"The Forecast Is Looking More And More Extreme"

1/13/11: ABC World News reports on the floods in Brazil and Australia and record precipitation -- including winter snows -- around the world, during the hottest global temperatures in recorded history. Dr. Richard Somerville explains: "This is no longer something that's theory or conjecture or something that comes out of computer models. We're observing the climate changing. It's real. It's happening. It's scientific fact."

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[Heteroz]

Canada's winter is warm beyond shocking. Russia heat waves. Wettest year EVER. Arctic ocean losing ice like there is no tomorrow. Australia floods cover massive area. Lower 48 crazy cold and snowy.

How bad does it have to get before everyone realizes man-made global warming is real?

[th3dig1tal0n3]

More frequent extreme weather events were predicted 10 and more years ago. Too bad global warming alarmists were silenced by the global cooling lobbyists. Everyone will pay attention now, but it is kinda late with all that Siberian permafrost melting away and releasing methane. Stupid sheeple.

[Victor Schwan]

The corporations that have funded the sowing of doubt on this issue are clearly doing this because they see greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategies as adversely affecting their financial interests.

[Jaydddeee248]

I wonder if there's going to be another ice age soon. With all this water and heat waves you can only expect something cold to happen :\

[Jaydddeee248]

There's not a damn thing we can do about Global warming now, we're screwed. I'm in Western Australia/Perth. And today... we have a cyclone and flood warning for Perth too. And another cyclone in Queensland, just after the floods. Australia is dying. And soon, the rest of the world will too.

[CorporateRule]

WE, THE GLOBAL ELITE, WILL NEVER USE MASS TRANSIT, WE WILL HOWEVER, PROFIT MASSIVELY FROM CLIMATE CHANGE.

[EARTHLESSONS]

Many ENVIRONMENTALISTS -- including Al Gore, James Lovelock, and others warned us about CLIMATE CHANGE and its causes. It has not been a secret -- too many have ignored the problem. It's a shame that our Gov'ts and others who have the power to put a stop to a lot of the emissions, toxic smog and other pollution that has caused our planet to be in such a dire state -- and the weather to go haywire.

[Magnus Andersson]

Yes, Canada, mostly east, has a positive temp anomaly, and Russia was warm, just like late 19th century. Arctic ice has an increase in thick ice by +50 percent (thicker than 2 meter) compared to 2008. 2006 all climate alarmist says catastrophic AGW means drought. Not dry! Australia floods natural repetition of 1974 and late 19th century. No scientists (but media, and Al Gore) links that to not normal AGW, and the only constant thing here is political gloom and doom propaganda alarmists.

[anoniab]

Last year was the wettest one where??? Since they started keeping record in 1880? Hey some places didn't have weather equipment til MUCH later - you CAN'T KNOW what the wettest year on record is: INSUFFICIENT DATA.

[anoniab]

Last year was the wettest one where???

[anoniab]

Amen - more media, more people with cameras = more catastrophizing.