Do the chosen people reside in the US?
Obama's "Global Warming": Since 2000, Alaska & U.S. Cooling/Century By -2.4°F & -2.8°F, Respectively
How has the world’s second biggest emitter of CO2 managed to avoid the global warming that President Obama says will doom us all? Prior to 2006 the US was the world’s dominant producer of carbon dioxide believed by some to be the chief GHG responsible for the Global Mean Temperature (GMT) rise of .9C over the last 150 years. And yet, somehow, according to Obama’s own agency(NOAA), the US has managed to escape the dire consequences expected from the rise of CO2? Has the US exported its CO2 to the rest of the world?
As CO2 rises, Gaia surprises.
Hurricanes that form in the Atlantic Basin have steadfastly refused to make landfall in Florida for the last 10 years. Major(category 3,4,5) hurricanes have avoided the US mainland during the decade since Katrina. These are the longest periods of absence in the record for both Florida and the US. Hurricanes in the US have been on a decreasing trend since the 1950s.
Tornadoes for the last 4 years have been below average in the US and on a decreasing trend since the 1950s. This good news is puzzling since rising CO2 is expected to bring more frequent and severe storms.
Why is Mother Nature sparing the US?
After all, CO2 does not discriminate in its choice of residence in the atmosphere. There are approximately 400 ppm everywhere.
Drought is another area where the trend in the US bucks the expected results from CO2 rising unabated in the air. The Palmer Drought index shows that drought in the uS was much worse in the 1930s, 1950s and 1980s than it has been in the 21st century.
Similarly, wildfires do not show the expected increase as CO2 has continued to rise. In fact the acres burned have gone down as CO2 has risen. While CO2 is at the highest level that humans have experienced the number of fires in the US have not kept pace.
Floods in the US do not show the expected increase either.
Crops were supposed to be adversely harmed in a warming world with rising CO2 but to date such has not been the case for US farmers.
Whatever is going on in the US defies the expected scenarios of the Global Climate Models. Perhaps the ‘basic physics’ incorporated in the computer code of these GCMs needs a rethink. Maybe CO2 in the US has gotten tired of trapping heat and stirring up trouble.
Should CO2 be replaced as the star of our climate drama, offered a less demanding role or be excluded from the cast altogether?
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