Thank you, David Little of the Chico Enterprise Record. Readers please note: I had nothing to do with his Sunday column opinion piece, it is as much a surprise to me as I’m sure it will be to you.
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David Little: It’s all the fault of climate change
I have a couple of flaws when it comes to believing anything I’m told.
First, I’m old. Second, I’m a journalist. Both of those unalterable traits make me worse than just a skeptic. I’m a skeptic squared.
I see things like Gov. Jerry Brown’s dog-and-pony show Monday in Sacramento and think more about his motivation than I do about his message. Brown spoke at a conference about climate change, and the media in attendance relayed his concern that global warming threatens our state.
He said California is at the “epicenter” of global climate change. He said the state must prepare for longer fire seasons, for rising oceans and for extended droughts. And he had charts and graphs to prove his points, so it must be true.
If I wasn’t on the downhill side of my journey up and over the hill, I’d be very worried — because while going up the hill, I remember a similar warning. I’m old enough to remember the ’70s, a truly forgettable decade. Growing up back then, there was talk about a “Mini Ice Age” that was coming. It scared the heck out of me. As an impressionable young lad with a love for swimming in creeks and running around in cutoffs during the hot Northern California summers, I didn’t want to give that up.
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Here’s the problem I have with the global warming boogeyman: It gets blamed for everything. Only now it’s called climate change, because it needs to encompass more than just hot weather.
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At interdecadal timescale:
California rainfall relates to the IPO.
Could it stay negative for another decade?
I’ve tried a lot of forecasts and most of them suggest it certainly could.
I don’t show the forecasts in this new article (that would be irresponsible at the current stage of exploration), but I do concisely introduce some multivariate background that can help community leaders here understand Mann’s recent push to artificially realign the US Pacific & Atlantic coasts with Trenberth’s deep ocean “missing heat” theory:
ERSST EOF 1234
Regarding California rainfall: Follow the link I give to Dai (2013). Quantitatively advanced readers can compare the EOFs I present in the appendix with Dai’s and figure out the (amusing) trickery that’s going on with his EOF1 start date.
Stephen;
Beat me to it.
Zombie;
How do you get to see the comments? Do you have to be a subscriber?
All over the world there are people just like this, but dare not speak in case they are hounded, lose jobs and sent nasty emails.
It’s always been just the weather and not the climate. Well, that’s what Warmists USED to tell me until the surface standstill became too obvious to ignore. Then they forgot what they said and point to every bad weather event ans positive proof of man’s eeeeeevil, satanic gasses.
The bottom of the article says now.
I hope the author, David Little, has a job to go to tomorrow. I’m not joking.
In California we have the best representation that hedgefund conmen/windmill merchants/bullet train pushers could buy.
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/05/25/6430454/election-2014-bloomfield-munger.html
In that article it says Tom Steyer became obscenely wealthy by managing hedge funds.
I had just a vague idea what a hedgefund is, so …
Wikipedia – “Hedge fund” : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund
A hedge fund is a pooled investment vehicle administered by a professional management firm, and often structured as a limited partnership, limited liability company, or similar vehicle.[1][2]
distinct from mutual funds as their use of leverage is not capped by regulators[3]
and from private equity funds as the majority of hedge funds invest in relatively liquid assets.[4]
Hedge funds invest in a diverse range of markets and use a wide variety of investment styles and financial instruments.[2]
The name “hedge fund” refers to the hedging techniques traditionally used by hedge funds, but hedge funds today do not necessarily hedge.[5]
Hedge funds are made available only to certain sophisticated or accredited investors and cannot be offered or sold to the general public.[5]
As such, they generally avoid direct regulatory oversight, bypass licensing requirements applicable to investment companies, and operate
with greater flexibility than mutual funds and other investment fundsoutside the law.[6] (note – I added “outside the law” to clarify the situation.)Hedge funds have existed for many decades, but have become increasingly popular in recent years, growing to be one of the world’s major investment vehicles and sources of capital.[7]
Many hedge fund investment strategies aim to achieve a positive return on investment regardless of whether markets are rising or falling (“absolute return”). Hedge fund managers often invest money of their own in the fund they manage, which serves to align their own interests with those of the investors in the fund.[8]
As of June 2013, the estimated size of the global hedge fund industry was US$2.4 trillion.
Because hedge funds are not sold to the general public or retail investors, the funds and their managers have historically been exempt from regulation that governs other funds and investment managers with regard to how the fund may be structured and how strategies and techniques are employed. Regulations passed in the United States and Europe after the 2008 credit crisis were intended to increase government oversight of hedge funds and eliminate certain regulatory gaps.[11]
In 2008, Tom Steyer “retired” from hedge fund management, rather than submit to government oversight. Same time he became a “progressive” environmentalist , using pocket change [for him] to buy elections and push the global warming scam.
