Posted on 07/27/2006 3:15:55 PM PDT by ChessExpert
... Nor has the Times been the only major periodical to blow hot and cold (if you will forgive me) on the subject of the global climate.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
They're socialists, pushing a socialist agenda by blaming global warming (TM) on industrial capitalism.
"America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise."
Yes, but that particular headline ran in the good gray Times on March 27, 1933 -- 73 years ago. What's more, the Times changed its mind dramatically on the subject 42 years later, in 1975, when it startled its readers on May 21 with "Scientists Ponder Why World's Climate is Changing; A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable."
We have had a terrible hot spell here in Texas this year. Hot in Texas you say pretty unusual.
When I look at the previous records I see the same years -- 1910, 1911, 1932, 1933 and 1934. I looks like a cycle to me.
Hot in Texas you say pretty unusual.
When I look at the previous records I see the same years -- 1910, 1911, 1932, 1933 and 1934.
Funny - My father was born in west Texas in Jan of 1930 and the Doctor marked on his birth certificate "coldest day ever, minus 20 degrees"
Well, the early 30's was called the "Dust Bowl" and you ought to look it up. Pretty hot from 32 to 36.
Most of Oklahoma blew away and just about everywhere else was ungodly hot.
Interesting link about the Dust Bowl.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/nsfc-ne031804.php
NASA explains 'dust bowl' drought
NASA scientists have an explanation for one of the worst climatic events in the history of the United States, the "Dust Bowl" drought, which devastated the Great Plains and all but dried up an already depressed American economy in the 1930's.
Siegfried Schubert of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues used a computer model developed with modern-era satellite data to look at the climate over the past 100 years. The study found cooler than normal tropical Pacific Ocean surface temperatures combined with warmer tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures to create conditions in the atmosphere that turned America's breadbasket into a dust bowl from 1931 to 1939. The team's data is in this week's Science magazine.
These changes in sea surface temperatures created shifts in the large-scale weather patterns and low level winds that reduced the normal supply of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and inhibited rainfall throughout the Great Plains.
"The 1930s drought was the major climatic event in the nation's history," Schubert said. "Just beginning to understand what occurred is really critical to understanding future droughts and the links to global climate change issues we're experiencing today," he said.
By discovering the causes behind U.S. droughts, especially severe episodes like the Plains' dry spell, scientists may recognize and possibly foresee future patterns that could create similar conditions. For example, La Niñas are marked by cooler than normal tropical Pacific Ocean surface water temperatures, which impact weather globally, and also create dry conditions over the Great Plains.
The researchers used NASA's Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project (NSIPP) atmospheric general circulation model and agency computational facilities to conduct the research. The NSIPP model was developed using NASA satellite observations, including; Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System radiation measurements; and the Global Precipitation Climatology Project precipitation data.
The model showed cooler than normal tropical Pacific Ocean temperatures and warmer than normal tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures contributed to a weakened low-level jet stream and changed its course. The jet stream, a ribbon of fast moving air near the Earth's surface, normally flows westward over the Gulf of Mexico and then turns northward pulling up moisture and dumping rain onto the Great Plains. As the low level jet stream weakened, it traveled farther south than normal. The Great Plains dried up and dust storms formed.
The research shed light on how tropical sea surface temperatures can have a remote response and control over weather and climate. It also confirmed droughts can become localized based on soil moisture levels, especially during summer. When rain is scarce and soil dries, there is less evaporation, which leads to even less precipitation, creating a feedback process that reinforces lack of rainfall.
The study also shed light on droughts throughout the 20th century. Analysis of other major U.S. droughts of the 1900s suggests a cool tropical Pacific was a common factor. Schubert said simulating major events like the 1930s drought provides an excellent test for computer models. While the study finds no indication of a similar Great Plains drought in the near future, it is vital to continue studies relating to climate change. NASA's current and planned suite of satellite sensors is uniquely poised to answer related climate questions.
I spent 4 years in Lubbock watching New Mexico blow by.
It will get hotter and hotter for five hundred million years then the earth will evaporate. Unless the EnviroLeftists can stop stellar evolution.
Global warming is the new Lysenkoism.
The earth goes through climate changes periodically throughout its history. It will get very cold (i.e the Ice Age) and then it will get real hot again. Sheesh, the envirowhackos might want to actually learn some science before they go haywire and start all this BS about global warming.
I've decided it's best to just ignore anything the New York Slimes says. Life's much easier that way.
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