Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Gets them every time.
Dear Mr. President, that’s not how global warming works
By Deanna Paul
January 20 at 3:20 PMSunday morning began with a stern, concerned warning from President Trump to thousands of Northeasterners expected to be affected by a massive weather system:
“Be careful and try staying in your house,” the president tweeted. “Large parts of the Country are suffering from tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold. Amazing how big this system is. Wouldn’t be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now!”
It’s far from the first time a Trump tweet turned acidulous; some climate scientists refuse to humor his mockery as a real discussion point. Others are more aligned with the approach taken by Jason Furtado, an assistant professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma.
“One down day on the Dow Jones doesn’t mean the economy is going to trash,” he said. “One cold day doesn’t suddenly mean that the general trend in global climate change is suddenly going in the opposite direction.“
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Climatologist Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, voiced concern that the general public connects with “global warming” merely as a breaking-news headline or in the wake of a natural disaster.
“A wildfire or massive rainfall dumped in Houston makes headlines, and if you only look at headlines, you won’t know about the incremental changes or the thresholds being crossed and pursued,” he said.
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President Trump’s tweet;
Be careful and try staying in your house. Large parts of the Country are suffering from tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold. Amazing how big this system is. Wouldn’t be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2019
Climate change activists simply cannot seem to handle even a joke which contradicts their obsession, without getting riled about it and providing long boring monologues about why they disagree with whatever was said.
Love the man. Can we borrow him for the next 11 weeks or so to manage Brexit please.
Your need is greater, so you get first priority. But after Trump rams a real Brexit through, we need to borrow him here in Australia to straighten out our sad conservative party.
Same in Canada.
Klem, sorry to say this.
But your problem in Canada is little bit worse…your country is actually under the
political management of a politically psychopath primer…
cheers
Seconded
the weevil Bishops talking about running this election…..
our need will be great fairly soon;-/
I couldn’t agree more. I really wish Mr Brexit was in charge!
It was amazing that we won the referendum against the massed doom-mongering of the global establishment. But from day one I assumed the establishment would do all it could to betray the will of the British people. Sadly it seems I wasn’t wrong. I’m passionately hoping for a no-deal Brexit. Among many other benefits it would make us instantly £39 billion better off and we could immediately start to make free trade deals all around the world. There’s one other benefit: it would quickly show that the doom-mongering about no deal is just that: doom-mongering.
Here in the UK it’s freezing cold.
Mr Trump is right. There’s a big problem with global warming: there isn’t enough of it!
Chris
Swamps are persistent phenomena they appear wherever bureaucrats congregate they grow at alarming rates and they cannot be drained. They resist removal by taking on a life of their own and fight back against any effort to remove their life force. Survival is guaranteed so long as other peoples money exists to feed it.
Here’s why:
AARJSH
VOLUME 6 ISSUE 1 (JANUARY 2019) ISSN : 2278 – 859X
“Why Greenhouse Gas Theory is Invalid” by David Bennett Laing
DBL
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/01/02/latest-global-temp-anomaly-december-18-0-25c-uah-global-temperature-update-for-december-2018-0-25-deg-c/#comment-2574933
My “Cold Curse” on the East is still working, but the best is yet to come. Brrrr!
https://weather.com/maps/ustemperaturemap
Happy New Year! It’s going to be a cold one!
Fully ~85% of global primary energy is from fossil fuels, unchanged in decades – and essential for the survival of you and your family.
_______________________________
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/17/will-the-snowiest-decade-continue/#comment-2521702
Fair warning: I’m calling down another very hard winter on the US Northeast, extending up into Canada.
The reason I’m doing this is that you deserve it. You continue to bleat about global warming, in a world that is about to get colder.
You continue to blather on about climate change and the need to eliminate fossil fuels – do that tomorrow and most of you will be dead within a month or two.
Fully 85% of global primary energy is fossil fuels and that number has not changed significantly in decades. Fossil fuel energy provides almost everything you need to survive in this complex world. It IS that simple!
So enjoy the bitter cold and snow this winter, good people, and maybe you will actually learn something.
Cold kills far more people then heat in the world today, probably about 2 million excess winter deaths per year.
Bundle up!
Now if the storm was freezing rain and knocked out power in 12 states, then the media and climate change experts would be saying this WAS climate change in action.
Wonder how the solar panels are doing under the snow. Also wind turbines, do they operate in snow storms? Anybody know if the blades ice up?
