Weather Doing Things! Alarmists Arms Waving!
Notice the alarmists are talking about storms, saying that these storms are unusual and actually caused by global warming, even though there are NO PEER REVIEWED papers to support the claim. Physicist / String Theorist Dr. Michio Kaku, a man who I otherwise admire, said this:
Well, snowstorms take place when dry, ice-cold weather from Canada and Alaska bump up into moist, warm air from the Gulf of Mexico. Monster storms like this are caused by fluctuations which draw more icy weather from the north and there’s more moist air in the Gulf of Mexico because of increased temperature.
Dr. Ryan Maue Ph.D who’s field of study includes Tropical Cyclones and Climatology, Extratropical Cyclones / Warm Seclusions, Atmospheric Predictability, Numerical Weather Prediction and has much more intimate knowledge on this topic than most, , has this to say about Dr Kaku’s recent appearance on TV to try and sell the scare mongering message:
No. The Gulf of Mexico does not have “increased temperature”. It is actually historically, anomalously cold right now. Does he know that the non-stop infiltration of Arctic cold blasts actually chills the Gulf of Mexico? The La Nina has cooled the entire planet due to changes in the tropical eastern Pacific. It’s anomalously cold as well, as cold as it ever was in the past 30-years or maybe more.
Dr. Kaku also got on the wrong site of geologists for spewing alarmist and incorrect information concerning Yellowstone a couple of weeks ago.
Not to be outdone in alarmist rhetoric, Al Gore, in a move to counter Bill O’Reilly, has finally come out of hibernation. He has these quotes on his web site:
“In fact, scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more severe. Snow has two simple ingredients: cold and moisture. Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air. When temperatures dip below freezing, a lot of moisture creates a lot of snow.”
“A rise in global temperature can create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters, along with increasingly violent storms, flooding, forest fires and loss of endangered species.”
Of course, the quote isn’t from a climate scientist, but from a journalist, who admits:
That’s simple science even for me, a guy whose scientific education pretty much ended with the old “Watch Mr. Wizard” TV show and a subscription to Popular Mechanics.
and does not link or interview any climate scientists saying that there is any certainty these storms are caused by global warming. This isn’t that hard. They are out there… you can find them via google… And there are also well respected climate scientists who caution that we can’t certify “these” or any other storms as a result of global warming. That said, not done being a lazy journalist, Clarence Page repeats this nugget:
What happened to global warming? Ask Vancouver. While the South and East Coast were trying to get rid of snow, the Winter Olympics was reported to be trucking in snow to its ski runs from three hours away.
… not realizing having no snow in Vancouver is, uhm, NORMAL!!!! This is why you can’t just say what you think. You have to at least research this stuff to see how accurate the facts are.
And remember REAL CLIMATE SCIENTISTS, not string theorists or former politicians, are on record saying this:
…within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,”
That quote is from Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia… Yes, THAT East Anglia, the same one that were not very well exonerated for their behaviors revealed in the Climategate scandal. Even Real Climate, home of the most ardent anthropogenic global warming theory proponents, in 2007, said this:
…absolute statements of neither sort are scientifically defensible. Meteorological anomalies cannot be purely attributed to deterministic factors, let alone any one specific such factor (e.g. either global warming or a hypothetical long-term climate oscillation).
To close this post, I wish to point something out. Last year was one of the hottest in recorded history. Some have said “The Hottest”, but statistically the temp values are too close to the temps of 1998, and do not fall outside the error bars. Like 1998, last year was dominated by a strong El Nino, which throws a larger than normal amount of heat from the oceans into the atmosphere, thus abnormally causing an upward spike in global temperatures. As was the case in 1999 / 2000 a strong La Nina has formed, and that has the opposite effect, bringing global temps down. The second coldest January since 2002 is in the record books. So, last year was hotter than usual due to El Nino. This year will be cooler than usual due to the prevailing La Nina (and other factors). It’s my official prediction.
Global Warming Hysteria | Sonicfrog February 2, 2011 | 
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