People send me stuff. This “never let a good crisis go to waste” dreck was sent to me today from a Madison Avenue PR outfit called “Climate Nexus” who doesn’t seem to know much about climate, or weather, or California. But, they can spin a good yarn. The storm impacting California today is just like hundreds of previous storms in recorded weather history, the only thing that is new is the desire to link it to climate change for political purposes. In my opinion, it’s bullshit of the highest order.
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FYI FOR JOURNALISTS
Northern California Super Storm Linked to Changing Climate
To: Journalists
From: Climate Nexus
Date: December 11, 2014
Re: The Climate Context of California’s Atmospheric River Storm
With the drought-causing high-pressure zone dubbed the “Ridiculously Resilient Ridge” pushed aside for now, a powerful storm associated with what are called “atmospheric rivers” is currently drenching the California Bay Area. Atmospheric rivers are relatively narrow, long streams of clouds and atmospheric water vapor that are associated with major storms in the Pacific. These streams, many of which originate from Hawaii or beyond and are known as the “Pineapple Express,” bring moisture from the Tropics into the West Coast. “It’s essentially a fire hose of water brought up from the tropics that comes up and crashes into the West Coast,” said Michael Dettinger, an atmospheric scientist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.
Atmospheric river storms are responsible for 30-50 percent of all the precipitation in California and are also responsible for over 80 percent of major flooding events. Climate research indicates that the impacts of these storms are expected to escalate dramatically if carbon emissions continue along the business-as-usual path, and that atmospheric rivers may already be impacted by current warming:
- As the world heats up and more heat is carried in the atmosphere as water vapor, heavy precipitation events are becoming more intense.
- Climate models project that atmospheric river storms in California will become more frequent and intense in the future, which means it is likely that the current storm is a taste of what’s to come.
- Surface temperatures off the coast of California during this particular storm are much warmer than usual, helping to pump even more moisture into the storm.
A Severe Storm
The current storm is expected to be one of the most severe in five years, with high wind speeds up to 65 mph and 2 to 6 inches of rain expected through Friday for San Francisco, Sacramento, and other northern cities. Conditions are so severe that the San Francisco Unified School District announced on Wednesday, December 10 that it would close schools on Thursday, when the heaviest impacts will likely be felt. At least four local rivers in Northern California are forecast to peak above flood stage late Thursday or early Friday, adding up to 32 feet of water to their nearly dry banks, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration charts. With this amount of rain at the tail end of California’s driest year on record (and in at least the last 1,200 years), which led to a devastating wildfire season, NOAA has also advised locals to watch out for periods of heavy rain over recent burn scars that could cause debris flows and flash flooding.
A Charged Atmosphere
In the past half-century, climate change has charged the atmosphere with more water vapor, fueling extreme precipitation and loading storms of all types with additional moisture that ends up as rain and snowfall. The fingerprint of global warming has been firmly documented in the shift toward extreme precipitation already observed in the northern hemisphere. In the particular case of atmospheric river storms in California other factors, especially wind strength, can also influence how much rain is wrung out of the storm. We are still learning how climate change may be affecting those factors.
The atmospheric rivers that arrive in California collect moisture over a large swathe of the tropics, including the extra water vapor added to the atmosphere by global warming. This water is then delivered to California through the end of the storm hose, creating torrential rain and floods.
Since 1950, atmospheric river storms have been responsible for 81 percent of the most well-documented levee breaks in California’s Central Valley and 80 percent of the flooding in California rivers. In delta areas, such as the San Francisco Bay, climate change puts the region in double jeopardy. Climate change contributes to sea level rise, which adds to the flood levels pushed up by the atmospheric river storms. Since 1854 sea levels have rise about a foot in the San Francisco Bay.