It should be stated over and over that “climate change is normal”. By their exaggerations, Alarmists are denying natural climate change.
One should always remember that the obligation of the media–as one candid editor let slip after a couple of cocktails–is not to report the truth, but to report liars, accurately.
Climate Change is seen as vehicle to justify new taxes. Democrats and the public unions who buy them, are salivating at the thought carbon tax revenues from businesses and industry.
yes, the eco-nuts truly believe, but for the Dems like Moonbeam and Obama, it is the taxes that animates their Climate Change claptrap.
After 17 years of a surface temperature standstill and global sea ice at ‘normal’ – IT’S WORSE THAN WE THOUGH!
the fix for global cooling was the same as the fix for global warming its all about energy and culling the masses.
From the “let’s blame climate change for everything” school of journalism.
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/05/23/6429002/drought-causing-tule-fog-to-disappear.html
Bogus on two counts. First they compare today’s tule fog to fog in the eighties. The 80’s were exceptional with regard to rainfall in California. So much so that the newspaper has taken to using the “last thirty” years only, as the “average” in their rainfall annual average. Climate science itself says clearly and often that thirty year is the barest minimum length of time to judge climatology. Absolutely under no circumstance are you to truncate a hundred and fifty year record down to the last thirty to show average climatology.
And yet that is what the Bee did on their weather page.
They are all in on the global warming bandwagon. Cheat, con, lie, steal, it’s all fairgame in service to the fraud at the Sacramento newspaper.
They actually canceled the comment feature in their online version, because their position is hopeless to defend any other way.
Jimbo at 12:20 provides a Think Progress link that says, in part, about global climate disruption (GCD):
“more than twenty times as likely”
The 2007 AR4 was classed as “very likely” (VL) so we now need to interpret this:
GCD = VL x 20+
That is beyond my pay scale.
Jimbo,
Hellish monotony‘ of climate change report
You made that one up, didn’t you – just to see if anyone would notice! 🙂
Be sure to read the comments to the story as well! I found this gem:
@ur momisugly Alan Robertson:
May 25, 2014 at 6:53 am
You do misunderstand. I’ll be moving from California. Thanks for you concern.
Jimbo, bloody hell mate, we can’t take you anywhere can we?!!!
I’ve said before, this lot are just trying to get by in a cut-throat world.
On your coin of course.
Alms for the poor, alms for the poor…………………………………
“He said California is at the “epicenter” of global climate change.” I am from the great big State of Western Australia ( referred to as “WA” in Oz), about one third of the Australian continent, a bit under 1,000,000 square miles of it. As a WA buddy of mine once said to me on his return from the US, that the WA capital Perth has the weather LA thinks it has so there is no lack of self confidence, hubris and even chutzpah in WA.
If anywhere should be at the “epicenter” of global climate change, its WA because much of the iron ore and bauxite driving Chinese industrialisation comes from there. I have never heard such a loony claim as that made about WA (or Queensland for that matter which exports vast amounts of coal and gas to China – and if you want pure, hillbilly chutzpah, go to Queensland).
It seems to me that Jerry Brown thinks he is the epicentre of California. Better check the wax on Icarus Brown’s wings folks, methinks the sun is getting to his head. Either that or its just Beverly Hillbilly chutzpah.
GCD, Global Climate Disruption, could possibly be the worst calamity ever to befall humanity – IF we consider GCD is the disruption to modern society caused by lunatic climate alarmists from the Carbon Cult. OTHERWISE, one is faced with merely a slight improvement in conditions if one defines GCD as effects associated man’s creation of carbon dioxide.
RoHa says:
May 25, 2014 at 2:02 am
He should say he’s old, and he’s an old-style journalist. I’m not convinced that new style journalists do anything but repeat the press releases they are handed by governments and powerful or fashionable groups.
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That is why they are no longer journalists, but churnalists …
http://churnalism.com/
I wish I did make it up but it really is worse than we thought! 😉
Remember Billy, it’s always worse than you can possibly imagine. Trust me.
” Tom in Florida says:
May 25, 2014 at 5:59 am
It looks like Mo, Larry and Curly have been replaced by Barry, Kerry and Jerry.”
Utter hilarity!!
Begs the question: Are they the “epicenter” of buffoonery?
I ran across this link in which the House has voted that the Defense Dept can not use Climate Change as reason to fund “National Security Threats”:
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/05/house-votes-ban-pentagon-claiming-climate-change-national-security-threat/
Sent him an email of support, and encouragement.
Eamon.
The Chico ER puts the LA Times to shame.