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[Rogerdodger]

It seems to me that much of the hysteria about climate change is caused by media hype in a 24/7 cable news cycle which is desperate to sensationalize everything to maintain viewership, especially when it fits their news template agenda, and near sightedness, (climate myopia as I call it).

So today I see this blazing headline:
Boston Near All-Time Record With Snow Still Falling!


Well, I thought, the Boston area has been inhabited for a long time so their records must go back for centuries.
Boy was I wrong as shown in the news article:

"As of 7 a.m., Boston's official snow total was 21.8". This would rank as the 6th highest snowstorm in Boston's recorded history (well over 100 years)."

How long has the earth been here?
How long is 100 years in comparison?
And this is only the 6th highest snowstorm in those 100+ years?
Climate Myopia strikes again!


There was a similar story recently about the current mid-western drought.
The news headline said:
"Texas is in the grip of a record-breaking drought that began in the fall of 2010"

So again I asked: "How far back in history do those records go?"

A little research revealed a bit of Texas Climate Myopia as this drought is no where near record breaking.
It's barely close to the mid 1930's Dust Bowl era drought.

Believe it or not:
"While the “Dirty Thirty’s” serves as a measuring stick for present day climate change, other methods of scientific research have revealed more severe drought periods within the past 2000 years. Tree-ring growth studies in western Nebraska show the 1930’s drought was not that uncommon, and the “Dirty Thirty’s” actually pale in comparison to a 38-year drought that began in 1276, and another 26-year drought in the middle 1500’s."

"Texas is in the grip of a record-breaking drought that began in the fall of 2010" is nothing compared to a "a 38-year drought" or a "26-year drought".
But that fact is a bit "Inconvenient" isn't it?

Edited by Rogerdodger, 09 February 2013 - 11:57 AM.

[Rogerdodger]

PROOF: There is weather!

SOMETIMES IT SNOWS IN APRIL...

Up to Foot In Denver...

Edited by Rogerdodger, 08 April 2013 - 12:00 PM.

[voltaire]

PROOF: There is weather!

SOMETIMES IT SNOWS IN APRIL...

Up to Foot In Denver...

You just don't get it!

The reason it was changed from "global warming" to "climate change" is that although warming is the end result, climate change is the most noticable immediate observation in the short term.

Records are being set everywhere and more often.

Recently Australia set new all time heat records everywhere.

Sure, some places are seeing cold records too.

This is EXACTLY what scientists predicted.

But let the the idiots try to make it something else.

[salsabob]

PROOF: There is weather!

SOMETIMES IT SNOWS IN APRIL...

Up to Foot In Denver...

You just don't get it!

The reason it was changed from "global warming" to "climate change" is that although warming is the end result, climate change is the most noticable immediate observation in the short term.

Records are being set everywhere and more often.

Recently Australia set new all time heat records everywhere.

Sure, some places are seeing cold records too.

This is EXACTLY what scientists predicted.

But let the the idiots try to make it something else.

In addition, most people can figure out that a place normally a few degrees below freezing (e.g., at elevation in the Colorado Rockies in the Spring, Boston in February) will likely remain cold enough, even with significant global warming, for any precipitation to fall as the white, (hopefully for us skiers) puffy, stuff. Then the question is why so much more of the stuff. Could the skies be more laden with water due to increased ocean evaporation? Why, I wonder would increased ocean evaporation be happening?

The other thing strange is how some folks whine about how asinine for others to use local weather events as an indicator... and then shortly turn around and do it themselves. I'm sure this doesn't happen in Australia - it must just be an American thing. It's called a number of things here but I'll just leave it at "temporary cognitive dissonance."

Edited by salsabob, 09 April 2013 - 08:49 AM.

[diogenes227]

NASA'S Alarming Map of the Worst Australian Heat Wave on Record

[Rogerdodger]

NASA'S Alarming Map of the Worst Australian Heat Wave on Record

"the last two weeks surpasses the only previous analogue in the historical record (since 1910)"

WOW! all the way back to 1910.
I'm scared. Really scared.

And how old is the planet called Earth?
At least 200 years.
So what was it like in 1276? Or how about the 1500's?

Climate Myopia strikes again!
Believe it or not:
"While the “Dirty Thirty’s” (1930's Dust Bowl) serves as a measuring stick for present day climate change, other methods of scientific research have revealed more severe drought periods within the past 2000 years. Tree-ring growth studies in western Nebraska show the 1930’s drought was not that uncommon, and the “Dirty Thirty’s” actually pale in comparison to a 38-year drought that began in 1276, and another 26-year drought in the middle 1500’s."
Facts? We don't need no stinking facts. Or critical thinking.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 09 April 2013 - 09:18 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

This is EXACTLY what scientists predicted. But let the the idiots try to make it something else.

Really? Then why are they puzzled?

20-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate scientists 'puzzled'...

Research by Ed Hawkins of University of Reading shows surface temperatures since 2005 are already at the low end of the range projections derived from 20 climate models and if they remain flat, they will fall outside the models' range within a few years.
"The global temperature standstill shows that climate models are diverging from observations," says David Whitehouse of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
"If we have not passed it already, we are on the threshold of global observations becoming incompatible with the consensus theory of climate change," he says.


The COLD kills at least 10 times as many people as does the heat, each year, and "the idiots try to make it something else".

Last winter was relatively mild in Britain, and still 24,000 perished from the cold. The indications are that this winter, which has dragged on so long and with such brutality, will claim 30,000 lives, making it one of the biggest killers in the country. And still, no one seems upset.
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Climate Myopia strikes again!

Edited by Rogerdodger, 10 April 2013 - 08:09 AM.