A Warmer Ocean
Temperatures off the California coast are currently 5 to 6°F warmer than historic averages for this time of year—among the warmest autumn conditions of any time in the past 30 years—which could intensity the current atmospheric river storm. While connections between global warming and the current, unusually warm waters off the California coast are not fully understood, the warm coastal conditions are known to be linked to rare changes in wind patterns. Winds that normally blow from the north, trapping warm water closer to the equator, have slackened since the summer, allowing the warm water to move north.
And a More Intense Future
Looking ahead, the computer models predict that climate change will cause the very worst atmospheric river storms hitting California to become much more frequent and larger. One model illustrating the impacts of a large-scale atmospheric storm, similar in scope to the infamous river storm of 1861 that turned the Central Valley into an inland lake, found that such an event would inflict over $400 billion in damages in modern day California.
For more information or to be connected with experts on the link between climate change and atmospheric rivers in California contact Paige Knappenberger at pknappenberger@climatenexus.org.
Climate Nexus is a strategic communications group dedicating to highlighting the wide-ranging impacts of climate change and clean energy solutions in the U.S.
Contact information: Climate Nexus, Climate Nexus, 171 Madison Ave Suite 901, New York, NY 10016
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It’s kind of like a ‘Godwin’s Law of Weather’ now.
Except that the person who violates Godwin’s Law loses the argument, while the researcher or journalist who invokes CAGW wins funding.
Only “one of the most severe in five years”? Wow. Damning with faint praise. Not really making the case that “the times, they are a chang-ing”, what?
The Pineapple Express never reaches Mad Av in NYC. For that, we need to arrange another ‘Superstorm Sandy’. See essay Sandy was Weather in ….
So the follow the money question is, who are these guys, and who hired them as climate change flacks.
Well my local Radio talk show morning host, who just happens to be a fully accredited member of the American Meteorological association specifically said yesterday, and today, that THIS storm is NOT a pineapple express storm.
In any case, where I am in Silicon valley it has been just a ho hum bit of rain. Hardly a rustle of leaves in the trees. It was a piece of cake driving my car to the Subaru dealer this morning to fix an automatic Transmission oil temperature problem, which evidently is a stuck valve of some sort. Luckily a warranty fix anyhow, and didn’t cause any major problem.
But up in San Francisco and environs they had apoplectic fits, as people drove their Beamers into four foot deep underpass lakes, and got them full of water.
Being able to afford a beamer, does not endow one with enough sense to not drive a car into a lake.
And like all 100 year storms of this intensity, this one will be soon forgotten, by the time the next one arrives in three or four years.
But no, if you though anyone was thinking about how to connect the local drainage systems to some pumping center, where the bulk of this water could be recycled into some of the many empty reservoirs we have around the Bay area, you would be mistaken. Nobody ever thinks of useful ideas in this region.
My guess is we got enough deluge in the bay area to fill to the spillway, every single water storage reservoir in the area, but virtually all of it, will end up out in Monterey Bay, where it will alter the salinity for a while.
But nobody was talking about the Bush era war crimes, that Di fi and Madam (check bouncer) Boxer, and Nan Pelosi all signed off on today; so as they say, we should never let a class A storm go to waste.
Drink much?
I find it fascinating the way some people insist on believing that any time someone does something they disagree with it, it’s a “war crime”.
Nick December 11, 2014 at 9:04 pm
Think much?
MarkW December 12, 2014 at 5:48 am
Tell us please MarkW, how you would characterize a war based on a lie?
Putting an end to a regime actively engaged in persistent slo-mo genocide is not usually considered to be a war crime.
Ah, regime change is OK as long as it’s to end one “actively engaged in persistent slo-mo genocide.” Can you refer us to a legal document where this is inscribed, or are you just making it up as you go along?
What they should be saying is, “Thank God for this rain in our drought, and thank God and the Greatest Generation that we have a huge reservoir system in California to capture and control it. God, what can we do to express our gratitude and appreciation to you?”
I’m not holding my internal 14.9 psi atmosphere for these lying New York spin doctors to actually do that, but I’ll do it, and you never know!
