105°Degrees at 9:10pm Here. World Must be coming to an end?

[imgv94]

105°degrees

Is this Global Warming? Whats going on?

[onlooker]

Im use to that here. Nothing like being in the 90's at 8AM in the morning. And getting close to 120 durning the day.

Hard to believe its 105 in LA right now. Your temperature gauge under a flood light? I checked weather.com and it says 82 in LA. So its 23 degrees hotter where you live? That must suck.

Weather.com says its 99 here at the moment. Wouldnt know, Im not stepping out of my A/C.

[imgv94]

Weather Channel says it is 88 right now. It was 105
an hour ago. I was in Vegas last month and the heat
there is more bearable than it has been here. It is
very humid here. Man it is bad here bro.

[onlooker]

Weather Channel says it is 88 right now. It was 105
an hour ago. I was in Vegas last month and the heat
there is more bearable than it has been here. It is
very humid here. Man it is bad here bro.

Not saying its not, I bet it is terrible there.

June verses July/August is a different story here. Sure its hot, but July and August are like hell on earth. Yep not much humidity, but after thunderstorms, it gets up there.

You should see the difference when you come out in August.

[sergfro]

imgv94, it was 100+ here in Huntington Beach, you never hear about a beach hitting 100+ especially HB beaches were PACKED

[McBa1n]

Statistically, our national weather service says this is the hottest year on record at this point.
Vote Bush or Repubilcan again and it will only get hotter.
Vote Democrat and it'l only get semi-hotter.
Vote for a 3rd party and if they win, you will have change.

When your president says "Clean Coal technology" - and you go 'oh, that's good for the environment'... Use your freakin brain. Coal is as clean as my bum with mud butt after poundin guinnesses all night... It can't ever be clean.
Also, when your president says "clean air initiative" - read into what that means. It actually was a repeal of the clean air act that passed under Clinton (sadly, his environmental record was his only shining moment).

Hopefully, our next administration will at least put us on the right track. Even if I won't have kids, everyone elses kids will see much worse than we do.
It's that bad right now.

[dvorak51]

OP,

I know how you feel. I'm here in Tarzana, and it was 105 at 8:30pm.

I stepped outside to take out the trash, and it felt like someone turned on a global heater

[imgv94]

This weather is too weird, it is 1:17am and it is
90 degrees here in Glendale. It was 88 a few hours
ago and instead of going down it is going up.WTF?

This is not normal, I think something is going on with
the O-Zone or something. This is crazy.

Everyone keep cool and drink plenty of water!!

[caracalla]

Nobody tells the truth.
O-zone ? Doesn’t mind.

The only guilty is air-conditioners!!

Where goes heat from your house and offices? Outdoor!!!
And so years always hottest and hottest.

Stop A/C!!! But too many interests!!!

[caracalla]

In Italy years ago no problem for weather. But since first 2000’s, more and more conditioners: 1.000.000 new AC in 2000, 1.200.000 new Ac in 2001, 1.500.000 in 2002 and so on .
Now you can’t live outdoor in Northern Italy: too heat and too humidity.
Humidity other problem caused by A/C: but too long explanations!!

Sorry for my poor english

[isetcap]

Bad Bad A/C.

Last year I was in Italy and the hotel I stayed in had A/C. I tried to turn it on because it was quite warm one day and no matter what I did, the A/C was not working. I went to ask the proprietor of this fine establishment why the A/C wouldn't work and he looked at me as if to make sure I wasn't being serious and then started laughing. Once he realized I wasn't going to let it go he said in broken English, "You can't control the A/C! We control it."

Although global warming is indeed a scientifically proven phenomenon; attributing a season of warm weather to its cause is comparable to saying the casino is cheating because you lost 5 hands of blackjack in a row.

The silver lining to the elevated gas prices we're experiencing today is the renewed approach the market is taking toward finding alternative energy sources and lowering consumption. The higher gas prices go, the faster this process will move forward.

