

• The supercell thunderstorm that tracked for more than 250 miles from Arkansas into Kentucky spawned either a single tornado or family of twisters that may have broken the record for the longest tornado path length in U.S. history.
• That storm, feasting off an air mass that more closely resembled April or May than December, catapulted debris 30,000 feet into the air. Some rained down from the sky more than 100 miles away.
• The storms were the deadliest December tornado outbreak on record. If the Mayfield tornado is rated as an EF-5 on the tornado damage scale, it will be one of just three such high-end twisters to occur in December.

Context: Victor Gensini, a meteorology professor at Northern Illinois University, said he woke up Friday morning to a weather map that looked more like spring than December.

• A record warm air mass was in place across the Southeast and humidity was high. Both act as fuel for severe weather.
• The warmth and humidity were boosted by strong winds blowing north from the unusually warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf waters are running several degrees above average for this time of year.

In Memphis, Tennessee, the high on Friday was 80°F, a record high and 25°F above average for the date. The heat played a critical role in fueling the disaster.

• So too did powerful mid and upper level winds that were blowing in different directions with height, causing thunderstorms to spin like a top.
• Climate studies show that shear may decrease some as the world warms, but that warm, moist and unstable environments will become more common. It's when these ingredients overlap that you get a record-shattering event, and for tornadoes, this occurs most frequently in the Mid-South and South during fall and winter.
• "The shear is almost always there in the cool season, it's the instability that you don’t have," Gensini said.

Change in favorable tornado days between 1979 and 2020, in days per decade. Image: Victor Gensini
Between the lines: Tornado trends, such as a shift in their geographic distribution, and increased variability from year to year, are what scientists expect to see in a warming world, according to Gensini.

• Projections show an increase in major outbreaks in the mid-South and Southeast in particular, he said.
• Harold Brooks, senior scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Oklahoma, who also studies tornadoes and climate change, told Axios that the increase in days with favorable conditions for tornadoes in the South and Southeast already stands out as a climate-related signal.
• Gensini compared tornado attribution today to the steroids era of baseball. Pinning an individual home run on steroid use is difficult, he said, but in the aggregate the trends are evident.
• He said the right question to ask now may be whether anyone can prove that climate change is not influencing tornadoes and the environment in which they form.

What's next: The heartbreaking devastation that played out over the weekend may be a preview of what's to come as favorable conditions for strong southern tornadoes overlap more with sprawling communities that lack the strict building codes present in some historically tornado-prone states.

• "What we’re going to see is more of these disasters," Gensini said.

https://www.axios.com/tornado-disas...ing-a4c2788c-46fd-4851-a55f-e373798814f9.html

 

U are right think you

 

Uh oh.
Anon has an admirer!

 

UN confirms record 38C temperature for the Arctic
Siberian town of Verkhoyansk reached the temperature during a prolonged heatwave in June last year.


A man digs a control line during the work on extinguishing a forest fire near the village of Magaras in the region of Yakutia, Russia July 17, 2021 [File: Roman Kutukov/Reuters]
Published On 14 Dec 202114 Dec 2021
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed that a temperature of 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) reached in a Siberian town last year was a record for the Arctic.

The United Nations’ agency said on Tuesday the temperature that hit Verkhoyansk on June 20, 2020, came during a prolonged heatwave amid conditions which averaged as much as 10C (50F) above normal for much of the summer over Arctic Siberia.


“This new Arctic record is one of a series of observations … that sound the alarm bells about our changing climate,” said Petteri Taalas, the WMO’s secretary-general.



@WMO
WMO has recognized temperature of 38°C (100.4°F) in Verkhoyansk (Russia) on 20.6.2020 as new #Arctic record It occurred during a prolonged heatwave, which drove massive fires and sea ice loss and contributed to 2020 being one of 3 warmest years on record https://bit.ly/3IJR1xw

1:29 AM · Dec 14, 2021


Verkhoyansk is about 115km (71 miles) north of the Arctic Circle – a region that is among the fastest warming in the world and is heating more than twice the global average.

The WMO said in a statement the 2020 heatwave “fuelled devastating fires, drove massive sea loss and played a major role” in last year being one of the three hottest years on record.

“It is possible, indeed likely, that greater extremes will occur in the Arctic region in the future,” it added.


The body has opened a record number of investigations into weather extremes as climate change unleashes unrivalled storms and heatwaves.

Since Arctic records are a new category, the data for the Verkhoyansk probe needed checking against other records as part of a vigorous verification process involving a network of volunteers.

The record is now an official entry in the World Weather & Climate Extremes Archive, a sort of Guinness World Records for weather that also includes the heaviest hailstone and longest lightning flash.

