NASA Says Hotter Summers Since 1980 Caused by Global Warming: Is Global Warming Man-Made?

by mrosen814 Posted 2012/08/07 21:00:00

Related Topics: Nasa, Global Warming, Space, Heat, Summer, Heat Wave, Hot

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The study leader from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, James Hansen, as well as researchers Makiko Sato and Reto Ruedy, have concluded that U.S. summer heat waves (mainly in the Midwest) "have become the norm over the last 30 years compared to a base period 30 years before 1980 -- and it's because of global warming." Do you agree with NASA? You can read more about the study by clicking the 'DAILYTECH.COM' link below.

DAILYTECH.COM reports:
Hotter summers have become the norm from 1980 to present compared to 1951 to 1980 (the base period)

reports hotter summers norm 1980 compared 1951 1980 base period

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Kigan 2012/08/07 22:04:50 (edited)

No

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The same cycle of heating and cooling the planet has gone through for years.

Your comparing two 30 year periods. It's the same moronic crap as local weather people calling 105 degree the hottest day ever in Georgia, yet when I was a kid I remember it hitting at least that much. Anyone that has lived her long enough remembers it.

Yet all the same they play on the hope that you have a short term memory.
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Deborah... to Allbiz ... 2012/08/08 23:00:16

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Right!

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lee to Kigan 2012/08/08 01:11:58

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what if you're wrong?

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Ballade... to lee 2012/08/08 02:09:41

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what if you socialists are? will you give back our property and our rights?

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to Kigan 2012/08/08 02:57:44 (edited)

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No it's not moronic crap. Just because you see the stupidity in your area, the climate, and the effects of it in your area, that doesn't make it universal. There has been several changes in th polar ice caps that don't normally happen. If you were there and did research on them you wouldn't be saying this. Deforestations, chemical fertilizers, massive crop failures, extinctions, and most importantly Carbon Dioxide emissions; all PROOF of global warming.

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JP to 2012/08/13 01:55:59

I thought you guys renamed it to "climate change" after your doctored emails leaked out?

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Osk The... to Kigan 2012/08/08 03:37:15

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Do you have scientific proof or are you doing your own observation to come up with this conclusion?

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aneed2know to Kigan 2012/08/08 05:02:31

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and you can show this how, can you site any credible sources? Or are you just guessing?

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JP to aneed2know 2012/08/13 01:54:50

A lot of us don't consider Al Gore credible!

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aneed2know to JP 2012/08/13 04:24:13

okay and you should not, i am talking about scientist.

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Grandbr... to Kigan 2012/08/08 05:14:07

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Have you not considered the likelihood that human behavior has exacerbated the naturally occurring temperature fluctuations you refer to?

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Lakota ... to Kigan 2012/08/08 08:04:51

NASA must be wrong then about global warming, those nuckleheads. I'd put much more faith in someone who says what they remember what the climate was when they were a kid because thats waay more scientific and believable than some scientists that can put someone in space.

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Manwë to Kigan 2012/08/08 08:10:02

So in the past, volcanoes, etc have done it. This time is human activity so we can do something about it.

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Elaine ... to Manwë 2012/08/09 15:52:58

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Why don't all you LOONS get together and breath out really fast and see if you can effect the weather AT ALL...

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Manwë to Elaine ... 2012/08/10 04:20:07

Seems that someone else may have the hot air.

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Deborah... to Kigan 2012/08/08 21:29:49

That's exactly right. History is merely repeating itself. Intense, extended heatwaves existed in Biblical times, and there are stories and songs about them from the 1800's.

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SimianSays to Kigan 2012/08/09 04:33:53

it's like when they trace a wildfire back to a person who threw a lit cigarette or had a campfire in the middle of a fire ban because of the long, dry spell. how ridiculous? forest fires have been happening for a long time before people.
NO!!!! That makes too much sense. That is exactly what is happening. Humans are exacerbating the cycle. Wake up MOSTLY white people!!!! You are the best at denial! White people are MASTERs of DENIAL!!! You make me sick!

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LittleS... to Kigan 2012/08/09 22:46:43 (edited)

So, 50 years of industrial pollutants being pumped into the land, the sea and the air, at an exponential rate, has nothing to do with anything?

Do you really think the business leaders care more about the environment more than they do about money?

Don't you think we could all be a bit more intelligent about our waste?

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Warren - Novus Ordo Seclorum 2012/08/07 22:02:31

Yes

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Incontrovertible evidence says yes. Politics and wishful thinking is no match for the laws of physics.

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jere.ch... to Warren ... 2012/08/07 22:16:18

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There have been cycles like this Thousands of years not 30.

