Last, Best Chance to Fight Climate Change

[jc456]

Greta agrees that we're on the verge of the tipping point of the 6th mass extinction! Wheeze awl gunna dyeeeeeeeeeeerrr

Frank, still curious based off what? God talking to her? Think?

haha,

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Greta agrees that we're on the verge of the tipping point of the 6th mass extinction! Wheeze awl gunna dyeeeeeeeeeeerrr

Frank, still curious based off what? God talking to her? Think?

haha,

St Greta the All Knowing

 

[frigidweirdo]

Amazingly, Trump wanted to lower any emission standards and ramp up the use of pollution causing fossil fuels. His brain dead followers cheered, like they always do.

But that idiot is gone, and there are Republicans who actually are concerned about climate change, and now we have a President to lead the way.



The Earth’s climate has always been a work in progress. In the 4.5 billion years the planet has been spinning around the sun, ice ages have come and gone, interrupted by epochs of intense heat. The highest mountain range in Texas was once an underwater reef. Camels wandered in evergreen forests in the Arctic. Then a few million years later, 400 feet of ice formed over what is now New York City. But amid this geologic mayhem, humans have gotten lucky. For the past 10,000 years, virtually the entire stretch of human civilization, people have lived in what scientists call “a Goldilocks climate” — not too hot, not too cold, just right.

Now, our luck is running out. The industrialized nations of the world are dumping 34 billion tons or so of carbon into the atmosphere every year, which is roughly 10 times faster than Mother Nature ever did on her own, even during past mass extinction events. As a result, global temperatures have risen 1.2 C since we began burning coal, and the past seven years have been the warmest seven years on record. The Earth’s temperature is rising faster today than at any time since the end of the last ice age, 11,300 years ago. We are pushing ourselves out of a Goldilocks climate and into something entirely different — quite literally, a different world than humans have ever lived in before.

Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis

With Joe Biden in office, a serious plan to combat climate change is finally in our sights — but the clock is ticking, and there is no more room for error

www.rollingstone.com

Climate change is always going to happen.

The world doesn't need to fight climate change.

The world needs to fight the imbalance of humans on the planet because without balance, you die.

Too much water, you drown, too little water, you die of thirst.

 

[jc456]

Greta agrees that we're on the verge of the tipping point of the 6th mass extinction! Wheeze awl gunna dyeeeeeeeeeeerrr

Frank, still curious based off what? God talking to her? Think?

haha,

St Greta the All Knowing

There you go!!! Ding ding ding

 

[MadChemist]

Amazingly, Trump wanted to lower any emission standards and ramp up the use of pollution causing fossil fuels. His brain dead followers cheered, like they always do.

But that idiot is gone, and there are Republicans who actually are concerned about climate change, and now we have a President to lead the way.



The Earth’s climate has always been a work in progress. In the 4.5 billion years the planet has been spinning around the sun, ice ages have come and gone, interrupted by epochs of intense heat. The highest mountain range in Texas was once an underwater reef. Camels wandered in evergreen forests in the Arctic. Then a few million years later, 400 feet of ice formed over what is now New York City. But amid this geologic mayhem, humans have gotten lucky. For the past 10,000 years, virtually the entire stretch of human civilization, people have lived in what scientists call “a Goldilocks climate” — not too hot, not too cold, just right.

Now, our luck is running out. The industrialized nations of the world are dumping 34 billion tons or so of carbon into the atmosphere every year, which is roughly 10 times faster than Mother Nature ever did on her own, even during past mass extinction events. As a result, global temperatures have risen 1.2 C since we began burning coal, and the past seven years have been the warmest seven years on record. The Earth’s temperature is rising faster today than at any time since the end of the last ice age, 11,300 years ago. We are pushing ourselves out of a Goldilocks climate and into something entirely different — quite literally, a different world than humans have ever lived in before.

Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis

With Joe Biden in office, a serious plan to combat climate change is finally in our sights — but the clock is ticking, and there is no more room for error

www.rollingstone.com

What an exciting time to be here !!!!

 

[justoffal]

Amazingly, Trump wanted to lower any emission standards and ramp up the use of pollution causing fossil fuels. His brain dead followers cheered, like they always do.

But that idiot is gone, and there are Republicans who actually are concerned about climate change, and now we have a President to lead the way.



