Weather Underground’s Dr. Jeff Masters jumps the shark with the Voice of Russia:
What kind of tendency such kind of things show if we take 10-20 years for example?
This is the coldest winter in about 20 years in the eastern part of the US. So, it’s been a long time since we’ve seen something like this. And we would expect with the warming climate to see fewer of this sort of winters but there will still be an occasional cold winter.
Does that actually show that climate change is not that predictable as many say?
That is for sure. Expect the unprecedented – that is kind of my watch words, when you disturb the climate like we have, we are going to see a lot of crazy weather events and that sure has been the case over the last few years.
http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_03_04/US-record-cold-if-people-disturb-climate-crazy-weather-events-occur-meteorologist-2478/
h/t to Marc Morano
Apparently Dr. Masters pays no attention to the IPCC SREX report ( IPCC Special Report on Extremes PDF)
From Chapter 4 of the SREX:
- “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”
And in the IPCC summary for policymakers, they give low confidence to tropical storm activity being connected to climate change, and don’t mention mesoscale events like tornadoes and thunderstorms at all. Similarly, they give low confidence to drought and flood attribution.
They’ve only talked about heat waves and precipitation events being connected. From Page 4 of the SPM:
Now with two IPCC reports making no connection, and with Nature’s editorial in 2012 dashing alarmist hopes of linking extreme weather events to global warming saying:
Better models are needed before exceptional events can be reliably linked to global warming.
There’s simply no connection between droughts, hurricanes, thunderstorms, flash floods, tornadoes and “climate change”. There’s no mention of colder, more snowy winters either.
Curious George says:
March 4, 2014 at 8:07 am
It fully adheres to the Voice of Russia’s standards of truthfulness and reliability, reminding me of Dr. Goebbels, the propaganda minister for the Third Reich.
Hate speech!!!
Expect the unprecedented
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What next – expect the unexpected?
Masters & those of his ilk will be trofimed, in the fullness of time. Sooner than later is my wish.
In 1964, physicist Andrei Sakharov spoke out against Trofim Lysenko in the General Assembly of the Academy of Sciences: He is responsible for the shameful backwardness of Soviet biology and of genetics in particular, for the dissemination of pseudo-scientific views, for adventurism, for the degradation of learning, and for the defamation, firing, arrest, even death, of many genuine scientists. The Soviet press was soon filled with anti-Lysenkoite articles and appeals for the restoration of scientific methods to all fields of biology and agricultural science. In 1965Lysenko was removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Academy of Sciences and restricted to an experimental farm in Moscow’s Lenin Hills (the Institute itself was soon dissolved). After Khrushchev’s dismissal in 1964, the president of the Academy of Sciences declared that Lysenko’s immunity to criticism had officially ended. An expert commission was sent to investigate records kept at Lysenko’s experimental farm. A few months later, a devastating critique of Lysenko was made public.[citation needed] As a result, Lysenko was immediately disgraced in the Soviet Union, although his work continued to have impact in China for many years after. Lysenko died in 1976.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko#After_Stalin
Will there be a Wikipedia entry CAGWarmists#After_Obama?
Jimbo says:
March 4, 2014 at 1:38 pm
“SOMEONE CALL 911!
A new paper says that global warming will lead to more rapes and murders.”
Yes; if you estimate the number of rapes now and add the 900,000 or what they say will be added til 2100 it’s a 1.5 per mille rise. I used current German rape rates as baseline, assuming it’s that level all across the world.
Amazing what you can write papers about.
They are also assuming a 2 deg C rise til 2100; according to Schellnhuber that’ll do humanity in for good so I wouldn’t worry about the 1.5 per mille rape rise.
Those who fail to rremember the extreme weather of the past are doomed to state all current weather extremes are unprecidented.