Europe's All-Time Heat Record Set In Sicily At Nearly 120 Degrees (axios.com) 324
A weather station in Sicily may have set an all-time high temperature record for all of Europe on Wednesday, when the temperature climbed to a scorching 48.8C (119.8F) amid a regional heat wave that has shown few signs of relenting. Axios reports: Numerous monthly and national temperature records have fallen during the heat wave, including in Greece, Turkey and Tunisia, but if verified through an examination of the weather instruments, the Sicily observation would be the most noteworthy. The previous continental heat record was 48C (118.4F), set in Greece in 1977. For the record to be considered, a committee from the World Meteorological Organization would need to investigate the instrumentation and circumstances of the data, including whether similar temperatures were observed nearby.
As detailed in the IPCC climate report released Monday, human emissions of greenhouse gases are dramatically escalating the risk and severity of extreme heat events across the globe. This summer has featured unprecedented heat in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., as well as in Europe. In the U.S. on Wednesday, about 170 million are under heat advisories or excessive heat warnings from the Northwest to East Coast. The hottest temperatures associated with this particular heat dome are expected to shift to Spain and Portugal in coming days, raising wildfire concerns in both nations. In June, Canada broke a national heat record when the temperature in a small town in British Columbia reached almost 116 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking an 84-year-old record by nearly 3 degrees.
As detailed in the IPCC climate report released Monday, human emissions of greenhouse gases are dramatically escalating the risk and severity of extreme heat events across the globe. This summer has featured unprecedented heat in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., as well as in Europe. In the U.S. on Wednesday, about 170 million are under heat advisories or excessive heat warnings from the Northwest to East Coast. The hottest temperatures associated with this particular heat dome are expected to shift to Spain and Portugal in coming days, raising wildfire concerns in both nations. In June, Canada broke a national heat record when the temperature in a small town in British Columbia reached almost 116 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking an 84-year-old record by nearly 3 degrees.
Global Cooling (Score:2, Offtopic)
In the light of this news, the 92F degree humid weather here in Corpus Christi feels almost refreshing.
Give up Fahrenheit, would you? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Give up Fahrenheit, would you? (Score:5, Funny)
Why do Americans have to keep using Fahrenheit while nearly everyone else in the world moved on to Celsius? Use proper units and stop confusing the rest of the world, would you?
Just be glad they have standardised the definition of the 'foot' and don't keep changing it every time there is a new president with a different shoe size.
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That is actually a really good thing. ...
I have heard the previous one was bragging about that everything on his body is bigger
Re: Give up Fahrenheit, would you? (Score:3, Interesting)
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In Celcius it feels like youre micro managing decimals to cook steaks.
Why? You don't need a 1F precision to cook a steak. Whole degrees of Celsius work just fine.
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If the index has even twice the range, 0C freezing and 200C boiling, it would be adopted a lot easier.
But degrees C is adopted a lot easier. 95% of the world's population use C.
Nobody gives a flying fuck if their steak was cooked at 135.1F vs 135.8F. Its still rare. Once you hit 140F you crossed into Medium Rare pushing Medium. In Celcius it feels like youre micro managing decimals to cook steaks.
Yeah, the French are unable to cook their steaks to bleu. In fact they had to steal the word "bleu" from the Uni
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Public pronouncement in the US in Fahrenheit of temperature anywhere in the universe is proper. Perhaps you wanted Kelvin, Rømer, or Newton degrees? Did you know Fahrenheit is the first thermometer that used mercury? Since Fahrenheit degrees are smaller than Celsius or Kelvin degrees an integer can be more accurate than other temperature scales. Basing temperature on freezing and boiling of water is arbitrary. There's nothing magic about Celsius or Fahrenheit.
If the temperature is -40.0 degrees th
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It's easy enough to do conversions as long as the scales in themselves are used consistently. Especially if you're trying to insinuate that non-Imperial users are somehow smarter.
