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It's interesting to see that, starting in roughly 1990, the temperature seems to break away from its previous range. It looks so dire. Temperature increases see

It's interesting to see that, starting in roughly 1990, the temperature seems to break away from its previous range. It looks so dire. Temperature increases seem to be accelerating.

ChristianGeek 10y ago
I noticed that too. My question is, why then?
- xigency 10y ago
  There's a feedback loop to increasing greenhouse gases and increasing temperature.
  - allendoerfer 10y ago
    For example trees being burned (at a faster rate than they would die naturally and regrow) resulting in less trees to bind CO2. The opposite is also true: Algae in oceans grow when temperatures rise, binding CO2.
    - jlewis7272 10y ago
      I think the fact that we don't look at our solar system as a whole instead of trying to isolate data to "prove we are doing this" is indicative of politics corrupting science. We need to get back to pure science and forget about trying to force this country or that country to do something, namely force it's citizens to pay a tax that fixes nothing. http://www.space.news/2015-10-06-entire-solar-system-is-heating-up-scientists-blame-solar-warming.html http://www.space.news/2015-10-06-entire-solar-system-is-heat...
      - mikeash 10y ago
        "Many scientists suspect that the solar system has migrated to a region of the galaxy with high energy." Can't tell if satire or hippies.
        user5994461 10y ago
        It could be science. The solar system is moving at 230 km/s after all. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_year
        mikeash 10y ago
        It's not the movement that triggers that, but rather the "with high energy" part. It makes no sense in context, and the hippies I know love to use "energy" in nonsensical ways.
- skrowl 10y ago
  The actual answer is that NASA has been cooking the books to make it look like it's accelerating to fit their agenda by editing current stuff UP and older stuff DOWN. http://realclimatescience.com/2016/08/the-history-of-temperature-history/ http://realclimatescience.com/2016/08/the-history-of-tempera... (All links and charts are cited) EDIT - Since climate alarmism is somewhat of a religion now, I anticipated the "OMG CONSPIRACY THEORY!" stuff, which is why I mentioned that all links and charts are cited. They all lead back to nasa.gov or archive.org of nasa.gov, proving NASA is lying using their own data. At least check out the link I provided before you dismiss it. If it's too much for you to believe a crazy conspiracy theory site, here's just a chart of NASA's cooked GIS data vs RSS (more accurate satellite data): http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss-land/from:1997.5/mean:60/offset:0.33/plot/gistemp-dts/from:1997.5/mean:60/plot/rss-land/from:1997.5/mean:60/offset:0.33/trend/plot/gistemp-dts/from:1997.5/mean:60/trend http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss-land/from:1997.5/mean:6... . It's literally just a graph, no crazy conspiracy here.
  - hood_syntax 10y ago
    Nice conspiracy theory site.
  - Oletros 10y ago
    The actual answer is that that page is a joke and full of lies They even still are talking about Obama being Kenyan http://realclimatescience.com/2016/09/who-was-the-first-birther/ http://realclimatescience.com/2016/09/who-was-the-first-birt... Really?
  - strommen 10y ago
    For anybody who cares - the first iteration of temperature data supporting the 1940-70 cooldown period included only latitudes from 20 to 90 degrees North. When equatorial and southern-hemisphere data become available, it showed the cooling was less than previously thought. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GISSTemperature/giss_temperature2.php http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GISSTemperature/gi...
  - Oletros 10y ago
    > here's just a chart of NASA's cooked GIS data vs RSS Or how to show that you don't know anything about that And you talk about religion?
gregschlom 10y ago
Because of the exponential growth of humanity along with cars and CO2 emissions. We're a direct cause of the temperature rises, and exponentially more of us means accelerating growth. See also this xkcd comic for a great visualization of this: xkcd.com/1727/
- 24gttghh 10y ago
  I think you mean #1732.
- mikeash 10y ago
  Here's what CO2 emissions look like over the last 50 years or so: http://johannes-friedrich.com/emissions/e-reg.htm http://johannes-friedrich.com/emissions/e-reg.htm There's a pretty big increase since 1990, mostly driven by growth in Asia (which in turn is mostly due to the huge economic growth in China and India, I imagine).

