Climate science has reached a new low, where many of its adherents no longer make any attempt to do anything other spew the desired answer.
New Reports Show Impact of Manmade Global Warming
Published: July 11th, 2012
By Andrew Freedman
The influence of manmade global warming on the climate system continues to grow, with human fingerprints identified in more than two dozen climate “indicators” examined by an international research team — from air temperatures to ocean acidity — for a comprehensive annual “State of the Climate” report released Tuesday.
The report notes that global warming has already been playing a role in shifting the odds for several of these extreme events, including the Texas drought. The 2011 growing season was by far the warmest and driest in Texas history, and the drought was the worst one-year drought on record there as well, costing billions in agricultural losses.
The study concluded that, due to manmade global warming, La Nina-related heat waves are now 20 times more likely to occur in Texas than they were 50 years ago.
New Reports Show Impact of Manmade Global Warming | Climate Central
The last paragraph is one of the stupidest ever written. La Nina is associated with cold global temperatures. Blaming La Nina on global warming is incomprehensibly dense.
But it is worse than it seems. Texas has never had a drought during an El Nino warm weather event. Global warming should bring less drought to Texas.
But it is even worse than that. The whole claim is complete bullshit. Hot summers in Texas were three times more common during the 1950s, as they have been during the past decade.
These people are making information up, without doing any research and without any basis in science.
USHCN Daily Data Texas Hottest 3 month periods Rank Month Year Max Temperature 1 8 2011 99.75 2 8 1934 98.651 3 8 1918 98.0807 4 9 2011 98.0156 5 8 1980 97.6562 6 8 1925 97.5938 7 9 1954 97.3802 8 8 1956 97.2552 9 8 1954 97.099 10 8 1998 97.0365 11 9 1910 96.8151 12 8 1951 96.8073 13 8 1917 96.776 14 8 1910 96.737 15 8 1924 96.6224 16 8 1953 96.6198 17 9 1956 96.6094 18 8 1901 96.5312 19 8 1952 96.526 20 8 1948 96.4688
You seem surprised at the fact that stuff is being “made up!”
Mr Freedman has a personal vendetta against me, as part of the Washington Post Capital Weather Gang.
I believe, Mr Friedman calls in Eli Wabbit to attempt to humiliate me when Mr Freedman’s limited expertise is strained
I sadly have to agree that this is devolving from highly speculative science into pure junk science. I seem to recall back in 2009 the same group argued that the recent cold temperatures were simply “weather noise”. In order to establish how long the cold trend could plausibly last they looked at a few different climate models and reached the conclusion that none of them could explain 15 years of non-warming.*
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com.au/2009/07/noaa-explains-global-temperature.html
*This was BTW, assuming a 2C temperature rise by the year 2100. The IPCC predicts close to double that.
Yes cold has been usually portrayed as weather noise. When too much of that cold winter weather started getting in the way of GW. It suddenly became proof of GW and what was expected by GWarmist Charlatans. Some of those Charlatans who GIGO mild winters all the time have jumped on the bandwagon of doing that also.. Most of the time Cold weather is just still portrayed as just weather while any warm weather or effects associated with warm weather are consistently portrayed as GW and CC.
El Nino is natural – La Nina is the handiwork of El Diablo
Freedman seems to think that explaining the current batch of record highs is ‘easy as pie’ http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/more-heat-records-compared-to-cold-records/
Scotland misses greenhouse gas reduction targets due to ‘one of the coldest winters on record.’
“Shall I point out the irony?” asks a reader.
http://iceagenow.info/2012/07/scotland-misses-greenhouse-gas-reduction-targets-due-%E2%80%98one-coldest-winters-record%E2%80%99/
In 1988 Hansen looked at the coming ENSO cycle of more prominent El Ninos for the next 20 years and predicted “global warming”, capturing the rise in the natural cycle to attribute it to his pet theory and reap fame and fortune.
The coming dominance of the La Nina phase of the cycle for the next 20 years will bring similarly predictable regional changes that can be exploited. Simply attribute the regional behavior expected from a dominance of La Nina to your pet theory and stand by to reap fame and fortune from the natural cycle.