Real Climate Science

So here is the real story. Some guy from Pakistan got suckered into buying a house in the middle of a pine forest which naturally burns every twenty years, and now he wants someone else to pay for his mistake.

The main fire season in the Southwest is May/June, and the big challenge now is to get through the weekend without too many people drowning in flash floods from the torrential rain.

Time Magazine considers Romm an expert, because he has no idea what he is talking about on either a short or long term time scale.

As the idiots in the press continue to report on imaginary fires in Colorado, we are facing flooding.

Warnings for Larimer County Below 6000 Feet/Northwest Weld County, Colorado | Weather Underground

In July of 1976 a flash flood southwest of Fort Collins killed 144 people – one of America’s worst flood disasters.  It happened at a time when climate experts were panicked about global cooling.

The graph below plots all July 4th 100  degree readings taken in Virginia. USHCN reports sixteen July 4th readings (among eighteen stations)  over 100 degrees in Virginia from 1895-2011

The hottest July 4th was 105F at Woodstock, Virginia in 1898. Half of the 100 degree days were more than a century ago, and all but one occurred with CO2 below 350 ppm.

Four 100+ degree readings were reported on July 4, 1898  – at Woodstock, Fredericksburg, Farmville and Staunton

People who are trying to blame the heat in DC on CO2 are either incompetent or liars.

In 1974, excess Arctic ice was blamed for drought and floods. In 2012, missing Arctic ice is blamed for drought and floods.

Our top climate scientists are snake oil salesman. They don’t understand jack about the causes of climate change, so they just make things up, scare people, and keep the money coming in.

TIME Magazine June 1974: Another Ice Age?

In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada’s wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest. Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs. A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have recently experienced the mildest winters within anyone’s recollection.

As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

TIME Magazine June 1974: Another Ice Age? « Follow The Money

The CIA blamed record drought and flooding on global cooling.

www.climatemonitor.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1974.pdf

From 1520 to 1770, according to Oster, spikes in witch trials coincided with sharp drops in temperature. Cold and harsh conditions may have devastated crops, she theorizes, leaving Europeans starving and looking for someone to blame.

The idea that witches lay waste to crops was once conventional wisdom. In a papal bull of 1484, Pope Innocent VIII wrote, ”It has indeed lately come to Our ears . . . many persons of both sexes . . . have blasted the produce of the earth, the grapes of the vine, the fruits of the trees.” According to Oster’s research, crops really were devastated when charges of necromancy flew. The witches themselves, however, were simply climate-change scapegoats.

The New York Times > Magazine > Cold-Weather Theory of Witchcraft,

Replace the word witches with skeptics, and fast forward to 2012. The climate alarmist community is doing exactly the same thing. They assign blame for cyclical changes in weather to all people who don’t perceive the world in the same muddled fashion as themselves.

The hilarious part is that these same superstitious nutcases imagine that they are intelligent and wise.

According to Jason Samenow at the Washington Post, which string of temperatures is the worse heat wave?

2012

or 1930?

July 19    102
July 20    106
July 21    103
July 22    100
July 23     94
July 24     93
July 25    100
July 26    100

August 3    100
August 4    102
August 5    102
August 6     88
August 7     97
August 8    104
August 9    102

1930 was much hotter than 2012, but using Samenow lies, damned lies, and statistics,  2012 is hotter.

h/t to Andy DC

If you want an idea of how dishonest the Capital Weather Gang’s claims are, check out these numbers. Lincoln, Virginia has had 1281 days since 1901 over 95 degrees. 87% of those hot days occurred when CO2 was below 350 ppm CO2. There is no connection between heatwaves in DC and CO2 – and anyone who claims there is, is either an idiot or a liar.

The 1930s saw 268 days over 95F, or an average of twenty-seven days per year.

By contrast, the decade from 2000 to 2009 saw only 43 days over 95 degrees, or an average of four days per year.

The current decade has averaged twelve days per year over 95F.

Very hot days were three to seven times more common during the 1930s, than they have been since the year 2000.

U.S. Historical Climatology Network

Half of the US is forecast to have below normal temperatures, a few days after the experts declared we were having a 1936 repeat.

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

We know that the climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, because it is exactly the same as it was 101 years ago.

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