What's the Tornado season gonna be like next year Mr Climate Change????
Got a Forecast for Toledo this Christmas Eve?
If it's all so clear and obvious --- stick your neck out and tell us when lower Manhattan is gonna flood.
You're a truly valuable asset TinkerBelle if you think you have a theory and explanation for the CURRENT and FUTURE climate..
You guys can hardly do a TEMP forecast for 2 decades.. Let alone sea levels, hurricanes and droughts.
You are in the same position of a guy who claims to have predicted last weeks earthquake, but always gets the time, date, and location wrong on the next one...
AGW has made some of it's supporters BELIEVE THEY HAVE SUPERpowers.
when actually sadly, they don't... And neither do their superheroes who would never confuse weather with climate..
And another incredibly demented and extremely retarded post from ol' fecalhead.
Fecalhead is way too stupid to comprehend the fact that climate models do a pretty good job of predicting long term trends but nobody can predict specific weather events far in advance. Just another denier cult straw man argument from one of the resident retardos.
CO2 Science
Background
The authors write that "heavy snowfall and extreme snow depth cause serious loss of human life and property in many middle and high latitude countries almost every winter," and they say that "it can be argued that the most damaging and memorable winters are those with extremely large amounts of snow," since "heavy snowfalls are often accompanied by extreme snow storms and avalanches which cause hazardous conditions on roads, railways and airports - sometimes even leading to the interruption of major transport routes." And with these facts in mind, they note that "climate models predict a likely increase in the frequency of extreme precipitation events in a future warmer world," citing the IPCC (2007), while adding that such is also predicted by regional climate models, citing Frei et al. (2006) and Beniston et al. (2007).
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What was learned
The two Swiss researchers from the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research at Davos say their "analysis of extreme snow depth and extreme snowfall" revealed that "none of the stations, not even the highest one at 2,500 m asl, has experienced significant (p<0.05) increasing extreme amounts during the last 80 years." Quite to the contrary, in fact, they report that "almost half (44%) of the stations reveal a significantly decreasing trend of extreme snow depth," while "the other half showed no significant trends." In addition, their GEV analysis indicated that "all stations show decreasing tendencies for HSmax." And last of all, in harmony with these findings, they indicate that several other studies have shown that "mean snow depth and snow days have been decreasing in the Alps in the last 20 years (Marty, 2008; Durand et al., 2009; Valt and Cianfarra, 2010), especially at altitudes below 1,300 m (Laternser and Schneebeli, 2003; Scherrer et al., 2004)."
What it means
Clearly, the predictions of the IPCC regarding a propensity for more extreme precipitation events to occur in a warming world has not been seen in Switzerland. In fact, just the opposite appears to be the case there.
The Skeptic's Case - David M.W. Evans - Mises Daily
Conclusions
All the data here is impeccably sourced — satellites, Argo, and weather balloons.[18]
The air and ocean temperature data shows that the climate models overestimate temperature rises. The climate establishment suggest that cooling due to undetected aerosols might be responsible for the failure of the models to date, but this excuse is wearing thin — it continues not to warm as much as they said it would, or in the way they said it would. On the other hand, the rise in air temperature has been greater than the skeptics say could be due to CO2. The skeptic's excuse is that the rise is mainly due to other forces — and they point out that the world has been in a fairly steady warming trend of 0.5°C per century since 1680 (with alternating ~30 year periods of warming and mild cooling) where as the vast bulk of all human CO2 emissions have been after 1945.
We've checked all the main predictions of the climate models against the best data:
Test
Climate Models
Air temperatures from 1988
Overestimated rise, even if CO2 is drastically cut
Air temperatures from 1990
Overestimated trend rise
Ocean temperatures from 2003
Overestimated trend rise greatly
Atmospheric hotspot
Completely missing → no amplification
Outgoing radiation
Opposite to reality → no amplification
The climate models get them all wrong. The missing hotspot and outgoing radiation data both, independently, prove that the amplification in the climate models is not present. Without the amplification, the climate model temperature predictions would be cut by at least two-thirds, which would explain why they overestimated the recent air and ocean temperature increases. Therefore,
The climate models are fundamentally flawed. Their assumed threefold amplification by feedbacks does not in fact exist.
The climate models overestimate temperature rises due to CO2 by at least a factor of three.
The skeptical view is compatible with the data.
C3: For 27 Years NASA's Climate Model Warming Predictions Wrong - Odds Are 1 In 134 Million of Being This Wrong
As the two above charts from the previous article reveal, human CO2 emissions actually have well exceeded the previous 'business-as-usual' (BAU) scenario - 429 billion tons versus 285 billion tons of emissions. But global temperatures have never exceeded NASA's BAU-scenario prediction after 1984 - NEVER!
That is 27 years of global temperatures being below the NASA climate model BAU prediction despite CO2 emissions through the roof, so-to-speak. This represents mind boggling odds.
What are the odds of NASA being so wrong for so long? What are the odds actual temperature would never exceed the prediction of the powerful, sophisticated computer simulations that billions of taxpayer dollars paid for, hmmm?
An incredible 1 in 134 million odds.
This is like flipping a coin 134 million times and it comes up 'heads' every single time - like almost impossible, no? As 'C3' has pointed out in numerous articles, climate model predictions are worthless, which this style of analysis confirms.
Your models are crap.