U.S. experts: Forecast is more extreme weather

[Genex]

Fount this on msnbc

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25268181

WASHINGTON - Droughts will get drier, storms will get stormier and floods will get deeper with a warming climate across North America, U.S. government experts said in a report billed as the first continental assessment of extreme events.

I have a feeling the Eathquakes will continue along this path aswell.

[Amanda's mom]

Welcome to the board. :bighug

It's not really unexpected. Jesus told us to expect things to increase like labor pains do. I think this baby's about ready to be born.

[susanaudrey]

I think this baby's about ready to be born.

I sure hope so. I'm getting more ready every day.

Dear Jesus, please come soon!

[Grace thru Faith]

Yes, exactly. The world calls it global warming, I call it birth pangs.

[AnnOdom44]

Unbelievable that people keep talking about global warming when there is no solid proof. It was 68 here this morning and only got up to about 88, which is at least 10 degrees cooler than it should be in this part of Deep East Texas in June. It was even cooler earlier in the week. Absolutely the birth pains are getting harder and closer. My heart breaks for all those folks affected by the flooding, and am :praying for them as it doesn't look like the end is in sight.

[felixthecat]

Unbelievable that people keep talking about global warming when there is no solid proof. It was 68 here this morning and only got up to about 88, which is at least 10 degrees cooler than it should be in this part of Deep East Texas in June. It was even cooler earlier in the week. Absolutely the birth pains are getting harder and closer. My heart breaks for all those folks affected by the flooding, and am :praying for them as it doesn't look like the end is in sight.

Agree!

It was chilly here in NJ as well. It is unusual to say the least that NJ is this chilly in June. The other night I got out my down blamket, AGAIN. We could use some "global warming" here.

What's going on is a natural climate change. Weather comes in cycles.

More examples:

Global Temperature Dives in May

Confirming what many of us have already noted from the anecdotal evidence coming in of a much cooler than normal May, such as late spring snows as far south as Arizona, extended skiing in Colorado, and delays in snow cover melting, (here and here), the University of Alabama, Huntsville (UAH) published their satellite derived Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit data set of the Lower Troposphere for May 2008.

It is significantly colder globally, colder even than the significant drop to -0.046°C seen in January 2008.

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/uah-global-temperature-dives-in-may/

Brrr!

Steve Forbes 03.10.08, 12:00 AM ET

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Astonishingly, a growing body of research has found that changes in sunspot activity directly correlate with temperature changes on Earth. Solar cycles usually fluctuate every 11 years. Alas, sunspot activity has been rather quiet recently. If it doesn't pick up in a couple of years we could be in for a long-term cooling the likes of which has not been experienced since the so-called Little Ice Age more than 300 years ago. That period was marked by frigid bouts of weather that devastated crops and led to periodic famines. Back then, for instance, London's Thames River often froze, whereas today that body of water gets ice only when it's spilled overboard by revelers on boating excursions. And guess what? The last big freeze came after the kind of sunspot abnormality that may be unfolding now.

In contrast, a proved correlation between temperature changes and carbon dioxide is almost nonexistent. Turns out that the sun has been quite active in the last half-century or so, hence the slight rise in global temperatures.

Other factors in temperature changes include changes in the Earth's axis, in ocean currents and in the salinity of the Arctic Ocean. Volcanoes can also have a dramatic short-term impact on temperatures. But carbon dioxide? No way.

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Apart from the fact there's no proof carbon dioxide has any impact on global temperatures, a cap-and-trade system will create an economic disaster. The government--i.e., politics--will decide how quotas are allocated.

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http://www.forbes.com/columnists/forbes/2008/0310/019.html

[Whitecorvette]

Wish I could say the same. 108 in Las Vegas today

[Rebecca S]

Unbelievable that people keep talking about global warming when there is no solid proof. It was 68 here this morning and only got up to about 88, which is at least 10 degrees cooler than it should be in this part of Deep East Texas in June. It was even cooler earlier in the week. Absolutely the birth pains are getting harder and closer. My heart breaks for all those folks affected by the flooding, and am :praying for them as it doesn't look like the end is in sight.

You were only 88?! We hit 102 here in San Antonio yesterday and have been hitting 100+ consistently for almost a week now. That's a pretty big difference between central and east Texas. Thankfully we've had a light drizzle/rain the last two mornings so it's not as dry as it otherwise would be; although, they're expect water rationing in about a month. :(

[WCG777]

is it just me or almost every year for the last couple of years the weathermen have been blaming elnino or lanino for the rough weather we have been seeing.

[HisAlways]

Unbelievable that people keep talking about global warming when there is no solid proof. It was 68 here this morning and only got up to about 88, which is at least 10 degrees cooler than it should be in this part of Deep East Texas in June. It was even cooler earlier in the week. Absolutely the birth pains are getting harder and closer. My heart breaks for all those folks affected by the flooding, and am :praying for them as it doesn't look like the end is in sight.

It is VERY unbelievable. We hit a record low at Harrisburg, PA yesterday morning.

MSNBC is about as "liberal" as you can get, so they will push this stuff.

U.N. 'scaring planet Earth' into global tax for climate
Scientist challenges procedures for agenda-driven proclamations
Posted: June 19, 2008
11:15 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

A scientist whose reservations about "global warming" have been officially endorsed by tens of thousands of other scientists is accusing the U.N. of using "mob rule" to generate fear-mongering climate change reports intended to scare national leaders into submitting to its worldwide taxation schemes.

"Science has always progressed on the basis of observations, experiments, and thoughts published by individual scientists and sometimes pairs or small groups of scientific coworkers," Art Robinson, a research professor of chemistry and co-founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, said in a recent column in Human Events.

Except at the U.N., he said.

Can read the rest at the link. Quite an interesting article.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67509