Extreme global weather is 'the face of climate change' says leading scientist

[sumdumguy]

Hopefully, one day soon you will find the courage to stand up like a man and distance yourself from the green lie.[/QUOTE]

Not gonna happen. He too is paid to regurgitate this crap on this site. You think he is too dense to see the light - ‘scientists’ grease the hand that feeds them? When their fraudulent propaganda is exposed for what it is, they will change the name from global warming to climate change, as if climate change is something new and different. His paid announcements come from ‘Looney Bin Times’.

[mustardman]

If you want to Use the Big Furnace in the Sky (The Sun) to your Advantage then be smart how you do it.

I can't believe how many people in the country have built houses with West Facing Windows
The sun burns in as it setting so you put Tinfoil in the windows to stop it. Wow Wtf !!

The windows Should be South facing with a proper overhang for your Latitude
You get Free heat in the winter (passive Solar)

The heat stays Out as Sun sets in West and you don't look like a dork in the 21 century,Who just figured which direction the sun travels

Using good Insulation andVapour barrier with high eff natural gas furnace and a 1400 ft house costs $400 per YEAR to heat (yes that's per year!) we have done this for 29 years

Next investment is ground mount solar

[mustardman]

The Idea behind carbon pricing is to Use Market forces to Affect your consumer Habits.
If you Believe in Markets then you know how that works

I always thought cons were in favour of market forces. Apparently not

There is no govt that has Carbon tax on farm fuel. Will we pay higher for some inputs, yes probably
Will it reduce ghg emissions ,contrary to what sask party says, yes it does

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The Idea behind carbon pricing is to Use Market forces to Affect your consumer Habits.
If you Believe in Markets then you know how that works

I always thought cons were in favour of market forces. Apparently not

There is no govt that has Carbon tax on farm fuel. Will we pay higher for some inputs, yes probably
Will it reduce ghg emissions ,contrary to what sask party says, yes it does

Have you seen the latest Emissions stats for BC? They are going up in spite of a large carbon tax.

I've said it before, I'm all in favor of a non-renewable fuels tax, For all the right reasons. But only when all of our competition is equally burdened with the same tax .

[chuckChuck]

I am still waiting for some one to post several peer reviewed climate science papers or links that show that human caused global warming is not happening. It hasn't happened yet and mostly what I get in response is a few selective "facts", political views and excuses why the science is biased or wrong.

Any claims that the we are headed back into an ice age are bunk because the temperature records don't support it and the glaciers in Canada are still shrinking along with the arctic ice mass. See NOAA link below:

https://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card
"Arctic shows no sign of returning to reliably frozen region of recent past decades

Despite relatively cool summer temperatures, observations in 2017 continue to indicate that the Arctic environmental system has reached a 'new normal', characterized by long-term losses in the extent and thickness of the sea ice cover, the extent and duration of the winter snow cover and the mass of ice in the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic glaciers, and warming sea surface and permafrost temperatures."

Here is a link to NASA that lays out the evidence: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

I'm just not sure why so many of you don't realize what the implications are of rising sea levels, increasing temperatures, and significant changes in weather patterns will have for agriculture and the global economy.

Fortunately almost every government in Canada and around the world regardless of their political stripe accepts the science and is making plans for adaptation and reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. Including Trumps USA, NOAA and NASA.

Steven Harper even signed a G7 agreement that Canada would stop using fossil fuels by the year 2100.

But on Agriville we have a a small group of climate change deniers who are unable to produce any credible peer reviewed science to backup their claims.

When your only argument against the science that shows humans are causing unprecedented climate change is political arguments and conspiracy theories, then you might as well give up because you have lost the debate.

[chuckChuck]

https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/139/graphic-global-warming-from-1880-to-2017/

Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2017 were the second warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880, according to an analysis by NASA.

Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, globally averaged temperatures in 2017 were 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.90 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 1951 to 1980 mean, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. That is second only to global temperatures in 2016. Last year was the third consecutive year in which temperatures were more than 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) above late nineteenth-century levels.

NASA’s temperature analyses incorporate surface temperature measurements from 6,300 weather stations, ship- and buoy-based observations of sea surface temperatures, and temperature measurements from Antarctic research stations.

These raw measurements are analyzed using an algorithm that considers the varied spacing of temperature stations around the globe and urban heating effects that could skew the conclusions. These calculations produce the global average temperature deviations from the baseline period of 1951 to 1980.

The full 2017 surface temperature data set and the complete methodology used to make the temperature calculation are available at http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/.

GISS is a laboratory within the Earth Sciences Division of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The laboratory is affiliated with Columbia University’s Earth Institute and School of Engineering and Applied Science in New York.

NASA uses the unique vantage point of space to better understand Earth as an interconnected system. The agency also uses airborne and ground-based monitoring, and develops new ways to observe and study Earth with long-term data records and computer analysis tools to better see how our planet is changing. NASA shares this knowledge with the global community and works with institutions in the United States and around the world that contribute to understanding and protecting our home planet.
Credit

NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. Data provided by Robert B. Schmunk (NASA/GSFC GISS).

[chuckChuck]

So for those of you who don't like my cut and paste. I will just say evidence from NASA shows that global warming is occurring. If you don't believe me or NASA show us the scientific evidence that dispute NASA's science.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Speaking of losing the debate, have you seen recent polls on the publics level of concern about climate change, recent election results, a precipitous drop in government subsidies and grants for the climate change industry, the collapse of green energy installation, a shift in the focus of climate related papers, and the desperate tactics of the last few true believers such as yourself?

And don't worry, I don't expect a response which in any way addresses any of these issues, as usual.

[chuckChuck]

Have you seen the latest Emissions stats for BC? They are going up in spite of a large carbon tax.

I've said it before, I'm all in favor of a non-renewable fuels tax, For all the right reasons. But only when all of our competition is equally burdened with the same tax .

Population growth could account for increasing carbon emissions. Per capita what was the growth in BC? What would the rise in emissions be without the carbon tax?

So energy costs in the USA are generally lower because of lower fuel taxes already. There are numerous factors that affect competitiveness with the FX exchange rate being very important. It is almost impossible for us to have the same costs as anywhere else in the world. How are we surviving when we are already have significant advantages and disadvantages. Fuel costs and taxes are only a small part of a bigger picture.

[chuckChuck]

Speaking of losing the debate, have you seen recent polls on the publics level of concern about climate change, recent election results, a precipitous drop in government subsidies and grants for the climate change industry, the collapse of green energy installation, a shift in the focus of climate related papers, and the desperate tactics of the last few true believers such as yourself?

And don't worry, I don't expect a response which in any way addresses any of these issues, as usual.

Are you talking about Ontario? That might be true in Ontario but to make a generalized statement like that is meaningless. The world is a big place and you didn't put your statement into any context.

We all know the winds of politics change and governments come and go. So you need to look at the big picture and not only focus on Lacombe's weather records or Ontario's politics.

Saskatchewan under a Conservative government is still building wind mills and solar plants. 50% renewables by 2030 is the plan. That doesn't seem to fit with your argument.