Climate continues to change.

[thør]

Where's winter? A number of countries just witnessed their warmest January ever recorded
CNN on MSN.com|25 minutes ago
It's not just you -- January was toastier than usual for many parts of the world. The global temperature last month was warmer than every previous January on record, just edging out the previous record from January 2016,

It was a fairly frosty January, here in Alaska.

 

[gunthernehmen]

It was a fairly frosty January, here in Alaska.

I think we got your BTUs. I have flowers blooming in some sheltered, sunny spots.

 

[thør]

I think we got your BTUs. I have flowers blooming in some sheltered, sunny spots.

Enjoy them.

 

[thør]

No long term waviness trends

 

[SusanHaack]

http://i.pinimg.com/originals/98/01/13/9801131c94d9f063dc096766e5ac8f4a.jpg

 

[phrodeau]

Notice how clear the skies became after the worldwide lockdowns? With so much less pollution in March and April?

May 2020 was the warmest May on record.

 

[schism666]

The Arctic Circle Hit 101°F Saturday, Its Hottest Temperature Ever

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevor...ay-its-hottest-temperature-ever/#7da984e04eb6

 

[thør]

Not the whole of the polar circle, just one spot in Russia.

 

[schism666]

but it's a dry heat!

 

[lollmaolmfao]

I am a bit of a sceptic, insofar as I don't really believe that climate change is wholly atributable to humans.
But I do accept that it is changing and that regardless of the cause we should all be doing our bit to make the planet less polluted.
I can also see the other impacts humans have made.... extinctions, etc..... and that we should be doing much more to preserve what's left.

Sadly though, it always seems to come down to money rather than common sense.

And - I'm still blown away by the thought of necrophiliac penguins

We'll put, my thoughts exactly lol, there has to to be a medium when it comes to the earth and humans. There is no possible way or solution to stop climate change, it's inevitable, but like you said there has ways to hinder and make a sizable difference.

 

[lollmaolmfao]

What are your guys thoughts on hydrogen based hybrids, solves some major issues...

 

[phrodeau]

What are your guys thoughts on hydrogen based hybrids, solves some major issues...

Good for mass transit and fleet operations.

 

[lollmaolmfao]

Good for mass transit and fleet operations.

Your reasoning for that being? Costs?

 

[phrodeau]

Your reasoning for that being? Costs?

Cost of refueling stations.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

What are your guys thoughts on hydrogen based hybrids, solves some major issues...

While Hydrogen could be used in today gasoline engines with little needed modification, the issue is, where do you get the Hydrogen from? 90% or so of today's current hydrogen is derived from fossil fuels.

To extract hydrogen, from say splitting up water (H2O) into the molecules of 2 Hydrogen and 1 Oxygen requires more input energy than the output energy the extracted Hydrogen will produce.

We can lower that input energy cost through methods such a wind generator plants, but even still making pure Hydrogen out of water is difficult. Generally all that is collected is a gas, made up of Hydrogen and Oxygen. Which still can be used as a fuel, but there is a myriad of problems in transporting, compressing,storing etc etc...

 

[Klinkster]

Notice how clear the skies became after the worldwide lockdowns? With so much less pollution in March and April?

May 2020 was the warmest May on record.

Nope.

 

[Klinkster]

What are your guys thoughts on hydrogen based hybrids, solves some major issues...

Worked so well with the Hindenburg.

Sure....why not?

 

[thør]

This thread's not closed yet?

The heat is on, and it's not all good....

 

[domroger]

This thread's not closed yet?

The heat is on, and it's not all good....

This thread will end when Congress and the American public accept climate change is real ,which is probably never .
Good article btw .

 

[Ziggins]

Kenya gets monster hail, which was previously seasonal and is now random. Crops are destroyed.

 

[Goldenfinger]

What are your guys thoughts on hydrogen based hybrids, solves some major issues...

At this time the majority of hydrogen comes from natural gas. The byproduct Is CO2 and other green house gasses. So your still drilling and still polluting. Could Making hydrogen from water Deplete your water supply?

 

[phrodeau]

At this time the majority of hydrogen comes from natural gas. The byproduct Is CO2 and other green house gasses. So your still drilling and still polluting. Could Making hydrogen from water Deplete your water supply?

The CO2 can be immediately captured and sequestered.

 

[Goldenfinger]

The CO2 can be immediately captured and sequestered.

Yes they say they would pump it into old oil fields. And I’m sure it wouldn’t leak out. That still doesn’t negate the drilling for fossil fuels.

 

[Goldenfinger]

Notice how clear the skies became after the worldwide lockdowns? With so much less pollution in March and April?

May 2020 was the warmest May on record.

So we know that the ice on the earth has melted before. So the earth spins which gives us days, the earth also moves around the sun and that gives us the seasons of the year. Our solar system moves around the Galaxy and the galaxy moves around the universe. How do we know that this isn’t some sort of galactic seasons? I’m not saying we shouldn’t take care of the place we live. But I do know we don’t know much.

 

[phrodeau]

So we know that the ice on the earth has melted before. So the earth spins which gives us days, the earth also moves around the sun and that gives us the seasons of the year. Our solar system moves around the Galaxy and the galaxy moves around the universe. How do we know that this isn’t some sort of galactic seasons? I’m not saying we shouldn’t take care of the place we live. But I do know we don’t know much.

We’ve been measuring temperatures all over the solar system for decades. Earth is warming fast, and other planets, moons, asteroids and comets are not.