The Santa Clara Valley Water District has 10 major reservoirs, all dating from the ’30s and ’50s. They’re starting to fill, but the bigger ones have a long way to go:
http://alert.valleywater.org/rgi.php
Deanfromohio
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One day has 86,400 seconds.
For those of us who have included the SW US drought in their prayers, please tell us if it is over.
Droughts always end with localised floods – a price worth paying. Short-term pain for long-term gain.
So is this “climate change” good or bad? And why?
How can every change be bad?
And how is it linked to CO2?
Easy answer.
The models that predicted what hasn’t happened said it was caused by CO2. Since virtual reality always trumps real reality then droughts are always caused by only Man-Caused CO2.
To sum up, “change” is always bad and the Omnipotent Ape (better known as “Man”) is the only one capable of causing it.
Man equals Paradise Lost. We just need the better, elite men to regain it us.
To paraphrase, “All Men are created equal…but some men are more equal than others.”
oh my god its like reading that weird British paper – gruinead or whatever.
That’s the great thing about the Grincheaid. Even when they’re not making complete idiots of themselves, you can always get an extra laugh by spelling it a different way. It’s been a source of amusement in the UK for decades.
so more rivers in the air for California. Let’s see, a drought stricken state gets more rainfall in future winters filling all those reservoirs in the Sierra foothills. plus more winter snow for recharging the water system in the spring runoff, what is not to like about this scenario. More co2 please.
So far what we’ve gotten in the Bay Area has been…uh, nothing special.
who needs El Nino, we’ve got air rivers and fire hoses!
If you’re a f*ckwit, it’s unprecedented. It’s been five years since it last happened.
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(Sitting looking out of my window at it BTW. I thought it was going to be worse).
One model illustrating the impacts of a large-scale atmospheric storm, similar in scope to the infamous river storm of 1861 that turned the Central Valley into an inland lake
So they had a monster storm in 1861, the likes of which has not been repeated since. I can’t remember. Was it warmer then than it is now? Or colder? 😉
Well for your information, the California central Valley IS (or WAS) an inland lake. (ALL lakes are inland) Tulare Lake; AKA the Central Valley, was the largest lake west of the Mississippi river, until they channeled it to the San Joachin river and ran it all off into SF bay and out to sea.
They wanted to grow Thompson seedless grapes on the bottom of the lake, which was ground. They also have the Lemore NAS air base in the middle of Tulare Lake, near Hanford / Visalia CA.
My house is on the shore of Tulare lake, so I need flood insurance, even though I have a moat surrounding my house which is elevated four feet above the entire central valley.
I understand your pain, george. I’m at 4,500 elev on a ridge top jutting westward toward the Valley just south of the San Joaquin River Canyon. If memory serves me, a part of my real estate taxes go to support a flood control district! I think this ridgetop was probably high and dry in Noah’s time. I also happen to be on top of a granite massif. Earthquake seismic waves zip past me virtually unnoticed to the best of my knowledge. Don’t get me started on Earthquake Insurance. My neighbors and I have been praying for this storm event for years as we watch the pines die and the beetles move in. Bring it on!
Oh, BTW, I marvel at the productivity of your neighborhood each time I drive down Hwy 41 toward the beautiful little hamlet of Kettleman City.
Thanks Ed, I know the place well. As I recall it is exactly halfway from Si valley to my SIL’s house in Glendale. Well she escaped California and fled to Oregon last month. Must like these 100 year storms that happen every four or five years.
You probably then know just where George Smith Road is up there on the way to Kings Canyon Nat Park. I’ve been meaning to flog one of the street signs, to put up on the Alcan Hiway at Watson Lake.
But they might get a clue as to whodunit, and I wouldn’t want all that exposure.
Since my house is floating on the underground reservoir of central valley, I figure that an earth quake won’t do much sloshing around my house.
But if you have a granitized hull under your boat, then you are more likely to shake than sink.
