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 could they possibly come to?
Expert Reviewers:
- Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Jerry Meehl, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Jeff Masters, Weather Underground
- Richard Somerville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
May as well just turbo rubber stamp it and be done with it like we saw with Dessler’s recent GRL paper, which is now being revised due to its haste makes waste set of mistakes in it that Dessler is admitting to.
But this quote, is the real weather wackiness:
“There’s really no such thing as natural weather anymore,” says climate scientist Donald Wuebbles of the University of Illinois, who was not involved with the report, but said he largely agreed with its conclusions. “Anything that takes place today in the weather system has been affected by the changes we’ve made to the climate system. That’s just the background situation and it’s good for people to know that,” Wuebbles says. Although scientists cannot immediately tie what percentage of an extreme weather event relies on global warming to make it more severe, he says. “It’s always a factor in today’s world.”
Source here
No natural weather anymore? So weather is “permanently polluted” by “changes we’ve made to the climate system”?
Gee, we’re worse than we thought! /sarc
This sort of thinking isn’t new. Consider history:
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The chief god of the Babylonians was Marduk. Marduk was initially the god of thunderstorms but at some point grew to become the god of the ambiance. 1 of the most crucial gods of the Vedic religion of ancient India was Indra, the god of rain and storms.
Source: http://ican-planet.com/god-of-ra/weather-gods-and-ancient-meteorology/
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Zeus (Roman name: Jupiter)
The most powerful of all, Zeus was god of the sky and the king of Olympus. His temper affected the weather, and he threw thunderbolts when he was unhappy. So it was important for humans to keep him happy.
Source: The Olympian Gods and Goddesses — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0881990.html#ixzz1XT66JKzb
A paper by Emily Oster reports that in medieval times superstition blamed witches for weather disasters and crop failures – “Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that, just as easily as they raise hailstorms, so can they cause lightning and storms at sea; and so no doubt at all remains on these points.”
Source: http://www.ozclimatesense.com/2010/08/witcheswarlocks-and-weather.html
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Wireless Changing Climate
That the far-famed climate of Southern California is undergoing a change that will ultimately cause a complete reversal of form is the belief of climate experts who have been making a study of conditions on the Pacific Coast. These experts declare the change is being caused by jolts of electric currents loose in the atmosphere. – Clarence and Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1889 – 1915) Thursday 5 October 1911
Source: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/61617803?searchTerm=climate%20change&searchLimits=
(h/t to Steve Goddard)
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That seems like the forerunner of the ridiculous HAARP claims we hear today. The sanity test is power; compare the amount of watts emitted by the most powerful radio station to the power in a single thunderstorm or extratropical cyclone. Sandgrains impacting on the windshield don’t measurably change the path of an automobile either.
Yet we are asked to believe man is influencing severe weather this year in spite of the data:
A few months ago USA Today asked this question:
Can we do anything about vicious bad weather?
Unless we want to start praying to the weather gods again, or give up all our wireless communications, and given there doesn’t seem to be any signal in severe weather or ocean heat content, probably not.
Put the blame on Mame, boys.
Put the blame on Mame!
Jim Petrie says:
September 9, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Jim Petrie: What in this world are you talking about . . . . this is a free site . . . . is it not moderator???!!!???
Dale says:
September 9, 2011 at 4:21 pm
So if natural weather no longer exists, that holds massive implications on the insurance industry. No longer can they weasel their way out of paying up after storms, floods, etc, because they are no longer “an act of God”.
Under certain circumstances, Dale, the only thing that an insurance policy will pay for is “an act of God”.
I think you are mixing this up with “an act of War”!
Short, sweet, and incomplete! (comment that is)
Crispin in Waterloo-Yes, taking short time periods for US winter temperatures will tend to show high variability. The point is that over a period when the overall temperature trend for the world is positive (1979-present) there is strong winter warming, relative to summer. This is why I said 30 years. In other words, when the world warms, the temperatures in the US become, on the whole, LESS extreme!
TonyB and others interested in witches:
The ‘old religion’ of Whicken (commonly called witchcraft) continues to be practiced here in Cornwall. And Cornwall is the adjacent county to Devon which contains Exeter and the Met.Office HQ (OK, before the objections, Cornwall is a country and not county).
Many towns contain Christian bookshops and several Cornish towns contain stores that supply the needs of witches and warlocks. Although the places of Whicken worship are mostly not public knowledge, some are well known and at least one (near Penzance) has similar government ‘protection’ to that of Christian church buildings.
The intolerant will always find ways to persecute those whom they do not like. The execution of witches for crop failures was a convenient response to fulfill malign opposition to a religious minority. When that response became enacted in law then it was also used as an excuse to eradicate others who were unpopular: define a person as a witch and that person would be executed. Similar response to AGW-skeptics has been advocated by several ‘greens’.
Richard
David Wright,
I thought that Witches were/are female; the male equivalent was/is a Warlock.
Ryan says:
September 9, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Humans can and have had a huge impact on local weather patterns.
Consider a boreal forest. The soil will be several feet thick and highly pourus. It will absorb water like a sponge. Water will fill in underground chambers and eventually bust out onto land forming brooks and streams, feeding rivers. The land will go through a cycle. It will dry until monsoon rains come when it will refill. As the heavy rains pass evaporation will draw water from the soil, and that water will rain nearby. If monsoons were to stop the cycle would break down and the forest would die.
Now humans arrive. They cut down every tree and mono-cultivate the land until the soil has been used up. The dirt dries, loses porousity, and forms a thick top layer. Now when the monsoon comes there is no soil to suck it up, so it just runs along the ground, the flooding is immense. And all the water simply washes into the sea, it does not stay in the ground to evaporate later. So there is no longer regular rainfall around the now dead forest.
You’ve described land-use change, not huge impact on local weather patterns. The monsoon still comes, but interacts with the land differently now. And from what I’ve read, the recent flooding in Australia stemmed more from incompetent dam management (led in part by reliance on CAGW voodoo) than any kind of climate change.
@richard S Courtney says:
September 11, 2011 at 3:47 am
Understanding that US English and UK English are not the same, I only ask for clarification. Is Whicken the same as Wiccan (what we commonly use to refer to the religion of Witches and Warlocks)?