Climate Change vs. The Blizzard

It’s disheartening to watch Rachel Maddow and Bill Nye (the Science Guy) have to explain the difference between the weather (a local, temporally short phenomenon) and the climate (a local or global, temporally long phenomenon). One storm does a trend make.

Here is the NASA paper referenced in the video above, with the critical images given below.

This color-coded interpretation of the GISS data was produced by NASA’s Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio as part of a long-term progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies, from 1881 to 2009. This frame represents global temperature anomalies averaged from 1999 to 2009. Dark red indicates the greatest warming and dark blue indicates the greatest cooling. Credit: SVS

As seen by the blue point farthest to the right on this graph, 2009 was the warmest year on record in the Southern Hemisphere. Image credit: NASA

~ by metousiosis on February 11, 2010.

One Response to “Climate Change vs. The Blizzard”

  1. What difference does any of this make? The corporation runs the show. Politics is a distraction for morons, rhetorical grafitti. Attack the corporation. Bring it down. Undermine it. Steal from it. Confuse it. Infiltrate it. Tie it up in knots. Agitate, protest, boycott, smash and destroy it. And if it won’t change, radically, then burn it down. Get rid of the corporation before it gets rid of us. It’s “IT” or us. One or the other. Attack the corporation on all fronts, with any means.
    TOG

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