March 19, 2013
Warmer Springs Mean Less Snow Cover, Disruptions for Plants and Animals, and More Allergies, Scientists Say
WASHINGTON (March 19, 2013) – Warmer springs are leading to declines in snow cover, changes to species’ biological clockwork, and longer and more intense allergy seasons, according to scientists who spoke at a telephone press conference convened by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) earlier today.
And one year later :
GOP’s “inane” war on science: Plasma physicist congressman takes on the denialists
“Millions are already dying, or have died, as a result of changes in the climate,” Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., told Salon.
I got some criticism last year, when I said “millions will die” as a result of climate change. And they said, “Oh, you’re being hysterical.” And I showed them the World Health Organization figures, and because of droughts, and agricultural disruption, and changes in diseases – disease patterns and epidemiology — millions are already dying, or have died, as a result of changes in the climate …
“I wish we could get more Americans and, hence, their representatives thinking like scientists, which means basing our conclusions on evidence.”
GOP’s “inane” war on science: Plasma physicist congressman takes on the denialists – Salon.com
A good place for scientists to start is by actually looking at the evidence. Disease wiped out most of Europe during the Little Ice Age. The Anasazi were wiped out by an 80 year drought in the 13th century. Millions of people in China were killed by a drought in 1960. The entire population of Greenland was killed by climate change during the LIA. Half of Oklahoma fled the state in the 1930’s due to heat and drought.
Holt is a typical scientific dolt, arrogantly jumping into a field he knows nothing about, and reaching nonsensical conclusions based on a half-baked examination of data he doesn’t understand the first thing about. Climate is cyclical. Only a scientific dolt would believe that he controls the climate.
The claimed divergence between Briffa’s trees and measured data is utter nonsense. Until the 1998 El Nino, satellites showed very little warming – while tampered surface data showed seven times as much warming.
The satellite data is in line with Jones, 1998 – which showed very little warming during that period.
The surface temperature record is so corrupted as to be completely worthless for anything other than making hockey sticks.
The writer is too dumb to look up the weather forecast for Alaska.
Alarmists start many of their graphs close to 1979.
In this 1934 article, the US Weather Bureau said that the US had warmed seven degrees in the past 25 years, and accurately predicted the post 1940 cooling
In 1946, there were cherry blossoms in Washington DC by March 15
This year they are facing record March snow. Not surprising that the team wanted to remove the “1940’s blip.”
