Global What Now?
More of that man-made global warming on the way:
- Chicago area temperatures stayed frigid today, with temperatures running more than 10 degrees below normal and no relief in sight for at least the next week.
Today's high temperatures across the area have ranged from 14 in some outlying suburbs to 21 at Northerly Island, with wind chills as low as 5 below to 15 below early in the morning, according to the National Weather Service.
Add to that, all indications continue to point to an accumulating snowfall beginning Wednesday night and continuing into the day Thursday, according to the weather service.
Bundle up.
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posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
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Global Warming... um I mean Climate Change really sucks! I just bought a smart car and installed a bunch of those cork screw light bulbs so be prepared for a warm up in the future. I have also cut down on the paper I use to wipe my ass to one square! Thanks for that one Sheryl Crow. Climate Change reversal should occur any day now.
Get ready Chicago! Just got twenty four inches dumped on the UP in Michigan, it's blowing down the thumb and across the lake to your door.
SCC: Like politics, all weather is local...
January Temperatures in Puerto Rico by Time of Day
Early Morning Late Morning Early Afternoon Late Afternoon Early Evening Overall
73.1° F 80.4° F 81.6° F 79.6° F 75.8° F 76.2° F
Above is what is considered the NORMAL weather...
below, is what happened since 01 JANUARY 2008
2009 Highlights:
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4th Warmest year on record in San Juan, PR (warmest average low temperature on record)
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Warmest October, 2nd warmest December, 3rd warmest July
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12th Wettest year in San Juan, PR (2nd wettest June, 3rd wettest November, 3rd driest December)
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Record number of low temperatures 80 degrees or above (59 days - previous record 32 days)
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The low temperature of 82 on July 16th, 2009 was tied for the second warmest low temperature ever recorded in San Juan, PR
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The high temperature of 95 on August 26th, 2009 set a record high temperature for the date and was tied for the warmest temperature of the decade
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The high temperatue of 78 on February 19th, 2009 was the coolest high temperature ever recorded for the date and the only day in 2009 that the temperature did not reach 80 degrees in San Juan, PR
Precipitation for the month of July was dictated by the typical mesoscale-driven nocturnal/diurnal regime across the local islands. In terms of temperature, July 2009 was one of the warmest on record. A new record for the warmest minimum temperature was set on July 16th, when the morning low temperature only fell to only a balmy 82 degrees. In fact, the low temperature did not fall below 80 degrees a record 19 times during the month!
*October 2009 ended as the warmest October on record at the LMM Airport in San Juan. The average low temperature was 79F, a full degree warmer than the previous record of 78F set in 1980. During the month, the record warmest minimum temperature was tied or broken on 15 separate days, and the average daily temperature was above normal every single day of the month.
*November 2009 ended as the third wettest November on record and the wettest month of 2009 at LMM Airport in San Juan. The end of November also marked the end of the hurricane season, with below normal tropical cyclone activity observed across the Atlantic basin for the year. A total of nine named storms were observed in 2009, three of which became hurricanes and two of which became major hurricanes.
*December 2009 was the driest month of the year at the LMM Airport in San Juan and 3rd driest December on record. A total of only 1.83” fell over the course of the month, which was 2.54” below the normal of 4.57” for December.
Lets hope that for another Blizard of 79!
Believe it or not, there was a time in the 70s and 80s when a Daley wasn't running the city of Chicago. We broke some barriers during that time period, too, when we saw the first African American mayor, Harold Washington, elected as well as his predecessor, Jane Byrne, who was the first and only woman to serve as Mayor of Chicago and was elected on this day, April 3, in 1979. Byrne was no stranger to Chicago politics when she ran for office -- while working to help get John F. Kennedy elected in 1960, she met Mayor Richard J. Daley and in 1968 Daley made Byrne the head of Chicago consumer affairs. She kept that job until Mayor Bilandic -- who took over after Daley's death in 1976 -- fired her. Byrne apparently took the firing personally, and started campaigning to beat Bilandic in the mayoral primary. With the help of Bilandic majorly botching the city's handling of the Blizzard of '79, Byrne defeated him and went on to win the general election.
good call scc. this recent cold weather has to mean something more telling and important than a cold winter week.
When will the world realize that ALL the scientist’s who believe in global warming or environmental issues are liberal. This is not about protecting the earth this is about hating al gore. Wake the fuck up.
