https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/19/3215-high-temperature-records-broken-or-tied-in-the-us/ Sat, 29 Dec 2012 10:24:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/19/3215-high-temperature-records-broken-or-tied-in-the-us/#comment-493896 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 10:24:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=12871#comment-493896 […] 3,215 high-temperature records broken or tied in the US [Greg Laden's Blog] (scienceblogs.com) […]

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/19/3215-high-temperature-records-broken-or-tied-in-the-us/#comment-493895 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:42:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=12871#comment-493895 I sympathize with McKibben. I’ve done my fair share of screaming at people who pushed the Hollywood scenarios and even those who pushed the “more common and more severe extreme weather events” when there was no evidence for it. I said way back then that the claims were not only absolutely dishonest and not supported by existing data and analyses, but the real problem was most likely to be gradually increasing crop failure due to increasing temperatures. Sure farmers can ‘just switch crops’ – but who the hell can survive on a diet of, say, alfalfa every day? A marine biologist colleague of mine back then once said “I couldn’t care less if global warming were true or not, it doesn’t matter for me because the increasing acidity of shallow water systems is going to wipe out a large and very important food resource”. Between the crop failure which is absolutely guaranteed by rising temperatures and the dying marine (and maybe also freshwater) ecosystems currently observed with increasing dissolved CO2, we’ve got a huge problem brewing which scares the shit out of me more than any stupid Hollywood movie.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/19/3215-high-temperature-records-broken-or-tied-in-the-us/#comment-493894 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:57:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=12871#comment-493894 Actually, you can do better than tie if you measure the stuff that we measure beyond rainfall. For instance, ground water levels, veg dryness, etc. So this June (or some other june) could be dryer than some other rain-free June.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/19/3215-high-temperature-records-broken-or-tied-in-the-us/#comment-493893 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:40:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=12871#comment-493893 Jim: It’s only a record if it’s recorded.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/19/3215-high-temperature-records-broken-or-tied-in-the-us/#comment-493892 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:31:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=12871#comment-493892 My place received no rain during June. This was not a new record, but ties the record lack of rainfall in June, which has occurred an estimated 376, 845 times during the last 100 million years (made up numbers of course). I had just realized that it is not possible to set a new record for driest June at my place, but only to tie previous records.

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