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The 1.4 degrees is since records began in 1880, with 9 out of 10 of the warmest years since 2000. We have core samples going back millions of years showing many periods of warming and cooling but none as rapid as this one or so clearly driven by human influence since natural factors have been studied and eliminated as the primary cause.
Carbon dioxide levels are at their highest in 650,000 years - 400ppm
Arctic sea ice is dropping over 13% per decade and land ice is dropping 287 billion metric tons per year.
Did you happen to read that kid's blog? The scary graph of Greenland gaining 500 billion tons of ice - gasp! - as winter emerged...
According to your first graph, the higher levels of ice were actually in the earlier period of that decade, judging by the lines representing each year.
Look, they're trying to deceive you for their agenda. Rise above it.
The reason Southern sea ice is expanding is because of complex factors influenced by global warming. The ozone hole over the pole has caused cooling in the stratosphere, resulting in more intense cyclones that push ice. Also, shifting ocean currents are a factor. Antarctica has actually shown strong warming.
Only Category 2!! (Category 3 when it made its landfall in Cuba)
Mick
But mind you, New York and New Jersey rarely get direct hits. Most of the time it hit the Carolinas if not Florida first and goes up the eastern seaboard. So them getting hit with a category 2 storm is rare. Most times it is either a tropical storm or tropical depression. In my lifetime, New York only really got hit with three hurricanes: Bob in 1991, Irene in 2011 and Sandy in 2012. You have to go back to 1985 with Hurricane Gloria for the last category 2 storm to strike New York. That's an entire generation.
If you're going to respond to me, please read my post first. I very explicitly wrote it to prevent just such an uninformed laypersons response, because your uninformed laypersons response always happens when the data supported by every major scientific organization in the world is presented.
If you go back and look at my post, you'll see that I point out that, thanks to core samples, orbital data, fossil records, and other info, we have temperature data going back many millions of years, not just 1880. I explained that scientists have measured much warmer periods than today (always a perceived "gotcha" by the uninformed) as well as much cooler. What we have never seen is temperature rise this quickly or be so clearly driven by human actions.
I have used the time frames for "evidence" cited in earlier posts here. The precision of your "core sample testing" is subject to debate and your "gotcha" is useless in your argument; no intelligent person has claimed there is straight line change anywhere.
You infer that you are neither a layperson nor uninformed but have posted an article containing "interpretations" of data, no specified margin of error and numerous caveats but seem to accept it all as empirical evidence of some great significance. It is not.
Your insulting tone and juvenile name calling does not serve to advance your argument, nor does your infantile cry for my posts to be ignored.
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reaffirmed its initial conclusion that Hurricane Sandy was no longer officially a hurricane when it made landfall on Oct. 29 near Brigantine, N.J., just north of Atlantic City.
Although Sandy was designated a hurricane for the majority of time it traveled up the coast, it failed to sustain hurricane-force winds at landfall, so it was officially a tropical storm. …
"Tropical Storm Sandy" doesn't carry the umph of "Superstorm Sandy" when the failed narrative was major hurricanes and that never really materialized.
Actually, hurricane Sandy, while the widest hurricane ever recorded, was only about a category 1 when it made landfall in New Jersey. It was super wide but not super strong. The real problem with Sandy was WHERE it landed. Lots of people affected.
Having said that, all recent hurricanes were all created by global warming, as were all hurricanes that failed to get created... Ask any climate change drama queen.
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