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2012 Another Record-Setter For Weather, Fits Climate Forecasts
Layzej writes "The Associated Press reports: 'In 2012 many of the warnings scientists have made about global warming went from dry studies in scientific journals to real-life video played before our eyes. As 2012 began, winter in the U.S. went AWOL. Spring and summer arrived early with wildfires, blistering heat and drought. And fall hit the eastern third of the country with the ferocity of Superstorm Sandy. Globally, five countries this year set heat records, but none set cold records. 2012 is on track to be the warmest year on record in the United States. Worldwide, the average through November suggests it will be the eighth warmest since global record-keeping began in 1880 and will likely beat 2011 as the hottest La Nina year on record. America's heartland lurched from one extreme to the other without stopping at "normal." Historic flooding in 2011 gave way to devastating drought in 2012. But the most troubling climate development this year was the melting at the top of the world. Summer sea ice in the Arctic shrank to 18 percent below the previous record low. These are "clearly not freak events," but "systemic changes," said climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute in Germany. "With all the extremes that, really, every year in the last 10 years have struck different parts of the globe, more and more people absolutely realize that climate change is here and already hitting us."'"
there has to be a better source
Did the world actually end except in my office!?
on the bright side..."end of the world" forecasts were proven wrong when things seemed to go on as normal today...leading end of the world theorists to re-evaluate their models.
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.
Time magazine & researchers were telling us what to do about the upcoming ICE AGE, and how to survive it. Now, the same idiots are telling us about global warming (whoops...climate change). The earth goes through cycles....and it is billions of years old. 5-10 years of data is but a blink in cosmic time.
That's funny. I just read an article a week ago explaining that the forecasts were off: "Evidence points to a further rise of just 1C by 2100. The net effect on the planet may actually be beneficial."
HAHAHAHAH!
A lot of people's expectations for the consequences of global warming is the sudden deaths of hundreds of thousands, not wide-ranging low-grade economic impacts that risk hundreds of millions in property damage and puts a strain on global food supply.
We're trained to notice disaster, not statistical drift. There will never be the "event" from global warming, which means denial will continue as the costs keep ramping up.
Waiting for the (Republican) denialist hordes to show up, demanding Yet More Evidence.
I thought none of the climate change models allowed for accurate short term forecasting? I've been told not to expect short term forecasting (as in, the next five years, the next year, and certainly not the next few months) to be accurately predictable from the models and predictions of climate change experts. Are we working off predictions made ten years ago? I guess I'm confused as to why 2012 was perfectly on track with predictions.
One of the largest threats to global warming (for America at least) is the continued lowering of water levels for the Mississippi River. Historians can correct or amend me here, but empires rise and fall on the strength of their rivers. The US is no different, and should the Mississippi fail then there will be serious strategic and economic threats to the security and health of the nation.
Not good.
I live in the North and I want global warming!
It is snow and slightly above 0F right now...
I WANT F>>NG GLOBAL WARMING!!! PLEASE!!!
Nice qualifier there.
If there's one thing that is predictable, it is that the climate will change.
If someone says they predicted climate change, big whoop. They had a 50% chance that the climate would get warmer over a certain period.
The globe hasn't gotten warmer in the last 16 years. The recently leaked IPCC report shows that the climate has warmed at a rate much slower than any of their previous predictions.
We will still have alarmists but the wind is going out of their sails. Mother nature just isn't cooperating with the dire predictions they made 20 years ago.
I highly recommend reading this:
http://www.slideshare.net/earthpolicy/full-planet-empty-plates-slideshow-presentation
A shift will need to take place in the priorities of those in the "First World" regarding water usage, diet, food and crop priorities, etc;.
The overly consumptive lifestyle we have been used to will need to become a thing of the past.
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
Long ago, during the carboniferous era, so named because that's where all the coal comes from, primitive trees grew and died for 60 million years. These dead trees, over millions more years, turned into coal deposits. When a tree falls in the forest, who eats it? In the carboniferous era, nobody. The carboniferous era ended when fungi evolved that could eat dead trees. After that, and continuously to this day, dead trees are decomposed by fungi, and there is NO MORE coal. Meanwhile, in the last 150 years, humanity has burned 50% of the coal that was deposited by all those dead trees. The CO2 that these trees took 60 million years to form into coal is being returned to the atmosphere in a few hundred years. OK, got it? When those trees were alive, CO2 levels were much higher than they are today. The trees sucked the CO2 out of the air over 60 million years. Now we are burning the coal and returning all that 60 million years of CO2 back into the atmosphere in less than 200 years.
