Arctic heatwave

Handy Andy wrote:Arctic heatwave could break records - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38417198  
Scientists now say the Arctic heatwave is entirely down to man madeclimate change.
It doesn't take a genius to work that out.

The world is getting warmer.
And mankind is causing it.

Arctic heatwave could break records
By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News

• 24 December 2016 From the section Science & Environment
  

Temperatures at the North Pole could be up to 20 degrees higher than average this Christmas Eve, in what scientists say is a record-breaking heatwave.
Climate scientists say these unseasonably warm weather patterns in the Arctic region are directly linked to man-made climate change.
Temperatures throughout November and December were 5C higher than average.
It follows a summer during which Arctic sea ice reached the second-lowest extent ever recorded by satellites.
Image copyright ESA/CPOM/LEEDS UNI  
Image caption  Arctic sea ice extent is monitored and measured by satellite imaging                
Dr Friederike Otto, a senior researcher at Oxford's Environmental Change Institute told BBC News that in pre-industrial times "a heatwave like this would have been extremely rare - we would expect it to occur about every 1,000 years".

Dr Otto added that scientists are "very confident" that the weather patterns were linked to anthropogenic climate change.
"We have used several different climate modelling approaches and observations," she told BBC News.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38417198 

One can only keep projecting the facts and hope that people take notice; this isn't a 'my region vs your region' ...this is the ONLY PLANET we all reside upon! 

eddie wrote:Course it is! Humans ruin everything

I do all I can recycling, low wattage bulbs etc
What else can we do??

Trash Planet: Germany
 July 13, 2009
The Trash Planet series highlights various countries around the world and how they handle their waste.
Germany leads the European nations in recycling, with around 70 percent of the waste the country generates successfully recovered and reused each year. To put that figure into perspective, consider this: In 2007, the U.S. was able to recover only about 33 percent of the waste generated that year.
To operate such a successful waste management system nationwide is certainly no small feat, but for the past several years the Germans have made it look easy. So how do they do it?
“Recycling is very important in Germany,” says Günseli Aksoy, a 24-year-old mechanical engineering student at the Braunschweig University of Technology. “The people here are very conscientious.”
And while the country’s conscientious waste management strategy requires cooperation from the government, the industry and the citizens, it starts at the very beginning of the waste creation process – with the product manufacturers.
There are three simple components the manufacturers must consider: waste avoidance, waste recovery and environmentally compatible disposal.
By incorporating waste avoidance into industry, much of Germany’s waste management becomes “invisible,” as corporations are forced to re-think every aspect of manufacturing. Packaging, processes and disposal of items are all engineered with recycling and elimination of waste in mind.

Federal Waste Management Policy

In 1996, German lawmakers who were concerned about the country’s growing number of landfills passed the Closed Substance Cycle and Waste Management Act, which requires businesses to eliminate waste production by implementing one or more of the three management strategies.
Waste avoidance is first priority because it encourages companies to design their manufacturing processes and packaging with elimination of wastefulness in mind. Second, waste that can’t be avoided must be recycled or converted into energy. Lastly, waste that can’t be recovered must be disposed of in a way that is environmentally safe.
The concept in which private industries are responsible for eliminating waste – and for covering the costs – is described as the “polluter pays” principle. In other words, those who create the waste are responsible for cleaning up the mess. The U.S. has a “consumer pays” policy, in which waste management is funded by taxpaying citizens.
Germany’s three-point strategy doesn’t apply to just the country’s solid and packaging wastes, but also to liquid, gaseous, hazardous, radioactive and medical wastes. The efforts have been hugely successful; according to the German Federal Statistical Office, between the years 1996 and 2007, the country has reduced its total net waste amount by more than 37.7 million U.S. tons.

Packaging Ordinance

Even before Germany’s Closed Substance Cycle and Waste Management Act formed the country’s national waste management policy, legislators knew they needed to make big changes. Something had to be done to reduce the amount of solid waste the country was generating each year.
In 1991, Germany adopted its Packaging Ordinance, which requires all manufacturers to collect and then recycle or reuse their packaging after it is disposed of by consumers.
Making corporations responsible for their packaging to the end of its life cycle encourages them to package goods with fewer materials in order to minimize recycling and disposal costs.
The Ordinance focuses on improving three categories of packaging:

• Transport packaging (crates and shipping boxes)
  
• Secondary packaging (non-essential boxes, such as around bottles of vitamins)
  
• Primary packaging (casings that come in contact with the product, such as toothpaste tubes)  
  http://earth911.com/earth-watch/trash-planet-germany/
  

We humans are 'trashing' up our planet, and allowing educated countries to ignore the need to CLEAN IT UP, and ignoring 3rd world countries that are shoving the toxic crap into our oceans!   

Past the time to PLAY HARD BALL, with this environmental issue ...but will the {my} government(s) stand strong on this issue now? 

