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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Human beings are incapable of changing anything in nature, because of dimension, but perfectly able to ruin their own small life and its closer environment and not anything else.
But this issue of climate change and/or global warming has become a real psychic pandemia. It should be analyzed and treated as a health problem and as such, to seek to stop its propagation. If you do not do something in this respect you will suffer the consequences of it. This is a serious matter for you. We know this as foreing bloggers at WUWT and expectators of this peculiar madness.
Pamela Gray (17:25:36) We already have a litmus test, covered in detail in ‘The Life of Brian’. Simply submerge each politician in a tank of water, if they don’t drown they are witches and should be burned. End of problem.
On a more serious note, I would like to see a system where people only serve in politics with reluctance. Politics should be a means to an end; a media, not the message.
With Mr. Waxman surfacing again in comments, my thoughts on his effectiveness, http://i44.tinypic.com/2062dk0.jpg
On a more serious note, I would like to see a system where people only serve in politics with reluctance. Politics should be a means to an end; a media, not the message.
Or to paraphrase Douglas Adams…
“The last person you want as Galactic President is someone who actually WANTS the job”
DaveE
I guess she has seen the Loch Ness Monster/sasquatch/believes in fairies as well.
Good to see that your leaders are as barking as ours.
“We have just four months. Four months to secure the future of our planet.”
Apparently this idiocy isn’t limited to only the US Congress.
The comical Senator is just attempting to personalize the catechism that the acolytes of the Alarmist cult have taught her. She has come to ‘testify’.
But that she can proclaim such utter nonsense in public is a dire indication of the failing of rational science to counter the Revealed Truth of the Alarmists.
While Realist scientists play catch on the sidelines, the Alarmist hierarchy prepare for the World Series of Alarmism in Copenhagen. From a speech by the Secretary General of the United Nations:
(From Drudge; full text here: http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/sgspeeches/statments_full.asp?statID=557 )
“The science is clear.” That is the mantra of the Alarmist cult. It brooks no naysaying; to deny it is heresy.
Which prominent scientists and politicians will dare to break ranks and speak out against this rush to disaster? Not deluded souls like Debbie Stabenow, who now inhabit what used to be “The greatest deliberate body in the world,” the US Senate.
To paraphrase the Secretary-General, “We have just four months. Four months to secure the future of our planet—by stopping the Alarmists in their tracks.”
/Mr Lynn
The comments on this thread have made my day. Thanks, everybody!
As a former professional Pilot,I too have felt that “instablitiy”-not counting the few times
something important fell off the Aircraft-usually in the face of a cold front over the Cascades,or Sierra Nevada or Rockies,or Wrangells. I’ve been spit out of a Cumulonimbus top near inverted at 25,000 ft. and nearly mashed into the high
desert of New Mexico by a downburst.
Debbie,you are a fool…
As someone who’s always had a problem with motion sickness when flying, I can say I’ve been feeling a bit more of it nowadays, too. But IMHO, it’s more because the planes I’m flying seem to have gotten smaller. Routes that I used to fly in 757’s or better are now serviced mainly by 737’s or A319’s. I don’t know about Michigan routes, but I’d say to Debbie that she might want to honestly check the memory on that (if she’s able to be honest).
“I feel it when I’m flying” is indeed an unfortunate comment, best case. Can anyone provide a link to the actual interview (not the Planet Gore site, which is all I can find in my attempts to corroborate). A direct quotation from other than NR would be useful.
Thanks.
Global Warming is going to surpass Christianity.
Its everywhere, even at the gym. GW is probably going to be the next excuse for America to invade some other country in the Middle East.
“Global Warmingty”
The subtext is – if you want jobs, development money, R&D money, a study grant or money for that surgery you’ve been avoiding – call it “climate change.” What is stupefying is the authors of this campaign continue to throw billions into AGW propaganda that has no effect. Since there is so little acceptance of the alarmist tale and poll numbers confirm the failure of climate change to register in the public psyche – it can only be pride that keeps these pundits on message.
Now what kind of people are so inflated by pride they cannot admit error? Or change course to an energy campaign based on economy, jobs, security, enviro/health?? It’s been spelled out for you! Utterly inhuman!
It’s “Michiganders.”
And Michigeese??
John W
“It’s Michiganders”
Is that all the Michigan people, John? Or are the females called Michigeese?
Sandy, DaveF:
I’m an immigrant from Alabama, and I’ve only heard “Michigander.” I’ll look into it, though, and get back to you. 8^)
The UN is a criminally corrupt organization, with one overarching goal: to make Americans pay $Trillions for a completely fabricated scare.
UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki Moon:
“Any agreement must be fair, effective, equitable and comprehensive, and based on science. And it must help vulnerable nations adapt to climate change.”
May I translate? Thank you:
“Any agreement must be
fair, effective,equitableand comprehensive,and based on science. And it must helpvulnerablegreedy, corrupt nationsadapt to climate changeget their hands deep down into the pockets of American taxpayers. With the connivance of our very close friend President 0bama, and the Democrats who completely control Congress, we will succeed in getting them to sell out their own country by transferring an enormous amount of American taxpayers’ wealth into other countries, based on entirely bogus science, and for no honest reason whatever.”There. Fixed it for you, Mr Moon.
Regarding Sen. Stabenow’s comment that “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”:
Do the “brains” of the AGW camp ever publicly disavow ridiculous statements like this? Surely the guys at Real Climate must be appalled by statements like this (and by studies such as the one claiming that sheep are shrinking because of AGW.) Is such nonsense ever denounced by RC?
“I feel it when I’m flying.”
[snip -OTT]
Also notice the totally spontaneous sign-holding going on in the background of Stabenow’s picture. Of course the term “Jobs” will be a mostly historical reference if they get the cap-and-tax thing passed.
Perhaps the good Senator is actually talking about the fact the democrat attempt to buy a new fleet of aircraft for Congressional use was put on hold due to turbulant coverage in the press?
Smokey (10:32:56) :
…by transferring an enormous amount of American taxpayers’ wealth into other countries, based on entirely bogus science, and for no honest reason whatever.”
Is there some wealth left? , like looking for sunspots these days 🙂
Mike Abbott (10:49:15) :
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The only thing that is shrinking is their brains. lol
the_butcher (08:32:33) “Global Warming is going to surpass Christianity. Its everywhere, even at the gym. GW is probably going to be the next excuse for America to invade some other country […]”
In Foster et al.’s (2009) attack on McLean et al. (2009) they cite Thompson et al. (2008).
Thompson et al. (2008):
“~100 Hiroshima-sized explosions are predicted to lead to a global-mean cooling of ~1.25C (ref. 5) […] 5. Robock, A. et al. Climatic consequences of regional nuclear conflicts. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 7, 2003-2012 (2007).”
2 birds with one stone?
[perhaps in some peoples’ minds already]
The ironies thicken.
“Good” is being redefined on one dimension [T]. Keep it real stupid simple. [Yesterday’s villain = today’s hero?…]
This is just as nutty as politicians who pray that “God” will “show me a way, show me a way”.
I’ll point out that anyone doing that at least realizes that they have limits, and have reached them. Such a person will be willing to listen.
Characteristics all too rare among politicians, or the elites generally.
Is it not possible that she isn’t completely stupid but is saying what she has been told to say to the best of her very limited ability? For me she is simply showing what the debate is about in the science and political sphere. Keep saying the mantra, it doesn’t matter if it’s not true.
We have reached a very serious point on our democratic road where the politicians have hijacked democracy to take complete control and the wishes of the people are now an irrelevancy. AGW or whatever is the latest threat to the world, is a very important part of this process.