Posted on 07/29/2006 5:34:20 PM PDT by SierraWasp
Some not warming to theory
Published 12:01 am PDT Saturday, July 29, 2006 For California, sporadic blasts of withering heat are as typical as earthquakes. Not new. Not unexpected. But able to dominate our days, our nights and our conversations with an oppressive drumbeat of discomfort. So those who study weather and climate weren't surprised to be asked repeatedly if the recent stretch of killing heat was yet another effect of global warming.
Their short answer is, if so, global climate change would be just one factor stirred into a confounding brew of other effects, including the routine variability of weather.
"There certainly is global warming, but … it's not like every summer is going to be like this one," said Jan Null, a Bay Area meteorologist. The changes are likelier to come in fractions of a degree each decade.
"Back in '97 and '98, everything was El Niño," said Null, who teaches meteorology at San Francisco State University and runs his own consulting firm. "The media likes easy labels to put on events. They don't like to hear, 'Well, this is just a normal cycle.' "
Null leans toward blaming the normal cycle for Sacramento's record-breaking string of 100-degrees-or more days, noting that as recently as spring, the capital region was much cooler than usual instead of warmer.
Sacramento suffered through 11 days of 100 degrees or higher, easily surpassing the previous nine-day record, before the latest heat wave broke on Thursday.
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"About dumb ideas" ping!!!
scientists a few months ago said the sun had just entered a warming period. DUH.. might have something to do with this?
Forgot to ping some others!!!
The media wants to blame all weather on global warming, even cold snaps. It's a religion, not science.
But I am as amazed as you that the Bee actually printed a dissenting opinion.
There are far to many of us in CA who have lived here for a long, long time and know what the weather is like. This was normal. It gets hot here in the summer and CA residents know this. Trying to pass it off as global warming simply insults most adults intelligence.
"The media likes easy labels to put on events. They don't like to hear, 'Well, this is just a normal cycle.'"
One cannot make a sensational news story out of a "normal cycle"-- or so some people in the media might think. What they do not recognize, of course, is that a great public service can be done by assuaging people's fears about imaginary scares and assuring them that they are fully safe and justified in going about the regular course of their daily lives. If the media tried this strategy, I assure you they would get more viewers, but alas...
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In 1955 I sweated along with an engineer in the plan check depatment in Los Angeles city hall when it was 110 and no one was going home or dying, you just dripped on the plans and kept fighting until you had your permit in hand.
They hadn't invented air conditioning yet.
How about every that has migrated here that bitches go back where you came from.
Actually they had, it wasn't very widespread yet
Astronomers say that the surface of both Mars and Jupiter has shown definite signs of increased warming from increased solar activity.
Earth bound enviro-wackos evidently think the Earth is immune from effects of the sun that the Earth is warming because of man.
And if any particular man is at fault, its George!
I live in the foothills of the Sierras and in the late '90's we had 40 straight days of triple digits (and some over 110). And my stupid air conditioner pooped out on me and not enough money to replace it. The nights wouldn't cool below the 90's. So during the day I wet a towel and put it around my neck. I washed my pillows and didn't dry them all the way, which made it cool to sleep on.
Yep.
Back in the late 1960's I worked at the Animal Behavior Research Laboratory, an outdoor compound on the crest of Berkeley Hills. One day in August the temperature there reached 108F and by 4pm, and by 5:30 it was cold and snowing.
Back in 50's we had many summers in southern Indiana during which we would have a couple of 100+ days. We haven't had any 100 degree day in Indianapolis since the late 80's.
....ah....love those Bezerkely Hills....saw it snowing many a time just slighty on Grizzly Peak in the heat of a beer drinking Friday......
Howcome that hasn't been in the news?
Know what else hasn't been in the news? We just got through the second month of Atlantic hurricane season, and there has not been one hurricane so far. Zip, nada, bupkus.
Global warming is disrupting the tropical storm cycle in the south Atlantic!!! We're going to die because of drought!!! /sarc
I'm not so sure that non-sensational stories would sell their advertising... And naughty little politicos like the militant Mr. Algore are quite certain the media will dearly love his sensationalistic bool chit!!!
The naughty little politico Mr. Algore is up to some strenuous political malicious mischief lining up the Demonicrat nomination for himself once again and wresting it from the Hildebeastmaster!!!
Golllllly! This is startin ta sound like "Dungeons & Dragqueens!"
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