.Europe's Record Heat Tied Directly to Climate Change

[wvit1001]

In Warming, Northern Hemisphere is Outpacing the South



If global warming were a race, the Northern Hemisphere would be winning. It is warming faster than the Southern Hemisphere, with some of the most rapid warming rates on Earth located in the Arctic, where sea and land ice is shrinking and thinning. Not only is the North winning now, but projections show that, largely due to the influence of manmade greenhouse gas emissions, it is likely to widen its lead in the coming decades.

Two new studies shed light on this disparity, and how it could have profound consequences for tropical rainfall. The studies will both be published in forthcoming issues of the Journal of Climate.

According to one of the studies, by a group of researchers based at U.C. Berkeley and the University of Washington, the Northern Hemisphere has led the Southern Hemisphere in its rate of warming since about 1980, largely because the Northern Hemisphere has more land and less ocean than the Southern Hemisphere, and oceans warm relatively slowly.

Prior to 1980, the long-term trend that would have been there from increased greenhouse gases during the 20th century was essentially cancelled out by man-made aerosol emissions, which mostly cooled the Northern Hemisphere, the study found.

The second study, by researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, implicates global ocean currents as another factor contributing to the Northern Hemisphere’s warming lead. These currents transport heat away from southern waters and into the North Atlantic and North Pacific, helping to warm nearby land areas in the north even more.



http://www.climatecentral.org/news/in-global-warming-northern-hemisphere-is-outpacing-the-south-15850

[sweetwater5s9]

There is one solution with global warming for humans.   Care to guess?

[wvit1001]

put limits on our carbon pollution of the atmosphere?

[wvit1001]

investment in technology for new energy sources and more efficient use of existing energy sources?

[Dan]

There is one solution with global warming for humans.   Care to guess?

Turn off your heater?  Take off your sweater?

investment in technology for new energy sources and more efficient use of existing energy sources

Why?

[wvit1001]

dan's trying to use exaggeration again.  why do you use that dan?  nobody is saying you have to turn off your heater.

[Dan]

dan's trying to use exaggeration again.

Where?  How is it an exaggeration to suggest taking off your sweater when the weather warms?  Seems to me it's just commons sense.

why do you use that dan?

I don't.  I'm being practical.  You are the one doing the scaremongering here.

nobody is saying you have to turn off your heater.

As usual, you didn't understand what I said.  When the weather warms, people turn their heaters off automatically.  Not to reduce emissions, but to keep from getting too warm.

Vit, do you keep your heater turned on when the temperature reaches 70 degrees?

[Dan]

Vit's solution to global warming is to try to change the climate.

My solution to global warming is to remove your sweater.  Which solution is cheaper and easier?

[wvit1001]

dan, you're being silly again.  is this really the type of stuff that silly old men like you base your opinons on?

[jst-the-fax]

Dan,
You are such a funny lad   

Wvit...is still trying to pass her BS as fact...but the climate is not cooperating!!

[wvit1001]

you still haven't said what isn't factual about it faxy.  what are you claiming isn't factual?

[Dan]

Thanks, JTF.

What is easier?  Adapting to the climate?  Or changing the climate?