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Signed, Sealed and Delivered. Climate denialists, the exit is over there on the right. Ta-ta.
I’m amused. The denizens of Bullshite Mountain just *will not* give in to reason. We are messing with the earth’s climate and the best the right wingnutz can do is blame the government for attempting to infringe on their right to destroy biosphere. I’m thinking that when New York is underwater, and Florida an undersea park, then… then we might start getting stuff done when it comes to maintaining our environment. Jon Stewart attempts and fails to remain apolitical when the crazy overwhelms him and forces his hand. One cannot just *not* comment when the weapons grade stupidity is being fired full auto on the air waves.
Not to sure how long the ytube vid will last, so here is the video on Raw Story with the vid hosted elsewhere.
A big thanks to tildeb over at Questionable Motives for bringing this video to my attention. The video is about the potential futures of climate change, but from a risk management perspective. It brings into stark relief the choices we are facing and some of the possible consequence of our potential action and inaction. I encourage my readership to copy and paste the video onto their blogs/social media as it is such an important issue.
I look at this and decide, at least on a local level, urban heating is not necessarily a bad thing. Here in Alberta we have snow a good part of the year, warmer temperatures mean on average less of the infernal stuff.
“A new British study suggests that cities are getting hotter faster than rural areas as populations increase amid general global warming.
By mid-century, night temperatures in various cities around the world could rise by five degrees Celsius, according to Richard Betts, a climate scientist with the United Kingdom’s Met office, which examines weather trends in the British Isles.
That means Toronto, which had a mean temperature in July 2009 of 19 C, could see a reading of almost 25 C for the same month by 2050.”
AGW I am sure will mess things up to a greater extent than they are now, but my selfish anti-snow genes say, bring it on.
“Before this study, researchers thought temperatures in rural and urban areas were rising by roughly the same amounts. Betts’s study indicates that cities are getting warmer faster than less urbanized areas.”
It seems to be a fairly safe hypothesis to test, as the urban ‘heat-island’ effect is easy to observe and is well documented. It is always good to see corroborating evidence.
I cautiously embrace my urban heat island because at very least it allows me a few more days of being unshod and fancy free before the indomitable torture known as winter boots. :)
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