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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| The Age Of Weather Disinformation |
| 2015-05-29 |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #3 Speaking of climate disinformation, yesterday President Obama said “Climate change didn't cause Hurricane Sandy, but it might have made it stronger." And by golly, he’s right – sort of. Let’s set aside the fact that Sandy was listed as a super storm – not a hurricane. But consider, with equal certainty he could have stated that, based on the most current climate models, without the effects of climate change Sandy may have been even more devastating. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2015-05-29 13:08 |
| #2 P2k you are so right. The funniest weather station not moving story is the one at a ranger station that got an air conditioner installed just above it. The other unmentioned point is the one in which I'm reasonably expert, computer modeling. That is the area completely dependent on the good old acronym, GIGO. Until someone shows me the actual data set put into the model and all of the manipulations it undergoes, I won't believe a word they say. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-05-29 12:10 |
| #1 Remember - historic - is related directly to the fact that systematic weather reporting is only about a hundred to a hundred and fifty years, even less in areas that had minimal human habitation. Some of those weather stations have been overrun in urban heat island sprawls but the reporting stations haven't moved to sites similar in aspects to their original locations. It's all rigged. Particularly when sampling things like tree rings from one specific area in trying to extrapolate conditions across the entire globe (while ignoring actual records and human behaviors during the same period). As pointed out in the article, how some people's 'history' is only the period of their lifetime (and often less than that) in reference to events. Man has lived through two ice ages and a 'big chill'. After the last ice age, man 'adapted' to live from the Arctic to the equator, jungles to deserts, in all sorts of climes and altitudes. We're still here, along with our cockroaches and rats as fellow travelers. However, nothing sells more like panic (see - Chicken Little). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-05-29 09:32 |