Top climatologist thinks we are in an El Nino.
Climatologist Cliff Harris says the extreme weather conditions are the worst the world has experienced in 1,000 years.
“It’s been a never-ending cycle,” said Harris in an interview Wednesday from his Idaho home. “Mother Nature is running rampant.”
He said the fluctuation in weather patterns isn’t a fluke; rather, it is part of a 70-year climate period that began in 1968. He said the latest episode of the strange weather began with a La Nina weather pattern, or cooler than normal sea-to-surface temperatures, and ended with an El Nino, warmer than normal water-to-surface temperatures.
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I really want to know what the hallucinogen of choice is among climate scientists.
I really want to know what the hallucinogen of choice is among climate scientists.
Ozone. They sniff ozone to get high. I’s becoming a real problem.
Harris is an “El Ninny” lol
“A DISASTER THAT HAS COST PARIS £40,000,000.
THE GREATEST FLOOD ON RECORD.”
(With pictures).
~March 1910
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/33334074?
Is this idiot suggesting ENSO cycles began in 1968?
Apparently Harris is rated one of the top 10 climate scientists. In any other discipline he would be regarded as a joke.
Steve, love your website but in this case, the whole article should be read, not a biased summary from the Detroit News. Here is the link:
http://www.longrangeweather.com/ArticleArchives/WildWeather.htm
In fact, the article explains that we are currently in a cooling trend and the weather extremes are the result of the cooling and greater contrast between airmasses. As he says in the article:
“It remains my firm climatological opinion that when widely-opposing air masses clash headlong, there are usually dire, often deadly, meteorological and climatological consequences. That’s what led to our all-time record number of tornadoes in April and our record May flooding in the Mississippi Valley. Believe it!”
The website is actually very cool (no pun intended, really).
You sit on your ass, lower spline included. Oops!
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The Internet is a nit.
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This is one of my favorite ‘experts’, trotted out one morning on CBS…
KAKU: Similar. El Nina, cold weather around the equator, is contributing to what’s happening in Australia. And I was in Brazil just two weeks ago, where they had monster mud slides, killed hundreds of people because of flooding. Massive flooding. And it’s summertime now in Brazil.
WRAGGE: In El Nina, what are the patterns here? Is it every couple of years?
KAKU: Yeah, El Nina and the North Atlantic oscillations go back and forth every few years and they last a few months.
Thanks for the update Les!
Upper West Side? No. Lower East Side!
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Pizza!
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“It’s been a never-ending cycle,” said Harris in an interview Wednesday from his Idaho home. “Mother Nature is running rampant.”
Well, he got something right. It is a never ending cycle – it has been going on long before we were around to witness it, and will continue as long as the planet is here. I am sure every time a human witnessed a severe weather event, earthquake, or valcanic eruption, they felt that way. Problem is none of them have anything to do with CO2 (well except maybe some CO2 in a volcanoe’s magma that causes it to erupt explosively. Maybe it was from ancient SUV emmisions?).
Dear Cliff,
I’m not a climatologist, let a lone a ‘top’ climatologist. But I do know el Ninio is not happening.
“It’s been a never-ending cycle,” said Harris in an interview Wednesday from his Idaho home. “Mother Nature is running rampant.”
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It is, as it ever was.