PS I had a really nasty prang on Hiway 41 a few years back (my fault entirely). Misjudged a stop sign at 5AM coming up to Si valley, and overshot the edge of 41 North bound. Ended up T-boning the front wheel of some poor chap’s Pickemup truck. My car did a 450 degree right turn about the drivers seat; hardly felt a thing, but totaled the car.
Poor victim of my misjudgement, was on his way home to Oregon, and was now stuck in the valley till he got his rig fixed. Coulda been worse. If I had been one second sooner, he would have T-boned my driver’s seat, and this post would be coming from a warmer place than California.
G
George Smith….
Heaven is not warmer than California… unless you meant the warmth of loving hearts.
Merry Christmas!
Janice
#(:))
Monster storm in 1861… It is known as the Great Flood of 1862.
[roll eyes]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862
They can’t even find the correct year in Wikipedia and they want me to believe the rest?
What Wiki says is:
“It was preceded by weeks of continuous rains (or snows in the very high elevations) that began in Oregon in November 1861 and continued into January 1862.”
“This was followed by a record amount of rain from January 9–12, and contributed to a flood which extended from the Columbia River southward in western Oregon, and through California to San Diego, and extended as far inland as Idaho in the Washington Territory, Nevada and Utah in the Utah Territory, and Arizona in the western New Mexico Territory”
So…the record rain was when?
I think they meant to say the winter of 1861/1862. Not that I agree with them, as I think they meant to say were going to make up a bunch of stuff to promote the Co2 team.
The Pineapple Express is typically associated with the El Niño condition that has been forming in the Pacific for the last 9 months. Surprised that your treatment does not include mention of that naturally occurring pattern?
All weather now has a distinctive fingerprint on it, in the eye of the alarmist. and I love their use of the words “impact” and “business-as-usual”. Ho hum! Gotta get in some spin!
In my opinion, it’s bullshit of the highest order.
Anthony says which is so correct!
With “climate change” we get wetter wets and drier dries, colder colds and hotter hots, both more snow and less, and stormier storms.
Yea verily, CO2 is the crack cocaine of our climate. Gaia has an addiction, and it’s our fault (of course).
You forgot the Wetter Dries, The Drier Wets, Warmer colds and Colder Hots, and Nicer mild weather, so no matter what happens, it’s not what would have happened because we have Climate Weirding now!
/sarc as needed
I understand that these people belief that climate change is omnipotent and can do anything, but do they really believe that it can cause more extreme droughts and more extreme precipitation events in the same place at the same time?
Yes
Louis, I’m not entirely sure the logic fail goes the direction you think. But then again, I’ve managed to wrap my mind around a warming troposphere and a cooling stratosphere which necessarily happens at the same time in the same vertical column of atmosphere and understand the difference between that and cyclical sequences of events which don’t occur, by definition, at the same microsecond.
“Looking ahead, the computer models predict that climate change will cause the very worst atmospheric river storms hitting California to become much more frequent and larger”…and droughts will become a thing of the past
Don’t underestimate the CAGW industry. There will be more more flooding, and more drought as well.
…followed by times of extremely average precipitation.
Flooding which is almost worsest for five years. Followed by draught which is one of worsest for several years.
These people have headlines to make, since every area, every place, have for every possible period of time and every possible scale the most x of that scale and several one of the most x.
The sin is no longer that a scientist was wrong, because that was always a forgivable mistake and a risk you took, but that they now lie through their teeth to us while at the same time giving us the good old steady eye contact of truth. It’s deliberate, premeditated and totally without any guilt for ruthlessly exploiting the implicit trust in them. We will be punished for that.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/is-it-now-considered-okay-for-science-to-be-corrupt/
Pointman
21 people on the payroll of this propaganda outlet. Who is paying for this crap? (Please don’t tell me it’s me).
According to Jeff Nesbit (Source: his LinkedIn profile):
“Climate Nexus is a national, non-profit initiative based in New York that focuses on climate and energy communications. The initiative is supported by a number of foundations as a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.”