So what's the big deal? Ah yes, you're either a idiot, or someone who deliberately wan
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I measure my dick in 3 ways:
a) cm - so it looks bigger in relation to inches
b) at 0Â Fahrenheit standing in cold water (around 30F) - so it is objective, right?
So I can not offend the big huge black guy besides me at the other pissoir - oh shit, I should have used inches to look smaller.
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Maybe we should use something that will piss everyone off. How about light-seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years? That'll confuse people simply because the label ends in a unit of time, like parallax second confused George Lucas.
Or maybe we should using Planck units like the Planck length. Then you have 1 lp ~1.616E-35 * m or 1 lp ~6.363E-34 * in. And nobody is happy.
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Fuck off, unit supremacist.
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Give me a break. With computers being so ubiquitous and easy to use everyone can get a temperature conversion in seconds. If you are confused by temperatures then maybe you need an introduction to computers and the internet.
For myself I think of degrees F when considering weather and cooking, and I think of degrees C when doing science and engineering. Rarely do I need to do a conversion, and when I do there's a half dozen electronic aids for such a conversion in reach at nearly all times. When there is
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Strange that you forgot 100F == 37C == "normal human body temperature".
Perhaps that would have pointed out how retarded the 0F == ~-16C towards 100F == ~37C is.
No offence to Mister Fahrenheit, he was a scientist and his results are appreciated!
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Strange that you forgot 100F == 37C == "normal human body temperature".
How is that strange in a discussion about weather and how ubiquitous electronics are to perform conversions? If I have a thermometer to measure body temperature then it is near certain it is either electronic, and will do the conversion for me, or some kind of analog thermometer marked off in both scales. I picked those numbers to extrapolate from because they are exact, not some approximation. If I'm needing to calculate a conversion precisely then I'd want precise points to start from.
Perhaps that would have pointed out how retarded the 0F == ~-16C towards 100F == ~37C is.
Um, yes, that is
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So I take it you're fine with measurements being quoted in units familiar to the majority, and the rest can do these trivial conversions?
Yes. I take it that you understand that in various populations the majority will differ? Are you familiar with the phrase, "when in Rome do as the Romans do"? In the USA the majority of people use Fahrenheit to measure temperatures outside and inside of their homes. In the USA you will have scientists and engineers use Celsius for temperatures but they are the minority. With media targeted to Americans the temperatures should appear in units the majority will be familiar with, Fahrenheit.
If your target
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Well, on the other hand it would become harder to taunt them with having an IQ below room temperature.
Re: Give up Fahrenheit, would you? (Score:2, Interesting)
I agree, let's insist people give up all those silly little local languages like German and Japanese. Everyone child just speak English and it would massively reduce confusion and improve communication.
I mean, that's your argument, right?
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Re:Give up Fahrenheit, would you? (Score:4, Insightful)
Thats just because your not used to it.
For me 20-25 is the comfortable range. 30 is hot. 40 is stupid hot. 0 is freezing.
The only thing 70F tells me is that I have to convert to celsius to have any idea what it means. Roughly subtract 30 and divide by 2. So 70F is about 20C. So comfortable.
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Thats just because your not used to it.
No it's intuitive you see just remember that 0 is the coldest you can get mixing water and ice, and 100 is the body temperature of a cow.
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Actually 100F is the body temperature of a human.
And I for my part have usually not a cow around as reference to judge a temperature.
However I could ask my landlord what he thinks about be having a bigger pet. Aka getting a cow up to my first floor 4 room apartment. She might be happy in my balcony room, can stretch her head out to watch the doves, perhaps I can teach her to stretch her rear out if she needs a dumb.
No it's intuitive you see just remember that 0 is the coldest you can get mixing water and ic
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oops, I meant salt and ice. Sorry.
Re:Give up Fahrenheit, would you? (Score:5, Informative)
If it’s 100F, you know it’s hot.
And 40C is also hot. 22C is 72F - the comfortable room temperature. 0C is freezing and you should start getting dressed more heavily than usual below 10C.
