Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/29/2010 2:25:36 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Scientist: Climate change to intensify winter weather By Andrew Restuccia - 12/29/10 03:01 PM ET
This weekend’s massive blizzard in the Northeast has fueled the fire of climate skepticism that's pervasive in many parts of the United States. If we’re still getting major winter storms, skeptics say, how can the planet be warming?
E2 Wire put that question to Tom Peterson, chief scientist at the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration’s National Climatic Data Center.
Peterson said the latest climate change data indicate increases in global temperature result in more intense weather events, including winter storms.
As the planet warms, “frequency of storms will stay the same, but the intensity will increase,” he said.
“Multiple peer-review papers indicate that strong storms are likely to increase. So the climate change is changing the probability of a strong storm occurring,” he said.
Peterson warned that you cannot determine whether climate change is occurring based on an individual weather event. Instead, scientists study climate trends over the course of thousands of years.
“Weather events are pixels in the climate picture. Some are indicative of changes we are experiencing; some simply reflect the variability of weather and climate. As the world continues to warm, heat waves are an example of the former,” he said, while adding that extreme winter weather events are “examples of the latter.”
Peterson also said it’s important to distinguish between weather and climate.
“Weather is one individual event and how that plays out, and climate is the interconnection of those events,” he said.
But, Peterson concluded, “People will use individual events to justify whatever opinion they have on the matter.”
And would this have been said had this been an unusually mild winter, I wonder?
There is not one peep about colder winters in the IPCC 4th assessment, in fact they say quite the opposite
When weather moderates they say its warming then when its extreme they say its changing. These global warming asshats need to be fired from their jobs and sued for fraud!
Weather is not climate. < /AGW weenie >
Warming NUT: "More warming, more moisture in the air."
Me:" But if the temperature is rising that would mean less snow, right?"
Warming Nut: "We're talking long term trend here on temperature"
Me: "So am I, I learned in Geology class a long time ago that the Earth is still cooling...wouldn't that be a long term trend?"
Warming NUT: "That trend is too long for what were talking about..."
Me: "Huh?"
These people act like we never had weather before algore invented global warming.
Yeah . . . yeah . . . intensify the weather . . . that's the ticket
At first blush, shouldn’t “scientist” be in “scare quotes?”
Global warming is a religion
Just like you, hypocrite.
No, religion is a virtue, Global Warming is a dangerous cult.
Yes, the solid research predicts it, but the IPCC strayed from that to try to push an “upward only” view.
The bottom line is, whatever the weather does, it will be "climate change" that is a "fault."
I guess that explains why we haven't had a Cat 5 hurricane in at least five years...and why the predictions from these wind wizards are always way too high.
I check out N.O.A.A. boueys before going offshore fishing.
Other than these mechanical stations N.O.A.A. lies.
“These people act like we never had weather before algore invented global warming.”
We never discussed it before Al invented the Internet, either.
“Weather events are pixels in the climate picture. Some are indicative of changes we are experiencing; some simply reflect the variability of weather and climate. As the world continues to warm, heat waves are an example of the former,” he said, while adding that extreme winter weather events are “examples of the latter.”
So the extreme weather in the form of a heat wave is just weather, but extreme weather in the form of a snowstorm is AGW?
W...T...F????
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