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.
Did they even attempt to define what “extreme weather” means. And has the weather exhibited more “extreme weather” events than in the past?
Evidence please, not AGW talking points.
England is wet! “Latin America is warm.” California is dry! Who knew?
This Kaku guy made a very intelligent, astute comment when he said some winters will be mild and some winters will be hard....It really took a professor to come to this comclusion...*ROFL*
“One of the qualifications and requirements to work at SeeBS must be a master’s in Climatology”
Oh, you don’t need one of those.
Hot? =caused by global warming.
Cold? =caused by global warming.
Flood? =caused by global warming.
Drought? =caused by global warming.
Hurricane? =caused by global warming.
No hurricanes? =caused by global warming.
Snow? =caused by global warming.
No snow? =caused by global warming.
This cold mess is due to the past 20 years of environmental laws. taxes and regulations from the leading edge California legislature.
They passed laws to stop global warming and have been successful this is the result of environmental wackos why, are they not celebrating?
And of course the documents supporting this are “fake, but accurate.”
LOL! You got that right.
No, he's stupid.
from dictionary .com
stu·pid
[stoo-pid, styoo‐] adjective, stu·pid·er, stu·pid·est.
1. lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
2. characterized by or proceeding from mental dullness; foolish; senseless: a stupid question.
3. tediously dull, especially due to lack of meaning or sense; inane; pointless: a stupid party.
4. annoying or irritating; troublesome: Turn off that stupid radio.
5. in a state of stupor; stupefied: stupid from fatigue.
getting used to the “new normal”.. Cuc-kooooo cuc-kooooo..
Oh .. Uhh .. global varming made me do it..
That was Dateline NBC.
It was in a xerox copy of a memo supplied by Bill Burkett. IOW, it’s rock-solid, journalistically approved, ex-cathedra absolute epistemological certainty.
You omitted these:
No Global Warming is caused by Global Warming.
Global Cooling is caused by Global Warming. (anticipating their next claim)
Niagara Falls is not frozen and the water is flowing as it does every winter. There are ice formations but the water is still flowing. Meanwhile Sochi has palm trees. The climate of Sochi is described as humid subtropical. Average Feb highs for Sochi are around 50 F. They are warmer than that right now but nothing unusual.
Cognitive dissonance. Reality is not allowed to intrude, anywhere, anytime.
It takes a LOT of heat to melt a vast quantity of snow, first converting it to liquid water, then evaporating the liquid to become water vapor. Conversely, all of this heat has to be LOST, mostly by radiation off to outer space, on the side AWAY from the sun, before the water vapor may fall again as rain or snow.
Thermodynamics has three rules - starting with one premise.
The premise is, you must play the game.
•The First Law says you can’t win.
•The Second Law says the best you can do is to break even.
•The Third Law says you can only break even at absolute zero.
Or restated:
•First: You can’t win.
•Second: You can’t break even, except on a very cold day.
•Third: It doesn’t get that cold, even in Wisconsin.
He may not be dumb but he is an extremely evil human being.
He is consciously pushing the LIE of man-made global warming because he is a leftist control freak.
He is a liar pushing his claims not based upon scientific principles, but simple because he is a rabid leftist.
Hence, his actions make him an extremely evil human being. The reason he and others are evil is because the solutions they propose will cause the deaths of millions of innocent human beings.
Crossing my legs, leaning back, and looking very smugly intelligent, I finger my gold watch chain and state, “Harrrumph....My education, which is, as you all know, extremely high, permits me to make this factual statement...Weather is caused by.........weather!!!!”
England is known for its rain.
It's summer in Latin America when it's winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
California is a dry state.
None of this nonsense helps their claim.
The Socialist eco-Nazis that promote the global WARMING scam are the same type of people who kept telling the people that the emperor had the best clothes ever despite what the lying eyes of the subjects told them.
It's as if the government lit someone on fire and declared that they were drowning and it's the fault of the citizens because they rode their horses too fast.
The statement, “The decade that just passed, it was the hottest decade ever recorded in the history of science. “ is an outright LIE.
Ya beat me to it!
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