Another Yellow Spotted Cherry Picker sighting :
More record warmth as scientists warn of global tipping point
It’s hot out there. But this time, it’s more than idle watercooler talk, according to weather scientists.
At the same time the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center has released a report noting that this spring in the United States has been the warmest since record-keeping began in 1895, a group of scientists has published a paper in the journal Nature warning that the planet is approaching a critical tipping point because of climate and other factors.
More record warmth as scientists warn of global tipping point – CNN.com
Never mind the record cold in Australia, South America and the UK. The eastern half of the US now determines the global climate, because that is where the climate hillbillies live.
“The eastern half of the US now determines the global climate, because that is where the climate hillbillies live.”
And you can be damn sure that if there was record cold in the eastern U.S., they would talk about how hot it is in Moscow, or New Delhi, or Whogivesastan (to quote Mark Steyn).
Not only is there a Yellow Spotted Cherry Picker but also the now very common Global Tipping Point, usually these are accompanied by the Unprecedented Ubiquity.
Anyone can check the satellite temps, there is nothing unusual going on and this year has been quite a bit cooler than 2010. CNN’s ratings are down, so they will do anything to get people to run to their website.
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/
Gee, people got to play more golf than usual this spring. People shed their winter coats a month or so early. Very little typical spring flooding. Few tornado fatalities. Early planting of a huge corn crop. Low heating bills. I can’t imagine anything more catastrophic than a mild spring.
The springs of 1934 and 1935 was so much better, when huge duststorms swept across the country.
Or the spring of 1936, when tornadoes killed nearly 450 in 2 days and massive, catastrophic flooding hit the East and Midwest. That spring followed a record cold winter and preceded a record hot summer.
CNN are in the East? I’ve responded to Huffington posts calculation of 200′ sea rise in San Fran. Even NOAA’s official sea level rise says 1.4mm/yr so I reminded these people they will have to wait well over 43k years. By that time its odds on San Fran will be on the bottom of the ocean due to geological tectonics anyway.
This has been a singularly unremarkable Spring.