World news – Aggressive spiders flourish in hurricanes scientists | 9News
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
– Voltaire
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ANOTHER great example of how climate ‘scientists’, supported by the compliant mainstream media, use scary things to frighten you into submission and belief that the world is in peril, care or ‘evil’ mankind and his/her ‘evil’ trace gasses.
BUT, have you ever noticed how global warming climate change threatens imminent decline in cute, cuddly animals like Polar Bears? Yet, on the other hand, climate change threatens an *increase* in our most feared critters, like “aggressive” spiders?
NINE News Australia reports:
How global warming could make spiders more aggressive
By Richard Wood
1:04pm Aug 20, 2019
Global warming may result in more aggressive spiders around the world, a new study suggests.
Researchers at McMaster University in Canada found that aggressive spiders have a greater chance of surviving and reproducing following hurricanes than more docile breeds.
The study suggests the evolutionary impact of spider populations will be affected by extreme weather events, which scientists predict will increase because of rising sea levels caused by global warming.
Extreme weather events such as hurricanes may cause aggressive spiders to flourish, scientists have found.. (AAP)
Experts studied the communal spider or tangle web spider which lives in North and South America, reports the Independent.
They found aggressive colonies had a higher rate of reproduction after a tropical storm, while in storm-free regions more docile spiders thrived.
Researchers studied 240 colonies throughout North and South America and compared them with control sites.
Features of aggressive behaviour included the speed and number of attackers that respond to prey, the tendency to eat other spiders and how easily foreign spiders get into a nest.
Experts studied the communal spider or tangle web spider which lives in North and South America, to determine how they behaved after hurricanes impacted their environments. (Supplied)
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Results suggest aggressive spiders are better at gaining resources but are more prone to infighting if they are short of food or the colony gets too hot.
The study – published in Nature, Ecology and Evolution – found that after hurricanes, more aggressive colonies produced more eggs and had more spiderlings survive into early winters.
Lead author Jonathan Pruitt said more extreme weather will impact wildlife development.
“As sea levels rise, the incidence of tropical storms will only increase. Now more than ever we need to contend with what the ecological and evolutionary impacts of these storms will be for non-human animals,” he said.
IN order to validate the ‘science’ that spiders ‘could’ become more aggressive due to global warming, we should check the data.
ACCORDING to the latest government data and the last two U.N. IPCC reports on “Extreme Weather”, there has been “NO” increase in extreme weather events, even as CO2 has risen to 400PPM – a rise of one CO2 molecule in every 10,000 parts of atmosphere since 1950.
“Numerous studies towards and beyond AR5 have reported a decreasing trend in the global number of tropical cyclones and/or the globally accumulated cyclonic energy”– UN IPCC SR15 (2018)
“There is only low confidence regarding changes in global tropical cyclone numbers under global warming over the last four decades.” – UN IPCC SR15 (2018)
Global Tropical Cyclone Activity | Ryan Maue
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AUSTRALIAN TROPICAL CYCLONES
AUSTRALIAN tropical cyclones are declining in both intensity and frequency as CO₂ rises:
Florida Major Hurricane Strikes: Still No Trend « Roy Spencer, PhD
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IS NATURAL SEA-LEVEL RISE ‘ACCELERATING’?
WHAT is pertinent to the sea-level rise debate is whether SLR is accelerating due to human CO2 emissions.
Dr Judith Curry …
“Sea level has been rising for the last ten thousand years, since the last Ice Age…the question is whether sea level rise is accelerating owing to human caused emissions. It doesn’t look like there is any great acceleration, so far, of sea level rise associated with human warming. These predictions of alarming sea level rise depend on massive melting of the big continental glaciers — Greenland and Antarctica. The Antarctic ice sheet is actually growing. Greenland shows large multi-decadal variability. …. There is no evidence so far that humans are increasing sea level rise in any kind of a worrying way.” — Dr. Judith Curry, video interview published 9 August 2017
“Observed sea level rise over the last century has averaged about 8 inches, although local values may be substantially more or less based on local vertical land motion, land use, regional ocean circulations and tidal variations.“
(Climatism bolds)
Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Projections for the 21st century | Climate Etc.
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ACCORDING to “the science” there has been no stat-sig or relevant acceleration of sea-level rise since industrialisation:
Short-Term Tide Gauge Records from One Location are Inadequate to Infer Global Sea-Level Acceleration | SpringerLink
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SOMETHING other than carbon dioxide caused seas to rise, at the current steady rate, around 1790:
(NB// 85% of man-made CO2 was emitted after 1945.)
