Fortunately for those scientists, they have the suck-up state-run MSM to do it for them. And in the spirit of Jounolist, the New York Times says essentially the same thing (via memeorandum): In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global WarmingFloods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown.
photo credit: Tom Scott
It's not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate change already under way.
The weather-related cataclysms of July and August fit patterns predicted by climate scientists, the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization says -- although those scientists always shy from tying individual disasters directly to global warming.
The floods battered New England, then Nashville, then Arkansas, then Oklahoma — and were followed by a deluge in Pakistan that has upended the lives of 20 million people.
The summer’s heat waves baked the eastern United States, parts of Africa and eastern Asia, and above all Russia, which lost millions of acres of wheat and thousands of lives in a drought worse than any other in the historical record.
Seemingly disconnected, these far-flung disasters are reviving the question of whether global warming is causing more weather extremes.
The collective answer of the scientific community can be boiled down to a single word: probably.
“The climate is changing,” said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climate analysis at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. “Extreme events are occurring with greater frequency, and in many cases with greater intensity.”
He described excessive heat, in particular, as “consistent with our understanding of how the climate responds to increasing greenhouse gases.”Ignored in both pieces is the cooler weather experienced in other places, such as Southern California. From Mercury News: Cool and foggy weather a headache for California farmers. "A wet spring and cool summer have delayed ripening one to three weeks -- and created nervous farmers, who see a shrinking window of time left to harvest..." This is the problem with focusing on local weather events. For every warm event cherry-picked by the state-run MSM for their agenda-driven stories, there are cool weather events to match. It's what is happening overall that matters, but since there has been a lack of warming, the globalclimate has become an inconvenient truth that is now being ignored. And as for this assertion that global warming is " consistent with our understanding of how the climate responds to increasing greenhouse gases," let's get one thing straight - greenhouse gases in the atmosphere comprise such a small percentage that climate change affects them, not the other way around. Bureaucrats like Lawrimore are either clueless or willfully ignorant to the fact that there has been no statistically significant global warming since 1995. They also ignore the scientific fact that the Medieval Warm Paeriod (MWP) was significantly warmer than it is now, with Greenland being green and England growing vineyards that can't grow to this day because it's too cold, sans coal power plants and SUVs. Or that the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has been shown to have not changed in the last 150 years. Or that human activity is responsible for only about 3% of total CO2 emissions. And lets completely ignore ClimateGate that proved the man-made global warming theory was itself man-made, complete with scientific misconduct in fudging data, hiding the decline, etc.
As I have pointed out many times on this blog, it is a scientific fact that all known greenhouse gases comprise only about 2% of our atmosphere (the majority of our atmosphere is oxygen and nitrogen). Out of all the greenhouse gases,
water vapor is more than 90% of that 2%, while CO2 is is only about
3.6% of that. Out of all the CO2, 96% is produced naturally (oceans,
forrests, etc), while only 3.4% is man-made. So mankind is responsible
for only 3.4% of CO2, which is only 3.6% ofgreenhouse gases, which are only 3% of our atmosphere. So 3.4% of 3.6% of 2% is... well - not much. (.002% of CO2 and 0.28% overall) Just so you know what a small percentage of our atmosphere is comprised of CO2, the compound is measured in units of parts per million! So if you gather 1 million people and pick out 385 of them, you have jack squat of the whole, and that jack squat represents the CO2 proportion.
That aside, did you know that CO2 levels in the atmosphere haven't changed in at least 150 years? Look here:
CO2 is not a cause of global warming, but rather an effect of it. Temperatures rise first, CO2 follows after the fact. Obama made a promise when he came into office that scientific integrity will not be compromised by politics, and then proceeded to hide EPA numbers that countered global warming alarmist claims (Video: Obama's War On Science):
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