Someone once said that it is normal for the weather to be abnormal. The dailyclimate.org likes to document modern examples of this truism. But they think that in the modern age it means that something sinister is going on because of the human emissions of CO2.
Weather history would seem to relate that the only thing unusual in the modern era is the undue fear of the ‘crazy’ weather. When hasn’t it been bizarre? Name a year. It is the great failure of CO2 bigots that they cannot name a year when the weather was better than it is today. The newspaper archives will make a mockery of them and they know it.
Blizzards happened in low CO2 environments of the past and they were white then too. Tornadoes do not discriminate against low CO2 air and destroyed people and property in the past just as they do now. I don’t know how your mind works but mine concludes from this information that CO2 has nothing to do with blizzards or tornadoes or any other kind of extreme weather.
Extreme weather has been decreasing as CO2 has increased in the atmosphere. Should we thank CO2? Thank-you CO2.
When hasn’t the weather been nuts? That’s why we have quotes like these:
“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.” - Dave Barry
“If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.”
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. ~Patrick Young
The weather is variable, always changing, an inconvenient truth. This is why people say the weather is crazy. And as our communications have become real time we are instantly aware of common weather patterns the world over. This can make it appear that the weather has gone nuts. But our stats don’t support that gut reaction. In 2014, tornadoes and hurricanes are both having ‘quiet’ years relative to the norm. People are wondering not if Atlantic basin hurricanes will break a record high number but the record low number set in 1914.
And what is climate but the trend in weather occurrences over time. The climate changes continuously. This is not news. It is the normal state of affairs which has led someone to quip that catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is when climatologists treat common weather as unusual.
Chill people. Be thankful for the lull in extreme weather that we currently enjoy. It may not last.
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