Posted on 02/13/2014 8:49:15 AM PST by Sub-Driver
CBS Blames Global Warming for Harsh Winter Weather By Kyle Drennen Created 02/13/2014 - 11:11am
As a snow storm beared down on the east coast on Thursday, CBS This Morning sought to lay blame on global warming, with the headline on screen fretting: "Extreme Weather; Are These Kinds of Storms, Droughts Unprecedented?" Co-host Charlie Rose turned New York City College physics professor Michio Kaku and wondered: "What's causing all this?" [View video after the jump]
Kaku proclaimed: "Well, the wacky weather could get even wackier. What we're seeing is that the jet stream and the polar vortex are becoming unstable. Instability of historic proportions. We think it's because of the gradual heating up of the North Pole. The North Pole is melting." Rose interjected: "Global warming."
Kaku continued: "That excess heat generated by all this warm water is destabilizing this gigantic bucket of cold air....So that's the irony, that heating could cause gigantic storms of historic proportions."
Apparently there is a disagreement between the broadcast networks over global warming causing such winter storms. Back on the January 8 Today, NBC weatherman Al Roker got extremely defensive when critics claimed he and others were trying to link the polar vortex to climate change: "Some are saying that, A, we've created this phrase to hype it and to create hysteria and that we have made it a political issue by linking it to either climate change or global warming. I will give anybody who can prove that I have ever linked this with global warming or climate change, I will donate a thousand dollars to your charity. Alright?"
On CBS This Morning Thursday, co-host Gayle King theorized: "Does this explain why Niagra Falls is frozen and why it's warm in Sochi? It's all connected to the same thing, correct?" Kaku replied: "It's connected. If you take a look at the jet stream, you see that England is flooding right now, Latin America is warm, while California has a drought. We're talking about instabilities caused by the eratic nature of the jet stream."
King worried: "What can be done about it, Professor? Anything we can actually do about it?" Kaku lamented: "Well, the bad news is that the north polar region continues to rise in temperature, it seems to be irreversible at a certain point, so we may have to get used to a new normal. That is, a north polar region that is melting, causing more instability in this bucket, causing more things to spill out, which means more extremes. Some winters could be very mild, other winters could be horrendous."
Co-host Norah O'Donnell teed up the professor to make another dire prediction: "And you said 2014 is gonna be the hottest on record?" Kaku declared: "It's shaping up that this year could be one of the hottest years on record. The decade that just passed, it was the hottest decade ever recorded in the history of science."
Here is a full transcript of the February 13 segment:
NORAH O'DONNELL: As another major storm system hits the south and the east, sub-zero temperatures still grip the Midwest. And western Oregon and Washington state were hit with unusual snow.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Extreme Weather; Are These Kinds of Storms, Droughts Unprecedented?]
CHARLIE ROSE: Well, and California just got about twenty inches of rain from a pineapple express, but that state is far from ending its drought emergency. CBS News contributor Michio Kaku is a physics professor at the City College of New York. Good morning.
MICHIO KAKU: Good morning.
ROSE: So what's causing all this?
KAKU: Well, the wacky weather could get even wackier. What we're seeing is that the jet stream and the polar vortex are becoming unstable. Instability of historic proportions. Now think of the polar vortex as a bucket, a swirling bucket of cold air. However, the walls are weakening. Cold air is spilling out, spilling out over the walls of the bucket. And the question is, why? Why is this polar vortex weakening? We think it's because of the gradual heating up of the North Pole. The North Pole is melting.
ROSE: Global warming.
KAKU: That excess heat -- that excess heat generated by all this warm water is destabilizing this gigantic bucket of cold air, weakening this low pressure region, causing cold air to spill out over the United States. So that's the irony, that heating could cause gigantic storms of historic proportions.
GAYLE KING: Would you the the [inaudible] please.
[LAUGHTER]
KING: No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Go ahead, Norah.
O'DONNELL: We get this spilling out of the bucket, right? So but we see this snow in the Midwest and the south, why then has California been the driest on record? I mean, look at the snow pack in the Sierra's. Any skier knows out there they have so little snow pack. Huge drought.
KAKU: Because a lot of the weather, the warm -- the moisture-laden air which should go to California is being diverted into Canada, where it freezes, and it falls on your backyard. So in some sense there's the link between what's happening in California as the jet stream diverts, diverts the moisture-laden air over Canada and then it snows on the United States.
