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Title: Reliable forecast under the weather [Ode to Global Warming Idiots]
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URL Source: http://news.bostonherald.com/news/o ... 036&srvc=home&position=emailed
Published: Feb 3, 2011
Author: Michael Graham
Post Date: 2011-02-03 14:50:25 by Capitalist Eric
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Views: 34968
Comments: 39
Meet the global weirdos. They’re the ones telling you that all the snow outside is proof that it’s getting warmer. Only, they don’t call it “warming” anymore. No, that was back in the “Earth has a fever” days. Back when Al Gore was predicting that the ice caps were melting, the polar bears were drowning and Manhattan would sink beneath 20 feet of water “in the near future.” But then something happened. Since 1998, temperatures have been relatively flat. We’ve got more polar bears than ever, and Manhattan is buried under snow. For a planet-roasting crisis that threatened the human race with extinction, there doesn’t seem to be much actual warming. So then the mantra became “climate change.” The liberals formerly known as “warmists” began predicting that we would experience fundamental changes in our weather. Scientists at the University of East Anglia — the Harvard of climate change — said snow would be “a very rare and exciting event.” Children wouldn’t know what it was. As for summers, in the wake of Katrina “change-ist” groups like realclimate.org predicted “global warming will make hurricanes even worse in the future.” What happened? Nothing. Europe has had three winters in a row of snow and cold temperatures. In the Atlantic, “there has been a dramatic decrease in the number of hurricanes in the last five years,” according to meteorologist Art Horn. “The total energy in all hurricanes around the world has plunged since 1993. The opposite of what was predicted.” So the new fall back is “global weirding.” The site thedailygreen.com has a “Weird Weather Watch” page. The uber-liberal Huffington Post ran a story in August headlined “Global Weirding”: Extreme Climate Events Dominate The Summer.” “The extreme climate events all across the globe must say something about whether climate change is already upon us,” the HuffPo insisted. “Extreme is the new normal.” They quote a professor of “environmental studies and politics” from Oberlin College who says, “More hottest hots, driest dries, wettest wets, windiest wind conditions. So it’s all part of a pattern.” Gore is on board, too. He’s now merely claiming rising temperatures will “create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters.” Not “warming,” but “weirding.” Not “heating,” but “havoc.” Which is how global warming can cause more snow, less snow, no snow, avalanches, heat waves, cold snaps, wetter wets, drier dries, gingivitis, delirium tremens and irritable bowel syndrome . . . all at the same time! Global warming — is there anything it can’t do? Well, the one thing it apparently doesn’t do is help predict the weather. The UK’s Met Office stopped giving seasonal forecasts last year after mis-predicting warmer winters three years in a row. Meteorologists without a warmist agenda like Piers Corbyn and AccuWeather’s Joe Bastardi, on the other hand, continue to pay the bills by making predictions directly contrary to the “weirdos.” Oddly, they don’t have degrees in politics. For a theory to be scientific, it must be fallible — capable of being proven false. If every weather condition can be used to “prove” global warming simply by being declared “weird,” then it’s not science. It’s a joke. Which is exactly what the environmental movement has become.
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#1. To: Capitalist Eric (#0)
maybe according to Fox News? the data says something different.
Your graph doesn't refute the idea that temperatures haven't increased since 1998
The graph shows rising global average temperatures after 1998. If you are making the stupid argument that "since 1998 was the hottest year ever, temperatures haven't risen since then" then it's a bit like saying that human beings aren't getting taller since the tallest person who ever lived was born in 1918. Meanwhile, few would dispute the data showing average height is increasing. What you are demonstrating here is again a fundamental lack of knowledge.
No it doesn't. There were some swings between 1998 and 2001, but compare 2001 to 2010.
a drop-off from 98 to 99, then a gradual rise. I don't see your point. Draw a line from 2000-2010.
From the peak there was a drop, then a rise. Draw a line from that rise to the 2010 peak. A slight decrease. And all below the 1998 peak. And this winters drop will be much more pronounced.
#34. To: no gnu taxes (#33)
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Yes, if you cherry pick the data you can ignore the overall warming trend over the last 30 years or so. But, if you look at something like a 5 year running mean, you get this: Which means you have to resort to "it's all a conspiracy" to make your point.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestSince 1998, temperatures have been relatively flat.
#3. To: go65 (#1)
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#25. To: no gnu taxes (#3)
Your graph doesn't refute the idea that temperatures haven't increased since 1998
#31. To: go65 (#25)
The graph shows rising global average temperatures after 1998.
#32. To: no gnu taxes (#31)
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There were some swings between 1998 and 2001, but compare 2001 to 2010.
#33. To: go65 (#32)
Replies to Comment # 33. From the peak there was a drop, then a rise. Draw a line from that rise to the 2010 peak. A slight decrease. And all below the 1998 peak.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/
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