It wasn’t CO2: Global sea levels started rising before 1800 « JoNova
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NO ‘acceleration’ in sea-level rise exists in any NOAA or PSMSL tidal gauge records:
Relative Sea Level Trend
680-140 Sydney, Fort Denison 1 & 2, Australia
Relative Sea Level Trend 680-140 Sydney, Fort Denison 1 & 2, Australia – NOAA Tides & Currents
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ONE third of all human (CO2) influence has occurred over the past 20-30 years which has not caused acceleration of sea-levels, a jot :
Relative Sea Level Trend 680-140 Sydney, Fort Denison 1 & 2, Australia – NOAA Tides & Currents
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CONCLUSION
UNTIL the official ‘scientific’ data suggests that extreme weather events, like hurricanes and tropical cyclones are, in fact, increasing in frequency and intensity and not the other way around, as is occurring now, we should take such scary ‘spider’ studies with a pinch of salt and a whole lot of suspicion as to the real motives of the global warming climate change, misanthropic movement.
“WHEN the heart rules the head,
passion takes over reason.”
– Ortega y Gasset
“IT would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.” ―Joseph Goebbels
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THE widely held belief that ‘Extreme Weather’ has become worse, as a result of man-made carbon dioxide emissions, is a tribute to the success of climate change propaganda pushed relentlessly by CO2-centric politicians and compliant mainstream media.
PROMOTING Extreme Weather is specifically designed to shift public opinion about the purported seriousness of human-induced global warming climate change, through the use of emotional imagery and dire prognostications in order for draconian and costly climate policy to be accepted and implemented with as little resistance as possible from the taxpaying public.
COGNITIVE BIAS fuelled by an era of mass hysteria, delusion, groupthink and panic has helped foster dark and far-fetched clichés of a current “climate crisis”, that is an“existential threat”which will “end civilisation by 2030”.
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THANKS to the dramatic rise in personal weather recording devices – smart phones and CCTV – the sampling rate (what you see or hear directly) of Extreme Weather events, broadcast via social and mainstream media, has risen dramatically in recent years.
BUT, have actual Extreme Weather events increased in frequency or intensity? In particular, over long-term ‘climate’ scales?
THE short answer is a big fat NO! Extreme Weather events have not increased in frequency or intensity as carbon dioxide emissions have increased. In many cases the exact opposite is occurring.
THIS ‘inconvenient’ fact has been proven by empirical data and confirmed by the last two (warmist) U.N. IPCC reports on Extreme Weather: SREX (AR5) 2013 report and the latest SR15 report released August, 2018:
UN IPCC : “Low confidence in the sign of drought trends since 1950 at global scale…likely to be trends in some regions of the world, including increases in drought in the Mediterranean and W Africa & decreases in droughts in central N America & NW Australia” – UN IPCC SR15 (2018)
GLOBAL TREND
Little change in global drought over the past 60 years | Nature
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NO historical trend in U.S. drought as CO₂ rises :
Climate Change Indicators – Drought | Climate Change Indicators in the United States | US EPA
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1934 : WHEN CO₂ WAS AT ‘SAFE’ LEVELS
IN 1934, when CO₂ was at ‘safe’ levels, severe to extreme drought covered around 80% of the entire U.S. Such conditions endured for most of the decade known as the “Dust Bowl” era :
Historical Palmer Drought Indices | Temperature, Precipitation, and Drought | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
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400 PPM ‘DANGEROUS’ CO₂
CURRENT U.S. drought conditions with CO₂ at ‘dangerous’ levels (400PPM) :
U.S. Drought Monitor
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CALIFORNIA’s “PERMANENT DROUGHT” UPDATE
THANKS to superstitious climate kiddies wagging school, in just 3 years, California went from 97% in drought to just 1% :
Tom Bevan on Twitter: “Pretty remarkable: In 3 years, California went from 97% in drought to just 1%.… “
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WHEN CO₂ was at ‘safe’ levels, droughts in California lasted for 200 years :
The Difference Between Weather And Climate | The Deplorable Climate Science Blog
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FLOODS
“There is low confidence due to limited evidence, however, that anthropogenic climate change has affected the frequency and the magnitude of floods.” – UN IPCC SR15 (2018)
4⃣Floods:
"There is low confidence due to limited evidence, however, that anthropogenic climate change has affected the frequency and the magnitude of floods. "
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) October 8, 2018
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HEATWAVES
ACCORDING to the EPA, the low-CO2 1930s had (by far) the worst heatwaves in US history :
US Annual Heat Wave Index | EPA
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WHEN CO₂ was at ‘safe levels’, Adelaide’s temperature climbed above 100°F, six days in a row.
