Jack Ohman for July 01, 2021

Pre-toasted bread.

Not that bad. Yet. But if it ever does get that bad, it’ll be worse, because of all the folks from California trying to get across the border to escape their own forest fires.

“Let’s give a big round of thanks to the fossil fuel industry.”

Soylent green is made of people!

All normal according to Republickings. Anyone that says otherwise is a red flag govt actors. Even the ones who portray farmers who can’t plant due to lack of water.

Coming soon,to an area near you.

Can one explain chemically how water can turn to hydrochloric acid? Sulfuric or nitric, yes, from burning fossil fuels, but chlorine?

I understand that only something like 25% of the homes in the Pacific Northwest area have Air Conditioning, since it’s not normally ever needed.

Far too many Republicans still deny climate change and others claim nothing can be done. Therefore this IS a political issue and deniers need to be removed from office.

From MB’s link:

“ Is it linked to climate change?

Yes. Though it is complicated to link any single event to climate change, there is strong evidence that global warming is increasing the frequency of extreme weather events – including more intense heat domes.

And it’s a situation that is predicted only to worsen. Unless greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically cut in the coming years, scorching heat waves could become a “new normal”, experts have warned.”

Might explain why our cartoonist left the Oregonian for the Bee.

The jet stream is beyond our control. There’s nothing we can do to change it.

It was hotter in British Columbia this week than it was 1500 miles to the south in Death Valley. Hotter in BC than it was in Death Valley.

North Of Vancouver BC it was 118

CO2 is the highest it has been in 4 million years.

Anthropological climate change is biting us on the behind, look at the low reservoirs in California.

So (according to you) CO2 was higher 4 million years ago. This means CO2 goes up and down naturally.

It was 106 at my house near Seattle, it was like living in Los Angeles again.

Fifty years ago I finished my tour of duty with the Navy while stationed in California. I was determined to get back home to the Pacific Northwest “Come Hell or High Water”. We’ve had the heat of Hell recently and I expect the High Water as the snow and ice melts off Mt. Hood.

Jack was the young excellent cartoonist here with “The Oregonian” in Portland. Too liberal for the new board at the hometown rag evidently. Miss you, Jack.

Oh, c’mon. Everybody knows climate change is just a liberal hoax.

Evidence for man-caused global warming

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=26912

https://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/trends/emis/glo_2011.html

1) Rising Carbon levels in atmosphere and ocean.

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-atmospheric-concentrations-greenhouse-gases

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/wp-content/plugins/sio-bluemoon/graphs/mlo_full_record.png

But the ratio of C14 to C12 is falling, which means that the Carbon is mainly from burning of fossil fuels, whose carbon was deposited so long ago that C14 in them has depleted due short isotope life span. The ratio of stable C13 to C12 is also falling.

http://www.dummies.com/education/science/environmental-science/isotopes-how-do-scientists-know-that-humans-cause-global-warming/

2 CO2 causes tropopause to rise higher, but stratopause to go lower. Predicted in 1957. Solar heating effects would cause both levels to rise.

http://www.theclimateconsensus.com/content/satellite-data-show-a-cooling-trend-in-the-upper-atmosphere-so-much-for-global-warming-right

3 Ocean acidification has increased because of increased ocean intake of CO2.

http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-acidification

4 Global average surface air temperature has increased. (So has globally averaged near surface ocean temperature.)

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature

5 Arctic temperatures are rising even faster than global. Amount of sunlight reaching polar regions is not changed, but CO2 works 365/7/24 to retain heat.

Point Barrow for example:

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/barrow-alaska-climate-change-action

6 Night-time temperatures rising faster than day-time (Can’t blame the sun for that!)

https://phys.org/news/2016-03-nights-warmer-faster-days.html

7 Rise in Global averaged sea level (some (~20%) is due to pumping ground water out, but most is due to warming of the oceans and melting of ice.)

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level

8 Globally averaged loss of ice mass and in the polar regions loss of ice-covered water. Which translates to a lower albedo, hence less sunlight reflected back to space and more surface heating. (Hint for the challenged, the amount of ice surface area lost in the Arctic greatly exceeds the gain in the Antarctic.)

https://climate.nasa.gov/interactives/global-ice-viewer/

9 Satellite observations of infrared emitted by upper atmosphere show a decline, which is due to Greenhouse gases trapping more of the infrared radiation.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=35

10 No increase in solar output (beyond the normal variations due to solar cycle, which amount to about +/- 1 part in 1,000. Might even be a small (smaller than the above) decrease.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-incoming-sunlight

11 Volcanic released CO2 is about 1/130 of human activity released CO2. So no, it is not volcanoes.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities

12 CO2 from Soil is increasing:

https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100324/full/news.2010.147.html

Although the emissions from soil are “natural” to a large extent, they have increased by 0.1% per year from 1989 to 2008. Generally, we expect that soil emissions should be balanced by intake by plants, water, etc. Certainly there seems to have been a balance before the industrial age.

https://www.co2.earth/co2-ice-core-data

Could soil be the culprit? No.

In absolute numbers, 98Gt CO2 from soil per year, and 9Gt roughly from human activity. The 0.1% year increase from soil is then 0.1Gt/year, so represents only a small effect compared to human activity.

If soil were the culprit, we would not see the isotope change above.

The above posts are from several years ago. Only the names of the deniers have changed,

Sources? Oh, yes, we have sources! (Besides the ones I gave above)

Here’s the latest climate report from NOAA.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/202013

But even better!

https://science2017.globalchange.gov/

see especially chapter 2 on the physical drivers of climate change. References are given! Use your own damn time to look them up.

and

https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/

Not so much references here, but lots about the various implications.

I’d point to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, too. They also have references.

The problem, as Miss Greta Thunberg put it, is that “it costs too much money” or, different angle, business enterprises would lose too much money. And besides, it won’t be all that bad. Probably. Maybe. Anyhow, rich people will figure out a way to survive, and after all they’re the ones with the “best jeans”.

For Same2Ubuddy and others of his sort:

The problem is *Global Warming", that phrase scared reactionaries so much that people started calling it “Climate Change” to calm down the hissy-fits and shouting to allow us to actually discuss the problem.

The average temperature of the Earth is rising. This goes against all scientific evidence found in the fossil record, since, going by previous climate swings, we should be slowly cooling off as we approach what should be another ice age. Going by evidence found in ice cores, the level of CO2 and other greenhouse gases is higher than it should be. The sources of these gases are the various technological marvels we enjoy which are powered by fossil fuels and which spew their exhausts into our atmosphere. The greenhouse gases trap the heat which would normally be radiated out to space. As a result of this heat, ice caps and glaciers are melting and pouring fresh water into the oceans. This clauses rising sea levels, which in turn causes greater storm surges of water going farther inland. The fresh water also is desalinating the oceans, which, in turn, is damaging the thermohaline convection system, which transfers heat from one part of the globe to another, the reason that parts of western Europe are noticeably warmer than the same latitudes in eastern North America. This also affects weather patterns around the Earth, and causes more ocean storms.

(to be continued)

Susan Cobb/NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory The amount of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere reached 419 parts per million in May, its highest level in more than four million years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Monday.

Carbon Dioxide Driving Climate Change Increases : NPR

Humans are very good at changing the natural into unnatural. What nature does in thousands or millions of years humans can do in 400 years.

Let it go long enough and that salmon will be poached.

My eldest. Son and my niece are both field biologists working in the Pacific Northwest stationed in Wenatchee, WA. My son is with US Fish and Wildlife, doing something with endangered fishes in the Columbia River system.