Global Warming on Free Republic
Posted on 09/18/2014 6:44:09 PM PDT by Coleus
It's still summer, yet it has already snowed in the western United States and one of America's premier weather forecasters, Joe Bastardi at Weatherbell Analytics, is warning that for parts of the country, another bad winter is on the way.
"It's going to be a major winter for much of the eastern and southern United States," he said. "We think a formidable winter, but the core of the worst cold, relative to averages, instead of being in the northern Plains and Midwest, will be further south and east."
Last winter was bad, too -- historically bad. The Great Lakes weren't ice-free until June, when the mountainous West was still seeing snow.
Nevertheless, the United Nations keeps warning that if we don't do something to stop global warming, terrible things will happen.
"The effects of human-caused climate change are already widespread and consequential," the United Nations said.
But what effects from climate change? The Earth stopped warming 18 years ago, and the weather has made a mockery of climate change predictions.
The number of extreme weather events are down, sea levels are not rising dangerously, and not only is Antarctic ice not melting, it's the largest it's been since measurements began 35 years ago.
But world leaders, including President Barack Obama, still act like climate change is a serious problem.
"Climate change is already affecting Americans, all across the country, in every region, although in different ways," the president told reporters.
Some environmentalists are demanding world leaders do something to stop what they believe is a coming climate disaster. But the real disaster has been the inaccuracy of all those scary predictions that didn't come true.
"There's a real problem with the computer models for climate change," Dr. Pat Michaels, director of The Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute, said.
"By last count there were 42 separate explanations in the scientific or public literature on why it hasn't been warming. When there are 42 explanations for one phenomenon, I can tell you what that means: scientists don't know what they're talking about," he added.
Why has the Earth stopped warming? One reason is cooler temperatures in the Pacific.
"One of the major cycles of the Earth is Pacific Decadal Oscillation, which is a temperature cycle in the north Pacific Ocean," Steve Goreham, who heads the Climate Science Coalition of America, explained. "It's gone into a cool phase since about 2005, and the sun has moved into a cool phase in terms of sunspots."
Bastardi is forecasting a long-term trend toward colder temperatures.
"Over the next 20 to 30 years I think the general trend is down, back to where it was in the late 70s," he said.
In the 1970s, some environmentalists were warning of a coming ice age. Yet the president thinks the problem of global warming is so urgent, he's reportedly attempting to make an international climate deal without gaining U.S. Senate approval as required by the Constitution.
But the president may be lonely when he attends next week's climate summit in New York. A number of world leaders aren't coming.
you simply can NOT mock people who feel no shame at all- they just came out with a report claiming may june and august were the ‘hottest on record’ globally, even htiough locally in many places it was the coldest summer in recent history- These creeps get caught in loie after lie after lie and they just keep lying- NOTHING ever shames them into admitting it either-
Global Warming on Free Republic
Or maybe it's just a scam...
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