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Warren ... to jere.ch... 2012/08/07 22:18:09

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No, not like this one. The experiment humans are now doing with the atmosphere has never been done in the history of mankind.

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to Warren ... 2012/08/26 06:57:38

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Couldn't have said it better.

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Swordfish 2012/08/07 22:01:25

No

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It's the Earth's natural cycle of heating and cooling. This has happened many times before. Derp.

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Son of Furious 2012/08/07 22:00:04

No

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I blame Halle Berry personally, but you don't hear me complaining!

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Happy 2012/08/07 21:59:16

No

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It is natural, however we might be speeding it up a bit.

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American Girl 2012/08/07 21:57:22

No

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No

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Katie1234 2012/08/07 21:20:33

No

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global warming is crap made up by Al Gore so he could have a better chance at winning the election. heh, look at what happened....

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tom to Katie1234 2012/08/07 22:29:37

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Al Gore didn't come up with global warming, in fact I don't even consider him an influence. How do you even think he made that up?

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Katie1234 to tom 2012/08/07 23:07:07

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i think he was in a struggle in his campaign and he made it up to get more voters. look at how many raves on my comment compared to yours. then again it's a theory. fox news even managed to state (based of a study on the equator) that the scientists involved with global warming have not been checking the eqautor and the equator has been increasing temps over centuries.

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tom to Katie1234 2012/08/07 23:14:18

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How could Al Gore have made up global warming to get more voters when global warming was around before that?
Do you realize that makes no sense?
Also Fox News isn't exactly a credible news source, its pretty funny you even bring them up.

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Katie1234 to tom 2012/08/07 23:17:40 (edited)

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cause he FREAKING MADE IT UP! r u honestly blind? that's why i said that! he made global warming up. fox news is better than Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap and CNN. hey, they might tie Obama for the number of lies told. hehe. i'm starting to think you don't understand anything there... hey, when have liberals understood anything? that's right NEVER...

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tom to Katie1234 2012/08/07 23:23:03

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I'm sure you don't want to think of yourself as some sort of crazed conspiracy theorist, but thats what you're making yourself out to be...
The fact is, what you're saying does not make sense. Period.
Al Gore did not make up global warming to get more voters, global warming theories were around BEFORE Al Gore.

Is Al Gore a time traveler? Or maybe he saw into the future, saw that he would be doing badly in the election (which he actually wasn't) and then decided, "Alright, i'm going to make up global warming so that in the future I can make a film about it and get more voters!"

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Katie1234 to tom 2012/08/07 23:30:42

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he made it up, and i hate to say it but, you are uneducated. even a moron could understand this. do you even watch the news? i think you make up crap as you go. save yourself and watch news, please.

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lurx: t... to Katie1234 2012/08/07 23:41:38

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Katie1234 to lurx: t... 2012/08/07 23:47:45

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haha whatever. i blocked tom because i was sick of his liberal b.s. it was clear he had no arguement. hey actually, tom and lurx., liberals are the FIRST to block me. go figure. they wanna whine a cry to themselves.

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lurx: t... to Katie1234 2012/08/07 23:52:21

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Katie1234 to lurx: t... 2012/08/07 23:55:10

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haha. nice try. but he's spilling out comments when he doesn't know what the heck he's talking about. hehe liberals. who am i kidding? they never know what they are talking about. then, when us conservatives state the facts liberals get all bent up cause they know conservatives are right and they stutter till they can think of something 2 say. hehe

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lurx: t... to lurx: t... 2012/08/07 23:58:54 (edited)

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"cause he FREAKING MADE IT UP!"

History of climate change science

Climate change scientific consensus begins development, 1980-1988

James Hansen during his 1988 testimony to Congress, which alerted the public to the dangers of global warming.

By the early 1980s, the slight cooling trend from 1945-1975 had stopped. Aerosol pollution had decreased in many areas due to environmental legislation and changes in fuel use, and it became clear that the cooling effect from aerosols was not going to increase substantially while carbon dioxide levels were progressively increasing.

In 1985 a joint UNEP/WMO/ICSU Conference on the "Assessment of the Role of Carbon Dioxide and Other Greenhouse Gases in Climate Variations and Associated Impacts" assessed the role of carbon dioxide and aerosols in the atmosphere, and concluded that greenhouse gases "are expected" to cause significant warming in the next century and that some warming is inevitable. In June 1988, James E. Hansen made one of the first assessments that human-caused warming had already measurably affected global climate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

...yeah, right.

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\V/ to lurx: t... 2012/08/08 08:01:58

$\V/$

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Awesome! Yeah I agree 100%.

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Katie1234 to \V/ 2012/08/08 23:50:03

you idiot.

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\V/ to Katie1234 2012/08/08 23:51:54

$\V/$

Thats eggsactly what you are.

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