Odd Weather In Thailand Puzzles Academics

[Bagwan]

Are you sitting down?

Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland, since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet – all of you.

Of course you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress – it's that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow, and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans, and all animal life.

I know, it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of: driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kid's "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cents light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs...well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.

The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes - FOUR DAYS ONLY by that volcano in Iceland, has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud any one time - EVERY DAY.

I don't really want to rain on your parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in its entire YEARS on earth. Yes folks, Mt Pinatubo was active for over one year – think about it.

Of course I shouldn't spoil this touchy-feely tree-hugging moment and mention the effect of solar and cosmic activity and the well-recognized 800-year global heating and cooling cycle, which keep happening, despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change.

And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year.

Just remember that your government just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you on the basis of the bogus "human-caused" climate change scenario.

Hey, isn't it interesting how they don't mention "Global Warming" any more, but just "Climate Change" - you know why? It's because the planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century and these global warming bull artists got caught with their pants down.

And just keep in mind that you might yet have an Emissions Trading Scheme – that whopping new tax – imposed on you, that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer. It won't stop any volcanoes from erupting, that's for sure.

But hey, relax, give the world a hug and have a nice day!

PS: I wonder if Iceland is buying carbon offsets?

There is always at least one climate change denier who'll post data that's wrong or that distorts the weather patterns.

Has this been a cold winter? Globally no. The combined global land and ocean surface temperature during December 2010 – February 2011 ranked as the 16th warmest boreal winter (austral summer) on record. During the three-month season, warmer-than-average conditions were particularly felt across western Alaska, eastern Canada, southern Greenland, and northern Siberia. I've attached the map showing the distribution of hotter and colder than historical areas of the globe - obtained at http://www.ncdc.noaa...c/global/2011/2

I got to looking again now that Thailand is having a March that is particularly chilly, though the "winter" was quite mild. Just goes to show how the weather can vary from place to place while still having an average above the 20th Century mean.

Oh, and Blackjack neglects to mention that while volcanoes and solar flares have always caused fluctuations in seasonal and global temperatures, the changes that humans are contributing to the atmosphere are the only way to account for the changes in global temperatures - particularly since 1970. See a video by David Attenborough

Will there be fluctuations from the combination of factors as they are added up, varying each year? Yes. Yet still the pattern of earth warming over the background noise of natural causes continues.

Looking again at the Dec to Feb winter results for the globe I see the Arctic area as warmer than normal and the "temperate latitudes" as colder. Some people liken the colder middle latitudes as to having the freezer door open and cold drafts are dropping out into the room at large even as the freezer warms. It certainly felt unusual - matching my favorite description ==>> "Weather Weirding." Indeed what a warmer atmosphere in general will certainly generate is greater turbulence, a higher incidence of extreme weather. Oh, and the warmer oceans supplied greater moisture to then form a very snowy season for where it was seasonally freezing or below.

In the current conditions a "High Pressure" over Siberia and China with a "Low Pressure" over SE Asia would naturally lead to a flow of air from there to here... bringing that colder than normal air into contact with what humidity is in our atmosphere which precipitates out as rain in the humid south but only colder air for the inland northern provinces.

now you are not seriously suggesting that David Attenborough is someone that should be quoted

he is a presenter and all is scripted

you need to expand your time frame a bit as this is how things are measured

ie 1500 years temp changes

ie million or even billions of years of evolution

etc

el ninyo

el nina

al gore

har har

keep watching TV if thats your source of info

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (pronounced /ˈætənbərə/) OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA (born 8 May 1926 in London, England) is a broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the respected face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine "Life" series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s.

1970: BAFTA Desmond Davis Award

1974: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

1980: BAFTA Fellowship

1983: Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)

1985: Knighthood

1991: Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) for producing Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas broadcast for a number of years from 1986

1996: Companion of Honour (CH) "for services to nature broadcasting"

1998: International Cosmos Prize

2003: Michael Faraday Prize awarded by the Royal Society

2004: Descartes Prize for Outstanding Science Communication Actions

2004: Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum

2005: Order of Merit (OM)

2005: Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest

2006: National Television Awards Special Recognition Award

2006: Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management - Institute Medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the public perception and understanding of ecology

2006: The Culture Show British Icon Award

2007: British Naturalists' Association Peter Scott Memorial Award

2009: BAFTA Specialist factual award for Life In Cold Blood

2009: Prince of Asturias Award

2010: Fonseca Prize

2010: Queensland Museum Medal

He would appear to be somewhat more than a presenter don't your think?