Some Wind turbines have heaters on the blades to prevent icing. Another unaccounted for leaching of electricity from the grid.
I have seen a picture of a helicopter spraying de-icing fluid on wind mill blades.
Kind of spoils the economy for the owner.
joe, did you mean the 16,000+ wind mills that are broken and can work nomo?:-)))
NO problem there, all 16,000+ broken wind mills (wind turbines) are already paid for ….. so the only additional taxpayer cost will be the 100 year rent/lease payments for the turbine sites.
That is the problem leftist main stream media has wanted to play weather events as evidence of climate change so it cuts both ways. I don’t think the jibe was at climate scientists as much as at main stream media.
Look out for ice bombs, that are thrown hundreds of meters at teriffic speed as the frozen windmills start moving again. It is common here in Norway, where the operators warn locals to stay away from the windmill especially during icy weather.
an “added bonus” after not killing birds n bats for a while?
they then kill any stock or people around instead?
https://goo.gl/images/4sWACu
Everybody knows that windmills dont care about snow or wind since they are actually fueled by SUBSIDIES.
Some wind turbine blades include pneumatic (inflatable) bladders positioned on leading edges of their blades to shed the ice. The bladders lie flush against the surface of the blade when not in use. When covered in snow or ice build-up they inflate slightly and break off and shed any ice that has accumulated.
Yes it does. When you predict warming resulting in the end of snow and there is record, continent-wide snow, your prediction is invalidated. Climate as usual in the face of predictions of doom does not invalidate the climate.
Here’s some more all natural climate news:
GLOBAL WARMING UPDATE: Montreal’s Fête Des Neiges (Winter Snow Festival) Cancelled Due To Extreme Cold!
http://www.climatedepot.com/2019/01/20/global-warming-update-montreals-fete-des-neiges-winter-snow-festival-cancelled-due-to-extreme-cold/
“Montreal’s Fête Des Neiges (Winter Snow Festival) Cancelled Due To Extreme Cold!”
Me I, I blame ze globale warmeeng. 🙂
global warming…….rub their faces in it hard and long
He’s probably serious and why shouldn’t he be? It was just -62C in Oymyakon Russia, I’d hazard to say they could use some warming too.
You do understand there is no climate change until the weather changes, right?
Climate is defined as ‘average weather’, its as simple as that.
Apparently not, so please explain the difference, since these same people were blaming President Trump for hurricane Flirence
Hunter, don’t you know by now, weather isn’t proof of climate change when it doesn’t conform (or can’t be made to confirm) to the narrative but weather is proof of climate change when it does conform (and can be made to conform) to the narrative. Humpty Dumpty’s “words mean what I say they mean no more no less” is the perfect example of climate alarmist thinking.
Of course.
The merest suggestion that there may be benefits to a bit of warming, if it occurs whatever the cause, is heresy to the cultists.
“Threshold” is just “tipping point”. Any advocate needs to point out what they are and where we are in relation to them.
‘Threshold’ is just setting a record. Just based on statistics, there will be a certain number of records set somewhere in America every year.
Suppose that the met station at Pingahooney Gulch moved twenty years ago. That means that, on any given day, there is a four in twenty chance of setting a record for that day. It could be the warmest for that date. It could be the coldest for that date. It could have the most precipitation for that date. It could be the windiest for that date. In other words, there will be a bunch of records set for Pingahooney Gulch every year.
The fact that, somewhere in America, a threshold got crossed, proves nothing. Well, actually, it proves that the real deniers are those who deny natural variability.
Climate Change activists share many characteristics with Leftists, one being the utter absence of a sense of humour.
I am becoming more and more of the view that Lefts do not have a sense of humour because they have never needed one.
Humour is one of the methods used for defusing the Fight/Flight response with strangers. Make a joke, have a laugh, defuse the tension and conclude that the new stranger is not currently a threat and instead possibly someone who can be allied with for mutual gain.
For a Right there is an understanding that in the Real World(tm) you are not going to agree with everyone but will still need to work with these people.
For a Left there are people who agree with the Correct Answer and people who are Wrong. Despite what they like to publically state, Lefts tend to be very narrow minded and openly hostile to conflicting points of view or ideas. Rights accept you have a different view, but also understand there is a need to occasionally ally and work together. Lefts don’t. Wrong people are not to be talked to, befriended or allied. They are Wrong. So having decided these Wrong People are never going to be someone they are going to interact with, they never feel the need to try and relax them during social encounters by telling jokes.