It's interesting to see that, starting in roughly 1990, the temperature seems to break away from its previous range. It looks so dire. Temperature increases seem to be accelerating.

ChristianGeek 10y ago

I noticed that too. My question is, why then?

xigency 10y ago
There's a feedback loop to increasing greenhouse gases and increasing temperature.
- allendoerfer 10y ago
  For example trees being burned (at a faster rate than they would die naturally and regrow) resulting in less trees to bind CO2. The opposite is also true: Algae in oceans grow when temperatures rise, binding CO2.
  - jlewis7272 10y ago
    I think the fact that we don't look at our solar system as a whole instead of trying to isolate data to "prove we are doing this" is indicative of politics corrupting science. We need to get back to pure science and forget about trying to force this country or that country to do something, namely force it's citizens to pay a tax that fixes nothing. http://www.space.news/2015-10-06-entire-solar-system-is-heating-up-scientists-blame-solar-warming.html http://www.space.news/2015-10-06-entire-solar-system-is-heat...
    - mikeash 10y ago
      "Many scientists suspect that the solar system has migrated to a region of the galaxy with high energy." Can't tell if satire or hippies.
      - user5994461 10y ago
        It could be science. The solar system is moving at 230 km/s after all. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_year
        mikeash 10y ago
        It's not the movement that triggers that, but rather the "with high energy" part. It makes no sense in context, and the hippies I know love to use "energy" in nonsensical ways.
skrowl 10y ago
The actual answer is that NASA has been cooking the books to make it look like it's accelerating to fit their agenda by editing current stuff UP and older stuff DOWN. http://realclimatescience.com/2016/08/the-history-of-temperature-history/ http://realclimatescience.com/2016/08/the-history-of-tempera... (All links and charts are cited) EDIT - Since climate alarmism is somewhat of a religion now, I anticipated the "OMG CONSPIRACY THEORY!" stuff, which is why I mentioned that all links and charts are cited. They all lead back to nasa.gov or archive.org of nasa.gov, proving NASA is lying using their own data. At least check out the link I provided before you dismiss it. If it's too much for you to believe a crazy conspiracy theory site, here's just a chart of NASA's cooked GIS data vs RSS (more accurate satellite data): http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss-land/from:1997.5/mean:60/offset:0.33/plot/gistemp-dts/from:1997.5/mean:60/plot/rss-land/from:1997.5/mean:60/offset:0.33/trend/plot/gistemp-dts/from:1997.5/mean:60/trend http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss-land/from:1997.5/mean:6... . It's literally just a graph, no crazy conspiracy here.
- hood_syntax 10y ago
  Nice conspiracy theory site.
- Oletros 10y ago
  The actual answer is that that page is a joke and full of lies They even still are talking about Obama being Kenyan http://realclimatescience.com/2016/09/who-was-the-first-birther/ http://realclimatescience.com/2016/09/who-was-the-first-birt... Really?
- strommen 10y ago
  For anybody who cares - the first iteration of temperature data supporting the 1940-70 cooldown period included only latitudes from 20 to 90 degrees North. When equatorial and southern-hemisphere data become available, it showed the cooling was less than previously thought. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GISSTemperature/giss_temperature2.php http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GISSTemperature/gi...
- Oletros 10y ago
  > here's just a chart of NASA's cooked GIS data vs RSS Or how to show that you don't know anything about that And you talk about religion?

gregschlom 10y ago

Because of the exponential growth of humanity along with cars and CO2 emissions. We're a direct cause of the temperature rises, and exponentially more of us means accelerating growth. See also this xkcd comic for a great visualization of this: xkcd.com/1727/

24gttghh 10y ago
I think you mean #1732.
mikeash 10y ago
Here's what CO2 emissions look like over the last 50 years or so: http://johannes-friedrich.com/emissions/e-reg.htm http://johannes-friedrich.com/emissions/e-reg.htm There's a pretty big increase since 1990, mostly driven by growth in Asia (which in turn is mostly due to the huge economic growth in China and India, I imagine).