The Earth’s climate has always been a work in progress. In the 4.5 billion years the planet has been spinning around the sun, ice ages have come and gone, interrupted by epochs of intense heat. The highest mountain range in Texas was once an underwater reef. Camels wandered in evergreen forests in the Arctic. Then a few million years later, 400 feet of ice formed over what is now New York City. But amid this geologic mayhem, humans have gotten lucky. For the past 10,000 years, virtually the entire stretch of human civilization, people have lived in what scientists call “a Goldilocks climate” — not too hot, not too cold, just right.

Now, our luck is running out. The industrialized nations of the world are dumping 34 billion tons or so of carbon into the atmosphere every year, which is roughly 10 times faster than Mother Nature ever did on her own, even during past mass extinction events. As a result, global temperatures have risen 1.2 C since we began burning coal, and the past seven years have been the warmest seven years on record. The Earth’s temperature is rising faster today than at any time since the end of the last ice age, 11,300 years ago. We are pushing ourselves out of a Goldilocks climate and into something entirely different — quite literally, a different world than humans have ever lived in before.

Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis

With Joe Biden in office, a serious plan to combat climate change is finally in our sights — but the clock is ticking, and there is no more room for error

www.rollingstone.com

The article is only a theory. We have not yet determined full rate of natural CO2 production. Baculous numbers like 10 times as much but nothing but guesstimated BS designed to support a certain narrative.

Jo

 

[justoffal]

Amazingly, Trump wanted to lower any emission standards

Only twats think we should keep CAFE standards.

Oh, right, there you are.

Since the OP has done such an outstanding job of proving that the largest climate swings (hot temperatures and Ice Ages) could not have possibly been caused by man-made climate change, and that we've only seen a couple of degrees difference since we began burning coal, I'm anxiously awaiting his dire warnings that we will all die within the next 8-10 years unless we give 100,000,000,000,000 (100 TRILLION) dollars to the Democrats, their cronies, and the world's largest producers of "greenhouse gasses" (like China)!!!!!

And that my friends is what climate change is all about.

 

[fncceo]

Last, Best Chance to Fight Climate Change​

Who wants to fight climate change?

Adapt and capitulate.

Give peace a chance...

 

[Wyatt earp]

The climate changes, always have always will, big fucking deal

 

[odanny]

A rapid analysis of last week’s record-breaking heat found that it would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change.

By Henry Fountain
July 7, 2021

The extraordinary heat wave that scorched the Pacific Northwest last week would almost certainly not have occurred without global warming, an international team of climate researchers said Wednesday.

Temperatures were so extreme — including readings of 116 degrees Fahrenheit in Portland, Ore., and a Canadian record of 121 in British Columbia — that the researchers had difficulty saying just how rare the heat wave was. But they estimated that in any given year there was only a 0.1 percent chance of such an intense heat wave occurring.

“Although it was a rare event, it would have been virtually impossible without climate change,” said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, who conducted the study with 26 other scientists, part of a collaborative group called World Weather Attribution.

Climate Change Drove Western Heat Wave’s Extreme Records, Analysis Finds (Published 2021)

A rapid analysis of last week’s record-breaking heat found that it would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change.

www.nytimes.com

Heat Wave Hits North America​

As suffocating heat hits much of Western North America, experts are concerned about human safety and power failures.

• • Western Canada: Canada broke a national heat record on June 27, when the temperature in a small town in British Columbia reached almost 116 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking an 84-year-old record by nearly 3 degrees, with dangerously hot weather expected to continue for several more days.
  • Pacific Northwest U.S.: A heat dome has enveloped the region driving temperatures to extreme levels — with temperatures well above 100 degrees — and creating dangerous conditions in a part of the country unaccustomed to oppressive summer weather or air-conditioning.
  • Severe Drought: Much of the Western half of the United States is in the grip of a severe drought of historic proportions. Conditions are especially bad in California and the Southwest, but the drought extends into the Pacific Northwest, much of the Intermountain West, and even the Northern Plains. The extreme heat is exacerbating the dry conditions.
  • Growing Energy Shortages: Power failures have increased by more than 60 percent since 2015, even as climate change has made heat waves worse, according to new research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
  • Baseline Temperatures Are Rising: New baseline data for temperature, rain, snow and other weather events reveal how the climate has changed in the United States. One key takeaway, the country is getting hotter.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

it would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change.