[imgv94]

isetcap it is 83 degrees right now here. I might be extreme
saying maybe it is Global Warming. Although I realize
I am young I do not recall such extreme weather like
this here. Now maybe we are balancing out last years
pleasant summer, but this years heat has been unbearable
and I am usually one that can take heat.

[isetcap]

isetcap it is 83 degrees right now here. I might be extreme
saying maybe it is Global Warming. Although I realize
I am young I do not recall such extreme weather like
this here. Now maybe we are balancing out last years
pleasant summer, but this years heat has been unbearable
and I am usually one that can take heat.

So did global warming just manifest itself in the course of one year? If it cools off next week will global warming be taking a break?

Perhaps we should outlaw the use of fire for as long as it takes to get these temperatures back under control.

As with many things in this world, it is best if you conceptually understand the phenomenon so you can make intelligent decisions about repairing the situation. If you attempt to tie global warming to something as superficial as this evening's warm temperatures, then it fades out of your mind as quickly as the weather goes back to "normal".

[imgv94]

At my old job there was this guy who used to tell
me Global Warming was a serious issue and that extreme
weather was to be expected in the near future. That
also made me bring up this conversation. Well I guess
only time will tell. isetcap stop twisting my words around
please. Thanks.

[isetcap]

At my old job there was this guy who used to tell
me Global Warming was a serious issue and that extreme
weather was to be expected in the near future. That
also made me bring up this conversation. Well I guess
only time will tell. isetcap stop twisting my words around
please. Thanks.

Don't mean to twist your words. Just trying to clarify the gravity of the situation. It is far beyond just having some hot days in Southern California (which is a desert to begin with and has been since well before global warming).

Now that you've been convinced, I hope you will take the initiative (as the youth of America with its boundless energy) and review the scientific studies and decide how you can play a role in making the changes necessary to preserve nature's balance.

If you want to start learning now, take time to see the quality documentary by Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth. It has its flaws but it's valuable filmmaking nonetheless. Start your journey here...

http://www.climatecrisis.net/

[SBR_John]

:+angry2-9 This is the hottest Texas summer I can remember and we are not even in August! :+angry2-9

[isetcap]

Only 80 degrees here today in Virginia. I guess we aren't being globally warmed.

[JoshW]

Had close to a week on this in Kansas. Then it dropped about 20 degrees for a couple days now, enjoying it.

[sergfro]

after spending 2 weeks in hawaii I dont understand why people would swim in this nasty grey water here in Huntington Beach...makes me sick, Might as well swim in your toliet

[BuddyBear]

It was almost 100 degrees earlier this week in Wisconsin of all places...

[Willie Bee]

We've had far more days this summer in triple digits, guessing 20 or so, than anytime in the last quarter century. Concrete is as much a culprit if note more so than AC units.

Really feel for those of you in areas that don't normally get as hot as it's been recently. Not saying I like it, but I'm more used to it. The wife and I were eating outside at a restaurant the other night when it was about 100 and it really wasn't that bad since we had some shade and occasional breeze.

This martini I'm enjoying presently is much cooler than the 102+ we've got outside right now.

[bigboydan]

boo hoo guys....i just survived a tornado that hit 10 minutes from my house on wednsday, then followed up by 101 degree day with no power.

[yokspot]

Insane temperatures in the UK, record-breaking highs. This country is supposed to be synonymous with rain. Well, I've seen f**k all rain this year. Some wierd sh¡t.

[isetcap]

Insane temperatures in the UK, record-breaking highs. This country is supposed to be synonymous with rain. Well, I've seen f**k all rain this year. Some wierd sh¡t.

Royal Liverpool looked great, though!

[EBone]

Isetcap, I still believe that, for the most part, the weather cycles and, generally, the cycles rule our long-term weather patterns. The same as the hurricane cycle..... It's busy now but in 5 years the hurricane activity will go down because the "warming" will not be as substantial because of the weather's cyclical nature.

