How dare the world change!!!!!!! And the train is in our living rooms! This is what the Associated Press considers to be “news” (included photo comes from the story, apparently what CO2 caused doom looks like)
Global warming cooks up ‘a different world’ over 3 decades
We were warned.
On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, James Hansen told Congress and the world that global warming wasn’t approaching — it had already arrived. The testimony of the top NASA scientist, said Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley, was “the opening salvo of the age of climate change.â€
Thirty years later, it’s clear that Hansen and other doomsayers were right. But the change has been so sweeping that it is easy to lose sight of effects large and small — some obvious, others less conspicuous.
Earth is noticeably hotter, the weather stormier and more extreme. Polar regions have lost billions of tons of ice; sea levels have been raised by trillions of gallons of water. Far more wildfires rage.
Over 30 years — the time period climate scientists often use in their studies in order to minimize natural weather variations — the world’s annual temperature has warmed nearly 1 degree (0.54 degrees Celsius), according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And the temperature in the United States has gone up even more — nearly 1.6 degrees.
Um. No. The Earth’s temperature has gone up 1.5 F since 1850. Slowly. But, even if we were to believe these numbers, which include a Pause, a time of statistically insignificant warming lasting over 18 years, it still doesn’t prove anthropogenic causation from greenhouse gases.
Warming hasn’t been just global, it’s been all too local. According to an Associated Press statistical analysis of 30 years of weather, ice, fire, ocean, biological and other data, every single one of the 344 climate divisions in the Lower 48 states — NOAA groupings of counties with similar weather — has warmed significantly, as has each of 188 cities examined.
The effects have been felt in cities from Atlantic City, New Jersey, where the yearly average temperature rose 2.9 degrees in the past 30 years, to Yakima, Washington, where the thermometer jumped a tad more. In the middle, Des Moines, Iowa, warmed by 3.3 degrees since 1988.
That’s called the Urban Heat Island effect, as well as land use.
“T-shirt weather in January, that never used to happen when I was a child,†Shook said. When Buel Mattix bought his heating and cooling system company 15 years ago in Salida, he had maybe four air conditioning jobs a year. Now he’s got a waiting list of 10 to 15 air conditioning jobs long and may not get to all of them.
There’s phrase for that: Indian summer. It’s been around for a long time. And, even if this happens more, it’s not proof of CO2 being the control knob.
“Thirty years ago, we may have seen this coming as a train in the distance,†NOAA’s Arndt said. “The train is in our living room now.â€
Of course climate change is real.
Warmist climate scientists can gain things like:
1. Cash awards
2. Fame
3. Feeling of self-importance
4. Free fossil-fueled travel
5. Chances to meet celebrities
6. Political power
7. Speaking fees
8. Consulting fees
9. Book sales https://t.co/4f61PAFDup— Tom Nelson (@TomANelson) June 18, 2018
