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As Rush Limbaugh says, "You can't make this stuff up."
The sky is literally falling because of climate change, says top NASA scientist
As the world reaches a globally significant carbon emissions milestone, the sky
is literally falling as as result of climate change, says a top scientist at NASA.
This year was the hottest year on record according to the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) and saw globally averaged concentrations of carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere not seen in roughly three million years.
"Carbon dioxide cools the stratosphere and when the stratosphere cools, it actually
shrinks the size of the atmosphere," Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard
Institute for Space Studies, told National Observer. "So if you’re about 80 kilometres
up, you actually are seeing the sky falling. It’s going down by a number of kilometres.”
This is one of many reasons why a real discussion on climate change is impossible now.
BTW, Rush Limbaugh has zero interest in the discussion. His interest is what it always is, applying a business model of making a decreasing demographic increasingly scared and angry at opposition then turning around and calling it "informing."
Exactly folks. Take note that the OP quotes Rush Limbaugh. How much studying and how many classes did Rush Limbaugh take and pass in an accredited school on meteorology? None. But according to the right's viewpoint, the vast majority of scientist that do study this, and are respected in their field, say there is nothing to climate change.Rush is the last person I'd want to get scientific advice from.
What are Rush's credentials on the field of meteorology?As Rush Limbaugh says, "You can't make this stuff up."
As Rush Limbaugh says, "You can't make this stuff up."
I think part of the issue is that Gavin Schmidt has become a AGW proponent spokes person,People like you are what's wrong with America. You reject the testimony of subject matter experts for radio talk show hosts who argue from emotion to get ratings.
Yet when one follows the link,A greenhouse gas monitoring station in Hawaii predicted that those record CO2 concentrations will not dip below 400 pmm for many generations to come, and last spring, federal scientists also linked El Niño to the Fort McMurray wildfire that forced the largest evacuation in Alberta's history, shutting down several oilsands producers during the emergency.
Those unusual weather conditions have been widely attributed to El Nino, a naturally-occurring phenomenon linked to warm ocean water that disrupts the weather.
But Flannigan, a professor of wildland fire from the University of Alberta, and many other climate change scientists agree that while the Fort McMurray fires cannot be directly linked to the carbon pollution produced by humans, Canadian wildfire activity of the past few years is well above average. And it's connected to the warming climate.
What's 'made up' about it? It's physics.
This is one of many reasons why a real discussion on climate change is impossible now.
BTW, Rush Limbaugh has zero interest in the discussion. His interest is what it always is, applying a business model of making a decreasing demographic increasingly scared and angry at opposition then turning around and calling it "informing."
What are Rush's credentials on the field of meteorology?
As Rush Limbaugh says, "You can't make this stuff up."
I think part of the issue is that Gavin Schmidt has become a AGW proponent spokes person,
more than a Scientist.
Really?
How me other fields of science that uses such terms.
"You actually see the sky falling..."
Really now.
How professional!
As Rush Limbaugh says, "You can't make this stuff up."
The sky is literally falling because of climate change, says top NASA scientist
As the world reaches a globally significant carbon emissions milestone, the sky
is literally falling as as result of climate change, says a top scientist at NASA.
This year was the hottest year on record according to the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) and saw globally averaged concentrations of carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere not seen in roughly three million years.
"Carbon dioxide cools the stratosphere and when the stratosphere cools, it actually
shrinks the size of the atmosphere," Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard
Institute for Space Studies, told National Observer. "So if you’re about 80 kilometres
Who needs Al Gore when the vast majority of meteorological scientists say there is global warming; that's my point. :shrug:Will you show us Al Gore et. al. first please?
Stratosphere cooling? Wait. What? I thought global warming would heat the air? Eh?
Will you show us Al Gore et. al. first please?
Who needs Al Gore when the vast majority of meteorological scientists say there is global warming; that's my point. :shrug:
More energy being trapped at the surface by greenhouse gasses means less of it bouncing around the upper levels of the atmosphere. Hope this helps your confusion.
AGW "skeptics" have sometimes pointed at cooling stratospheres as evidence against AGW. Amusing for the reason listed above. Additionally amusing due to the low population in the stratosphere.
Now wait a sec.
More energy being trapped at the surface by greenhouse gasses would heat that layer of the atmosphere, expanding that air mass, wouldn't it?
Wouldn't this air mass expansion be 'holding up' the stratosphere? Not letting it shrink in size?
Yes, there is global warming. Just not enough to be all Chicken Little about it.
People like you are what's wrong with America. You reject the testimony of subject matter experts for radio talk show hosts who argue from emotion to get ratings.
There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It’s the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility.
Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason, says in an article in the Washington Post, "Dumbness, to paraphrase the late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, has been steadily defined downward for several decades, by a combination of heretofore irresistible forces. These include the triumph of video culture over print culture; a disjunction between Americans' rising level of formal education and their shaky grasp of basic geography, science and history; and the fusion of anti-rationalism with anti-intellectualism.
Journalist Charles Pierce, author of Idiot America, adds another perspective: “The rise of idiot America today represents--for profit mainly, but also and more cynically, for political advantage in the pursuit of power--the breakdown of a consensus that the pursuit of knowledge is a good. It also represents the ascendancy of the notion that the people whom we should trust the least are the people who best know what they are talking about. In the new media age, everybody is an expert.”
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