Winter Isn't What It Used To Be?

From the ‘What planet are you on?’ department.

With climate change, winter isn't what it used to be | Snow Sports | The Seattle Times

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Crystal Mountain Ski Area - 90 inches of snow since Sunday

Mt Baker closed - too much snow and fallen trees !!!!

Snowdrifts, strong winds cause chaos in north-eastern Bulgaria as harsh winter weather grips Eastern Europe - The Sofia Globe

Up to 13 feet of snow for Mt Shasta California by Saturday night

Blizzard or winter storm warnings for 16 states

Extreme cold extends into Thailand

- 61°F in Siberia…Gee, Now I’m Really Worried About The Permafrost Melting!

Up to 18 inches of snow for West Virginia

Coldest December on record prompts state of emergency in Altai

Astrophysics v Meteorology: Snowpocalypse Russia: 'Snow tsunami' swallows streets, cars, RT News

Strong winter storm hits central, eastern Canada

What is a lay person to think?

Experts who make predictions or even look out their window don’t know what they are talking about. This is not good for the reputation of science or the ‘experts’ who claim to know the future. Mother Nature likes to make fools out of these seers. As Bertrand Russell has observed:

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts

H/T Tom Nelson

The Hypocrisy in CAGW

We are constantly told that the climate is changing and humans are causing it via our dependence on fossil fuels.

The UN forms the IPCC to serve as a clearinghouse for the latest research on CAGW and to provide the governments of the world with the latest solutions to be adopted such as radically reducing CO2 emissions from developed countries.

But do the leaders of the CAGW alarm behave as if there really is a scare?

Blogger Instapundit: I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.

IPCC contributor economist Richard Tol remarked on the recent Doha conference, COP18, in Qatar: “Civil servants, lobbyists and academics are getting ready to fly to a warm place to convince us that warmth is bad and we should fly less”

The Chinese who are still considered a developing country according to Kyoto rules and therefore not subject to reducing their CO2 emissions advised: “industrialized nations must agree to further greenhouse gas reductions before they will consider doing so, and holding developing countries to developed-nation standards would be inequitable.” Meanwhile China and India have almost 900 coal plants on the drawing board. Does that sound like they are afraid of CO2 in the atmosphere? They are going to go ahead with their plans regardless of whether or not the rest of the world reduces their CO2 emissions.

Those who want to situate themselves as a major player in the CAGW solution game are often among the most heavily CO2 spewing people in the world. Lead By Example they don’t. Soon to be Secretary of State John Kerry is a case in point. Five luxury homes, a yacht and a private jet symbolize the Kerry’s LBE lifestyle. Their austerity and dedication to implementing simple solutions to man made climate change is on daily display for all of us to emulate.

Al Gore is another hypocrite. He is always dashing off on fossil fuelled trips around the country and to other parts of the world for speaking engagements and rallying the troops in his education seminars. Lots of great references and comments in the link. And Al has sold his Current-TV to Al-Jazeera who are backed by OIL INTERESTS. Yep, Al is really worried about putting CO2 into the air. He’s laughing all the way to the bank.

Dr Pachauri, the head of the UN’s IPCC is from India and “ India and Dr. Pachauri are happy to push global warming, on the condition that the Americans commit economic suicide while India is allowed to move forward aggressively with economic development.” Remember the coal plants mentioned above? Dr Pachauri has been undermined in the past by incorrect data in the IPCC reports.

The AOSIS keep pleading for money from the ‘green climate fund’ ostensibly to help them mitigate or adapt to the rising seas that threaten their existence. Meanwhile they continue building hotels, resorts and airports for their burgeoning tourist trade. Stupid capitalists are investing in all that infrastructure so they can watch it sink beneath the waves? Yeah, right!

Meanwhile the acknowledged current leader of the free world enjoys his Hawaiian vacations without worrying about taxpayer expense or environmental ‘damage’. And yet he called for the US to lead by example.

There are many other examples of celebrities who warn about CAGW who are not walking the talk. How about the president of the Maldives?

Happily, this leads people to catch on to the delusion that is CAGW.

Delusion: a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.

People are learning that:

1. There is no hot spot despite the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.
2. World temperatures have been flat for the last 16 years despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century. Consensus is lacking.
3. Extreme weather is not getting worse despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
4. Sea level rise (SLR) is not accelerating despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
5. Water vapor is not increasing in the atmosphere despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
6. US has been cooling for the last 15 years despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century. Kinda takes the GLOBAL outta GLOBAL warming don’t it?
7. Himalayan glaciers expanding contrary to prediction and despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
8. The melting Arctic? We have heard it all before. We are still here and still waiting for the disastrous rise in sea levels despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
9. Antarctica is cooling despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
10. IPCC Global Climate Models (GCMs) can’t predict squat despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.

Bonus: plants grow better, stronger, faster because of the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

The only voice that counts in science is that of Mother Nature and she is saying loud and clear that CO2 does not have much if anything to do with climate change. If you have extreme weather in times of lower CO2 concentration and bad storms in times of higher CO2 atmospheric concentration then isn't the correct conclusion that CO2 has nought to do with it?

People are learning that CO2 has nothing to do with the temperature or the climate.

Knowledge dispels ignorance and the scare vanishes. Will politicians back off?

“We’ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” ~ Former Senator Timothy Wirth

Don’t hold your breath for any admission of error. Truth in science was never the issue.

