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9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Littwin: The real clim... · 1 reply · +1 points

A diving accident left him paralyzed. Doesn't give him a free pass on criticism.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Littwin: The real clim... · 0 replies · 0 points

Cumulative emissions are more important - annual emissions aren't reset to zero on 1 Jan. By that measure, the US is at 2.7 times China's cumulative emissions. The CO2 we emitted decades ago is still in the atmosphere.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Littwin: The real clim... · 0 replies · -1 points

I don't care what the French Foreign Minister said.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder and global war... · 0 replies · +3 points

You need to demonstrate some knowledge of the subject before I can begin to explain. Start with the link I provided.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder\'s Mesa Elemen... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yep, he probably was.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder and global war... · 1 reply · +2 points

resorts to handwaving, bluster and other troll games.

That's your style, not mine.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder and global war... · 2 replies · +1 points

You need to start at the beginning. Your questions indicate a vast gulf of incomprehension.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder and global war... · 0 replies · -1 points

Anyone ought to expect nothing but the coarsest and clumsiest dishonesty from you.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder and global war... · 1 reply · 0 points

Unfortunately most conclusions in that field are driven by a relatively small number of people doing the models, the rest of the climate world blindly trusts them, and it is easier for a smaller group to go astray than a large discipline.

I'm asking for just one name from the "rest of the climate world". I'm letting you off incredibly easily.

One name, please.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder and global war... · 2 replies · +1 points

1.2 observed Recent Climatic Change in the Southwest
The climate of the Southwest is already changing in ways that can be attributed to human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases, or that are outcomes or expressions consistent with such emissions—with these notable observations:
• The Southwest is warming. Average daily temperatures for the 2001–2010 de- cade were the highest (Figure 1.2) in the Southwest from 1901 through 2010. Fewer cold waves and more heat waves occurred over the Southwest during 2001–2010 compared to average decadal occurrences in the twentieth century. The period since 1950 has been warmer than any period of comparable length in at least 600 years, as estimated on the basis of paleoclimatic tree-ring reconstructions of past temperatures. [Chapter 5]
• Recent drought has been unusually severe relative to droughts of the last century, but some droughts in the paleoclimate record were much more severe. The areal extent of drought over the Southwest during 2001–2010 was the second largest observed for any decade from 1901 to 2010. However, the most severe and sustained droughts during 1901–2010 were exceeded in severity and duration by multiple drought events in the preceding 2,000 years (Figure 1.3). [Chapter 5]
• Recent flows in the four major drainage basins of the Southwest have been lower than their twentieth century averages. Streamflow totals in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Rivers, Upper Colorado, Rio Grande, and Great Basin were 5% to 37% lower during 2001–2010 than their twentieth century average flows. Moreover, streamflow and snowmelt in many snowmelt-fed streams of the Southwest tended to arrive earlier in the year during the late twentieth century than earlier in the twentieth century, and up to 60% of the change in arrival time has been attributed to increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations in the atmosphere (Figure 1.4). [Chapter 5]

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