Tag Archives: Extreme weather

Your tax dollars at work: an NCAR cartoon on steroid use in baseball and compared to climate change

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

From the video description: AtmosNews takes a lighthearted look at an unexpected analogy, explaining why some people call carbon dioxide (and the other greenhouse gases) the steroids of the climate system. Statistics and extreme behavior are involved, whether we’re talking … Continue reading →

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NRDC’s ridiculous weather IS climate “sound the general alarm” map

Posted on December 27, 2011 by

People send me stuff. Today it is this web page from the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), another official sounding NGO modeled in the WWF funding style of wail n’ beg. The first thought that went through my head when … Continue reading →

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The Odd Omission in IPCC’s Summary for Policy Makers for SREX on Extreme Weather and Climatic Events

Posted on November 19, 2011 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany One of the major reasons why extreme weather events are of abiding interest to both the public and policy makers is the potential loss of life that they can cause. Imagine, therefore, writing a … Continue reading →

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The GWPF Responds To New IPCC Report

Posted on November 18, 2011 by

Natural Variability To Dominate Weather Events Over Coming 20-30 Years Press Release London: For many decades to come, and probably longer, mankind’s influence on the frequency of extreme weather events will be insignificant. According to a preliminary report released by … Continue reading →

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Erratic, extreme, press release puts Princeton climate science in a new light

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

Must be Durban season. From Princeton University here’s a highly charged press release lapped up by some MSM professional worriers today that uses words like “erratic and extreme” to describe that it’s getting rainier in some places, a whole third … Continue reading →

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Nature pans Gore’s 24 Hours of ‘Climate Reality’

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

From the Hockey Schtick: The November 2011 edition of Nature Climate Change pans Al Gore’s 24 Hours of ‘Reality’, disputing Gore’s suggestion that global warming is responsible for all extreme weather and noting: “Gore may have briefly pumped up his disillusioned … Continue reading →

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Gore blowback on severe weather links to climate

Posted on October 7, 2011 by

Uh oh, when you’ve lost the Guardian, you can be pretty sure you’ve lost middle America.

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The Amazing Decline in Deaths from Extreme Weather in an Era of Global Warming, 1900–2010

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Summary Proponents of drastic curbs on greenhouse gas emissions claim that such emissions cause global warming and that this exacerbates the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including extreme heat, droughts, floods and … Continue reading →

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Gore’s Climate Reality Project: a massive dud – even warmists are panning it now

Posted on September 15, 2011 by

Last night after hour#4 I said: You can watch the live video presentation here, I urge everyone to do so (because after hour 4 it is starting to look like a massive dud, Al needs the help) That appears to … Continue reading →

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Well there goes the “climate is weather averaged over 30 years” standard

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

Forecasting climate? The average value of a meteorological element over 30 years is defined as a climatological normal. Source: NOAA/NWS It’s been done: From the University of California – Los Angeles Can scientists look at next year’s climate? Is it … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Week – Wuebbles Weather World

Posted on September 9, 2011 by

Serially warm reporter Dan Vergano of USA today wrote an article on the “Current Extreme Weather and Climate Change” report, released this week that says it’s all our fault. With a peer review team like this one, what other conclusion … Continue reading →

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Get that uncertainty off the road, we have adapting to do!

Posted on August 23, 2011 by

From Vanderbilt University , damn the torpedoes uncertainty and full speed ahead, there’s a trillion dollars at stake: Time to begin anticipating and adapting to climate change Despite the uncertainties surrounding climate change, it is time to start developing effective … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week: Grist perpetuates the tornado to climate change linkage myth

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

And of course they throw in all ‘extreme weather’ for good measure. But as they like to say, let’s ‘explode the myth’. From the Grist website, an intro to what they say is a ‘must see’ video, following McKibbens ‘must … Continue reading →

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Extreme Nonsense by Krugman

Posted on February 9, 2011 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany 1. Krugman in Gradual Changes and Extreme Events forgets that there is a threshold on the left hand side, below which cold kills. In fact, in the moderate to higher latitudes more people die … Continue reading →

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Pielke Sr. The Westerlies Explain The Recent Extreme Winter Weather, Not “Global Warming”

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

There have been a number of news articles that claim that a global average surface temperature trend (i.e. “global warming) explains the extreme cold weather and snow that has occurred recently; e.g. see Comment On The CBS News Article “Is Extreme Weather a … Continue reading →

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Climate Disasters: New Baylor Study Explores How People Respond

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

From Baylor University News Study looks into the interaction of knowledge, risk perceptions and action as it relates to climate events New results from a Baylor University study show that different behaviors and strategies lead some families to cope better … Continue reading →

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