Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
Posted on 07/02/2016 8:32:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The two bloggers who have perpetuated this misinformation are Robert Scribbler, who describes himself as ” a progressive novelist, non-fiction writer and emerging threats expert,” and Paul Beckwith, who is working on a PhD with “a focus on abrupt climate system change” at the University of Ottawa.
Scribbler says the cross-equator flow is a manifestation of man-made global warming, supported by the hypothesis that disproportionate heating of the Arctic is destabilizing the jet stream. “The Hemispherical Jet Streams have moved out of the Middle Latitudes more and more,” he writes. “More and more it has invaded regions both within the Polar zone and within the Tropics. Now, it appears that the old dividing lines are so weak that flows of upper level air between Hemispheres can be exchanged.”
He concludes that this “violation of dividing lines” is “a kind of weather weirding that we are not at all really prepared to deal with.”
Beckwith writes that the jet stream behavior is “unprecedented” and represents “climate system mayhem”: “Our climate system behavior continues to behave in new and scary ways that we have never anticipated, or seen before. . . . We must declare a global climate emergency.”
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“This is total nonsense,” said Cliff Mass, a professor of meteorology at the University of Washington. “Flow often crosses the equator.”
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Ryan Maue, a senior meteorologist with a doctoral degree who works at WeatherBell Analytics, agreed with Mass that the cross-equator flow is totally normal and not evidence of a joint hemispheric jet stream. “Cross-equatorial flow at both upper and lower levels is part of the seasonal transition of the Western Pacific monsoon through boreal summer,” he said.
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Advocacy of AGW should be classified as hate speech, and its advocates prosecuted, tenure broken, fired, blackballed, jailed, AND fined. Thanks BenLurkin.
The internet isn't exactly free of manufactured crisis to increase viewership, lol.
“The internet isn’t exactly free of manufactured crisis to increase viewership, lol. “
The serious audio voiceover, the horrifying photo or graphic, the intense music and the presenter’s serious facial expression all trigger a gut reaction that explodes in my psyche. The cumulative effect of this is depression. If I’m reading something, I can quickly recognize the emotionally laden adverbs and over-the-top hyperbole and skip to the next article without any gut reaction.
Any relation to the "Real Estate novelist" in Billy Joel's "Piano Man"?
I learn something new here every day. I didn’t know that the earth had little rectangles all over it.
I disagree with the hate speech angle. After all, that whole process is all about criminalizing thought and such like.
What I think should happen is that the confidence game playing scumbags should be arrested, tried and convicted of a separate count of grand larceny for every gov grant they’ve swindled in this crap.
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
You're very kind. I probably wouldn't give them anything.
Well, it might do that if the earth was about to flip it’s poles.
I have to laugh at liberals and their continuing attempt to find a suitable label. They don't like the terms, "liberal", or "leftist" so they have now stupidly settled on "progressive".
I ax...what is "progressive" about the failed political and economic ideas of the 1920's and 30's??
Recently (last week or so) a thread on FR stated that NOAA and NASA have suggested the use of the terms “climate crises” and “climate emergency” in place of the term “climate change”. Both “NASA” and “NOAA” were in the thread title, but I have been unable to find it. The article to that thread will show the effort to change the terminology. Evidently I am too much of a ludite to properly use FR’s search engine.
In my efforts beyond FR “search”, I did come up with this
https://earther.gizmodo.com/should-we-be-calling-climate-change-a-climate-crisis-1834924490
Perhaps you would have better luck finding the FR thread than I. I think it will show exactly why we suddenly see everyone claiming these new “climate emergencies”
Sorry about my #32
Got all turned around in my searches and posted to the wrong thread.
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