Not only are heatwaves becoming less intense and less frequent in Missouri, but they are also starting later. Lebanon, Missouri has had seventy-five May/June days over 100 degrees since 1885. All but four of those days came with CO2 below 350 ppm CO2.
May 31, 1934 reached 101 degrees in Lebanon – almost a month earlier than the first 100 degree day in 2012.
People who are attempting to link CO2 and heatwaves in the US, are either incompetent or dishonest.
“People who are attempting to link CO2 and heatwaves in the US, are either incompetent or dishonest.”
Both in spades…
Hey gator69! My vote is for dishonest. Or could we have a third choice: ignorant? No matter, my vote is still for dishonest. Or how a 4th choice: malicious ideologically motivated bullshitters? On that I might be able to be persuaded to change my vote.
Hey Eric! The proof that they are incompetent comes in the form of hundreds of billions of dollars in funding, support from every government on Earth, aid from virtually every media outlet, a gushing zealotry from pop culture, and yet a yawning and increasingly disinterested public.
Steven has provided all the proof one needs to see they are dishonest.
Both.
Well, yes, they have a monumental funding and MSM support advantage, and prior to Climategate, they were idiotic and thus incompetent in not predicting the likelihood of their emails being revealed, and so not using more secure means of communication. But they are arguably losing the battle despite the funding advantage because: * Climategate and Hide the Decline, * temps have stalled or declined, * the hockey stick has been debunked, * conservatives, though briefly duped, never really liked the de facto de-industrialization ‘solution’ or the leftists that proposed it, and so this opposition bloc has risen suddenly and with virtual unanimity (notwithstanding Drudge and Huntsman), and perhaps most importantly, * this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_WyvfcJyg
I can’t accept the fact that all these smart people with a bunch of letters after their name, don’t know climate history, which means they are liars. They seem to be happy about the heat waves, acting like teenagers tweeting, “I told you so”. They are completely ignoring the global weather.
No doubt, yes, right now its a bit warm in Kansas. We’ve been here before, it will happen again. NBD.
Here is the video I watched part of the other night with Kevin Trenberth on PBS Newshour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylDfs1lymfg
They are propagandists for an agenda. They will jump on every little thing that supports their position, the facts be damned. You might as well read “Pravda” or the “Daily Worker”. Most people aren’t going to check the weather records for 1934. They just know it’s hot.
Many of the Hockey Stick scientists are engaging in deliberate fraud. They will say or do anything to keep the “climate change” research grants flowing. They stubbornly refuse to admit they’ve been in error, despite mountaining empirical evidence contradicting their threadbare AGW theory. Their egos, their reputation and their very public careers as AGW alarmists won’t allow them to be truthful. Expect them to defend the AGW falsehood until the bitter end.
I meant “mounting empirical evidence” in above comment.
The damage the Joneses, Manns, Hansens, Trenberths and others of their species have done to climate science in particular and science in general is incalculable.They’ve managed to turn climate science into something akin to crystal-ball gazing. Even former NASA astronauts are taken aback by their junk science and melodramatic predictions of doom. How long will they continue to defend a theory that is in free-fall collapse? Until everything except hell freezes over?
It’s group think. They make ridiculous, absurd statements knowing their pals will back them up, as well as the media. Markey has completely lost it, accusing Romney of not wanting to protect the people from the weather. How can you get anymore insane……politicians are going to control the weather???? Freaking NUTS!
“…and perhaps most importantly, * this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_WyvfcJyg”
I’ve owned a copy of the DVD since it was released and it has been loaned out many, many times. 🙂
I was one of those “duped conservatives” until I saw in ~ June 2007 The Great Global Warming Swindle per your / my link. Interesting, I had just seen a nutty Truther “Loose Change” video, and in a list of popular videos, I saw the link for The Swindle video, and I thought it was probably another nutty thing, but, being a conservative, I was still holding out some hope that AGW was bull, so I clicked to watch. As I watched, and it got to the ~ 3 minute “Al Gore part” that is covered in the your linked excerpt, I was thinking… “NO… YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. IS THIS TRUE??!!”
So, the 3 minutes in the linked excerpt could be critically helpful in changing minds (it changed mine), so I advise us to link to it and share it to get the word out. With me, though, I wasn’t about to take the potentially “propaganda” video at face value, so I did virtually 2 days worth of extensive googling to get confirmation that what the video says… is true. I sought out the warmist rebuttal, and found none. By now, several years later, the bullshit artists have become adept at trying to obfuscate the evidence that the video presents, but the video flat out refutes the central foundation as presented by the ipcc (pre-2000) of the AGW theory. Watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_WyvfcJyg