San Diego County has dodged the heat bullet this summer. But news reports of corn crop failures and record temperatures across the country—and scientific research—indicate that climate change (whether human-made or natural) is real and dangerous. Time magazine noted 2 million acres have burned in massive wildfires in the West, two-thirds of the country is in a drought and 3,215 daily-high-temp records were set nationwide in June. Should the drought end on ideas to address this challenge?
Poll: Is the Earth Doomed? Should U.S. Candidates Address Climate Change?
Scientists note America has seen record heat this summer, with fires and crop failures the fallout.
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Janet Shull June 1, 2013 at 07:35 pm
Love Lido's!!! The whole Tarditi family has been eating there and holding family events there since…Read More the day they opened. Five generations of our family have enjoyed their food and hospitality. When you go to Lido's, your treated as family. And their food is Delicious!!!
Carol Ybarrondo Rauscher June 1, 2013 at 10:25 pm
Been eating there consistently since 1960....best Italian anywhere!
Christine Huard (Editor) May 28, 2013 at 04:49 pm
Great news! Thanks for posting on Lemon Grove Patch!
Lovelock sent the World into a tizzy with a single book. "But of “Revenge of Gaia,” published in 2006, he said he had gone too far in describing what the warming Earth would see over the next century. “I would be a little more cautious -- but then that would have spoilt the book,” he quipped." Lovelock fully admits fomenting hysteria in order to sell books. Now you have hitched your wagon to the whole ball of wax and can't believe that we won't drink the Kool Aid.
Apparently you do care what I say, you keep responding. As for the pseudonym, the patch doesen't care about people being accountable by logging in with fake names, why should I? As for the money, carbon credits? What a joke.... My education, I am currently in college. Yours?
The new 4th generation nuclear plants, projected for commercial feasibility in 2030 have some interesting features: -Nuclear waste that remains dangerously radioactive for a few decades instead of millennia -100-300 times more energy yield from the same amount of nuclear fuel -The ability to consume existing nuclear waste in the production of electricity -Improved operating safety Here is an article on it by James Hansen of NASA, a leading voice in sounding the alarm on climate change. Can we agree that this is something we might want to invest in as a country as an alternative to carbon-based power generation? http://ossfoundation.us/projects/energy/nuclear
I would, also, appreciate the name of any books you have written on the subject.
The 'Henny Penny' argument is the last, desperate refuge of global warming extremists. Global circulation models (GCM's) are the primary scientific tool used to implicate increases in CO2 as the dominant forcing of 'global warming'. They are very sophisticated but the Earth's climate is very complex and the sensitivity of climate to many variables is not yet well understood. The effort to understand climate using GCM's is an important scientific endeavor but at this stage they are unable to make sufficiently accurate predictions to justify the claim that anthropogenic CO2 is a major climate forcing . Their predictions failed in the mid-20th century and have failed again during the last decade when global cooling occured during monotonically increasing CO2 in the atmosphere. There was climate warming during the past half of the 20th century. But the increased accuracy and coverage of satellite data on both climate variables and solar activity during the last half century has shown that the dominant forcing has been variations of the total solar irradiance. Further, climate and solar radiation proxy data going back over the past 400 years shows that the climate is almost always synchronized with solar radiation but frequently not with the CO2 content of the atmosphere. The implication from these results as well as ice core data going back ~ 400,000 years is that the CO2 content of the atmosphere follows the average climate rather than creating it.
And, I am Batman. Do something about it!
http://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming-basic.htm
http://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-lags-temperature.htm
screaming that golbal warming does NOT exist.. try to keep up here, old pal.. doug
i'm not saying global warming does or does NOT exist.. k'm saying there a lot more IMMEDIATE problems we as a nation and a culture face NOW.. the LAST thing i want to hear from either barack obama or mitt romney is a long, drawn-out debate over global warming.. there's time to work on that later on.. scientists already are..and there is NOTHING either obama or or romney can do to fix it in the next four years.. or the next 400 years.. doug
The earth is a brilliantly designed self-regulating, self-cleasnsing system. Yes, we can mess it up temporarily, but nothing we little humans do is permanent. The earth will take care of itself.
The url you've cited is an AGW propaganda blog. The NASA/GISS chart is from the chief GCM developer that has been beating the drum for AGW CO2 over the past 30 years. Their model downplays solar forcing arbitrarily to emphasize the AGW contribution. The temperature curve shown on the chart at that url uses only land surface temperatures and is entirely incorrect for the global climate which has cooled since ~ 2000. During 1970 - 2000 there was an average warming climate. During this time the total solar irradiance (TSI) increased proportionately, peaking in the 1991 - 1992 period and declining since (except for the current, relatively low solar activity maximum). The TSI curve shown on the url is the PMOD composite which does not represent the most credible interpretation of extant satellite TSI data. The PMOD composite was assembled to reflect the biases of the AGW proponents and misuses satellite TSI results during 1989 - 1992 to accomplish that. For a discussion of the TSI issue see: http://acrim.com/TSI%20Monitoring.htm
I am almost certain that WMD will be the culprit.
It's hard to worry about climate change when you are heating a can of beans over a cardboard fire.
Wow, that's a good one ... let me add some more... as painful as watching: - a sober person arguing against drunk driving, - people who care about children criticizing Penn State. - an honest business person decrying white collar crime. - a minority arguing against bigotry.
... on the other hand, those costs will be converted to $$Billions in profits for the CO2 Traders and $millions in taxes for the state of California. Who's responsible? Just follow the money. (AB-32)
Why are you not printing comments on the Mansion Mysteries that support that Rebecca Zahau committed suicide because she hurt Max Shacknai? Why are you only printing comments that state the Shacknais or Romanos killed RZ, when they have been cleared by police and her death ruled a suicide? Why don't you care about the death of a little 6-year old boy???
http://www.designerwatchesideas.com/dresses/typically-the-ideas-from-mens-swimsuit.html