NASA Scientist: Heat Waves Really Are From Global Warming 605
mdsolar writes with a tidbit from the New York Times on global warming: "The percentage of the earth's land surface covered by extreme heat in the summer has soared in recent decades, from less than 1 percent in the years before 1980 to as much as 13 percent in recent years, according to a new scientific paper. The change is so drastic, the paper says, that scientists can claim with near certainty that events like the Texas heat wave last year, the Russian heat wave of 2010 and the European heat wave of 2003 would not have happened without the planetary warming caused by the human release of greenhouse gases. Those claims, which go beyond the established scientific consensus about the role of climate change in causing weather extremes, were advanced by James E. Hansen, a prominent NASA climate scientist, and two co-authors in a scientific paper published online on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 'The main thing is just to look at the statistics and see that the change is too large to be natural,' Dr. Hansen said in an interview."
Republicans are burning in the Hell they made (Score:3, Funny)
In the U.S. the conservative political party (the ones opposed to doing anything about this) is called the Republicans.
By and large they live in the center and southern parts of the country, the parts most affected by the heat.
So, in a sense, they are burning in the Hell they themselves have created. Unfortunately the rest of the world is also suffering.
Re:Hansen again? (Score:5, Funny)
Hansen is a "scientist" who likes headlines and attention. Nothing to see here, move along...
You tell'em bradley13!
Rush, Hannity and Boortz say (*say with sarcastic snear*) glooooooobal waaaarming is just a method to justify Big Government and Control by Liberals who TRUST that government is the only solution! And it's a method for the control and loss of sovereignty to the UN!
Hear ya! Brother!
Government control is EVIL and UnAmerican!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go to a meeting where we're going discuss methods of getting government to ban gay marriage, abortion, and to start teaching abstinence and the Bible in school!
Damn government control!
Re:Republicans are burning in the Hell they made (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hansen again? (Score:5, Funny)
In addition to being cooler than the 1920's, we're also hipper, awesomer and dress much better.
Re:Hansen again? (Score:4, Funny)
Calm down and stop throwing toys, both of you.
One of my favourite things about slashdot is the good, solid, thoughtful and well reasoned arguments in the comments.
Re:Eh. (Score:5, Funny)
Don't anthropomorphize nature, it hates it when you do that.
Re:Republicans are burning in the Hell they made (Score:5, Funny)
Think you could shove any more Libertarian catchphrases into that? Of course you do get extra points for using "statist" twice.
Re:All This From 1 Degree C (Score:5, Funny)
Fuck me sideways. Can we sort this shit out. To free something is to loose it. To not win is to lose. If you were practising archery you'd be loosing arrows. If you were walking around with coins falling from your pocket you would be losing money. If you open all the cages at the zoo the animals have been loosed. If you drop your keys down the drain they are lost. A sibling's death might mean you lose a brother. A tragedy might occur to someone you are loosely related to. If something is not tight it is loose. To make it less tight would be to make it looser. Not knowing the difference between loose and lose makes you sound like a loser.
If English is not your first language then I apologise: in that case you are a far more capable speaker than many who would call English their native tongue, and I can certainly make no claims to proficiency in any other language, but I see this mistake so very often, from people who should genuinely know better that I cannot keep the inner pedant at bay any more.
Re:Hansen again? (Score:2, Funny)
Just to be clear, when you say:
Are you trying to imply global warming is nothing to worry about?
Re:Hansen again? (Score:5, Funny)
There are good arguments for and against manmade global warming, and personally I think there is no such thing as MMGW.
Remind us again what the 'good' arguments against it are...?