Comments on: Extreme Weather Disasters: Last Call at Club Fossil Fuel – By Mark Reynolds

By: Jumpstart a Clean Energy Economy and Cool the Climate | WilderUtopia.com

Jumpstart a Clean Energy Economy and Cool the Climate | WilderUtopia.com — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:52:53 +0000

[...] Heat waves, droughts and wildfires will be more severe in continental interiors, such as during the 2010 Russian wheat crisis. This is disturbing because much of America’s food is grown in the Midwest. Our CO2 emissions are also acidifying the oceans, which has been linked to marine extinctions even during a relatively minor CO2 excursion like the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, 55 million years ago. [...]

By: Jack Eidt

Jack Eidt — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:08:24 +0000

Global warming equals higher temperatures (June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States). From Bill McKibben: Meteorologists reported that this spring was the warmest ever recorded for our nation – in fact, it crushed the old record by so much that it represented the “largest temperature departure from average of any season on record.” The same week, Saudi authorities reported that it had rained in Mecca despite a temperature of 109 degrees, the hottest downpour in the planet’s history.

Warm air holds more water vapor than cold, so the atmosphere over oceans is over 5 percent wetter than average. This translates to some areas getting wetter, while simultaneously other areas, being hotter, become drier. This year the jet stream has tended far far north of average, which has reduced rainfall all across the southern two-thirds of the US. North of that line, haywire weather has been present, such as the freak storms in Duluth.

See the Bill McKibben article in Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719

By: Michael Ejercito

Michael Ejercito — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:13:03 +0000

Excuse me, but global warming (or any form of climate change) can not cause increased rainfall and decreased rainfall simultaneously.