Brad Johnson's 'Frankenstorm' malfeasance masquerading as idiocy

I think this Frankenstorm stuff is all an election ploy. They’re trying to remind voters that the sky is about to fall and that only The One can reverse the rise of the oceans etc. Orwell would not have dared to write such things into “1984”. When Frankenstorm declines to follow the political script and freewheels off into the north atlantic, then it will be forgotten amongst the urgings that we have always been at war with Eastasia.

I think they are referring aerosols* from burning fuels, which are known to increase precipitation, but decrease central wind speed of hurricanes by significant amounts.
But in line with the usual AGW deceptive practices, its phrased in a way that would give most people the impression they are referring to GHGs.
* If pressed to show a scientific basis for this claim.

Upon further review….
“If the candidates won’t listen [Johnson’s plan is the only plan] to the voters demanding they break their climate silence [implicit assumption of all voters assumed to vote in the majority for the Johnson plan], maybe they will listen to Mother Nature’s October Surprise [mysticism]. We know the candidates will be asked about Hurricane Sandy, and will express their sympathy with those affected. They will rightly applaud the first responders, the compassion of neighbors, and the strength and resolve of the American people [Wow! A strange reference to public choice theory, politicos are politicos….what insight!]. But what their role [Johnson’s defined role] as national leaders demands [what Johnson’s plan demands] that they also do [additional requirements of the master plan] is explain [agree with the master plan] that Hurricane Sandy is a true Frankenstorm [apparently Dr. Frankenstein is involved], a monster [the storm now takes on human characteristics as changing gears to now argue via verbal virtuosity] created by man [you did it] tampering with nature [you did it and its your fault and how dare you] with nature [nature according to Johnson] with oil, coal, and gas pollution [Ah, shock and surprise, a villain!].”

Pennsylvania? Hazel? I was there. I did miss these, though:
1869, 1877, 1878, 1893, 1896, & 1933
http://www.midatlantichurricanes.com/Pennsylvania.html
Johnson is a Swedish name, as is mine. As Gramps said, “You can always tell a Swede but you can’t tell’em much.”

To _Jim says:
October 26, 2012 at 9:40 pm
Yeah obama came out and said
“I gave three very clear directives. Number one, make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to. Number two, we’re going to investigate exactly what happened to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Number three, find out who did this so we can bring them to justice.”
Then Bing West, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense got on foxnews and said
“If that actually happened the way President Obama said it happened, there’s a paper trail and I think people reasonably enough can say, “Can we see the order?”
Next people will be demanding to see his birth cert, college records, etc.

We cannot evoke “God” in the classroom, but we can evoke “God” in weather/climate? I’m so confused.
Nothing but a bunch of charlatans, but we’ve known that here for a long time.

[snip -policy violation for language -mod]

Current conditions are 65 KNOT Franken Hurricane!! Does Franken mean just barely?

No we can’t blame God but we can blame Obama because Obama is the source of all evil. Right….

“Frankenstorm” is prolly a reference to that big fat liar Al Franken – another big wind.

The far-out enviros have put themselves in the same bag as whackos who claim HIV is the punishment from god for homosexuality. Congratulations guys, you’ve become what you used to loathe the most.

If the cause is so just and serious, then we don’t need laws trying to manipulate a few 10/1000 th’s of our atmosphere to tell us how to act. Do the vast majority of us not commit murder because of some statute? I think not. Most of us know better.
These people who think that passing laws make anything better are deluded. Do these folk really think they can talk us into abandoning ourfarms, cars, our homes and the comforts of the day for that our great, great grandkids might be inconvienienced?
And what is sustainable? If you take this logic to the fullest, we should still be living in caves. Never improving our lot, as it is unsustainable.
Madness when one thinks about it soberly.
EJ

If this is a Frankenstorm, Brad is a Göbbelsjugend.

I have tried to explain the data about falling storm frequency with time?rising atmospheric CO2 content to people and I get the glazed expression. I am not believed. Whatever you tell these people will not make a difference. This is why Obama may get back for a second more damaging term. I feel sorry for America.

“Forecast the facts”.. whatever names do the extremists come up with? Hw can one forcast a “fact”? It’s either a forecast of something that may happen, or it is a fact that has already happened. But these guys love playing the almighty. Hubris is their great malady which is making them more irrlevant as times goes by.
Frankengreens…

The NHC downgraded Sandy to a tropical storm this morning.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#SANDY

Lest you think this sort of logic affliction is unique to Brad Johnson, I’ll point out that his cheering section over at Grist says essentially the same thing in God’s latest warning:
Perhaps this weather scare that may well be much more than just a scare is God’s revenge for the refusal of the U.S. government to take action on the climate crisis. – Ted Glick
Some people in the human race do not appear to have advanced much since the middle ages:
Seven weeks after Easter in A.D. 1315, sheets of rain spread across a sodden Europe, turning freshly plowed fields into lakes and quagmires. The deluge continued through June and July, and then August and September. Hay lay flat in the fields; wheat and barley rotted unharvested. The anonymous author of the Chronicle of Malmesbury wondered if divine vengeance had come upon the land: “Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand against them, and hath smitten them.”
In the middle ages they had witch finders to find witches and burn them to prevent crop failures – nowadays we have the EPA and climatologists – but its the same underlying story. Something has gone wrong so some humans are to blame and we are being punished for it – find the guilty humans. One wonders climatologists are aware that they are just demonstrating atavistic tendencies only one step away from giving sacrifices to the gods?