He goes on to say:
“Climate Nexus includes a number of former national media and senior environmental group communications pros, and works closely with an established network of science, technology, public health, clean energy and environmental organizations on climate change and clean energy issues and solutions.” {emphasis mine}
So, there’s your answer:
Ultimately, behind the “foundations” the money is largely (no doubt) coming from: “clean energy” investors, a.k.a. WINDMILL AND SOLAR PANEL SCAMMERS (scamming tax payer’s money via income and payroll and other taxes and skimming power customer’s wallet with rate surcharges and other lovely “fundraising)).
Clean energy should not be promoted by telling dirty lies.
Pretty funny that the contact person is a Knappenberger given that Chip writes skeptical climate articles for CATO.
Everyone has to make a living. Have you ever gotten an earful of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s daughter? That apple not only fell far from the tree, it landed on another planet.
This article is so full of so many
l1iesstatements made with reckless indifference as to their truth or falsity… it was a bit surprising to discover what Climate Nexus’ Executive Director’s undergraduate major was (and, then again, given the number of wolves-in-sheep’s-clothing pastors whom I’ve personally observed who TALKED their way into their positions…. maybe not…):“Jeff Nesbit
Executive Director, Climate Nexus
New York, New York Nonprofit Organization Management
Current
Climate Nexus,
Book Publishing and Writing
Duke University
B.A., Religion
1975 – 1979″
Source: LinkedIn.com profile for Jeff Nesbit
…. and here he is, and his medieval ancestor and congregation(s):
http://i61.tinypic.com/35n293p.png
(Ref: Viz Magazine, ca. 1990)
PS Zoom in. The resolution is there, sort of.
lol — and so true. The “Establishment” up to its same ol’ same ol. L1es. They should read the Bible (and not twist its meaning): “There is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiates 1:9.
This is historically improbable. 700 years ago witches were to blame for weather events, not a wrathful God. Thus it is not Gaia that is wrathful (what is it with the Euro-fixation on wrathful gods?) but the evils of CO2 emissions promoted by ‘corporations’ and ‘big money’ who ‘profit from our misery’.
We do not in fact blame ourselves wherever there is a chance to externalize responsibility.
I put this at the bottom, but it belongs here.
Tοιαῦτα πολλάκις ἐγίνετο καὶ γίνεται, καὶ πῶς ταῦτα συντελείας σημεῖα;2
(Such things have often happened and still happen, and how can these be signs of the end of the world?)
Emperor Julian, Against the Galileans
In case I’m not the only one who had a hard time reading the text, here’s what it says:
Top Panel – left to right
o – The Earth has never seen such weather as we get now… Mankind used to live in peaceful harmony with the elements…
o – Gaia the Great Earth Spirit is angry… Her forces of Nature are turning against Mankind…
o – It’s all the fault of our Western Consumer Society.
o – Total environmental meldown is just around the corner…
o – Gaia will restore her eco-balance by wiping us all out with skin cancer, food shortages and rising sea levels…
Botton Panel
o – Seven hundred years ago…
o – The world hath never seen such extremities of weather as we do suffer now… Man used to live a righteous life in harmony with all Creation…
o – God is angry… Mankind hath incurred His great wrath.
o – It be all the fault of our sinful ways of living.
o – The End of the World is nigh…
o – God will restore his order by destroying us all with plague, famine and flood…
B.A., Religion, Duke University is the ideal credential to advance the theology of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming and the original sin of carbon dioxide. There is nobody in the world more qualified to write on the moral imperative to cleanse our society of this sin. To demand proof or evidence from science is simply a failure of faith, another sin.
He’s also written 18 novels, so he’s well versed in fiction.
Superb Janice.. BA Religion. Absolutely vital for the promotion of …….. a religion.
Merci, Stephen.
And…. (cough) Amen.
