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U.N. weather agency: Scorching heat will soon be routine

World Dec. 01, 2010 - 04:55AM JST ( 17 )

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yabitsDec. 01, 2010 - 08:29AM JST

The big acceleration is going to come as the permafrost in Russia continues melting and releasing all of that methane gas underneath it. Methane is 20 times more effective in trapping heat than is CO2.
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goddogDec. 01, 2010 - 09:12AM JST

I love it hot and humid. Great for surfing, and for beer.
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arrestpaulDec. 01, 2010 - 09:18AM JST

Negotiators at the two-week Cancun conference have a limited agenda of agreeing on the first steps to help poor countries deal with changes in climate and develop their economies in low-carbon ways. A key issue is to create a body to govern and distribute $100 billion dollars in climate aid for poor countries by 2020.

It's interesting that their first step is to get their hands on $100 billion of someone elses dollars.

The "GLOBAL" tempurature hasn't risen in over a decade but that doesn't prevent the UN and IPCC from "claiming" otherwise.
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mikehuntezDec. 01, 2010 - 09:28AM JST

Chavez, who blames capitalism for climate change

Oh brother, only this idiot could blame it on that. I'm sure there will be some on here that will tell us it is the fault of the USA though. Maybe even some who will claim it is directly a result of the Bush years.
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sf2kDec. 01, 2010 - 09:46AM JST

Of course the USA is involved. To think otherwise sounds pretty delusional.
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american_bengoshiDec. 01, 2010 - 09:48AM JST

More liberal hysteria. Climate change is cyclical and should be measured over hundreds of years. It is just stupid to rush to judgment and make far reaching conclusions based on the past 50 years which is a VERY short period of time in the grand scheme of weather change.
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BadseyDec. 01, 2010 - 10:01AM JST

I am sort of surprised Iran and North Korea are not complaining about their "climate change" --> didn't they get the memo like Venezuela did?
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FoxieDec. 01, 2010 - 10:58AM JST

For once we get something nice from the US, why is everybody complaining. I never experienced such warm ocean temperatures, it was even possible to surf with a short wetsuit at the end of October. With rising sea and air temperatures, there will be less storms. We only had 14 typhoons as a result of this this year.
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cleoDec. 01, 2010 - 11:15AM JST

With rising sea and air temperatures, there will be less storms.

Read the article - storms will become more fierce / extreme events are becoming more common / Records for low temperature were shattered in hundreds of U.S. locations, and heavy snowfall disrupted air and road traffic in Europe, the U.S. and China. Pakistan suffered floods that killed 1,700 people and displaced 20 million people. China also had unusually high temperatures, floods and landslides.

The low number of typhoons to hit Japan this year doesn't mean anything. Everything is topsy-turvy.
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GJDailleultDec. 01, 2010 - 11:22AM JST

If Chavez is talking about accounting, then he is right about capitalism. Oil companies for example do not have to account for any potential costs of climate change. They just pass them on to everybody else and put the profits in their pockets. Makes no difference if climate change is real or not, the point is they don't have to put any reserves aside in case it is. If they can't prove it is not happening (and they can't), then the potential costs should be accounted for. Nothing liberal or lefty about it, they are just ignoring basic accounting.

And yeah, I think by now we all know that climate changes over time. And a good thing for many North Americans too, the mini ice-age of the early 1700's in Europe is why many people got on the boats. But the question is not if climate changes, the question is if there are deviations from the natural rate of change. If my fuzzy memory of high school calculus is right it is like saying there is no second derivative because there is a first derivative. Pretty hard to take anybody seriously who makes that argument, but seems many people do.
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manfromamericaDec. 01, 2010 - 11:28AM JST

Glad these UN'ers flew in their eco-poisoning jets to the luxury resorts in nature-destroying tourist-trap Cancun.

Let's disband the UN now, they continually prove themselves useless.
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nandakandamandaDec. 01, 2010 - 11:43AM JST

Every year that I can remember, people bring up in conversation how strange the weather is this year, as if some average weather pattern has ever been the norm. Every year it is different and unpredictable everywhere; the average is just an imaginary line.

Devastating floods, earthquakes, volcanoes: every year somewhere, some terrible event causes people to fear that the end must be approaching. How many hundreds of millions have died in cyclones and typhoons in India and China over the millennia, for example?

At the same time I do understand that there is a case to be made that the extremes may be gradually creeping, on occasion, to more extreme. I also accept that each one of us should probably figure out some little extra way to help alleviate the burden we place on this planet.
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TimRussertDec. 01, 2010 - 11:44AM JST

Scorching heat!, which is very different from the bitter,bitter cold they were forecasting in the 1970s.
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MolenirDec. 01, 2010 - 11:59AM JST

I must admit, I find these well attended eco-conferences to be amusingly hypocritical. Thousands of people flying in on these supposedly eco-destroying jets. Many of them private jets, talking about how bad this is for the environment. Its amusing also, when you consider the chicken-little philosophy they're pushing in their attempt to redistribute wealth from wealthy nations to poor nations.

Whats really sad for this politicized science, is that it undercuts the real science and issues which should be addressed. People do have an effect on their environment, as things like Acid Rain, and the Heat Island effect proves. Trying to blame mankind for everything, every disaster, every fluctuation in temperature, season by season, is naive and irresponsible. It also politicizes the science. Its a pathetic attempt to force social change, without bothering to wait for hard science to confirm. Its like looking at the horizon, seeing that it stretches out, and therefore must then be flat. That is really what it comes down to. These chicken-littles who insist that the sky is falling, are really nothing more then flat-earthers.
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WilliBDec. 01, 2010 - 12:24PM JST

Molenir:

" I must admit, I find these well attended eco-conferences to be amusingly hypocritical. Thousands of people flying in on these supposedly eco-destroying jets. Many of them private jets, "

No hyprocisy from their side. They are fighting for their billions of pork money. Of course they know very well that climate has nothing do with that; only the Birkenstock sheeple believe that nonsense.
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manfromamericaDec. 01, 2010 - 01:34PM JST

Delegates agreed at the last climate summit in Copenhagen last December to funnel $30 billion over the coming three years for “fast track” financing for poor countries who need immediate help.

this is what it's about. It's extortion.
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goddogDec. 01, 2010 - 02:49PM JST

Thanks for the support on the surfing Foxie. I was wearing a spring shortie then. The water is still warm down at Kuigenuma. Weather changes over thousands of years, and not hundreds. If you really check different areas of the globe, some are getting hotter and others cooler. Storms will be more violent, but the nuber of storms is directly linked to the water patterns and currents. Poor countries that get warmer could use help in stop water born tropical diseases. That is where the money should go to, and for super crops that can grow in dryer climates.