If it weren’t for “oil, coal, and gas pollution” Brad would have no way to get his propaganda out–there would be no universal electricity, Internet, or computers.
How else except through “oil, coal, and gas pollution” have we been able to industrialize and communicate?
Brad isn’t thinking.
(Indeed, “thinking” people realize this “pollution” of which he speaks is actually plant food, but apparently he doesn’t realize the connection between that and his very life.)

Hypochondria strikes again.
The guy has a slight sniffle and thinks he has deadly plague !
Must be MANN flu !!

I remember Hurricane Hazel. I was six at the time. We were then living temporarily in Boston where my father was interning. It was projected to hit Boston, but diverted and hit Toronto, where we lived. In Boston, it was merely heavy winds and rains ( I still somewhat remember walking home from school.)
It transformed Toronto’s conservation practices as there was huge (unprecedented) flooding, even washing away some houses built in the floodplain of the usually small Humber River. Nothing similar has subsequently hit Toronto in my lifetime. Retrospective analyses of Hazel suggest elements very similar to the present storm. It also appears to have involved a coalescence of a tropical storm and an Arctic front

Grammar quibble: I realize that this material is not your original, but the sentence “The surge even reopened Mary’s Inlet, which had been artificially closed during the summer of 1955…” doesn’t make sense. Can’t speak in the past perfect tense of 1955 events, when discussing a 1954 storm. This source says “The storm surge re-opened Mary’s Inlet, which had been recently closed by the Army Corps of Engineers.”
Global trends in hurricanes are discussed in Weinkle et al., “Historical Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls”, non-paywalled version here. Its abstract says “The analysis does not indicate significant long-period global or individual basin trends in the frequency or intensity of landfalling TCs of minor or major hurricane strength.”

Very good article.
Your hurricane history is excellent.
Thanks, Anthony.

The scare focus is on the wrong system. The hurricane isn’t the issue. It is why it would follow the predicted path. What pressure systems are working together that would push this thing inland at New York versus the usual turn out to sea? If people want to assign this landfall event to fossil fuels, they will have to look at these other pressure systems that have been predicted to push/pull this thing towards land. The huricane itself is a standard yawner.
Once the media focus is placed on the right path directors in this event, we can all actually learn something. But what fun is there in focusing the camera lens on pressure systems to the right and left of the path that would cause this thing to hit landfall? The eye of the hurricane makes a much more gripping TV screen shot and hands professional weirdos their requested AGW photo op.

So … God sends cold air from the arctic to collide with the warm air of a hurricane and it is AGW?
Maybe god is saying “Quick, burn more coal like Germany and heat up the arctic so no more cold air will come south!”

Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bidd’st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
O Christ! Whose voice the waters heard
And hushed their raging at Thy word,
Who walkedst on the foaming deep,
And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
(The valedictory hymn at school at the end of term)

Trick or Treat ! ! !
Per KeithW above….the now NHC downgraded “Frankenstorm Sandy”….
may NOT become our Halloween surprize….can we then….
rebrand pet name given by….the BJ at “Fauxcast the Fakes”….
FRANKENSPRINKLE SANDY ? ? ?

joeldshore says:
October 27, 2012 at 7:53 am
“Alarmist’s statements are also certainly beyond what the current science can support.”
Fixed it for you.

Wow, I had no idea so many hurricanes hit New England like that. Thanks for the information. Most people are under the impression that those hit the Gulf States and stuff like that. Thanks for the clarification.

greg Laden says:
October 27, 2012 at 8:57 am
“I had no idea.”
At least this part of your post is not misleading.

Last night I decided to punch Anthony’s hurricane list into a spreadsheet (and wondered why is that 1913 tropical storm included).
Ah, if only one could bottle the effect, barely stayed awake through the end of it.
*puts on Halloween troll hat*
A. The last one has the highest wind speed! How can you deny they’re getting worse?
B. The linear trend line clearly shows the speeds are increasing 0.15mph per year! Okay, the R² is only 0.09, but the increase is there!
C. You must be cherrypicking, how else do you explain the long stretches between 1924-41 and 1968-85 where there were none?
*removes hat, watches it crawl away*
Actually the most remarkable things are how the earliest wind speeds were all 100mph, with 20mph increments until 1887. Are those just “must have been at least” guesses?

joeldshore says:
October 27, 2012 at 7:53 am
Okay…I’ll howl. etc. . . .
Thanks, Joel, I hadn’t seen that “call to truth.”
Except for the small bit about how Earth and we got here, that statement seems to make good sense and many readers would find themselves in agreement with much of it. I will only say that to demand a person extricate the self from one’s family and societal swamp before paying any heed to the other characteristics possessed is equivalent to rejecting the entire human race. Regarding the thus dismissed phrases, I have no compelling replacements or alternatives to suggest – and don’t care. Thus, I move on.
Consider the beliefs of Isaac Newton. Here is a book review of Michael White’s “Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer”:
http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/3711-isaac-newton-the-last-sorcerer.html
Nevertheless, Calculus still works and apples still fall from trees.

