Japan's hottest summer in 113 years

[mooncliff]

This summer was unbelievably hot for two straight months.
And that was with nearly no sunspots.

Now, an unusually cold winter is forecast.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-0...er-winter.html

[touchring]

Re: Japan's hottest summer in 113 years

Global warming from too much burning of forest and coal is screwing up the weather.

[mooncliff]

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But, since sometimes Chance favors the foolish, we may get our asses saved.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades. The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age.
http://www.physorg.com/news203746768.html

[touchring]

Re: Japan's hottest summer in 113 years

I can say with 110% confidence, this is global warming, nothing to do with the sun.

http://www.inlandnewstoday.com/story.php?s=16022

[cmalbatros]

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Not "Global Warming" or "Climate Change" but now "Climate Disruption" .

[Starving Steve]

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On the West Coast of North America, especially in central and southern California and in Baja California, we have experienced the coldest June, July, and August ever recorded. Fog (called "stratus") on the West Coast has hung low, and stayed all day long, day after day, for days on end. Here in Watsonville, the fog has been real Lake Superior-like fog, as in: cold and right on the ground, with drizzle and gloom all day long.

For the official statistics recorded at San Francisco Airport by NOAA, go to: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr and click onto August weather, using the Climate-local link on the left-side of the home page. Read what NOAA has to say. Nothing much happens in weather on the West Coast, so when something happens like this, it is worth paying attention: in this case, the onset of second year El Nino which is the dry year reversion back to La Nina conditions in the eastern Pacific. That would mean warm/wet in the western Pacific region (including Japan) and cold/dry in the eastern Pacific.

As far as changing weather patterns, that is quite normal. If weather patterns did not change, then we would have reason to be worried.

I have films of WWII tank battles fought in the Sahara Desert in Egypt in the Qatarra Depression, also in north-east Libya in the Cyrinaca Region, and the desert was flooded. The weather was rainy, with heavy rain.......... Change is exactly the normal in weather patterns. And sometimes, in the odd year, it rains and even floods in the middle of the Sahara Desert.

Last year, an El Nino year-one, we had 8 inches of rain in winter at Palm Springs, California. There were hurricanes and flooding in Southern Baja California ( el estado de Baja California Sur ). This year, we have the massive flooding in Indus River Valley in Pakistan--- apparently, because no-one there ever thought about building dams and flood control channels for the odd flood that happens even in the desert there.

[cmalbatros]

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http://www.iceagenow.com/ interesting articles here.

[c1ue]

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Or perhaps what you're seeing is mostly an artefact of the urban heat island effect:

Here’s an infrared photo of before and after at a USHCN climate station in Fayetteville, NC
Here is what you see in visible light:

Here is what the infrared camera sees:

Note that the concrete surface is around 22-24°C, while the grassy areas are between 12-19°C. This was shortly after a rain, about 2 hours before sunset. The rain did nearly nothing to cool down the concrete.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/09/1...ge/#more-24931

What has not been talked about is that temperatures aren't increasing at the top end so much as temperature lows are increasing.

This is inconsistent with the CO2 thesis which stipulates that all temperatures will increase due to CO2 greenhouse effect amplification.

[don]

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It must be tough on Japan's centenarians.

Do ghosts sweat?

[Starving Steve]

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Or perhaps what you're seeing is mostly an artefact of the urban heat island effect:



http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/09/1...ge/#more-24931

What has not been talked about is that temperatures aren't increasing at the top end so much as temperature lows are increasing.

This is inconsistent with the CO2 thesis which stipulates that all temperatures will increase due to CO2 greenhouse effect amplification.

I am becoming more convinced that urban heat-island effects have more to do with any rise in observed temperatures in the world, than any rise in CO2 in the atmosphere. Buildings block out-bound radiation at night, and they block in-bound radiation during the day. Pavements also store heat and evaporate less water than greenspace, so pavements tend to heat cities, especially at night.

My master's thesis from the Univ. of Minnesota discusses these affects upon climate in the Twin Cities in 1971. I worked with Dr. Skaggs there in the Geography Department.