ADELAIDE – March, 1940 :
Friday – 24°C (74.4F)
Saturday – 24°C (75.7F)
Sunday – 28°C (81.7F)
Monday – 34°C (93.5F)
Tuesday – 31°C (88.4F)
Wednesday – 35°C (94.9F)
Thursday – 40°C (103.9F)
Friday – 42°C (107.7F)
Saturday – 43°C (110.1F)
Sunday – 42°C (108.3F)
Monday – 42°C (107.9F)
Tuesday – 40°C (103.6F)
13 Mar 1940 – RECORD MARCH HEAT WAVE. SIX CONSECUTIVE CENTURIES. – Trove
13 Mar 1940 – RECORD MARCH HEAT WAVE. SIX CONSECUTIVE CENTURIES. – Trove
“Numerous studies towards and beyond AR5 have reported a decreasing trend in the global number of tropical cyclones and/or the globally accumulated cyclonic energy”– UN IPCC SR15 (2018)
“There is only low confidence regarding changes in global tropical cyclone numbers under global warming over the last four decades.” – UN IPCC SR15 (2018)
Global Tropical Cyclone Activity | Ryan Maue
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AUSTRALIAN TROPICAL CYCLONES
AUSTRALIAN tropical cyclones are declining in both intensity and frequency as CO₂ rises :
FLORIDA Major Hurricane Strikes – Still No Trend :
Florida Major Hurricane Strikes: Still No Trend « Roy Spencer, PhD
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TORNADOES
2018 was one of the least active US tornado years on record, despite record and rising CO₂ emissions.
AS of October, a new record low tornado count was set. The cumulative total for 2018 is 759; the previous lowest number of tornadoes for this date was 761. The SPC has records extending back 65 years.
This lack of tornadic storms in recent years should also correlate with lesser severe thunderstorm activity in general in the U.S., since the conditions which produce large hail and damaging winds are generally the same as are required for tornadoes (strong instability, plentiful moisture, and wind shear). – Roy Spencer PhD
NB// The US represents about 75 percent of the world’s recorded tornadoes.
New Record Low Tornado Count as of October 3 « Roy Spencer, PhD
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Joe Bastardi: Climate Crisis? Four Major Metrics That Say Otherwise — The Patriot Post
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THE frequency of strong to violent tornadoes is also decreasing :
Joe Bastardi: Climate Crisis? Four Major Metrics That Say Otherwise — The Patriot Post
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Joe Bastardi: Climate Crisis? Four Major Metrics That Say Otherwise — The Patriot Post
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THE trend is clearly down across the board. Yet why are no mainstream journalists curious about this?
NB// IPCC SR15 “Extreme Weather” report made no mention of Tornadoes. Nor, the mainstream media!
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GLOBAL WEATHER DISASTERS / LOSSES
GLOBAL weather disasters/losses as a percentage of global GDP are declining as CO₂ emissions rise.
THROUGH 7 months of 2018 weather disasters as % GDP were on record (low) pace…
Weather disasters as % GDP – Roger Pielke Jr (Twitter)
NB// LOSS data does not include the two big CAT4’s that struck the US in 2018 – Florence (Sep) and Michael (Oct).
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CONCLUSION
BIAS BY OMISSION
IN my opinion, the worst form of propaganda is ‘bias by omission’ – information and facts that you are ‘not’ told about, in order to keep the truth from you.
THE mainstream media has not and will not report the facts on “Extreme Weather”, as clearly laid out in the science and data above, because such facts are obviously extremely ‘inconvenient’ to their “catastrophic” man-made global warming narrative.
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VITAL information central to the potential seriousness of climate change – Extreme Weather – has been purposely omitted by the mainstream media and replaced by emotions, alarmism and exaggerations in order to fit the climate-calamity narrative designed to scare you into belief and obedience.
THIS is why the global warming climate change debate has become so dangerously deceptive and dishonest. Climate truths hidden from you and replaced with a narrative far more acceptable – Hollywood-style climate hysteria based on alarmism, increased sampling rates and overheated, CO2-centric climate models that do not accord with observed reality.
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UPDATE
DID not see either of these instructive graphs painted on a placards at any of the kiddie climate rallies last Friday. Guess they don’t fit their ‘catastrophic’ climate narrative…
Global Deaths from Climate and non-Climate Catastrophes, 1920-2018
Carbon Emissions and World Prosperity
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PERHAPS the climate kids would have been wise to read and learn the words of H.L. Mencken, before being forced out by their parents and teachers to act as standard bearers of new radical eco-socialism, protected by ‘innocence’ and lack of age :
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it.” – H.L. Mencken
“While there is no observational evidence of increased frequency or intensity of landfalling hurricanes, either in the Atlantic or globally, there is very clear evidence of increasing damage from landfalling hurricanes. Is this increase in damage solely attributed to increasing population and wealth in vulnerable coastal locations, or is there an element of climate change that is contributing to the increase in damage?”
“Klotzbach et al. and Weinkle et al. argue that given that there are no significant trends in the frequency or intensity of landfalling U.S. hurricanes since 1900, we would expect an unbiased normalization to also exhibit no trend over this time period.”
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NOTABLE SLIDES :
Climate Etc.
by Judith Curry
Part III: is there any signal of global warming in landfalling hurricanes and their impacts?
CONTRARY to popular thinking and clever marketing, there is no “consensus” on the theory of dangerous man-made climate change. Too many variables exist within the climate system to allow for certainty of future scenarios.
THIS doesn’t deter the $2,000,000,000,000 US per year (2 Trillion) Climate Crisis Industry who manufacture catastrophic climate scenarios (pushed far enough into the distant future as to not be held accountable) with a guarantee of climate calamity unless their utopian ‘green’ dreams are realised.
