Who is Meteorologist Jeff Masters, the Man Behind the Snowpocalypse, Global Warming "connection?"

Associated Content (AC) ^ | February 11, 2010 | Marc Schenker

[Suvroc10]

Just who is meteorologist Jeff Masters, the man behind the dubious Snowpocalypse, global warming "connection" that so many liberals like MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan, Time Magazine and the New Republic have been quoting to spread their global warming propaganda? Over the last few days, in coincidence with Snowpocalypse, the blizzards in the mid-Atlantic that have handed the region its snowiest winter ever, many liberal ideologues have abused the occasion to falsely connect the record snowfall to "proof" of global warming. We've all seen the scientifically challenged rant of Dylan Ratigan on his ultra low-rated show that no one watches and heard of Time Magazine's desperate attempt to misuse Snowpocalypse as verification of global warming. Neither is a scientist, so that begs the logical question, Just where are these liberals getting this bogus connection to global warming from? Enter Jeff Masters, a so-called meteorologist attached to the University of Michigan's Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Department.

[muir_redwoods]

It’s amazing how the same crowd that can connect warming with blizzards sees no connection between tax cuts and economic recovery.

[justa-hairyape]

So if we had less then 1/2 inch of snow fall this winter in DC, would that also be listed as proof of Global Warming ?

Can we use this AGW theory to predict lottery numbers ?

[xtinct]

heavy snow in Maryland -- winter '95,'96, winter '02,'03, winter '09,'10... every 7 years... cyclical... end

liberals are truly psychotic

noticed shortly after global warming hoax was exposed, the neurotic liberals went back to their pet peeves... bugging fat people, smokers, people who drink soda, etc.

truly wish these busy bodies would take a hike...

[AlexW]

Jeff Masters probably has as much training in climatology as Al Bore, and he has ZERO education in climatology, unless thats what they taught in the divinity school that he flunked out of.

[SamAdams76]

You are correct. No snow at all means global warming. Record snowfalls also mean global warming. Anything in between, still global warming. No matter what the weather does, it's more proof of global warming and therefore the American people need to pony up billions of dollars to make it go away so that Algore can be hailed as a hero and get a Nobel Peace Prize.

[justa-hairyape]

[wendy1946]

I say again, these ****-birds should not be allowed to get away with changing their shtick from “global warming” to “Climate Change(TM)”. Global warming is at least testable and falsifiable, “climate change” clearly is not. The idea of “climate change” brought about by man is clearly a pseudoscience by definition.

[knarf]

I pretty sure Jeff Masters is the illegitimate son of Betty Crocker and Mr. Clean

[jazzlite]

Somewhere down the line, this trumped up global warming fraud came into being so that certain groups could fleece the public of trillions of dollars and one wonders how many individuals involved in all this are or would get handouts or kickbacks from all of that. I am coming to wonder whether much of the taxation placed on hard working Americans is just one money scheme after another, leaving us poorer and poorer and less free.

[Maurice Tift]

would that also be listed as proof of Global Warming ?

  It's all global warming now a days!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yet he can predict the weather no better than any TV weatherman.

[verga]

Whe n we ahd the first Blizzard last month I said in another forum that I had just finished shoveling 20” of Global warming. 4 post later a woman replied that it can cause extremes in both directions.
Gotta love the kool-aid drinkers.

[justa-hairyape]

This is what I think is happening and may explain just what an El Nino is. A normal El Nino does not mean net Global Warming occurred. It can only indicate that if undersea volcanic activity or a massive solar flare had occurred. Everything with regards to the atmosphere is pressure related. Pressure determines the wind direction and speed. Strong cold winds cool ocean waters. Reference Western Floridian coastal water early January 2010. Strong warm air winds can warm the water. Reference waters near South Eastern South America right now. In normal times the trade winds move at a velocity which cools and evaporates sunlight warmed shallow water in the equatorial regions at what can be considered to be its normal rate. That energy generally stays within the tropics. When the trade winds are weak however, we get a warmer then normal body of water around the equator. Sunlight energy is not being cooled or evaporated as quickly due to slow winds. Some of that vapor energy however can be peeled off into the mid latitude temperate zones because winds are relatively stronger in those regions. Now when the trade winds are very strong the wind can cool the water at a rate greater then normal. The resulting water currents can be so strong that cold water deep upwelling can also occur along the upwind coastal regions. Again, is it the speed of the trade winds that determine everything in this relationship. No net warming or cooling occurs globally, but some minor long term flux differences are bound to occur between ocean and atmosphere heat contents.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Nobelist Al Gore latched on to the notion of CO2 induced global warming while taking a survey science course at Harvard. His professor was one of the early heralds of AGWT. The fact that his professor later changed his mind did not affect Al Gore.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

So if we had less then 1/2 inch of snow fall this winter in DC, would that also be listed as proof of Global Warming ?

AGWT is extremely robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.

AGWT predicts everything and everything is consistent with it.

More interesting, from the point of view of a scientific theory, is the question: what observations would disprove (falsify) global warming?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

More interesting, from the point of view of a scientific theory, is the question: what observations would disprove (falsify) global warming?

A group of village idiot types are attempting burn a woman that they claim to be witch. Sir Bedevere arrives on the scene, and asks them why. They first claim that she looks like a witch - and she points out that they dressed her up. The grudgingly admit this, and then make some more outrageous claims (one says that she turned him into a newt - though he later 'got better'). Sir Bedevere then talks them through the 'logic' for checking that she is a witch - and after some false turns and lots of dim stares, they come to the following basic conclusions.

1. Witches Burn. This one is fair enough - though the villagers suggest trying to actually burn her as way of testing this.

2. Wood Burns. Hence witches are made of wood. How do you check that she is made of wood? Try building a bridge out of her, one suggests - but Bedevere points out that you can also make bridges from stone.

3. Wood Floats. Bedevere gently leads them to this point, and asks them if they know anything else that floats.

4. Ducks Float. They actually have a lot of trouble thinking of something else that floats - and it is Arthur, who has just arrived on the scene, who says: 'A Duck!' (stunned amazement and dramatic music.)

5. Therefore... The logic goes: that if she weighs the same as a duck, she's a witch and they can burn her. So they put her on a set of scales with a duck, and of course she does weigh the same.

[billhilly]

“It’s amazing how the same crowd that can connect warming with blizzards sees no connection between tax cuts and economic recovery.”

Sorry, Obamaland is a no logic zone.

[catfish1957]

I've watched Dr. Masters at wu for several years, and used to have a lot of respect for him, especially when it came to matters around hurricane prediction.

However, he has really went off the deep end supporting the AGW farce. To his benefit, he doesn't ban those on his blog who disagree.

You will love this though, when I mentioned that I was researcher 20 years ago, and would have shuddered at the mention of throwing data out, one of the wu minions stated... (if you can believe)... "Extrapolation is fine as long as it supports the hypothesis". I asked him to repeat it at least 3 or 4 times, so everyone could see the mindset of these whackos.

[Jacquerie]

Several years ago during a busy hurricane season, I would check wunderground daily for Master's latest forecasts.

I stopped when he posted a vile, venomous, unhinged attack against President Bush. I wish I had saved it. It was a mirror of the worst one could read at the time on Duh.

BTW, the double meaning of the term “weather underground” is no mistake. Masters is a stark raving moonbat.