Hey SCC, newsflash, it's warm in Puerto Rico!
But of course the cold weather will have NO impact on crime. Right?
All too often this global warming becomes a political issue, not a scientific one.
Although I am conservative politically, I believe there is global warming. However, instead of extreme warm or cold, I think eventually the earth will evolve into a climate where it will be around 50 Degrees, cloudy, rainy and damp.
Think about it, If one room is 100 Degrees Farenheit, and a room next to it is 00 Degrees Farenheit, and you remove the divider, both rooms will become 50 Degrees.
Also, what has a higher surface temperature? A 1-acre forest, or a 1-acre blacktop parking lot? Obviously the parking lot.
Now if the number of 1-acre parking lots begin catch up to the number of forests. There will be an eventual raise in temperature in both
people have to remove themselves from the political side and consider the science
Hey, here's my solution to fight global warming. Start locally. Has anyone ever measured the amount of hot air that gets spewed out on a daily basis from ShortShanks and his merry band of Aldercreatures?
If we cut the city council to 25, then we would essentially cut all that carbon output in half!
actually ...all the melting icecaps are dumping so much water into the oceans that the ocean currents are being affected which changes the weather patterns all over...overall the temps are rising
Cold? What cold?
That's why it's nice to be sitting in lock-up finishing my Masters, lifting weights, reading books, surfing the 'net, eating great business-district food and catching up on movies I wanted to see, but didn't, on my 13B furlo. Oh yeah, I almost forgot...all this while making 80K+ for processing a few prisoners a night.
Ahhhhhh, life is good!
Hey Puerto Rician weather man: Weather records have only been kept for about 100 years so there is no way of knowing weather or not temp changes are noteworthy. I would argue that there are far more important things to worry about. Furthermore it is arrogant and ignorant to think that we as humans can make any differance in temp becauce of the type of car we drive. Im all for keeping the planet less polluted, but please don't legislate how much water that I can have in my toilet....Shils like Al Gore are a discrace. He should apoligize for the anguish that he has caused people who believe his b.s. He should also pay back every dime he made on his books.
John Coleman . founder of the weather channel, on global warming
http://www.kusi.com/home/78477082.html?video=pop&t=a
Cold weather? Seems like today folks are just tit-mouses about everything. Perhaps you guys should just stay inside and play with your X-boxes?
Al Gore says the debate about global warming is over. I thought liberals were supposed to be open-minded? This coming from the guy who says "LOVE STORY" was written about Tipper and himself, and who says he invented the internet.
Funny how the socialists don't call it "global warming" anymore, it's "climate change". I wonder why?
72 and sunny in scottsdale
old retired guy
Anyone who believes in the complete Hoax of Global Warming is truly an utter imbecile.
six feet of snow has fallen in china in 5 days... nine days of snow in new york drops four feet of snow with more snow to come.. 2 feet have fallen in 3 days in kalamazoo michigan.. tennessee and florida have 4 deaths in the past week due to cold. florida braces for snowstorm. these are just a few of the headlines in the past week pertaining to the weather. but hey, the earth is warming.
jane byrne was the best thing that happened to the cpd in the past 50 years---- if jane byrne swilled a fifth of vodka and j-fed drank a quart of carrot juice who would you put your money on if they squared off in a street type brawl--- my money is on mama byrne baby as she would totally kick the shit out of that pussy beady eyed boot licker j-fed...
that al gore...''he s one sharp cookie''. the only global warming is in the back of his pants on burrito night.
>good call scc. this recent cold weather has to mean something more telling and important than a cold winter week.
nice.
".....finishing my Masters" Is this Weis? Happy New Year Hydro-Head.
Jane Byrne used to swill a half gallon of vodka and knock the fuck out of Jay, her old man. Maybe it was the make-up sex. They were crazy about each other. Once she went live and announced they would be moving into Cabric Green that very day, until it was safe for every citizen in the city to reside there and in they moved. Jane Byrne loved her city workers, all of them.
