Real Climate Science

I had an experience early in my adult life which shaped my view of intellectual diversity. My boss at Los Alamos National Labs was an older chemist and a WWII veteran who many thought was shell shocked. I thought he was nuts too, until almost all of his whacky ideas turned out to be correct.

Now I don’t judge smart people with whacky sounding ideas. I even believed in global warming for almost three decades.

I censor people for wasting time, refusing to process information, making personal attacks, obscenity and threats. But never for ideas that I don’t understand …. yet.

Science progresses because of people who dare to deviate. Censorship is for ideologues like Barack Obama, who don’t have the faintest clue how science works.

“It doesn’t create jobs when you go after scientists, and you try to offer your own alternative theories of how things work and engage in litigation around stuff that isn’t political,”

“It has to do with what’s true. It has to do with facts. You don’t argue with facts.

Obama Hits Cuccinelli on Climate Change Skepticism | InsideClimate News

Too Much Information forms the basis of the climate propaganda machine.

A deadly flood or storm surge in Asia used to be page six news in the newspaper, if it made it all. Now it is 24×7 coverage on CNN. This makes people believe that the climate is spiraling out of control.

People used to be worried about Smallpox and drought and TB and Polio and flu and Pneumonia and not getting enough food to eat and childbirth – but now that they are comfortable and safe in their living rooms with an excess of everything, they imagine themselves to be endangered by far away weather events which have no impact on their lives.

Thirty-one million at risk of death in China was Page 6 news in 1931.

21 Aug 1931 – CENTRAL CHINA FLOOD HORROR Worst Disaster in Cou…

The 1999 NASA version of US temperatures showed a sharp decline from the 1930’s to the 1990’s.

NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

The current version shows an increase from the 1930’s to the 1990’s. The past magically changed!

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The next graph shows the current version in blue, and the 1999 version in red – normalized to 1998. They have dramatically cooled the past to create the false impression of a warming trend, and eliminate the hot 1930’s.

• NASA Official:     Gavin A. Schmidt

In 2008, a cyclone killed 130,000 people in Myanmar and was barely mentioned by the press. That was in the days of “global warming”

Cyclone Nargis made landfall in Myanmar on Friday, 2 May 2008, sending a storm surge 40 kilometers up the densely populated Irrawaddy delta, causing catastrophic destruction and at least 138,000 fatalities. The Labutta Township alone was reported to have 80,000 dead, with about 10,000 more deaths in Bogale.

Cyclone Nargis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But now that global warming is officially “paused” – the climate racketeering team has changed the dialogue to try to convince the public that bad weather never happened before.

One of the favorite tricks of climate alarmists is to use increasing disaster costs as an indication of a “worsening climate.” This 2007 NOAA document explains why the metric is useless and misleading.

Continued coastal growth and inflation will almost certainly result in every future major landfalling hurricane (and even weaker hurricanes and tropical storms) replacing one of the
current costliest hurricanes.

web.archive.org/web/20070704105347/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/NWS-TPC-5.pdf

There have been 12 cyclones with death counts greater than 100,000 in recorded history. Almost half of them occurred during the 19th century. The two deadliest cyclones of the 20th century occurred during the 1970’s, and were blamed by climatologists on global cooling at the time.

 

Deadliest World Tropical Cyclones | Weather Underground

US hurricane strikes also peaked during the 19th century

HURDAT Re-analysis Chronological List of All Hurricanes

People who claim that hurricanes are getting worse – have absolutely no clue what they are talking about.

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Weather Extremes : Cyclone Phailin | Weather Underground

Barrier Miner  Monday 18 February 1952

Polar Ice Caps Melt

New York, Sunday  Polar Icecaps were melting at an astonishing rate, Dr. W. S Carlson said. The water from them threatened to swamp seaports by raising ocean levels, he added.  Dr. Carlson, president of the University of Vermont, is an expert on the Arctic. …..

“The glaciers of Norway and Alaska are only half the size they were 50 years ago” he added.

“The temperature around Spitsbergen has been so modified that the time the sea is free of ice has lengthened from three to eight months of the year.”

18 Feb 1952 – Polar Ice Caps Melt

The beach is much wider now than it was in the 1950’s, and there is no indication of any sea level rise over the last 60 years at Miami Beach.

1950’s

Aerial Photo of Miami Beach, ca. 1950’s.

Claims that Florida is drowning are complete nonsense, spread by snake oil salesmen.