Sigh, the usual suspects get another mouthpiece media outlet to blame severe weather on, complete with scary videos of weather, musical score, and wild claims. video trailer follows. h/t to Russ Steele
NOVA: DECODING THE WEATHER MACHINE
Two-Hour Special Premieres Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 8PM/7C on PBS
(check local listings)
BOSTON, MA Disastrous hurricanes. Widespread droughts and wildfires. Pervasive heat. Extreme rainfall. Something is up with the weather, and scientists agree the trend is not just a coincidence. Its the result of the weather machine itselfour climatewhich is changing, becoming hotter and more erratic. But some people are skeptical of global warming, and one-third of Americans doubt humans are changing the climate. NOVA, a production of WGBH Boston, cuts through the confusion and helps define the way forward in a special two-hour documentary: DECODING THE WEATHER MACHINE. Why do scientists overwhelmingly agree that our climate is changing, and that human activity is causing it? How will it affect us through the weather we experience, and when? And what will it take to bend the trajectory of planetary warming toward more benign outcomes? Join scientists around the globe as they explore the dynamics of the air, land, sea, and icethe major components of Earths weather and climate machineand follow the innovators developing new ways to be resilient, and even thrive, in the face of enormous change.
NOVA DECODING THE WEATHER MACHINE, a two-hour special presentation, premieres Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 8PM ET/7C on PBS (check local listings).
Climate change is one of the defining public issues of our times, yet public uncertainty about the science still abounds, said Paula S. Apsell, Senior Executive Producer of NOVA. DECODING THE WEATHER MACHINE takes viewers on one of the greatest scientific adventures of all time to understand the workings of our planet, what to expect in the future, and what we can do about it.
NOVAs investigation of our changing climate starts with how it affects us most directly: our weather. Are we actually noticing a change in the weather due to climate change? Charismatic career meteorologist Paul Douglas, of Minnesota, thinks so. Once skeptical, he started to detect a pattern over the years that was undeniable: bigger storms in his home state. But how are climate and weather related? And havent both always been changing? What is the evidence that our climate is actually changing and influencing our weather? These are the big questions that launch NOVAs grand exploration of how the weather and climate machine actually worksand why scientists are convinced the planet is warming.
DECODING THE WEATHER MACHINE examines why this latest trend is different from other cycles in Earths history and shows the evidence that we are the culprit. The film traces the pioneering explorations to understand our changing climate, which began more than 200 years ago, and reveals how scientists established carbon dioxide levels in the air as a major driver of climate and a key factor in regulating Earths thermostat. By burning fossil fuels, we humans have changed the composition of the atmosphere, which is now trapping more heat. The documentary then analyzes how the other key parts of the climate system-the land, sea, icewill respond, which will determine how much our climate will change, and the impacts. NOVA takes viewers under the hood of Earths climate machine, following geologists, ecologists, polar scientists, marine biologists, and other researchers around the globe who are delving deep into our natural world at a scale never before possible. Leading climate scientists and experts also offer candid insights throughoutincluding John Holdren, of Harvard University (and former White House science advisor), Katharine Hayhoe, of Texas Tech University, and Princetons Stephen Pacala. Ultimately, the film explores what humanity can do to avoid the suffering that climate change might bringboth by adapting to the changes already underway, and by using technology to mitigate the worst outcomes.
Kristi
See this 2011 story in Nature about how the Consensus about the Ozone Hole and Man’s Role (with CFCs) May Be Falling Apart. The size of the hole hardly changed since 1990.
“As the world marks 20 years since the introduction of the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer, Nature has learned of experimental data that threaten to shatter established theories of ozone chemistry. If the data are right, scientists will have to rethink their understanding of how ozone holes are formed and how that relates to climate change. Markus Rex, an atmosphere scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research in Potsdam, Germany, did a double-take when he saw new data for the break-down rate of a crucial molecule, dichlorine peroxide (Cl2O2). The rate of photolysis (light-activated splitting) of this molecule reported by chemists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California1, was extremely low in the wavelengths available in the stratosphere – almost an order of magnitude lower than the currently accepted rate.