BUOYED by their recent House Congress win in the 2018 mid-term elections, the hard-Left of the American Democrat party, led by pinup-socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have doubled-down on their pet global warming theory, proposing the radically-dystopian climate agenda, a Green New Deal.
ACCORDING to PJMedia, the Green New Deal will cost approximately $49.109 Trillion in the first ten years, enough to fund Trump’s border wall 8,616 times over.
FOR all the economic pain and social upheaval that inevitably ensues when draconian climate policy is enacted, it is only fair and reasonable for the taxpayer to ask one simple question about a climate which demands so much of their hard-earned money – “what is broken?”.
THE best way to answer this is to look at the current state of a set of common environmental metrics and analyse their relationship with carbon dioxide – the colourless, odourless, tasteless trace gas at the centre of the supposed “climate crisis”.
IN the interests of “cherry-picking”, there are a myriad of environmental metrics that make up the climate system. The examples cited for the purpose of this report are the more common associations picked up by the press and interest groups to facilitate climate change discussion and ‘debate’.
*THE empirical evidence featured in this post is taken from the latest data supplied by government scientific agencies and peer-reviewed studies. Hyper and direct links supplied per sample.
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ARCTIC
STATE OF ARCTIC SEA-ICE : 2018 SUMMER MINIMUM
ARCTIC SEA-ICE EXTENT (September 2018)
MINIMUM sea-ice extent has been trending up over the past decade. The EXACT opposite of what the press and ‘97% experts’ have been telling you :
Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut | September Minimum Extent
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ARCTIC SEA-ICE EXTENT TO DATE
ARCTIC sea-ice extent is very close to the 1981-2010 median:
Sea Ice Index | National Snow and Ice Data Center
Sea Ice Index | National Snow and Ice Data Center
ARCTIC sea-ice extent is essentially unchanged since January 2006:
“The IPCC once again reports that there is little basis for claiming that drought, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes have increased, much less increased due to greenhouse gases.” – University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke, Jr
“Warming fears are the worst scientific scandal in the history. When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” – UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.
“I am no longer reading this garbage” – “Similar claims are on par with the spam about penis enlargement” – Former Harvard U. Physicist, Luboš Motl rejects new UN IPCC Report
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EXTREME WEATHER, the Climate Crisis Industries favoured weapon of mass hysteria has been scuttled, once again, by their very own authority, the UN IPCC!
THE latest report finding that there is “little basis or evidence” for claiming that drought, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes have increased due to greenhouse gases.
BUT, alas! Just as the extreme weather findings from last IPCC report – AR5 (2013) – were conveniently dismissed by the mainstream media and climate crusaders, so too will the latest ‘inconvenient’ findings from the SR15 ‘Special Report’.
FROM Chapter 4 of SREX (2013) :
“There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change”
“The statement about the absence of trends in impacts attributable to natural or anthropogenic climate change holds for tropical and extratropical storms and tornados”
“The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses”
Pielke Jr. Agrees – ‘Extreme weather to climate connection’ is a dead issue | Watts Up With That?
UNIVERSITY of Colorado professor Roger Pielke Jr provides a good summary of the latest UN IPCC extreme weatherfindings via this twitter thread :
1⃣A short thread on what the new @IPCC_CH report says about trends in extreme events, specifically: heat waves, drought, floods, tropical cyclones, tornadoes. Let's go . . .
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) October 8, 2018
2⃣Temperature extremes: Nor change from AR5 or SREX
Very likely= ⬇️cold days and nights
Very likely= ⬆️warm days and nights
Likely= "consistent changes are detectable on continental scale in North America, Europe and Australia"
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) October 8, 2018
3⃣Drought. No change vs AR5
"low confidence in the sign of drought trends since 1950 at global scale… likely to be trends in some regions of the world, including increases in drought in the Mediterranean and W Africa & decreases in droughts in central N America & NW Australia"
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) October 8, 2018
4⃣Floods:
"There is low confidence due to limited evidence, however, that anthropogenic climate change has affected the frequency and the magnitude of floods. "
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) October 8, 2018
5⃣Floods:
"In summary, streamflow trends since 1950 are non-statistically significant in most of the world’s largest rivers (high confidence)"
Though some basins see up trends, some down.
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) October 8, 2018
6⃣Tropical cyclones:
"Numerous studies towards and beyond AR5 have reported a decreasing trend
in the global number of tropical cyclones and/or the globally accumulated cyclonic energy"
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) October 8, 2018
7⃣Tropical cyclones:
"there is only low confidence regarding changes in global tropical cyclone numbers under global warming over the last four decades."
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) October 8, 2018
8⃣Tropical cyclones:
" There is consequently low confidence in the larger number of studies reporting increasing trends in the global number of very intense cyclones."
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) October 8, 2018
9⃣Tornadoes. Not mentioned.
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) October 8, 2018
1⃣0⃣Bottom line.
The IPCC once again reports that there is little basis for claiming that drought, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes have increased, much less increased due to GHGs.
