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Ho-Hum ---> Now Europe has a Record Shattering Heatwave

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Record-shattering temperatures are scorching much of Europe this week as searing heat from North Africa overspreads the normally mild continent.

Germany broke its all-time heat record for June on Wednesday when the temperature soared to 101.5 degrees in Coschen, which is about 65 miles southeast of Berlin, according to the German meteorological service.

Authorities in Germany also imposed speed limits on some autobahns amid fears of buckling road surfaces, and some French schools stayed closed as a precaution.

Both Poland (100.8 degrees) and the Czech Republic (102) also set June high temperatures on Wednesday.
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The heat wave in Europe follows extreme heat episodes in Australia, India, Pakistan and parts of the Middle East in 2019, the World Meteorological Organization said.

Globally, extreme heat events are responsible for more deaths annually than hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined, a study in American Journal of Preventative Medicine said.

Even more concerning is that Europe's five hottest summers since 1500 have all been in the 21st century, according to a climatology institute in Potsdam, Germany, the BBC said.

Europe heat wave: Record-shattering heat bakes most of Europe
 
Media_Truth said:
Europe heat wave: Record-shattering heat bakes most of Europe
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The right will say your implying Global Warming.

Then they will quote facts that many of the areas listed had some of the coldest recorded temperatures in the same period.

If you try and say that is because it is actually climate change they will turn it to your a Trump hater.

It is your "TDS" that is talking and facts only show your desperate to tarnish the conservative party.

How dare you be free thinking, what besides the constitution gives you the right.

Science has been directly disputed by theological beliefs and therefore if the "Good Book" says 1 + 1 = 5

Then 5 is correct, despite your facts and proof. It is a flat earth and you God Damn Know It!
 
Media_Truth said:
Record-shattering temperatures are scorching much of Europe this week as searing heat from North Africa overspreads the normally mild continent.

Germany broke its all-time heat record for June on Wednesday when the temperature soared to 101.5 degrees in Coschen, which is about 65 miles southeast of Berlin, according to the German meteorological service.

Authorities in Germany also imposed speed limits on some autobahns amid fears of buckling road surfaces, and some French schools stayed closed as a precaution.

Both Poland (100.8 degrees) and the Czech Republic (102) also set June high temperatures on Wednesday.
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The heat wave in Europe follows extreme heat episodes in Australia, India, Pakistan and parts of the Middle East in 2019, the World Meteorological Organization said.

Globally, extreme heat events are responsible for more deaths annually than hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined, a study in American Journal of Preventative Medicine said.

Even more concerning is that Europe's five hottest summers since 1500 have all been in the 21st century, according to a climatology institute in Potsdam, Germany, the BBC said.

Europe heat wave: Record-shattering heat bakes most of Europe
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So kids get summer days off? Cool.

101 degrees is cause for panic? You’ve got to be kidding me.
 
This means less people will die because extreme cold kills more than heatwaves, so this is a good thing.

The chicken littles can rant all they want, but they will never be able to control climate.
 
According to a paper published by James Hansen,
http://meteora.ucsd.edu/cap/pdffiles/Hansen-04-29-05.pdf
Our environmental activities had cleared the skies of aerosols,
and increased the energy hitting the ground by 1.39 W/m2.
The type of warming from added CO2 appears to affect low temperatures much more than highs,
but optical depth and it's related effects are not well studied.
Perhaps record highs could be a result of effective environmental policies.
Of course it also could just be weather!

The effective aerosol forcing in 2003 relative to 1880, including positive forcing by absorbing black carbon (BC) aerosols,
is –1.39 W/m2, with subjective estimated uncertainty ~ 50%.
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longview said:
According to a paper published by James Hansen,
http://meteora.ucsd.edu/cap/pdffiles/Hansen-04-29-05.pdf
Our environmental activities had cleared the skies of aerosols,
and increased the energy hitting the ground by 1.39 W/m2.
The type of warming from added CO2 appears to affect low temperatures much more than highs,
but optical depth and it's related effects are not well studied.
Perhaps record highs could be a result of effective environmental policies.
Of course it also could just be weather!
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You seem to have overlooked the minus sign in front of 1.39. Aerosols have a negative forcing effect since they block solar radiation. The increase in aerosols since 1880 has acted to lower the Earth's temperature, but has been more than cancelled out by the effect of an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases.
 