KING: I'm trying to follow you. I'm really trying to follow you. But does this explain why Niagra Falls is frozen and why it's warm in Sochi? It's all connected to the same thing, correct?
KAKU: It's connected. If you take a look at...
ROSE: Globally.
KING: Globally, yeah.
KAKU: ...at the jet stream, you see that England is flooding right now, Latin America is warm, while California has a drought. We're talking about instabilities caused by the eratic nature of the jet stream-
KING: What can be done about it, Professor? Anything we can actually do about it?
KAKU: Well, the bad news is that the north polar region continues to rise in temperature, it seems to be irreversible at a certain point, so we may have to get used to a new normal. That is, a north polar region that is melting, causing more instability in this bucket, causing more things to spill out, which means more extremes. Some winters could be very mild, other winters could be horrendous.
O'DONNELL: And you said 2014 is gonna be the hottest on record?
KAKU: It's shaping up that this year could be one of the hottest years on record. The decade that just passed, it was the hottest decade ever recorded in the history of science.
ROSE: Michio, you know if this physics thing doesn't work out, you can be a weather man.
[LAUGHTER]
O'DONNELL: You could try it.
KING: Professor, thank you very much. I think he's speechless.
morons
They read it in a fax.
CBS has been wrong many times before. Their politics overrides their logic and sanity.
SEE BS
Kaku isn’t ‘dumb’ by any means.
Yeah, if we don’t watch out, global warming is going to cause another ice age. Stop using energy now.
cbs lies... from 1978 Chevy pickup gas tank explosions to GOREBULL WARMING.
Gee. If you google this dweeb, he’s this guy that is a professor/whatever in some NYC college and has written a whole bunch of “Physics and (insert any kooky ass connection here)” Books....
Looking at his web page, he seems fond of himself and rather a fancies himself a physics rock star. He reminds me of a Physics Tony Robbins or Elmer Gantry or whoever that guy is. Hey, maybe it’s that Vietnamese guy on the cigarette boat with the hot chicks, you know, Trai Phan or something like that? “You, too can be filthy rich, like Trai Phan, and have hot babes on your boat!”
In this article, he has no directly relevant experience nor current knowledge of frozen over lakes, MORE ice this year - any of that. Global ‘warming’? What’s that?
Apparently he hasn’t got the word yet that ‘global warming’ is the new N word. It’s CLIMATE CHANGE now.
Have one of Kaku’s books at home that was given to me as a gift. Didn’t like it, should have already given it to the homeless. After this idiotic rant of his, the book is going in the trash as soon as I get home. I don’t even want to put it in recycling as someone might intercept it and read it.
One of the qualifications and requirements to work at SeeBS must be a master’s in Climatology.
I liked when Rose said, “if the physics thing doesn’t work out for you, you could be a weatherman.”
All this weather around the world. Earthquakes. Famines. Plagues. Murder. Rape. Wars, rumors of wars. Mummmm, where did I hear that before. I cannot remember right now, but seems I READ IT IN A BOOK somewhere. Some guy said it. What was His name. Jerry. Jersey. Jeepers. Jesus. Jordan. No, no it was that Jesus guy. He said something about all this. Right it was Him. THE Creator God of the universe! He told us this was coming. An unrepentant America and world being punished for its sin and refusal to recognize Him as who He said He was. America is being judged folks. He is pulling away His protection. Telling us, “Okay, you think you can do it all by yourself. You can do it all. Go ahead. Do it. Let’s see how bigger of a mess you can make.” America is being punished. If we don’t wake up, His judgment is going to be final.
Yep. Your mouth. Please keep it closed.
Then he’s an ideologue with an agenda. The average minimum temperature in Niagara Falls is 16F. Sochi is about 34F for the same minimum in January. And yet Kaku uses this as evidence of grave bodily harm to Gaia due to the miniscule amount of CO2 contributed by humans to the atmosphere.
These clowns should get their fat butts over to my place and shovel the driveway.
Weather Bell Analytics has been using a model to predict this winter’s weather, and they have been on target. The model is the historical data from 1918.
Kaku has evidently plugged in values for the thirty or so variables to the equation that yielded his results.
And why did CBS let Dan Rather go?
CBS=Commie Bull Sh**!
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