[BuckarooBanzai]

Academics are experts in weather patterns?

Leave the weather analysis to meteorologists.

Just curious, what do you think "academic" means?

Cheers

Xlf

I have it under good authority:

academic means simple as in it's academic (simple or apparent) so academics must be somewhat like apparent simpletons.

meteorologist are people who study meteors - ology means "the study of"

So what does this post have to do with weather?

You asked!

[featography]

Academics are experts in weather patterns?

Leave the weather analysis to meteorologists.

Where do meteorologists learn to be meteorologists? At universities, where all the academics (ie researchers) are.

It's just terminology.

those that can...................do

those that can't..................teach

[featography]

Academics are experts in weather patterns?

Leave the weather analysis to meteorologists.

Just curious, what do you think "academic" means?

Cheers

Xlf

I have it under good authority:

academic means simple as in it's academic (simple or apparent) so academics must be somewhat like apparent simpletons.

meteorologist are people who study meteors - ology means "the study of"

So what does this post have to do with weather?

You asked!

My dad used to say, An academic is an over educated idiot

[featography]

Are you sitting down?

Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland, since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet – all of you.

Of course you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress – it's that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow, and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans, and all animal life.

I know, it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of: driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kid's "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cents light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs...well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.

The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes - FOUR DAYS ONLY by that volcano in Iceland, has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud any one time - EVERY DAY.

I don't really want to rain on your parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in its entire YEARS on earth. Yes folks, Mt Pinatubo was active for over one year – think about it.

Of course I shouldn't spoil this touchy-feely tree-hugging moment and mention the effect of solar and cosmic activity and the well-recognized 800-year global heating and cooling cycle, which keep happening, despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change.

And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year.

Just remember that your government just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you on the basis of the bogus "human-caused" climate change scenario.

Hey, isn't it interesting how they don't mention "Global Warming" any more, but just "Climate Change" - you know why? It's because the planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century and these global warming bull artists got caught with their pants down.

And just keep in mind that you might yet have an Emissions Trading Scheme – that whopping new tax – imposed on you, that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer. It won't stop any volcanoes from erupting, that's for sure.

But hey, relax, give the world a hug and have a nice day!

PS: I wonder if Iceland is buying carbon offsets?

There is always at least one climate change denier who'll post data that's wrong or that distorts the weather patterns.

Has this been a cold winter? Globally no. The combined global land and ocean surface temperature during December 2010 – February 2011 ranked as the 16th warmest boreal winter (austral summer) on record. During the three-month season, warmer-than-average conditions were particularly felt across western Alaska, eastern Canada, southern Greenland, and northern Siberia. I've attached the map showing the distribution of hotter and colder than historical areas of the globe - obtained at http://www.ncdc.noaa...c/global/2011/2

I got to looking again now that Thailand is having a March that is particularly chilly, though the "winter" was quite mild. Just goes to show how the weather can vary from place to place while still having an average above the 20th Century mean.

Oh, and Blackjack neglects to mention that while volcanoes and solar flares have always caused fluctuations in seasonal and global temperatures, the changes that humans are contributing to the atmosphere are the only way to account for the changes in global temperatures - particularly since 1970. See a video by David Attenborough

Will there be fluctuations from the combination of factors as they are added up, varying each year? Yes. Yet still the pattern of earth warming over the background noise of natural causes continues.

Looking again at the Dec to Feb winter results for the globe I see the Arctic area as warmer than normal and the "temperate latitudes" as colder. Some people liken the colder middle latitudes as to having the freezer door open and cold drafts are dropping out into the room at large even as the freezer warms. It certainly felt unusual - matching my favorite description ==>> "Weather Weirding." Indeed what a warmer atmosphere in general will certainly generate is greater turbulence, a higher incidence of extreme weather. Oh, and the warmer oceans supplied greater moisture to then form a very snowy season for where it was seasonally freezing or below.

In the current conditions a "High Pressure" over Siberia and China with a "Low Pressure" over SE Asia would naturally lead to a flow of air from there to here... bringing that colder than normal air into contact with what humidity is in our atmosphere which precipitates out as rain in the humid south but only colder air for the inland northern provinces.

now you are not seriously suggesting that David Attenborough is someone that should be quoted

he is a presenter and all is scripted

you need to expand your time frame a bit as this is how things are measured

ie 1500 years temp changes

ie million or even billions of years of evolution

etc

el ninyo

el nina

al gore

har har

keep watching TV if thats your source of info

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (pronounced /ˈætənbərə/) OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA (born 8 May 1926 in London, England) is a broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the respected face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine "Life" series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s.