“This must have far-reaching consequences,” Rex says. “If the measurements are correct we can basically no longer say we understand how ozone holes come into being.” What effect the results have on projections of the speed or extent of ozone depletion remains unclear.
Other groups have yet to confirm the new photolysis rate, but the conundrum is already causing much debate and uncertainty in the ozone research community. “Our understanding of chloride chemistry has really been blown apart,” says John Crowley, an ozone researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. “Until recently everything looked like it fitted nicely,” agrees Neil Harris, an atmosphere scientist who heads the European Ozone Research Coordinating Unit at the University of Cambridge, UK. “Now suddenly it’s like a plank has been pulled out of a bridge.”
Joe D, that article is 7 years old. The hole is now closing.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-study-first-direct-proof-of-ozone-hole-recovery-due-to-chemicals-ban
Practically anything associated w/PBS (or most any station anymore) is propaganda/indoctrination. End any taxpayer funding for them NOW.
Another RT program… /sarc
However much taxpayer money PBS extorts from us, it is TOO MUCH. It all needs to be ended – it’s part of draining the swamp.
I might feel different if they even tried to be objective, but they don’t, so I don’t. I’d like my money back, please…
Was watching “Billions” (from Showtime) the other night at my girlfriends house and episode 4 was pretty heavy into climate change ‘opportunities’…
These leftists aren’t going to stop hammering us from every direction than can until they get their global socialist utopia…
I could only stand it for the first half of the two hour advertorial. No caveats, no criticisms, no skepticism, no examination of the integrity of the data, no contrary evidence, no alternative explanations.
Just pure, unadulterated Goreball Kool-Aid— it’s a planetary emergency.
There are np caveats or skepticism shown because among the scientific community there has been less and less as more data comes in to the point that the naysayers have as much validity as flatearthers.
Yes, the NOVA show is ho humm Al Gore all over again with his wildly exaggerated failed predictions, especially melting of glaciers NO and major sea rise NO. Presented with an anti-scientific arrogance – no humility or doubts – ignoring contrary significant peer reviewed research –
* ‘Tidal Gauge Shows Marshall Islands Aren’t Being Drowned By Rising Sea Levels,Michael Bastasch
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/29/tidal-gauge-shows-marshall-islands-arent-being-drowned-by-rising-sea-levels/#ixzz4M4PNwQ51 ‘
* The fall in ocean levels between 2010 and 2011 means the missing water had to go somewhere—and somewhere turns out to be Australia By Stephanie Paige Ogburn, ClimateWire on August 20, 2013
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-scientist-explains-the-mystery-of-recent-sea-level-drop/
* Peer-Reviewed Confirmation: Growth of Human CO2 Does Not Result In Unusual Climate Warming
The scientific evidence is unequivocal: There exist huge regional climate swaths of the globe that have mildly warmed in an unexceptional manner during the modern industrial/consumer era; and there exist multiple large areas that even lack any regional climate-significant modern warming whatsoever.
http://www.c3headlines.com/2018/04/peer-reviewed-confirmation-human-co2-does-not-result-in-unsual-warming.html
I’d like to change the discussion to a new tack. Does anyone else notice how the global warming media science “guru’s” have changed?
Back in the last decade, it was the Father of Gaia, James Lovelock – and the father of AGW alarmism, James Hansen, who started it all in 1988. Today – as shown above, Nova touts Holdren and Hayhoe…WHO? What happened?
What happened is that the former “guru’s” Hansen and Lovelock developed some science realism and both decided that their alarms were premature – the actual scientific evidence didn’t support the immediate cause for alarm. Or even soon alarm.
Thus, for the political powers that feed their masters like PBS, new scientific gurus had to be annointed – and viola? Holdren and Hayhoe!
You really gotta disappear the old guru’s if you’re going to keep that old-time Alarmist Religion going! AND THIS, BOYS AND GIRLS, IS PRECISELY HOW PROPAGANDA IN POLITICS WORKS – not real science.
Right guys, and what else have you told us is propaganda over the years? Water and air pollution? Cancer caused by cigarette smoke?
[WE haven’t said any of those things, ever. Think before you post. -mod]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2015/08/05/the-obama-clinton-one-two-blackout/#28c4cde454f9