Despite Perceived Warming Hiatus, Long-Term Effects Disastrous on Climate Change and Global Warming, Research

Global warming seemingly has taken a bit of a hiatus, but global average air temperatures will make no difference in how much the planet warms by 2100, a new study claims. The study compared climate models that showed the current slowdown to model that did not demonstrate the slowdown. The researchers concluded that long-term warming predictions were unchanged across the two types of models.

 

Tired of Endless Winter Season, some New Yorkers are leaving the city .

They’re tired here!

 

Battered by a seemingly endless winter, many formerly diehard New Yorkers are making the life-altering decision to quit the city for more sympathetic climes.

Gov. Cuomo Warns Commuter, as Public Transit could be closed on Monday

Gov. Cuomo echoed those concerns, warning commuters to stay home Monday in a statement made Sunday as the monstrous storm tracked an unfamiliar route across the Midwest.

 

“As a result, roads including the Thruway, I-84 and the Long Island Expressway, and public transit networks including the LIRR, PATH, Metro-North Railroad, and MTA subways and buses, may be closed ahead of the evening commute,” Cuomo announced Sunday night.

De Blasio, flanked by sanitation honchos at a department garage along the Hudson River, also warned New Yorkers to stay indoors and off “treacherous” city roads starting Monday.

 

“Now is the time to get ready for this extreme weather,” de Blasio added. “Don’t underestimate this storm. Even walking should be kept to a minimum.”

Schools will be open Monday, but after-school programs were preemptively canceled. School will likely be closed Tuesday.

The prior all-time snow record for Jan. 26, 2011, when 12.3 inches fell, followed the next day by another 6.7 inches, records show. The city’s all time record occurred Feb. 11-12, 2006, when New York was blanketed with 26.9 inches, according to city officials.

“We are already forecasting more than that,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Pollina. “It is a potentially historic storm.”

Snow and rain were expected to start early Monday in New York. Snow is expected to taper off late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, meteorologists said.

The city plans to dispatch nearly 500 salt spreaders ahead of that snowfall, according to de Blasio. There will be 2,100 snowplows deployed on city streets after the first two inches of snow. Another 4,200 plows from independent contractors are ready to be dispatched, he added.

The Transportation and Sanitation departments have also hired additional day laborers for shoveling.

The storm is expected to increase in severity after 6 p.m. Monday, according to the National Weather Service.

“The evening rush hour is going to be a huge problem,” Hizzoner said.

China, US differ on global plan to cut emissions

China and the United States have taken small steps toward their shared goal of fighting climate change but remain significantly apart over a wider global plan to cut carbon emissions.

China's chief climate official Xie Zhenhua said on Wednesday that China should not be subject to the same rules for greenhouse gas emissions as the United States and other rich countries, while the U.S. special envoy Todd Stern said Washington favors every country deciding what it is capable of doing, instead of being classified either as a developed country or a developing country.

The difference aside, the two sides announced eight projects to improve fuel efficiency and other standards on Wednesday.

Secretary of State John Kerry and other U.S. officials are in Beijing for two days of high-level bilateral talks.