From Tom Neslon who writes:
Barking madness in the New York Times: Global warming blamed for coldest winter in China in 30 years and many other extreme cold events; story illustrated with a photo of snow on the palm trees of Jerusalem
Extreme Weather Grows in Frequency and Intensity Around World – NYTimes.com
All this recent shift to pushing “extreme weather” in the clueless MSM made me wonder how the public is responding to it. Obviously, the use of the term has been dramatically on the rise, in fact it is a veritable hockey stick:
Source: Google ngram viewer (note: data only available to 2008)
But, I was really surprised at the public response. It seems that the public just might be smarter than the MSM and the AGW doomers think, or maybe they are just fed up with hype. Search trends on Google are flat:
Source: Google Trends
It seems that “extreme weather” is not catching on. I’m sure the doomers would say it is a “communications problem“. Compare “extreme weather” to the peak from Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth in 2007. All terms seem to be in an interest slump now.
Further, it seems to be mainly an English speaking aberration, the rest of the world apparently has even less interest.
Not to worry though, there’s still room on the leader-board for a new meme once the MSM and the doomers realize that “extreme weather” has fizzled out as a propaganda communications tool:
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Thanks Anthony…I saw some of this in the NYT’s today (blaming snow in Jerusalem on (presumably AGW induced) “extreme weather.” Have to own that I am a liberal democrat, and they make me ashamed of my own party. If I didn’t have this place to go for a measure of sanity, I might just go nuts…
I like “Climate Optimum”, but somehow I don’t think the alarmists will endorse its use.
11 Jan 2013 – 11:27 am
[ Hey, the climate IS changing! ]
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(11 Jan 2013) http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130111/new-york-times-dismantles-environmental-desk-journalism-fracking-climate-change-science-global-warming-economy
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That’s because we all know weather can be extreme, so this is just creating a disconnect between the climate changing meme and the new message that they just didn’t expect. People are just not falling for this AGW rebranding…
Oh and weird is too hard to spell for some of the alarmist numbskulls…
If you want a real good laugh read Eugene Robinson’s Op-Ed in the Washington Post. That guy shouldn’t be allowed within 10 feet of a keyboard.
Jerusalem sees snow almost every winter.
Full Show: Ending the Silence on Climate Change
January 4, 2013 | Moyers & Company
Climate change communication expert Anthony Leiserowitz explains why climate change gets the silent treatment, and what we should do about it.
It is just a communication problem. The science is settled. The ipcc’s estimates of warming are way too low. This show was total garbage. Look at Time Magazine’s science page the amount of deliberately misleading “science” is shocking
The third type of proof is what can only be called a Scarem. Whatever extreme weather event comes along, attribute it straight away to climate change and scare the pants off them. It doesn’t matter if there’s not a single shred of scientific evidence to back up that assertion.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/the-shape-of-things-to-come-snailbats-halsays-scarems-lewpapers-and-dickpols/
Pointman
best news in years for Israel, which has been suffering from a +decade long drought in the region (a region where shortage of water leads to War, btw). The Kinneret (Lake of Galilee) is up 2″ in the last few days, and they’re expecting that to double over the week as the hills drain the meltwater. I suppose it may also begin to replenish the aquifiers which have been drawing down well beyond danger point (point at which Mediterranean saltwater begins to infiltrate. Thank G-d.
Not clear why the Gray Lady sees this as ‘a bad thing’ 😉
More interestingly …
New York Times Dismantles Its Environment Desk.
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130111/new-york-times-dismantles-environmental-desk-journalism-fracking-climate-change-science-global-warming-economy
Pointman
I don’t allow people off the hook, and insist on using the words “Global Warming.”