I also believe that global warming does exist. I have not seen Gore's documentary yet. For the most part, I believe Gore is a nut but I do believe he is on to something here. I can't wait to see the movie.

Good convo here. I'll be back tomorrow to jabber on about something I really know nothing about.......that being baseball.


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[imgv94]

90 Degrees at 10:21pm I am watching weather Channel.
Feels like 105 again. Damn this is the worst summer ever!!

[imgv94]

• There is little doubt that the planet is warming. Over the last century the average temperature has climbed about 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.6 of a degree Celsius) around the world.
The spring ice thaw in the Northern Hemisphere occurs 9 days earlier than it did 150 years ago, and the fall freeze now typically starts 10 days later.
The 1990s was the warmest decade since the mid-1800s, when record-keeping started. The hottest years recorded: 1998, 2002, 2003, 2001, and 1997.

• The multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) report recently concluded that in Alaska, western Canada, and eastern Russia, average temperatures have increased as much as 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit (3 to 4 degrees Celsius) in the past 50 years. The rise is nearly twice the global average. In Barrow, Alaska (the U.S.'s northernmost city) average temperatures are up over 4 degrees Fahrenheit (2.5 to 3 degrees Celsius) in 30 years.
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that global temperatures will rise an additional 3 to10 degrees Fahrenheit (1.6 to 5.5 degrees Celsius) by century's end.

• Over the last million years the Earth has fluctuated between colder and warmer periods. The shifts have occurred in roughly 100,000-year intervals thought to be regulated by sunlight. Earth's sunlight quota depends upon its orbit and celestial orientation.
But changes have also occurred more rapidly in the past—and scientists hope that these changes can tell us more about the current state of climate change. During the last ice age, approximately 70,000 to 11,500 years ago, ice covered much of North America and Europe—yet sudden, sometimes drastic, climate changes occurred during the period. Greenland ice cores indicate one spike in which the area's surface temperature increased by 15 degrees Fahrenheit (9 degrees Celsius) in just 10 years.

• Where do scientists find clues to past climate change? The tale is told in remnant materials like glacial ice and moraines, pollen-rich mud, stalagmites, the rings of corals and trees, and ocean sediments that yield the shells of microscopic organisms. Human history yields clues as well, through records like ancient writings and inscriptions, gardening and vintner records, and the logs of historic ships.
• Rising temperatures have a dramatic impact on Arctic ice, which serves as a kind of "air conditioner" at the top of the world. Since 1978 Arctic sea ice area has shrunk by some 9 percent per decade, and thinned as well.

• Over the very long term, Greenland's massive ice sheet holds enough melt water to raise sea level by about 23 feet (about 7 meters). ACIA climate models project significant melting of the sheet throughout the 21st century.

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• Vast quantities of fresh water are tied up in the world's many melting glaciers. When Montana's Glacier National Park was created in 1910 it held some 150 glaciers. Now fewer than 30, greatly shrunken glaciers, remain. Tropical glaciers are in even more trouble. The legendary snows of Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro 19,340-foot (5,895-meter) peak have melted by some 80 percent since 1912 and could be gone by 2020.

• Sea levels have risen and fallen many times over the Earth's long geological history. Average global sea level has risen by 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20cm) over the past century according to the IPCC.
The IPCC's 2001 report projects that sea level could rise between 4 and 35 inches (10 to 89cm) by century's end. Such rises could have major effects for coastal dwellers. A 1.5-foot (50-centimeter) sea level rise in flat coastal areas would cause a typical coastline retreat of 150 feet (50 meters).
Worldwide some 100 million people live within 3 feet (1 meter) of mean sea level. Rises of just 4 inches (10 centimeters) could promote flooding in many South Sea islands, while in the U.S. Florida and Louisiana are at risk. The Indian Ocean nation of Maldives has a maximum elevation of only 8 feet (2.5 meters). Construction of a sea wall around the capital, Male, was driven by vulnerability to the rising tides.

