Snow in all of the contiguous 48, how long before Hawaii gets the white stuff? (PSEUDO-SCIENCE)

Posted on Sun, 2010-02-14 22:12

With Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana...every one of the contiguous 48 getting snow this winter how long can it be before Honolulu cops the white stuff? Silly of course because there really isn't much indication of climatic temperatures being in any kind of downward trend.

When University of East Anglia's Phil Jones (CORRECTION) wrote in Climategate emails of the "trick" he'd used to "hide the decline" he was referring to his deletion of inconvenient proxy temperature data from tree rings. He wanted to hide the decline because it undermined the "hockey stick" portrayal of climate history which had recent warming as unprecedented. His trick was intended to help eliminate the medieval warming period.

Climate is usually changing. Since around the end of the 1990s, for at least ten years now, there has been no discernible continuation of the global warming trend that occurred from the mid-1970s for two decades, and which was seized upon, exaggerated, hyped, and absurdly projected forward for the rest of the century and the next by a small band of pseudo-science hucksters and ideologues. These propagandists had a political agenda to suppress carbon fuels. They also had a financial self-interest in the global warming as a supposed manmade crisis to justify vast 'research' grants from governments around the world.

This year's mid-Atlantic big snow

Patrick Michaels, formerly state climatologist for the state of Virginia and a senior fellow at Cato Institute explains the huge snows of this winter in the mid-Atlantic as quite independent of any longterm trends in the climate.

He notes that there are plenty of storms, usually up to 20 per winter, in the mid-Atlantic that are moist enough to produce heavy sustained snow but instead drop rain, or sleet and freezing rain and only occasionally and briefly snow.

They usually don't turn the moisture into snow because there’s rarely enough sustained cold air to turn the moisture into snow at the right height in the atmosphere.

Snow requires that the temperature at about 1500m, (5,000ft) be at freezing or below.

Normally the low pressure systems moving up the Atlantic seaboard have warm winds riding atop them at 0C or above preventing snow formation. Temperatures low enough to generate snow requires high pressure systems bringing in New England cold air ahead of the southern moisture.

The present huge snow is simply the result of a chance coincidence of two weather systems conducive to heavy snowmaking, Michaels says.

"If you plot out year-to-year snow around here, you’ll see no trend whatsoever through the entire history."

The DC area had its previous record snow in 1899. The next heaviest were snows in the late 1970s and Time magazine's hypsters attributed that to the new ice age. (This week their new generation of reporters attributed it to the the extra atmospheric moisture generated by supposed global warming.)

Time mag: "can't make projections of future climate"

Time's reaction to the big snow contains one welcome concession: "Weather is what will happen next weekend; climate is what will happen over the next decades and centuries. And while our ability to predict the former has become reasonably reliable, scientists are still a long way from being able to make accurate projections about the future of the global climate."

So much for the Obama-Gore-USEPA-enviro line that the science of potentially catastrophic global warming is "settled."

If indeed scientists are a long way from being able to make accurate projections about the future global climate then where's the justification for USEPA's "endangerment finding" on CO2 and all the expensive 'cap & trade' and carbon-alternative schemes.

Global warmists, total opportunists with logic, don't hesitate to seize on spells of hot weather to claim support for their longterm projections. Or warmer than usual winters.

"No more snow in DC" - enviro RFK

Environmentalist Robert F Kennedy Jr wrote 16 months ago in a Los Angeles Times commentary hyping a global warming threat: "In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically. Recently arrived residents in the northern suburbs, accustomed to today’s anemic winters, might find it astonishing to learn that there were once ski runs on Baltimore Hill in McLean, with a rope tow and a local ski club. Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don’t own a sled.” (cited by James Taranto's Best of the Web)

They also told us that hurricane Katrina was associated with manmade global warming and predicted hurricanes of greater frequency. Since then we've had well below average hurricane activity.

The alarmist global warming prophecies are not merely based on non-settled science however. They are based on thoroughly anti-scientific procedures as revealed in their internal emails that have been dubbed Climategate.

Former director of the US weather satellites and atmospheric physics professor at University of Virginia, Fred Singer has written:

"ClimateGate is a much more serious issue than simply sloppiness and ideological distortion; ClimateGate suggests conspiracy to commit fraud... The e-mails leaked in the fall of 2009 allow us to trace the machinations of a small but influential band of British and US climate scientists who played the lead role in the IPCC reports.

"It appears that this group, which controlled access to basic temperature data, was able to produce a 'warming' by manipulating the analysis of the data, but refused to share information on the basic data or details of their analysis with independent scientists who requested them - in violation of Freedom of Information laws. In fact, they went so far as to keep any dissenting views from being published - by monopolizing the peer-review process, aided by ideologically cooperative editors of prestigious journals, like Science and Nature...

"(T)his small cabal was able to convince much of the world that climate disasters were impending - unless drastic steps were taken. Not only were most of the media, public, and politicians misled, but so were many scientists, national academies of science, and professional organizations."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/the_end_of_the_ipcc.html

Global warming a religious dogma

Michael Barone at the AEI thinktank has written that the global warming movement is a kind of religious fanaticism:

"Like the theorists who invented epicycles to explain away the failure of Ptolemaic theory to account for astronomical observations, the (warmists) have distorted science in the interest of something that resembles religious dogma.

"The secular religion of global warming has all the elements of a religious faith: original sin (we are polluting the planet), ritual (separate your waste for recycling), redemption (renounce economic growth) and the sale of indulgences (carbon offsets).

"We are told that we must have faith (all argument must end, as Al Gore likes to say) and must persecute heretics (global warming skeptics are like Holocaust deniers, we are told).

"People in the grip of such a religious frenzy evidently feel justified in lying, concealing good evidence and plucking bad evidence from whatever flimsy source may be at hand."