Santagate

From the blog of Donna Laframboise   

The Secret Santa Leak
       
        January 8, 2013 at 9:55 am                                  
       
Thanks to a whistleblower, draft versions of most chapters of the IPCC’s upcoming report are now in the public domain. Among the new revelations: the IPCC has learned nothing from the Himalayan glacier debacle.

Donna has exposed the IPCC in her book


Please open the first link above  and find out why it will be much more difficult for the IPCC to ignore contrary evidence for its AR5 report due out later this year. They are in the process of putting it together now and these leaked files give us an insight into the political activist process that that has become just as Donna identified it in her book.

This leak is another in a series of leaks during the battle around the idea that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels is wreaking havoc on the Earth’s climate. The thesis is wrong and now we are getting an even greater glimpse into how that has been brought about by political activists who care more about achieving their political ends than they do about the truth.

Quote by Club of Rome: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose."

Quote by Christine Stewart, former Canadian Environment Minister: “No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”

Quote by Stephen Schneider, Stanford Univ., environmentalist: "That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have."

Quote by Timoth Wirth, U.S./UN functionary, former elected Democrat Senator: “We’ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”

Truth? Important? Sadly, not to political activists.

H/T to C3headlines.com for the quotes.

Gore Scores

Al Gore foresees the collapse of the man made global warming paradigm and sells his CURRENT-TV. Hurrah, no more Gore-a-thon Bore-a-thons.

Canada Misbehavin'

According to our friend over at Sunshine Hours Western Canada has been cooling for the last 15 years while the Eastern part of the country has been in a warming mode. Now meteorologists will have an explanation for this state of affairs that will incorporate the PDO, AMO, AO, NAO and the jet stream which embraces the knowledge we have gained about the factors controlling the climate in this part of the world.

But the schizophrenic nature of Canada’s climate is not behaving according to the predictions of the AGW crowd. The GLOBE is supposed to be suffering from acute anthropogenic GLOBAL warming and yet here we have Canada acting out of sorts with this worldly direction. And since CO2 is supposed to be the main driver of contemporary climate change the Canadian anomaly is rather hard to explain. And now we learn that Alaska has joined the rebellion.

The CO2 in Eastern Canada seems to be working fine. It is trapping the heat and raising the temperature as it is supposed to do. Some cynics have suggested this is from all the hot air coming out of Ottawa and Toronto. Snort!

But the CO2 in Western Canada appears to have something wrong with it or perhaps the temperature record needs to be adjusted. Does Environment Canada have a James Hansen-like mole trolling the datasets looking for stations to cool or warm?

Western Canada CO2 is not presenting as the heat trapping variety. It seems to be transparent to long wave infrared radiation (LWIR). Too bad they didn’t export it to the US during the summer to help out our neighbours to the South with their drought. Or perhaps they don’t have enough CO2 in the atmosphere in the prairies. Has it gone AWOL?

And yet we are told that CO2 is a well mixed gas in the air.

Oh, horrors! Could it be that CO2 has nothing to do with the temperature? Banish that thought.

The Canadian Arctic sea ice melt provides the data we sought. CO2 warms Arctic air which is not good for the polar bear. The summer heat is trapped, the sea ice it melts to a record low, so there!

The warm air from the north descends over the west to bring, a new dose of ghastly global warming.

But then comes fall and winter too. The heat doth dissipate, the sea ice refreezes at a record rate. Oh CAGW, what are we to do?

Down comes the overheated Arctic air dropping snow and temperatures for an early ski season.

Does that make sense? Can this be? CO2 has nought to do with climate, is that the reason?

Sandy and the Drought

Lead alarmists to pout.

Sandy was an extra-tropical storm that smashed into a Nor’easter and was maneuvered into the New York and New Jersey areas to wreak havoc in October 2012. The Drought was the 2012 summer dry period that sent temperatures in the US mid-west and eastern seaboard into triple digits. Corn crops were reduced by 13% over the 2011 harvest figures.

It may seem weird to talk about a drought and a big rain/snow storm in the same year but it often happens that way. We live in a world of opposites: wet and dry, cold and warm, windy and calm. They can occur at different times but one will often be followed by the other.

In a world of global warming hysteria it is not surprising to see the MSM blame both events on human induced CO2. Scientists are required to set the record straight.

Sandy was not caused by global warming nor was the Drought the result of severe weather.

This may be of some disappointment to those who are looking to blame every example of severe weather on CO2, a trace gas essential to life on Earth, but reality doesn’t support that conclusion.

Severe weather has been on the decrease even with the rapid rise in CO2 over the last 60 years. Hurricanes have given Florida a respite for over 7 years. And a cat 3 or greater hurricane has not made landfall in the US for equally as long. Tornadoes were way down in 2012.

Droughts were more severe in the 1930s and 1950s. The drought of 2012 did not break the world high temperature record nor did it break even one State high temperature record.



Severe weather is not pleasant for the people in its path and it is a damn expensive inconvenience but it is and always will be a part of life. We best learn how to adapt as best we can. Severe weather events occur in all kinds of CO2 concentrations thus proving that CO2 has nothing to do with their appearance. Shouldn’t that be obvious?

We do not control Mother Nature. The sooner we learn that lesson and take it to heart the saner we will be.

We didn’t have a severe flood in the US in 2012. Will we remember that floods have happened in the past when the next one occurs or will the MSM again become hysterical about the amount of CO2 in the air?