I don’t know how many of you follow Dr. Ryan Maue on Twitter but he has stated this morning that:
“coastal effects look forecast to be worse than 1938 according to GFS — Long Island extreme winds will be 80 – 100 kts”
He also states that 12Z NAM shows snowfall for WVA mountains at around 3 ft max.

From the “weather is not climate” division.
Much of the UK’s east coast has been hit by snow in the last 24 hours. Snow, in October.
We didn’t have a summer. Honestly, we had a few warm days here and there but nothing a resident of Arizona or California would call hot.
I think the Brits would welcome a bit of global warming.
I hope the impact of this hurricane for those in it’s path is not as bad as the fearmongers are wishing for. Be safe.

I’m an idiot. that’s what a few thousand miles of separation & not finishing reading the article before you comment does for you. I thought this storm was happening now! Doh.

Mods, please delete my comment at 11:13 as it is incorrect. Corrected post at 11:14. Thank you

I think it would be swell if Frankenstorm 2.0 packed as much punch as Frankenstorm 1.0 that struck the North East and Long Island on September 21, 1938.
We should Re-Brand the description of this storm ourselves “Frankenstorm 2.0”, in light of our newly discovered 1938 Hurricane information.
I think these people pointing the finger at and blaming the wrong men, the general public, for Human Induced Climate Change, should be pointing the finger at themselves, and we should be pointing our fingers at them, for the Geo Engineering experiments they have been conducting on us.
Ken Caldeira discussing his article in the September 2012 issue of Scientific American.
The Great Climate Experiment: How far can we push the planet? Ken Caldeira [Scientific American]

Huh? You’re just as much of a shill for the other side. so it’s like the pot calling the kettle black, and actually, you’re even worse for downplaying a potentially dangerous storm that’s already proven deadly. Plus, you’re showing your true nature in vitriolic ad hominem attack disguised as some sort of a science-based screed.
REPLY: You might try reading it and understanding it, rather than simply screeching about it. Otherwise, you become part of the problem – Anthony

“Perhaps this weather scare that may well be much more than just a scare is God’s revenge for the refusal of the U.S. government to take action on the climate crisis. – Ted Glick”
Oh noes, there must be someone out there who has spoken directly to God and He has given His answer.
There are so many of the sane, wise and sage among our members of the cloth.
Let’s ask Pat Robertson, he’ll know. I heard God told him to run for president. Maybe they’re still talking.
/sarc/off
Where do we find these Glicks, Gleiks and kooks?
cn

Franken – a part of Bavaria which is known as Franconia to English speakers.Franks native to central Germany moved west and founded th e empire of the Franks : France.

Bob Berwyn says:
October 27, 2012 at 1:22 pm
You have to indicate who you are directing your post to.

tjfolkerts says:
October 27, 2012 at 9:41 am
Back to you. What was that you were saying?

If it is idiocy masquerading it is a most excellent and convincing disguise.

Dennis Ray Wingo says:

Anthony, as a weatherman can you comment on the front that is progressing across to the Eastern seaboard and its effect on this storm? From what I have seen in the past of these fronts pushing Hurricanes out to sea, how in the hell is this storm going to make a 90 degree turn toward land on Monday?

From what I understand, the problem is that the front / trough is not making all that much forward progress (it is stalled out just east of us here in Western NY) because of significant blocking in the atmosphere. It is this blocking and the trough in the Eastern U.S. that are expected to force Sandy to hook back toward the coast. You can see some discussion of it in the latest (as of 11pm EDT) forecast discussion here: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2012/al18/al182012.discus.023.shtml?

Anthony, one piece of advice: “Don’t feed the trolls!”

“ October 28, 2012 at 12:24 am
What I am puzzled about is what will make this storm system do a sharp left turn? I have looked through a lot of historical tracks and I haven’t found one that will do anything beyond a slow creep NNE or NE. There is obviously a good reason for this track prediction . . http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at201218_5day.html
but what is it?
There’s an “anomalous” (NHC’s word – must be AGW/ Bush’s/Mitt’s/Ann Coulter’s fault), blocking high sitting up over the Canadian Maritimes that’s preventing Sandy from going straight up the coast. There is also a well defined high pressure ridge N-S over the US midwest behind the low pressure trough, also N-S, over the east-central US, that is effectively channelling the storm into the trough. The weather systems in the trough have nowhere to go because of the highs and they and Sandy will eventually mash together over the US Northeast and southeastern Canada.