In my thirty years as a meteorologist, I’ve never seen global weather patterns as strange as those we had in 2010. The stunning extremes we witnessed gives me concern that our climate is showing the early signs of instability. Natural variability probably did play a significant role in the wild weather of 2010, and 2011 will likely not be nearly as extreme. However, I suspect that crazy weather years like 2010 will become the norm a decade from now, as the climate continues to adjust to the steady build-up of heat-trapping gases we are pumping into the air. Forty years from now, the crazy weather of 2010 will seem pretty tame. We’ve bequeathed to our children a future with a radically changed climate that will regularly bring unprecedented weather events–many of them extremely destructive–to every corner of the globe. This year’s wild ride was just the beginning.
– Jeff Masters
It has now been 871 days since any hurricane made landfall on the US.
For sure, our children are going to be pretty pissed if they find themselves dealing with a radically changed climate
However, if it transpires that the true cause is a protracted Solar minimum, while their ability to create wealth has been destroyed by an obsessive fixation on a non-existent CO2 problem, they are going to be absolutely livid.
Every extreme weather report I’ve seen hasn’t been unprecedented. The reports are almost always headlined “worst xxx in yyy years”, and if not, its because they’re nothing unusual.
Perhaps he thinks “in yyy years” means they’ve never happened before. That kind of illogic is rife amongst alarmists.
In my thirty years as a meteorologist, I’ve never seen global weather patterns as strange as those we had in 2010.
Well good for Jeff Masters. Thanks Jeff for the solid science of telling everyone what you’ve seen the last 30 years. Jeff Masters hasn’t seen weather like this in his life so global warming is happening. Thanks Jeff Masters. We’ll change the world because of your opinion.
Here Jeff, have a look at this. Tell me if you’ve seen this in your lifetime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C1CKKhN7ng
i cannot stand jeff masters. he is either insane and believes the crap he spouts, or has absolutely no integrity.
Steve, you keep mentioning number of days since a hurricane hit the USA as if it actually meant anything at all. I’ve asked you in the past what relevance it has and you clammed up. ACE might be more relevant, but then again denialists keep saying hurricanes are not proved to be linked, which is true, so why bother going on about it.
Andy
PS Jeff Masters likely has forgotten more about hurricanes than you have ever learnt 😉
The lack of hurricanes is not relevant to Master’s claim of unprecedented extreme weather?
Keep drinking the Kool-Aid.
It has now been 873 days since Steve Goddard starting dodging the question on why number of hurricanes hitting the USA actually means anything even though he keeps going on about it.
Andy
Are you actually as dense as you pretend to be?
AndyW
How does your conscience feel about the blaring inconsistencies in ‘global warming’?
Remember when increased hurricanes hitting the USA was going to be a sign of global warming? Now it doesn’t matter. Remember when snow was a thing of the past? Now record snow is a sign of global warming. Remember when warming winters were a sign of global warming? Now record cold in winter is a sign of global warming. Remember when a longer melt season in Arctic ice was a sign of global warming? Now it doesn’t matter.
Global warming, an ever evolving certainty.
C’mon Amino – let bygones be bygones, otherwise us denialists would have tokeep harping on the impending ICE AGE, a la the 70s.
The reason Jeff M and Andy W are members of the Chicken Little Brigeade is because they suffer from STML Of maybe LTML. It could be plain CRS (Can’t Remember Shit).
If the guy is dumb enough the admit he can not remember Shit he should not be promoting his lack of memory retention.
There are soooo many books out about historic extreme weather events all these people need to do is learn to read and pick up a couple of history books.
AndyW says:
February 2, 2011 at 5:58 am
Steve, you keep mentioning number of days since a hurricane hit the USA as if it actually meant anything at all.
Excuse me, let me interrupt your conversation with Steven.
Would you contact Al Gore and tell him your theory about hurricanes hitting the USA not being important? Until you and him hash that one out quit the silly commenting about the amount of hurricanes hitting the USA not being important. You folks screamed absolute bloody murder about Katrina. So when a hurricane suits your Armageddon ‘science’ you blow it through a bull horn. When it doesn’t suit you you ridicule people that say it used to mean something to you.
Jeff Masters likely has forgotten more about hurricanes….
He forgot too much, hey babe?
AndyW
Thanks for bringing up the ACE
“2010 is in the books: Global Tropical Cyclone Accumulated Cyclone Energy [ACE] remains lowest in at least three decades, and expected to decrease even further…”
http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/
But wait, don’t say it, ACE doesn’t really matter now. It did just 45 minutes ago. But that’s so long ago. The certainties of global warming have changed in that amount of time.
HELLO ANDYW, are you there? You didn’t hit and run did you?
Amino I think your “hit and run” is missing a beginning s
lol, AAM was having all the fun while I’m out shoveling the drywetwarmcold. Did Andy really bring up ACE? Surely someone high-jacked his moniker. The Andy we all now wouldn’t be that dumb.
ROFLMAO! “S” by all means!!!!
link to Jeff masters alarmist blog:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1739#commenttop
comments section after article
Here is an interesting image of cyclone/hurricane tracks to 2006.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/7000/7079/tropical_cyclone_map.gif
See anything unusual Mr Masters (you amateur you)
I believe it is signficant that alarmists have been telling us that landfalling US hurricanes were going to be increasingly more frequent and severe when in reality, they have been less frequent and severe.
Then the National Hurricane Center tries to compensate by running thru the alphabet naming countless weak disturbances at 20N and 30W that have absolutely no chance to threaten the US and would have never been named 50 years ago.
Jeff – You see what happens when you try to inject reason into this kind discussion? You are now an ignorant dupe, or lunatic and your training and experience are meaningless. Humans may not be the sole cause of global warming and the idea of warming creating instabilities in the “temperate zones” is incomprehensible. As Kurt Vonnegut says, “And so it goes.” You can be refuted with references from “the Guardian” or holders of records from Guinness.
Hey! As Steve says in his heading- “Just having fun.” Argue both sides! If no one is interested in facts-have a little fun. No one is going to change.
Jeff was trained to be an ignorant dupe and a lunatic? Wow, for most alarmists I thought it natural. Could you point out any of that “reason” you reference in that quote? And what of experience? You realize we all experience climate and weather, right? Steve’s having a bit of fun, but it is at the ignorant dupes and lunatics expense.
Teachers can only teach what they know – and we do know that many of them are dupes and lunatics. 😉