In short, this is still right: https://t.co/rbbWuwIw8S
🙏
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) October 8, 2018
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EXTREME WEATHER DATA
DROUGHT
Little change in global drought over the past 60 years | Nature
IN August 1934, when CO2 was at ‘safe’ levels, severe to extreme drought covered around 80% of the entire US. Such conditions endured for most of the decade known as the “Dust Bowl” era:
Historical Palmer Drought Indices | Temperature, Precipitation, and Drought | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
CURRENT U.S. drought conditions under Donald Trump’s reign of climate “denial” terror:
GOOD to put things into perspective before the hoards of Climate Change Ambulance Chasers jump on the Florence ‘fear’ train…
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
From Roy Spencer:
Although it is still 3-4 days away, rapidly strengthening Hurricane Florence is increasing the threat of a major hurricane landfall somewhere within 120 miles or so of Wilmington, NC. If it reaches that area as a Cat 4 storm, the damage produced will be extensive, likely amounting to tens of billions of dollars.
By coincidence, the hurricane disaster (if it unfolds) will occur during this year’sGlobal Climate Action Summit(Sept. 12-14) in San Francisco, possibly the most star-studded climate alarmist extravaganza in existence, with climate experts such as Al Gore, Alec Baldwin, Andrea Mitchell, Catherine McKenna, Dave Matthews, Jane Goodall, John Kerry, and Tom Steyer.
As we all know, these are people who lead by example in their efforts to reduce their so-called carbon footprints.
Attendees of the conference are almost guaranteed to point to Florence as an example of what we can…
THE global warming climate change scare has absolutely nothing to do with the environment or “Saving The Planet”. Rather, its roots lie in a misanthropic agenda engineered by the environmental movement of the mid 1970’s, who realised that doing something about claimed man-made “global warming” would play to quite a number of the Left’s social agendas.
ENERGY rationing and the control of carbon dioxide, the direct byproduct of cheap, reliable hydrocarbon energy, has always been key to the Left’s Malthusian and misanthropic agenda of depopulation and deindustrialisation. A totalitarian ideology enforced through punitive emissions controls under the guise of “Saving The Planet”.
STANFORD University and The Royal Society’s resident global warming alarmist and population freak Paul R. Ehrlich spelled out in 1976 the Left’s anti-energy agenda that still underpins the current ‘climate change’ scare :
“Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the
equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”
– Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University/Royal Society fellow
THE creator, fabricator and proponent of global warming alarmism Maurice Strong, founded UNEP and ‘science’ arm, the UN IPCC, under the premise of studying only human (CO2) driven causes of climate change.
STRONG and the UN’s charter and agenda was clearly laid out before the ‘science’ of climate change was butchered and tortured to fit the global warming narrative…
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsiblity to bring that about?” – Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing – are not sustainable.” – Maurice Strong, Rio Earth Summit
“It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature.“ – Maurice Strong, first Secretary General of UNEP
FORMER Australian PM Julia Gillard, who implemented Australia’s ruinous and politically destructive 2011 carbon tax, was open in expressing its core function to ‘drive substantial changes in patterns of energy production and energy use.’
Barry girl (aka PM of Australia Julia Gillard) kisses Obama – Wales Online
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THE climate fix was in from the start, and now we’re paying for it, big time, in the form of unreliable energy, skyrocketing power bills, energy poverty, economic ruin and death…
CLIMATE catastrophists blame humans and their use of fossil fuels for the purported destruction of climate with “tipping points” and “runaway global warming” some of the emotional descriptors driving the narrative.
LET’S check out the most well known environmental metrics used by the Climate Crisis Industry to push their global warming scare and see exactly what damage fossil fuels and harmless byproduct CO2 are doing to Gaia…
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ANTARCTICA
ANTARCTICA, the ‘inconvenient’ pole, the naughty child, has been gaining ice mass and cooling for decades, despite a 20 per cent increase in atmospheric CO2, and model predictions to the contrary.
NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses | NASA
2017 Study
Mass gains of the Antarctic ice sheet exceed losses | Journal of Glaciology | Cambridge Core
From the abstract :
Mass changes of the Antarctic ice sheet impact sea-level rise as climate changes, but recent rates have been uncertain. Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) data (2003–08) show mass gains from snow accumulation exceeded discharge losses by 82 ± 25 Gt a−1, reducing global sea-level rise by 0.23 mm a−1.
Mass gains of the Antarctic ice sheet exceed losses | Journal of Glaciology | Cambridge Core
“Of course, we have the usual problem, that those who read the article originally and who would have been deeply misled, won’t see the correction now.”
THE disturbing part is that the BBC knows unequivocally that they are creating alarm by distorting historical data and exaggerating future scenarios in order to push their catastrophic climate narrative.
You may recall the above report by the BBC, which described how bad last year’s Atlantic hurricane season was, before commenting at the end:
A warmer world is bringing us a greater number of hurricanes and a greater risk of a hurricane becoming the most powerful category 5.
