Is Seth Borenstein a reporter or a swivel-eyed activist? Sometimes I wonder with dumb tweets like this:
At this moment Helsinki at 5 pm is 84 dF same as miami at 10 am while Washington is 81. Another example of jet stream weirding. #WCSJ2013
— @borenbears (@borenbears) June 26, 2013
Seth, Google is your friend when it comes to checking what is weird and what isn’t. Ten seconds of effort would have told you this:
@borenbears Helsinki summer climate varies between maritime & continental temps range 15-30°C (86F) 84F is NOT weird. http://t.co/k7HyT273FD
— Watts Up With That (@wattsupwiththat) June 26, 2013
From the climate report on Helsinki:
Weather in Helsinki enjoys a climate varying between maritime and continental. In summer (June to September), temperatures range 15 to 30°C (59 to 86F), with plenty of sunshine. A cool autumn (October to November) leads into a very cold winter (December to March), when there is lots of snow, it is dark almost all day long and the sea can freeze over. The spring (April to May) is short but cool, fresh and vibrant.
The all time high temperature record in June for Helsinki is 89.6F, so you still have a few degrees to go from 84F to start claiming “weird”. Note also that four months, May, June, July, and August all contain records higher than the 84F you consider “weird”.
Soruce: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki#Climate
Seth is slated to attend a conference in Helsinki on “weird weather”, so I guess he’s just practicing being one of the gang rather than being a reporter who checks facts first.
More at: http://wcsj2013.org/weird-weather-global-climate-change-media/
I think Seth’s motto must be: Tweet first, ask questions later.
Wonder if he’ll acknowledge it?
Is this the journalist from Kazachstan who appears in funny movies? I thought his name was Borat but I might be mistaken.
Nearly every report on global warming and climate change that I’ve seen from Associated Press – the news cooperative that feeds a lot of stories into your local and national newspapers – is written by their Environment reporter Seth. He seems to have strayed quite far from the objective reporter to the activist reporter.
Helsinki is about 60 degrees north latitude, so of course summer days there are quite long. Wonder why such did not occur to Mr. Borenstein?
When the term “jet-stream weirding” is used, we are no longer in the rational-scientific realm, and have entered the realm of the knuckle-heads.
Present North Atlantic jet stream map doesn’t seem to show an overwhelming pattern.
http://i.imgur.com/5l1qrfL.gif
O/T Aus. Gillard stepping down!
New paper finds nothing unusual or unprecedented about the North Atlantic jet stream
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/06/new-paper-finds-nothing-unusual-or.html
Seth needs to get it together and start reporting on the bug respiration. Like real Scientists do!
But seriously, do you guys think that the jet stream hasn’t been wonky for the last few years? Because the people who study it do.
Ryan~ please demonstrate your proofs that such things have NEVER happened before in the history of this planet.
I’ve been in Helsinki in May and it’s just beautiful and warm and sunny. The sun barely drops under the horizon at midnight and it doesn’t get really dark, then it rises again very very slowly. A very long dusk followed by a very long dawn.
Science Journalists? Ha, ha, ha! This is my new favorite oxymoron. Why am I not surprised there is a world conference of these oxy-‘morons’. Since when are “Weird” and “Extreme” clearly defined scientific terms for describing the weather?
Every enlightened culture knows the only way to combat Weird” and/or “Extreme” weather is to sacrifice money or virgins.
Ryan says:
June 26, 2013 at 9:49 am
“But seriously, do you guys think that the jet stream hasn’t been wonky for the last few years? Because the people who study it do.”
Lots of people here including me think it is a consequence of very low solar activity. Helsinki being warm in June, nah, that’s just a consequence of very long days and basically non existent nights.
Back in the 1970’s they found
alternating extremes of temperature and precipitation
And guess what they were caused by?
That’s right. Changes in the jet stream.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/global-cooling-causes-more-extreme-weatherworld-meteorological-organisation-1975/
Seth has earned his credentials of belonging to the mother earth worshiping weird club.
Vaclav Klaus exposed the inner workings of this weird club in:
Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?
For the antidote to such weirdness, see The Cornwall Alliance
There’s lots of climate talk at the conference with Thursday being particularly heavy:
http://wcsj2013.org/thursday-27-june/
Poor Seth,
He is confusing the whistling wind sound that is happening in the space between his ears with jet stream weirding.
This all assumes that Borenstein is actually a ‘Journalist’ and not just another ‘sustainability’ mouthpiece with ‘access’.
As time and ‘Climate Science’ move on, Google will become just another ‘Fossil Fuel Funded’ purveyor of ‘disinformation’ concerning the rightness of the sustainability agenda. Seth will move on to new fields and we will be left with nothing to discuss.
Ignorance is bliss and these activists/journalists are combining it with shear bad faith.
At least it’s not as bad as the “drunken” jet stream he described yesterday.
“But lately it’s been wobbling and weaving like a drunken driver, wreaking havoc as it goes. It’s a relatively new phenomenon that scientists are still trying to understand.”
I’m surprised you didn’t catch this. It truly has to be one of the dumbest comments Borenstein has ever typed.
REPLY: Well, I’m not the NSA, I don’t see everything. But I agree, pretty dumb.- Anthony
Joe Rohm was a guest on On Point this AM with the warmists new big lie “Carbon Pollution” repeated every other sentence. The outright lies and appeal to (dubious) authority was maddening. David Kreutzer was excellent in rebuttal, but it was still difficult to listen to.
The best part were the many callers who weren’t buying it at all.
So is Global Warming/Climate Disruption/Climate Change now to be called Weird Weather? I’m having problems keeping track.
Temperatures flatlining the past 17+ years despite C02’s continued rise is weird. In fact, temperatures and C02 don’t seem to have a whole lot to do with each other, which is weird. The climate not responding at all like the models say it should certainly is weird. Face it, we have a weird climate which doesn’t behave at all like it’s supposed to.
Must be all the C02 we’re putting in the air.
Can I have my grant money now?
You might have pointed out that 84F is almost 20F above average. That’s fairly unusual. Certainly if it was running 20F above average where I live (as it might in a couple of days) we’d all be complaining about the oppressive heat. And you in Chico would be running for the beach because it would be pushing 110.
REPLY: But we routinely reach up to 110F in Chico, nobody (except climate zealots) considers it “weird” even though it is above average. – Anthony
I happen to live 50 km from Helsinki. It’s 8 pm and temp outside is 25 C after a few drops of rain. Weather is warm because wind has been blowing from southeast – that is, Russia. The highest temps ever recorded in Finland have always been associated with eastern or southeastern winds. Interestingly, the previous highest temp record broken in 2010 was from 1914. I guess jet stream was weirding also back then.