I don't have anything to contribute to this thread. Just pointing out the facts. There isn't any point in the governments of the world deciding to stop emitting CO2. It's already too late.
Climate change doesn't really bother me. What bothers me are people that willfully choose to live in higher risk geographical locations. I have a short list of populated areas I feel are acceptable loss zones:
Coastal areas - prone to flooding and destructive wind
Seismic areas - prone to destructive ground shaking
Desert areas - prone to being uninhabitable
Flood zones - prone to destructive wetness
Tornado zones - prone to destructive wind
I am forced by the homeowner cartel to pay a higher premium for their supposed right to live in these statistically disastrous zones. I think New Orleans should have been quarantined by the US military and condemned. All the money spent to rebuild a coastal town below sea-level would be better spent burning in a big pile to stay warm.
I might be the only person that gets the popcorn ready at disaster hour.
Any chance of having climate change accepted was lost when crazy Al Gore invented the internet and the time machine. He presented outrageous claims based on fautly data as the gospel truth. So now he's the poster child of the deniers, and rightly so. He just needs to shut up and live in his 350 mega-watt mansion in seclusion while the rest of us sort out the mess he's created.
That would be the same 2012 that continues the trend in the IPCC AR5 report, which shows temperatures lower than predicted by any of the models. That ought to make people happy,, don't you think?
That would the the same 2012 with a drought that joins many others from the past 80 years. Guess what, droughts happen periodically, and this one was very much a local phenomenon within central North America.
We just survived the end of the Mayan calendar cycle. Whew. Quick, let's panic about something else!
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
I see science never made it into the 21st century. Everything is now based upon surmise and anedoctes
Really,
You think an ice age is preferable to a gradually warming climate?
I don't think you understand just how gradual a natural climate cycle has been for Earth. Look at this graph of antarctic temperature changes. Notice how it is windowed to -6 to +4 degrees Celsius within today's temperature and how long those changes normally took. If we speed that same change that took 10,000 years up to 200 years and it only ever increases, what exactly do you think will happen to Earth?
Animals and humans aren't going to have time to adapt or evolve in predicted scenarios.
My work here is dung.
From my point of view I get to do away with winter, grow tropical crops, and possibly get beach front property. I really don't see a problem here.
'In 2012 many of the warnings scientists have made about global warming went from dry studies in scientific journals to real-life video played before our eyes
Or "reality," as us old geezers prefer to call it.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
For how many years in a row, now, has each year been the hottest year on record?
Technoli
These are "clearly not freak events," but "systemic changes,"
Even thought the "record keeping" started in 1880...
Hmm. 132 years of records vs. 4.5 billion years of weather...
Pretty convincing changes.
Not.
Without even one mention of these ionospheric heaters that ARE in use all over the world by every capable government in the first 38 comments available to this article leads one to believe that slashdot itself has been usurped and the comments posted (readable) are a continued effort to smokescreen the absolute truth of this global warming man-made disaster. If this confrontational comment is correct, no one in the general public reading slashdot will be able to view it, remarkably. WAY TO GO (here's to your form of censorship) SLASHDOT
If the "hockey-stick" curve were real, we should have the warmest year every year. The "eight warmest" year pretty much proves that while it is probably a little warmer than usual, we have reached a plateau and not some alarmist temperature explosion scenario.
Fox has usually been on the side of the "climate change deniers", so this change where Fox is even reporting on the topic is news in a way. However, not to be a denier just a questioner, how can we tell if this is just part of the statistical variations to be expected over time rather than an actual real trend?
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Sort of like the "hundred year flood", is there a "hundred year freeze" or a "hundred year overheat" which marks the extreme cold or hot temperatures one would expect to find once in one-hundred years just from normal statistical fluctuations and a normal distribution?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100-year_flood
Disclaimer: I am honestly not trolling here. I really wonder about this.
TL/DR version: Can we really change our behavior, or just start planning for a worst-case scenario?
Should we be trying to combat climate change in the sense that is it really possible? I think that, as a species, we would rather let people in the future (even if they are future versions of ourselves) deal with the problems rather than take hit in the near term for long term benefits.
