Friday, December 13, 2013

Why the public no longer believes in Global Warming

In the Northeast, the general rule of thumb is that you won't see a snowflake before Thanksgiving, and you won't see snow on the ground before Christmas.  People grow up with this, and while there's year to year variation, it's something that everyone understands in their bones.

And so now listen to the "Global Warming is wrecking the Planet" and "6 of the hottest years in the last century were in the last decade" bloviating that people hear from the Press.  You know why none of this sticks?  Because people also hear this from the Press:

Biggest Snowstorm of the year threatens Northeast:
Another round of wintry weather will slug the eastern half of the United States starting Friday, threatening to leave as much as a foot of snow by Sunday.

“We will see a lot of winter storm warnings being issued with this,” Michael Palmer, a lead meteorologist with The Weather Channel told NBC News. The station has already issued a severe winter weather alert from Missouri through to Maine on Thursday night.

“Boston will probably be the worst hit in terms of cities, in the 4-to-8-inch range,” he added. “In Philadelphia and New York City, we will see probably 3 to 5 inches of snow accumulation. It will be the biggest storm in terms of accumulating snow that we have seen in the Northeast this winter.”
And this is the second snow storm on the east coast so far this year.  We're not even half way through December.  No wonder nobody pays attention anymore - what they hear doesn't jive with what they see, and so they tune it out.

Yeah, yeah - weather vs. climate, yadda yadda.  I'd be more impressed with this argument if people who believe in Global Warming didn't seize on every warm summer week as proof of ZOMGTHERMAGEDDON!!!!1!!eleventy!!!


11 comments:

Goober said...

But weather is not climate, Borepatch!

Until the weather gets hot, then it is totally, like, a foreboding sign that teh globals is warmening!!!one1eleventy!!

Mark Philip Alger said...

Half TIC, I don't get the "weather is not climate" wheeze. If climate is not the sum of the weather over time, then WTF **is** it? Hmm?

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Eagle said...

Doesn't Global Warming cause colder winters? http://phys.org/news/2013-03-global-harsher-winters.html

The Science Is Settled&trade, doncha know?

Ted said...

...... What!??? You mean my beach side house in Maine will never be the Tropical retirement paradice Al Gore promised??? !!!!!

I Sueing. I want my Global Warmnining. !!!!!! I'm freezing up here!!!!!

juvat said...

Freezing Up There??? Hell, I live in Texas, I'm freezing down HERE!

Dave H said...

Global warming? Bring it on. My son just totaled his car on a patch of Global Warming this morning.

Goober said...

Dave - hopefully everyone is okay?

Dave H said...

Goober: Thanks. No injuries except a shoulder belt bruise. Airbag did not deploy. (It was a side impact on the rear door.)

A kindly gentleman on his way to the doctor stopped and let my son sit in his truck to stay warm until I got there almost an hour later. In spite of what you hear on the news, there are good people in New York.

Car's a total writeoff. The rear axle mounts were torn free of the chassis. So it looks like my son will get a different car for Christmas.

Goober said...

Mark;

I was joking... you caught that, right?

As for the "weather is not climate" thing, I can explain why they use that in one quick sentence:

It gives them an opportunity to dismiss any weather event that doesn't follow the narrative.

It's that simple.

Jester said...

Dave, First off glad your son is alright. My Significant other had her car wrecked three months back, but the good thing is she was not hurt. Cars are replaceable.

Borepatch, the narrative was broken to begin with but yeah people are not following it anymore when the tune changes with each season.

The question I ask people that insist its man made changes causing the extreme weather is always this: What is normal weather? When has the planet had anything you could define as normal? Even if the weather we are having during humanity's existence is abnormal for the planet some several thousand years that is a blink of an eye to the geological scale of this planet. They know it was much warmer for millions of years. So by that definition we are actually abnormally cold even when we are in the hot dog days of summer.

Goober said...

 "What is normal weather? When has the planet had anything you could define as normal?"

Exactly. Well said