For the first time since their record-keeping began 12 years ago, the US Drought Monitor reports that more than half of the lower 48 states are in drought:
Al used to be the Vice President of an organization called “the government” which issued the graphic below that shows 50% drought happens very frequently – including the year 2002. In 1934 there was 80% drought.
Al is typical of the liars who are behind his huge money making scam.
h/t to Tom Nelson
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The study’s logic is simple. Global warming causes warm PDO and El Nino (which makes Texas wet) therefore global warming makes Texas dry. These people (alarmists) are dumber than a sack of rocks.
New Reports Show Impact of Manmade Global Warming
The study found that manmade global warming made the devastating Texas drought and heat wave of 2011 …. at least 20 times more likely compared to years with similar large-scale weather patterns in the 1960s.
New Reports Show Impact of Manmade Global Warming | Climate Central
Looking at the drought record, we can see that droughts in Texas were in fact much more severe during the 1950s and 1960s.
It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
– Richard P. Feynman
Texas, Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), June-May 1896-2012
Similarly, the number of record high temperatures in 2011 was less than 1925, despite the fact that there were more stations in 2011.
17 January 2009
Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama’s first administration, he added
That means that Obama has less than half a year to save the planet, which curiously coincides with the Mayan predictions of doom for this December.
Sadly for the planet, Obama has been too busy lying about Romney 24×7 to take the necessary actions required to save the Universe from certain destruction.
It appears that a significant group of climate scientists have determined that basing their claims on science is no longer necessary, and that it is OK to make up information needed to keep their reputations and livelihoods intact.
Apparently a week of hot weather in Washington proves that global warming is accelerating.
By Ross Gelbspan
Published: Wednesday, August 31, 2005BOSTON — The hurricane that struck Louisiana and Mississippi on Monday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming.
The US hasn’t had a major hurricane since 2005, the longest such period in history.
When the year began with a 2-foot snowfall in Los Angeles, the cause was global warming.
This year, global warming was the reason it didn’t snow in Los Angeles.
When winds of 124 miles an hour shut down nuclear plants in Scandinavia and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland and Britain, the driver was global warming.
They never used to have wind in those places
When a severe drought in the Midwest dropped water levels in the Missouri River to their lowest on record earlier this summer, the reason was global warming.
The floods on the Missouri last year were also caused by global warming
In July, when the worst drought on record triggered wildfires in Spain and Portugal and left water levels in France at their lowest in 30 years, the explanation was global warming.
The recovery since then was also due to global warming
When a lethal heat wave in Arizona killed more than 20 people in one week, the culprit was global warming.
Hot in Arizona? Unheard of.
And when the Indian city of Mumbai received 37 inches of rain in one day – killing 1,000 people and disrupting the lives of 20 million others – the villain was global warming.
Rain in India during the monsoons? Unheard of
As the atmosphere warms, it generates longer droughts, more intense downpours, more frequent heat waves, and more severe storms.
More humidity causes it to rain less.
Although Katrina began as a relatively small hurricane that glanced off southern Florida, it was supercharged with extraordinary intensity by the high sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico.
The 1900 hurricane which wiped out Galveston never found the missing heat.
The consequences are as heartbreaking as they are terrifying.
The consequences of stupidity are indeed heartbreaking.
Unfortunately, few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue.
The global Accumulated Cyclone Energy index is the lowest on record.
The reason is simple: To allow the climate to stabilize requires humanity to cut its use of coal and oil by 70 percent. That, of course, threatens the survival of one of the largest commercial enterprises in history.
We should destroy civilization in order to make incredibly stupid people like the author feel better for a few minutes.
When more Americans are killed in the president’s hometown than in Afghanistan, even the media take notice. When will the president notice the carnage in the city run by his former chief of staff?
Mayor Emanuel announced Monday that he’s devoting another $4 million to tear down vacant buildings where gang members live and store guns and drugs. Structurally sound buildings will be boarded up. But why are they vacant and boarded up? Why did 200,000 people flee Chicago in the past decade?
Chicago, like Illinois, is overtaxed and overregulated, a climate that attracts neither businesses nor people. It was the ideological incubator for a community organizer who would become president and blame all of America’s problems on those who worked hard and succeeded.
Rahm Emanuel Talks To Scott Pelley About Chicago’s Rising Murder Rate – Investors.com
h/t to Dave G
USHCN now adjusts the temperatures from the last 840 months in a row upwards.
In a normal error analysis for a large data set, scientists would assume that any non-systematic error is random. A miscalibrated thermometer is just as likely to read too high as it is to read too low. Human error has no systematic bias. The only systematic error is UHI, which should cause the corrections to be increasingly negative.
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So what are the odds of 840 months in a row having temperatures which were read too low by thousands of observers? Two raised to the 840th power. For all practical purposes, that number is infinity.
In other words, there is a 0% chance that the USHCN adjustments are correct, and 100% probability that they are politically motivated, or at best conformation bias.
“Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past
– George Orwell – From “1984”
The climate scamsters have largely given up on global warming, because the globe isn’t warming any more. The new strategy is to blame all weather events on “climate change.” That concept doesn’t actually make any sense, but Pavlov’s dogs are trained to drool and will do so when the bell rings.
The key to pulling off this scam is to convince people that bad weather never happened in the past, and the key to pulling that off is to erase the records of bad weather from the past. NOAA pretends that that people didn’t know how to count before 1950, and didn’t know how to read thermometers before 2000. NSIDC pretends that there were no satellites before 1979. Data from before 1970 is largely ignored by government climate scientists.
For the greater good of the team, it is also critically important to rewrite the temperature records from the past, which GISS and NOAA have been doing furiously for the past 12 years.
