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Hurricanes, Climate Models, and Al Gore Wild Guesses

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  Hurricane season is upon us. Harvey last week and Irma this week. Both monster storms and long overdue if one looks at the pattern of hurricanes throughout history. After a hurricane drought, Harvey was the first major hurricane, meaning Category 3 or higher, to make U.S. landfall since 2005 when Hurricane Wilma hit Florida. Despite myriad predictions of monster storms after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, there were not a plethora of superstorms to follow. Why not? These megastorms were predicted based on the “settled science” of global warming, climate change, severe weather, and the like. Such predictions are based on computer models , factoring in tons of data including ocean temperatures and currents, wind patterns, moisture levels and other factors. Many models exist, their accuracy based on their ability to predict the severity and track of hurricanes and tropical storms. As these storms are frequent and short lived, there is ample opport...

Bill Nye blames powerful hurricanes on climate change — then a real scientist shuts him down, Bill Nye Is A Kid’s TV Show Actor, Not A Scientist

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Sarah Palin: Bill Nye Is A Kid’s TV Show Actor, Not A Scientist Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ripped into Bill Nye “The Science Guy” Thursday at a Capitol Hill event,  calling him an entertainer  who harms kids by telling them global warming is man-made. “Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I am,” Palin said at a Washington, D.C. event held in anticipation of the upcoming global warming-centered film “Climate Hustle.” “He’s a kids’ show actor, he’s not a scientist.” Palin, who was a vice presidential candidate in 2008, advised parents to train their kids to question the kinds of beliefs shared by Nye, who became popular in the 1990s for hosting a children’s television show called “Bill Nye The Science Guy.” Nye was previously  interviewed  by Marc Morano, the founder of climate change skeptic website Climate Depot, for the upcoming film “Climate Hustle,” which seeks to document the history of views on climate change. http://dailycaller.com/201...

This Is How global Warming Is Creating More Delays And Longer Flight Times Across The Atlantic

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Flights from London to New York take longer than the other way around and it could be down to climate change according to Paul Williams, a Professor of Atmospheric Science in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading. He spoke with Business Insider UK about how climate change is affecting the jet stream, particularly on flights across the Atlantic. Read the full transcript below:    http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-creates-flight-delays-across-atlantic- See The Main Story Below, as point out this blog post below Jet Stream And Global Warming Do Not Meet What causes the jet stream? A jet stream forms high in the upper  troposphere  between two  air masses  of very different temperature. The greater the temperature difference between the air masses, the faster the wind blows in the jet stream. This river of air has wind speeds which often exceed 100 mph, and sometimes peak over 200 mph. Jet streams...

Hey Al Gore There Six Burning Questions About Central California’s 2017 Fire Season, But Not One Question Here About Global Warming Cal Fire Say's Fuel Available To Burn From Lightning Strikes Or Careless Humans. Not Global Warming.

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  No, it’s not your imagination. California’s long, hot summer is on a pace to produce a wildfire season with more fires scorching more acres this year than 2016 – more acres falling victim to flames, in fact, than all but three of the past 10 years. How many fires? How many acres? Why are there more? In a prolific fire season following a wet winter that many people thought was supposed to end California’s drought, you’ve got burning questions. We’ve got some answers. How many fires? According to the National Interagency Coordination Center , there were five major active fires in the Sierra Nevada from Yosemite National Park in Mariposa County to ...

Al Gore The Climate Change Lobby Is Complicit In America’s Unpreparedness for Natural Disasters

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Why does it seem like America is persistently under-prepared for the natural disasters we hear about every few years? For as many billions of dollars, nationally and internationally, that are ploughed into meteorology and its bastard love-child climate change, you’d think there would be a preparedness in every community, every household, and in every region at risk from floods, hurricanes, tornados, or  ManBearPig . Either everyone’s really stupid and stubborn, or dollars are wasted, with people are being — as usual — cajoled into believing the big arm of government will be there to bail them out each time. I suspect the latter part of that equation is the most likely. HEARTS AND MINDS, NOT SANDBAGS AND INSURANCE For all of the climate change lobby’s bluster, very little of the billions spent seems to find its way into action-orientated solutions. If these events are — as most in that field would have you believe — caused by climate change, the...

Bastardi: No Michael Mann — Climate change did not cause Hurricane Harvey

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  Meteorologist Joe Bastardi takes down fake Nobelist Michael Mann’s lame effort in the Guardian to link climate with Hurricane Harvey. By Joe Bastardi August 29, 2017, Reprinted with the permission of Weatherbell.com Dr. Mann at PSU has outdone himself. Back when New England had their famed February with snow and cold, he made the claim a warm eddy some 350 miles ESE of New England was enhancing water vapor and leading to extra snow. But: If he plotted trajectories from the storms he would see that the air from that source could not get back over New England since the mean flow would lead to enhanced snows in the Canadian Maritimes. Convective feedback from such warm eddies would act to PULL STORMS OUT TO SEA. The mean water vapor surface to 700 mb was BELOW NORMAL in New England in Feb 2015. The extra snow was high ratio snow with great crystal growth soundings because of the cold! This is why climatologists should be forced to forecast for a year, ...