PAP is now a climate change denier

'Wild weather' NOT from climate change


SINGAPORE - If you think that global warming is behind the erratic weather patterns here, such as the recent heavy rainfall or dry spell, you may be wrong.

This is because climate change here due to global warming may only be seen a century from now, said Chris Gordon, director of Centre for Climate Research Singapore, which is part of the National Environment Agency's (NEA's) Meteorological Service yesterday.

Global warming is caused by the release of greenhouse gases from human activity. Experts like Dr Gordon say they "cannot definitively answer" what could be the culprit for intense weather patterns such as the heavy rainfall, which led to recent flash floods that have wreaked havoc in parts of Singapore, which included shutting down the Ayer Rajah Expressway last September.

"So it is true that in this region, climate change will also project increasing extreme rainfall, but that is in 100 years' time."

In fact, the current weather changes could be "just a natural variation of the climate", he pointed out, adding that urbanisation may also be a cause, which is the case for other major cities in the region as well.

"(This is because) the actual change in the surface characteristics of the island can affect the convective thunderstorms that we've been having," noted Dr Gordon.

Apart from the intense rainfall, February was Singapore's driest month in nearly 150 years, and the windiest in three decades, according to the NEA.

Going forward, there is "no reason to expect" that Singapore will see more of such conditions but, at the same time, there are also limitations in the current climate models.

But as Singapore is in the Tropics, it makes it more difficult to accurately predict the weather.

This is because tropical weather systems have unique features such as thunderstorms caused by convections, a process where hot moist air rises and forms clouds.

Currently, the accuracy rate of the three-hour forecast is about 90 per cent.

The lead time for a heavy rainfall prediction is about 30 minutes at best, but this could also be improved to more than an hour.

Wong Chin Ling, director-general of the Meteorological Service, said: "The challenge for us... is that there is always this demand for information about where exactly is heavy rainfall going to fall, and how much is this.

"These are very difficult questions for us to address but we are looking into a very high-resolution model and making use of latest technology to help us provide a more reliable forecast of heavy rainfall."

US to face multibillion-dollar bill from climate change: Report

Annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms of $35 billion; a decline in crop yields of 14 percent, costing corn and wheat farmers tens of billions of dollars; heat wave-driven demand for electricity costing utility customers up to $12 billion per year.

These are among the economic costs that climate change is expected to exact in the United States over the next 25 years, according to a bipartisan report released on Tuesday. And that's just for starters: The price tag could soar to hundreds of billions by 2100.

Commissioned by a group chaired by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Secretary of the Treasury and Goldman Sachs alum Henry Paulson, and environmentalist and financier Tom Steyer, the analysis "is the most detailed ever of the potential economic effects of climate change on the U.S.," said climatologist Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University.

The report lands three weeks after President Barack Obama ordered U.S. regulators to take their strongest steps ever to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including requiring power plants to cut carbon dioxide emissions to 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

Called "Risky Business," the report projects climate impacts at scales as small as individual counties. Its conclusions about crop losses and other consequences are based not on computer projections, which climate-change skeptics routinely attack, but on data from past heat waves.

It paints a grim picture of economic loss. "Our economy is vulnerable to an overwhelming number of risks from climate change," Paulson said in a statement, including from sea-level rise and from heat waves that will cause deaths, reduce labor productivity and strain power grids.

By mid-century, $66 billion to $106 billion worth of coastal property will likely be below sea level. There is a 5 percent chance that by 2100 the losses will reach $700 billion, with average annual losses from rising oceans of $42 billion to $108 billion along the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf of Mexico.

Extreme heat, especially in the Southwest, Southeast and upper Midwest, will slash labor productivity as people are unable to work outdoors at construction and other jobs for sustained periods. The analysis goes further than previous work, said Princeton's Oppenheimer, by identifying places that will be "unsuited for outdoor activity."

Demand for electricity will surge as people need air conditioning just to survive, straining generation and transmission capacity. That will likely require the construction of up to 95 gigawatts of generation capacity over the next 5 to 25 years, or roughly 200 average-size coal or natural gas power plants.

As utilities add the construction costs to customers' bills, people and businesses will pay $8.5 billion to $30 billion more every year by the middle of the century.

The report does not make policy prescriptions, concluding only that "it is time for all American business leaders and investors to get in the game and rise to the challenge of addressing climate change."

The PAP government will do ridiculous things just to avoid responsibilities for their incompetence and to avoid doing anything to help sinkees.

This is because climate change here due to global warming may only be seen a century from now, said Chris Gordon, director of Centre for Climate Research Singapore, which is part of the National Environment Agency's (NEA's) Meteorological Service yesterday.

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There are hundreds of more reputable scientists that have proven him wrong. Yet, the PAP press proclaim Gordon as the most eminent expert on climate change!

White Scums even deny See Pee Elf
Is citizens' own hard earned money
What so surprising if in pursuit of GDP
Lightning denies global warming?

im more worried about sinkies becoming extinct than global warming causing the end of the world.

These unnatural occurances are portents that show the Lees have lost the mandate of Heaven. Soon soon, very soon the Emperor and his corrupt eunuchs will meet their end at the dog head guillotine. Their progeny shall have dogs' ears sewn onto the face to serve as a warning to all would-be tyrants and their collaborators.

Climate change is a load of bull.

When the climate changes, they can feel it in their bones.

Leongsam said:

Climate change is a load of bull.

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Stay put in NZ and you will definite experience it within the decade. Then tell me if it is a load of bull.

winnipegjets said:

Stay put in NZ and you will definite experience it within the decade. Then tell me if it is a load of bull.

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Temperatures have never remained static in the first place. The mean trends up and down. It's part and parcel of nature.

What the "Climate Change" proponents have done is create a nice cosy money making machine from what is a natural occurring phenomenon.