As I promised, I fired off a complaint, which at first they did their best to dodge. After my refusal to accept their reply, they have now been forced to back down.
The above sentence now no longer appears, and instead they now say:
Of course, we have the usual problem, that those who read the article originally and who would have been deeply misled, won’t see the correction now.
What is perhaps of most concern is that this report was written by Chris Fawkes, who is one of the BBC’s weather forecasters, and who should therefore know…
WHEN building a product, a key element needed for its success is ’empathy’. It is vital for innovators to step into the consumers’ shoes to build relevant products. If a product addresses a pain point and offers a solution to take that pain away, then the product stands a good chance of being a hit!
THE “climate crisis” is like any other product, requiring a set of components executed efficiently and effectively so that it may thrive within the market place. Empathy has been a critical factor in the successful development of the global warming brand.
THE cuddly polar bear was initially chosen as the climate mascot, stimulating instant and long-lasting empathy for the cause.
BUT, the fluffy polar bear has its geographical limitations, and ‘inconveniently’, is far from endangered. So, a more ‘global’ phenomena has evolved to do the heavy-lifting, bringing climate calamity into every TV and iPhone on 24/7/365 rotation. “Extreme weather” was the chosen one and has been the gift that keeps on giving for “Climate Crisis Inc.” – taking advantage of any and every weather event, gobbling up the gullible in its propagandised path of eco-brainwashing.
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EVEN though “weather” is not climate, the daily bombardment of climate disaster-porn via the mainstream media provides more than enough evidence for the casual observer to convince them that the climate is in fact changing as a direct result of human CO2 emissions.
HOWEVER, when you dive deeper into extreme weather metrics through the lens of government data and peer-reviewed science, as opposed to scary pictures and videos spewed out by the climate-obsessed fake news media, there really isn’t any data that supports the EW catastrophe meme. In fact, by most metrics, extreme weather events are becoming less extreme and less frequent as CO2 rises.
2017 seemed to be filled with bad weather news. But a deeper look at the global data suggests that attempts to link the last year’s extreme weather to climate change are highly misleading.
THIS excellent 6 minute video produced by the GWPF demonstrates precisely why – sadly – the mainstream (fake news) media, who have largely been captured by the radical environmental movement, cannot be trusted on anything climate change or global warming…
H/t Green Jihad
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EW Related :
The Great “Extreme Weather” Climate Change Propaganda Con | Climatism
“We Do Not Know If The Climate Is Becoming More Extreme” | IPCC SREX 2012
The Economist Peddles Extreme Weather Lies | Climatism
OPEN Letter To The Bureau Of Meteorology – Tropical Cyclone Trends | Climatism
EXTREME WEATHER Expert: “World Is Presently In An Era Of Unusually Low Weather Disasters” | Climatism
Study: a ‘statistically significant downward trend since 1950 exists’ in hurricane landfalls | Climatism
Climate Scam Related :
CLIMATE CHANGE – The Most Massive Scientific Fraud In Human History | Climatism
“In Searching For A New Enemy To Unite Us, We Came Up With The Threat Of Global Warming” | Climatism
Global Warming Is The Greatest And Most Successful Pseudoscientific Fraud In History | Climatism
THE Climate Change Farce Explained By Two Expert “Scientists” | Climatism
THE last major hurricane before Harvey and Irma to make landfall on the Continental United States was Wilma in 2005, striking one year before Twitter was invented (2006) and two years before the first iPhone was sold (2007).
SINCE 2005, the U.S experienced a record 12 year drought of major landfall U.S hurricanes. The 4,324 day record was finally broken by Harvey which made landfall in Texas as a CAT 4 hurricane on August 25.
AS a guide, the average peak season for the Atlantic hurricane season as stipulated by NOAA (2001) :
South Florida Sun Sentinel at Newspapers.com(Via @SteveSGoddard)
AS happens every time a large natural weather catastrophe strikes, the media is filled with assertions that the calamity’s magnitude is attributable to global warming climate change :
Al Gore warned climate change would make hurricanes worse, so why didn't we listen? https://t.co/MavZ1JRzO2 pic.twitter.com/bhhOZveNYd
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) September 10, 2017
THE best available, peer-reviewed Hurricane and Cyclone data refutes any correlation between increased CO2/temperature and an increase in extreme weather events. However, the climate crisis industry never lets a good storm go to waste. After all, far too many reputations, jobs, money and superstitions are now at stake.
TWITTER provides a wealth of life-saving information and real-time updates for those directly affected by extreme weather events. It also acts as a platform for interesting and often humorous, data-based retorts to combat the litany of alarmist rhetoric spewed by climate ambulance chasers and global warming alarmist trolls…
HERE’S a sample taken from the lives of Irma and Harvey :
2006: "Hurricanes are going to be worse and more frequent!"
2007:
2008:
2009:
2010:
2011:
2012:
2013:
2014:
2015:
2016:
2017: "Told you so!" https://t.co/aQ31Qsseo3
— Deplorable Locutor (@Elocutioner) September 9, 2017
In reply to Newsweeks howler!