Lord Foul wrote:has he attacked any poster?
NO

THERIN is the problem...not merely commenting, however briefly or crypticaly on the substance of the POST

OUR problem is those who "parachute in" with the intent of attacking other individual posters...

Ya didnt like it when I did it...did you?

Handy Andy wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:has he attacked any poster?
NO

THERIN is the problem...not merely commenting, however briefly or crypticaly on the substance of the POST

OUR problem is those who "parachute in" with the intent of attacking other individual posters...

Ya didnt like it when I did it...did you?

It just makes him look like the dolt we know he is.

Handy Andy wrote:The warming of the Arctic circle will clearly impact sea levels and climate in Northern Europe. We must await research to find out by how much and how quickly it will affect  us.
Fortunately, Tommykins is so tired and bored, he will yawn and sleep through it.

Handy Andy wrote:There is already action underway to help the submerging low lying Pacific islands which are under threat.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/pacific-islands-take-steps-to-counter-rising-sea-levels-1448934453

Many of America's military bases have been having issues with extreme high tides {see the global warming thread-lots of posted articles and links on there} ...we do not have a PLAN in place to relocate all of those bases ...some, yes - all ...not hardly!

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

The rises in sea levels won't be very great, up around the Arctic circle...

Most Arctic ice is already floating  (there is no Arctic 'continent' --  unlike Antarctica..).   So there simply won't be the widespread gradual inundation of land that, will be experienced in southern climes..

There are other, more serious problems that will occur, more often and more frequently :

Increased storm surges, with accompanying local flooding and erosion;
Increased extreme weather conditions --  more hot periods, more cold periods, more dry stretches, more severe storms;
Severe changes to environments --  including 'loss of habitat' for Polar bears, whales, seals, and many types of birds;
Severe changes to agricultural practices;
And increasing "mass migrations" -- of both humans and wildlife --  to levels undreamt of in Tommy and Major's worst nightmares..

Military bases and seaports are already being arranged by those countries with territories within the Arctic circle, for the day when the fabled "North West Passage" becomes reality.        

Visions from the bubble that he dwells = just to be ignored, the regurgitation of his opinion is  

Handy Andy wrote:There is already action underway to help the submerging low lying Pacific islands which are under threat.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/pacific-islands-take-steps-to-counter-rising-sea-levels-1448934453

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

Handy Andy wrote:There is already action underway to help the submerging low lying Pacific islands which are under threat.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/pacific-islands-take-steps-to-counter-rising-sea-levels-1448934453 

I'VE written of that situation before, in probably every second post that I have made on climate change over the past few years...

Unlike those brainless climate denialist stooges sucking on the coal and oil company proverbials,  those people actually out on the ground and having to deal with the fallout have been making plans and preparations for the best part  of the last decade..

And despite and against all the blatherings and deflections from the coal barons, oil twonks, paid lobbyists, lickspit morons, and their supplicant politicians.

But my thoughts/concerns for our future regarding all of these very issues has taken a great interest since the recent election of our future ignorant arsed man that has zero clue in this regard.

Our aging energy grid is soooo horribly exposed and he's taunting the world about bombing ISIS.

Ben Reilly wrote:Here's you, Tommy:

nicko wrote:I'M not in agreement with Windmills [Bird Choppers]    but Solar Power and,  my favourite, tidal power,   seems the way to go !

Perhaps you are unaware that they do not rotate at the speed of our common house hold fans - nor even the wind driven speeds of our American Wind Mills for rural water wells ...that the rotation is very slow and limited due to the size of the turbines and the length and width of the blades

Have you ever actually been to 'ANY' wind farms - observed how they operate '?' or are you just Assuming that you know?

nicko wrote:I'M not in agreement with Windmills [Bird Choppers]    but Solar Power and,  my favourite, tidal power,   seems the way to go !

Tommy Monk wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:Here's you, Tommy:

No that is the climate change scientists who have been caught out before fudging the figures...!

Raggamuffin wrote:I don't know much about global warming, but I think it's awful how much stuff is dumped. Things like fridges, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, etc. People seem to replace them every five minutes whereas they should really last for many years. Are they made to not last long these days?

Think about all the stuff which is chucked out after Christmas too. I'm not sure about this, but I think that some councils don't like recycling wrapping paper. Then there's all the stars and ribbons that people use to adorn presents. Baubles and tree decorations seem to be replaced every year in some households too, so the old ones get chucked out.

Ben Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:I don't know much about global warming, but I think it's awful how much stuff is dumped. Things like fridges, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, etc. People seem to replace them every five minutes whereas they should really last for many years. Are they made to not last long these days?

Think about all the stuff which is chucked out after Christmas too. I'm not sure about this, but I think that some councils don't like recycling wrapping paper. Then there's all the stars and ribbons that people use to adorn presents. Baubles and tree decorations seem to be replaced every year in some households too, so the old ones get chucked out.

