Climate midgets (McKibben, Cook, Romm, etc.) have been claiming that the extreme US weather this month is due to warming. They say that warm air holds more moisture, so we get more rain and violent weather.
The warm air only exists in their mind though.
http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/products/maps/acis/MonthTDeptUS.png
Flattening the color scheme, it becomes clear that the extreme weather has occurred in cold areas, and that more than 70% of the country has been below normal temperatures this month.
When the air is colder the saturation vapor pressure of water drops, so rain and snow form.
As is normally the case, climate alarmists are not interested in actual data or actual science.
I can vouch for this. The entire calendar year of 2011 has been cold in the Reno Tahoe area. We literaly have only had 2 or 3 warm (seasonal) days during this year. This trend dates back until about September of 2010. Nobody in the Lame Stream media is editorializing about it like they would be if temps were above average for few days in a row.
Here in the Washington, DC area, we have been the nation’s hot spot. We are already getting mid-July heat and humidity in May. This is following a record hot 2010 summer. It’s getting tiresome.
The weather pattern has been unusually persistent. What that has to do with global warming is beyond me. But our alarmist friends will find some explanation for it.
Is it 70% of the U.S. or continental U.S?
-Scott
WYSIWYG
i keep saying this, it is the nuclear pollution from japan, that makes it colder this year here in North America
Here we hit 90F for a day or so then a cold front comes through with extreme weather that results in a 20F lowering of temperature. 90 is not unusual as we are south of the jet stream this time of year normally.
The Northwest is running ~7 degrees below normal. So they clearly fudge the lows higher as well as the highs.
Most scientific research in the US is government supported. “He who pays the piper calls the tune.” Naturally, struggling young scientists will find what they need to find in order to keep their government money. Most of us would do the same if we were in their shoes. What is worse is the new consensus among scientists that scientific conclusions follow from political necessity. In other words, if 2+2 has to equal 5 then it does. Next, we will find that scientific arguments are aimed not at one’s mind, but at one’s skull. For example, a hammer cracks the skull of a “climate denier” who is, after all, almost as bad as a “holocaust denier”. University presidents will decry the violence but let it slip that the man “had it coming” and “asked for it”.
50 year lows in April and May for Vancouver, BC.. Brrrrrrrrr…. I can’t take it anymore, I need sunshine please. Fall, Winter, Fall, will we even have a summer or just one long Fall before it’s Winter again?
“Environment Canada Meteorologist David Jones said April and May has been wetter and colder than normal. “It’s not extreme,” he said. “But if we look at April and May combined it looks like we’re probably at only one colder April and May period in the last 100 years in the Lower Mainland and that was in 1955.
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May has been low on sunshine with only 131 hours, compared with the normal range of 231 hours, Jones said.”
http://www.vancouversun.com/Vancouver+suffering+through+coldest+April+more+than+years/4852714/story.html
“Expect fewer local vegetables in stores and markets this summer as farmers in southwestern B.C. struggle to recover from a cold, wet and dark spring.
Early field crops such as peas and beans rotted in the ground before they could germinate while small fruits such as strawberries are weeks behind their normal schedule and fruit development has been retarded, said Richmond farmer Bill Zylmans. A shorter growing season will mean lower yields for farmers, a tough blow after heavy rains in September ended last year’s growing season a month early and wiped out potato, carrot and beet crops.
“It’s been pretty depressing up until today,” said Zylmans, who spent a sunny morning Tuesday trying to determine which fields might drain sufficiently to allow planting. “We’re three to four weeks behind and these are a crucial three to four weeks.”
Corn, cabbages, lettuces and potatoes will all be late arriving on store shelves this summer and the shorter growing season means the harvest will be 20 per cent below normal.
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http://www.vancouversun.com/Cold+spring+ruins+crops+southwestern+farmers/4799551/story.html
And I was going to plant a small food garden on my deck. Sure picked a “good” year for it. Sigh. Brrrr…
The cold weather is due to the Gulf Oil Spill that has still not gone away.
There is a 200 mile bed of dead oil on the bottom.
The Atlantic Ocean currents have been altered.
People are concerned with imagined terrorists destroying the US while
BP has destroyed the entire Gulf of Mexico along with the Southern States and
the CEO goes on Yacht Races.