The agency already has a category for the Antarctic and had to create a new one for the Arctic after the submission in 2020.

Last year also saw a new temperature record for the Antarctic continent of 18.3C (65F) at Argentina’s Esperanza station, while a WMO committee is also verifying other potential heat records, including in Death Valley in California in 2020.

The organisation is also seeking to validate a reported record for Europe in Italy’s Sicily, which saw the thermometer climb to 48.8C (120F) this summer.

“The WMO Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes has never had so many ongoing simultaneous investigations,” Taalas said.

Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/14/un-confirms-record-artic-temperature

 

So how's things going in the mid west tonight?

 

'Unprecedented extreme weather' batters Midwest days after tornadoes cut path of devastation

Bob Brigham
December 16, 2021



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The Midwest was battered by hurricane-force winds, dust storms, derechos, power outages, snow squalls, tornados, snownados and wild fires as a powerful storm battered Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Michigan.

"A powerful storm system swept through the central United States on Wednesday with high winds that kicked up dust storms, fueled wildfires and knocked down power lines, leaving more than 450,000 customers without power," The Washington Post reported. "More than 36 million people from New Mexico to Michigan were under high-wind warnings, as gusts of up to 100 mph sent roofs flying and toppled tractor-trailers on highways from Colorado to Iowa."

The storms came hours after President Joe Biden toured tornado damage in Kentucky after Friday evening's deadly storms in Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi and Tennessee.

"High winds in Kansas kicked up dust storms that caused low visibility, prompting the Kansas Department of Transportation to temporarily shut down major highways in the western part of the state," the newspaper reported. "Dry, windy conditions also fueled wildfires in Kansas, forcing evacuations. The Weather Service said late Wednesday that a wildfire in Russell County, Kansas, was still burning. Parts of Kansas, Missouri and Colorado had the worst air quality in the country Wednesday evening, with Brownell, Kansas, recording a 'very unhealthy' air quality index of 237, far higher than levels earlier in the week."

The unprecedented damage was the result of a powerful winter storm colliding with a heat wave. CBS News meteorologist Jeff Beradelli explained how climate change is at least partially responsible.

"When temperatures are 40 degrees above normal, and near 70 as far north as the border of MN in December," Beradelli said, "and with a coincident storm… well, [you're] bound to get unprecedented extreme weather. It’s hard to justify these extremes w/o a changed climate."

https://www.rawstory.com/derecho-kn...-thousands-as-tornados-batter-midwest-report/

 

Unprecedented extreme weather?


And Shooter just loves this "bombshell" report from the NYT telling us the world climate is .............. changing.
These Maps Tell the Story of Two Americas: One Parched, One Soaked - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

"Similar patterns can be seen worldwide: On average, global land areas have seen more precipitation since 1950. But even as much of the world has become wetter, some regions have become drier.
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So, whaddya think, stumbler? Will we ever see Lake Powell or Lake Mead full again?

 

From killer heatwaves to floods, climate change worsened weather extremes in 2021
Lisa Shumaker and Andrea Januta
Mon, December 13, 2021, 4:11 AM·5 min read

By Lisa Shumaker and Andrea Januta

(Reuters) - Extreme weather events in 2021 shattered records around the globe. Hundreds died in storms and heatwaves. Farmers struggled with drought, and in some cases with locust plagues. Wildfires set new records for carbon emissions, while swallowing forests, towns and homes.

Many of these events were exacerbated by climate change. Scientists say there are more to come – and worse – as the Earth's atmosphere continues to warm through the next decade and beyond.

Here are some of the events Reuters witnessed over the past year: https://reut.rs/3m2pptL

February — A blistering cold spell hit normally warm Texas, killing 125 people in the state and leaving millions without power in freezing temperatures.

Scientists have not reached a conclusion on whether climate change caused the extreme weather, but the warming of the Arctic is causing more unpredictable weather around the globe.

February — Kenya and other parts of East Africa battled some of the worst locust plagues in decades, with the insects destroying crops and grazing grounds. Scientists say that unusual weather patterns exacerbated by climate change created ideal conditions for insects to thrive.

March — Beijing's sky turned orange and flights were grounded during the Chinese capital's worst sandstorm in a decade.

Busloads of volunteers arrive in the desert each year to plant trees, which can stabilize the soil and serve as a wind buffer. Scientists predict climate change will worsen desertification, as hotter summers and drier winters reduce moisture levels.

June — Nearly all of the western United States was gripped by a drought that emerged in early 2020. Farmers abandoned crops, officials announced emergency measures, and the Hoover Dam reservoir hit an all-time low.

By September, the U.S. government confirmed that over the prior 20 months, the Southwest experienced the lowest precipitation in over a century, and it linked the drought to climate change.

