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Climate Panel Says To Prepare For Weird Weather
Layzej writes "Extreme weather, such as the 2010 Russian heat wave or the drought in the horn of Africa, will become more frequent and severe as the planet warms, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns in a report released today. Some areas could become 'increasingly marginal as places to live in,' the report concludes. Critics of the report note that 'Governments have in the past considerably weakened the language of IPCC summaries for policymakers,' and that the IPCC process tends to water down even the most obvious conclusions."
I remember all the headlines about New York city would be buried under ice as part of the new ice age to be here by the year 2000. That was in the 70's. So they have a track record for being wrong.:-)
climate panel will say anything to justify its existance
the weather is still the same here as it was 40 years ago
This is the same IPCC that said we wouldn't have any glaciers by 2010, or icesheets, or that the northwest passage would be open to traffic(never mind it's been open to traffic since it was first charted). Or that there would never be snow again on various mountains, and so on and so forth. Or that we'd all be dead what was it this year? Or is it next year? I can never keep it straight with all these doomsday predictions from all these environmental groups, and government backed organizations.
I'm just guessing here, since I don't know anybody at IPCC personally... but it seems like they put out regular statements like this to keep themselves relevant. (reminds me a bit of North Korea)
If they were to say something like, "The earth is a big place and there's all kinds of weird weather everywhere, every year, and it's been like that since the beginning of time, and the planet goes through regular cycles of long ice ages with short warm interglacial period in between, and we really don't know when the next ice age is gonna come, but there's not much we can do about it", there wouldn't be a reason for their existence and their jobs, is there?
I mean, I guess it's possible that the folks on these climate panels have awesome real-world skills and could be making big money creating internet startups or trading derivatives or something, and they're doing this purely as a pursuit enlightenment and truth. But then again, maybe not, maybe climascientology is all they know and they need their grant money like a single mom needs her welfare check.
I guess this latest release is in spite of the data. Check the chart showing temps from 2001 to 2011. It's about half way down the page and the temps are statistically flat.
Kevin Trenberth has been caught more than once telling bald-faced lies, even to fellow researchers, about possible weather effects of climate change. He simply has no credibility anymore as a scientist. Please don't quote him again as a source unless you want people to laugh at you.
Mod parent up. More than 5. Anecdotes about weird weather mean literally nothing. It happens EVERY YEAR, in various parts of the planet. But it also happens in different places every year. />
My area had a record cold spring this year, and we now have about 6" of snow in mid-November, which is also unusual. Evidence of "climate change", one way or the other? Hell, no.
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I see lots of people arguing that the melting and warming are not happening.
Let's take your argument and apply it to just about anything else. If earthquakes happened in the recent past, especially before fracking, then it means fracking is probably not responsible for earthquakes in any significant way. If avalanches happened in the recent past, especially before the invention of skiing, then it means that skier are probably not responsible for avalanches in any significant way. This is the problem with most arguments against anthropogenic global warming. If you change the context to just about anything else, it's immediately apparent how silly the argument it.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.