Pop Goes the Grave Spell

Over at Climate Realists,  in a guest post, Carl Brehmer has penned " The “Greenhouse Effect” and Droughts are Mutually Exclusive". This short essay destroys the spell cast by the doomsayers who believe in catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW). Alarmists would have us believe that severe weather is proof of CAGW and that if we do not lower our emissions of CO2 immediately the world will become an oven that will cook human fricassee. According to warmists we are destroying our world and ourselves with our pursuit of unchecked growth and consumption. Governments need to act to curtail this wonton depletion of our resources. They blame CO2 emitted via the burning of fossil fuels for this damage.

But, as the article above suggests, alarmists have become trapped in their own hyperbole and missed the simple science that contradicts their misanthropic view of the world. Carl Brehmer succinctly summarizes the dissonance between drought that we are currently experiencing in parts of North America in the summer of 2012 and the necessity for water vapor and other greenhouse gases like CO2, a trace gas essential for life on Earth, to be present in the atmosphere in order for them to be blamed for the arid conditions.

The point is, arid means a dearth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. He points out the diurnal temperature contrasts in the desert between day and night are larger than those in more humid areas and illustrates this by presenting results for several urban centers that bring demonstrate the temperature differences between more and less humid times in these locations. Have a read.

In fact, he shows that the presence of GHGs moderates the diurnal temperature differences. More humidity means cooler daytime temperatures and no drought. So drought is incompatible with the presence of GHGs. To spell it right out: GHGs cannot cause drought. Alarmist research is sometimes not the best.

It turns out that the weather is behaving as it always has and that the grave spell that global warming alarmists have cast upon the evil human race is without merit. The popping sound you hear is the bubble of CAGW bursting in air.

Alarmists like to talk about how it is a crime against humanity to deny CAGW. Like a boomerang, that accusation comes back to smack them upside the head as they try to associate drought with CO2 induced global warming. To deny that impossibility is akin to a belief in a flat earth.

Can we stop burning food to power our vehicles now? Isn't that a crime against humanity?