Results tagged “global warming” from The Daily Nugget

A huge ice chunk collapsed off the continent of Antarctica today.  The chunk of ice was part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf, an ice shelf that has been steadily shrinking over the last 15 years.  Scientists had believed that the shelf would collapse in about 15 years, but the ice shelf had other plans.  The collapse will not raise sea levels in the rest of the world but is a sign of worsening global warming.  Yikes!

While republican-sponsored climatologists claim that there is no such thing as global warming, the current heat wave is breaking all kinds of heat records in the Bay Area and in Northern California. In the last two weeks, at least one Northern California city has hit 100 degrees every single day. This is by far the longest hot streak, beating the previous hot streak of only two days set back in 1972.

I can say that the hottest it has ever felt in San Francisco was last Saturday when it was in the mid-90s with at least 40 percent humidity. The high that day, July 23rd, was 97 degrees and I thought that we were all going to die. Having skylights on our condo increased the greenhouse effect and made it feel pretty miserable. I am glad that the fog has rolled back in since Monday cooling things off in the late afternoon. At least we're baking and not shaking--that would be bad.

Ahh! That's the smell of sweet fog in the air baby! After the near death from heat exhaustion experience that we suffered during the last two days, fog finally returned to the city of San Francisco to save us all from certain doom. Statewide there was a risk that there would be rolling power blackouts but they were averted when power demands were less than officials expected. I can't speak for the rest of the state, but San Francisco is happy to be chillin' in the fog by the bay again.

Omagah! It's already 76 degrees inside our place. Who the hell knows how hot it is outside right now. The heat is expected to be just as bad today as it was yesterday before it starts to cool off on Monday. If this beatdown continues we are going to have to go to the movie theatre just to find air conditioning. Who cares what movie is playing? We're going.

It's too hot to even go out and shop for a fan. The high today is supposed to be 86 degrees (with 70% humidity), which incidentally would make it hotter than yesterday, and the low tonight is to be 66 degrees. I am sure that the Florida contingent is hearing these temperatures and thinking that it doesn't sound that bad and people in Vegas are laughing because it's 20 or more degrees warmer there. But all those places have air conditioning. Not here.

Again pray for fog, find air conditioning, and try not to kill anyone in this crazy heat.

I am officially a San Franciscan and not an Angelino. It's 84 degrees in the city right now and it feels like I am melting and about to burst into flames. Apartments and condos in the city don't come equipped with air conditioning units because it's never supposed to be this damn hot! This is by far the hottest summer we've seen in the city and proof positive that global warming is real. Pray for fog.

Inconvenient Truth: today scientists said Earth is the warmest in 2,000 years.

Some scientists say that global warming acceleration may raise sea levels by 20 feet by the year 2100. This map shows how Downtown San Francisco may be affected should the water rise 20 feet. As you can see, our condo (the red square) would be clearly underwater should this come to pass. We will be sure to divest this condo to ensure that it doesn't become part of the Gonzalez estate, unless we also bequeath a boat to go with it. I would like to think that our heirs would have homes on Russian Hill or Nob Hill by then and they wouldn't be swimming. But, it is clear that we really need to take what is happening to our environment seriously. Otherwise, future generations will have a lot less of the world to enjoy if all coastal cities are encroached upon by rising water.

It's the middle of the afternoon in San Francisco and it is hovering in the low 90's and it's about that in our loft. This is the third straight day of heat and we're melting, please make it stop. I never thought I'd say this, but where's the fog?

The French estimate that over 3,000 people have died from heat-related causes due to a blistering European heat wave that has affected France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain in the last three weeks. Over 2,000 have died near Paris alone! Officials blame the high death toll on the length of the heat wave and the fact that most Parisian buildings lack air conditioning. It's so bad, that the French government is calling health workers from vacation and even some morgue workers back from retirement to deal with the crisis. I think that it is fair to say that global warming is not only very real, but a threat to our very existence.