This summer's weather: "This is what global warming looks like"

It's July. It's raining. Again,

Just STFU

 

Here in Missouri, it's been two years of extremes in a row. Last year, we had record spring rainfall in the Mississippi river valley resulting in the Corps of Engineers having to blow a local levee to save towns downriver, but destroying a lot of local crops. One of our local recreational lakes overflowed, then destroyed a levee and the main road through the area. This year the opposite. Record high temperatures and record low rainfall. Local farmers are either irrigating 24/7 or just taking a loss on entire early crops and turning them in to their insurance companies.

 

This is what climate change looks like.

Actually, if we were to become a rain forest, I could live with that

 

The real question is: What action can the public and private sectors take? Most of the damage has already been done, and no amount of prevention or offset can nullify the past. The real solution is to reverse the damage, and if carbon dioxide and methane are the problems, then the solution is actually rather simple. Convert methane to carbon dioxide by using it as fuel. Convert carbon dioxide to oxygen by planting more trees and growing more algae.

For those of you who are interested, google "Desert Rose Project." It's an idea that the international community has come up with to purify some of the South African deserts by introducing trees. By covering the deserts with forest, they believe they can erase 50 years of carbon buildup.

 

Before you say that, try living in a rainforest climate...

 

This year has been constant rain here in the Yucatan from May until about a week ago. In the five years I've lived here this is a first. Here people do not send their children to school if it's raining. This year they've *gasp* had to attend school in the rain. My girlfriend works at a school and she's said the phone calls from parents were driving her crazy. Same parents everyday... "is everything alright there? It's raining. Is my child ok?" Now it's summer vacation and the rain has stopped. Now it's just hot and humid. Yesterday was 41 and 98% humidity. I love my pool.

 

...and destroy a functioning ecosystem? Sounds like a great idea.

 

I would like to see some documentation. From what I've heard, the deserts of the world have been expanding since the onset of industrialization, causing plenty of damage to their surrounding ecosystems. Case in point: Owens Valley, CA. Not to mention evolution/natural selection will come into play, just like it did in the onset of industrialization.

 

If this balmy winter and hot summer is evidence of global warming, can I cite 2010's snowstorm of epic proportions as evidence of global cooling?

New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism - Yahoo! News

To quote a favorite here on TFP: "I remain as ever, unconvinced."

 

Aw hell, I guess the blizzards of 1966, 67, 69, 75, 77, 78, 79, 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 99, 00, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 must all be global warming. We must have taken a break in the 80s, though.

You're making conclusions on the basis of 100 years of data. On a climate system that's over 4 billion years old. I think this is more a case of confirmation bias than global warming. But if you want to believe the sky is falling, be my guest.

 

I didn't realize this was even still up for argument.
Yes, the global ecosystem is changing, as it has been documented that it has done before (Ice Age) so why are some of us so dead set that it can't or isn't happening again?
It sucks. I remember 30 years ago that members of the scientific community who were documenting global climate change predicted what is going on now to not happen for another 50 years. So it appears we are ahead of schedule. Humans do what they do. We can't agree as a country how to proceed, how the heck is the entire world going to settle on a 'plan'? I'm making changes as I gain more information to minimize my and my family's destruction of the world but I'm at a loss as to how I'm going to get everyone to get on board.

The winter that wasn't was strange and this heat does sucketh...bleh.

 

Well, I was born in KL and lived there for a while ... oh!

Yeah, you have a point!

 

What is it that you would like to see documented, that deserts aren't naturally covered in trees? that planting trees until the desert is gone will destroy the desert? That deserts in fact have plant and animal life, as do coastal zones? that evolution won't bail us out on timescales that short or just because we want it to? That deliberately destroying an ecosystem is a not actually a solution to the problem of incidentally destroying ecosystems in other places?

 

I honestly think the global climate change is inevitable and I honestly think that we are going to do nothing about it. The little changes now are too little, too late. The kind of radical lifestyle, economical and social changes that are needed to make a difference are simply to costly to implement.