We were warned - 30 years ago

[billvon 3,131]

30 years ago, in 1988, NASA warned Congress that unless we drastically cut production of greenhouse gases (primarily CO2) we'd see a sharp increase in warming, with all the problems associated with that - rising sea levels, droughts, bigger wildfires, stronger storms. Now 30 years later we are seeing all that happen.

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NASA's chilling 30-year-old warning
FOX News
June 19 2018

We were warned. On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, James Hansen told the US Congress and the world that global warming wasn’t approaching — it had already arrived.

The testimony of the top NASA scientist, said Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley, was “the opening salvo of the age of climate change.”

Thirty years later, it’s clear that Hansen and other doomsayers were right. But the change has been so sweeping that it is easy to lose sight of effects large and small — some obvious, others less conspicuous.

Earth is noticeably hotter, the weather stormier and more extreme. Polar regions have lost billions of tons of ice; sea levels have been raised by trillions of gallons of water. Far more wildfires rage.

Over 30 years — the time period climate scientists often use in their studies in order to minimize natural weather variations — the world’s annual temperature has warmed 0.54 degrees Celsius, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And the temperature in the United States has gone up even more — nearly 0.85 degrees.

“The biggest change over the last 30 years, which is most of my life, is that we’re no longer thinking just about the future,” said Kathie Dello, a climate scientist at Oregon State University in Corvallis. “Climate change is here, it’s now and it’s hitting us hard from all sides.” . . .

Clara Deser, climate analysis chief at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that when dealing with 30-year time periods in smaller regions than continents or the globe as a whole, it would be unwise to say all the warming is man-made. Her studies show that in some places in North America — though not most — natural weather variability could account for as much as half of local warming.

But when you look at the globe as a whole, especially since 1970, nearly all the warming is man-made, said Zeke Hausfather of the independent science group Berkeley Earth. Without extra carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, he said, the Earth would be slightly cooling from a weakening sun.

Numerous scientific studies and government reports calculate that greenhouse gases in the big picture account for more than 90 per cent of post-industrial Earth’s warming.
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Ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica have also shriveled, melting about 455 billion tons of ice into water, according to the NASA satellite. That’s enough to cover the state of Georgia in water nearly three meters deep. And it is enough — coupled with all the other melting ice — to raise the level of the seas. Overall, NASA satellites have shown three inches of sea level rise (75 millimeters) in just the past 25 years.

With more than 70 per cent of the Earth covered by oceans, a 3-inch increase means about 6,500 cubic miles (27,150 cubic km) of extra water. That’s enough to cover the entire United States with water about three meters deep. It’s a fitting metaphor for climate change, say scientists: We’re in deep, and getting deeper.

“Thirty years ago, we may have seen this coming as a train in the distance,” NOAA’s Arndt said. “The train is in our living room now.”
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http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/06/19/nasas-chilling-30-year-old-warning.html

[SkyDekker 1,465]

Those damn Chinese are smart playing a long con like that.

[rushmc 23]

James Hansen sorry been proven to be a lying joke Bill! I'm surprised that you want to be quote with him!

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[rushmc 23]

billvon

30 years ago, in 1988, NASA warned Congress that unless we drastically cut production of greenhouse gases (primarily CO2) we'd see a sharp increase in warming, with all the problems associated with that - rising sea levels, droughts, bigger wildfires, stronger storms. Now 30 years later we are seeing all that happen.

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NASA's chilling 30-year-old warning
FOX News
June 19 2018

We were warned. On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, James Hansen told the US Congress and the world that global warming wasn’t approaching — it had already arrived.

The testimony of the top NASA scientist, said Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley, was “the opening salvo of the age of climate change.”

Thirty years later, it’s clear that Hansen and other doomsayers were right. But the change has been so sweeping that it is easy to lose sight of effects large and small — some obvious, others less conspicuous.

Earth is noticeably hotter, the weather stormier and more extreme. Polar regions have lost billions of tons of ice; sea levels have been raised by trillions of gallons of water. Far more wildfires rage.

