70 degrees in NYC yesterday, Dec.22. Still not enough evidence to convince US policy makers global warming exists. Turn the Titanic around!
In a tweet Bette Midler wondered how people could deny global warming when the temperature in NYC was 70F on Dec 22nd.
Do warmists always draw general conclusions based on one data point?
How does she then explain with less CO2 in the air the 90F temperature on Xmas eve in Kansas in 1955?
Was the 1955 CO2 more powerful than that we have now? Was the 1955 CO2 able to trap more heat than the CO2 of today?
And how come most (83%) of the warmest Christmas Eves happened prior to 1965 when CO2 was much lower than it is today.
If 70F in NYC is evidence of AGW in Bette’s mind then what does she make of snow in Cairo, Israel, Amman and Saudi Arabia in December 2013? Why, it must be evidence of global cooling according to her logic!
Hot here when it should be cold; cold there when it should be hot. Is Mother Nature having PMS?
Or perhaps hot here; cold there is heat distribution not so rare. After all, at any time there is only so much energy in the atmosphere. If more of it appears here then it only stands to reason that there must be less elsewhere in order to keep the same total. This makes CO2 as an explanation for this state of affairs difficult to fathom. We can’t say that CO2 rushes to point A to trap the heat and make it warmer while the places from which it departed become colder. Mother Nature is in charge of heat distribution and she ‘decides’ according to her own chaotic set of rules which we as yet do not and may never understand. So we should not be surprised that if unexpected warmth shows up here that elsewhere there will be unexpected cold.
We complain about this state of affairs all the time and say that the ‘weather is crazy’.
Crazy weather has been with us for the lifetime of our species and will continue to accompany us on our journey forward through time. It is our fate.
Our biggest fear ought to be another ice age when Canada will cease to exist and Canadians will no longer be visitors to the US but permanent residents. When ice sheets advance toward the 49th parallel geographic boundaries will become meaningless.
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