The Beginning of the End

[Transient]

Masochist.

[plained]

3 blind mice!

[seremtan]

i thought being a mod somewhere on this board you had no choice but to read them

[shaft]

don't make me mod you

[seremtan]

lmao

[Doombrain]

[surgeon62]

Potential long term effects on US...

http://www.upworthy.com/what-will-earth ... our-answer

[SoM]

don't make me mod you

do it! double dare

[shaft]

I'm pretty sure mods can put people on ignore. It's the plebs who can't put mods on ignore.

[Κracus]

Potential long term effects on US...

http://www.upworthy.com/what-will-earth ... our-answer

Yeah scary... I'm honestly considering selling my riverside home as it's connected to the ocean...

[seremtan]

this will happen quite slowly though. it's not as if panhandlers like gramps will wake up one morning in the ocean

[xer0s]

We'll keep our fingers crossed...

[losCHUNK]

[lvlshot]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/06/article-2488452-193799BC00000578-906_472x423.jpg[/lvlshot]

*buys some fucking coal*

[plained]

if you FEEL u need to save the world you can donate to my foundation

gonna have a seminar at the ritz-carlton kapalua to raise awareness !

if you raise enough funds for the foundation more of our associates can attend and there will be a much better chance of world savations!

you can take part by connecting to the seminar (not the actual seminar but a webcam pointed at some melting ice with a countdown and a paypal addy and phone number for donations) bring your own tissues of course

ok stay vigilant and be generous!

[seremtan]

all those places are shitholes anyway

plus the chilterns are gonna look great surrounded on three sides by water

[Ryoki]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -right-now

Woops, looks like we're all completely fucked. Thirty degrees above normal, jesus christ....

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

*masturbates furiously*

[seremtan]

dude, that's a non-story. the news about the higher than average Arctic temps is about a month old, and in any case the media hype around it was shot down in flames shortly after

the rest of the piece merely goes on to say:

“It is inconceivable that this ridiculously warm Arctic would not have an impact on weather patterns in the middle latitudes further south, where so many people live.

“It’s safe to say [the hot Arctic] is going to have a big impact, but it’s hard to say exactly how big right now. But we are going to have a lot of very interesting weather – we’re not going to get around that one.”

note the future tense. the guy talking isn't linking the Arctic temps to any specific weather events, merely suggesting that it's "inconceivable" that it wouldn't be linked

it's a bit like saying "Brexit will affect the UK economy" - a claim that's hard to either reject or substantiate because it's so vague

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016 ... ormal.html

...A weather buoy about 145 kilometres south of the North Pole registered a temperature at the melting point of 0 C early Thursday, as a giant storm east of Greenland drew abnormally warm air northward.

Weather models had predicted temperatures could get this warm and this buoy, part of the North Pole Environmental Observatory, provides validation.

“It seems likely areas very close to or at the North Pole were at the freezing point today (Thursday),” said Zachary Labe, a doctoral student research Arctic climate and weather at the University of California-Irvine.

Data from the buoy show that air temperatures have risen more than 22 degrees in the last two days when they hovered near -24 C which, even then, was above average.

The entire Arctic north of 80 degrees, roughly the size of Canada, has witnessed a sharp temperature spike of nearly 17 degrees.

Consider the average temperature in this large region is around -29 C at this time of year, but had shot up to -14 C on Wednesday and will likely peak at higher number by late Thursday.

Labe said the huge flux of warmth into the region may have contributed to the loss of sea ice at a time when the region is usually gaining ice.

Near the Franz Joseph Islands east of Svalbard, satellite imagery shows a large mass of ice vanishing over the last day. “This is pretty dramatic,” he tweeted.

Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center indicate the Arctic lost about 148,000 square kilometres of ice in the past day, which is roughly the size of Southern Ontario. Labe cautioned, however, the ice loss data are preliminary and require quality control. ...