Some events, such as the 2003 European heat wave which killed about 35,000 people and this year’s heat wave in Moscow would be “extremely unlikely to happen in the absence of climate change,”
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In other words, he is unaware of the heat wave of 1858 in London.
He also apparently doesn’t know about the heat wave of 970.
There are to many records about past weather extremes to be taken in by Mann’s claims of hottest decades in thousands of years!
Typical Snake Oil Salesman!
oh he is aware of them…and trying to eradicate them from the books
But, but, but Mann is at Penn State, maybe he should be in a State pen.
London’s Big Stink was so revolting that it produced the first major clean-air legislation, namely the authorising legislation to lay the city-wide Victorian sewer system. The system survives, mostly unchanged, today.
No, he is right in this regard. Climate change was necessary to bring about the heat wave of 1858. After all, the climate did not stay at that level in 2003.
So where was all the Co2 coming from in 1858 – cow farts?
Phil:
I agree that Mann is correct when claiming climate change is responsible for changing regional weather. The problem comes in when discussing the processes behind long term weather patterns and what long term weather patterns were experienced during the last 2 thousand years. With “Proper Smoothing” any trend can be found by also picking start and end dates such as was done in the “Hide the Decline” situation.
You are not going to get an argument from me. I was just playing devil’s advocate here.
The actual issue is that the climate is constantly changing. The red herring is they are attempting to use a constant – climate change – as somehow evil and unnatural.
Phil:
Agreed!