But apparently this last winter was the hottest on record.
Which is a headline getting as common as the morning traffic report. For quite some time, every month, ever season, every year, every week, every day seems to be the hottest on record ever.
Even when summers have been mild or we have been hit with disastrously arctic level freezes as a year or so ago. The headlines always read 'Last [insert here] hottest on record.' Sometimes there's a qualifier, like hottest in US, or hottest in Europe, or hottest in a month with an R in it. But always the hottest. Always.
Why do I feel like there is something about this that doesn't seem right? I mean, they must have the stats, the numbers, the data. Yet call me too much of a skeptic, but I can't help but think the headlines and the accompanying meteorological data somehow aren't the whole picture.
Of course I could be wrong. It wouldn't be the first time.
On record?? How many years back have they been recording this? 50? 200? 1000? 1000 years of record keeping in the earths millions of years of geological history? That's not even a drop in the bucket but it makes good headlines. Keep people afraid of the future and they will accept any sort of control on their actions if it promises to keep them safe. Ask these 'experts' what temperature would be considered normal for the earth, no clue and you will get a deer in the headlights look because the temperature has always fluctuated up and down but always in a certain range of temperatures that allows life on earth to survive and thrive. Everybody is an expert today. Doesn't matter what it is. Kerry, St. Greta, Gore, Obama...? These are the manipulators we are expected follow as leaders in the field. Ask Obama anyone. If the oceans are rising as he said why did he buy or build a home on Cape Cod at sea level a few years back?
ReplyDeleteOnce Gore made it political, the whole thing went off the rails. Tracking climate, from the 70s when it was the upcoming Ice Age redux, to the 80s and 90s and global warming, nobody thought much of it other than 'watch the science and let us know when to be concerned.' But as soon as Gore made it about 'vote Democrat or the world will burn', it's gone looney I tell you. At this point telling the difference between the politics of global warming and the science of climate change is almost impossible. And part of that is on the scientists who make it difficult to tell the difference.
DeleteI knew things were pretty bogus with their climate arguments when the name changing started. When deception begins it means there is something to hide. It started out as Man-Made global warming. People didn't like being blamed for what they couldn't control so what did the left do? Change the name to anthropogenic global warming. Wow sounds better eh? It is for those who don't do their homework. Anthropogenic Global Warming is man-made global warming. They just used a BIG word. So the new name didn't catch on so they changed it to Global Warming but then came a little problem. The temps weren't warming soooo they had to change it again to Climate Change. They call it Climate Change but are still blaming us for it. If you deny the climate changes then you don't know your science. Climate has changed over and over again in the eons of the earths history but without man's help and that's the key. Man is not responsible for climate change except perhaps in one way: Walking away from our Faith and God and because of our sinfulness. More than once God used nature to destroy men's plans. This is no different.
DeleteYep. I remember when it went from Global Warming to Climate Change. That's because after a string of brutally hot summers and mild winters, the winters suddenly turned and we got hit with years of big snowstorms, blizzards and late season frosts. And it suddenly became climate change. Until summers that got hot again, and it became Global Warming. I've said part of the problem is the actual scientists who act like they're selling used cars rather than educating us about climate.
DeleteThe data only goes back about 100 years. So it doesn't mean anything.
ReplyDeleteThat has been pointed out, but is almost always smacked down as irrelevant. For no particular reason, it seems enough.
DeleteWe had a non-winter just north of you--I used my snowblower once up here in metropolitan Detroit. Plus, it's El Nino, which means warmer and less snow. I didn't care for it: the evergreen allergies were atrocious, and the deciduous trees have yet to spray their weaponized gold.
ReplyDeleteBut eleven years ago we had the most snow in history. And from what I can tell, our betters are still jetting everywhere and buying seafront property.
I am receptive to the concept of human-driven climate change. But I also sense a desire for neo-feudalism and indifference to human suffering from many claiming such. So you'll have to forgive me if I need more disinterested data.
We don't have a furnace and never have. We live in central NH and have burned wood for 40 years. Winter has been so mild this year that many ski areas have problems staying open right now and people call it a catastrophe. I call it a blessing. We;'ve saved so much wood so far that we will have enough left over to reduce the amount we'll need to get for next year. That's money saved. People have saved hundreds in heating fuel bills. Sure we're having weird weather right now, but it's happened before and will happen again. If I have to choose between skiing and saving fuel I'll choose fuel savings each time.
DeleteThere was a reason this winter was so mild I read recently. First it was an El Niño year, then there was an underwater volcano or two that erupted in the last couple years, and it spewed a ton of sea water into the atmosphere where it got trapped and did create a global warming effect because of the extra thickness in the layer. But it’s going to dissipate so it’s not a long term thing. Of course none of that was on any mainstream news channel, but it makes perfect sense. Volcanos affect the short term climate a lot more than any of us think about it seems.
ReplyDeleteI think the funniest thing this year regarding climate I saw was posted by a HS classmate of mine. Generally smart guy, but also a slightly hysterical Progressive. He posted about how melting ice caps cause crazy weather on the Great Plains. I just thought... were the ice caps melting in the mid-late 1800s too? Because if you read the Little House on the prairie books, there were crazy difficult winters and winters with little to no snow.
Oh sure. Here in the Midwest, most states hold the hottest day record from the 1930s. You know. Heatwaves and dust bowls and all. As for volcanoes, I recall the eruption of Mount St. Helens. In 1980 it famously erupted, and our winters were completely wrecked - not that year,, or the following, but by the mid 1980s. We had several 'muddy Christmases', until things switched again in the late 80s. But they were never again like they were in the 60s and 70s, when snow fell in November and remained there most of the time until about March. As I've said, I don't think anyone denies climate change. We reject the political narratives.
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