If it’s 120F you know it’s fucking hot. If it’s 0F you know it’s cold, if it’s -20F you know it’s very cold and is also the temperature where your nostrils stick together when you're breathing.
No, at -20F your nostrils don't stick together. This doesn't happen until you're dead. And there's really no functional difference between 0F and 10F, you need to dress the similarly.
There's nothing that Fahrenheit scale does better, it's just customarily used in the US and that's it.
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Heck, our school had outdoor skiing lessons until the temperature was not below -5F (-20C).
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You also know that 10C is cold, 20 is comfortable, 30 is hot, 40 is really uncomfortably hot and anything beyond is not for human consumption.
What's your point?
Re:Give up Fahrenheit, would you? (Score:5, Insightful)
For the same reasons that Americans give more precise temperature estimates!
The needs of scientific units and daily life units are different. Americans, using Fahrenheit, are better able to use round numbers like 5 and 10 in a useful way. Europeans, who are dumb enough to think they're being Sciency(TM) by using Celsius, fall back to weird references to past weather events when they need to estimate, because their round numbers aren't in the right place for the human brain.
The same thing happens with distances; kilometers are great for science and engineering. It is obvious how much a cubic kilometer of water weighs. When I have to work with pump engineering, I often convert to liters to simplify the calculations. Mostly because of the volume to weight considerations. But for estimating distances, studies show that using miles results in more accurate estimates. Same for feet and inches; meters and centimeters do not result in round numbers that are convenient for estimation.
What on earth are you talking about? Celsius numbers aren't useful to the human brain? Distance measurements are better in miles?!? You understand those numbers only seem that way because imperial is your preferred measurement system. If you grew up with metric in all contexts then all those weird imperial numbers would be the ones that seemed meaningless and unintutive.
The only part of your argument I'd say is remotely plausible is that imperial distance measurements are slightly easier to talk about since they tend to be monosyllabic. I'm looking forward to 200 years from now when imperial measurements are so far in the past that the rest of us can simply appropriate mile and inch when referring to kilometre and centimetre.
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6 Billion other people seem to do fine enough with Metric on a daily basis.
I can only agree with you that the system you grow up with and use on a regular basis becomes useful to you personally, regardless of what system that is. Most of the world is used to metric units there. And some people are used to Imperial units. Some are used to both. If you keep it consistent it works. And that's it basically.
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Even if you get used to both sets of numbers, it isn't useful.
120F is just not an every day number encountered.
I use Celsius but I know common conversions like 50F (10C) is on the cooler side, 72F (about 21C) is generally comfortable, 77F is 25C which is on the upper limit of comfort for me, 86F is 30C which is sweaty hot, and anything above 90 is too freaking hot. 40C is somewhere around 100F or so and inhumane (for me). But 120C is so far outside any range as to require conversion. It's roughly 50C, at w
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I really think that those who t
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For the same reasons that Americans give more precise temperature estimates!
The needs of scientific units and daily life units are different. Americans, using Fahrenheit, are better able to use round numbers like 5 and 10 in a useful way. Europeans, who are dumb enough to think they're being Sciency(TM) by using Celsius, fall back to weird references to past weather events when they need to estimate, because their round numbers aren't in the right place for the human brain.
The same thing happens with distances; kilometers are great for science and engineering. It is obvious how much a cubic kilometer of water weighs. When I have to work with pump engineering, I often convert to liters to simplify the calculations. Mostly because of the volume to weight considerations. But for estimating distances, studies show that using miles results in more accurate estimates. Same for feet and inches; meters and centimeters do not result in round numbers that are convenient for estimation.
What on earth are you talking about? Celsius numbers aren't useful to the human brain? Distance measurements are better in miles?!? You understand those numbers only seem that way because imperial is your preferred measurement system. If you grew up with metric in all contexts then all those weird imperial numbers would be the ones that seemed meaningless and unintutive.