Surface Detail said:
You seem to have overlooked the minus sign in front of 1.39. Aerosols have a negative forcing effect since they block solar radiation. The increase in aerosols since 1880 has acted to lower the Earth's temperature, but has been more than cancelled out by the effect of an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases.
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Not at all, the positive forcing from added CO2 is what has the plus sign, the minus sign pushes the other way.
 
longview said:
Not at all, the positive forcing from added CO2 is what has the plus sign, the minus sign pushes the other way.
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Exactly. There are far more aerosols in the atmosphere now than there were in 1880, with the result that they have reduced, not increased, the amount of energy hitting the ground by 1.39 W/m[SUP]2[/SUP]. The increased forcing from greenhouse gases has, however, more than cancelled this out, this giving an overall net positive forcing.
 
Surface Detail said:
Exactly. There are far more aerosols in the atmosphere now than there were in 1880, with the result that they have reduced, not increased, the amount of energy hitting the ground by 1.39 W/m[SUP]2[/SUP]. The increased forcing from greenhouse gases has, however, more than cancelled this out, this giving an overall net positive forcing.
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Valid point, the real question is how much have aerosols reduced since a high of roughly 1975?
The amount of energy hitting the ground (Insolation)has increased since the 1970's, we just do not know by how much.
 
longview said:
Valid point, the real question is how much have aerosols reduced since a high of roughly 1975?
The amount of energy hitting the ground (Insolation)has increased since the 1970's, we just do not know by how much.
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Moving on from your blunder with regard to the sign of the aerosol forcing, what makes you think that global aerosol concentration was higher in 1975 than today? Sure, Europe and North America have cleaned their acts up, but what about the massive industrialisation of the Far East? Do you have any data for global aerosol concentration, or are you just guessing?
 
Surface Detail said:
Moving on from your blunder with regard to the sign of the aerosol forcing, what makes you think that global aerosol concentration was higher in 1975 than today? Sure, Europe and North America have cleaned their acts up, but what about the massive industrialisation of the Far East? Do you have any data for global aerosol concentration, or are you just guessing?
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Studies in optical depth show a decrease in recent decades.
Variability of aerosol optical depth and Angstrom wavelength exponent derived from AERONET observations in recent decades - IOPscience
 
Media_Truth said:
Record-shattering temperatures are scorching much of Europe this week as searing heat from North Africa overspreads the normally mild continent.

Germany broke its all-time heat record for June on Wednesday when the temperature soared to 101.5 degrees in Coschen, which is about 65 miles southeast of Berlin, according to the German meteorological service.

Authorities in Germany also imposed speed limits on some autobahns amid fears of buckling road surfaces, and some French schools stayed closed as a precaution.

Both Poland (100.8 degrees) and the Czech Republic (102) also set June high temperatures on Wednesday.
...
The heat wave in Europe follows extreme heat episodes in Australia, India, Pakistan and parts of the Middle East in 2019, the World Meteorological Organization said.

Globally, extreme heat events are responsible for more deaths annually than hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined, a study in American Journal of Preventative Medicine said.

Even more concerning is that Europe's five hottest summers since 1500 have all been in the 21st century, according to a climatology institute in Potsdam, Germany, the BBC said.

Europe heat wave: Record-shattering heat bakes most of Europe
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Another single or few days of a heatwave wailing, that have happened many times in the past. Here is this quote from the article that EXPLAINS the cause of the heatwave:

“Europe is currently under a historically strong upper ridge,” Mika Rantanen, a meteorologist in Finland, said Wednesday. According to the Capital Weather Gang, an upper ridge is the technical term for an extensive zone of high pressure or heat dome.
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Meanwhile this statement is unsupported:

Even more concerning is that Europe's five hottest summers since 1500 have all been in the 21st century, according to a climatology institute in Potsdam, Germany, the BBC said.
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In my city the TWO biggest heat waves occurred in the early 1970's right in the middle of a sustained "global cooling" trend that had been going on for 25 years.

1970 21 consecutive days of 100 + degrees F days.

1971 17 Consecutive days of 100 + degrees F days, that reached 113 for an all time record high that has since NEVER been broken. That is almost 48 years!

The States All time high was in 1961 of 118 degrees F, which was during the global cooling period. That is almost 58 years!

You didn't prove anything that support the already dead AGW conjecture.
 
ataraxia said:
Says who?

Certainly not anyone who has spent any time studying the subject.
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Given your constant failure to describe how the expected warming will in any way cause any significant problem anywhere in the world for any significant population at all I consider you to have supplied, by this failure, ample evidence that there is no problem.
 
Surface Detail said:
In northeastern North American and in Western Europe, yes. But we know that anyway. Why did you miss out this important qualifier?
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The cited link had samples from around the world,
Figure 1. Linear trend for AOD at 440 nm and AWE (per decade). The blue and red circles represent that the trends are negative and positive, respectively.
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it is a bit subjective, but there looks to more blue than red.
 
longview said:
The cited link had samples from around the world,

it is a bit subjective, but there looks to more blue than red.
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Did you also notice that measurement series all started in the 1990s and 2000s? None of them existed in 1975, so this paper cannot possibly tell you whether aerosols have increased since then or not!
 
