Ocean Warming Continues

The world’s oceans continue to experiment warming above trend that adds to the process of climate change.

…the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) indicates, the high sea surface temperatures in October were preceded from January through September 2010 by temperatures that were well above the long term (1971-2000) average for the region.  Furthermore, according to NOAA, the surface temperatures globally for the January-September period were the second warmest on record (tied with 1998), with 2007 in first place…

via Ice-Capped Greenland Feels the Heat with North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures far Above Normal | WWF Climate Blog.

Natural Disaster is Nonsense

Actually, disaster losses happen because we do not prepare for natural hazards such as hurricanes, earthquakes, drought, floods, etc.  We are vulnerable.  If we prepare our houses for wind or shaking then you will be more like Chile after a huge earthquake, and not Haiti, where nothing was done to prepare its structures or society for a big earthquake.

In other words,  so-called “natural disasters,” as if nature caused the disaster, don’t exist–the term is nonsensical.  It is the human race and its failed policies that cause the losses.

Sorry, Climate Change is Real

For those who think that climate change doesn’t exist or is some sort of natural process that recycles from century to century, you may not this summary.  Man is dumping CO2 into the air and it is accumulating at a rate never known to scientists test covering tens of thousand of years.  I you live in Florida you will face the consequences much sooner than you think, indeed you are already feeling the results of climate change.

“The amount of carbon dioxide humans are putting into the atmosphere is smaller but it’s not balanced, and so it builds up over time and it causes a sizable net gain,” Ruddiman explained.

“It may be 10 billion tons a year but much of it builds up year after year after year,” he said, and persists in the atmosphere, trapping heat like a chemical blanket.

Scientists who have used a variety of techniques to track earth’s changing climate over hundreds of thousands of years have found data that show carbon dioxide levels during that period never grew faster than 30 parts per million per 1,000 years. Yet the level has risen by that amount in just the last 17 years, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the international organization widely regarded by the scientific community as a leading authority on the topic.

The result is the warmer temperatures and melting icecaps widely documented around the globe.

via Politifact slams climate science denier John Loughlin « Climate Progress.