The only part of your argument I'd say is remotely plausible is that imperial distance measurements are slightly easier to talk about since they tend to be monosyllabic. I'm looking forward to 200 years from now when imperial measurements are so far in the past that the rest of us can simply appropriate mile and inch when referring to kilometre and centimetre.
This, I'm an Australian who lives in the UK so I use both Imperial and metric distance measurements, I still find metric much easier as you can filter down or up (centimetres, kilometres, et al). dividing a mile into anything but simple fractions (1/2 or 1/4) makes it too much of a mess. A mile is 1.6 KM, a KM is more than 1/2 and less than 2/3 of a mile. Still conversant in both.
However when it comes to temp, Celsius is better as we use temperature for more than just the weather. My fridge should be aro
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What on earth are you talking about? Celsius numbers aren't useful to the human brain? Distance measurements are better in miles?!? You understand those numbers only seem that way because imperial is your preferred measurement system. If you grew up with metric in all contexts then all those weird imperial numbers would be the ones that seemed meaningless and unintutive.
The meter, or Metre - the very bedrock of the supposedly standard metric system's official standard is measured as a fraction - the distance light travels in 1/299792458 of a second. Doesn't get any more accurate and standard and logical than that, amirite?
And the Celsius scale? If you were to use an actual temperature measurement that made any sense, you would use nothing but Kelvin which uses absolute 0 as the null point. Logical, and precise. Just add 273 to your C degrees, and eliminate negative nu
Re:Give up Fahrenheit, would you? (Score:5, Insightful)
And parsecs are even more accurate.
"How far away is the store?" "0 parsecs."
"The airport?" "0 parsecs."
"Germany?" "0 parsecs."
That's 3 perfect answers. Now try answering the same 3 questions using miles!
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What about the Kessel Run?
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That is easy: :P
"How far away is the store?" "0 miles." (300 yards?)
"The airport?" "Which airport?." "20 miles to the closest one, 60 miles to the bigger one, 90 miles to the biggest airport in Europe"
"Germany?" "0 miles." - as I'm in Germany right now
That's 3 perfect answers. Now try answering the same 3 questions using miles! :P
My answers are imperfect, as I just guessed he miles
Re:Give up Fahrenheit, would you? (Score:5, Interesting)
So if I've got this straight:
- Fahrenheit is more accurate than Celsius because the units are smaller
- Miles are more accurate than kilometres because the units are larger
- Feet are more accurate because they're smaller than metres
- Inches are more accurate because they're larger than centimetres
Because "studies show" this, and the personal anecdotes of someone raised that way prove it! Everyone who disagrees is therefore an idiot, QED.
Re:Give up Fahrenheit, would you? (Score:5, Insightful)
What really makes Imperial/English units difficult is the awkward conversions.
If you start out in one unit, say yards, but then find that you need feet or miles to keep the numbers in a useful range for human consumption you have to do division of non-round numbers.
Going from metres to millimetres is trivial, just shift the decimal point over.
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What really makes Imperial/English units difficult is the awkward conversions.
Yet uneducated peasants used them accurately for a thousand years; the industrial revolution took off using them. Because actually the conversions aren't that hard once you're used to them and the divisions are better than the metric ones. Base-10 is a pretty lousy choice for day-to-day usage where people don't need to straddle several orders of magnitude.
But "everyone uses the same system" is a huge bonus in itself no matter how bad the system, so metric has the advantage regardless.
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Yet uneducated peasants used them accurately for a thousand years
How could they have used them accurately when they weren't standardized and some were literally based on body parts?
day-to-day usage where people don't need to straddle several orders of magnitude.
cents vs dollars vs 100 dollars vs 1000 dollars.
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How could they have used them accurately when they weren't standardized and some were literally based on body parts?
True, but now you can finally use Imperial/English units accurately now that they're firmly defined in terms of metric units. ;)
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Even today, there are mistakes made in the US due to the difference between the statutory foot & mile and the survey foot & mile, though the government is trying to get rid of the survey foot & mile in records.
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Accuracy has nothing to do with the size of the unit.
