Maybe some folk scan listen in on this and take notes.
PRESS ADVISORY: LEADING SCIENTISTS TO DISCUSS CLIMATE CHANGE, HEAT WAVES AND WILDFIRES
WHAT: As a heat wave sweeps across much of the country and wildfires rage in the West, many are wondering about the connection between these types of extreme weather events and climate change. Climate Communication has put together Heat Waves and Climate Change, a summary of the latest peer-reviewed literature on climate change and the recent increase in temperatures — a contributing factor to wildfires. Panelists on this call will discuss how climate change contributes to the extreme weather events unfolding now, their public health impacts and how similar risks could multiply in the future.
WHEN: Thursday, June 28, 11 a.m. Eastern Time
To call in and listen only, dial 1-855-244-8681. The event number is 660 341 332.
WHO:
Dr. Steven Running — Director, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, Dept. of Ecosystem Sciences, University of Montana
Dr. Howard Frumkin — Dean, School of Public Health, Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
Dr. Michael Oppenheimer — Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University.
Susan Joy Hassol, Director at Climate Communication, will moderate the panel
Some facts from Heat Waves and Climate Change, which will be available tomorrow:
- Since 1950 the number of heat waves worldwide has increased, and heat waves have become longer
- In the past several years, the global area hit by extremely unusual hot temperatures has increased 50-fold
- In the U.S., new record high temperatures now regularly outnumber new record lows by a ratio of 2:1; In 2012, the ratio for the year (through June 26) stands at more than 9:1.
- In the U.S., the rise in heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere has increased the probability of record-breaking temperatures 15-fold
- If we continue business as usual, the same summertime temperatures that ranked among the top 5% in 1950–1979 will occur at least 70% of the time by 2035–2064 in the U.S.
- By the end of this century, a once-every-20 year heat wave is projected to occur every other year
h/t to reader Steve Divine
I actually turned on my electric blanket last night.
Another thing that is annoying here in TX is the fondness of newscasters to report “record electricity usage’…and @ur momisugly the same time failing to mention the increased ‘record levels’ of population USING that electricity.
It’s assinine-are we really supposed to believe that a larger population is expected NOT to represent a larger demand?
Somone and three competent interested parties need to attend this. Have some preprinted questions to ask.
Nice, they gut our fire fighting air fleet and then score points for the wild fires. Scumbags. http://suyts.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/obama-fiddles-while-the-west-burns/
June 27th and we have already broken the all time record for “post-tropical cyclones” reported in the northern hemisphere.
Hey, Mr. Mann, why haven’t you filed that defamation suit yet? I can’t wait to see you in court, attempting to prove AGW to a jury.
■Since 1950 the number of heat waves worldwide has increased, and heat waves have become longer
■In the past several years, the global area hit by extremely unusual hot temperatures has increased 50-fold
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Sadly and despite collating the GHG heat trapping stuff, the data confirms Marcel Leroux work and shows that wider area are affected by stronger anticyclonic agglutinations -i.e. high pressure fed by powerful MPHs… result of a rapid mode of circulation starting in the 1970s, hardly a confirmation of AGW, on the contrary! Thank you guys… LOL
ferdberple says: June 27, 2012 at 6:03 pm
“Those that can, work. Those that can’t, consult. Those that can’t consult teach.”
ferdberple, that statement does not work. I took 54 science courses, did research for 15 years, and have taught for 24 years. You really learn a subject when thou teach it. Physics, Inorganic, Organic and Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics, Oceanography, Environmental Science, and Marine Biology. I am a generalist, as I see all sciences as intimately overlapping.
The bottom line is that I can destroy every claim made by the warmists. No gas of any kind can heat the atmosphere, global warming by CO2 is not, and by man it is not, etc.
Do not denigrate teachers. Too many times the academics do not take the time to look at the big picture and when they finally take the time to do so, they usually turn skeptic. The other warmist scientists are simply defending their income stream. <<>> GLobal warming funding has become a billion dollar industry and it will take time to grind it into oblivion.
Everytime you turn the key in your SUV a polar bear falls from the sky and splatters on the pavement and two houses burn down in Colorado. Hey… it’s a start!
I couldn’t help to notice the great influx of jets this evening, late, around 10 p.m., since I live between two major flight paths into an international airport. Many appear to be military in style. Wonder if this has anything to do with tomorrow’s letting Obama renegade administration know he and his underpinnings are not above the law? Hollywood support or not.
Oh, ‘leading scientists’ in the sub-title, that was a typo, should have read ‘lying (by omission) scientists’.
