Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Climate Scientists, Europe’s bitterly cold April would have been colder if it hadn’t been for climate change, so we must step up our effort to fight global warming.
Global Warming Is Increasing the Likelihood of Frost Damage in Vineyards
Late frosts are becoming less likely, but early growing seasons are leaving vines even more vulnerable.
By Mike Pomranz July 06, 2021
A common retort to global warming (and one of the reasons many people prefer the term “climate change”) is “If the Earth is warming, what’s up with this cold?” All intended snark aside, it’s a question scientists are genuinely interested in: Weather patterns are extremely complicated (just ask your weather app that’s never right) and determining how individual incidents tie into larger climate shifts is difficult.
For instance, this past April, France was hit with a devastating frost, affecting 80 percent of vineyards with estimated damages of around $2 billion: not the kind of outcome you’d expect from a warming planet. But new analysis from a team of European researchers suggests that this damage was ultimately tied to climate change — not because April was so cold, but because March was so warm.
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“There is an apparent paradox: global warming can lead to increased frost damage!” Robert Vautard, senior scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and director of the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, stated, discussing the paper he co-authored. “Our results show that climate change is making both the growing season start earlier and frosts become warmer, but the former effect dominates over the latter. The consequence is that vineyards grow and mature faster now, but this leaves them more exposed to eventual colder snaps.”
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Read more: https://www.foodandwine.com/news/wine-grape-frost-global-warming-climate-change-linked
I mean there is clearly only one solution – we need to cut CO2 emissions, to ensure the return of bitterly cold Little Ice Age winters, to save French winery vineyards.
CNRS: “Global warming can lead to increased frost damage!”
Should be …
CNRS: “Global warming can lead to increased irrationality!”
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“I mean there is clearly only one solution – we need to cut CO2 emissions….” article
Oh, heck, Erick, it is so much simpler to herd those fractious climate science goaties and cowies and bull splitters into large, and very chilly, buildings with a lot of loose boards and cracks in the siding and tell them to not emerge until November. They all need therapy, cookies and hot chocolate (with no sweetener) and blankets, and daily quiet time.
Thank you for posting that. I know they are dumber than a box of bent screws but for Pete’s sake, do they have to let the ENTIRE WORLD know just how dumb they really are?????
The arguments in favour of Global Warming – Climate Change as the cause for any weather event are becoming so convoluted that the insanity behind them is becoming absolutely transparent. The agenda is always to assure money harvesting approval of authority.
“The results show that while global warming made the cold wave less likely, it also made bud burst happen earlier in the year.”
The cold event was going to happen regardless of the global temperature because it was due to weak solar wind states causing negative North Atlantic Oscillation conditions. It was on my long range forecast from months back. I had also predicted the strong warm up from mid February. Climate change has diddly squat to do with any of that variability.
https://solen.info/solar/coronal_holes.html
“The lowest temperatures between April and July have increased by 1.2ºC in the region studied due to human-caused climate change. And cold frost episodes, which would happen once every 10 years without climate change, now have a return period of approximately 160 years.”
If they could understand how solar variability drives the weather variability, they could have a much better understanding of climate change
“Our results show that climate change is making both the growing season start earlier and frosts become warmer”
The UK had the lowest mean minimum April temperatures since 1922 this April, the reality is that global warming makes no meaningful difference to cold events. December 2010 is a great example, the second coldest in over 360 years for Central England, and March 2013, like a Maunder Minimum March.
This fake weather attribution business drives the spin about climate change impacts, and is being used in litigation, by people like
Oops, accidentally clicked post before finishing, but I’ll leave it there.
That reminds me of the molecular calculation hype. A certain phenomena was observed experimentally. Then calculations were done to find an explanation. The material was then published with the claim that the calculations predicted the phenomena which was then confirmed by actual experiment… “A posteriori” instead of “a priori“…. It’s always much easier to find reasons afterwards, than to actually foresee things…