tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post3927080418621868169..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: About All That Balmy Winter WeatherThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-89529161388668066812012-04-17T06:05:57.750-07:002012-04-17T06:05:57.750-07:00opit - do you have any credible source for your cl...opit - do you have any credible source for your claim that the IPCC hires scientists to do its bidding? That's a pretty serious charge, one that Big Fossil's minions in the US Congress would have used by now to utterly dismember the IPCC. Except they haven't. Because that's absurd.<br /><br />AGW, to me, isn't a distraction as you suggest. I routinely place it in context as part of a much greater basket of challenges, all of which must be resolved if we're to solve any of them. So that remark is also way off base.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-13370660061229141882012-04-17T00:59:21.138-07:002012-04-17T00:59:21.138-07:00"what we're unleashing"
I snort. The..."what we're unleashing"<br />I snort. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change hires scientists to do its bidding : political masters at the United Nations driving a global tax on the use of fire....payable to them. Not that you are alone in alleging we are Masters of the Universe rather than players in "Much Ado About Nothing".<br />That facilitates ignoring the real devastation of mining and extraction in favour of a hypothetical which can be safely ignored due to availability of fraud in use of carbon credits by real polluters.<br />Sources missed by those convinced by the framing lies of the 'Denier' Strawman Argument<br />http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/03/climate.html<br />http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2012/02/environmental-challenges.htmlopithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01621946866211400380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-55845408273223390382012-04-11T11:59:24.154-07:002012-04-11T11:59:24.154-07:00weather variability isn't the issue and climat...weather variability isn't the issue and climate change spanning centuries is now pretty well documented.<br /><br />Britain's Met or Meteorology Office has assessed the new European Big Chill winters and Britain's winter droughts and has linked that to a new weather phenomenon, the Arctic Oscillation that operates in ways a bit similar to the Southern Ocean Oscillation that triggers El Nino and La Nina events.<br /><br />To be really simplistic about it, the loss of Arctic ice cover and the resultant warming of the Arctic Ocean is causing atmospheric changes and altering the jet stream. This has led to Europe being swept by masses of winter Arctic air while other places, like most of North America, experienced abnormally dry, mild, even hot seasonal variations.<br /><br />Opit, the advent of the Arctic Oscillation demonstrates that we're just beginning to see the power and rapid impact of what we're unleashing. Hang onto your hat, there's plenty more coming.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-83158684152118675732012-04-11T11:19:12.398-07:002012-04-11T11:19:12.398-07:00I can't cite a source ( I expect I saw it in R...I can't cite a source ( I expect I saw it in Readers'Digest ) , but I recall reading years ago that climate in the first half of the 20th century was stable well past that recorded in history. SoTT would change your perceptions quickly if you decided to dig into it.<br />Climate changes and weather patterns vary from decade to decade in cycles. Even so there is a suspicion that the mid Atlantic conveyor has reset to a new pattern which warms the north at the expense of Europe at a time coinciding with the oiling of the Gulf of Mexico by Deepwater Horizon.opithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01621946866211400380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-8936270823910932862012-04-10T23:00:30.364-07:002012-04-10T23:00:30.364-07:00No one in Ottawa cares, so long as the climate doe...No one in Ottawa cares, so long as the climate doesn't affect their ability to dig up that crud in Alberta.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com