Real Climate Science

Hurricane Katrina’s real name
By Ross Gelbspan
Published: Wednesday, August 31, 2005

BOSTON — The hurricane that struck Louisiana and Mississippi on Monday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming.

When the year began with a 2-foot snowfall in Los Angeles, the cause was global warming.

Hurricane Katrina’s real name – The New York Times

It has now been seven years since a major hurricane hit the US, the longest period since the Civil War – and seven years since our friends started blaming every single weather event on global warming.

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Alarmists in the UK switch every couple of years between predicting hot weather and cold weather due to global warming. That is the great thing about man-made CO2 – all natural phenomenon can be blamed on it. And alarmists are allowed to change their mind about the symptoms as many times as they like.

Cold wet summers are the future of global warming

The shape of British summers to come? | Science | The Guardian

Eight years ago, team climate moron was saying that hot, dry summers were the future of global warming

Humans Mostly To Blame For 2003 Heatwave, According To UK Study

NASA tells us that massive amounts of ice are melting on the Greenland ice sheet, and that a huge volume of ice water is pouring off into the sea, destroying bridges along the way.

All this freezing cold melt water must be raising sea levels very quickly, and making sea surface temperatures around Greenland very cold.

Only problem is, neither of these things are happening. Greenland is one of the few places on Earth where the water is anomalously warm. Obviously there isn’t a lot of ice or ice water pouring into the sea around Greenland.

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As usual, NASA is full of bos taurus posterior waste product.

Warrenton,  Missouri was ground zero for the July heatwave.

High temperatures averaged three degrees cooler this July than they were  in July 1936.  Only two days were significantly hotter during 2012 – July 1 and July 31.

Speaking scientifically, we could say that NOAA’s claims of hottest month ever are the equivalent of male bovine excrement.

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of coal and permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.

JIMMY CARTER, Apr. 18, 1977

Experts tell us that the weather in DC has become unprecedentedly extreme during the past year. As a survivor of some of that extreme weather, I feel compelled to speak out.

From September through February I rode my bike in Maryland during such extreme events as sunshine, mild temperatures, occasional rain – and even cold for a few days. It was literally living hell. The dice are now loaded for even more of these types of extreme events.

We need to sacrifice America, in order to create more headroom for China to increase their CO2 production.

Obama is telling the good people of Ohio that he supports coal, while he rips the industry to shreds.

Over the next 18 months, the Environmental Protection Agency will finalize a flurry of new rules to curb pollution from coal-fired power plants. Mercury, smog, ozone, greenhouse gases, water intake, coal ash—it’s all getting regulated. And, not surprisingly, some lawmakers are grumbling.

Industry groups such the Edison Electric Institute, which represents investor-owned utilities, and the American Legislative Exchange Council have dubbed the coming rules “EPA’s Regulatory Train Wreck.” The regulations, they say, will cost utilities up to $129 billion and force them to retire one-fifth of coal capacity. Given that coal provides 45 percent of the country’s power, that means higher electric bills, more blackouts and fewer jobs.

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The market-clearing price for new 2015 capacity – almost all natural gas – was $136 per megawatt. That’s eight times higher than the price for 2012, which was just $16 per megawatt. In the mid-Atlantic area covering New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and DC the new price is $167 per megawatt. For the northern Ohio territory served by FirstEnergy, the price is a shocking $357 per megawatt.

Why the massive price increases? Andy Ott from PJM stated the obvious: “Capacity prices were higher than last year’s because of retirements of existing coal-fired generation resulting largely from environmental regulations which go into effect in 2015.” Northern Ohio is suffering from more forced coal-plant retirements than the rest of the region, hence the even higher price.

These are not computer models or projections or estimates. These are the actual prices that electric distributors have agreed to pay for new capacity. The costs will be passed on to consumers at the retail level.

House Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) aptly explained: “The PJM auction forecasts a dim future where Americans will be paying more to keep the lights on. We are seeing more and more coal plants fall victim to EPA’s destructive regulatory agenda, and as a result, we are seeing more job losses and higher electricity prices.”

Obama’s war on coal hits your electric bill | Fox News

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/22/obamas-war-on-coal-hits-your-electric-bill/#ixzz23698SL75

You can really build a thirst playing golf in -19 degree weather.

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There is a widely held theory that former Vice President Al Gore lost his bid for the presidency in 2000 because of his insatiable, career-long desire to curb the effects of global warming by first and foremost informing the public on the world’s climate crisis. At the time, there was overwhelming scientific evidence to support his claim that our planet was dramatically warming as a direct result of the release of manmade greenhouse gases into our atmosphere. However, like a cancer patient in denial who has been diagnosed but has yet to feel the symptoms of their illness, too many Americans failed to give him credence because they were not physically and financially reeling from the side effects of climate change. Twelve years later, our planet is still sick and this summer Americans are seeing and feeling the symptoms like no other time in recorded history.

Scott Stenholm: Conservatives and Climate Change: The Devastating Irony

More like Devastating Stupidity at the Huffington Post.

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