Top Climate Stories of 2012 – Greg Laden's Blog
many of the items listed here were indeed global, such as extreme heat and extreme cold caused by meteorological changes linked to warming...
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The following people contributed to this effort: Angela Fritz, Eli Rabett, Emilee Pierce, Gareth Renowden, Greg Laden, Joe Romm, John Abraham, Laurence Lewis, Leo Hickman, Michael Mann, Michael Tobis, Paul Douglas, Scott Mandia, Scott Brophy, Stephan Lewandowsky, and Tenney Naumer.
1 Super Storm Sandy
Super Storm Sandy, a hybrid of Hurricane Sandy (and very much a true hurricane up to and beyond its landfall in the Greater New York/New Jersey area) was an important event for several reasons. First, the size and strength of the storm bore the hallmarks of global warming enhancement. Second, its very unusual trajectory was caused by a climatic configuration that was almost certainly the result of global warming.
...2012 is one of the warmest years since the Age of the Dinosaurs
17 Biodiversity is mostly down…
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18 Unusual Jet Stream Configuration and related changes to general climate patterns…
Many of us who contributed to this list feel that this is potentially the most important of all of the stories, partly because it ties together several other events. Also, it may be that a change in the air currents caused by global warming represents a fundamental yet poorly understood shift in climate patterns. The steering of Hurricane Sandy into the New York and New Jersey metro areas, the extreme killer cold in Eastern Europe and Russia, the “year without a Spring” and the very mild winters, dome of the features of drought, and other effects may be “the new normal” owing to a basic shift in how air currents are set up in a high-CO2 world. This December, as we compile this list, this effect has caused extreme cold in Eastern Europe and Russia as well as floods in the UK and unusually warm conditions in France. As of this writing well over 200 people have died in the Ukraine, Poland and Russia from cold conditions.
...the Heartland Institute, which never was really that big, is now no longer a factor in the climate change discussion.
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2 comments:
I'm surprised Richard Windsor wasn't on the team.
They're dweebs and dinks who are alone with their computers over the holiday season - no invites to parties, nothign better to do. Even the hippy chicks that coo in their ears are home at their mom and dads. They're lonely and this is how they get their jollies. Lemon
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