Ready for the next Ice Age? Winter is coming.

[FluffyMcDeath]

The article has the average increase in temperature at 0.85 of a degree over 100+ years so perhaps the arithmetic in the paper is off?
The authors of the paper are listed here, if you want to let them know.

I was just making a comparison - if the heat that melted the ice went instead into heating the atmosphere it would have heated the atmosphere by 2 degrees C. It didn't go into heating the atmosphere though - it went into melting ice. Even if it hadn't melted ice it would still mostly have gone into heating the oceans I'd imagine, but to a much smaller degree. Just pointing out that it takes a lot of energy to melt ice, and once the ice is gone then the energy will all be going into making things hotter.

 

[Robert]

Greenland is about to lose ice faster than any time since the last ice age
And it’s been over 7,000 years since it was even close.

 

[Robert]

September was world's 'hottest on record'

 

[Robert]

Alarm as Arctic sea ice not yet freezing at latest date on record
Delayed freeze in Laptev Sea could have knock-on effects across polar region, scientists say
For the first time since records began, the main nursery of Arctic sea ice in Siberia has yet to start freezing in late October.

 

[Robert]

Freakish cold weather in Spain:
According to local media, the snowfall in Madrid is the heaviest in at least 40 years. The country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was "exceptional and most likely historic".

 

[Robert]

2020 ties 2016 as the warmest year on record​

Despite conditions that favored cooling, we've never recorded higher temps.​

 

[Robert]

Texas sees one of its coldest winters in decades as temperatures drop​

Greg Abbott, the governor, issued a disaster declaration for every county in the state as conditions continued to get colder

 

[Pyromania]

Climate change will be less of a problem once everyone is driving electric vehicles.

 

[redrumloa]

4.3 Million Lose Power, Nearly Half of Lone Star State's Wind Turbines 'Frozen'​

https://twitter.com/x/status/1361051620130308097

 

[redrumloa]

Rolling Blackouts Across 13 States Beyond Texas​

https://twitter.com/x/status/1361658274769211394

SPP said that this was the first time it had ever had to order rolling blackouts.

“This is done as a last resort to preserve the reliability of the electric system as a whole,” the agency said. “It’s a step we’re consciously taking to prevent circumstances from getting worse, which could result in uncontrolled outages of even greater magnitude.

 

[cecilia]

Don’t blame wind for the Texas power shortage

When a rare blast of Arctic air and ice hit Texas and resulted in a massive power outage, the critics of wind power were

www.politifact.com

 

[Robert]

Don’t blame wind for the Texas power shortage

When a rare blast of Arctic air and ice hit Texas and resulted in a massive power outage, the critics of wind power were

www.politifact.com

More here:

Deep in the heart of Texas’ collapsing power grid​

Everything in Texas went wrong at once.​

 

[redrumloa]

More here:

Deep in the heart of Texas’ collapsing power grid​

Everything in Texas went wrong at once.​

No time to read ATM, but I will say that Ted Cruz may have just sunk his political career going forward. He's not a Dem. Republicans hold their leaders accountable. He'll likely lose if he gets primary'ed, and he probably will. What a tone deaf blunder, to put it kindly.

 

[Robert]

No time to read ATM, but I will say that Ted Cruz may have just sunk his political career going forward. He's not a Dem. Republicans hold their leaders accountable. He'll likely lose if he gets primary'ed, and he probably will. What a tone deaf blunder, to put it kindly.

I don't think he's mentioned in the article. If he is, I missed it.
What did he do, press the wrong button at the wind farm?

 

[ilwrath]

I don't think he's mentioned in the article. If he is, I missed it.
What did he do, press the wrong button at the wind farm?

Nah, he took off for a vacation in Cancun to get away from all that.

 

[Robert]

Nah, he took off for a vacation in Cancun to get away from all that.

Nice work if you can get it. What's the weather like in Cancun? Good bit south of Brownsville so pretty toasty, I imagine.

 

[redrumloa]

Notice someone getting massive free airtime on every major network?

Behold, your new green god.

 

[Robert]

The accelerated terrestrial water storage decline resulting from glacial ice melting is thus the main driver of the rapid polar drift toward the east after the 1990s. This new finding indicates that a close relationship existed between polar motion and climate change in the past.

 

[Robert]

Haven't checked the veracity of this - just popped up on my twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1409560029942923266

 

[cecilia]

"It's so hot in the Pacific Northwest that roads are buckling"

It's so hot in the Pacific Northwest that roads are buckling

Heat even impacted a section of I-5.

www.sfgate.com