I noticed the following article about arctic sea ice loss this week: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022017/arctic-sea-ice-extent-nasa-global-warming-climate-change?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social What struck me was not so much the results, but the fact that the reported study began in 1979, the year I graduated from high school. Briefly, the article reported that Claire Parkinson, now a senior climate change scientist at NASA, began […]
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February At Halftime
The football season has come and gone leaving me with the thrill of my Falcons getting into the Super bowl, and the agony of them blowing a twenty-five-point lead at the hand of the Patriots. In the world of climate, we have another dubious stat of 1916 daily record highs to only 18 daily record […]
How Much Is Too Much?
Let’s not sugarcoat this post. Even if the entire planet went cold turkey getting off fossil fuels today, it may already be too late to prevent civilization as we know it from having to drastically change in order not enter a new dark age. One of the worst problems with carbon pollution is sea level […]
I’m Not Monkeying Around
Without naming names here is my take on politics that I alluded to in my last post on the subject of carbon level trends in the atmosphere. Actually, this post touches on human psychology, and is also a mix of philosophy and science delving into the nature of mankind when it comes to taking care […]
Nasty Carbon Dioxide Trends
One of the greatest disappointments with my fellow man in my adult life, when starting to tackle the climate issue shortly after Dr. James Hanson’s testimony in 1988, has been witnessing the ceaseless uptrend in carbon levels in the atmosphere. No matter what world treaty is signed, like Kyoto or Copenhagen, dangerous carbon levels in […]
Post 4. A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Lately those wanting to show warming trends have been using simple pictures or pictograms. A pictogram acts like a graph, but in most instances gets a point across faster and more precisely than say a bar chart. The human brain processes colors and pictures more easily than representative symbols. The National Center for Environmental Information has started […]
Post 3. Climate Ebbs and Flows
I have been fascinated with charts and graphs ever since beginning to study math in grade school. I was asking questions such as why in nature are there spikes on charts with, more often than not, subsequent downturns in association with statistical graphs? Take this chart depicting December arctic sea ice from the National Snow […]
Post 2. El Nino’s Ramping Up The Heat
Using National Center for Environmental Information data, the last two years (from DEC 2014 through NOV 2016) have been the hottest in the lower 48 states since 1895: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/climatological-rankings/index.php?periods%5B%5D=1&periods%5B%5D=24¶meter=tavg&state=110&div=0&month=11&year=2016 It is no wonder that we observed 24 months in a row of more daily record highs than lows as shown in our last post over […]
Three Consecutive Globally Warm Record Years……. Just a Note
I am letting all know that this blog site is up and running on the day that NOAA and NASA announced that the planet has had three consecutive years of record average warmth. The following are a couple of links to other respectable sites marking this dubious landmark moment in climate science history and the planet: Mashable.com […]
Post 1. U.S. Record Temperature Trends (Counting Those Records)
Welcome to my first blog on my new web site Guy on Climate. You will find that I am very much into scientific statistics that have been showing a warming trend on our planet for decades. We will explore together some relatable, simple math on a variety of climate subjects. There are a multitude of […]