Leongsam said:

Climate change is a load of bull.

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Suddenly you've join the Tea Party.

steffychun said:

Suddenly you've join the Tea Party.

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Nothing to do with politics. I firmly believe that all conclusions need to be science based. When it comes to climate change science, it's all done by mathematical modeling based largely upon formulas derived from the chaos theory.

There can be any number of outcomes.

However, what has happened right now is that climate change has become a religion and a political movement that has a powerful base. Scientists who buck the trend are being persecuted pretty much in the same way as the flat earth opponents were in the middle ages.

Proper scientific research can no longer take place in this sort of toxic environment pardon the pun.

An analogy exists in the drug industry. Medical researchers have come up with numerous potential cures for chronic diseases like hypertension and diabetes but the research never receives the funding it should as the powerful drug companies rely on drugs that manage rather than cure chronic conditions so that they can sustain their huge profits. A pill or procedure that cures is a one-off expense. A drug that manages but does not cure is a life long subscription often costing big bucks every month.

If hypertension can be cured, the monthly prescriptions of hypertensive drugs would be a thing of the past. Imagine how devastating that would be for the pharmaceutical companies.

evil anmgoh fuck off.

Is it good to kill 60 million Chinese with opium which is good for climate change?

winnipegjets said:

'Wild weather' NOT from climate change


SINGAPORE - If you think that global warming is behind the erratic weather patterns here, such as the recent heavy rainfall or dry spell, you may be wrong.

This is because climate change here due to global warming may only be seen a century from now, said Chris Gordon, director of Centre for Climate Research Singapore, which is part of the National Environment Agency's (NEA's) Meteorological Service yesterday.

Global warming is caused by the release of greenhouse gases from human activity. Experts like Dr Gordon say they "cannot definitively answer" what could be the culprit for intense weather patterns such as the heavy rainfall, which led to recent flash floods that have wreaked havoc in parts of Singapore, which included shutting down the Ayer Rajah Expressway last September.

"So it is true that in this region, climate change will also project increasing extreme rainfall, but that is in 100 years' time."

In fact, the current weather changes could be "just a natural variation of the climate", he pointed out, adding that urbanisation may also be a cause, which is the case for other major cities in the region as well.

"(This is because) the actual change in the surface characteristics of the island can affect the convective thunderstorms that we've been having," noted Dr Gordon.

Apart from the intense rainfall, February was Singapore's driest month in nearly 150 years, and the windiest in three decades, according to the NEA.

Going forward, there is "no reason to expect" that Singapore will see more of such conditions but, at the same time, there are also limitations in the current climate models.

But as Singapore is in the Tropics, it makes it more difficult to accurately predict the weather.

This is because tropical weather systems have unique features such as thunderstorms caused by convections, a process where hot moist air rises and forms clouds.

Currently, the accuracy rate of the three-hour forecast is about 90 per cent.

The lead time for a heavy rainfall prediction is about 30 minutes at best, but this could also be improved to more than an hour.

Wong Chin Ling, director-general of the Meteorological Service, said: "The challenge for us... is that there is always this demand for information about where exactly is heavy rainfall going to fall, and how much is this.

"These are very difficult questions for us to address but we are looking into a very high-resolution model and making use of latest technology to help us provide a more reliable forecast of heavy rainfall."

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Clearing land to house millions of new foreigners will impact the environment. If the PAP is more concerned about making money & power, they will of course ignore the possibility of global warming.

The environment in Spore is getting worse with more roads, cars & high rise buildings. We also have the haze. Years ago no one would be drinking recycled water, but now it is reality

johnny333 said:

Clearing land to house millions of new foreigners will impact the environment. If the PAP is more concerned about making money & power, they will of course ignore the possibility of global warming.

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Here's the trend over the last 800,000 years. There have been peaks and troughs throughout this period. Why should the current peak be considered to be any different from the preceding pinks?

Nobody is saying that mean temperatures are not on the rise but where is the evidence that it is caused by the PAP and mankind in general?

Leongsam said:

Here's the trend over the last 800,000 years. There have been peaks and troughs throughout this period. Why should the current peak be considered to be any different from the preceding pinks?

Nobody is saying that mean temperatures are not on the rise but where is the evidence that is caused by the PAP and mankind in general?

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That is a very nice looking chart. Pray tell, do cavemen walk around with thermometers back then?

mojito said:

That is a very nice looking chart. Pray tell, do cavemen walk around with thermometers back then?

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Google "Wiki EPICA". It's from the analysis of Oxygen and Deuterium isotopes found in ancient ice in the Antarctic.

You can also google "MILANKOVITCH CYCLES" for further reading. [h=2][/h]

Of course! They put the thermometers either under their cavewoman's armpits or inside their rectums to check there is no fever, before dragging them back by the hair into the cave.

mojito said:

That is a very nice looking chart. Pray tell, do cavemen walk around with thermometers back then?

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Leongsam said:

Google "Wiki EPICA". It's from the analysis of Oxygen and Deuterium isotopes found in ancient ice in the Antarctic.

You can also google "MILANKOVITCH CYCLES" for further reading. [h=2][/h]

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Wow very high brow stuff huh. Are you trying to confuse me with all this science lingo and assume it should be taken as fact?

Things have happened so many thousands of years ago. The best you can do is to make an educated guess based on some imperfect lab tests. Possible, probably, likely - these are the words used. The onus is on you to prove it without a doubt. Can you do that?

Are you casting doubts to my expertise as a climate change specialist? You calling me a fraud? That is a serious allergation and i demand that you remove your post and apologize immediately or face the consequences! I have retained a very capable lawyer at Drew and Napier for handling such litigation. You better don't try something funny like saving your post elsewhere and tell me you removed it hor!