1970: BAFTA Desmond Davis Award

1974: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

1980: BAFTA Fellowship

1983: Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)

1985: Knighthood

1991: Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) for producing Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas broadcast for a number of years from 1986

1996: Companion of Honour (CH) "for services to nature broadcasting"

1998: International Cosmos Prize

2003: Michael Faraday Prize awarded by the Royal Society

2004: Descartes Prize for Outstanding Science Communication Actions

2004: Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum

2005: Order of Merit (OM)

2005: Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest

2006: National Television Awards Special Recognition Award

2006: Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management - Institute Medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the public perception and understanding of ecology

2006: The Culture Show British Icon Award

2007: British Naturalists' Association Peter Scott Memorial Award

2009: BAFTA Specialist factual award for Life In Cold Blood

2009: Prince of Asturias Award

2010: Fonseca Prize

2010: Queensland Museum Medal

He would appear to be somewhat more than a presenter don't your think?

yes, a former senior manager of British Bullshit Co. ( I got that from one of you Brits. Its not an original)

[tropo]

I love this cool weather, whats everyone complaining about?

I likey likey:)

they're complaining about homes being ruined and people dying you moronic twa-t

What's with the abuse. Most people in Thailand are only complaining about the cold.

[billd766]

I read the Thai Meteorological site for my nearest city which is Khampaeng Phet though it is some 60 km away.

The 30 year average for March is 4 days of rain and and 18.1 mm of rain.

Up to this morning we have had 10 days of rain and 125 mm.

We have had 11 days this month when the temperature has been less than 22.2C which is the 30 year average and 2 days of 15.5.

Even a fat 66 year old farang like me has been feeling the cold not to mention my Thai family and friends.

And yes I do know what cold is as I have served inside the Arctic Circle also in Germany in the winter when the high was -9 C and the low was -16.

If you follow this link then look at your nearest town you can work it out from there.

http://www.tmd.go.th/en/province.php?id=8

[bhakta]

What was noted by me was the request for MORE MONEY by the so-called experts. As though passing out money resolves all problems caused by nature, which are due to our lack of understand of, or non-acceptance of nature's law which are unchanging, absolute, and always perfect.

[organic]

Are you sitting down?

Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland, since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet – all of you.

...

A large emission of volcanic ash into the air *cools* the planet (check up on what the Krakatoa explosion did, for example) and leads to much cooler weather for a while.

[NaiGreg]

Are you sitting down?

Okay, here's the bombshell.

Were your lips moving all the while you were banging on the keyboard with this message about the melting polar ice caps? Oh, that was not mentioned?

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.area.south.jpgyes the caps are melting

theres a graph for the north as well and its increased

overall

Actually the area may be about the same but the ice pack is much thinner. That means less ice.

- from satellite imaging to measure ice thickness - "What they found is not good. It seems that the thick, permanent ice that used to constitute the majority of Arctic ice has been replaced by thinner, seasonal ice that melts away during the summer months. So not only is the ice covering less area than ever before, but the ice that does form is thinner than ever before. In total, the [NASA] scientists calculated that the ice pack shrank by 57 percent between 2004 and 2008, thinning by 2.2 feet."

[dumball]

Has any of you boffins figured into your calculations , the earth is not a true sphere , if it were it would ' Wobble on its axis , melting of ice caps can cause this effect .

One point I have yet to see mentioned is the movement on its axis of app 10 cm's caused by the gigantic force of the earthquake in Japan , this movement has re-aligned the angle and the proximity of both the sun and the moon in relation to our earth . As the moon has a large influence on tidal behavior which influences weather patterns , the suns angle and proximity change temperatures at various times of the year , could it not be then , the cause of weather seasonal change in Thailand ? All of the statistics that have been shown are for the earth rotating on its axis PRIOR to this movement , as over the years it has been shown that the rotating does change as a cyclical event in regards to the axis position in relationship to both the moon and the sun , causing weather and temperature ocilation for various regions of the earth .

Food for thought , an exercise in futility , or scientists learning more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing . Splitting of the atom some-one ?