Alarm over freak weather worldwide -"weather is going haywire in 2003" (WMO)

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[What Is Ain't]

Yawn.

Is their funding under review?

[chance33_98]

Probably :)

[BushCountry]

Cool, I was getting tired of worrying myself to death over terrorist threats and the second great depression that is coming! Now, I got a whole new (actually, I just got over the global cooling worries we had in the 70s) thing to worry about. I don't know how I will make it, but I will carry on, because when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Seriously though, I wish people who don't know what the hell they are talking about would just shut up and let me enjoy life and eat my fatty foods and medium well steaks. : )

[jrd]

How can you eat steak when the sky is falling!

[freebilly]

Obviously, this is all George Bush's fault....

[Cold Heat]

Yatta,yatta,yatta.........................................................................

Just look out the friggin window and this claim will be shown to be false. Patterns appear quite normal.

[ninenot]

FUNDING. Yup.

Last night FoxNews interviewed a man (whose name I have forgotten but is well-known in the 'global warming' debunker group) and he said that:

1) The atmospheric weather balloons simply do not show evidence of 'warming'---(still); and

2) What makes 'averages' is a compilation of extremes. Statistically, we will observe more extremes as we become more observant of weather patterns. However, statistically, such extremes will do almost nothing to affect the averages.

Finally--anyone who thinks a UN organization is "scientifically neutral" is drinking Delusional KoolAid.

[ninenot]

Obviously, this is all George Bush's fault

You've got something there.

Most of these events occurred AFTER the Iraq war.

[VRWC For Truth]

143 out of 4.5 billion years does not make a good statistical sample.

[toddst]

. . . anyone who thinks a UN organization is "scientifically neutral" is drinking Delusional KoolAid.

10-4. THIS is the most significant comment made IMO. Trust nothing the UN says or does!

[Henrietta]

"The unprecedented warning takes its force and significance from the fact that it is not coming from Greenpeace or Friends of the Earth, but from an impeccably respected UN organisation which is not given to hyperbole -"

Oh, please. The same idiots who are Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are the UN. It's the same drivel, given a veil of respectability (some would say) by the UN.

Myself, I don't find the UN respectable at all, so I put anything the UN says in the enviro-whacko camp.

[Batrachian]

I know what they mean. It was cold last winter and it's hot this summer.

Crazy, huh?

[meowmeow]

Oh...how I long for the good ol' days when there wasn't any weather. This summer is just plain hot and all winter it was cold - we even had...snow. It's all the Republicans' fault. If the dems were in power, every day would be 70 degrees and sunny all over the frikin world.

[Cicero]

The other explanation, which was entertained here the other day, is that we should drop the Road Map and stop trying to put an end to Israel, before God sends us more messages.

[Semper Paratus]

Weather of Mass Destructon Alert!

[Sgt_Schultze]

Good point. along the same lines, we have this tidbit from the essay..."These record extreme events all go into calculating the monthly and annual averages which, for temperatures, have been gradually increasing over the past 100 years," the WMO said...

100 years ago, the world's population was about a third of what it is today... fewer people concentrated mainly in larger cities. Large tracts of minimally inhabited terrain. We probably don't know about the tornadoes that ravaged the plains 100 years ago because there was nobody to witness them and our satelites weren't yet orbiting. But we know the cities give off an excessive amount of heat compared to ehr countryside.

It only stands to reason that as our reporting and observing technologies improve, our records will become more complete. As we miss fewer events, we observe more of them. That doesn't mean there are more of them, just that we observe more of them.

BTW, I didn't see the debunker to whom you refer, but it might have been Patrick Michaels. He's an actual atmospheric scientist and quite good at rebutting the systerical crowd.

[ninenot]

Nah...drives me NUTS that I can't remember. Old guy, writes most of the 'contrarian' stuff to debunk globocrap, teaches at Yale or Havahd...meterology PH.D.

[boycott]

We've had a very moderate June. Most be talking about another planet.