Here we go again
Climate change: Major glaciers worldwide to disappear by 2050
Some of the world’s most famous glaciers, including in the Dolomites in Italy, the Yosemite and Yellowstone parks in the United States, and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, will disappear by 2050 because of global warming, whatever the temperature rise scenario, according to a UNESCO report.
The United Nations cultural agency UNESCO, which monitors some 18,600 glaciers across 50 of its World Heritage Sites, says one-third of those are set to disappear by 2050.
While the rest can be saved by keeping global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) relative to pre-industrial levels, in a business-as-usual emissions scenario, about 50 percent of these World Heritage glaciers could almost entirely disappear by 2100.
The study “shows these glaciers have been retreating at an accelerated rate since 2000 due to CO2 emissions, which are warming temperatures”, UNESCO said.
See, if you agree to pay taxes and give up your freedom and modern lifestyle we can save half of the glaciers. Which disappear during interglacial periods. And Holocene warm periods. It’s all about the fear mongering. But, hey, remember, this is all a science
Climate change forecasts more rainbows
Climate change will increase opportunities to see rainbows, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Hawai?i at M?noa. The study’s authors estimate that by 2100, the average land location on Earth will experience about 5% more days with rainbows than at the beginning of the 21st century. Northern latitudes and very high elevations, where warming is predicted to lead to less snow and more rain, will experience the greatest gains in rainbow occurrence. However, places with reduced rainfall under climate change—such as the Mediterranean—are projected to lose rainbow days.
So, more rainbows and less rainbows. How do they know?
A team including students at UH M?noa looked at photographs uploaded to Flickr, a social media platform where people share photographs. They sorted through tens of thousands of photos taken around the world, labeled with the word “rainbow,” to identify rainbows generated from the refraction of light by rain droplets.
Then, the scientists trained a rainbow prediction model based on rainbow photo locations and maps of precipitation, cloud cover and sun angle. Finally, they applied their model to predict present day and future rainbow occurrences over global land areas. The model suggests that islands are rainbow hotspots.
That’s it. That’s their scientific study. Looking at people’s photos of rainbows.
Didn’t Algore predict something similar in 2007? All Arctic ice was supposed to vanish by 2013. Still waiting for the North-West Passage…
yea, yea….heard the same thing several times before. glacers will be gone by 2000…errr, 2010…make that 2020…nope, new date, 2050.
you guys can’t ever, reliably, tell me if it is going to rain, and how much, next week, much less what the weather is going to be 30 years from now.
Predictions by Gore?
He is often misquoted by people Ed
He DID read from a report written by the US Navy that said that summer ice in the Arctic COULD be gone by as early as 2016
In fact, the lowest it has gone was down to”only” 88%” gone, not 100%
Ed,don’t put your words in others mouths. stop it!
Ed, why do you personally think the planet is warming? And why so quickly?
In the past scientists have attributed slow warming yo orbital axis changes or volcanic activity. Why is it warming at an increasing rate(dy/dx) now? If you have an alternative hypothesis rather than greenhouse gases, please let us all know. don’t keep it a secret
Science loves to be corrected, it is not dogma like religion
And of course the best place to get any scientific knowledge is in peer reviewed journal articles
Not from politicans like Gore, nor blogs like this.
Good scientists, such as Dr Roy Spenser of UALH who was often cited as a AGW denier here, now days that the vast majority of temp increases in the last 35 years have been caused by man (not by Mann!).
So any rebuttal of AGW by what Gore may or may not have said in 2007 is really a lame argument.
Politicians of both parties often make inaccurate statements about science.
Johnnie boy: Good scientists, such as Dr Roy Spenser of UALH who was often cited as a AGW denier here, now days that the vast majority of temp increases in the last 35 years have been caused by man (not by Mann!).
Uh, no he most certainly does not.
Please lay off the pipe before posting such drivel.
And praise Buddha.
Bwaha! Lolgf
Which is why Global Whining is a religion, not a science.
I don’t need to have an alternate theory to recognize that throwing a drowning man an anchor is not a good idea. Nice attempt on that strawman, though.
BTW, grammar and punctuation are your friends. Well, not yours, obviously, but in general.
Carbon offset likes to pretend that he hasn’t seen any alternate explanations for the warming. Must still be doing his bong before posting….
We’ve been through this before. Who remembers the Park Service having to replace all those signs in Glacier National Park saying that the glaciers would be gone by 2020? H\
Carbon Offset -don’t you remember what your Godfather James Hansen said? “The notion that renewable energy and batteries alone will provide all needed energy is fantastical. It’s a grotesque idea, because of the staggering environmental pollution from mining and material disposal….”
Heh! I remember it! They had to take it down, among hilarious laughter!
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