Over 30 years — the time period climate scientists often use in their studies in order to minimize natural weather variations — the world’s annual temperature has warmed 0.54 degrees Celsius, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And the temperature in the United States has gone up even more — nearly 0.85 degrees.

“The biggest change over the last 30 years, which is most of my life, is that we’re no longer thinking just about the future,” said Kathie Dello, a climate scientist at Oregon State University in Corvallis. “Climate change is here, it’s now and it’s hitting us hard from all sides.” . . .

Clara Deser, climate analysis chief at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that when dealing with 30-year time periods in smaller regions than continents or the globe as a whole, it would be unwise to say all the warming is man-made. Her studies show that in some places in North America — though not most — natural weather variability could account for as much as half of local warming.

But when you look at the globe as a whole, especially since 1970, nearly all the warming is man-made, said Zeke Hausfather of the independent science group Berkeley Earth. Without extra carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, he said, the Earth would be slightly cooling from a weakening sun.

Numerous scientific studies and government reports calculate that greenhouse gases in the big picture account for more than 90 per cent of post-industrial Earth’s warming.
. . .

Ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica have also shriveled, melting about 455 billion tons of ice into water, according to the NASA satellite. That’s enough to cover the state of Georgia in water nearly three meters deep. And it is enough — coupled with all the other melting ice — to raise the level of the seas. Overall, NASA satellites have shown three inches of sea level rise (75 millimeters) in just the past 25 years.

With more than 70 per cent of the Earth covered by oceans, a 3-inch increase means about 6,500 cubic miles (27,150 cubic km) of extra water. That’s enough to cover the entire United States with water about three meters deep. It’s a fitting metaphor for climate change, say scientists: We’re in deep, and getting deeper.

“Thirty years ago, we may have seen this coming as a train in the distance,” NOAA’s Arndt said. “The train is in our living room now.”
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http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/06/19/nasas-chilling-30-year-old-warning.html

And at this point, anybody that pays any attention to NASA after all of their data manipulation fubar's they've been caught doing, is less than honest themselves!

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[billvon 3,131]

Congratulations. You are now farther to the right than FOX News.

[jcd11235 0]

billvon

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And at this point, anybody that pays any attention to NASA after all of their data manipulation fubar's they've been caught doing, is less than honest themselves!

Such as Trump's appointee to the NASA chair, Jim Bridestine: https://www.wired.com/story/nasas-jim-bridenstine-agrees-humans-are-responsible-for-climate-change/

Also, it's NOAA who you're supposd to be accusing: https://www.factcheck.org/2017/02/no-data-manipulation-at-noaa/

Should we just take over your account? We know your accusations better than you do.

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[billvon 3,131]

>Such as Trump's appointee to the NASA chair, Jim Bridestine

He is not being politically correct! I don't expect him to last much longer. Isn't Dennis Rodman available?

[DanG 1]

I watched The Blob last weekend, the original 1958 with Steve McQueen. If you don't remember, they defeat the blob by freezing it and flying it up to the arctic. Someone remarks that all is well with the plan. The very last line in the movie is McQueen saying, "As long as the arctic stays cold."

Just thought that was funny.

- Dan G

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billvon

>Such as Trump's appointee to the NASA chair, Jim Bridestine

He is not being politically correct! I don't expect him to last much longer. Isn't Dennis Rodman available?

I think that Flat Earth guy is out of the hospital now:

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/223656/20180325/watch-flat-earther-rocketeer-mad-mike-hughes-finally-blasts-off-into-california-sky.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0WmenDhtaY

"I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

[jcd11235 0]

DanG

I watched The Blob last weekend, the original 1958 with Steve McQueen. If you don't remember, they defeat the blob by freezing it and flying it up to the arctic. Someone remarks that all is well with the plan. The very last line in the movie is McQueen saying, "As long as the arctic stays cold."

Just thought that was funny.

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