And bottom line you measure in two ways:
a) a folded stick, which is called a "meter" - you put the start on on point, unfold enough to reach the other point - read the number there
b) having a band or rope with marks showing the distance - putting the start on one point, rolling out to the other point - read the number at the end
Both ways work perfectly fine, regardless what unit the "meter" is using.
(However I know: you wanted to be funny :P ) But I guess
Re: Give up Fahrenheit, would you? (Score:2)
What I am tired of is the Eternal September of holywar between two Swiftian parties.
In our computerized day and age almost every app or website has a switch from one to another, use it.
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It's not between two parties. The Americans are outnumbered.
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Who ever modded this insightful is an idiot.
It should be modded FUNNY!
But for estimating distances, studies show that using miles results in more accurate estimates.
Actually true, if one would use nautical miles and was a sailor or air pilot.
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Not really sure what your point is?
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That brits complaining about non-standard measurements is a bit rich considering you have to google shit when they start talking about money.
Eh?
How is having 100 pence to the pound and various slang terms for pound (quid) remotely unusual? Don't Americans have 100 cents to the dollar and various slang terms for dollar (e.g. buck)?
Are you confused that the British have an almost identical currency system but with pounds instead of dollars and different slang (quid instead of buck). Are you that parochial? Do
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Wtf is a bob?
slang for a historic unit of currency which went out of use in 1970.
or a p?
Oh my gawwd the English are so strange, they spell  [cent symbol in case slashdot mangles it] as p! How cerrayyzzee!!
p is an abberviation of penny or pence depending on if it refers to more than one. You even have pennies in America.
or a crown?
a historic unit of currency which went out of use in 1970.
How about you shut your mouth about Fahrenheit until you make your money not sound retarded?
We did.
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How much is a bit? If something costs 3 bits, how do you make change?
America has just as stupid currency units, actually stupider as there is no 1 bit coin and even the 4 bit coin is hardly used.
Then there are things like a nickel, which like a schilling is 5 pennies but used to be 3 pennies.
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Living in a metric country, I can assure you that distinguishing between cm and mm is not a problem. Also, decimeter (and deciliter (and centiliter and milliliter)) are common terms that don't cause any confusion.
Speaking of mixed measurements, we still specify wheel diameters in inches but tire width in mm, such that 170/70-18 is (mm/percentage-inches).
This is my theory (Score:2)
The gulf is slowing down heat transport, heat needs to go from south to north in the norther hemisphere (from hot to cold) and it will either do this through the air or the water. Air has a much lower heat capacity than water (and lower mass) and is a poor convector of heat when compared water. Therefore we have much more heating of the air, because the heat is moving through the air to get north and not through water (through the gulf).
Now I need a climate scientist to correct me if I'm wrong.
Stop Using Fahrenheit in Metric Countries! (Score:5, Insightful)
For fucks sake, for one, the majority of the world uses Celsius, for another, if you're talking about a country that uses metric units, use metric units! It doesn't make sense in context otherwise. I'd never expect to see temperatures in the US expressed in Celsius, so why are we expressing temperatures in Canada and Italy in Fahrenheit?!
It's sloppy an inconsistent writing.
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I wonder what units Man uses on the moon?
Note: there are two possible answers, and neither will please you
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I don't know about the moon, but apparently they use both on Mars.
https://www.simscale.com/blog/... [simscale.com]
Political leaders are just not caring (Score:2)
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They're both well over 50 and won't have to suffer from the fallout this produces. On the other hand, they want to stay in power for as long as they can, and they probably can for another 10 or 20 years.
It's a bit like a CEO doing something that everyone knows will sink the company in 5 years but ensures that his annual bonus will buy him a new island before this bites his successor in the rear.
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Why they did it is understandable, though. The world watched first world countries industrialize by burning a fuckton of coal of coal and oil in the atmosphere. Now that they can afford moving away from that, they are demanding that the rest of the world somehow does the jump from poor dirty country to clean rich country without the steps in-between.
