Posted on 11/01/2012 3:45:20 AM PDT by Zakeet
President Obama and Mitt Romney seemed determined not to discuss climate change in this campaign. So thanks to Hurricane Sandy for forcing the issue: Isn’t it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?
It’s true, of course, that no single storm or drought can be attributed to climate change. Atlantic hurricanes in the Northeast go way back, as the catastrophic “snow hurricane” of 1804 attests. But many scientists believe that rising carbon emissions could make extreme weather — like Sandy — more likely.
“You can’t say any one single event is reflective of climate change,” William Solecki, the co-chairman of the New York City Panel on Climate Change, told me. “But it’s illustrative of the conditions and events and scenarios that we expect with climate change.”
In that sense, whatever its causes, Sandy offers a window into the way ahead.
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I was schooled in the far-reaching changes under way several years ago by Eskimos in Alaska, who told me of their amazement at seeing changes in their Arctic village — from melting permafrost to robins (for which their Inupiat language has no word), and even a (shivering) porcupine. If we can’t see that something extraordinary is going on in the world around us, we’re in trouble.
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“For the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change,” James E. Hansen, a NASA climate scientist, recently wrote in The Washington Post.
Politicians have dropped the ball, but so have those of us in the news business. The number of articles about climate change fell by 41 percent from 2009 to 2011, according to DailyClimate.org.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
New York City is filled with @ssholes like this.
Let’s load up Central Park with copperheads and alligators and see if they survive.
When we have colder than cold winters they either say you can’t blame one event, or some go out of their way to claim it’s STILL global warming.
And when the air temperature, humidity and barometric pressure matches the historical averages exactly on any given date ... well, that's an indication of "climate change," too.
Sandy happened in late October. I doubt the ocean or air temps were higher than they’ve ever been during a hurricane.
BTW...some theorize that using a nuke, to HEAT the area above the eye could reduce the power of a hurricane. Hmmm.
Finally, all climate alarmists tell us the poles are warming..not the equator. Guess what causes weather? Temperature differential. You know, when the weather man talks about a COLD front moving in. If the poles were warming, we’d have less differential and less severe weather.
The idiots in this write-up attribute weather to a process similar to water boiling in a pot...where turning up the heat makes it boil faster. Its simplistic and made for the masses.but hardly scientific.
Hey, here’s an idea. All lunatics who think man causes climate change, put a plastic bag over your head, tape it up so it is sealed nice and tight and just leave it there. PROBLEM SOLVED!
Climate change: is it global warming or global cooling? Is it a result of human activity? Is the evidence overwhelming or incontrovertible?
Okay. TX, OK and LA will turn off the spigots to the oil pipelines heading north. The northeastern states can save all the carbon emissions. They better hope that globull warming is true this winter.
The clowns that promote and believe this crap have a responsibility to sell their cars and disconnect their homes from the grid.
So, when did you stop beating your wife?
Same question, right? Premise is WRONG.
We should ask Nicky Kristof if we should just bulldoze away all the destruction on the Jersey and New York coasts. After all, it would be stupid to rebuild if these hurricanes are going to be regular events because of global warming.
The fact that they don’t shows that they are simply deriving their righteousness from their faith in their advocacy, not even from their faith in their own works.
Probably not many of them would even accept the concept that “global warming” is simply a vehicle to collectivise and control people.
The people they support would NEVER have malevolent motives, because... well, “because I’m a good person and _I_ would never support someone with malevolent motives...so, if I support them, they are benevolent...”
Has anyone ever seen Al Gore and Chicken Little in the same room at the same time?
I thought not.
It is fairly well known that the vortexial suction produced by the smooth solid canyons of tall Manhattan structures induced Sandy to veer vectorially northwesteward.
Manhattan caused the northward moving storm to veer inland at New Jersey.
If the moon were in a different position (not full), the storm surge would have been negligible and the damage would be nominal.
Therefore, we need a moonlight tax.
“For the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change,” James E. Hansen, a NASA climate scientist, recently wrote in The Washington Post.”
Well James, it could be explained by the fact thay you’ve quietly revised past temperature datasets (GISS) downward, multiple times...
A one cheek sneak.
That should stop the vast sea of NONSENSE that the "anthropogenic global warming" lobby is throwing at us over Sandy.
CONTRIBUTE or WORK to help those affected by the storm!!! PRAY for them!!!! But don't spout useless nonsense in the face of this terrible storm!!!!
I got an earful from a ‘Weather Scientist’ that Sandy PROVIDES conclusive proof of AGW and, anyway, the concensus among ‘scientists’ is that AGW is really, really true. Man is destroying the planet. AND, this is backed by a review of research data done by UCLA climate skeptics. Well, it turns out that the PRELIMINARY report based on a review of about 2% of the data (e.g. 2 readings out of 100) - says the analysis looks okay - but offers no real conclusion.
It does not address all the falsified data from University of East Anglia, NASA, etc. nor the 33K+ scientists who say AGW is unproven, nor does it address the exclusion of temperature readings from northern regions or from locations where exhaust gases, reflected heating from enclosed, sun-lit sensors, etc. that give inflated readings as well as recent analysis that shows temperatures have been flat for the last decade or more.
AGW is still unproven.
Even if the climate was affected by man, why would I want the buffoons in Washington doing anything about it?
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