NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded
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Re: NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded
#2I live in Central Arkansas, which normally has hot summers.
It looks like July was actually a little cooler for us this year.
http://www.worldclimate.com/climate/us/arkansas/little-rock
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/little-rock-ar/72201/july-...
Re: NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded
#3I live in Central Arkansas, which normally has hot summers. It looks like July was actually a little cooler for us this year. http://www.worldclimate.com/climate/us/arkansas/little-rock https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/little-rock-ar/72201/july-...
Wasn't that sudden low the remnants of Barry passing through? Setting that aside, the rest of the first 20 days of the month are pretty much on target for the averages. Not sure if there are any weather events that coincide with the second cooling.
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#4Prediction: we'll break that record again in the next few years, then again, and again.
Re: NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded
#5I live in Central Arkansas, which normally has hot summers. It looks like July was actually a little cooler for us this year. http://www.worldclimate.com/climate/us/arkansas/little-rock https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/little-rock-ar/72201/july-...
Yeah, Dallas has been cooler this year than pasts. But we're just two data points in the world average.
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#6The cost to mitigate global warming is much less than the cost that humanity will bear if it isn't mitigated. This is often argued as binary: 0) doing something will destroy the economy, 1) doing nothing will destroy the world. But in reality, there is quite a bit that can be done that doesn't cost that much. The innovators require the price signal. Externalities need to be internalized before the market can solve the problem at the least-cost.
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#7We can all do our part! Even though it is hard to actively contribute to fighting climate change every day, by becoming carbon neutral, we can grow a community to make a difference!
The average American has a carbon footprint that can be offset with a $20 per month subscription. We need more money to flow into fighting climate change!
I personally use Project Wren to offset my carbon footprint specifically through a tree planting projects!
Re: NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded
#8Michigan has not seemed so bad. Granted I run AC all the time anyway.
Re: NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded
#9The cost to mitigate global warming is much less than the cost that humanity will bear if it isn't mitigated. This is often argued as binary: 0) doing something will destroy the economy, 1) doing nothing will destroy the world. But in reality, there is quite a bit that can be done that doesn't cost that much. The innovators require the price signal. Externalities need to be internalized before the market can solve th…
For starters, lets feed the cows some seaweed.
IMO technology is very rapidly evolving which will drastically reduce emissions with very little negative trade-offs, and in fact, do so in an economically competitive fashion.
The EV cars don’t just emit nothing, they are also better cars in almost every respect. The seaweed cows don’t just not fart methane, they grow fatter for less feed. The solar power isn’t just green, it’s cheaper and safer per GWh, and makes good use of fallow land while promoting biodiversity,... etc.
Re: NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded
#10July is hotter than January, even though the planet is closer to the sun in January, because there is more land in the northern hemisphere than the Southern Hemisphere.
There was a submission ~3 months ago regarding this phenomenon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20012565
I’m certain there’s a submarine agenda behind most of these “hottest month EVAR” stories. /methinks it’d be much more productive to focus on making human society more resilient, than to focus on a single variable (“carbon”).
I followed /u/RickJWagner’s comment’s link to accuweather, and saw a story expressing concern about this year’s coming harvest [0].
Instead of focusing on immediate problems, the NY Times and others fixate on the one variable the experts have been collecting data for, and say “see this confirms the one-variable model is right!”
>> [...] Noam Chomsky has a characteristically dry and precise version of the story: “Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that’s where the light is. It has no other choice.”
>> So historians, mystics, scientists and drunks have something in common: they all tend to seek the truth where the process of seeking is easy, rather than where truth is.
- https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2016/03/the-street...
The problems of a fragile climate are always with us.
[0] https://m.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/why-there-is-shock...