Coupled with the fact that the most populated countries have a majority of their population relatively poor, I think it is impractical to expect them to stop burning fossil fuels and force clean energy solutions that might be more expensive/impractical (I believe that the industrialized nations consume most of the energy now, but with India and China becoming more economically important and successful, they will also start consuming more energy).
I saw the article about Thorium reactors a few days ago, but I doubt that we can stop burning things for energy in a short term. With all the infrastructure and interests of powerful groups to keep us on fossil fuels (In the words of comedian John Oliver: BP going green? Only in their logo), I don't expect major change in the near future.
Maybe I am too cynical and need to have hope for the future, but I wonder if we shouldn't start planning backup mechanisms to permanently help people when changes happen - right now, we seem to be doing short-term "deal with this disaster now" fixes.
Does every year have to set a record breaking temperature? It goes up and down and it will continue doing so for at least another 4.5bn years, according to Mr. Putin, and we know we can trust KGB. This retarded panic over global warming, sorry I used the legacy term, climate change, started with Al Gore trying to impose taxes "on air". He was pretty fucking successful at that. So worried about ecology, fossil fuels, etc? Hire hippies, plat some fucking trees - problem solved.
Leaked figure from IPCC AR5 report shows just how far off even updated IPCC model predictions are:
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/ipcc_ar5_draft_fig1-4_with.png
note that the grey bands are nothing more than an attempt at IPCC arse covering in light of failed predictions, the temps are consistently riding the low side and even outside of the coloured prediction bands, and most importantly the temperature trend is much much lower than predicted.
The IPCC's models are massively over estimating the impact of increased CO2 - unsurprising when they assume large positive water vapour feedback that don't appear to operate as they assume in practice, and temperature suppressing aerosol impacts that appear to have been overestimated too. They also don't have the capacity to model other dominating effects (like PDO and AMO oceanic cycles, solar variations etc), and have shown no ability to model or explain historical variation covering a 3 C band during the current interglacial - including eras like the Medieval, Roman and Minoan warm period and the little ice age.
An honest question: how many years of no temperature rise would it take for the catastrophic CAGW thesis to be rejected? We've had about 15 years of near stasis, and recent results show that the heat isn't 'hiding' in the ocean - it simply doesn't exist, though CO2 continues to rise. So just how many more years are needed for the IPCC to let go of the millenialist thermageddon fantasy and bring the temperature rise predictions back to a more realistic level (seems likely to be about 1-2C rise for a CO2 doubling).
The earth's climate is not static, more news at 11.
Inconsiderate bastards.
is yours. you can have him.
I personally prefer being a few degrees warmer rather than buried under a huge glacier.
The earth is not and never was constant. 2x10^2 years of climate records is a very small sample size compared to 4.5x10^9 years.
We really don't understand why there were ice ages and warmer periods in the past - we obviously didn't cause them with rush hour traffic 100,000 years ago. I'm very tired of hearing people claim to understand it all, yet fail to present any evidence as to why.
Chaos, turbulence, fluid dynamics... these are hard things to describe mathematically. When a professor I had from the environmental science department declared that the energy output of the sun is constant, I lost all respect for him and all other "scientists" that refuse to accept that they are not given the right to make up whatever they want and call it a fact until somebody disproves it. It is supposed to be the other way around - you are probably wrong until you are proven to be right. Sunspot cycles? Coronal mass ejections? Nope, the math is easier if we call it a constant, so let's just ignore that variable...
You don't know everything. Get over it. Or believe whatever hype you choose.
Nobody talk about all the skiing they're going to do on record levels of fresh snow over the Xmas weekend. 8 feet, with fresh on top, anyone? Only Deniers go skiing on climate change denying snow. We should just close the mountain passes so nobody can look at it and have doubt about AGW strike their hearts.
Lets take the derivative of today's temperature cycle and make a forecast for next week. 130 years of data may make a predition for the next year or so, but without having gone thru a full cycle, how can we know where we are in the ice age cycle? Are we at the top of the temperature range? obviously, we aren't at the bottom. Are we extending this peak? Statistically, no one has answered that. All I have seen is, on average we are .1C hotter than we were 10 years ago and I should buy another $100 worth of carbon credits with my next flight because if the temperature rises another .1C, a polar bear will be inconvenienced hunting for seals.
