North Pole temperatures spike 'above freezing' as Storm Frank sends warm air north

[Ichingcarpenter]

Source: Telegraph

Temperatures at the North Pole are estimated to have spiked above freezing in a rare December 'heatwave' caused by Storm Frank.

The mercury was forecast to rise above 1°C on Wednesday, in a dramatic and possibly unprecedented rise from the usual deep freeze conditions of close to -30°C at this time of year.


The storm in the North Atlantic that has seen Britain deluged by rain and battered by strong winds has also pushed warm air from the tropics up to the Arctic, causing the highly unusual temporary temperature rise, meteorologists said.


Such temperatures would have made the North Pole even warmer than many parts of North America, such as Oklahoma, and comparable with places like Vienna and Istanbul.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/12075282/North-Pole-temperatures-spike-above-freezing-as-Storm-Frank-sends-warm-air-north.html

[tabasco]

1. What a bunch of baloney!

A senator had a snowball in Congress so all this scientific stuff is just made-up librul nonsense.

[Judi Lynn]

2. We need to help Senator Jim Inhofe put that snowball where it really belongs.

[OKIsItJustMe]

8. Do you suppose…

Will he bring a branch from a cherry tree onto the floor of congress?
https://wamu.org/news/15/12/15/why_is_the_dc_region_seeing_cherry_blossoms_in_december

[font face=Serif][font size=5] Why Is The D.C. Region Seeing Cherry Blossoms In December?[/font]
By: Kathy Goldgeier
December 15, 2015


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What's behind the winter bloom of cherry blossoms in D.C.?[/font]

[font size=3]Santa Claus is coming soon. So why are we still seeing cherry blossoms in D.C.?

Temperatures aren't just above normal, they're way above normal. That's because the cold weather can't get to our region, says meteorologist Angela Fritz of the Capital Weather Gang.

"We have an area of high pressure over the Eastern U.S. and really much of North America that's been all but permanent for much of the month of December," Fritz says, and that's "in large part due to El Niño."

The warm weather has brought out some of the cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin and the National Mall.

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[w0nderer]

3. let me add this for you

there you go, now most people will get it (sadly it's needed)



librul nonsense like bronzy and irony and silvery and climate change and fossil fuels running out
and wars being bad for soldiers and civilians

heh...we both need to get off to fox re-education camp

[blackspade]

4. Shit. This is not good.

[airplaneman]

5. Methane burst

Runaway global warming.
We could be toast in as little as 30 year or very possibly within a lifetime from now.
-Airplane

[Duppers]

6. I know. :'(

Few of us have been posting about it.



I've been very emotional about accepting the FACTS. Most will ignore them and these threads.

[RobertEarl]

9. Methane?

That certainly could be a chemical explanation. Ya know, science based, and all that.

[airplaneman]

10. Hi RobertEarl

Vast amounts of methane are stored in hydrates under the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean.
Rising temperatures in the arctic threaten to release this methane.

Here is a link to check this out:

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/the-mechanism.html

-Airplane

[Duppers]

11. From your link

[trillion]

14. Okay, yes it is a problem. But, clean energy is cheaper than fossil fuel. I think we'll get off oil

because the oil lobby cannot stop progress when it's so cheap. Today's solar panels put out 10 times more energy than 5 years ago for each panel. I think progress will drive right over the fossil fuel dinosaurs within the next 20 years.
I don't think we have that long to start losing tens of thousands of people to climate change though - extreme heat or wild fires or flooding that can't be escaped for many people.

[NickB79]

16. Except we've already emitted enough CO2 to create a positive feedback loop out of our control

Even if we stopped burning ALL fossil fuels TODAY (ie no coal, natural gas or oil in any appreciable form), the amount of warming we've already locked in is enough to thaw most of the Arctic in this century and release massive amounts of additional CO2 and methane, causing even more warming, releasing more carbon, etc, etc. Remember, the 2C warming limit that the Paris accords used as their benchmark A) doesn't take into consideration things like thawing permafrost or melting hydrates, and B) is likely still too high considering we're already seeing massive climate damage at only 1C of warming today.

The fact that renewables like solar are finally cheap enough to compete with fossil fuels is simply too little, too late. The transition to non-carbon fuels is predicted to take decades even under the best of circumstances, which is decades we no longer have.

The 6th mass extinction event is here, and we don't have the technology to stop it even if we tried.

[NickB79]

17. Not just under the seafloor. Remember those mysterious craters in Siberia?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/04/02/exploding_methane_holes_in_siberia_linked_to_climate_change_is_alaska_next.html

According to measurements made by Russian scientists, methane concentration at the bottom of one of the holes was thousands of times higher than in the regular atmosphere. A more thorough recent expedition identified “dozens” of new holes, all of which apparently formed in the last year or two.

The Siberian holes draw into question the near-term stability of Arctic permafrost, which traps enough carbon, if fully unleashed, to double atmospheric concentrations and potentially push global warming into a frightening new phase. Scientists are quite certain it will take at least a century for that to happen in a worst-case scenario, but it’s clear that the release has already begun.

A recent study estimated continued warming would produce an additional 35-205 billon tons of carbon emissions (about 2-10 percent of current global totals) from permafrost by 2100. The wide range reflects how little we still know about the response of permafrost to increased temperatures. Since the permafrost thaw is already in progress, it could be difficult to slow down: Even a sharp cutback in emissions from cities and cars may only be able to cut those numbers in half. With the atmosphere only able to hold another 400 billion tons or so before we’re committed to a rise in global temperatures of more than 2 degree Celsius, the point after which “dangerous” impacts become much more likely.

Boom.

[airplaneman]

19. I think AMEG has the right idea on what we need to do.

Methane is a short term problem and CO2 is a longer term problem. We need to get to the point that we are taking out more carbon than we are putting into the atmosphere. I agree it may be too late and we are in trouble. I find the "we have 100 years" to be grossly inaccurate and see us facing some real tough problems right now and we need to get a grip and address them. Failure to do so will be our demise. Once all the polar ice it gone the ocean will absorb so much more heat it will be like doubling of the CO2 in the atmosphere. And it takes 10-30 years to see the full effect of what we have done already with 400 ppm of CO2. We are already at 1.26 of the 2 degrees C that is not supposed to be breached. And here is the link to AMEG:

http://ameg.me/

-Airplane

[trillion]

13. NASA is releasing articles about it and the right STILL doesn't believe.

[Duppers]

7. K & R

[Feeling the Bern]

12. Carlin: What this planet will be in 30-40 years

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. Two Maps Alaska and North Atlantic right now

[MowCowWhoHow III]

18. Mild, wet December breaks Met Office weather records

Mild, wet December breaks Met Office weather records

Long-standing weather records have been smashed by a stormy, yet warm December, the Met Office's early figures suggest.

Scotland, Wales and the north-west of England all had the wettest December in more than a century.

A UK mean temperature of 8C (46F) broke records too and would have felt more like a day in April or May.

The Met Office said storms Desmond, Eva and, most recently, Frank were behind the record rainfall, while a humid south-westerly airflow kept it warm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35204014

[T_i_B]

20. It's been very warm for December

And even though there haven't been floods where I am (thank goodness!) there's still been a heck of a lot of rain.

The good news is that we've actually got some frost and ice this morning. Proper winter weather!