[Chris Coles]

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On the West Coast of North America, especially in central and southern California and in Baja California, we have experienced the coldest June, July, and August ever recorded. Fog (called "stratus") on the West Coast has hung low, and stayed all day long, day after day, for days on end. Here in Watsonville, the fog has been real Lake Superior-like fog, as in: cold and right on the ground, with drizzle and gloom all day long.

Steve, one question you may be able to answer as you appear to be located close by; what is the lowdown on the continuing series of earthquakes just north of the Baja, between the Mexico border and South LA?

[Starving Steve]

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Steve, one question you may be able to answer as you appear to be located close by; what is the lowdown on the continuing series of earthquakes just north of the Baja, between the Mexico border and South LA?

The San Andreas Fault runs through southern California and enters into the Gulf of California approximately at the mouth of the Colorado River. From there, the same fault runs south-eastward in the Gulf of California. The area is quite active geologically, with the Baja Peninsula tearing apart from the mainland. The relative movement is NW/SE along the fault. Every ten or twenty years, a large earthquake occurs along the fault in Mexico, and the buildings sway in San Diego and Los Angeles. This is nothing new, and the quake hazard will continue for thousands of years to come.

My brother has a McMansion almost on top of the San Andreas Fault in central California. It is built upon sand. Although the house is designed for large earthquakes and has pilings sunk into the sand to anchor the house, his house shakes every week or two, with the constant movement down inside the fault. Even a magnitude 4 earth-tremor (barely worth calling "a tremor") feels like a bomb going-off under his house. At nearby Chittenden Pass, the San Andreas Fault has ripped a steep canyon across the Santa Cruz Mountains, and the scenery is some of the most spectacular along the San Andreas Fault trace in California.

[hayekvindicated]

Re: Japan's hottest summer in 113 years

The San Andreas Fault runs through southern California and enters into the Gulf of California approximately at the mouth of the Colorado River. From there, the same fault runs south-eastward in the Gulf of California. The area is quite active geologically, with the Baja Peninsula tearing apart from the mainland. The relative movement is NW/SE along the fault. Every ten or twenty years, a large earthquake occurs along the fault in Mexico, and the buildings sway in San Diego and Los Angeles. This is nothing new, and the quake hazard will continue for thousands of years to come.

My brother has a McMansion almost on top of the San Andreas Fault in central California. It is built upon sand. Although the house is designed for large earthquakes and has pilings sunk into the sand to anchor the house, his house shakes every week or two, with the constant movement down inside the fault. Even a magnitude 4 earth-tremor (barely worth calling "a tremor") feels like a bomb going-off under his house. At nearby Chittenden Pass, the San Andreas Fault has ripped a steep canyon across the Santa Cruz Mountains, and the scenery is some of the most spectacular along the San Andreas Fault trace in California.

Interesting choice of location.

[metalman]

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My brother has a McMansion almost on top of the San Andreas Fault in central California.

what's his name? Not Starving Bob?

[touchring]

Re: Japan's hottest summer in 113 years

The San Andreas Fault runs through southern California and enters into the Gulf of California approximately at the mouth of the Colorado River. From there, the same fault runs south-eastward in the Gulf of California. The area is quite active geologically, with the Baja Peninsula tearing apart from the mainland. The relative movement is NW/SE along the fault. Every ten or twenty years, a large earthquake occurs along the fault in Mexico, and the buildings sway in San Diego and Los Angeles. This is nothing new, and the quake hazard will continue for thousands of years to come.

My brother has a McMansion almost on top of the San Andreas Fault in central California. It is built upon sand. Although the house is designed for large earthquakes and has pilings sunk into the sand to anchor the house, his house shakes every week or two, with the constant movement down inside the fault. Even a magnitude 4 earth-tremor (barely worth calling "a tremor") feels like a bomb going-off under his house. At nearby Chittenden Pass, the San Andreas Fault has ripped a steep canyon across the Santa Cruz Mountains, and the scenery is some of the most spectacular along the San Andreas Fault trace in California.

Wouldn't it be possible to build a container box like house anchored to nothing that is totally quake proof?