Like my old draftsman says. "Figures don't lie, but liar's can figure."
If we are dumping shit everywhere and burning carbon because it's "cheap" we can do something about it. Stop burning carbon and move to renewable and nuclear energy is something right? Heavier regulation and requirements for recycling and fines for polluters is something right? Reducing the stripping forests is something right? Severely limiting strip mining is something right?
It's hard to say if you are trolling or just an idiot. Claiming there is nothing you can do about it is worse than claiming a problem does not exist in my opinion.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I live in Canada and its bloody cold here! Please support global warming by removing the muffler from your horseless carriage please!
With regards to earth, rape, torture, and murder have already happened. There's no sense to talking “what if” scenarios. It's done, and now we have to live with it. Even if we cut carbon and methane emissions to zero, and plant trees over millions of acres, we'll still have to cope with the consequences for our bad behavior.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Inadvertently reported the real truth. If the leaders of the global warming mob aren't really sure, why should I be? http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/18/chilling-climate-change-news/
I loved the weather this year. It was our best year yet. If you're from the north country you'll appreciate global warming. Thank you to all you SUV drivers!
"Globally, five countries this year set heat records, but none set cold records."
I guess, AP didn't get the memo that this past week Russian weather has been setting cold records both in the European part and in Siberia (-40 F). The year isn't over yet, you know...
-51 on my front porch this morning. Been below 0 for over a month with the exception of last week for 2 days above 0.
I for one, welcome a few years of global warming!!! It's just going to cycle again, and again. Remember in the 70's they wanted to melt polar ice because of "Global Cooling" so don't listen to the hype. Even if it is changing, we are just along for the ride.
Temperatures have risen since 1900.
Temperatures haven't risen in the last sixteen years.
Temperatures went up like crazy for about ten years.
Temperatures were going down in the 1970s.
Alarmists and skeptics can both find real, valid data to support their arguments. On the other hand there are a few alarmists who blatantly cherry pick the data: the obvious case being Mike Mann and his notorious hockey stick.
Lets play spot the warming trend: http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/ideas/climate/.images/HolocenePeriods.png
Need Mercedes parts ?
Global warming isn't real.
Also, global warming is real, but it's a completely natural occurrence, not man-made.
Also, global warming is man made, but it's beneficial.
Also, global warming isn't beneficial, but it's too late to fix it.
of the thousands of climate models generated, most are discarded and a few chosen that conform to what the weather has been doing recently. The draft IPCC climate report for 2013 has been released and they are retracting much of their alarmist nonsense because reality has disappointed, and even their cherry-picked models haven't panned out
Can't stop this train called climate change now... Join the party or hide in the corner worrying about the end of all things. We all know that human kind will be on this planet for but a short while. There is no use worrying about things beyond our control. Life is too short. Now go outside and enjoy your +5 degrees centigrade above average Christmas!
We now have a lot more data, covering even more years into the past.
What that data tells us, however, is that the earth is NOT warming up significantly. There was a slight rise in temperature, but for the last ten years there is an actual fall of temperature overall.
Maybe that is because of our awareness of global warming, maybe that is just happening without our influence. FACT is that the last ten years have seen decreasing temperatures on average. There is no warming anymore. We're cooling off.
Now what?
People blather on one way or another about climate change.
I think we should keep track of who holds which positions.
Though maybe we'll all be too busy with suffering the effects of global warming to have time to tell people I Told You So.
Leads me to wonder what the prediction markets say on climate change.
Trust us on this. We wouldn't lie to you about a thing like global warming, even if it does lead to massive concentration of power in our hands.
Your loss = someones gain.
Speaking as a western Canadian, 2012 has been a pretty great year as far as weather goes. We had plenty of rain during the summer which gave the landscape back it's lovely green color that has been missing for some time(as in a couple decades worth of mild and not-so mild droughts), and winter came right on schedule with a healthy amount of snow. Last year was pretty decent too as I recall.
Sky is still up, ground is still down. Not seeing the downside here...for us at least. ;)
That is a meme big carbon has been pushing for a while, and is likely nonsense. We have seen, with moderately little effort and in a reasonably short time, significant rejuvenation of the great lakes, replishment of the ozone layer, reductions in acid rain and particulate emissions.
