Added: Nov 7, 2011
From: drkstrong
Duration: 7:15
TODAY'S FEATURED VIDEO STATE OF THE CLIMATE: August 2011 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDU7tnUzy40 MY PLAYLISTS: Global Warming Quiz 1: http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=A4FE7F9615C4B7A1 Global Warming Quiz 2: http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=B3464AB11B92424D Other Climate Videos: http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=23062464433DE63C Other Solar Videos: http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=8D1845B15598D5A3 For more details go to my channel: www.youtube.com/user/drkstrong?feature=mhee Where you will find links to earlier editions of "THE SUN TODAY" as well as other solar related videos and a series of quiz questions and answers on global warming (sometimes with tongue firmly planted in cheek!). Enjoy! If you liked this video please vote thumbs up and pass it on to friends and relations who might find it interesting. Subscribe if you want to track daily updates. If there is something you did not like either leave a comment or send me a PM and let me know how I can improve the service. These videos are a hobby for a retired scientist; I receive no funding for them. Also check out the excellent NASA solar information and videos at: http://www.thesuntoday.org http://www.facebook.com/thesuntoday http://www.youtube.com/thesuntoday For up to the minute websites go to the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ Also an invaluable resource, often with interesting pictures at space weather.com A wonderful Magnetospheric Simulation can be found at: NICT, http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/home.html There is a wealth of information and background on the various satellite and observatory websites (and links therein), e.g., http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/beacon/beacon_secchi.shtml http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/mpeg/ http://www.nso.edu/ If you want to play with the data you MUST check out: http://helioviewer.org/ Want to find your own comets: http://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/
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drkstrong Says:
Nov 7, 2011 - Sorry forgot about the ranking. NOAA keeps a 131 year record of monthly ocean, land, and global temperatures. Each month is ranked by them being the (say) 5th warmest or 128th warmest and so on. So the competition is to guess for October what the ranking will be for each of those.
Valthepixie Says:
Nov 7, 2011 - climatechangedispatch (dot) com/home/9545-qdefinitiveq-global-warming-study-criticized-as-fraud
drkstrong Says:
Nov 7, 2011 - The Daily Mail is the source - gee I've never thought of that as a peer reviewed science journal. :)
drkstrong Says:
Nov 7, 2011 - @RehKurts Unfortunately in a few minutes I cant cover everything (plus it would be boring) The simple answer to modification of the weather is ...... ENERGY. It would take a huge amount of energy to realy affect the weather in any significant way - more energy than France produces with all its nuclear power stations combined to equal (thus influence) a small storm. A single hurricane releases over 200 times the worlds energy generation capabilty. We dont have enough power to even scare it!
drkstrong Says:
Nov 7, 2011 - @RehKurts Actually the butterfly affect works both ways. You can put a perturbation into the system and it can become randomized and thus nullified.
Valthepixie Says:
Nov 7, 2011 - It didn't come from the Daily Mail but from Professor Judith Curry at the Georgia Institute of Technology after peer reviewing the data used for the claimed confirmation of the continuing warming trend. Curry was on the team that prepared the paper, so had every opportunity to view the data first hand. She's basically a whistle blower. The climategate scandel was reported by the Daily Mail a few years back. I guess climategate scandal had better news coverage in Europe than the USA.
leebo2020 Says:
Nov 7, 2011 - @Kalohux i would like your opinion on this as well. seeing these trends makes me wonder how much is natural and how much is man related. if i had a guess id say man was involved. help us out doc
repawnd Says:
Nov 8, 2011 - If we cant affect the weather then how can we be blamed for global warming? You don't need to answer that, I'm just being cheeky :) Thanks for the videos, I really enjoy watching them.
seanturpin01 Says:
Nov 8, 2011 - What about manipulating the weather using ELF or ULF radio frequencies and "chemtrails"?
drkstrong Says:
Nov 8, 2011 - Just in case someone reads it. We are not beaming (HAARP) at the weather systems and chnaging them - that is the relevance of the energy arguement. By pouring Billions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere over decades we have chnaged the radiative balance of the atmosphere - the Sun provides a huge amount of energy to the earth (every second a 100 years worth of our energy production) change that even a little and it make a huge difference.