They feel they don’t need jokes so they don’t learn jokes and they end up not understanding the mechanics of jokes.
I’m a bit chicken or egg on which came first. Do Lefts lose humour through lack of use? Or to humourless people drift towards the Left after they find they struggle to form social bonds with strangers? Not sure yet, but I do honestly believe that Left and Humourless are very closely linked.
Or… I might just be pranking you 😀
Well said Craig.
A saying I like is that
the Right think the Left are wrong.
The Left think the Right are evil.
I never heard that saying, but I love it!!!! Thank you.
I don’t know, John. The more I see of the Left, the more I am convinced they really are Evil. At least, those who lead it.
The current thing flaming through the Left via Twitter is a case in point. If you haven’t heard of the Covington Catholic students in Washington DC, it is a textbook affair of the Left spreading lies and not caring who they hurt. Trump Derangement Syndrome is driving them further and further into this madness.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=59696
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You didn’t see this….that lying liberal native POS gave this interview before the real video came out
He was scared for his life…..hardly
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6612571/He-just-blocked-way-Native-American-elder-Vietnam-veteran.html
In the minds of Leftists, the ends justify the means in their quest for Utopia on Earth. The tens of millions dead are merely a necessary evil.
Latitude: Good spot. Shame on school and diocese for throwing their kids under the bus. Daily Mail is obviously avoiding updating the story to show student’s version verified by video. Phillips almost certainly sent an advance party of activists to yell at white catholic kids so he could move in with his “peace song” in kid’s face. Kids responded like it was ordinary DC street theatre (worst mime act ever). Phillips interview is completely debunked by video, virtually not a word of truth to Phillips’ version, IMO Phillips set this up hoping for better video of white oppression, when all he got was kid “smiling” and staring him down, he clipped the rest and ran with it.
Evil is rooted on control over others…
Most crimes exhibit this – assault, robbery, murder, fraud – etc…
“Government is a necessary evil”
Hummm? Now who really is evil?
You’re not wrong about liberals. Watch this PragerU video where the guy asks conservatives and liberals if they would consider having someone from the opposite side as friends. The differences couldn’t be more clear. It’s worth watching to see the difference between both sides.
PragerU – Would You be Friends with a Democrat
But they are so tolerant! (at least in theory)
A win for commonsense.
The “comics” whom today’s leftists-social-communists adore and honor have only one “joke”: Insult and hate rubes, conservatives, and Christians.
The same “woke” people who are outraged by any ethnic humor, parodies of sexual orientation, etc….
Craig,
I’m a liberal, and I have a sense of humor. I laughed at the absurdity of your comment.
Thanks, Kristi.
The very fact you have to assert you have a sense of humour shows that you haven’t actually got one.
You’re (inadvertently) funny, and add greatly to the gaiety on WUWT.
That came across as hate rather than laughter.
Extremists, no matter what they are extreme about, are nearly all suffering from humorectomies.
They remove their sense of humor to enable more room for smug moral outrage for anything regarding the focus of their extremism.
So what the extremist finds funny is the destruction of the object of their hatred and rage.
Kristi,
You defensive reply rather suggests the opposite. As does your posting history.
Thank you kristi, for proving the point.
kristy,
tell us a funny (benign) joke….
O.K. i’ll start.
Old jewish guy sitt’n next to the hotel pool.
Kid walks by and says “Hey old guy, how’s the water?”
The kid hears him say “Luke warm” as he walks on by.
Kid jumps in; then immediately jumps out, shivering,
“What’s wrong with you? It’s Freezing!”
“Sorry kid, it loook warm to me?” (with good accent).
Show us your good humor Kristy….
Do you know any abortion jokes?
Actually, maybe we should find common ground. Both left and right use natural gas to heat their homes and to make hot showers possible. The right support everyone’s right to these life improving fuels. The left want to take away your right to do so.
Kristy,
How do you catch a unique rabbit?
… You neek up on it?
how do you catch a tame rabbit?
Tame way, you neek up on it!
Kristi,
tell us a joke
… just one little benign joke …
You can’t be nurturing (brainwashing) the younger generations to be “PC lefty liberal greenie warminists” ……. and at the same time nurturing them to have “a sense of humor” …… simply because the two are contradictory of each other
Why they have no sense of humour:
There is some indication that if one looses, say a sense of sight, then another sense, say hearing, will become more acute to help the person cope.
Likewise, when a person’s sense of alarm festers uncontrollably, then another sense, like a sense of humour, degrades precipitately.