Hilarious!!!

 

[Papageorgio]

Amazingly, Trump wanted to lower any emission standards and ramp up the use of pollution causing fossil fuels. His brain dead followers cheered, like they always do.

But that idiot is gone, and there are Republicans who actually are concerned about climate change, and now we have a President to lead the way.



The Earth’s climate has always been a work in progress. In the 4.5 billion years the planet has been spinning around the sun, ice ages have come and gone, interrupted by epochs of intense heat. The highest mountain range in Texas was once an underwater reef. Camels wandered in evergreen forests in the Arctic. Then a few million years later, 400 feet of ice formed over what is now New York City. But amid this geologic mayhem, humans have gotten lucky. For the past 10,000 years, virtually the entire stretch of human civilization, people have lived in what scientists call “a Goldilocks climate” — not too hot, not too cold, just right.

Now, our luck is running out. The industrialized nations of the world are dumping 34 billion tons or so of carbon into the atmosphere every year, which is roughly 10 times faster than Mother Nature ever did on her own, even during past mass extinction events. As a result, global temperatures have risen 1.2 C since we began burning coal, and the past seven years have been the warmest seven years on record. The Earth’s temperature is rising faster today than at any time since the end of the last ice age, 11,300 years ago. We are pushing ourselves out of a Goldilocks climate and into something entirely different — quite literally, a different world than humans have ever lived in before.

Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis

With Joe Biden in office, a serious plan to combat climate change is finally in our sights — but the clock is ticking, and there is no more room for error

www.rollingstone.com

I thought the last best chance to fight climate change was a couple years ago, am I wrong, we’re they wrong back then? Did we get better and now sliding back?

 

[justoffal]

A rapid analysis of last week’s record-breaking heat found that it would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change.

By Henry Fountain
July 7, 2021

The extraordinary heat wave that scorched the Pacific Northwest last week would almost certainly not have occurred without global warming, an international team of climate researchers said Wednesday.

Temperatures were so extreme — including readings of 116 degrees Fahrenheit in Portland, Ore., and a Canadian record of 121 in British Columbia — that the researchers had difficulty saying just how rare the heat wave was. But they estimated that in any given year there was only a 0.1 percent chance of such an intense heat wave occurring.

“Although it was a rare event, it would have been virtually impossible without climate change,” said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, who conducted the study with 26 other scientists, part of a collaborative group called World Weather Attribution.

Climate Change Drove Western Heat Wave’s Extreme Records, Analysis Finds (Published 2021)

A rapid analysis of last week’s record-breaking heat found that it would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change.

www.nytimes.com

Heat Wave Hits North America​

As suffocating heat hits much of Western North America, experts are concerned about human safety and power failures.

• • Western Canada: Canada broke a national heat record on June 27, when the temperature in a small town in British Columbia reached almost 116 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking an 84-year-old record by nearly 3 degrees, with dangerously hot weather expected to continue for several more days.
  • Pacific Northwest U.S.: A heat dome has enveloped the region driving temperatures to extreme levels — with temperatures well above 100 degrees — and creating dangerous conditions in a part of the country unaccustomed to oppressive summer weather or air-conditioning.
  • Severe Drought: Much of the Western half of the United States is in the grip of a severe drought of historic proportions. Conditions are especially bad in California and the Southwest, but the drought extends into the Pacific Northwest, much of the Intermountain West, and even the Northern Plains. The extreme heat is exacerbating the dry conditions.
  • Growing Energy Shortages: Power failures have increased by more than 60 percent since 2015, even as climate change has made heat waves worse, according to new research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
  • Baseline Temperatures Are Rising: New baseline data for temperature, rain, snow and other weather events reveal how the climate has changed in the United States. One key takeaway, the country is getting hotter.

Bwahahahahaha...hahahahahah......ahhhhhhh haaaaah... Haaah!

So 84 years ago it was 113 degrees
In British Columbia is that right? Do you have any idea how stupid you sound?

Jo

 

[Sunsettommy]

A rapid analysis of last week’s record-breaking heat found that it would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change.

By Henry Fountain
July 7, 2021

The extraordinary heat wave that scorched the Pacific Northwest last week would almost certainly not have occurred without global warming, an international team of climate researchers said Wednesday.

