Jen Sorensen for August 21, 2018

Don’t forget all the floods in the east.

People please keep in mind what is most important. Short term profits for wealthy campaign donors.

Thank dog we emigrated to Canuckistan. No climate change up here

@Teto85 – HAHAHAHA! Good one. Wait until all the glaciers melt.

I was listening to Kexp when I read this, ‘John in the morning…’

Are they allowed to talk about global warming in Florida or is that still illegal under their Republican administration?

Oddly enough, I just had blood taken yesterday for Lyme disease. It has been a particularly bad year in CT for mosquitoes as well; I’ve been itching non-stop since May.

Texas in August is hotter than the devil pissing when he’s clapped up. I shudder for the AZ and NV people.

⇧ wth, zev!

please keep your distance…

Meanwhile, back at sea:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05978-1

Ocean heatwaves will become more frequent and extreme as the climate warms, scientists report1 on 15 August in Nature. These episodes of intense heat could disrupt marine food webs and reshape biodiversity in the world’s oceans.

And only an idiot will assume that such shifts will be beneficial in the long run. It would be like saying that more cases of the flu would be good.

Scientists analysed satellite-based measurements of sea surface temperature from 1982 to 2016 and found that the frequency of marine heatwaves had doubled. These extreme heat events in the ocean’s surface waters can last from days to months and can occur across thousands of kilometres. If average global temperatures increase to 3.5 °C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century, as researchers currently project, the frequency of ocean heatwaves could increase by a factor of 41. In other words, a 1-in-100-day event at pre-industrial levels of warming could become a 1-in-3-day event.

This is not about models. This is about statistics. If you shift a distribution of energy toward higher energy, you get more of energetic events that were once rare. It is basic physics and mathematics.

Wait till the coral all die. And can no longer sequestrate carbon in their shells. And then there’ll be less habitat for fish.

Climate changes… Many ancient civilizations have fallen due to climate change.. and perhaps the current one (s) will as well.

Things are perfect here in NOLA…………………………………does that water look higher?