Real Climate Science

Climate change is a poorly defined term, which requires the formal definition below.

• Warm weather
• Cold weather
• Lukewarm weather
• Wet weather
• Dry weather
• Weather that is neither wet nor dry
• Windy weather
• Calm weather
• Breezy weather
• Stormy weather
• Volcanoes
• Earthquakes
• Fires

All of the events above are climate change. For example, Colorado was warm and dry earlier in the month, and now it is cold and wet. Colorado never had hot, cold, dry or wet weather before. The dice are loaded, and it is due to climate change. The tsunami which hit Japan last year was also due to climate change.

It is important however not to blame everything on climate change. Some things are GWB’s fault, and other things are the fault of YouTube.

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h/t to Dave G

I spent yesterday evening with a 60 year Fort Collins resident, who said that yesterday’s three hour downpour at her house was the hardest she had ever seen.

Needless to say, it saddened me greatly to find out this morning that we are having an extreme drought.

US Drought Monitor

I was watching David Attenborough’s “Planet Earth” and was saddened to discover that many animals spend much of their day engaged in violence against other animals. Their goal appears to be to kill and eat other animals, though we all know that these soft furry creatures would never actually do that.

All violence in the animal kingdom is caused by man-made CO2.

“There are signs that Allah will grant victory to Islam in Europe without swords, without guns, without conquest. We don’t need terrorists, we don’t need homicide bombs. The 50+ million Muslims in Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.”

– Muammar al-Gaddafi

Polar bears can’t survive without sea ice, and they all died of shock this summer after the record minimum was announced. The warm summer in Colorado killed all the Pikas, and the excess ice in Antarctica caused the Penguins to have to march too far – so they all died.

On September 27, 1923, the temperature in Minocqua, Wisconsin was 85 degrees. Today’s forecast high is 63 degrees. One of the effects of man-made CO2 is more frequent and intense heatwaves.

HAMweather Climate Center – Record Events for The Past Week – Northern Plains View

‘Follow the Islamic way to save the world,’ Prince Charles urges

Prince Charles yesterday urged the world to follow Islamic ‘spiritual principles’ in order to protect the environment.

In an hour-long speech, the heir to the throne argued that man’s destruction of the world was contrary to the scriptures of all religions – but particularly those of Islam.

He said the current ‘division’ between man and nature had been caused not just by industrialisation, but also by our attitude to the environment – which goes against the grain of ‘sacred traditions’….

He added: ‘The inconvenient truth is that we share this planet with the rest of creation for a very good reason – and that is, we cannot exist on our own without the intricately balanced web of life around us.

‘Islam has always taught this and to ignore that lesson is to default on our contract with creation.’

‘Follow the Islamic way to save the world,’ Charles urges environmentalists | Mail Online

Charles thought that Di was supposed to have an “e” on the end of it.

We are being bombarded with claims that 2012 is a record fire year, and that fires are getting worse. I made a post yesterday pointing out that YTD 2012 has had the fewest number of fires in the 10 year long NIFC database, and that there were many more, and much larger fires in the past.

So a few people start arguing over whether or not 2012 is really a record low.

Who cares? The point is that 2012 isn’t anywhere near a record high. Some people need to step up their game. Arguing over the number of angels on the head of a pin is mindless.