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    08-05-2018, 04:05 PM #41
    July 2018 was the hottest July in Palm Springs history and the hottest month ever in Death Valley. California's average minimum temperature in July 2018 was 64.9°, the hottest minimum on record. In 124 years of record keeping, California's five hottest years are 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. There ya go!

    California's destructive summer brings blunt talk about climate change

    http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...805-story.html

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    08-12-2018, 04:18 PM #42
    Egypt's three hottest years on record: 2016, 2017, 2018. Highest temperature ever recorded in Japan: 106°, July 23, 2018. Highest temperature ever recorded in Africa: 124.34° in Ouragla, Algeria, July 5, 2018. Highest temperature ever recorded in Asia and the eastern hemisphere: 129.2° in Mitribah, Kuwait, 2016. Yeah, all that silly nonsense about "global warming" is just a hoax, right?

    Searing heat could make countries in North Africa and along the Persian Gulf unlivable

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/s...ersian-n899921

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    08-15-2018, 02:29 PM #43
    It isn't just the air that's getting hotter. It's also the water.

    Number of 'marine heat waves' roughly doubled between 1982 and 2016, study finds
    CBS News, Aug 15 2018 1:34 PM

    Even the oceans are breaking temperature records in this summer of heat waves. Off the San Diego coast, scientists earlier this month recorded all-time high seawater temperatures since daily measurements began in 1916.

    "Just like we have heat waves on land, we also have heat waves in the ocean," said Art Miller of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Between 1982 and 2016, the number of "marine heat waves" roughly doubled and likely will become more common and intense as the planet warms, a study released today found. Prolonged periods of extreme heat in the oceans can damage kelp forests and coral reefs and harm fish and other marine life.

    "This trend will only further accelerate with global warming," said Thomas Frolicher, a climate scientist at the University of Bern in Switzerland, who led the research. His team defined marine heat waves as extreme events in which sea-surface temperatures exceeded the 99th percentile of measurements for a given location. Because oceans both absorb and release heat more slowly than air, most marine heat waves last for at least several days -- and some for several weeks.

    In 2016 and 2017, persistent high ocean temperatures off eastern Australia killed off as much as half of the shallow water corals of the Great Barrier Reef -- with significant consequences for other creatures dependent upon the reef.

    The latest study in Nature relied on satellite data and other records of sea-surface temperatures including from ships and buoys. It didn't include the recent record-breaking measurements off Scripps Pier in San Diego which reached 79.5° on August 9 but the event was an example of a marine heat wave.

    Changes in ocean circulation associated with warmer surface waters will likely mean decreased production of phytoplankton, the tiny organisms that form the basis of the marine food web, Miller said.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marine-...6-study-finds/

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    08-16-2018, 02:36 PM #44
    A survey of 3,266 scientists and researchers working for the federal government has found that a large number are afraid to talk about climate change. They fear repercussions from Donald Trump, who, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, dismisses climate change as a "hoax."

    Survey: Many federal researchers say politics trump science and are afraid to speak up

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...nge/925099002/

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    08-17-2018, 02:35 PM #45
    July 2018 was California's hottest month on record. The highest temperatures ever recorded in Burbank, Westwood, Chino, Santa Ana and Death Valley occurred in July 2018. The few people who still believe the earth is not getting warmer should start checking their thermometers more often.

    Climate change is helping crank up the temperatures of California's heat waves

    http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...817-story.html

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    08-17-2018, 10:06 PM #46
    Trump appointed a Secretary of the Interior who, same as Trump, does not believe in global warming. The Secretary, in turn, hired an adviser who also does not believe in global warming -- and has no experience in any field which is under the purview of the Interior Department. This is cronyism, pure and simple, and the anti-environment policies of this triumvirate are doing immeasurable harm.

    Interior Secretary's school friend blocking climate research, scientists say
    Trump administration forces some scientific funding to be reviewed by adviser who was high-school football teammate of Ryan Zinke.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...scientists-say

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    08-19-2018, 06:58 PM #47
    NBC News explains how scientists are now able to connect "human-caused global warming" to extreme weather events:

    Global warming can make extreme weather worse. Now scientists can say by how much.
    Researchers no longer hesitate to blame climate change for floods, fires and heat waves. Here's how the science works.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ts-can-n901751

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    08-21-2018, 01:39 AM #48
    Global warming is causing glaciers to melt and the sea level to rise. For people living in coastal communities, that means higher risk of flooding. Scientists say the oceans have risen eight inches since 1900 and three inches since 1993 and could rise another 52 inches by 2100. Several inland cities could be coastal cities by then.

    Sea level rise is already costing property owners on the coast

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...bPOF?ocid=AMZN

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    08-21-2018, 02:42 PM #49
    "Allowing trillions more tons of greenhouse gases into the air will bigly increase air pollution and will bigly harm people with asthma, okay? But that is a small price to pay to reward the coal miners who voted for me, okay? And if coal power was good enough in 1840, it's good enough in 2018."

    Trump administration rewrites coal emissions rules in a boon for heavily polluting facilities
    Los Angeles Times, Aug 21 2018 7:48 AM

    The Trump administration today unveiled a sweeping rewrite of emissions rules for power plants in a boon to the coal industry, laying the groundwork for a revival of the most polluting facilities and abandoning Obama-era mandates for reorienting the electricity sector toward clean energy.

    The Environmental Protection Agency called the regulations on coal power plants "overly prescriptive and burdensome." The replacement for the federal Clean Power Plan reflects a dramatic about-face on national climate action. It is President Trump’s second major move in less than a month reflecting a retreat in the fight against global warming, following the administration’s plan to freeze fuel-economy standards for cars and trucks.

    The new power plan will relieve the electricity industry — the second-largest producer of potent greenhouse gases nationwide — from aggressive goals for reducing its carbon footprint. Heavily polluting coal plants that would have been forced into retirement under the Obama-era guidelines get a new lease on life under the Trump blueprint, which allows them to continue operating with modest modification.

    The Natural Resources Defense Council called the replacement proposal Trump's "Dirty Power Plan." Democratic Representative Frank Pallone Jr. of New Jersey cited this summer's wildfires and increasing droughts and coastal flooding as evidence that man-made climate change from burning coal and other fossil fuels is already well upon the United States. "Once again, this administration is choosing polluters' profits over public health and safety," he said.

    http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-n...htmlstory.html

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    09-03-2018, 01:36 PM #50
    "Summertime, and the livin' is easy." That 1935 lyric by DuBose Heyward needs to be updated for 2018: "Summertime, and the globe keeps a-warmin'."

    2018 beats 1976 to become England's hottest summer on record

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...summer-record/

    Confirmed: Summer 2018 was France's second hottest on record

    https://www.thelocal.fr/20180829/sum...gust-on-record

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