Heat wave is no reason for alarm
Baby, it's hot outside. If it wasn't for the refreshing cold front pushing through parts of the U.S. right now, one might be tempted to think there is something to all that global warming nonsense that conveniently breaks out every time it is warm enough for a climate change alarmist to break out in a sweat.
To be fair, climate change is real. It occurs four times a year when winter turns into spring turns into summer turns into fall. Alarmists don't see it that way, so they squawk "The sky is falling" every time conditions vary outside their interpretation of what they think is normal.
If there was ever a case to be made for global warming, it would have been in 1936 -- back in the days when no one worried about how cow flatulence or greenhouse gas affected the atmosphere.
Unlike anything we've experience since; the three-month long 1936 North American heat wave wiped out crops and snuffed out lives during the Great Depression's "Dust Bowl" days. The heat wave that began in June largely ended in September, leaving in its wake over 5000 deaths, drought, and widespread destruction. Even as hot as it's been, many of the record-high temperatures experienced then are unmatched today.
To make matters worse, the 1936 heat wave was preceded by one of the most severe cold waves of the 1930s. The 1936 North American cold wave included recorded wind chills of minus-100 degrees Fahrenheit in the Midwest, ending with March floods. People concentrated on how to put the next meal on the table rather than obsessing over things like air temperature fluctuations.
It's good they didn't obsess, because temperatures returned to normal that fall, just like the cold front making its way across the country is doing today as I write.
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He who controls speech, controls tought. We have been subjugated to a leftist anti-human agenda for far too long. The Gulf is fine, mother nature saw to that. We need to concentrate our efforts on human issues, like freedom.
This year's heat waves (more are coming) and the on going drought were likely made worse by AGW but the real issue is that the last ten years have been the warmest globally on record (~1880) and were likely the warmest in many centuries. No natural cycle can account for this. CO2 levels have not been this high in 600,000 years.
Carbon dioxide is not a cause for any climate change on earth. Also, please refer to the Medieval Warming period, the Roman Warming period and even the Phoenecian warming period, all episodes in relatively recent human history when temperatures were higher than they have been in modern times.
AGW is not real.
"We have been hearing that the last 12 months is the warmest in US history. It is not surprising, because USHCN is massively cheating – by adding 2.5 degrees on to 2012 temperatures relative to 100 years ago."
ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/9641C_201207_F52.max.gz
ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/9641C_201207_raw.max.gz
ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/9641C_201207_tob.max.gz
Nope! That would be the folks writing the 'scientific' literature.
Please provide documentation of your wild assertions.
I provided the links proving the data tampering has taken place. Put up or shut up.
I don't care who likes who, or who has unfriended who on Facebook.
This is why you alarmists are losing the debate so very badly, like the Emperor, you have no clothes.
Just explain how the Vikings settled Greenland for five hundred years staring in the 10th Century. No proxy data needed for this claim as you could nip to Greenland and look at the archeological evidence.
What was the mechanism for that prolonged period of pleasant climate and if you dont know, how can you know that the same mechanism is not at work now?
PS I dont think anyone would dispute that the burning of fossil fuels has contributed to the recent rise in C02 levels.
Talking to Mike about these and related facts is like trying to discuss the source of lightning with the bunny rabbits in my backyard. They think it's god clapping his hands or bowling with his friends. I'm okay with letting them go on thinking this is true.
www.archaeology.org/online/features/greenland/
It is easy to make a case for AGW, CAGW and just natural GW, with or without CO2, but it is impossible to have a good dialogue between adherents of these views.
The religious nature of all men comes through in that it comes down to a matter of belief hiding behind a mask of science. It would be good if everyone took a look at their own foundations and honestly evaluated how they got to where they are.
I have followed lots of threads on the "Realist" blogs, and am impressed. I have learned a lot. In comparison with the "Alarmist" blogs where there is no critical thinking, but lots of intelectual arrogance.
That's how Chicken Little operated.
We use Occam's Razor here.
However, if we are concerned, as Jo Nova puts it "hate to see a good civilization going to waste" then gracious interaction with those who are brave enough to enter a "sceptic" blog is a good way forward. It can be the first time that they ever see that there even is an argument. Those who are uninformed still think climate realists are following the pied piper of big oil.
Quote:That's because our public school system now teach kids what to think rather than how to think. It is one of the cruelest forms of child abuse, and is also a form of slavery.
My generation was probably one of the last to have been taught logic and critical thinking in school, and it becomes ever more evident with each passing year.
Woodrow Wilson's idea of a public school system was that it should turn out 'a compliant work force'. What he really meant, was that he desired a public willing to support an ever growing federal bureaucracy.
Logic is the silver bullet, and that is why we are being disarmed by the monsters.
As you have seen in other blogs, even those on the same side cannot establish their logical arguments with others who differ only slightly. Take for instance the discussion about whether CO2 has any effect at all, and if back radiation even exists. An argument between friends soon cools the friendship.
I think a big dose of reality will force a change, just as it has in Japan and is pending in Germany. It is hard for the UK who want to be leaders in this "green" field but even they start backtracking.
You need not know why the Sun rises each day to predict its arrival.
Truth must win.
Who still trusts what they read in a newspaper? but look how many people still read the printed paper and pay for it. It is not easy to know where to get "truth" from. It never was, but most people didn't realise how easily they could be duped.
We all think we can reason things out for ourselves in some way, but we tend to choose the news that fits our world view and exclude that which supports an opposing world view.
In the end, it will not be science that wins this debate, nor even truth. The cause will never be surrendered so it will have to mutate into something else, possibly even worse.
As you seem to know, AGW was only ever a means to an end, so there will be a new means to the same end emerging sometime soon, before all the credibility of AGW is gone.
Think of all the time that gets wasted through this process!
All the potential achievements which are either delayed or thwarted because of the Luddites who are simply unable or unwilling to take on the perspective to view the Whole in which we all live.
Nevertheless, we are 'wasters' and don't take care of our environment properly. Fish stocks show this problem dramatically, so does rainforrest destruction.
It seems to me that the original environmentalism that wanted to improve the way we lived has been hijacked with the agenda you state, and that the CO2 'bogey man' is the key driver for all it's goals. A one trick pony!
I recently discussed this false concept of CO2 being a polutant with an AGWer, and met with the usual abuse. It is a hard thing for someone to change their mind, so denial without reason is their only coping mechanism.