drkstrong Says:
Nov 8, 2011 - Radio wavelengths are the lowest energy electromagnetic radiation there is. Then they dont dissipate int he atmosphere so that is a lose, lose proposition. On chemtrails I have asked repeatedly for someone to show me a spectrum of one so we know what it is made of apart from CO2 and H2O (jet exhaust). Nobody can so we cant say what effect if any they would have.
drkstrong Says:
Nov 8, 2011 - @RehKurts One of our dearest friends is French and has a beautiful (sexxy) accent!
repawnd Says:
Nov 8, 2011 - Cant disagree with you there, although I do believe deforestation has contributed more to global warming than our CO2 emissions. Planting trees would be the cheapest and easiest way to prevent further warming, in my opinion.
706wilson Says:
Nov 8, 2011 - Hi Dr.Strong: great video but on the trivia ? #2 the island of Reunion, you say it had 78.6 in. of rain but on the screen it has the # 73.6. Not a big deal , maybe you were in a rush. On another matter I know you're busy so I guess the Planets Suite : Uranus won't be posted for a long while. Well Thanks for all you do,bye
drkstrong Says:
Nov 8, 2011 - If you calculate the area of the planet where trees will grow and you cut them down once they reached their prime and buried them in coam mines immediately. You would need about 150% of the arable land in the world to offset human emissions - ie there would be no land to grow any food (which is another way of solving the problem if a somewhat undesireable one form our point of view)
drkstrong Says:
Nov 8, 2011 - @RehKurts More planes and more moisture int he air makes for more contrails that last longer.
SSArt98 Says:
Nov 8, 2011 - Ahhh, I was hoping to come in 1st again but will take 2nd. Congrats to Sp33dyD3m0n! ~~ Will be back in the next few days to leave my predictions for October 2011 ~~~ Thanks for all your hard work Dr. Strong. ~~~~ Truth, Peace Love2ALL SSArt98
drkstrong Says:
Nov 8, 2011 - @RehKurts I dont have to show a spectrum, I am not making wild claims. In science you have to showevidence of a hypothesis to support it, so far I have seen none. Yet it would be so simple for the proponents to show from the spectral or scattered light profiles that this is not water vapour. The cant so I remain sceptical of those claims. The persistnace of a contrial is to do with wind patterns, air temperatures, and atmospheric moisture content
drkstrong Says:
Nov 8, 2011 - @RehKurts We tamper with the weather but keep it a secret yet everybody on the internet is talking about it. Does that make sense? No. Isnt the simplest explanation is that we dont yet know how to change the weather and arent (that does not mean people dont try but it is hard to get over that energy barrier)? The extreme weather we are seeing is due to global warming which is putting more energy and moisture into the atmosphere just as all the atmospheric models say it would.
drkstrong Says:
Nov 8, 2011 - @RehKurts Actually it is interesting to watch the change in scattered light. Here we have high humidity and so very hazy skies. But when a cold front comes through in a few hours it can go from haze to bright blue as the humidity drops.
drkstrong Says:
Nov 9, 2011 - Rats, I missed that. I was too lazy to traipse al the way down stairs to get my reading glasses. Good catch, glad to see someone is paying attention! :)
SSArt98 Says:
Nov 9, 2011 - October 2011 Predictions: ~ Land: 5th (53.33 F) Sea: 13th (61.66 F) Global: 10th (59.36 F) ~~ SSArt98
drkstrong Says:
Nov 9, 2011 - OK you are in
drkstrong Says:
Nov 13, 2011 - @RehKurts Similar story here, One of our cherry trees decided to go into flower (before the frost killed it 2 days ago). I have been playing golf twice a week (and could play more if I had the time) which is unheard of for November here in DC. So far we have had 10 days with above normal temperatures and only 3 days with normal or below normal temperatures. Rain: 0.08 inches compared to a norm of 1.8 inches. No significant rain in sight for the next 10 days according to the forecast. Drought!
. . . . . . . because these video appear directly from youtube.com which we cannot control it.)
drkstrong Says:
Nov 7, 2011 - I suspected it would be some monsoon area or at least Florida or Hawaii. But it is my home state of Maryland. Presumably in some sort of microburst. I have seen several here and they are impressive.