From Planet Gore: Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Energy Leader [Henry Payne]
from http://stabenow.senate.gov/
Detroit, Mich. — Michigan just experienced its coldest July on record; global temperatures haven’t risen in more than a decade; Great Lakes water levels have resumed their 30-year cyclical rise (contrary to a decade of media scare stories that they were drying up due to global warming), and polls show that climate change doesn’t even make a list of Michigan voters’ top-ten concerns.
Yet in an interview with the Detroit News Monday (a private meeting with the DN editorial board), Senator Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.) — recently appointed to the Senate Energy Committee — made clear that fighting the climate crisis is her top priority.
“Climate change is very real,” she confessed as she embraced cap and trade’s massive tax increase on Michigan industry — at the same time claiming, against all the evidence, that it would not lead to an increase in manufacturing costs or energy prices. “Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I’m flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.”
And there are sea monsters in Lake Michigan. I can feel them when I’m boating.
Since Stabenow says Global warming causes more hurricanes and tornadoes, lets have a look at the data.
Graph from NWS/NOAA. Smaller (F1) tornadoes seem to be on the increase, but not larger ones.
Even though tornado reports seem to be on the rise, the larger damaging tornados, F2-F5 don’t seem to be. There are some good reasons for this, and it might be a good primer for readers to revisit this report I made about the issue of tornado reporting:
Increasing tornadoes or better information gathering?
On the issue of Hurricanes, even USA Today is beginning to have doubts:
excerpt:
The official start of the hurricane season is June 1. And not since 1992 — the year of Hurricane Andrew — has the Atlantic Ocean been silent past Aug. 4. Meteorologists have yet to name even a single tropical storm in the Atlantic in 2009.
So is global warming really doing anything?
“While it is commonly thought that global warming would increase hurricane activity, that is far from a settled issue,” said Rob Eisenson, a meteorologist at Western Connecticut State University. “There are some research studies that suggest global warming would not have that effect.”
NOAA has lowered their hurricane season forecast.
And Accumulated Cyclone Energy is quite low so far this year and lower than usual last year:
Ryan Maue of Florida State University writes in comments in a previous WUWT story:
Global (Northern Hemisphere) tropical cyclone ACE for the months May – June – July is the lowest in at least the past 30-years or more.
I, for one, am not surprised. Continued inactivity should persist for the next few weeks until the atmosphere catches up with the radiative warming of the tropical oceans due to the season called summer.
2007 was a dud. 2008 was saved from being a record year by 2007. 2009 is behind the pace of both years. Amazing how natural variability affects tropical cyclone formation, tracks, and intensity. Who would have thought?
Ryan’s Tropical web page at Florida State University has this graph that shows accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) :
click for larger imageSorted monthly data: Text File
Note where 2009 is in the scheme of things.
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Reading that people like this are running our country makes me volatile. I feel it when I am voting you and all others incapable of scientific thought out of office.
Unfortunately, the ability to get elected does not correlate well with understanding of economics and science.
I’d love to hear a politician or an alarmist try to explain this (error bars are IPCC’s claimed accuracy):
Politicians are making a very bad mess in America. I feel it every time I see an elderly person yelling at a politician.
Incredible.
These are the people we elected to make policy.
I just can’t handle it anymore…
One thing I have learned from the Town Halls, how laughably stupid the congressional clunkers really are.
The total lack of scientific understanding, political posturing and outright lying by our politicians is sickening. I didn’t vote for her, and after reading what she said, my gut instinct was correct.
You see what you look for. Before Uncle Al and his buddy Jimmy Hansen got on their bandwagon, people didn’t notice killer storms and bad weather. Heat waves were a fact of nature. The rise and fall of the Great Lakes were natural cycles. Now people are primed to see every departure from a flat line as proof of looming catastrophe.
The only volativity in the system seems to come from elected officials and their hangers-on.
Politicians are taking America in a bad direction. I feel it every time I see a Union thug out in front of a town hall meeting pull a man out of a wheel chair, push him to the ground, and kick him a few times.
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The current epoch of politicians are not listening to the people. No one really cares about global warming except the politicians and extreme environmentalists with no life.
America has elections. We can get new politicians.
Can I call this woman a bevil ditch? She is either stupid, not likely, or deliberately dishonest – much more likely for a politico.
If so, then why is she lying? Clearly, she must be in the pay of big government 😉
Too bad for the economically depressed state of Michigan that Senator Stabenow’s #1 priority isn’t JOBS!
Robert Wood (16:32:15) : Clearly, she must be in the pay of big government 😉
Now there is a big pay assertion I believe.
Touchy feely reaches new heights of pusillanimity. Congress is a laughing stock. I feel it when I observe their antics. Anybody who voted for this moron should be beating themselves up right now. There are millions of more qualified potential Congresspersons in Michigan than Debbie “Rough Rider” Stabenow.
[snip – OTT]
I am ashamed to admit that I reside in the Great State of Michigan. I, at least, have some solace in knowing that I did not vote for Dumb Debbie.
Senator Stabenow is a total embarrassment to the state of Michigan. I have not heard this woman say one intelligent thing ever. The woman might actually be as vapid and without substance as Senator Boxer, if such a thing is possible.
David Corcoran (16:35:18) :
Too bad for the economically depressed state of Michigan that Senator Stabenow’s #1 priority isn’t JOBS!
Look at all the signs behind her. It is her priority.
But it is not productive jobs. It is ‘Green Jobs’ she wants to bring to Michigan. The paycheck of a green job is paid by the government. Billions have been allocated to President Obama’s Green Czar for Green Jobs.
As of yet there have been no green jobs created. But this politician must be setting things up to have Michigan be an outlet for this government program. Politicians have been sending oodles of welfare money to Detroit for a long time now. This new Green Jobs program will probably come to Michigan through the same channels that welfare has been coming to Michigan for all these years—maybe even to some of the same people who’ve been getting welfare.
“The hands you are in are your very own”
This woman is lying her way through her career.
End it at the ballot box.
Look, I’m really sorry about her. We try to keep her contained to Michigan, but she sometimes sneaks out when our guards aren’t watching. Her and that other weirdo Levin we have to put up with.
We’ll try to do better in a year or so. As long as the union thugs don’t get too active.
“Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I’m flying.”
Wow, if only we knew years ago that Senator Stabinow had such a sensitive, um, backside and could literally sense global warming through the vibrations in her airplane seat, she could have saved the entire world billions of dollars in applied science and research.
The Global Warming Butt-o-Meter. Now I’ve heard everything.
Madman brought up an important point that more people should consider. The skills of getting elected should not be mistaken for the skills of governing or decision making.
And primaries are where the poor choices must be eliminated. By election day it is often too late.
IMO we had a dismal choice last November as neither candidate seemed likely to do a good job. But that is an opinion, another might think both were able or one was.
She needs to take Cold Fronts 101.
Perhaps we also need to take away universal suffrage and raise the requirements to stand for election.
She can ‘feel’ AGW?
That is perhpas one of the most accidentally revealing claims about AGW.
It is, indeed, a feeling.
You feel it when you fly?
We hear it when you speak.
It’s hot air.
Taxes won’t make planes fly more smoothly.
Please, give the Senator from MI more credit. The unemployment rate in MI is over 15.4% and the economic recession has led to a large drop in CO2 emmissions in the US. How many members of congress can say they are delivering results on their number one priority?