June — Hundreds died during a record-smashing heatwave in the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Northwest, which scientists concluded would have been "virtually impossible" without climate change.

Over several days, power lines melted and roads buckled. Cities, struggling to cope with the heat, opened cooling centers to protect their residents. During the heatwave, Portland, Oregon, hit an all-time record high of 116 Fahrenheit (46.7 Celsius).

July — Catastrophic flooding killed more than 300 people in central China's Henan province when a year's worth of rain fell in just three days.

Meanwhile in Europe, nearly 200 people died as torrential rains soaked Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Scientists concluded that climate change had made the floods 20% more likely to occur.

July — A record heatwave and drought in the U.S. West gave rise to two massive wildfires that tore through California and Oregon and were among the largest in the history of both states.

Scientists say both the growing frequency and the intensity of wildfires are largely attributable to prolonged drought and increasing bouts of excessive heat from climate change.

July — Large parts of South America are suffering from a prolonged drought. While Chile is enduring a decade-long megadrought linked to global warming, this year Brazil saw one of its driest years in a century.

In Argentina, the Parana, South America's second-longest river, fell to its lowest level since 1944.

Around the globe, heatwaves are becoming both more frequent and more severe.

August — In the Mediterranean, a hot and dry summer fanned intense blazes that forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes in Algeria, Greece and Turkey.

The fires, which killed two people in Greece and at least 65 in Algeria, struck amid an intense heatwave, with some places in Greece recording temperatures of over 46 Celsius (115 Fahrenheit).

Late August — Nearly all the world's mountain glaciers are retreating due to global warming. In the Alps, Swiss resort employees laid protective blankets over one of Mount Titlis's glaciers during the summer months to preserve what ice is left.

Switzerland already has lost 500 of its glaciers, and could lose 90% of the 1,500 that remain by the end of the century if global emissions continue to rise, the government said.

August/September — Hurricane Ida, which hit Louisiana as a Category 4 storm, killed nearly 100 people in the United States and caused an estimated $64 billion in damage, according to the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.

As the remnants of Ida moved inland, the heavy rains created flash flooding across the densely populated Northeast, vastly increasing the storm's death toll.

Climate change is strengthening hurricanes, while also causing them to linger longer over land – dumping more rain on an area before moving on. Studies also suggest these storms are becoming more frequent in the North Atlantic.

September — Infrastructure and homes in Russia are increasingly in peril as underground permafrost melts and deforms the land underneath them.

Permafrost was once a stable construction base, in some regions staying frozen as far back as the last Ice Age. But rising global temperatures threaten the layer of ice, soil, rocks, sand and organic matter.

November — The worst floods in 60 years in South Sudan have affected about 780,000 people, or one in every 14 residents, according to the U.N. refugee agency. Every year the county goes through a rainy season, but flooding has set records for three years in a row. The destruction will likely increase as temperatures rise, scientists say.

November — A massive storm dumped a month's worth of rain over two days in the Canadian province of British Columbia, unleashing floods and mudslides that destroyed roads, railroads and bridges. It is likely the most expensive natural disaster in Canada's history, although officials are still assessing the damage.

Meteorologists said the rain had come from an atmospheric river, or a stream of water vapor stretching hundreds of miles long from the tropics. Atmospheric rivers are expected to become larger — and possibly more destructive — with climate change, scientists say.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/killer-heatwaves-floods-climate-change-111157324.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink

 

Global warming is nothing but another scam just like climate change.... They control/manipulate the weather... Try researching for the truth... Smh y'all are so indoctrinated.... Keep believing your TeLIEvision like good Sheep

 

Wake up sheeple

 

I think it was more than a decade ago that scientist studying global warming/climate change started sounding the alarm on melting glaciers. Especially the ones in the Himalayas because as they pointed out more than 2 billion people's survival depends on them. And if we think we have migrant problems now just wait until 2 billion people have to move.


Himalayan glaciers are melting at an 'exceptional' rate: study

New York Daily News
December 20, 2021





The world has presented scientists with a new flashing warning sign. According to a new study, global warming is causing glaciers in the Himalayas to melt at an “exceptional rate.” The research was published in the journal Scientific Reports. The glaciers are also melting there faster than any other region of the world, threatening the water supply of close to 2 billion people. Only Antartica and the Arctic have more ice than the Himalayas. “Our findings clearly show that ice is now being lost from Himalayan glaciers at a rate that is at least 10 times higher than the average rate over past ce...

