August 26, 2010
Over e-mail Transom: Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Russ Steele
“I got this email from RePower America an Al Gore organization promoting the dangers of human caused global warming.
‘Extreme weather is putting hundreds of thousands of lives and livelihoods at risk all around the world. In order to avoid the worst and most devastating impacts of the severe weather events that are consistent with climate change, we must begin to significantly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.’
This is the kind of crap that is being sent the faithful to raise money for their cause. Let’s examine some of the claims in: Extreme Weather and Global Climate Change
‘Pollution from human activities is warming our climate. The 10 warmest years on record all occurred since 1990, and the last decade was the hottest recorded since worldwide record keeping began more than 100 years ago. The period between January and June of 2010 was the warmest six months on record.’
Let check the facts on this point:
Spot checks of the data shows that the world is not warming, the data is being rigged to show warming. Grid squares without weather stations in Russian Siberia, Africa, Greenland and Canada shows warming where there are no weather stations. The details can be found here.
Al Gore’s minions continue:
‘Warming climate increases the chance that we will experience extreme weather events such as floods, droughts and intense storms, and ramps up the risk that severe weather events will cause catastrophic damage. The floods, fires and droughts we’re seeing in places like Pakistan and Russia are consistent with the effects of global warming, including temperature increases, increased precipitation in some parts of the world, and droughts in others.’
Lets check the facts on this point, NOAA Says It’s Not Due to Global Warming:
The US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Earth System Research Laboratory published a report on Aug 13 [http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/csi/moscow2010/] which states that despite “strong evidence for a warming planet, greenhouse gas forcing fails to explain the 2010 heat wave over western Russia. … the current blocking event is intrinsic to the natural variability of summer climate in this region, a region which has a climatological vulnerability to blocking and associated heat waves (e.g., 1960, 1972, 1988). … Our assessment indicates that, owing to the mainly natural cause for this heat wave, it is very unlikely that a similar event will recur next summer or in the immediate future (next decade).” More details here.
And still more claims:
‘In early August, a 97-square mile chunk of ice–the largest since 1962–broke away from the northwest coast of Greenland.1 Canadian officials fear the massive "ice island" could pose a risk to ships and oil platforms.2Unless we significantly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, we are likely to see even more extreme weather events and the consequences they bring.’
Lets check this facts on this point:
And ocean science professor Andreas Muenchow says years of data on the glacier itself show that after this month’s event, the mass of ice is still, on average, discharging about the same amount of water it usually does – some 600 million cubic meters a year, or about 220,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. "Even a big piece like this over 50 years is not that significant. It’s just the normal rate," he said.
Muenchow warns people not to jump to conclusions. "An event like this, this specific event, all flags go immediately up, ‘Oh, let’s explain this by global warming.’ I cannot support that," he said.
What did we learn from this analysis? We found out that Al Gore and his minions are trying to scare people in to donating, so they can keep publishing global warming propaganda.”
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