Temperatures were so extreme — including readings of 116 degrees Fahrenheit in Portland, Ore., and a Canadian record of 121 in British Columbia — that the researchers had difficulty saying just how rare the heat wave was. But they estimated that in any given year there was only a 0.1 percent chance of such an intense heat wave occurring.

“Although it was a rare event, it would have been virtually impossible without climate change,” said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, who conducted the study with 26 other scientists, part of a collaborative group called World Weather Attribution.

Climate Change Drove Western Heat Wave’s Extreme Records, Analysis Finds (Published 2021)

A rapid analysis of last week’s record-breaking heat found that it would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change.

www.nytimes.com

Heat Wave Hits North America​

As suffocating heat hits much of Western North America, experts are concerned about human safety and power failures.

• • Western Canada: Canada broke a national heat record on June 27, when the temperature in a small town in British Columbia reached almost 116 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking an 84-year-old record by nearly 3 degrees, with dangerously hot weather expected to continue for several more days.
  • Pacific Northwest U.S.: A heat dome has enveloped the region driving temperatures to extreme levels — with temperatures well above 100 degrees — and creating dangerous conditions in a part of the country unaccustomed to oppressive summer weather or air-conditioning.
  • Severe Drought: Much of the Western half of the United States is in the grip of a severe drought of historic proportions. Conditions are especially bad in California and the Southwest, but the drought extends into the Pacific Northwest, much of the Intermountain West, and even the Northern Plains. The extreme heat is exacerbating the dry conditions.
  • Growing Energy Shortages: Power failures have increased by more than 60 percent since 2015, even as climate change has made heat waves worse, according to new research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
  • Baseline Temperatures Are Rising: New baseline data for temperature, rain, snow and other weather events reveal how the climate has changed in the United States. One key takeaway, the country is getting hotter.

“Although it was a rare event, it would have been virtually impossible without climate change,” said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, who conducted the study with 26 other scientists, part of a collaborative group called World Weather Attribution.

What a stupid lie that is, several days BEFORE the heat wave began, it was forecasted to happen that way because they were seeing several weather factors converging to generate the heat wave, they even predicted it would reach around the 117F mark which happened a few days later.

It was brought up by Dr. Mass in article long before the heat wave began in the Northwest:

The following articles below are from Watts Up With That? who reposted Dr. Mass blog articles,

TWO WEEKS AGO:

The Greatest Heat Wave In (US) Northwest History?​

Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog

Excerpt:

The meteorological community is all abuzz about the forecast this weekend: several of the global models are predicting an extraordinarily unusual heatwave this weekend in the Pacific Northwest.

A heatwave so extreme that many locations might experience their warmest temperature on record.

For any day. For any year. And doing so in late June, which is not the usual time for the great temperature records.

===

Update on Northwest US Heat Wave Predictions​

Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog

June 24, 2021

Excerpt:

There are two possibilities:

• The Northwest will soon experience one of the most incredible weather situations in many decades
• There is a major flaw in virtually all of our weather prediction system

Quite frankly, I am somewhat in shock looking at the raw forecast model predictions or the statistically calibrated versions of their output. The event being predicted is so extreme and so beyond expectation that my natural inclination is to dismiss it.

But I can’t. Multiple modeling systems are essentially doing the same thing. Large ensembles of many forecasts are showing similar solutions from most of the runs.

Let me show you the latest.

===

Update 2 on Northwest US Heat Wave Predictions​

Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog

Excerpt:

The Reason for the Extreme Warmth on Monday–And My Podcast on the Heat Wave is Out​

I think I understand why the temperatures in western Oregon and Washington will be so stunningly extreme on Sunday and Monday.

A unique combination of factors will come together to make the unthinkable possible. Forget the “heat dome” explanations found in the Seattle Times and some media outlets, or those saying that the extreme heat can only be explained by global warming.

I will call the phenomenon a downslope heat surge on the western slopes of the Cascades.

A relative of the extreme heat associated with Santa Ana winds in southern California, but with a twist.

An Unusual Collection of Ingredients

===

Update 3 on Northwest US Heat Wave Predictions​

Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog

June 26, 2021

Excerpt:

A One-Hundred Year Heat Wave Event Comes Into Focus​

As we get closer to the big heat event, powerful new forecasting tools are becoming available. Tools that provide a higher resolution and more nuanced view of the extreme heatwave event that is about to happen.