Well, of course they're not made to last long -- if they lasted, the corporations that make them wouldn't sell nearly as many.

That's why I was so keen on modular smart phones, but everybody seems to have abandoned them.

Ben Reilly wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:


No that is the climate change scientists who have been caught out before fudging the figures...!

Wrong, they have not.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:I don't know much about global warming, but I think it's awful how much stuff is dumped. Things like fridges, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, etc. People seem to replace them every five minutes whereas they should really last for many years. Are they made to not last long these days?

Think about all the stuff which is chucked out after Christmas too. I'm not sure about this, but I think that some councils don't like recycling wrapping paper. Then there's all the stars and ribbons that people use to adorn presents. Baubles and tree decorations seem to be replaced every year in some households too, so the old ones get chucked out.

Well, of course they're not made to last long -- if they lasted, the corporations that make them wouldn't sell nearly as many.

That's why I was so keen on modular smart phones, but everybody seems to have abandoned them.

That's what I thought, and I think it's a shame. Phones are also replaced all the time when a new model comes out, but I think they can be re-used or recycled or something.

Tommy Monk wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:


No that is the climate change scientists who have been caught out before fudging the figures...!

Wrong, they have not.

Oh yes they have!!!

Didn't you know...?

A three-part Penn State University cleared scientist Michael Mann of wrongdoing.

Two reviews commissioned by the University of East Anglia"supported the honesty and integrity of scientists in the Climatic Research Unit."

A UK Parliament report concluded that the emails have no bearing on our understanding of climate science and that claims against UEA scientists are misleading.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Inspector General's office concluded there was no evidence of wrongdoing on behalf of their employees.

The National Science Foundation's Inspector General's office concluded, "Lacking any direct evidence of research misconduct...we are closing this investigation with no further action."

The Environmental Protection Agency, in response to petitions against action to curb heat-trapping emissions, dismissed attacks on the science rooted in the stolen emails.

Factcheck.org debunked claims that the emails put the conclusions of climate science into question.

Politifact.com rated claims that the emails falsify climate science as "false."

An Associated Press review of the emails found that they "don't undercut the vast body of evidence showing the world is warming because of man-made greenhouse gas emissions."

Tommy Monk wrote:Did you not read the article I posted... it was about altering of data... not emails...

Ben Reilly wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:Did you not read the article I posted... it was about altering of data... not emails...

The email hack was about scientists supposedly altering data. It's just more from the world of right wing lies that makes up your reality.

https://nsidc.org/news/newsroom/20050801_floatingice.html

Melting of Floating Ice Will Raise Sea Level

 
Figure 1: A freshwater ice cube floats in a beaker of concentrated saltwater. Note that the ice cube floats much higher in the saltwater than it would in a glass of freshwater because saltwater has a greater density.
 

 
Figure 2: When the freshwater ice melts, it raises the water level. Freshwater is not as dense as saltwater; so the floating ice cube displaced less volume than it contributed once it melted.
 
When ice on land slides into the ocean, it displaces ocean water and causes sea level to rise. People believe that when this floating ice melts, water level doesn’t rise an additional amount because the freshwater ice displaces the same volume of water as it would contribute once it melts. Similarly, people also think that when ocean water freezes to form sea ice and then melts, the water is merely going through a change of state, so it won’t affect sea level. However, in a visit to NSIDC in May, Dr. Peter Noerdlinger, a professor at St. Mary’s University in Nova Scotia, Canada, suggested otherwise.
In a paper titled "The Melting of Floating Ice will Raise the Ocean Level" submitted to Geophysical Journal International, Noerdlinger demonstrates that melt water from sea ice and floating ice shelves could add 2.6% more water to the ocean than the water displaced by the ice, or the equivalent of approximately 4 centimeters (1.57 inches) of sea-level rise.
The common misconception that floating ice won’t increase sea level when it melts occurs because the difference in density between fresh water and salt water is not taken into consideration. Archimedes’ Principle states that an object immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces. However, Noerdlinger notes that because freshwater is not as dense as saltwater, freshwater actually has greater volume than an equivalent weight of saltwater. Thus, when freshwater ice melts in the ocean, it contributes a greater volume of melt water than it originally displaced.
Noerdlinger's collaborator, Professor Kay R. Brower, of the New Mexico Institute of Technology, Socorro, validated the effect experimentally as seen in Figures 1 and 2.

Ben Reilly wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:
Oh yes they have!!!

Didn't you know...?

Oh no they haven't!

Several independent investigations have proven they didn't! http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/fight-misinformation/debunking-misinformation-stolen-emails-climategate.html#.WGK2PBvQeUk

Didn't you know...?

Warm Arctic delays ice formation in Svalbard’s fjords

Yes, indeedy ...because reading the data seems to be a serious flaw in your ability to grasp the information we keep handing to you; I'll just keep to the pretty images/graphs and written simplistic stats in hopes that it enlightens your need to GET CURRENT!   LOL