2024 starts with off-the-charts heat in the oceans. Here's what could happen next.

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    [–]weavilsatemyface 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    That's interesting. What sort of climatology degrees do Gore and Kerry have?

    Sometimes I think that Gore and Kerry are controlled opposition, and their "predictions" are so hysterically wrong that they can only be doing it deliberately to discredit global warming. Gore's statement that there was a 75% chance that the Arctic would be "ice-free" by 2014 was so ludicrous that I have to ask whose butt he pulled it from.

    In 2009, when Gore made that statement, the best (for the time) predictions were ice-free by 2100 (a very conservative prediction based on moderate production of greenhouse gases) or as early as the mid 2030s under more realistic conditions. Even a very aggressive prediction based on linear extrapolation predicted ice-free summer in 2028, so I cannot imagine where he got 2014 from.

    Looking at the trend of summer ice extent and ice volume, extrapolating by eye suggests that we're still well on track for ice-free summers by the mid 1930s.

    [–]Questionable 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Dinah Voyles Pulver: National reporter focusing on environment, climate and wild weather. Pulver co-wrote a 2021 investigation on the impacts of climate change on extreme rainfall that placed second for environment writing in the 2022 National Headliner Awards and made the Sigma Awards shortlist.

    She makes a living pushing fear porn. Why would I trust someone, who's only source of income is selling climate fear?

    [–]weavilsatemyface 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Why would I trust someone, who's only source of income is selling climate fear?

    Right, and that's why we should only listen to think tanks that are funded by oil companies 🙄

    "Trust, but verify."

    Actually you don't have to trust her at all. There are plenty of other sources of information, and you can do your own research by looking at the scientific papers, you don't have to be an expert to get the gist of them.

    In fact, you don't even need to listen to what people say, you can look at what people do. The same folks in the oil industry who say that there is no global warming and the Arctic isn't melting have been moving their oil rigs into the Arctic to take advantage of the reduced ice since at least 2012.

    [–]GuyWhite 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    The sky is falling. The sky is falling.

    [–]weavilsatemyface 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Chicken Little had no good reason to believe that the sky was falling, and the other animals had no reason to listen to her panic.

    In real life, we can see with our own eyes that climate is changing due to global warming, leading to shifts in weather patterns and climate zones:

    Etc. This is just the beginning.

    It's not Chicken Little panic to see a disaster coming for our grandchildren and want to do something about it. We've had fifty years since global warming has been indisputable and we've done nothing to even reduce the disaster, let alone prevent it.

    [–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    No, the globe is warming.

    Due to the enhanced greenhouse effect from human emissions of greenhouse gasses.

    Here's CO2. See how it's increasing? That means the temperature will increase.

    FFS, mate. This isn't rocket science.