This is such a sham. The extreme winter coldness has dried out the mismanaged forests letting high levels of wood fuel to accumulate at the floor of these forests that should have been let to burn regularly to prevent the buildup. So when you get normal high temperature dry spells, there is now a major problem. Environmentalists once again, destroying the local ’world’ themselves.
Don’t refrain from calling these ‘scientists’ what they are.
“…Since 1950 the number of heat waves worldwide has increased, and heat waves have become longer…”
“…In the past several years, the global area hit by extremely unusual hot temperatures has increased 50-fold…”
Then they really do need to add this “fact” (and explain why this long standing record hasn’t been beaten yet):
“…Marble Bar Australia set a world record of most consecutive days of maximum temperatures of 37.8 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) or more, during a period of 160 such days from 31 October 1923 to 7 April 1924…”
An 88-year old record. 160 straight days of extreme heat. And CO2 was MUCH lower then.
I realize that Marble Bar normally has a lot of hot days. But after 88 years, you’d think they’d have gotten close once or twice.
Why hasn’t the increase in heatwaves matched or exceeded THIS record?
Maybe some folk scan listen in on this and take notes.
That’s peach recognition for you! 🙂
Henry III, come now, that was only weather at Marble Bar. We are talking about climate now. Just see my two GCMs, Montfort and Evesham.
Fifty years is a small sample size – for the United States the highest and driest years occurred (in accurately recorded records) during the 1930’s, over 80 years ago. AGW alarmists tend to ignore that accurate records for temperature have only been taken for about 150 years so they tend to concentrate on small sample sizes, and in order to increase the alarmist results they tend to ignore records over 50 years old.
Right now, the Pacific Northwest is experiencing one of it’s coldest periods in 40 years and average global temperatures have declined since 2007 – let’s ignore that regional results are highly variable and historical records beyond fifty years exist.
There’s a typo in the first line. “Maybe some folk scan listen…” should be “Maybe some folks can listen..”. Were you using speech recognition? This is the type of error you get quite often.
For scientific references I have sections for these on the list,
http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html#Disasters
http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html#Heat
http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html#Wildfires
Henrythethird
Because they only start from 1950. The BOM in Australia does the same thing. For instance, Sydney (Observatory) had more days over 35C between 1921 and 1950 than between 1981 and 2010. Yet a new report says we are experiencing hotter days now.
Also, of the ten hottest years in the US, four were in the 1930’s. So they don’t mention those records and they can get away with saying anything.
1950.
“the same summertime temperatures that ranked among the top 5% in 1950–1979 will occur at least 70% of the time by 2035–2064 in the U.S”
Does that mean a shift of the mean of summertime maximum daily temperatures by about 2.2 standard deviations? If so, that implies places with a present summertime SD of 5 degree C could suffer a summertime temperature rise of 11 degree C.
Anthony
Where were the references to back up those sweeping assertions? Did they not get linked to or were they never given?
A good bit of empirical eidence in threse northern climes is to ask readers how their outdoor tomatoes have done the last few years. Here in the UK they havent grown, let alone set, let alone ripened. You can see why when looking at the official temperature from the Met office
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/
The temperature has been dropping steadily for a decade. We are back to the sorts of levels we had in the 1730’s and boy is it wet wet wet…
Special offer to al WUWT readers !!! Two snails for the price of one. Hurry!! Not at all a limited offer. Buy now before they start to organise themselves and take over the country
tonyb
The correct expression is:
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
Those who can’t teach, teach teachers.
Bottom line: letting career academics take business decisions usually (not always!) ends in disaster.
Business men usually have to take responsibility for their actions, while academics rarely do, which is one of the reasons why the alarmists are so vocal about the non-problem of the supposed existence of CAGW.
But career academics are also opportunistic: it looks like we may be heading back into an El Nino environment, which means some temperature records are going to be broken somewhere in the world, so there is going to be a chorus of “Told you so” from the alarmists over the next 12 months.
“The first thing they should be telling people is that the 1930′s were far worse for heat……”
They were; they are no longer of course: http://stevengoddard.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/1998changesannotated.gif?w=500
Didn’t the IPCC recently publish a special report on extreme weather showing that extreme weather events are not related to climate change; natural or anthroprogenic?
Once again, the snide, cynical & jaded exploitation of a disaster to further the aims of the climate druids. Disgusting.
ferdberple says:
June 27, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Those that can, work. Those that can’t, consult. Those that can’t consult teach.
Those who fail at working, consulting, or teaching go the political route and hold pressers.