From Warren Meyer, who was discussing the recent announcement from the White House Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force.
If one wonders why the climate alarmist movement is suffering from a credibility problem, one only needs to read some of the claims:
Climate change is already having “pervasive, wide-ranging” effects on “nearly every aspect of our society,” a task force representing more than 20 federal agencies reported Tuesday.
Here are some of the devastating non-trends in US Climate:
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This is interesting material and while I appreciate it responds to a US related quote. Can you provide similar trends (or rather lack of them) on a global scale?
Is there any poster children of climate alarmism still alive and breathing?
So droughts were predicted to be up and stay that way in the Southwest US and it has been wet instead. Snow was ending in the northeast and we set records,
Thanks for news stories showing reality is the opposite of the warmists claims.
Gee…why can’t nature just do what the AGW’s want and make it easy for them?
I have been thinking about generating a website called “The Great Global
Warming Scandal Revealed in Pictures” [or perhaps something more ingenious…I’m thinking on the fly here] in which it becomes obvious through some simple pictures (like those above) in which the theory of anthropogenic global warming is debunked. I believe it can be a quite compelling argument against AGW theory just looking at a few simplified graphs (with short, straightforward commentary)
Since no one would ever visit MY website, perhaps you have given some thought to the same thing? I have posted outside my office the temperature record that actually shows the MWP and how it overshadows the global warming experienced in current times…and how it obviously demonstrates the cyclical nature of global warming (caused by nature! can you believe it?). From the looks of the Sea Ice trend for 2010, that will be a nice picture in and of itself!
“Corn likes it cool…” — GW Advocate Timothy Telleen-Lawton.
Right. Must be why nobody in Meso-America grows corn.
/sarc
Can anyone name one negative impact they have personally suffered that can be attributed solely to climate change (natural or man made)?
I didn’t think so.
How about some positive impacts?
Well, there is the obvious increase in global crop yields due to enhanced CO2 and slightly longer growing seasons. That’s a pretty good thing.
Now, can anyone name any negative impacts of climate change legislation?
How about ugly windmills. More expensive cars. Higher taxes (just beginning in the US). And the potential for much more cost and regulation. All pain for the potential reduction of gain. But at least we can feel proud that we are saving the children…from affluence.
J.I.McKemey (06:07:11) : The Tropical Cyclone plot is global. With regard to global drought, this paper may be of interest:
http://water.washington.edu/research/Articles/2008.global.continental.drought.pdf
Which indicates that the worst droughts on record are mostly clustered in the earlier half of the last fifty or sixty years.
In terms of other variables I have not seen a whole lot but generally trends toward worse weather/climate are not evident.
When asking your colleagues who are for the punishment of all that is evil in society, ask them what effects we are seeing that are caused by global warming.
It’s amazing the list of things which come out with no evidence, correlation or causation. It’s the global warming equivalent of the Kevin Bacon Game.
Timothy Tellene-Lawton’s quote about corn liking cool weather is way off. According to my brother-in-law who farms over 2000 acres, about 1/2 in corn, says he wants warm to hot weather for corn growth. This year Indiana had an average of 180+ bushels of corn per acre. My brother-in-law had over 200 bushels of corn per acres. Over thirty years ago they were glad to get 100 bushels per acre.
Obviously this data hasn’t been properly adjusted.
I knew we were in trouble when I got to this quote:
“The White House task force tells us the truth.”
Federal agencies are directed by our CarbonCalamacist-in-Chief so what else would you expect from his lackeys and fellow-travelers? But why do they ignore the main benefit of more CO2 — a nicely rising trend in corn production that thrives on carbon, as also do oxygen-producing trees and most species of flora.
Who says nothing is happening!!! Climate change has had a HUGE pervasive and significant upward trending affect on internet blogs. Well, one, anyway.
Somebody in the Administration will one day get up and say, “we’ve had enough climate kookism to last from here to Eternity, nobody needs to discuss climate change “impacts” on a darned thing, let’s move on and never revisit this nightmare.”
This actually happened, in a daydream of mine.
But there IS a trend!
Look at the rise in wet weather between 1940 and 1945 and you’ll see that the US will be underwater by 1960. So there. Be afraid, be very afraid.
The tornado graphs are interesting. Looks like an observer effect, where small, short-lived tornadoes are more commonly spotted now, but not larger, longer-lived tornadoes since those were more easily observed.
We’ve had some snow (and rain) in the UK last winter. Does that count?
Everyone talks about the weather and more than a few people want to tax it.
J.I.McKemey (06:07:11) :
Hmmm, maybe you could help us with that?
“”The Task Force has found that climate change is affecting, and will continue to affect, nearly every aspect of our society and the environment,” the report states. “Some of the impacts are increased severity of floods, droughts, and heat waves, increased wildfires and sea level rise.
“Climate change impacts are pervasive, wide-ranging and affect the core systems of our society: transportation, ecosystems, agriculture, business, infrastructure, water, and energy, among others,” the report continues. “Climate change already is affecting the ability of Federal agencies to fulfill their missions.”
Strong stuff.”
Yeah, you’re not kidding; the stench from it is overpowering, as any fresh bovine excrement would be.
Too bad the government-issued stuff couldn’t be put to good use, the way the real stuff can be. Instead, it sits in its own putrid stench, fouling the minds of the young, naive, and those already in a CAGW/CC-induced zombie state.
Hmmm…it looks like armageddon is near (of course, not necessarily a climate one)
WHAT ??!!??
I thought it was worse then we thought !!!!!!!!!!!!
This is also very good read – GLOBAL drought myths debunked.
http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2010/02/24/update-on-global-drought-patterns-ipcc-take-note/
Oh no!! The climate is staying the same! We’re all gonna die of boredom!! And it’s all mankind’s fault for making too much CO2.
Ahhhhh!
And the non-trends continue globally:
Global Sea Ice Area is average:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg
Antarctic Sea Ice Area is slightly above average:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.recent.antarctic.png
Arctic Sea Ice Area is slightly below average:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.recent.arctic.png
So I’ve built a highly robust linear model of sea ice behavior and through the analysis of historical trends I am now able to report that Global Sea Ice Area will be average forever…