• The ocean's circulation system, known as the ocean conveyor belt, moderates global temperatures by moving tropical heat around the planet. Global warming could alter the balance of this system, via an influx of freshwater from melting ice caps for example, creating unforeseen and possibly fast-paced change.
Climate models suggest that global warming could cause more frequent extreme weather conditions. Intense hurricanes and storm surges could threaten coastal communities, while heat waves, fires and drought could also become more common.

• Since the 1860s, increased industrialization and shrinking forests have helped raise the atmosphere's CO2 level by almost 100 parts per million—and Northern Hemisphere temperatures have followed suit. Increases in temperatures and greenhouse gasses have been even sharper since the 1950s.
Water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas. Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide also contain heat and help keep Earth's temperate climate balanced in the cold void of space. Human activities, burning fossil fuels and clearing forests, have greatly increased concentrations by producing these gases faster than plants and oceans can soak them up. The gases linger in the atmosphere for years, meaning that even a complete halt in emissions would not immediately stop the warming trend they promote.

• In the Arctic the impacts of a warming climate are being felt already. Coastal Indigenous communities report shorter periods of sea ice, which fails to temper ocean storms and their destructive coastal erosion. Increased snow and ice melt have caused higher rivers while thawing permafrost has wreaked havoc with roads and other infrastructure. Some communities have had to move from historic coastline locations.
Sea ice loss is devastating for species that have adapted to the environment, such as polar bears and ringed seals in the Arctic and Antarctic penguins.

• Studies show that many European plants now flower a week earlier than they did in the 1950s and also lose their leaves 5 days later.
Biologists report that many birds and frogs are breeding earlier in the season. An analysis of 35 nonmigratory butterfly species showed that two-thirds now range 2 to 150 miles (3.5 to 240 kilometers) farther north than they did a few decades ago.

• By 2050, rising temperatures exacerbated by human-induced belches of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases could send more than a million of Earth's land-dwelling plants and animals down the road to extinction, according to a recent study.

• Coral reefs worldwide are "bleaching". losing key algae and resident organisms, as water temperatures rise above 85 degrees Fahrenheit (29.5 degrees Celsius) through periods of calm, sunny weather. Scientists worry that rapid climate change could inhibit the ability of many species to adapt within complex and interdependent ecosystems.
• The effects of a warming globe may not be entirely negative. Heating costs could decline for those in colder climates, while vast marginal agricultural areas in northern latitudes might become more viable. Arctic shipping and resource extraction operations could also benefit—summer sea ice breakup in Hudson Bay already occurs two to three weeks earlier than it did half a century ago.

[pags11]

we played in the bay area this weekend and it was 100 degrees...was 114 in the Sacramento valley on the way home...

[Hulu]

Great post img

[sergfro]

img,
I went to six flags magic mountain yesterday. It hit 116 at 11:45am according to a thermometer there. That hit just hits you so bad, especially driving there with the AC the whole way. What makes it worse is the 70% humidity, hard to breathe.

[imgv94]

OMG, 116?



Today is alot better THANK YOU LORD!!!

93 right now where I am at. Did you hear that
LA county has had 53 heat related deaths?

[Willie Bee]

It hit 116 at 11:45am according to a thermometer there. That hit just hits you so bad, especially driving there with the AC the whole way. What makes it worse is the 70% humidity, hard to breathe.

Geez, 116º and 70%! I'm surprised there aren't more deaths in that kind of weather.

[imgv94]

I am too WB, I went to Sherman Oaks the other day and
it was torture. It felt like a blow dryer was on you..

[onlooker]

It felt like a blow dryer was on you..

I know that feeling very well. Its like a global heater when I walk out my front door everyday. I wish someone would turn that freaking thing off, or just turn it down a few clicks.

[Illusion]

I could not imagine 116 degrees. I was dying last weekend when it hit 99 here.