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Jun19
Climate Change Is Real
Filed under: Climate Change, Global Warming; Tagged as: changing climate, Climate Change, climate change science, climate events, combined effort, coral reefs, dozen government, emissions, extinct, fairbanks alaska, fire season, high sea, hurricane activity, hurricanes, international falls minnesota, life, month of june, oslo norway, program, puget sound area, sea surface, severe storms, severe weather, snow plows, surface water temperatures, temperatures, teperatures, time, top 70, weather patterns7 CommentsTomorrow is officially Summer. But, here in the Puget Sound area, we got gypped out of Spring. We can count on one hand, well maybe not quite two hands the few days that have come close to 70 degrees.
The truth is, it has been flat out cold. In this month of June, Fairbanks ,Alaska has already had 10 days above 70. The “Icebox of our Nation,” International Falls, Minnesota has had four days top 70 degrees so far this month. The mercury has been topping seventy in Oslo, Norway nearly every day recently.
Even Tomsk, Russia, in Siberia was warmer than Seattle on the 10th of June. They hit the 70’s in Siberia and we were still sporting our sweatshirts and hoodies at 55 degrees. The snow plows were back out on Snoqualmie Pass, clearing another 7 inches of snow, just last week. That’s happened only two times in the last 30 years. This has been a record year for snow in our mountains.
We are praying for a slow thaw, or we will be looking at terrible flooding like we had in December. It was the worst flooding here in over 100 years.
Perhaps we shouldn’t complain too loud, at least we don’t have to be looking for relief like they were on the East Coast last week, sweltering at more than 100 degrees in places. Not to mention, an early start to the fire season in California, in April, and an already record number of hurricanes, tornados and severe storms in the Midwest, doing billions of dollars of damage.
According to the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, which is a combined effort of more than a dozen government agencies, we can expect to see more severe and intense weather patterns ocurring. There will be more severe droughts, more disastorous (stormier) storms covering wider and more diverse places,plus more and deeper flooding as part of our changing climate. Events that are rare to an area, can and will become commonplace. A rise from moderate to high sea surface water temperatures have been linked to increasing power and more hurricane activity. Last season there were approximately 900 hundred hurricanes, this year they are expecting at least 1800 to pass through the Midwest. The season started in April, and as evedent by the damage so far, has been relentless.
CO2 emissions have caused the global average temperature to rise 15-60 times faster than the natural historic rate. Our Earth’s climate system is changing more rapidly than some species are able to adapt. These changes are already affecting more than half of Earth’s wild species. More than 16% of all coral reefs have become damaged, or even died because of high sea water temperatures. Coral reefs may even become extinct in this century, if we don’t concentrate on controlling and stabelising CO2 emissions. There is no time to waste on this issue. It affects all life, even our own.
7 Responses to “Climate Change Is Real”
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There has been enough evidence to prove global warming is a reality. It is time to change our ways and promote a cleaner environment, as your article points out.
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Even here in the southwest we enjoyed one of the longest springtimes I can remember. While the mercury is topping out now at 105 and higher (to be expected here), it took a while coming. What we need here is the 100th monkey story only in people form. A global movement that will shift the way we use this planet, if we want to preserve it. I think on a one-on-one level people are ready (and doing) their part. But if you cannot get governmental backing – which might effect a few chosen ones wallets – will the shift come fast enough, soon enough to make a difference?
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Teri,
I believe most people are doing their part.
After all, we are the ones who are making sacrifices, because there are no longer any choices. We are forced to have to make changes. Now, if our government would just follow suit maybe we could see changes that would make a difference. -
Diane,
I don’t think I could have said it better. That is the big question, will change come fast enough and soon enough to make a difference? Not until our government wakes up to the fact that we need to use altenative resources other than oil. But gee, they might loose money. We couldn’t have that!
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I guess there’s two schools of thought regarding Global Warming; You either believe in GW or you don’t.
I follow the latter belief system.
Global Warming, similar to religion; are the greatest marketing campaigns known to man.
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Hi SolReka,
Yes, I totally agree with you. I think GW is very real! As for marketing campaigns you are right again!
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