None are worthy of a âoeMission Accomplishedâ banner yet, but we already experience the benefits of the work in progress.
In each case, the conventional wisdom was that the damage wasnâ(TM)t reversible and the efforts would be herculean.
The herculean effort was over-riding the well paid campaigns to suppress any effort to address these problems. In retrospect, executing all of the advertising professionals and Phd-for-hires would have saved a lot of time, money and damage.
People have a history of innovation, and I doubt that this is beyond us. We have to get fat, dumb and happy out of the way.
The most amazing part of the whole AGW movement is that developing remediation technologies is a topic that is almost completely off the table.
For some reason, its fine to plan out lots of new taxes and move money around the planet while simultaneously throttling back selected economies but it is unthinkable to actually work on reasonable technologies that could capture and use carbon.I find it hard to believe that a world that could put a man on the moon in a decade couldn't come up with efficient ways to deal with existing greenhouse gases while developing alternatives to them.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
In statistics this is known as the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy (sometimes called the ex post fallacy). To understand the fallacy, imagine you fired five bullets at the side of a barn and then drew a bulls eye around them.
To avoid this problem, you must establish your criteria ahead of time and then evaluate results against the a priori criteria. For 30 years, the key statistic that has been chosen to measure global warming is global mean surface temperature anomaly. It is now clear that observations have deviated from model to such a degree as to raise serious questions about the skill of the models. In fact, over the past 16 years the trend in global mean surface temperature anomaly is indistinguishable from zero.
You can't now say "but wait, look at record high temperatures set of Tuesdays in odd numbers latitudes. See, its worst than we thought!" This is nothing but ex post cherry picking and has no statistical validity.
Is the space station far enuff away from our planet to be safe from all these events? How far out can we go in it and still come back?
Like when it is safe again.
Knowing that we are in danger of being wiped out some time in the near future from one or all of these things sooner or later. The Global warming, and our abuse of water , air and land. Add into this mix. Less food , more people, hate, vilance, evil, greed, lust, and liers. Who in there right mind would want to help out such a race.
Then lets add to the facts that our money systems have been holding us back for years now. We have come up with other systems that work. But the rich and powerful people want let this happen. :(
We are in a new erra. As of today we are in the erra of
inlightenment.
We now know we can not change any thing that we have done. We may have even speeded it up some. So lets not waist any more time. If we are to become more than what we are. We will have to work together on this. "BUILD" the world a really big space ship in space now, that can save us in the future. And be looking dam hard for us a new home. Because we have truely messed this one up in so many ways with our advances. And I really feel for our kids we will be leaving here when we die. They will need a merical to say the least.
I have seen us doing things to make things better. Again it is only the rich who can go there. Wind power, Solar power, and other clean energy sourses. And I think I am right when I say this. "It is to late to change things now. So lets keep an eye on the best people we know of. The ones who work hard for that spot on the ship. Teachers, preachers, Builders, You get what I'm saying. I am no brain scientist and I am not that smart. So there wouldn't be a seat for me. But that isn't the point. We know what can happen will happen. It is up to us to give our kids "H.O.P.E." (the ship) We can't just leave them with our mess. Lets leave them a ship. So when worst comes to worst. And we all may be dead. Our kids will know we were not dumb. We seen the destruction that is yet to come.
It's a no brainer.
It still is not a proof of cause, it does not prove the long term predictions, and there is not much we can do about it anyway except stop existing.
Why do you liberals take so much joy in "proving" anthropomorphic climate change? The earth is changing, not much we can do about it, why don't you nerds go back to playing your computer games? I am.http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/12/21/1552258/2012-another-record-setter-for-weather-fits-climate-forecasts#
Get back to me when a single climate model correctly predicts more than 1 year.
And how are "we" going to do that? Do you think China or India or Africa or Russia give a damn about what "we" decide? European and American voters get irate if their economies aren't growing fast enough; do you think they're going to reelect any government that's going to spend tons of money on reducing carbon emissions?
"We" can't even bring ourselves to helping refugees, or living up to our international aid commitments, or making many our drug patents available for generic use overseas, actions that are trivial compared to meaningful reductions in carbon emissions. Look at the lack of results of Doha or all the other previous conferences. "We" have been importing cheap "shit" from South America and Asia, knowing full well that the way it is produced is destructive of the environment and rain forest, and nobody gives a damn.