Jane Byrne was the best Mayor
she loved the city and gave Chicago's Finest a contract
without that contract we would all be losing holidays and taking pay cuts thank you Jane Byrne and FOP
I am always bemused and disappointed when laypersons use the fact that it's cold outside today as definitive proof that global warming is a hoax. As I try to explain to my confused friends, it's called global warming, not local warming. And your Puerto Rico temperature readings, if there were enough data to be considered statistically insignificant -- which there isn't -- actually support the theory of global warming, which holds that one of the first effects will be to slow (and eventually stop) the circulation of global ocean currents which currently serve to moderate temperatures between the poles and the tropics, resulting in colder winters in the north (like Europe -- or Chicago), and warmer temps in the equatorial regions.
I have to wonder how many in the global-warming-is-a-hoax camp are only there because, as another poster wrote: "This is not about protecting the earth this is about hating al gore." To that poster I would say that if we do end up doing disastrous harm to the environment which comes back to haunt us, I hope your grandchildren (I'm childless, so I'm gonna continue to rev up my large-displacement motor vehicles) will agree that your petty political vindictiveness was worth it.
whoever posted about the weather in san juan PR who the f*** cares about that dump and its weather
The really scary global warming theory is the one that says that the reason that temps have not increased as much as they should have when one considers how much atmospheric CO2 has been released is due to the fact that all that CO2 has been coming mainly from the burning of fossil fuels -- fuels which also continually put particulate air pollutants into the atmosphere, and these airborne particulant pollutants are scattering and reflecting solar radiation away from the planet, cutting down on the amount of solar radiation that enters the atmosphere in the first place to be trapped by the greenhouse gas layer. But as energy and fuel technologies trend toward greener solutions (wind, solar, geothermal, hydrogen, thorium nuke), the rate at which these life-saving pollutants (I love being able to type that phrase) will continue to be added to the atmosphere will decrease, and as the little bits of filth eventually return to earth due to gravity and precipitation, we'll lose our reflective layer of life-saving pollutants -- at which the global mean temperature will skyrocket, jumping multiple degrees Fahrenheit within a couple of years -- which is a huge change. And the rate of increase from that point will then continue to increase exponentially: it will get hotter and hotter, faster and faster.
As ocean temperatures and absorbed solar energies in snow pack rise, the rate of ice cap and glacial melt runoff will increase, and the added weight of more water combined with elevated water temps will eventually melt the frozen methane hydrates at the bottom of the seas, releasing all that bound methane (as well as the free gaseous methane that some theorize is capped off beneath these hydrate ice "plugs"). Since methane is 20 times the greenhouse gas that CO2 is, the release of the immense stores trapped on the oceans' floors will then cause global warming to go absolutely apeshit; jumping dozens of degrees F, and killing off almost every living thing on the planet. (This particular flavor of global extinction has already happened at least once in Earth's history, and in fact it was the most severe of the many global extinction events which the planet has already seen. Planet-wide lightning-sparked fires fueled by all that methane are optional, but would totally boost the box office on a disaster movie about this event.)
Of course, the rate at which the Chinese will be building coal-fired power plants will be continuing for quite a while, so if this particulate-reflection theory is true, it's probable that the additional particulates introduced by all those Chinese plants will delay the inevitable for another 30 years of so, or until they finally get around to going green themselves. Then we're all toast.
Really? People still think climate change equates to everything being hotter all the time?
And how could credit card debt be bad, when there's all this great new stuff in the house? It's like a magic key to additional wealth!
But as energy and fuel technologies trend toward greener solutions (wind, solar, geothermal, hydrogen, thorium nuke), the rate at which these life-saving pollutants (I love being able to type that phrase) will continue to be added to the atmosphere will decrease, and as the little bits of filth eventually return to earth due to gravity and precipitation, we'll lose our reflective layer of life-saving pollutants -- at which the global mean temperature will skyrocket, jumping multiple degrees Fahrenheit within a couple of years -- which is a huge change.
Reflective layer of life-saving pollutants? That would be the thin layer of oil I poured into my 1920-era basement floor drains to keep the foul stench of stagnation away from my nostrils. If only that method worked for your post. Kudos to you for the free creative writing seminar though.
Thank God for global warming, or I would have frozen to death tonight!
@Tailpipe: Not creative writing, simply a description of a current climate theory which explains some of the problems from which more generally-accepted climate-change theories suffer. The clue to this fact was the bit where the first sentence of my post said "The really scary global warming theory is the one that says..."
I am glad that you enjoyed it, though...
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