Al Gore warned climate change would make hurricanes worse, so why didn't we listen? https://t.co/fzfSH6m1Pc pic.twitter.com/71E5eTGqyB
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) September 9, 2017
No trend in Global TC Landfalls. U.S Hurricanes “bottoming out” :
Sure, but what about those that hit land and cause damage?
Similarly, no trends globally or US (recent years actually depressed) pic.twitter.com/M2YgKQ4P2Q
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) April 9, 2017
Why does the IPCC conclude what it does?
Data.
(below is official gov't data via @RyanMaue) pic.twitter.com/T71Lsy1mVH
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) April 9, 2017
Via @philklotzbach you can see how the bottom has dropped out of US hurricanes over the past decade. Lucky us! (Won't last tho) pic.twitter.com/uxfiAk6cC7
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) April 9, 2017
IF #Harvey and #Irma prove #ClimateChange, does the RECORD 12year drought of CAT3-5 landfall hurricanes before Harvey, disprove it? #weather https://t.co/FL4pz6Pi9p
— JWSpry (@JWSpry) September 9, 2017
Ooops! Scientist Eric Blake @NHC_Atlantic accidentally spawns “fake news” at MSN | Watts Up With That? :
ONE significant record which seems to get lost by the #hurricane hungry mainstream media… https://t.co/ECmzq0fDLb #Climate #Weather #Irma
— JWSpry (@JWSpry) September 10, 2017
How about 2010 ? pic.twitter.com/sK3KszowxJ
— Yannick (@11Yannick) September 7, 2017
Historic :
Table of all U.S. landfalling hurricanes on record with pressure <933 mb – #Irma's current pressure. All these storms were devastating. pic.twitter.com/zBwp8UhDpG
— Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) September 9, 2017
Irma in context :
INCONVENIENT TRUTH 🌪 21 most powerful U.S hurricanes (ex Irma, Harvey) all struck before @AlGore's movie! https://t.co/OUBiuqZUs4 #Irma 🇺🇸
— JWSpry (@JWSpry) September 10, 2017
Harvey & #Irma made US landfall as major hurricanes ~15 days apart. Record between US major hurricane landfalls is 23 hours set in 1933. pic.twitter.com/OzM2mfbLMd
— Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) September 10, 2017
Three of the ten deadliest Atlantic hurricanes occurred during the Revolutionary War. Democrats don't believe in history or science. https://t.co/RD1nOWWVVt
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) September 11, 2017
63 MPH major hurricanehttps://t.co/B1HKH1nLvZ pic.twitter.com/iC4OfTk40F
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) September 10, 2017
Hurricane season temperatures have plummeted over the past 110 years along the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts.https://t.co/tLZbUAO02K pic.twitter.com/Rba6PwxPsc
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) September 9, 2017
Galveston, Texas was destroyed by a hurricane on this date in 1900. CO2 was below 300 PPM. ten thousand people died.https://t.co/qKHT9TgzU8 pic.twitter.com/JoSmPBAXzo
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) September 8, 2017
If you are fortunate enough to have electricity in Florida today, it's NOT coming from solar and wind.
The answer is no. Hurricanes are not a result of climate change. Next question, Sahil. https://t.co/sPXu58LJjC
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) September 10, 2017
My New Video : "Hurricane Superstition Reaches Category Five"https://t.co/wmkAYy8iMY
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) September 9, 2017
Long-range forecasting has long ways to go. Irma forecast from 30 August: From New Orleans to Iceland! Few had Fla pic.twitter.com/okIahxIz0p
— P Gosselin (@NoTricksZone) September 9, 2017
Harvey :
If warmists 'knew long ago that Harvey was on its way, let them prove it by predicting' next years season https://t.co/b5g5MpaQAZ
— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) September 8, 2017
MUST READ : Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Can’t Be Blamed on Global Warming https://t.co/7IoxX1Qi2w #HurricaneIrma #Harvey #Climate #Alarmism
— JWSpry (@JWSpry) September 9, 2017
Hey Jen, how about skipping Earth Day this year and check yourself in to a mental clinic https://t.co/bEqNjzdgnH via @MailOnline
— lawrence money (@lozzacash) September 8, 2017
Please, at least check Wikipedia before omitting to some point of view, otherwise you are stuck with falsehood. pic.twitter.com/RW10mWroeB
— Eustachy (@EustachyNorth) September 8, 2017
That source is directly contradicted by the best hurricane analyst in the US, Dr. Ryan Maue, and the IPCC itself. pic.twitter.com/jjIr8Eh6Rg
— IpsoPhakto (@Mcschweety) September 9, 2017
The North Atlantic cyclone activity shows NO TREND since 1950. Note the decline of Cyclone Energy Index since 2005:https://t.co/JYFo0a3wMf pic.twitter.com/mga8dvoYYV
— Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. (@NikolovScience) September 7, 2017
Hurricane forecaster: set up season before hand lets people know. Climate hysteric: makes no forecast then screams global warming
— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) September 8, 2017
The deadliest typhoon on record occurred in Bangladesh in 1970. Climatologists blamed global cooling @markhertsgaard https://t.co/wnc6rALFIF pic.twitter.com/sTH9CUgdlk
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) September 7, 2017
ON this day 117 years ago, #Galveston TX was destroyed by a CAT4 #hurricane. 10,000 people perished. https://t.co/DYI1SaSvRu #Climate #Irma
— JWSpry (@JWSpry) September 8, 2017
Galveston, Texas was destroyed by a hurricane on this date in 1900. CO2 was below 300 PPM. ten thousand people died.https://t.co/qKHT9TgzU8 pic.twitter.com/JoSmPBAXzo
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) September 8, 2017
Currently we don't know enough to say things are worse than they would otherwise have been. pic.twitter.com/nUcWPDRhvy
— анди мак (@AndyMeanie) September 8, 2017
So you want to ride out Irma, eh? Heres what you are facing
1926 Miami,1935 Keys, 1947 West Palm Beach, Donna 1961. pic.twitter.com/VX8SyJmt65
— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) September 8, 2017
Harvey and Irma are terrible, but we need perspective:
Major landfalling US hurricanes trending downwards over past 140 years pic.twitter.com/AEqaRQAx4t
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) September 7, 2017
if this is so global, why the greatest producer of tropical cyclones, the Pacific is dead quiet, but co2 fairy has taken over
in Atlantic pic.twitter.com/reS4NxMsYY
— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) September 7, 2017
what a despicable bunch. What is co2 causing what is a complete shutdown where tropical activity is the greatest. the Pacific pic.twitter.com/46I2qMcED7
— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) September 7, 2017
Bill Nye confuses the oceans with the atmosphere. #FakeScience
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) September 7, 2017
IRMA DEEP-BREATHS 🌪 “And we can see that #Irma is not in the same league as the others.” https://t.co/yzyFlorFw9 #HurricaneIrma #Climate
— JWSpry (@JWSpry) September 7, 2017
In 1926, Florida was hit by three hurricanes, including one which destroyed Miami. pic.twitter.com/eYvs5bqdsg
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) September 6, 2017
Table of all 17 Atlantic #hurricanes w/ max winds >=175 mph during their lifetime. #Irma pic.twitter.com/LtJz4otT7e
— Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) September 5, 2017
Any news story which includes "scientists say" is #FakeNews
Scientists say many different things and have many different opinions. https://t.co/nIxsxlt1TT
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) September 4, 2017
Australian Tropical Cyclones :
UPDATE : Australia #Cyclone page updated! TQ @BOM_au https://t.co/rgcyMRCWY5 via @JWSpry @JoanneNova @JennMarohasy @AndyOz2 #Climate #Auspol
— JWSpry (@JWSpry) September 6, 2017
Don't do climate models. My point econ: cutting CO₂ will do little to tackle hurricane damage, smart solutions lotshttps://t.co/JfBS1INHpM pic.twitter.com/Hs6taHkfii
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) September 6, 2017
WHEN anti-humanitarian Grover Cleveland was @POTUS in the 1880's, the US was hit by 26 #hurricanes, compared with 4 under Obama. #Irma2017 pic.twitter.com/dwozPxqG9E
— JWSpry (@JWSpry) September 4, 2017
THE 1900 Galveston Cat4 #hurricane remains the worst natural disaster in US history. 10,000 dead. https://t.co/k3jDCEZam3 #Climate #Alarmism
— JWSpry (@JWSpry) September 4, 2017
Which of these Hurricanes were man made? None. https://t.co/UsSf9w6cIo pic.twitter.com/uhqfT2RZBe
— Benjamin (@supersteak) September 1, 2017
Bastardi: No Michael Mann — Climate change did not cause Hurricane Harvey https://t.co/9wxYBGo0rp via @ClimateDepot
— Massimo Del Papa (@MaxDelPapa) September 2, 2017
Dr. Pielke Jr. slams linkage of Harvey to climate change as 'political opportunism & attention see https://t.co/JGGdWF39P5 via @ClimateDepot
— Craig Talley (@CraigTalley4) September 2, 2017
Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer: 'Why Houston Flooding Isn’t a Sign of Climate Change' https://t.co/aU6BqKFEbU via @ClimateDepot
— Craig Talley (@CraigTalley4) September 2, 2017
Miami was destroyed by a hurricane in 1926, but occasional street flooding now is due to "climate change" pic.twitter.com/KBq5i48y1e
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) August 14, 2017
https://t.co/jsVABhuuBR How do you explain so many storms stronger than Harvey, most from over 50 years ago. Ever see this in 1886? explain pic.twitter.com/KSQ5P7PnPQ
— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) September 1, 2017
Number of major landfall hurricanes in the US have been declining, not increasing, over past 140 yearshttps://t.co/YbprqsuD0e pic.twitter.com/1GZ7cp9jfF
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) August 31, 2017
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