Mind you, I am not justifying China and other countries choices. They are fucking us all in the ass and I, as a man in his 30s, will feel the brunt of it. But i
48.8C, actually (Score:3, Insightful)
The story says so, but the title should use non-obsolete units as well, as this is about Europe.
What is the maximum temperature possible right now (Score:3)
Re:What is the maximum temperature possible right (Score:5, Informative)
We are seeing a lot of 110-120 degrees all over the world recently. What is preventing temps from going up into the 140s and 150s?
Water. Water is what is keeping the temperatures in check. The surface of Earth has a lot of water, and it takes a lot of energy to raise the temperature of water. Water moves around the surface of the planet on the winds, it falls from the sky, and it flows downhill. This will spread that heat around which will keep extremes from going too far in either direction.
Cool man! (Score:2)
Fahrenheit? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Absolute zero, I'm afraid.
So 273.15 C or 459.67 F then.
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Ugh, missed in the preview that the minuses were stripped together with the degree signs. Ah well.
Fix the Title (Score:2)
All Time Heat Record for Europe (Score:2)
All Time Heat Record... so far.
Probably not all that much (Score:5, Informative)
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Europe looks nothing like the US, and fast food certainly isn't that popular there.
Re: Probably not all that much (Score:4, Informative)
People don't really go on cruises to 'see the world' they go on them to hang out in a floating resort and venture out to some tourist attractions. What most of the people on them truly desire in terms of activity is a trip to Pigeon Forge, but they need to come with a salve for their insecurities around being 'cultured' and 'worldly' so being able to come home a tick off a list of places with French and Spanish names they 'visited' becomes a sell point.
Wow, that reads pretty contemptuous! I've gone on Alaskan Cruises, and it never seemed quite like that. Hiking up Mount Juneau - some of it through waterfalls, Taking the Skagway Train to the Canadian border and back. More hiking, Visiting Glaciers. More hiking.
Yeah, the boat was really nice, we ate well, and boy howdy, after all the hiking and physical activity, the Spa tubs were a real blessing.
What you are describing is a group of people that you hold in contempt for whatever it is they value. That is not what all people who do cruises are like.
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The biggest problem in Italy is still the same since over 50 years:
MAFIA.
Plain and simple. Until they have a resurrection, and the rebellion will kill every known Mafiosi (instead of a typical rebellion, which kills the government - which in this case would probably hit the same people), there wont change much.
Unemployment is super high, especially in the 20 - 30 year range. Most unemployed get peanuts from the responsible agencies, but live on the money of their relatives.
No chance to develop the country a
Re:Probably not all that much (Score:4, Informative)
From the summary: "For the record to be considered, a committee from the World Meteorological Organization would need to investigate the instrumentation and circumstances of the data, including whether similar temperatures were observed nearby. "
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yeah but this station was in Syracuse, I took flight around there with google maps and I see lots of newish buildings, especially apartments. Maybe just a heat island effect?
"The temperature at the airport is.." We always used to make fun of that, because it seems so arbitrary, but there's a whole technique to coming up with the official temp in any area. Downtown is way off, because of the heat island effect, and wooded areas can be cooler due to tree respiration.
IIRC, there are special ventilated boxes, white to reflect solar radiation, a certain height above ground, and other standardized features to get as close as possible to a reference to a standard temp.
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"The temperature at the airport is.." We always used to make fun of that, because it seems so arbitrary
It's not really arbitrary, it's that every large commercial airport (these days, almost any decent sized field) has a weather station. Before media had their own equipment, the easiest way (by far) to get current conditions would be to call the airport or listen to its AWOS or ATIS broadcast (or the predecessors of those systems).