The idiot is you, because you believe that global warming is somehow different than all the other issues that we have failed to act on. With the current political situation in the world, everybody looks out for their own interests first. Given the current political situation, there is nothing any government can do to reduce global carbon emissions meaningfully.
Carbon emissions will fall on their own when technology makes burning coal and oil obsolete. I think that's going to happen within a few decades. But it will happen with or without government intervention.
I cannot believe people can be so stupid, I see bunch of lost sheep confused by climate propaganda. What is worst, it works on most of the sheep ! It only proves that bunch of sheep thinks scientists can by voting decide by how many degrees Earth will warm up. You are idiots and nothing can help you !
Learn to control the weather, if it's broken, then fix it. I fully agree that people's behavior will not change, it's a lost cause, which is why we should start R&D on geoengineering as early as possible.
The ozone destroyers, acid rain and particulate emissions all have relatively short lifetimes in the atmosphere. All it takes to to reduce the damage they caused is to reduce or eliminate emissions of the things that caused them and they wash out in a few years (or decades in the case of ozone destroyers). That isn't the case with CO2 or more generally carbon in the active carbon cycle. Once it is there it takes thousands of years for natural processes to reduce the level significantly. That means on human time scales it's close to irreversible. Even if we do things to actively remove carbon from the carbon cycle it's hard to imagine we could do it any where nearly as fast as we put it in. Once we stop adding carbon to the cycle the changes will start slowing down after 30 or 40 years but even then it will take hundreds of years for the ice caps to catch up with the forcing. The other thing that's irreversible is species extinction. Once they're gone, they're gone.
So you're right, we have to overcome the efforts to suppress addressing the problem but that just stops it from getting worse (after a few decades). The changes already wrought won't go away anytime soon.
I personally think global warming is pure nonsense and that it's all just simply a weather shift/change that we are all going through. I strongly believe that these weather extremes will eventually stabilize for now however, we're in for a wild ride.
that this is not perverse; it is natural. Man is doing this and it is the inevitable result of his intelligence. Nature is learning that intelligence in a species is pathological. The experiment in intelligence is showing that it is better to have dumb animals that do not change the environment than smart animals that do. The smart animals end up wiping themselves out in biological short order. The sustainable "human" was the Neanderthal.
E Proelio Veritas.
"Globally, five countries this year set heat records, but none set cold records."
"Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80ÂF set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in the weather station just at the critical moment."
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/30/bitter-cold-records-broken-in-alaska-all-time-coldest-record-nearly-broken-but-murphys-law-intervenes/
LOS ANGELES -- Southern Californians awoke Thursday to record cold with sub-freezing temperatures in the mountains and deserts, but forecasters said a slight warming trend was on the way.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/12/20/5066818/s-calif-winds-ease-as-cold-temps.html
Winter cold record broken in Kuusamo ...
http://yle.fi/uutiset/winter_cold_record_broken_in_kuusamo/6424159
Get back to me when you understand that climate models don't even try to predict year by year temperatures.
"And fall hit the eastern third of the country with the ferocity of Superstorm Sandy."
Comments like this make the article sound like it's trying too hard. In a world with no global warning, there would be nothing unusual about a hurricane like Sandy. There is plenty of climate change evidence without trying to sensationalize the story by mentioning the latest media-circus hurricane, tornado, or blizzard.
It has been 16 years (and counting) that CO2 has gone up (about 8-10%) and the temperature has not. How long will it take before proponents of the CO2 causes global warming theory admit they are wrong? 20? 30? 50? Never?
and now weather is the last straw.
Did you know, that there is no increase in extreme weather events ? Where shall it come from after 16 years without warming. ?
Read IPCC AR5 draft at wattsupwiththat.com.
Did you know, that temperature trends in the US are inflated by 92% due to poor station siting ?
Did you know that aerosole cooling has been much lower than assumed in the past neccessitating that CO2 warming has been much less ?
Did you know that climate sensitivity - the central issue of AGW - is therefore (and not only therefore) much lower than expected ? Follow Nic Lewis at wattsupwiththat.com.
As a side, unbelievable to see Rahmstorf quoted as an authority. Read the painful dissection of his "papers" at climateaudit.org or his own climategate emails.