More Proof That Climate Change IS Here - NOAA Does Not Lie!

Here is a clip from NOAA - the National Weather Service outlining what we are in for... A much warmer world. This means more violent storms, droughts, and less crops due to destruction. How are we going to feed all these people that result from senseless breeding?

http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/video/2012/may-oh-my-unusual-heat-for-the-u-s

By - Deke Arndt, Chief of the Climate Monitoring Branch, National Climatic Data Center.

The entire United States, from the Rockies east, was warmer than
normal for the first five months of 2012. And everywhere you see red on
this map, temperatures have been above normal. The darker the red, the
farther above normal those temperatures were. You can see, the Midwest
and upper Midwest were the epicenter of this vast warmth.

Climatologists like statistics and data, so I’m going to show you
some. Think about the average temperature on a day. Beginning on January
1st, then the 2nd, then the 3rd… that’s a three-day average
temperature. When we do this from January 1st to the current day, we
call that a “year-to-date average temperature”.

Here’s some year-to-date average temperature data for Des Moines,
Iowa. This graph shows the range of the averages for the past 73 years
at Des Moines, from January 1st through May 31st. The upper boundary
shows the hottest average year-to-date temperature for all of those
years, and the bottom shows the coolest. In other words, all 73 years
worth of data at Des Moines fit inside this grey envelope.

As the year progresses, the temperature settles into a more narrow
range since more and more days are averaged together. Here’s the 2012
average temperature. It’s not just above average. It’s blowing the
entire record away. Des Moines shows just how different this year has
been from previous years.

All of our systems, whether they’re agriculture, or horticulture,
water management, or energy, they’ve been tuned to play within this
range, this grey envelope. And when temperatures go outside that range,
it really stresses those systems. For example, the warmth that developed
so early in the 2012 growing season… it promoted an early emergence of
agriculture and horticulture… and also the pests and the weeds that
plague them. The relentless heat started that annual battle between
crops and weeds much earlier than usual this year, which means farmers
take on higher costs earlier in the growing season.

This warmth is an example of what we would expect to see more often
in a warming world. Understanding that the United States and the rest of
the planet are warming along with preparing for eventualities like this
is one way our nation can become climate smart.

For climate.gov, I’m Deke Arndt.