Re:hmmm (Score:5, Informative)
2021 C02 PPM = 414
The last time the earth broke 400ppm C02 was Pliocene Epoch, between 2.6 and 5.3 million years ago. At that time, the oceans were 70-80 feet higher than they are now and the temp was +3 deg C. ( 37+ degrees Fahrenheit) So that's where we're going with the current amount of C02 baked into the system.
https://www.nationalgeographic... [nationalgeographic.org]
https://theconversation.com/cl... [theconversation.com]
29% of US population or 97+ million people live in costal areas. https://www.census.gov/library... [census.gov]
much of this is also crop land. raise the oceans, and think about what’s coming.... displacement, crop failures and all the civil stuff that happens in such circumstances. It's going to get really unpleasant in life time of millennials
Re:hmmm (Score:5, Informative)
The triple-whammy for US agriculture is the California Central Valley watertable almost being depleted, and the same thing happening in much of the midwest with the depletion of underground reservoirs.
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Don't worry, when the oceans rise enough the California central valley will become a nice estuary!
DethLok
Re: hmmm (Score:5, Insightful)
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"But no plan is suicide"
Unless the plan is suicide.
Re:hmmm (Score:5, Insightful)
Welcome to slashdot. You're pretty new, but comments are often added as an addition to what somebody else said. This isn't "social media," replies are not necessarily personal responses to you. They're quite often additive, not responsive.
Please, learn how things work here. Some morons spend 10 years or more replying as you are. It gets old. Learn it now, while you're new, before you make a complete ass of yourself.
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I've been on slashdot with other account since 1998s so fuck off, newbie, and learn how shit works around here.
*yawn* explains why your junk posts are rated 0 (Troll, Flamebait) shite.
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It's those fault who put all those CO2 on Earth millions of years ago!
If there was no CO2, the average temperature of the Earth would be something like -18 degrees C. We definitely wouldn't be here. Greenhouse gases are critical to life. But too much of it alters temps and changes weather patterns.
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How much concrete and buildings does Sicily have now compared to decades ago?
If you are looking for scientific evidence, this is not the place. The evidence is already abundant.
This is just an anecdote, but sometimes an anecdote can help persuade those too stupid or paranoid to believe actual science.
It is so much easier to understand one reading of a thermometer than the statistical analysis of bulk data.
Global cooling of the 1970s? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:hmmm (Score:5, Informative)
Interesting hypothesis however according to the official Italian site: http://www.sias.regione.sicilia.it/RTMC_Grafici_Siracusa.htm [sicilia.it]
the weather station is located in plain countryside:
https://www.google.it/maps/place/37.059984N+15.157586E [google.it]
See. Not that much concrete around.
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Yes, in the 1970ies, there was a fear that all the smog will reflect too much sunlight and cause the Earth to cool. The actual ice age was expected to come somewhere between 3000 and 5000 AD. (Yes, I was already alive and reading in the 1970ies).
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last European record set during global cooling period of the 1970s.
There was no global cooling period in 1970s.
Unless you are a smart ass - are you one? I doubt it - that knows that the SOx exhaust of the coal plants - which caused forests to die (hint: acid rain) all over the northern hemisphere - has a cooling effect, aka negative greenhouse effect.
At that time, surprisingly, governments reacted quickly, when they realized what the problem was.
And guess what, the prime forces behind scrubbing coal plant's
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Interestingly, according to the latest IPCC report [www.ipcc.ch] (page 8), the total human impact on climate so far has been a 1.5 degree Celsius temperature increase due to greenhouse gases, plus a -0.4 degree temperature decrease due to aerosols (mostly sulfur dioxide), for a total 1.1 degree temperature increase.
This is why some have proposed sending sulfur dioxide to the upper atmosphere [wikipedia.org] (where it does not cause acid rain) as a way of fighting climate change. The amount of sulfur dioxide needed to offset climate change is relatively small, and the cost likely low compared to other forms of climate change mitigation.
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last European record set during global cooling period of the 1970s.
How much concrete and buildings does Sicily have now compared to decades ago?
Remember folks, it's not about records, it is averages and trends. As for heat island effects, there aren'y that many cities that measure the official temperature downtown.
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Ever try to buy an oven in Canada?
You must be a dumbfuck.