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.
http://drtimball.com/2013/government-weather-and-climate-science-is-a-proven-disaster/
As a Finn living in Helsinki at the moment I had a superb day yesterday but it never occurred to me it was actually weird weather day. It’s not so long ago when these kind of days were called summer days. How wrong we were back then…
I’m actually so tired of seeing every weather event tied to AGW/ACC. What next?
There are some who take the” Eye before Eee ‘cept after Sea” rule too literally. It’s Weird, not Wierd. Thou knowest who thou art.
For Billy Liar @11:10 am.
You can find objective reporting right HERE at WUWT.
Why would facts matter to a propagandist?
I really have a laugh about folks going on about “weird” temperatures and then quote an average as their proof. What they don’t realize is that without the another very important number (variance or standard deviation), average can’t tell you “weird”, but that number is never reported. I wonder why? (ok, there is just a little /sarc on the question)
“Thou knowest who thou art.” [Perry]
Indeed, I do. Thanks for the gracious reminder! #[:)]
stan stendera says:
June 27, 2013 at 12:54 am
I do! … I should have added in the lamentable MSM.
You don’t quite understand. These sort of comments are quite serious in the long run. The idea that weather is getting weirder is being inculcated into the minds of many. They may not remember what was weird but they are reminded over and over again that the weather is weird. It must, they keep hearing it over and over again.
It doesn’t matter if there is no empirical evidence of weirdness. There is always a storm, a flood, a heat wave, tornado whatever happening. For those who have no sense of history, no sense that there is no normal with weather, everything is weird. The uncritical masses are easily convinced that whatever is happening now is weird, it must be: it has never happened quite like this before.
And of course, when you have that settled you can start to promote your solutions.
There is something very dangerous afoot.