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Title: Californias long-term cooling trend cited as evidence FOR global warming
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URL Source: http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011 ... lobal-warming/?singlepage=true
Published: Jul 7, 2011
Author: pajamasmedia.com
Post Date: 2011-07-07 15:54:59 by no gnu taxes
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Want to know why global warming alarmists and climate scientists in general have lost credibility with the American public? Consider a new study released today — and the unintentionally hilarious weasel words of its author — as Exhibit A. As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle today, a meteorologist did a 30-year survey of temperature and precipitation data for most of the largest cities up and down the state of California. Conclusion? In 75% of the sites, the weather has grown colder and rainier than it used to be: Of course, this “inconvenient truth” was not what either the study’s author nor the Chronicle‘s reporter wanted to see, so the spin cycle goes into overdrive right from the headline, which manages to use the word “warmer” first despite there being only two warmer cities in the entire study: “CA climate: inland warmer; coast cooler and wetter.” Uh-huh. But that’s just the aperitif. How does the author, a meteorologist named Jan Null who also happens to be on the global warming bandwagon, explain away the trend he uncovered? Behold: The data may appear to bolster the arguments of global warming skeptics, but Null said the findings actually fit in with the predictions of scientists who believe the climate is changing as a result of human-caused carbon emissions. “People say, ‘Wait a minute, what about global warming? Shouldn’t it be warmer?’ ” Null said. “Well, if you have more warm days in the Central Valley, you are going to have a stronger sea breeze so you will cool off the coastal areas. That certainly does not contradict any of the models about global warming. This is what is to be expected.” They always say that: Whenever evidence of cooling is found in the data, it somehow magically becomes confirming proof of global warming, because cooling is “expected” in the forecasts. Of course, whenever localized warming trends are found, those too are cited as evidence of global warming. Which leads me to my Global Warming Spin Axiom: Hot we win, cold you lose! What’s most astounding is that Null, who claims to be a world-class expert on California meteorology, uncorked the whopper “if you have more warm days in the Central Valley, you are going to have a stronger sea breeze so you will cool off the coastal areas,” which as anyone who lives in Northern California knows is complete balderdash. Hot days in the Central Valley are generally caused by high-pressure systems settling over the area, which also cause off-shore (i.e. reverse of normal) winds and higher temperature at the coasts. Incoming low-pressure fronts cause cold temperatures at the coasts and cooling inland. To say that warm temperatures inland somehow induce cold and rain on the coast is wrong in more ways than I can count. And Jan Null knows that, so he must be purposely obfuscating to undermine the conclusions of his own unfortunate study. One thing I will say in Null’s favor, though: At least he released the stats he uncovered, rather than burying them once he realized that they undermined his favored thesis (as other researchers have done, we now know). But he would have been wiser to just release them and make no further comment, because every time a climatologist cites cooler temperatures as proof of global warming, another angel dies in heaven and another thousand Americans lose faith in the global warming mania.
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#1. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
He didn't go far back enough. We've had a very similiar year so far to the period starting in the late summer of 1968 to the spring and early summer of 1969.
So the joke begins like this: An economist, a lawyer and a professor of marketing walk into a room. What’s the punch line? They were three of the five “expert witnesses” Republicans called for last week’s Congressional hearing on climate science. But the joke actually ended up being on the Republicans, when one of the two actual scientists they invited to testify went off script. Prof. Richard Muller of Berkeley, a physicist who has gotten into the climate skeptic game, has been leading the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, an effort partially financed by none other than the Koch foundation. And climate deniers — who claim that researchers at NASA and other groups analyzing climate trends have massaged and distorted the data — had been hoping that the Berkeley project would conclude that global warming is a myth. Instead, however, Professor Muller reported that his group’s preliminary results find a global warming trend “very similar to that reported by the prior groups.” "Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Do you think it is possible for you to actually make a comment on the article posted?
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …”. Can I get an ‘amen’??
Yale/George Mason University Poll released June 9, 2011 show 64% of the American public believes the planet is warming. So when your first sentence is wrong, it kind of taints the rest....
"Thats because your basically and idiot." Because the American public has figured out the climate experts are being paid to lie to them courtesy of their local Democrat/Socialist/Fascist/Communist Party!!!
When asked by a Liberal what I bought my Granddaughter for her 1st birthday I replied, "MORE AMMUNITION"!!!!
When asked to assume that global warming is happening and to ascribe a cause, only 47 percent said that it was caused mostly by human activity
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …”. Can I get an ‘amen’??
Yet the GOP ran McCain the last time out, who stated when he saw the melting Alaskan glaciers just before the campaign that something needed to be done about global warming.
So are you inferring the GOP elite are a bunch of dumbasses?????? If so I agree.... Now if you are saying the (Dim) voters who crossed over the fence to help McCain get the nomination are a bunch of dumbasses, they yes I agree again!!!! In fact if you are inferring that anybody who believes in Manmade Global Warming is a dumbass, then yet again I agree with you.....
When asked by a Liberal what I bought my Granddaughter for her 1st birthday I replied, "MORE AMMUNITION"!!!!
As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle today, a meteorologist did a 30-year survey of temperature and precipitation data for most of the largest cities up and down the state of California. Conclusion? In 75% of the sites, the weather has grown colder and rainier than it used to be:
#2. To: mininggold, no gnu taxes (#1)
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#3. To: Godwinson (#2)
#4. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
Want to know why global warming alarmists and climate scientists in general have lost credibility with the American public?
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
#5. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
Want to know why global warming alarmists and climate scientists in general have lost credibility with the American public?
#6. To: go65 (#4)
#7. To: CZ82 (#5)
Because the American public has figured out the climate experts are being paid to lie to them courtesy of their local Democrat/Socialist/Fascist/Communist Party!!!
#8. To: mininggold (#7)
Yet the GOP ran McCain the last time out, who stated when he saw the melting Alaskan glaciers just before the campaign that something needed to be done about global warming.
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