From CBS/AP
“United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says one of the lessons from Superstorm Sandy is the need for global action to deal with future climate shocks.
A new round of global climate talks starts in Doha, Qatar on Nov. 27, and Ban urged nations to reach a binding agreement by 2015 to curtail emissions of heat-trapping gases in order to stop the planet from overheating.
He told the U.N. General Assembly on Friday that it is difficult to attribute any single storm to climate change, but the world already knows that “extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal.”
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“There has been a series of extreme weather incidents. That is not a political statement. That is a factual statement,” Cuomo said. “Anyone who says there’s not a dramatic change in weather patterns, I think, is denying reality.”
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Just proves you don’t have to be smart to be a successful politician.
At least we know some of the names of those who sit on the IPPC unlike some of those who dictate climate policy at the BBC:
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/11/9/oh-dear.html
Just wondering what world he is talking about.
Heaven help us.
Words fail me.
Well, actually not, but they would end up appearing here as “snip”.
“it is difficult to attribute any single storm to climate change, but the world already knows that “extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal.”
What a downright STUPID contradiction. This is anti-intellectualism with no conscience….or thought. The world already knows? You are out of your cotton-pickin’ mind, Ban Ki-moon.
Clearly there is a not so hidden agenda that has nothing to do with “climate change” or with “science”.
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2011GL047711.shtml
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 38, L14803, 6 PP., 2011 doi:10.1029/2011GL047711
Recent historically low global tropical cyclone activity
Tropical cyclone accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) has exhibited strikingly large global interannual variability during the past 40-years. In the pentad since 2006, Northern Hemisphere and global tropical cyclone ACE has decreased dramatically to the lowest levels since the late 1970s. Additionally, the global frequency of tropical cyclones has reached a historical low.
Key Points
• In the past 5-years, global tropical cyclone activity has decreased markedly
• Tropical cyclone ACE is modulated by ENSO and PDO on a global scale
• Heightened North Atlantic hurricane activity is not unexpected
Timothy Wirth, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Global Issues, seconded Strong’s statement: “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”
“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony … climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.” – Christine Stewart, former Canadian Minister of the Environment
“The models are convenient fictions that provide something very useful.”Dr David Frame, Climate modeler, Oxford University
“It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.” – Paul Watson, Co-founder of Greenpeace”
“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.” – Sir John Houghton, First chairman of the IPCC
“The data doesn’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations on the data. We’re basing them on the climate models.” Prof. Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
http://www.climatechangefacts.info/ClimateChangeDocuments
/LandseaResignationLetterFromIPCC.htm
Quote:
“After some prolonged deliberation, I have decided to withdraw from participating in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). I am withdrawing because I have come to view the part of the IPCC to which my expertise is relevant as having become politicized. In addition, when I have raised my concerns to the IPCC leadership, their response was simply to dismiss my concerns…. …..Shortly after Dr. Trenberth requested that I draft the Atlantic hurricane section for the AR4’s Observations chapter, Dr. Trenberth participated in a press conference organized by scientists at Harvard on the topic “Experts to warn global warming likely to continue spurring more outbreaks of intense hurricane activity” along with other media interviews on the topic. The result of this media interaction was widespread coverage that directly connected the very busy 2004 Atlantic hurricane season as being caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas warming occurring today. Listening to and reading transcripts of this press conference and media interviews, it is apparent that Dr. Trenberth was being accurately quoted and summarized in such statements and was not being misrepresented in the media. These media sessions have potential to result in a widespread perception that global warming has made recent hurricane activity much more severe.
Moreover, the evidence is quite strong and supported by the most recent credible studies that any impact in the future from global warming upon hurricane will likely be quite small. The latest results from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (Knutson and Tuleya, Journal of Climate, 2004) suggest that by around 2080, hurricanes may have winds and rainfall about 5% more intense than today. It has been proposed that even this tiny change may be an exaggeration as to what may happen by the end of the 21st Century (Michaels, Knappenberger, and Landsea, Journal of Climate, 2005, submitted).
It is beyond me why my colleagues would utilize the media to push an unsupported agenda that recent hurricane activity has been due to global warming. Given Dr. Trenberth’s role as the IPCC’s Lead Author responsible for preparing the text on hurricanes, his public statements so far outside of current scientific understanding led me to concern that it would be very difficult for the IPCC process to proceed objectively with regards to the assessment on hurricane activity.”
This just shows how far behind the times the UN actually is! The rest of the world is starting to realise that mankind has been subjected to the biggest con trick ever, but not the UN. They have not managed to sort out Iran, Syria or any of the other trouble spots of the world, but they are now going after something fictitious! Past Sell By Date is the expression that springs to mind!
If you look very closely you can just about see the $ symbols in his eyes.
“There has been a series of extreme weather incidents.”
… and they began shortly after Moses said ‘Let My People Go!”
And they haven’t stopped since.
2013 will be the “international year of climate alarmism”. It is clear. Pressure on Obama to try again the Cap And Trade, Hollywood and Matt Damon, climate radicals renewed, new IPCC report, Kioto II etc etc. Well, well. The carbon market need you!
He is a politician following a ‘fundamental principle’
“But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success. “
Mein Kampf Volume 1 – Chapter 6
“The world already knows that extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal”
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Yes, everyone in the world does seem to know this and repeats it like a parrot. BUT, this is not what the Science says!