One such tool is ultra-high resolution numerical weather prediction models. My group at the University of Washington runs the highest-resolution operational weather prediction system in the region, with a grid spacing of 1.3 km. High enough resolution to get many of the local water bodies approximately correct, as well as the impacts of our regional terrain features.

===

ONE WEEK AGO

Even More Extreme: Extraordinary Record Highs Followed by Perhaps the Most Rapid Cooling in Northwest (US) History​

Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog

Excerpt:

If you are living west of the Cascade crest of Oregon and Washington, tomorrow will be a day you will never forget.

The latest model runs, all at very high resolution, show even more profound extremes than previously predicted. And the end of the event will be extraordinary, with temperatures falling by as much as 50F within a few hours.

Our upcoming weather

Records Already Broken

Many records fell yesterday, including a new all-time high temperature at Portland (108F) and daily or monthly records falling at dozens of stations. But his is nothing compared to what will happen now.

 

[Sunsettommy]

Then after the heatwave ended, Dr. Mass made this post to state that global warming didn't cause this heatwave, he explains why on his blog post:

Cliff Mass Weather Blog

Was Global Warming The Cause of the Great Northwest Heatwave? Science Says No.​

July 5, 2021

Excerpt:

Synopsis

Society needs accurate information in order to make crucial environmental decisions. Unfortunately, there has been a substantial amount of miscommunication and unscientific handwaving about the recent Northwest heatwave, and this blog post uses rigorous science to set the record straight. First, the specific ingredients that led to the heatwave are discussed, including a high-amplitude ridge of high pressure and an approaching low-pressure area that “supercharged” the warming. Second, it is shown that global warming only contributed a small about (1-2F) of the 30-40F heatwave and that proposed global warming amplification mechanisms (e.g., droughts, enhanced ridging/high pressure) cannot explain the severe heat event. It is shown that high-resolution climate models do not produce more extreme high temperatures under the modest global warming of the past several decades and that global warming may even work against extreme warming in our region. Importantly, this blog demonstrates that there is no trend towards more high-temperature records. Finally, the communication of exaggerated and unfounded claims by the media, some politicians, and several activists are discussed.

During the past week, the Pacific Northwest experienced the most severe heat event of the past century.

All-time high-temperature records were broken throughout the region, often by large margins.
Many in the media, several local and national politicians, and some activist environmental scientists have claimed that this event was "driven by" or predominantly forced by human-inspired global warming (usually referred to as "climate change").

But such global warming claims are not supported by the facts and our best scientific understanding.

LINK

 

[Sunsettommy]

A comment in the thread at Watts Up With That?

Was Global Warming The Cause of the Great Northwest Heatwave? Science Says No.​

Lee L,

From the article:
” For example, the U.S. National Climate Assessment found the warmest day of the year over the Northwest actually COOLED between a historic (1901-1960) and a contemporary period (1986-2016)”

As I’ve noted before, it is worth looking up the Pacific Northwest on Berkeley Earth where you can find the RATE of warming or otherwise.
See…
Whats New - Berkeley Earth

… where you will find the following produced from DATA ( not models):

Mean RATE of temperature change(degrees C/century SINCE 1990):
Vancouver, BC -1.62 +/-.60
Seattle -1.27 +/-.67
Portland -1.62 +/- .60

British Columbia -.04 (+/-.32)
Washington state -.54 (+/-.41)
Oregon state -.33 (+/-.29)

Now it has been over 30 years since 1990 which ought to be enough time to see some evidence of an ACCELERATING CLIMATE EMERGENCY developing in the region.

Note: those Minus signs are NOT typos.

LINK

=====

It has been COOLING in those cities that was baked a week ago, since 1990, yet those 26 warmist/alarmists idiots claims global warming created it.....

 

[westwall]

A rapid analysis of last week’s record-breaking heat found that it would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change.

By Henry Fountain
July 7, 2021

The extraordinary heat wave that scorched the Pacific Northwest last week would almost certainly not have occurred without global warming, an international team of climate researchers said Wednesday.

Temperatures were so extreme — including readings of 116 degrees Fahrenheit in Portland, Ore., and a Canadian record of 121 in British Columbia — that the researchers had difficulty saying just how rare the heat wave was. But they estimated that in any given year there was only a 0.1 percent chance of such an intense heat wave occurring.

