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Sunday, August 3, 2014

Lessons from the 2012 Drought

“the single most important fact that America’s climate scientists can share with the American people is that they have reached near-unanimous agreement—the climate is changing and human activity is the main cause.” Quote taken from The Scientist Magazine.

Perhaps America’s climate scientists could start with what they know and comment on the summer 2012 drought and heatwaves in the US. They could point out the IPCC Global Climate Models assume that as CO2, a GHG, warms the atmosphere more water vapor(H2O) will evaporate from bodies of water and enter the atmosphere to further amplify the warming effect because H2O is also a GHG. In fact they could point out that it is a more prolific GHG than CO2 since its concentration(~1%) in the atmosphere far exceeds that of CO2(.04%).

They might then like to point out that in a drought there is a lack, a dearth, an absence of H2O in the atmosphere. That is what drought means. Temperatures are also hotter in a period of drought than in more humid times in the same area. This is why the American press (MSM) went hysterical over the record number of high temperatures that were set during the summer 2012 drought. We got those numbers on a daily basis. Global Warming they screamed.

Two problems. The drought wasn’t global.

Their Alaskan friends would attest to that.

Also, Scandinavians were basking in the midst of a cool summer.

The Brits also experienced a wet, cool summer as the Olympic Beach Volleyball ladies will testify. They didn’t want to wear their traditional garb during their matches.

The scientists could point that out as well.

As an interesting aside, on our rapidly warming globe, the world record high temperature still stands and only ONE State record high temperature was set during the summer drought of 2012. US maximum high temperatures are on the decline while US State minimum lows are on the increase. Check and verify.

And, more importantly, triple digit temperatures are not so frequent during more humid, more normal non-drought times. This is, of course, to the astute observer, exactly the opposite of what is predicted by the IPCC GCMs. More humidity, more water vapor in the air tends to reduce temperature extremes and cool the planet. It is cooler in non-drought times because there is more water vapor in the air.

KA_BOOOOM! That was the sound of the CAGW theory being blown to smithereens.

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