#climate instability

If you are in your house when flood water comes in. If you opt to keep going up to avoid the water, DO NOT go into your attic without a way to bust through your ceiling.

It's about the worst thing you can do in this situation. You get trapped up there, and then there is no hope for rescue, only body recovery.

Don't go up there. But if you're going to, bring an axe or something you can pry open the roof with when it inevitably comes to that.

Pic of the day — Sahara snow!

Click to enlarge — Geoff Robinson More photos over here. Doesn’t happen often. Almost four decades since the last time. The screwed-up dynamics of climate change may make this s more frequent occurrence. Or not. Just like recent frigid visits of the polar vortex to North America caused by unusually warm air at the North Pole pushing cooler air South. Instability rules, so far.

Study Serves Huge Blow to ‘Any Remaining Climate Change Deniers’ By Hannah Osborne April 14, 2014   International Business Times

Climate change deniers have been dealt a huge blow following the release of a study that says the natural warming hypothesis can be ruled out with 99% accuracy.

Scientists at McGill University, Montreal, have said they can say with overwhelming confidence that climate change is the result of man-made emissions. Published in the journal Climate Dynamics, the researchers analysed temperature data since 1500. Their findings almost completely rule out the possibility that global warming in the industrial era is a natural fluctuation in the planet’s climate.

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