Sounds like his skills are easily transferable to the CAGW Religion.
“Climate models project …” They don’t forecast; they know why – a projection can not be shown false.
Boolean logic is either true or false. A false projection is only false. Models that are based on known physical parameters (such as astronomical, solar, geological etc..) are true and are useful tools, political hacks use statistical anomalies that go their way, which is why when they do it is always FALSE.
Projections can be falsified, even before they are made.
Here is an example of climate change. ‘Coz that’s what the climate does.
Goodnight.
K.I.S.S. – Keep It Sophisticatedly Scary.
For as long as records exist we have always had weather cycles like this here in California. There is no real evidence that increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have caused anything. What about the winter of the Donner party? In the early 1930’s, much of Orange County where I live in Southern California was flooded. “Wild fires” have been a standard occurrence at least in Southern California long before the White Man ever came on the scene. I remember the winter and spring of 1967 in Pebble Beach, CA, as a high school year book photo editor when our first 7 baseball games were rained out. I remember winters in Southern California where the rainy season just did not happen. There is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate. The best evidence that I have seen is that the climate change we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans and Man does not have the power to change it.
As a young Marine recruit at MCRD San Diego in early 1969, we couldn’t use the obstacle course except once because it was flooded. None of the recruits seemed to mind.
(Incidentally, the boot camp part of “Full Metal Jacket” in San Diego is spot on. The scene where the DI punches the recruit in the stomach? Been there.)
I was a bit younger and ineligible to join up, but was living at Camp Pendleton (on the dependent plan). That was the year that the Santa Margarita (a trickle called a stream) took out half of I-5 (before it was 12 lanes).
I remember the winter of 1948-49 in Loma Linda, California when we had an inch or two of snow, and my parents made a snowman. I still have a photograph of my dad and me with snow on the palm trees behind us. Snow will fall again in Loma Linda.
Yes and the winter of 1948/1949 was the winter we gave up on our orange grove in East Whittier and sold the property to housing developers the following summer.
I’m still waiting on rainbows being linked to Anthropogenic climate change. I’m telling ya that day will come lol
They won’t link rainbows to CAGW, they’ll say they’re in danger of disappearing because of it instead. Then climate alarmists could say something like “Alas, our children won’t know what rainbows are like!”
But but but, ‘Rainbows are becoming less intense and more frequent’.. lol Absolutely it has to happen.
You should publish a paper on it. Title: “Increasing Anthropogenic CO2 to cancel God’s promise to Mankind.” (ref 1: Genesis 9:13).
Hypothesis: Increasing atmospheric CO2 cancels refractive index difference at air:raindrop interface.
Then Proceed to infill the article with technical sounding gibberish that the public will know must be true. Throw in a few sSnell’s Law equations and a table of
made-uphypothetical refractive indices with increasing pCO2.Then propose the best way to study this effect is in a coupled Climate Model and you need to write a supercomputer program model to run a simulation.
Then in the Conclusion final paragraph ask for more money to understand this serious Climate Change effect.
They aren’t gone yet. This was yesterday:
Rainbows will go dark, because of all personkind’s pollution! Unicorns will become extinct and Nemo will never be found again. Bad Man. Bad, Bad Man!
I’m not bad, I know stuff. lol
Nope, the colours will be reversed.
joelobryan
You’ve been playing Fantasy ‘Climate’ again I see. in what make believe world would I ever be like that?
it would be a parody. The senior author would be Jehovah. Contributing author would be Noah. Some 97% of jjournalism majors would be dimwitted enough to buy it as long as the magical pixie dust phrase “as a result of climate change” was liberally sprinkled in.
Hahaha very true!
Will climate change be at fault if Aurora activity drops during solar minimum? Don’t be surprised…
No. (smile)
Thank you for sharing that, Dawt — lovely.
