Global Warming/Climate Change Responsible for the D.C. Thunderstorm?
Of course! Washington Post:
As the intensity of the heat wave, without reservation, was a key factor in the destructiveness of this derecho event – it raises the question about the possible role of manmade climate warming (from elevated greenhouse concentrations). It’s a complicated, controversial question, but one that scientists will surely grapple with in case studies of this rare, extraordinary event.
But from earlier in the same piece:
This kind of fast-moving, long-lived, large, and violent thunderstorm complex is known as a derecho.
Derechos are most common in the Midwest and Great Lakes between May and July. The National Weather Service indicates they occur about once every four years in the D.C. area.
Once every four years now classified as “rare” and “extraordinary?”
And as a reminder:
How global warming contributed to the snow
Remember kids, global warming can do anything your imagination can dream up. Anything.
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During an Ice Age, it would have struck further south.
Notice how "global warming," something that we must admit is real since it is a feature of the planet's climate of the past, is always now described as "manmade global warming" as if this is the only kind of warming there can be.
Weather masters are inclined toward these linguistic faults. They love to talk about "frontal boundaries" which is hugely redundant since a front IS a boundary between two contrasting types of air massess, by definition.
If the scientists of climate want to talk to us about the weather, go ahead and make mention of global warming as a basic and long-term plausible tenet. But please don't lead me by the nose by using that worn-out prefix "manmade." That takes us into Fantasy Lane and I stop paying attention.
What do we do about that? Satellites are the answer. They make it easy. Just measure the flux of re-radiated infrared energy off the planet and determine if it changes, and if so, by how much it increases or decreases. Last I heard/read the data show no changes globally for at least a dozen years. This non-change on a global scale, of course, says nothing about regional fluctuations upward and downward. This makes it easy for the recent central U.S. heatwave to be advertised by the Global Warming Collective as "a taste of weather to come."
Interesting how many of the records being broken were set decades ago PRIOR to 1995.
Interesting how when I go to wunderground.com and look at my zip code the "historical range" is only from 1995.
Interesting how they say we broke the previous record when according to the data I just looked up the max today was 99F, the record was 100F in 1949.
Max yesterday was 94F with the record being 100F in 1990.
Monday we set a record of 99F. Haven't found what the previous record was for my zip code.
However, the hottest July here in MN? 114F on July 29th 1914 in Beardsley. Beardsley also holds the highest September record at 111F on September 11th, 1931. It is tied for the hottest August temp here with Montvideo with a temperature of 110F on August 10th, 1947 for Beardsley, and August 1st, 1988 for Montvideo.
"Taste of weather to come" my friggin' ass. It has happened before, the 1930's were particularly hot. To rephrase a favorite warmist spiel "It may be hot where you are, but it's cooler everywhere else..." Like the Southern Hemisphere...
wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/05/putting-piers-corbyn-to-the-test/
They trotted out a snide comment about using the MBH98 data etc, which I then proiceded to show how many people had shredded the tree ring data and how proxies were unreliable etc etc and how many had shown how the handle of the hockeystick had been magiced away using statistics.....
silence....
This is still very much a propganda war - they have theior backs agaknst a wall and know it. So if we trot along and tell they they are full of it, dont they come our snarling./
I just clop them between the eyes with truth and call them flat out liars ....that gets 'em going....
I dont go looking for trouble, but sure as eggs is eggs I wont back off if they have a crack at me.
Bah.
I have earned my beer time this week, and next.