96% of US NOAA Weather Stations Sited Wrong, Inflate Temperature Record
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Yeah, this has been a problem for ages and it's not unique to the USA. There's loads and loads of weather stations in my country that have been keeping records for decades, sometimes since the 19th century, but back when they were built, they were in wooded areas etc., and now they're surrounded by concrete as the area around them continued to develop. But hey, this station from 1890 is showing record temperatures now so obviously we need communism or the planet will literally catch fire and we'll all die.
Speaking of which, I used to say "yeah, yeah, it'll be so hot we'll all just drop dead" as a dismissive joke, and lately I've been noticing leftists saying this without a hint of irony. I think it started with that retarded video with Bill Nye the Sex Junk Guy where he set a globe on fire. I mean, what the fuck? I'm seeing people claim that my central European country will become unlivable because somehow the local temperate climate will turn into something worse than Arizona or Saudi Arabia WHERE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LIVING FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS WITHOUT AIR CONDITIONING. I moved on to joking about polar bears melting, but if this becomes a serious lefty talking point in a few years too I'm probably going to turn it into a drinking game and just fucking die.
Polar Bear numbers are up. Weather temps are only up because there's more concrete and less trees. The global temps aren't rising at any alarming rate, they fluctuate all the time, and I am tired of the bullshit. Hell, right now, the sun is effecting our climate more than pollution can. That bitch is at the beginning of a bad cycle and things are going to be worse before they get better in 10 years.
Global temperatures have risen at a dramatic rate over the past 100 years, it's no where near that erratic, and yeah, polar bear numbers are up, specifically because of climate change, which has caused warmer temperatures to give Polar Bears more habitable environments with richer food supplies.
That's the difference between watermelon environmental activism and actual climate science:
And no, the sun's activity is not having a significant effect on temperature as the actual luminosity we are receiving hasn't really changed to a statistical margin, and even if it did the angle of the light has a more dramatic impact then the slight diming of one spot on a rotating gas ball 93 million miles away.
Imagine a burning gas station. Imagine you are stairing at it from 10 miles away. Now imagine a bird that is 20 feet in front of the gas station flies past your line of sight. Will you feel any cooler? No, of course you won't. the temporary minor reduction in infrared radiation will be almost impossible to notice. That's the reason why sunspots and luminosity really don't fucking mean much.
Man, sometimes your posts are good but you have an insane blind spot on global cool... warm... err, climate change. The goddamn Sun is nothing like watching a fire from 10 miles away, as can easily be observed by literally anyone who has ever stepped into sunlight from a shade. Get out of the basement, holy shit.
It's not a blind spot. Studying how Climates and energy work make this whole thing a very simple issue.
Do you know what my Environmental Science class in University?
Watched "An Inconvient Truth".
Do you know why?
To absolutely tear it to shreds for being alarmist, bullshit, hysteria that was objectively, factually, wrong. Including Al Gore's argument that Global Warming had saved the world from Global Cooling, but only for a while.
Watermelons aren't scientists, they are Communists wearing yet another skin suit. Stop taking them seriously as academicians. If someone in a lab coat tells you "Sex is a Social Construct" you know that they are a Communist subverter. Now you need to see that this is true when they are wearing a lab coat and telling you "the Earth will die in 12 years."
Why do you think my example includes a bird in front of the gas station , rather than a box truck stopping 2 feet in front of you. Like a bird flying past a gas station 10 miles away from you, a sunspot doesn't decrease luminosity enough to effect you or the radiant heat you recieve. A box truck in front of you can block all direct sunlight. You are re-iterating my point.
Put it another way, there are geo-engineers (crazy people with PHDs in Engineering) that want to blot out the fucking sun to decrease temperatures. They basically need to create a fucking Stellaris Megastructure to reduce enough light and radiation to decrease the temperature by somewhere around 3-5 degrees. It would literally be pre-cursor to a Dyson Sphere, the largest thing ever constructed in human history, would bankrupt every national government, and would require many many mining operations on asteroids to source the metal, and all of that for a drop by couple degrees. A sunspot isn't even almost enough to cause the same level of luminosity drop that such a megastructure would create. ... but that is what is being argued that sunspots are capable of.