It’s not that bad here in Raleigh. The temp gauge shows 26, though a bit chillier with the wind chill, and will be colder tomorrow. This happens. It does get cold in the South. We call it “winter”. It’s annoying because I live right next to the Neuse River, hence more moisture in the air, hence that really thin annoying hard to get off frost on the windows and mirrors. But, in the age of Climastrology, Warmists blame even worse cold on ‘climate change’
No offense, but just how stupid must a person be to believe that a -50F windchill is evidence that trace CO2 is making it too warm outside? https://t.co/HUuiD26YVp
— Tom Nelson (@TomANelson) January 29, 2019
It’s worth a trip through Tom Nelson’s timeline for more of the Warmist crazy. Then there’s Somini Sengupta at the NY Times, with a front page article. Usually this kind of thing is in the opinion section
U.S. Midwest Freezes, Australia Burns: This Is the Age of Weather Extremes
In Chicago, officials warned about the risk of almost instant frostbite on what could be the city’s coldest day ever. Warming centers opened around the Midwest. And schools and universities closed throughout the region as rare polar winds streamed down from the Arctic.
At the same time, on the other side of the planet, wildfires raged in Australia’s record-breaking heat. Soaring air-conditioner use overloaded electrical grids and caused widespread power failures. The authorities slowed and canceled trams to save power. Labor leaders called for laws that would require businesses to close when temperatures reached hazardous levels: nearly 116 degrees Fahrenheit, as was the case last week in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.
This is weather in the age of extremes. It comes on top of multiple extremes, all kinds, in all kinds of places.
It’s winter in the U.S., summer in Australia. Oh, hey, remember when Warmists would say that the U.S. is only 2% of the Earth’s surface, so when weather happens that doesn’t support the Cult’s beliefs it’s immaterial? Those are mostly gone. Now that blame one of the biggest cold outbreaks in decades on you driving a fossil fueled vehicle.
Somini forgot to mention that the Aussie grid collapsed due to reliance on so much of “renewables.”
“When something happens — whether it’s a cold snap, a wildfire, a hurricane, any of those things — we need to think beyond what we have seen in the past and assume there’s a high probability that it will be worse than anything we’ve ever seen,†said Crystal A. Kolden, an associate professor at the University of Idaho, who specializes in wildfires and who is currently working in Tasmania during one of the state’s worst fire seasons.
So, that really nice spring day when you took your significant other out for a wonderful lunch is a sign of complete doom. Because everything is a sign of doom in Warmist World. All these weather “extremes” have happened before, and will happen again.
Consider these recent examples: Heat records were toppled from Norway to Algeria last year. In Australia, a drought has gone on so long that a child in kindergarten will hardly have seen rain in her lifetime. And California saw its most ruinous wildfires ever in 2018, triggering a bankruptcy filing this week by the state’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric.
The wildfires were man-caused, but not due to heat. Due to incompetence with transmission lines and other machines, as well as poor forest management.
Is it climate change?
Heat and drought extremes are consistent with scientific consensus: More greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere bring a greater likelihood of abnormally high temperatures. Also, broadly speaking, scientists say, a hotter planet makes extreme weather more frequent and more intense.
Once you say consensus, you’re no longer talking science. You’re into politics. And the key here is that they are blaming
https://twitter.com/SteveSGoddard/status/1090490002654384128
super cold weather on man-induced climate change.