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https://www.rawstory.com/himalayan-glaciers-are-melting-at-an-exceptional-rate-study/

 

The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is in danger of collapse—potentially ominous news for cities like New Orleans, New York, and Bangkok
By
Jeremy Kahn
December 15, 2021 8:37 AM MST

Scientists this week announced that a massive Antarctic ice sheet that is helping to hold back what is colloquially known as “the Doomsday Glacier” is fracturing. Its melting would raise global sea levels by more than two feet, inundating many coastal areas. If that sounds bad, well, it is.

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“What we’re seeing already is enough to be worried about,” Anna Crawford, a glaciologist at the University of St. Andrews, told the Washington Post.

The good news, if there is any, is that the shattering of the ice, which is currently bracing a key portion of the Thwaites Glacier, won’t likely occur for another three to five years, and any rapid acceleration in the pace of sea level rise would happen only in the years and decades after that. So we have some time to potentially prepare. It is also possible that efforts to check global warming could still prevent the worst from happening.

Here’s what you need to know:

What is the Doomsday Glacier?
The Doomsday Glacier’s formal name is the Thwaites Glacier. It is a giant sheet of ice, the widest glacier on the planet, and about the size of the U.S. state of Florida. It sits on top of bedrock at the western edge of Antarctica. It abuts the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to its east, and the Amundsen Sea to its West. It sheds about 50 billion tons of ice per year, which already contributes to about 4% of annual global sea level rise.


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But if the Thwaites Glacier were to melt entirely, scientists have estimated it would drive sea levels up by more than 25 inches. That’s enough to swamp portions of the Thai capital Bangkok, as well as New Orleans, and cause more frequent flooding in places like New York City. A sea level rise of this nature would threaten the lives of millions of people globally. That’s how the Thwaites got its Doomsday nickname.

Temperatures have been rising fast globally. Why is this all of a sudden a big deal?
While two-thirds of the Thwaites Glacier is relatively fast-flowing, the eastern portion has been moving much more slowly. Scientists have shown that one reason for this is that floating ice from the glacier collides with an undersea mountaintop about 25 miles offshore. This mountaintop acts like a doorstop, blocking the glacier’s forward progress.

Earlier this year, researchers demonstrated that the Thwaites’ eastern ice sheet is becoming unstuck from its mountaintop brace. In addition, satellite images taken over the past two years, including as recently as November, have shown the appearance of rapidly lengthening large fractures in the portion of the eastern glacier that are sitting atop sea water. It is these cracks that are causing sudden alarm among scientists, who have previously seen hints that the eastern portion of the glacier might be unstable but have been surprised to see the speed at which these fractures are advancing.

Why are the cracks such cause for alarm?
The researchers believe that as warming seas undercut the floating portion of the glacier from below, the ice becomes more susceptible to flexing from tidal variations, and that this flexing may be what is causing the cracking. Scientists say these fractures indicate that the floating eastern portion of the glacier is in danger of catastrophic collapse within three to five years. Erin Pettit, a glaciologist at Oregon State University, compares this to how just a few cracks in a car windshield can spiderweb across the entire surface and then suddenly cause the whole glass panel to dramatically shatter.

What would happen if the ice sheet were to shatter?
If that happens, the glacier will discharge thousands of massive icebergs into the Southern Ocean, where they may present a hazard to shipping. But those icebergs won’t make any difference to global sea levels themselves. That’s because this portion of the Thwaites glacier is already floating, so the weight of that ice is already displacing the same amount of water that will be unlocked when the icebergs melt. The real concern is that the floating ice is currently holding back a large portion of the Thwaites Glacier that sits on land. With the waterborne portion of the glacier breaking up, scientists estimate that the landlocked ice will begin to flow three times faster than it currently is. It will also be in greater contact with the relatively warm waters of the Amundsen Sea, accelerating melting. It is this scenario that is likely to massively contribute to rising sea levels.

Will this definitely happen?
No, not definitely. Exactly how quickly and how extensively Thwaites Glacier may collapse is dependent on a complex interaction of ice, sea, and land.

But scientists say it does look likely that the floating portion of the ice will fail in the near future.

https://fortune.com/2021/12/15/doom...vel-rise-climate-change-ice-shatter-thwaites/

 

So this positively, maybe, could, happen very soon, someday, and will might, could create a flooding situation on coastal cities.

But, the article doesn’t say how to stop it from collapsing. But, let’s not talk about continually rebuilding New Orleans (and other coastal population centers) after repeated floods from weather events.

 

I notice we keep rebuilding Tennessee.

How Government Decisions Left Tennessee Exposed to Deadly Flooding
Choices about building rules, insurance programs, flood maps and more put residents at higher risk, according to climate and disaster experts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/climate/tennessee-flood-damage-impact.html

 

Wildfires whipped by 100 mile winds burned down entire neighborhoods in Boulder county Colorado yesterday and last night due to drought conditions and record high temperatures.