Scientist: Cold Winter in US Caused by Global Warming

Pundit Press ^ | 5/6/14 | Aurelius

[therightliveswithus]

In a seemingly contradictory statement, a Utah State University study has linked global warming to the unusually cold winter that the United States has just gone through.

Simon Wang, Assistant Director at the Utah Climate Center, was the main author of the study. He made several connections between climate change and, some have stated, "volatile" weather that has gone on over the last year.

One is the increase in drought over large portions of the United States. “We are always going after extreme events — meaning the cause of it and the impact of it, and more importantly, how we can predict them,” Wang said on the topic, describing why he pursued this line of research.

“With this California drought, nobody saw it coming, so we only knew there was drought in California after it has happened. How can we overcome this? How can we find a clue to foresee its occurrence — that’s really the motivation." Wang would go on to blame cold water on the Californian drought; the cold water, seemingly paradoxically, was caused by global warming.

Further, the study states that the recent cold weather that overtook much of the United States was caused by global warming. Wang connected the oft cited "polar vortex" as the reason the United States had such chilly season; the polar vortex, the study stated, was a result of a warming earth.

[cripplecreek]

We had a frost advisory here last night and don’t even have any leaves on the trees yet.

[immadashell]

George Orwell would be proud.

[RightGeek]

Global Warming: Is there anything it can’t do?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ask Dr. Wang why his native land won’t go along with cap & trade or any other “anti-global-warming” schemes.

[Bryanw92]

Mr Wang needs to report to a Disintegration Chamber immediately to reduce his carbon footprint.

[ansel12]

Tails I win, Heads you lose.

[headstamp 2]

OK, now its getting ridiculous.

[TigersEye]

“This extreme event is not really random and is potentially traceable/predictable, and the pathway from which human-induced warming affects individual climate extreme events (is) complex but identifiable,” Wang added.

Where is the Smoking Hot Spot, Professor?

No smoking hot spot

1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.

Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.

If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.

[Bryanw92]

>>Global Warming: Is there anything it can’t do?

Global Warming is the new God.

[hal ogen]

This purported “scientist” is an embarrassment to “science”. PhD here means “piled higher and deeper”.

[Osage Orange]

“With this California drought, nobody saw it coming, so we only knew there was drought in California after it has happened

Wang is wrong......I saw it coming.

Mulholland saw it coming ten's of years ago....

[Steely Tom]

In a seemingly contradictory statement, a Utah State University study has linked global warming to the unusually cold winter that the United States has just gone through.

[seemingly contradictory] == [absurd on its face]

[ripley]

One would guess that the authoritarian stance in the picture is supposed to add to the truth of the premise.

(These people are vicious and they will not stop their move toward the confiscation of property by whatever means necessary.)

IMHO

[Paco]

Well, that is the easiest way to convince the idiots that no matter what happens with the weather, global warming is the problem. My lord, this country has become an Idiocracy.

Idiocracy movie

[Mikey_1962]

Alar
Acid Rain
Dioxin
Killer Bees
Coming Ice Age
Stray Voltage
Power Line Cancer
Immunizations
Mercury fillings
Red Dye #2
Nitrates
Fluoride
Bird flu
Swine flu
Arsenic water standard
DDT
Ozone and CSC’s
Caffeine
Chlorine
Saccharin
Y2K
Cyclamates
Polychlorinated biphenyls
Phosphate detergent
Radon gas

I am sure I forgot a few of the things raft were going to wipe us out.

[MNDude]

so if we had a very warm rainy winter then he would stop believing in global warming I guess?

[TexasCajun]

Its a wonder the whole planet is one big Dust Bowl!
(1930's)

[Sacajaweau]

Wang is wong......

[StormEye]

"Further, the study states that the recent cold weather that overtook much of the United States was caused by global warming. Wang connected the oft cited "polar vortex" as the reason the United States had such chilly season; the polar vortex, the study stated, was a result of a warming earth ..."

What a brain washed idiot you are Simon Wang! The recent "cold weather" is a season called WINTER!!! It is completely normal. It happens once a year in the northern and southern reaches of the planet.

Sometimes the winters are harsh and sometimes they are mild. Learn to live with it or move to the tropics.