Global Warming Hype

Global Warming Goes Around, Comes Around

An August 20 change of weather assessment for metro Atlanta: "The daily temperature since January 1 has averaged almost three degrees a day above the normal figure." It's a routine statement amid today's global warming hype. This report was in The Atlanta Constitution ... in 1925. A July 4 headline in the same year sang the same song. "All Heat Records in Atlanta Broken At 101.2 Degrees, High Point For 50 Years Established."

 

All weather, like politics, is local. Change is the norm. It is hard to imagine mobilizing the world's people to prevent the euphemistic "climate change;" people all over see the weather changing regularly. If people are told the earth is warming; they think it's happening elsewhere. At their location, they only know it cools and warms, pours rain and turns dry, in the familiar cycles of their neighborhoods.

If they're uncomfortable, inconvenienced or endangered, they anticipate, even wish for, a change. But it is unreasonable to expect them to volunteer to pay for a stop to world-wide climate change as visualized by "experts." They also should not have to pre-pay for adaptation to predicted but doubtful futures when they see similar changes in the climate all around them.

Interest in a global warming fix is inevitably dampened by local frigidity. Imagine residents of Georgia and Florida complaining about a warming world during December 2010, the coldest on record. The Tulsa (Oklahoma) World was not likely to editorialize against global warming in early February when record snow and low temperatures caused the daily's first cancellation since their newspaper began in 1905. Guess what climate problems crossed the minds of federal legislators when congressional sessions were cancelled because of record Washington snowfall in February this year?

Uncertain symptoms also complicate the diagnosis. What kind of change is "climate change" as opposed to a change in the weather? Atlanta's temperature changed more from the 1950s to the 1960s than that of the earth changed in the 20th century – and in opposite directions. Atlanta's annual average temperature was 2.38 degrees (F.) cooler from 1960-69 than from 1950-59. At Dawson in Canada's Northwest Territory, average temperature rose 3.5 degrees from the 1930s to the 1940s and then dropped back in the 1950s and 1960s. Did these fluctuations qualify as climate change?

Why believe that climate changes but humans don't? The doomsayers disregard the adaptability of humans. In the unlikely event the world is warming because of human use of fossil fuels, people will adapt. They always have; mostly to colder temperatures. Humans are, after all, tropical animals, having originated there.

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Here is the current global warming hype process as it exists today:

Identify a 2 or 3 sigma weather event.  Since there are 365 days in the year and hundreds of different regions in the world, the laws of probability say that some event in the tail of the normal distribution (local high, local low, local flood, local drought, local snow, local tornado, local hurricane, etc) should be regularly occurring somewhere. Play weather event all over press, closely linked as often as possible with supposition that this is due to manmade CO2.  If the connection to global warming is too outlandish to make with a straight face (e.g. cold weather) use term “climate change” or “climate disruption” instead of global warming. Skeptics will point to actual data that this event is not part of a long term trend, e.g. there is no rise in tornado activity correlated with 20th century rise in temperatures so blaming one year of high tornadoes on global warming makes no sense.    Ignore this. Peer reviewed literature will emerge 6-12 months later demonstrating that the event was not likely due to man-made global warming.  Ignore this as well.  Never, ever go back and revisit failed catastrophic predictions. Repeat

Last year’s Russian heat wave is a classic example.  Here is an example of the hype and the tie to man-made global warming in Time .  And here, 12 months later, is the study saying that weather was just weather :

The authors write that “the 2010 summer heat wave in western Russia was extraordinary, with the region experiencing the warmest July since at least 1880 and numerous locations setting all-time maximum temperature records.” And as a result, they say that “questions of vital societal interest are whether the 2010 Russian heat wave might have been anticipated, and to what extent human-caused greenhouse gas emissions played a role.”

What was learned The nine U.S. researchers determined that “analysis of forced model simulations indicates that neither human influences nor other slowly evolving ocean boundary conditions contributed substantially to the magnitude of the heat wave.” In fact, they say that the model simulations provided “evidence that such an intense event could be produced through natural variability alone.” Similarly, on the observation front, they state that “July surface temperatures for the region impacted by the 2010 Russian heat wave show no significant warming trend over the prior 130-year period from 1880-2009,” noting, in fact, that “a linear trend calculation yields a total temperature change over the 130 years of -0.1°C.” In addition, they indicate that “no significant difference exists between July temperatures over western Russia averaged for the last 65 years (1945-2009) versus the prior 65 years (1880-1944),” and they state that “there is also no clear indication of a trend toward increasing warm extremes.” Last of all, they say that although there was a slightly higher variability in temperature in the latter period, the increase was “not statistically significant.

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