Posted on 08/15/2010 7:56:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The summer’s heat waves baked the eastern United States, parts of Africa and eastern Asia, and above all Russia, which lost millions of acres of wheat and thousands of lives in a drought worse than any other in the historical record.
Seemingly disconnected, these far-flung disasters are reviving the question of whether global warming is causing more weather extremes.
The collective answer of the scientific community can be boiled down to a single word: probably.
“The climate is changing,” said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climate analysis at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. “Extreme events are occurring with greater frequency, and in many cases with greater intensity.”
He described excessive heat, in particular, as “consistent with our understanding of how the climate responds to increasing greenhouse gases.”
Most researchers trained in climate analysis, while acknowledging that weather data in parts of the world are not as good as they would like, offer evidence to show that weather extremes are getting worse.
“Global warming, ironically, can actually increase the amount of snow you get,” said Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Globull cooling, which is exactly what the New York Slimes was peddling back then.
Where there's yin there's yang and it man's fault. :)
There was always weather chaos.
Maybe the NYT can get a good government grant...
BTW, I noticed the article had no mention of the extreme cold that killed off millions of fish, crocs and turtles in Bolivia a couple of weeks ago.
I guess that's why they call it "selective" reporting.
Mustn’t forget this item from Feb. 14 this year regarding the fact that it snowed in every state in the Union including the mountain tops of Hawaii.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2010/February/Rare-Snowy-Weather-Impacts-South/
Or the fact that here in GA, we had record cold weather this past January since 1985...
http://unionrecorder.com/local/x1587885117/Heating-bills-surge-across-Ga
Another bad wheat harvest in Russia!???
Wow!
A trend since 1917.
Yes, the media constantly misstate the issue. The issue is does human activity have any affect on the climate. I think the evidence is that we don't and we can't. Just as with most other things balley-hooed by the Left, this is not about climate.
Global cooling, global warming, climate change...made up your damn minds already so I’ll know what to wear for the occasion! Sheez...
I wish these libs would shut up with the f****** weather panic stories...the weather/climate is, what the weather/climate is...and there is NOTHING our tax dollars can do to change it...it will only buy the government elites bigger umbrellas, and larger air conditioners.
He sort of did...
He described excessive heat, in particular, as “consistent with our understanding of how the climate responds to increasing greenhouse gases.”
...the trouble is that “our understanding” is based on the computer model of the day...:^)
>>>The summer’s heat waves baked the eastern United States, parts of Africa and eastern Asia, and above all Russia, which lost millions of acres of wheat and thousands of lives in a drought worse than any other in the historical record.
Seemingly disconnected, these far-flung disasters are reviving the question of whether global warming is causing more weather extremes.<<<
Strange how the same proponents of global warming will say in one breath that weather isn’t climate, but this article begins with the phony premise that weather is climate.
I notice that the article doesn’t mention Alaska, which is at the same latitude as Russia and has been having one of the wettest years on record. The weather out here by the edge of the Arctic Circle has been cool and wet since the middle of July. It’s like fall has arrived two months early.
The historical record indicates that drought is a more common occurance during times of continential glaciation - ice ages. If global warming is taking place in the manner that proponents say it is, the atmosphere would be carrying a greater amount of water vapor and creating more rain, not more drought.
Apparently any adverse weather anywhere can be hyped to “prove” global warming. Which is the intent, no doubt.
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