Just as it Came so it shall Pass

One day it is hot and then it is not. While the American Press have been going hysterical over the recent early summer heatwave in the mid-west and eastern states and claiming that it was due to global warming saner heads were pointing out that not all areas of the world were warmer than 'normal'. It is winter in the Southern Hemisphere after all. Kinda takes the GLOBAL out of global warming. Reminds me of the Wendy's commercial: Where's the Beef? Where's the GLOBAL?

In the newspaper archives and temperature records of cities we can find examples of US summer heatwaves which put the recent (June/July 2012) in perspective. 1921, 1934 and 1936 were particularly nasty. And those were years when the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere was below Bill McKibben's 'safe' level of 350ppm. So it would seem that the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is irrelevant to heatwaves. They will come and go no mater what level of CO2 presides at the time. Something else is causing the heatwaves.

For those who insist on implicating that invisible trace gas, CO2, that is essential to life on Earth, an explanation of the mechanism by which CO2 causes heatwaves would be an advancement in human knowledge. So how does CO2 work to create heatwaves? We are told that CO2 is a GHG or heat trapping gas. So, did the molecules of CO2 decide to congregate in the US mid west and east for their annual summer convention thus leaving other areas with a dearth of CO2 so that they went cooler than 'normal'? How does CO2 do that? And why Russia two years ago and the US this year? Like the IPCC who schedule its Climate Change conferences in different parts of the world so too does CO2 spread the joy of heat around the globe. Oh no, now where will the CO2 go? Who will get the next heatwave?

If we could only monitor the migration of CO2 in the atmosphere we could predict where the next heatwave will be! Good luck with that!

But, in the real atmosphere, heat here, cool there.  That's the way it works. Look around the world when there is a heatwave or a drought and see if it isn't true. One hemisphere has summer while the other has winter. Who's to say if we had as many thermometers recording temperatures in the Antarctic as we do in the smaller US that there wouldn't be daily record cold temperatures set in the same proportion as we had hot ones set in the US this year. But we don't have those temperature records so we don't know. But it seems likely doesn't it? The South Pole set a record cold temperature in June 2012 of -100.8F. How many other places in Antarctica had record cold at the same time. We don't know. The South Pole temperature has also been trending down for the last 30 years. Kinda takes the GLOBAL out of global warming doesn't it? And how come we didn't have the MSM going ballistic over that?

When the MSM ignore contrary evidence they are advocates and not reporters. They are interested in advancing an agenda or in just being right or not having to admit they are wrong rather than being an impartial bearer of all viewpoints. The truth be damned!

In July there is still lots of snow on Whistler in B.C. There is great skiing on Mt Baker in Washington State in July 2012. Phoenix had its coldest July 4th in 100 years. In July they are still shoveling snow in Anchorage.  Seattle had its 3rd coldest June on record. Argentina got more snow in two weeks than it usually does all winter. Aren't these unusual 'cold' events newsworthy? Not if you are trying to sell GLOBAL warming cause it kinda takes the GLOBAL out of global warming. It reminds people of the ying and yang of life. The back and forth, the to and fro, the up and down, the more and less. We live in a world of opposites. That applies to the climate as well.

Look around the world even on the same latitude and you will find different climates. Climate change is local or regional.  Even the last ice age was NOT a global phenomenon. We don't need to rearrange our standard of living because some area that got drought last year is getting floods this year. Such a reorganization won't stop the ying and yang. Then what? CO2 has nothing to do with causing severe weather.

Disasters happen and they are always local. And many can be happening in different places all at the same time. Take a look at 1917. When has there been a year when the destructive forces of nature have taken a holiday? We live in a dynamic, ever changing atmosphere that is sometimes uncaring and unforgiving. It's the way it is. It is the planet we live on. We learn to adapt. We're smart that way. Change is what the climate does.

And so it shall pass. Rain is forecast for the corn belt this week Aug 1- Aug 8.