“Although it was a rare event, it would have been virtually impossible without climate change,” said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, who conducted the study with 26 other scientists, part of a collaborative group called World Weather Attribution.

Climate Change Drove Western Heat Wave’s Extreme Records, Analysis Finds (Published 2021)

A rapid analysis of last week’s record-breaking heat found that it would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change.

www.nytimes.com

Heat Wave Hits North America​

As suffocating heat hits much of Western North America, experts are concerned about human safety and power failures.

• • Western Canada: Canada broke a national heat record on June 27, when the temperature in a small town in British Columbia reached almost 116 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking an 84-year-old record by nearly 3 degrees, with dangerously hot weather expected to continue for several more days.
  • Pacific Northwest U.S.: A heat dome has enveloped the region driving temperatures to extreme levels — with temperatures well above 100 degrees — and creating dangerous conditions in a part of the country unaccustomed to oppressive summer weather or air-conditioning.
  • Severe Drought: Much of the Western half of the United States is in the grip of a severe drought of historic proportions. Conditions are especially bad in California and the Southwest, but the drought extends into the Pacific Northwest, much of the Intermountain West, and even the Northern Plains. The extreme heat is exacerbating the dry conditions.
  • Growing Energy Shortages: Power failures have increased by more than 60 percent since 2015, even as climate change has made heat waves worse, according to new research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
  • Baseline Temperatures Are Rising: New baseline data for temperature, rain, snow and other weather events reveal how the climate has changed in the United States. One key takeaway, the country is getting hotter.

Yet more computer derived fiction. Long on opinion, but with ZERO empirical data to support it.

Science illiterates, like you, can't understand when you are being lied to.

 

[badbob85037]

Climate Change, What us real people call Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall. But some people have to have doom in their life. The only way this will end well is send your money to me and not only will I repair the climate by this week end. Monday, I will save the polar bears. Tuesday I will sell Joe Biden a clue and that is gong to cost ya. Due to the fact Joe is completely clueless and my clues don't come cheap.

 

[justoffal]

Climate Change, What us real people call Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall. But some people have to have doom in their life. The only way this will end well is send your money to me and not only will I repair the climate by this week end. Monday, I will save the polar bears. Tuesday I will sell Joe Biden a clue and that is gong to cost ya. Due to the fact Joe is completely clueless and my clues don't come cheap.

Bwahahahaha....awesome..

JO

 

[justoffal]

Then after the heatwave ended, Dr. Mass made this post to state that global warming didn't cause this heatwave, he explains why on his blog post:

Cliff Mass Weather Blog

Was Global Warming The Cause of the Great Northwest Heatwave? Science Says No.​

July 5, 2021

Excerpt:

Synopsis

Society needs accurate information in order to make crucial environmental decisions. Unfortunately, there has been a substantial amount of miscommunication and unscientific handwaving about the recent Northwest heatwave, and this blog post uses rigorous science to set the record straight. First, the specific ingredients that led to the heatwave are discussed, including a high-amplitude ridge of high pressure and an approaching low-pressure area that “supercharged” the warming. Second, it is shown that global warming only contributed a small about (1-2F) of the 30-40F heatwave and that proposed global warming amplification mechanisms (e.g., droughts, enhanced ridging/high pressure) cannot explain the severe heat event. It is shown that high-resolution climate models do not produce more extreme high temperatures under the modest global warming of the past several decades and that global warming may even work against extreme warming in our region. Importantly, this blog demonstrates that there is no trend towards more high-temperature records. Finally, the communication of exaggerated and unfounded claims by the media, some politicians, and several activists are discussed.

During the past week, the Pacific Northwest experienced the most severe heat event of the past century.

All-time high-temperature records were broken throughout the region, often by large margins.
Many in the media, several local and national politicians, and some activist environmental scientists have claimed that this event was "driven by" or predominantly forced by human-inspired global warming (usually referred to as "climate change").

But such global warming claims are not supported by the facts and our best scientific understanding.

LINK

Here's some accurate information.

They panic over things they cannot control and then force the entire globe into slavery to some half-assed climate science which of course means that everyone has to fork up the $$$ and then finally when we are all impoverished for no reason at all and standing at the pinnacle of our self righteous bullshit a two mile wide meteor ends the debate and leaves everyone totally laid out with their asses toasted up nice and crispy.

JO