Father Hasil Cocteau, SJ » Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:01 pm wrote:Huge hailstones fell on Bethune, Colorado, USA today. One stone was reliably measured at over 5 inches long, a state record. The storm track was over 100 miles but the largest hail was in the vicinity of bethune.
Slushy » Thu Aug 15, 2019 6:15 am wrote:Father Hasil Cocteau, SJ » Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:01 pm wrote:Huge hailstones fell on Bethune, Colorado, USA today. One stone was reliably measured at over 5 inches long, a state record. The storm track was over 100 miles but the largest hail was in the vicinity of bethune.
I've been to Bethune in Northern France. It was sunny.
Father Hasil Cocteau, SJ; » Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:28 pm wrote:Hurricane Dorian stalled over the Bahamas for 36 hours as a Class 5. Sustained winds at one point reached 185 mph with gusts to 220 mph.
Searching has just begun but it appears thousands may have died and over 50,000 are homeless. No effort was made to evacuate the poor to safer areas.
Father Hasil Cocteau, SJ; » Sat Sep 07, 2019 10:57 pm wrote:Storms of all types when the develop, are stronger and more intense. Pinning any single one to climate change is impossible but these events are in the models the include CO2 over 400 and Methane and Nitrous Oxide - two other greenhouse gases - are at record levels for the past 800,000 years.
The disruption of 8 earth systems is real and hundreds of earth scientists have been documenting the changes. The Anthropocene Working group of the UN has just voted to accept the Anthropocene as replacing the Holocene and the geologist have found evidence in the geologic record that approx 1950 is the best year. Radionucleotides that only come from above-ground A-bomb explosions and a worldwide soot layer have been proposed as the marker[s].
The Vostok ice core from Antarctica goes back 800,000 years and Greenland ice cores almost as long and both show the chemical composition of the atmosphere over time. The Great Acceleration began after WW2 when the USA was the only imperial power left intact and the grasp of its economic system throughout the world is the driver of the metabolic disruptions. For instance, dead zones at river deltas and in lakes and slow moving rivers is a result of the misuse of nitrogen fertilizers which only came into existence just priot to WW1.
In The North » Sun Sep 08, 2019 7:17 am wrote:Father Hasil Cocteau, SJ; » Sat Sep 07, 2019 10:57 pm wrote:Storms of all types when the develop, are stronger and more intense. Pinning any single one to climate change is impossible but these events are in the models the include CO2 over 400 and Methane and Nitrous Oxide - two other greenhouse gases - are at record levels for the past 800,000 years.
The disruption of 8 earth systems is real and hundreds of earth scientists have been documenting the changes. The Anthropocene Working group of the UN has just voted to accept the Anthropocene as replacing the Holocene and the geologist have found evidence in the geologic record that approx 1950 is the best year. Radionucleotides that only come from above-ground A-bomb explosions and a worldwide soot layer have been proposed as the marker[s].
The Vostok ice core from Antarctica goes back 800,000 years and Greenland ice cores almost as long and both show the chemical composition of the atmosphere over time. The Great Acceleration began after WW2 when the USA was the only imperial power left intact and the grasp of its economic system throughout the world is the driver of the metabolic disruptions. For instance, dead zones at river deltas and in lakes and slow moving rivers is a result of the misuse of nitrogen fertilizers which only came into existence just priot to WW1.
A simple yes or no would have sufficed.
Father Hasil Cocteau, SJ; » Sun Sep 08, 2019 1:46 pm wrote:Well dannynogametes, it's not a question that can be answered with a "yes" or a "no."
Father Hasil Cocteau, SJ; » Sun Sep 08, 2019 12:46 pm wrote:Well dannynogametes, it's not a question that can be answered with a "yes" or a "no."