Not to be too picky but loose is what your shoelaces are when they come untied. Lose is what happens of you don’t win. I am pretty sure you meant loses.
[Not to be too picky, but the mods note that one can quickly lose a loose shoe due to a too loosely laced lost lace. .mod]
You both lost me. 😎
It is difficult to joke in the left. Because every ridiculous belief must be taken seriously. If someone believes they can talk to trees, litteraly, you must agree with that person that it is a fact.
I must add …
“There is nothing wrong with talking to trees.
It is when you believe that the trees are listening that things begin to go wrong.
Things are worse when you think the trees can talk back.
But when you listen to the trees when they talk back, it is too late.”
It’s those whispering winds you have to careful of.
Who knows what they are platting…?
What about the blabbing brooks?
I talk to myself. Most of the time I don’t talk back.
It ain’t global warming unless THEY say it is global warming!
Well, it’s not like it’s been just one day. This winter has been harsh in the US and Europe and this is not the first time there has been major snow or cold. Last winter was not fun either. And right now in Portugal we are a good 4-6C colder than usual this time of year. The summer just past was a bit on the cool side too, locals were going to the beach in long johns….(S/)
We have not seen any Seville oranges yet in our (UK) store. Is there a problem back in Spain? Usually by now I have been co-opted onto peel slicing duties for my wife’s marmalade making sessions.
I bought some last Thursday in Limoges, I was prompted by a comment on Ken Bruce on Tuesday about making marmalade listening to Popmaster. They were smaller than last year and made particularly sharp marmalade. I would have a check again.
Maybe Gavin now has the stones to finally have a sit-down with Roy Spencer?
Climatologist Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, voiced concern that… “if you only look at headlines, you won’t know about the incremental changes…”
or the fraudulent adjustments.
https://principia-scientific.org/nasa-exposed-in-massive-new-climate-data-fraud/
https://realclimatescience.com/2017/05/the-wildly-fraudulent-tobs-temperature-adjustment/
Excellent thanks for posting that.
Assuming everything in the video is true, I presume that the NASA/NOAA temperature data is considered an official govt record. In that case, there likely is a Federal govt statute that prohibits cooking the govt’s temperature record as the video states.
What is the statute of limitations on that law? Can the parties responsible still get indicted if there is sufficient evidence to indict?
NOAA and NASA-GISS need to have an audit done of their data and procedures in the worst way. If the tampering proves true, it would likely blow the lid off the CAGW narrative along with other refuting evidence. Unfortunately, I am not going to hold my breath waiting for it to actually happen.
Good on you Pres. Trump. Keep the sarc. against those nutty Greens going.
MJE
Trump ought to make an offer to Rep. Ocasio that he will place some solar panels on the southern border Wall to help Ocasio’s Green Initiative if Ocasio can talk Nancy Pelosi into making a deal.
The alarmists really don’t take humor very well, but then again ridicule is a powerful weapon, and one that the left doesn’t own, much to their chagrin. They deserve all the mocking, ridicule, and sarcastic scorn that cannot be directed at them.
Make that………”and sarcastic scorn that CAN be directed at them.
Note to self…..check with editor before hitting send.
The tremendously great thing is they cannot shut his speech down like they do with so many others. Such great political popcorn and they deserve to have their so-called science (computer models e.g. video games) rubbed in their faces.
And if the planet was really as warm as it has been in the past we would not have an entire continent under a couple miles of ice but that may be more of location, location, location.
There is the well-known carbon dioxide cycle.
Rock to the air and water, volcanoes to the air. Then CO2 into the oceans and into sedimentary rocks. Then erosion and around and around.
There seems to be a cycle for warmunist emotions. At the top is fear the the Earth is “going to fry”.
Fear–then when the physics is explained, there should be a smile and a sigh of relief.
No!
It is anger that the catechism is explained away.
Then, as the promotion is always pumping out false data, there will be headlines about “Record Heat!”.
Then they are relieved that the threat is really there. After all, “Climate change is real!”.
Then back to chronic anxiety about warming.
It must help to be neurotic in the first place.
🙂
I love Donald John Trump, and, despite the fact that I’m a furloughed federal employee, I’m not ashamed or afraid to say it!
I would look for another job. Next week Monday or Thursday depending on who you talk too furlowed employees not required can be permanently laid off. Unfortunately simce the democrats refused to pass several proposals to pay furloughed workers while negotiating the wall, Trump might be forced to do that.