In its Special Report on Extreme Weather (2012)
http://www.ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/
the Inter Govermental Panel on Climate Change says :
“There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change”
“The statement about the absence of trends in impacts attributable to natural or anthropogenic climate change holds for tropical and extratropical storms and tornados”
“The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses”
So why do people keep saying that any event of extreme weather is due to climate change – and then claiming that the ‘settled science’ supports this view – when quite clearly it says the opposite?
At least New Zealand is “over the Moon”
New Zealand will not sign up for fresh commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change Minister Tim Groser announced yesterday.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10846305
Look, all the technocrats know that the only source of future funding for their political projects is energy and unlike taxing enterprise and business they can, by manipulating the science, look holier than thou doing it. So far nature in its current warm cycle has played along. Now if they can reduce CO2 just as we hit a cooler cycle, which is coming, then they will be able to say, “see we were right!” We have to carry on the fight to get the real science out there and to delay energy taxes so that it does cool before CO2 starts falling. We, the skeptics, are winning, and they know it, hence the panic to get these taxes etc on the back of any weather event of note…
[snip while I understand your sentiments, this is over the top – Anthony]
History has taught us time and time again, that some of the most destructive events in mankind’s past are driven by brainwashed ideologues such as the hapless individuals, Obama, Ki-moon and others.
A half percent reduction in TSI, combined with larger reductions in EUV, Solar and Terrestrial magnetic fields, may shortly (2014, Abdussamatov) bring such obvious cooling that eventually even the blinkered fools that bring climate advice to Obama and Ki-moon may start to bring them different advice.
Given that the PDO has turned negative, the AMO will go negative in a few years, sunspots have plateaued at an unusually low level and will start a (long drawn out ?) decline in a couple of years, then Northern hemisphere / global cooling is the only possible outcome.
Ultimately the political fool leaders shielded from a balanced range of advice will prove to be largely ineffectual, though it is likely that the economy of primarily the USA will take a hit, not helped by the growing national debt.
Interestingly, the US economy is on course for a possible total collapse sometime between 2030 and 2040. Obama and the EPA will likely hasten the arrival of that event. Do a search for Laffer on Cheifio’s blog if you are interested in reading more about that pending disaster or just keep on doing an Ostrich impersonation and keep your heads in the sand.
As the head of the organisation most likely to gain from spreading fear about a non-existent problem, one might think that he would say that wouldn’t he.
Which report after the IPCC AR4 which stated
“Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic GHG concentrations.” changed “most likely “to a definite need for action?
Cuomo says- We have had a series of extreme weather events.
So?
We always have extreme weather events at some time. This has happened since the earth cooled. The facts that storm frequency has declined, we are still hearing rubbish about weather. We live on a dynamic planet, get used to it.
Question– do holders of UN Secretary General’s office now have their brains removed on appointment? Despite real climate scientists stating that Sandy is not a climate change phenomenon Ban Ki Moon insists it is.
Yes. He is absolutely correct! This is a lesson in climate change. The climate is changing dramatically. We should all pay attention. It is getting colder. Long term changes in climate are evident at the poles. If the poles get cooler the temperature differential between equator and poles increases and winds will increase resulting in more storms. Conversely, warming poles, less heat differential, less wind, less storms. Climate 101.
provided people find ways to prevent their retirement funds being co-opted by the carbon cowboys, the CAGW scam will never get off the ground:
9 Nov: Lynn Doan: Bloomberg: California Carbon ‘Crippled’ by Buyer Hesitation: Energy Markets
California carbon is trading at a record low as legal threats, political opposition and rule changes plague the days leading up to the first auction of permits under the state’s greenhouse-gas program…
State regulators agreed to spend 18 months reviewing and not enforcing the ban, which prohibits companies from bringing low-emission electricity into California while sending more carbon-intensive power to other states…
Amid the criticism, power utilities such as Pacific Gas & Electric and Edison International (EIX)’s Southern California Edison have continued to uphold the cap-and-trade program as the best option the state has to cut emissions.
“We’ve been supportive of a cap-and-trade structure to achieve greenhouse-gas emission goals all along, and we’re still there,” Gary Stern, Edison’s director of market strategy and resource planning in Rosemead, California, said by telephone Nov. 7. “The market structure is a lower-cost means of achieving the goals than other command and control approaches might be.”…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-09/california-carbon-crippled-by-buyer-hesitation-energy-markets.html
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GET US OUT OF UN
GET UN OUT OF US
Typo, “Most likely” should be “very likely”.
But still, how “very likely?” Not 100% so the remaining % is doubt. And now they claim that Sandy is the new norm on a “very likely” (whatever %). This is hardly a mandate that would stand up in court for the Secretary-General to start commiting billions of dollars of other peoples money.
It reminds me of “send reinforcements, we going to advance” changing by word of mouth to “send three and fourpence, we’re going to a dance”.
A probability based on a very likely that is probably based on more guessing.
Mike Bromley the Canucklehead says:
November 10, 2012 at 1:29 am
“it is difficult to attribute any single storm to climate change, but the world already knows that extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal.” …Sequele.
Of course I agree with you Mike.
This is the greasy sophistry and weasel words they use today (or maybe always have).
Totally analagous to “I would never say that Blacks are more likely to commit crime but if we let them into our neighbourhood, be sure that house break-ins will increase.”