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[h=1]How Cold Air Caused a Heatwave[/h][FONT=&quot]Guest Post from Jim Steele From What’s Natural? Column published in Pacifica Tribune June 26, 2019 I was recently asked if the record June 2019 heat in the San Francisco Bay Area validated CO2 driven climate models. Surprisingly climate scientists have now demonstrated the heat wave was largely due to an intrusion of record cold…
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Sunsettommy said:
Another single or few days of a heatwave wailing, that have happened many times in the past. Here is this quote from the article that EXPLAINS the cause of the heatwave:



Meanwhile this statement is unsupported:



In my city the TWO biggest heat waves occurred in the early 1970's right in the middle of a sustained "global cooling" trend that had been going on for 25 years.

1970 21 consecutive days of 100 + degrees F days.

1971 17 Consecutive days of 100 + degrees F days, that reached 113 for an all time record high that has since NEVER been broken. That is almost 48 years!

The States All time high was in 1961 of 118 degrees F, which was during the global cooling period. That is almost 58 years!

You didn't prove anything that support the already dead AGW conjecture.
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Playing-down the situation does not make it go away. Numerous areas have cited record temperatures.

Intense Heat Wave Hits Europe and Smashes Records | PEOPLE.com

Multiple all-time records in Western Europe have been broken as temperatures in Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland soared past 100 degrees Fahrenheit this month, placing many in the region at risk of conditions such as heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
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Temperature-related records in Austria, France, Spain and Switzerland have also been broken for June, according to The Weather Channel.
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As the Weather Channel reports, a 2004 study led by the University of Reading found that climate change, spurred on my humans, will make heat waves, like the one that killed thousands in Europe in 2003, four times more likely to happen.
 
Media_Truth said:
Playing-down the situation does not make it go away. Numerous areas have cited record temperatures.

Intense Heat Wave Hits Europe and Smashes Records | PEOPLE.com

Multiple all-time records in Western Europe have been broken as temperatures in Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland soared past 100 degrees Fahrenheit this month, placing many in the region at risk of conditions such as heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
...
Temperature-related records in Austria, France, Spain and Switzerland have also been broken for June, according to The Weather Channel.
...
As the Weather Channel reports, a 2004 study led by the University of Reading found that climate change, spurred on my humans, will make heat waves, like the one that killed thousands in Europe in 2003, four times more likely to happen.
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I think many here are old enough to remember when Acid rain was threatening many old structures in Europe,
JSTOR: Access Check
We have managed to limit many sources of SO2 and slowed the problem.
Should we be surprised, that a clearer atmosphere, allows more sunlight to reach the ground?
 
longview said:
I think many here are old enough to remember when Acid rain was threatening many old structures in Europe,
JSTOR: Access Check
We have managed to limit many sources of SO2 and slowed the problem.
Should we be surprised, that a clearer atmosphere, allows more sunlight to reach the ground?
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That would be aerosols in the following graphic. You can see there is some effect (cooling and subsequent warming), but greenhouse gases are the primary driver...

AR5 Radiative forcing_Fig8.15_Pg697.JPG
 
Media_Truth said:
Record-shattering temperatures are scorching much of Europe this week as searing heat from North Africa overspreads the normally mild continent.

Germany broke its all-time heat record for June on Wednesday when the temperature soared to 101.5 degrees in Coschen, which is about 65 miles southeast of Berlin, according to the German meteorological service.

Authorities in Germany also imposed speed limits on some autobahns amid fears of buckling road surfaces, and some French schools stayed closed as a precaution.

Both Poland (100.8 degrees) and the Czech Republic (102) also set June high temperatures on Wednesday.
...
The heat wave in Europe follows extreme heat episodes in Australia, India, Pakistan and parts of the Middle East in 2019, the World Meteorological Organization said.

Globally, extreme heat events are responsible for more deaths annually than hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined, a study in American Journal of Preventative Medicine said.

Even more concerning is that Europe's five hottest summers since 1500 have all been in the 21st century, according to a climatology institute in Potsdam, Germany, the BBC said.

Europe heat wave: Record-shattering heat bakes most of Europe
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And the left believes it is caused, solely, by man and wishes to use this approach to monitor and control climate change.:lamo
 
Media_Truth said:
That would be aerosols in the following graphic. You can see there is some effect (cooling and subsequent warming), but greenhouse gases are the primary driver...

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If the assumptions for all of the above are correct!
Remember none of this is actually based on empirical measurements.
 
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