Trump won’t be firing any federal employees during this partial shutdown.
Not true. There are two types of “furloughed” employees. Those furloughed due to a government shutdown are in no danger of losing their jobs. Those “furloughed” through a formal employment furlough announcement are on notice and can be permanently let go. Big difference.
I reckon there is only one way to respond to the AGW conjecture –
ridicule.
(ps – AGW is purely a political construct, conjecture. Not a scientific theory’s backside)
“Climate Same”.
Sammy Davis Jr, when he performed in winter at Harrah’s Tahoe, looked down at the stage floor and yelled “Hey you down there! Send up some heat!” Big laugh every time. A hysterical warmista would call that “black humor” and be correct in one sense, anyway.
In order to re-orient the climate change freak show back to reality, this would be a great time to shut down all fossil fuel transmission and distribution lines down the northeastern seaboard for a week or so. The clowns would then realize the importance to society.
Good idea, except for all the dead people that would result. That would not be nice.
Although modern heaters (the big whole of house ones used in North America, at least) are powered by gas, they still rely on electricity for their control system. That means no electricity, no heat.
Hmmm. Really? My gas hot water heater has no connection to electrical mains. Its control system is powered by a thermocouple (?) heated by the pilot flame. Now, a forced-air heating system is useless without its electric blower. But I have both forced-air gas and a simple convective wall-mounted gas heater, the latter only for emergencies and will only heat half the house, and slowly.
Rather: Gas pressure = gas flame in burner = Very hot air in heat exchanger.
No electricity = Very rapid safety trip on excess temperature in heat exchanger!
The power is required for the controls (thermostat) but more important, it is required for the fan to blow the circulating house air through the heat exchanger! No blower = No moderation of energy in heat exchanger (no exchange of heat from burner air + combustion air to household circulating air = excess temperature in heat exchanger = safety circuit trip of burner = No heat into house.
A hot water heater does NOT need any pump or fan to circulate hot-warm-cold water around in the hot water tank, and street pressure (from the storage tanks in all city systems) keep water flowing through the heater when the hot water faucet is opened.
But power IS required at the pumping station for water pressure (or to pump water into holding tanks, where gravity is used to maintain pressure). Electricity is also needed to run the water purifications system. So no power to water plants, no water, hot or cold.
They are typically equipped with emergency generators so they maintain operations.
If your area has water towers, or elevated ponds, water pressure is maintained by gravity feed. Electricity is needed to keep the towers/ponds full.
Why heat hot water?
Even the most insulated tanks, still lose heat. Especially when the entire house is getting cold.
We got a lot of icing last night here in central Indiana and this afternoon I went to the store. How beautiful! Looking across the ice encrusted growth in the fields to the ice covered trees beyond in the sunlight. Like all of nature covered in diamonds. BTW the full eclipse of the “super moon” occurs tonight for those that have clear skies.
Temperatures are dropping to the low teens tonight, for us.
i.e. no clouds full of water vapor to hamper the warmth escaping to space.
The question is how long can we watch the eclipse?
Lack of water vapor will make the viewing clearer.
An oldie but goodie:
The left is so easy so troll. It’s like taking candy from babies. They are so ignorant, yet so righteous.
“One down day on the Dow Jones doesn’t mean the economy is going to trash,” he said. “One cold day doesn’t suddenly mean that the general trend in global climate change is suddenly going in the opposite direction.“
Ah, but just one hot spell, big storm or forest fire and ….
Serge, you know its only climate if it is unusually warm. Unusual cold is just weather – unless it is a catastrophic blizzard in which case it becomes climate again.
a catastrophic blizzard in which case it becomes climate again.
Well, only if that is caused by a melting Arctic Ocean.
Although some people would say that you don’t really see any melting in the Arctic in these January days even with Global Warming…
Jason Furtado, an assistant professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma.
“One down day on the Dow Jones doesn’t mean the economy is going to trash,”
ROTFLMAO
University of Oklahoma. must not have a history department
Black Thursday, October 24, 1929.
Mods, Jason’s title is misspelled needs a hyphen between the second “s” and the “i”
michael
[Would not a period be as effective as a hyphen? .mod]
Is Gavin on furlough? If so, I wonder if he has more or less time to spend on his website.
Believe the politicised models or look out your window?
Hmmm…
They surgically remove your sense of humor when you join the Green Blob.
It’s easy to wind up/troll an extremist of any persuasion.