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originally posted by: JameSimon
a reply to: Masterjaden
Let's not discuss the unprecedented heatwave that is plaguing Europe with temperatures reaching north of 40° Celsius. Let's ignore that all temperature records are being beaten when we're on a solar minimum. Let's ignore that countries like Ireland, which usually gets a couple of weeks of summer, actually got more than 2 weeks of summer. Or that countries like Sweden got to 30° Celsius.
originally posted by: [post=23654334]JameSimon
Let's not discuss the unprecedented heatwave that is plaguing Europe with temperatures reaching north of 40° Celsius.
originally posted by: [post=23654334]JameSimon
Let's ignore that all temperature records are being beaten when we're on a solar minimum.
originally posted by: [post=23654334]JameSimon
Let's ignore that countries like Ireland, which usually gets a couple of weeks of summer, actually got more than 2 weeks of summer. Or that countries like Sweden got to 30° Celsius.
originally posted by: atsgrounded
Just a small sample of this fact based look at CO2 levels and how ice cores are used to show historic levels of the gas and how they are more than likely not accurate. Pressures that old ice samples are exposed to can dissolve CO2 into surrounding ice, making the ice cores not reliable.
One of these reasons is that the ice-core does not fulfill the closed-system criteria and various fractionation processes can distort the original gases encased within the ice. Some of these processes include gravitational compression which forces CO2 out of the ice over millennia and also the formation of clathrates which can cause the ice to crack as it’s decompressed resulting in the contamination of the original gas concentrations within the ice. Additionally, different extraction methods yield different results. The wet-extraction method depicts CO2 as high as 900ppmv, whereas the dry-extraction method shows much lower concentrations (Jaworowski 1992: A Critical Review). Also measurements of CO2 within the surface-snow, in Antarctica, have been shown to contain a “50% lower CO2 content than the ambient atmosphere” (Jaworowski 1992: A Critical Review). Stomata proxy and chemical CO2 measurements both show more variability than the ice-core with atmospheric CO2 as high as 459ppmv (Wagner et al 2002, Kurschner et al 1997 and Royer ey al 2001).
originally posted by: bronco73
originally posted by: [post=23654334]JameSimon
Let's not discuss the unprecedented heatwave that is plaguing Europe with temperatures reaching north of 40° Celsius.
Europe's worst heatwave was 2003. prior to that it was in 1757 where it was the hottest it had been in 5 centuries, followed closely by the one in 1540. This one is not even in the ballpark of "unprecedented".
originally posted by: [post=23654334]JameSimon
Let's ignore that all temperature records are being beaten when we're on a solar minimum.
We aren't at solar minimum, in fact NASA is predicting solar minimum will not occur until at least 2020.
science.nasa.gov...
originally posted by: [post=23654334]JameSimon
Let's ignore that countries like Ireland, which usually gets a couple of weeks of summer, actually got more than 2 weeks of summer. Or that countries like Sweden got to 30° Celsius.
Ireland's summer lasts 4 months, every single year.
Sweden's temperature records range up to 38 degrees Celsius, and of the 20 hottest temperatures ever recorded in Sweden, only one of them occurred after 1975 and even that was back in the 90's.
originally posted by: JameSimon
originally posted by: bronco73
originally posted by: [post=23654334]JameSimon
Let's not discuss the unprecedented heatwave that is plaguing Europe with temperatures reaching north of 40° Celsius.
Europe's worst heatwave was 2003. prior to that it was in 1757 where it was the hottest it had been in 5 centuries, followed closely by the one in 1540. This one is not even in the ballpark of "unprecedented".
originally posted by: [post=23654334]JameSimon
Let's ignore that all temperature records are being beaten when we're on a solar minimum.
We aren't at solar minimum, in fact NASA is predicting solar minimum will not occur until at least 2020.
science.nasa.gov...
originally posted by: [post=23654334]JameSimon
Let's ignore that countries like Ireland, which usually gets a couple of weeks of summer, actually got more than 2 weeks of summer. Or that countries like Sweden got to 30° Celsius.
Ireland's summer lasts 4 months, every single year.
Sweden's temperature records range up to 38 degrees Celsius, and of the 20 hottest temperatures ever recorded in Sweden, only one of them occurred after 1975 and even that was back in the 90's.
Ireland's summer lasts 4 months? You and I must have a very different definition of proper summer. No. Ireland's summer, with consistent temperatures over 20 degrees Celsius, lasts a couple of weeks per year, or a month. We had 3 months this year and severe drought. We also had consecutive 30 degree days this year. Multiple temperature records were beaten in Portugal and Spain. A single day with a peak temperature above the average doesn't mean the average hasn't increased.
Also, solar activity has been decreasing since 2014: science.nasa.gov...