It helps if you can imitate Al Gore’s voice, and if someone states it is now politically incorrect to use the term “Global Warming,” use your Al Gore voice to say, ‘Oh? It has changed from “The planet has a fever” to “The planet took an asprin?” ‘
The snow in Jerusalem has resulted in some neat pictures:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2260223/Jerusalem-hit-worst-snowstorm-TWENTY-YEARS-inches-falls-Holy-City-closing-roads-schools.html
Anyone who believes global warming causes extreme cold is delusional, and the public is aware of the same.
Anyone stupid enough to read the New York Times will find kindred spirits there.
Climate change is a magical animal. Every summer it causes heat waves, and every winter it causes record cold. In the last few days I have seen articles that claim melting polar ice both warms and cools the climate. I wish they would make up their minds. How do you falsify a theory that predicts CO2 can both warm and cool the planet and cause “extreme” weather to boot?
The cold spell in China right now is being blamed on melting polar ice. Somehow the melting ice warms the Arctic, which changes the jet stream, which causes record cold and snow in China, Russia, and Europe. How can such a small region of the Earth cause record cold across huge land masses when it is WARMING?
A theory that claims every climate event as proof of its validity is no longer scientific but religious.
I have been noticing extreme weather changes on a daily basis.
It seems to get warmer during the day and colder at night.
The daily climate is much more unstable now.
It is frightening what evil people are doing to the Earth.
We need a new law or tax to stop this chaos.
Or maybe a big blanket around the planet would help.
But a big blanket might make the warming even warmer.
Then Earth would begin sweating and make the blanket wet.
Then it would get colder and we would all get a cold too.
All the sneezing would change the wind patterns and we could die.
Boy are we screwed.
Crazy stuff.
Crazy.
I want to be a climate scientist if I grow up.
I would fit in well.
The next “great threat to the planet” is against “biodiversity”. Just watch and see over the next few years how everything is a threat to biodiversity and we should all pay a little more to maintain “SUSTAINABILITY of biodiversity”
“Global warming blamed for coldest winter in China in 30 years and many other extreme cold events”
Barking madness indeed. As I’ve been saying for years now, cAWG is a crock of horse pucky because it’s an entirely unfalsifiable hypothesis. Record warm? Global warming. Record cold? Global warming. Record rain? Global warming. Record drought? Global warming. It’s become plainly evident that there isn’t a single observation that would disprove the hypothesis. As such, IMO, cAGW is little more than a fairy tale.
@pokerguy Don’t worry about it, the wife is lefty as left can be (and married to a libertarian, how does that work?) and she regularly laments to me about all the idiots she wishes she didn’t have on her side.
There’s enough people out there, on all sides of the political spectrum, who lack the critical thinking skills necessary to do anything other than spout talking points and memes. A worrying number of these people are in the media, political system and the upper echelons of academia.
Personally, I like “Gerbil Warbling” as the most accurate term for the phenomenon.
Its worse than we thought. Seems the warm-cold has spread to California.
http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Cold+snap+expected+worst+years+affecting+Californias+truckers/7807067/story.html
The term “the planet has a fever” causes me to think of if I have a fever, that is my auto protective immune system kicking in and the fever is the cure. So you would want the planet to get “hot” to fight what is ailing it. If you didn’t get the fever, your body would have been taken over by the disease, virus or bacteria. Once this crazy obsession of CO2 battle is over, I will spend a lot of time on studying biology, as I’m rather weak in knowledge in that area. Though by mother is a lab biologist (retired). I should study to improve my writing skills as well. If I’d only know the Internet would exist while I was still in high school, as well as cheap, light, mobile computers 🙂
Pokerguy hits on something. Why does the Left buy all of this extreme weather/climate stuff?
Why is this a political thing at all? Apparently a majority of the American (and World) Leftists are anti-business, anti-profit, anti-fossil fuel, anti-internal combustion, anti-success, etc. They latch on to this extreme climate crap to further an agenda of economic destruction, because they feel that “One man’s success is another man’s failure.” And it just isn’t fair!
I think the alarmists should go with the term “weather distortion”. At least there would be some truth in it.