Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. And a powerful freak wind storm called a derecho — a pet name for the Washington, D.C., storm that left thousands without power over the weekend. All said to be the fault of us who, due to our unwillingness to take so-called ‘global warming’ seriously, see no need to make what are seen as being the ‘necessary’ changes. We’ve been hearing a lot lately that these are just the kinds of extremes that climate scientists have predicted would come with climate change. Even though at this stage of the game it’s way too early to say that is the cause. It’s all most likely a coincidence that fits quite nicely in with their cockamamie theory and therefore ripe for being taken advantage of.
“This is what global warming looks like at the regional or personal level,” said Jonathan Overpeck, some professor of geosciences and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona. “The extra heat increases the odds of worse heat waves, droughts, storms and wildfire. This is certainly what I and many other climate scientists have been warning about.” However, scientifically linking individual weather events to climate change takes intensive study, complicated mathematics, computer models, lots of time and devotion to some leftist politics. And never is it caused by actual global warming. Weather is always variable; freak things do happen. And this weather has been local. Europe, Asia and Africa aren’t having similar disasters now.
Even still, it was reported earlier this year on a study that showed warmer, more extreme weather influenced people’s belief in global warming, even if it really shouldn’t. The poll by University of Michigan and Muhlenberg College showed that about half of those who responded linked whether or not they believed in global warming — either man-made or cyclical — to the weather they observed outside their windows. The Washington Post and Sanford University released their own poll just recently that found climate change no longer ranks as American’s number one environmental concern. I think most sane people see ‘climate change’ for what is it and as being something that there is very little we can do to either cause or prevent.
Some global warming fanatic by the name of Gene Karpinski, president of the League of Conservation Voters, told the Washington Post that it is “sad” that mainstream-media coverage and “Congress falsely screaming hoax” have made global warming less of a priority. “But record-breaking temperatures, intense droughts and wildfires, and other climate-related disasters will hopefully be a wake-up call,” Karpinski said. Hopping on the bandwagon, The Associated Press reports that since at least 1988, climate scientists have warned that climate change would bring, in general, increased heat waves, more droughts, more sudden downpours, more widespread wildfires and worsening storms. And it’s all a load of crap!
While it is a fact that so far this year, more than 2.1 million acres have burned in wildfires, and more than 113 million people in the U.S. were in areas under extreme heat advisories last Friday, two-thirds of the country is experiencing drought, and earlier in June, deluges flooded Minnesota and Florida. But I have a quick question to pose here. Might these massive forest fires been a bit less massive had there been allowed to take place a sufficient level of logging to thin these forests out? Might these forests be way too dry because there isn’t enough water in the ground to sustain such dense forests? Just a thought. I mean all manner of rational thought toward proper land management has been, and long ago, simply thrown out the window.
Ok, so this time around the cause for panic is the fact that since January 1, the United States has set more than 40,000 hot temperature records, but fewer than 6,000 cold temperature records, at least according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which happens to be a big ‘climate change’ advocate. Just sayin. Through most of last century, the U.S. used to set cold and hot records evenly, but in the first decade of this century America set two hot records for every cold one, said Jerry Meehl, a climate extreme ‘expert’ at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. This year the ratio is about 7 hot to 1 cold. Some computer models say that ratio will hit 20-to-1 by mid-century, Meehl said. How does one get to be an ‘expert’ on climate extreme, fudge your own data?
While at least 15 climate scientists told The Associated Press that this long hot U.S. summer is consistent with what is to be expected in global warming, history is full of such extremes, said John Christy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He’s a global warming skeptic who says, “The guilty party in my view is Mother Nature.” Still, the majority of supposed ‘mainstream’ climate scientists, such as Meehl, disagree: “This is what global warming is like, and we’ll see more of this as we go into the future.” Those skeptical of man-made global warming are often touted as not being as well educated or experts in the field. But funny thing, Fox News reported in late May that according to a poll published in Nature Climate Change, that “as respondents’ science literacy scores increased, their concern with climate change decreased."
Look, it has been repeatedly shown that the data on which ‘global warming’, ‘climate change’ or whatever it’s being called this week is based, has been fudged. And in a very major way! If it is occurring, and that’s a pretty big IF, there is absolutely NO proof that exists anywhere that it’s cause is the activity of man. Zero, Zip, Nadda, NONE! This year it’s the uncommonly high temperatures that are working these climate change zealots into a frenzy. A few years back it was the uncommonly high number of hurricanes that we had. Remember? Which, as it turned out, was nothing more than a spike in hurricane activity that we haven’t seen since. And If I remember correctly, it was back in the 70s that we were supposed to be worried about a coming ice age. These clowns are constantly on the lookout for something that they can make fit into supporting their very dubious claims. And they can’t have it both ways!
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