You know infrared is a part of a rainbow, maybe there’s some future laugh in this after all. I cant wait.. And yes the sun is headed toward solar minimum and it has been very weak as expected, loving the double peaks of activity.. Kinda puts our good friend Leif in his place.. 🙂 oh burn… hahaha!
Actually, linking these pineapple storms to AGW is not new. I have heard it before. Every time one comes along, it is climate change. I guess since there were no hurricanes to link to it, they are grasping at what is essentially normal weather in a drought area.
AGW causes drought and rain. (Snow and sleet, hot and cold, psoriasis and the other 131 things).
And hemorrhoids………….. certainly a pain in the asp
What about back pain? no serious, I am sure my back pain is caused by it ! Who can I sue? When pineapples hit you they hurt badly, they are heavy and especially those prickly things on their outsides, they leave scars!
I was going to suggest that they turn the pineapple express sideways…
“A more intense future”
What the heck does that mean?
Is the temperature at the South pole bland because it rarely becomes intense? I’d say that we get intense cold in Canada for some time each winter. Rarely do we get intense heat.
If it means that the future will be more hot and more cold, then the average temperature will not change. If it means that the Polar temperatures become warmer, then they will become LESS intense..
The entire article is so error-riddled that it would take pages just to correct them all.
Just in this one paragraph you find:
1. “•As the world heats up” {NOT PROVEN — BEST EVIDENCE SAYS LAND SURFACE TEMPS ARE STABLE OR COOLING SINCE 1997. See http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/07/on-climate-the-right-is-right-global-temperature-update-the-pause-is-still-18-years-1-month/}
2. “… and more heat is carried in the atmosphere… .” {NOT PROVEN — BEST EVIDENCE SAYS THERE IS NO TROPOSPHERIC (nor any other) HOTSPOT. See http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/04/what-stratospheric-hotspot/}
3. “… as water vapor, heavy precipitation events are becoming more intense.” {NOT PROVEN — BEST EVIDENCE SAYS SUCH EVENTS ARE BUSINESS-AS-USUAL. See http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/03/pielke-jr-agrees-extreme-weather-to-climate-connection-is-a-dead-issue/}
5. “•Climate models project *** which means … .” {NOTHING AT ALL — NO MEANINFUL CONCLUSION — UNSUPPORTED CONJECTURE}. Simulations by computer software which cannot even hindcast is USELESS JUNK. See: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/14/current-crop-of-computer-models-close-to-useless/; http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/07/27/another-uncertainty-for-climate-models-different-results-on-different-computers-using-the-same-code/; and see e book: Climate Models Fail, Bob Tisdale (2013)}
6. “•Surface temperatures off the coast of California during this particular storm are much warmer than usual, helping to pump even more moisture into the storm.” {GIVEN THIS IS FAIRLY ACCURATE, AD ARGUMENTUM, THERE IS NO CONNECTION, NO NEXUS BETWEEN WARMER EASTERN PACIFIC SEA SURFACE TEMPS AND HUMAN CO2 — N-O-N-E.}
7. Re: “The fingerprint of global warming has been firmly documented … .”
{NO, IT HAS NOT — THIS is a typical sample of what Climate Nexus calls “firm documentation:”
Changes in extreme precipitation projected by models, and thus the impacts of future changes in extreme precipitation, may be underestimated because models seem to underestimate the observed increase in heavy precipitation with warming 16.
(Source linked in above article:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v470/n7334/full/nature09763.html)
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And this was just a SMALL PORTION OF THE ERRORS IN THAT ARTICLE!
But if you tell Climate Nexus all you will get is “La La La La La” with fingers in ears.
Maybe someone should tell them to remove a finger from another part of their anatomy and get a real job. They wouldn’t listen to that, either, but we might feel better.
Re: Item 6. Sea surface temperatures:
See Bob Tisdale’s December 12, 2014 post here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/12/12/meteorological-annual-mean-dec-nov-global-sea-surface-temperatures-set-a-record-high-in-2014-by-a-whopping/
{“… by-a-whopping .02%}.”