A dust storm approaches Stratford, Texas, in 1935.
Posted on 07/03/2012 6:42:28 AM PDT by mykroar
WASHINGTON (AP) - If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks.
Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. And a powerful freak wind storm called a derecho.
These are the kinds of extremes climate scientists have predicted will come with climate change, although it's far too early to say that is the cause. Nor will they say global warming is the reason 3,215 daily high temperature records were set in the month of June.
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We all know the people back east think they live at the center of the universe, but where I live the temperature has been it’s usual perfect 70-74 degrees.
But no one wants to mention that.
BS. Weather patterns are cyclical and I have seen this before in my lifetime.
Too hot -> Global Warming!
Too cold -> Global Warming!
Drought -> Global Warming!
Floods -> Global Warming!
Bumper crops -> Global Warming!
Famine -> Gloabl Warming!
VCR flashing 12:00 -> Global Warming!
Power outages -> Global Warming!
Creeping socialism -> Global Warming!
Bad hair days -> Global Warming!
Amazing that something with no scientific evidence backing it up has such wide ranging effects.
The world is STILL colder than it has been for most of it's existence. We need to warm up a bit more yet.
In the summer, it is “global warming”. In the winter, it is “climate change”.
I believe it is Spanish for right.
I've lived longer than the average Freeper and can say with certainty "extreme" weather events like this, hot or cold, have happened regularly over my lifetime. But communications were slower in years past and there wasn't a cadre of zealots trying to panic the folks into believing world socialism will simultaneously control the weather and deliver us into utopia.
For the most part, even our local (Midwest and South) leftist news channels have been too smart to take this bait. Most are remarking how much this summer is shaping up like 1953 and 1954.
I do understand how important it is for DC to call their storm a Mexican storm the term was first used for this type of storm in 1888. They would want a “new term” and wouldn’t want it to be blamed on the current administration. Kind of like his green policies were so helpful to the Colorado wildfires.
Of interest, even NPR notes that in the border area between Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas, these storms are at least an annual occurrence, just not important to the right people. (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/07/02/156106723/word-of-the-day-derecho).
Temperatures in the mid-90’s in Ohio and Washington, DC in July. Stop the Presses!
Add to your list:
El Niño -> Global Warming!
La Niña -> Global Warming!
Like every other summer I've seen for my entire lifetime?
I think you are right.
Weather in California could not be more pleasant.
I have to admit, it appears California Air Resources Board (CARB) global cooling efforts have paid off. Sure, we fee’d and fined our best businesses out of state to get this done but it seems worth it now.
Of what “death panels” might look like.
No electricity for you! Take a pill.
“Obama said he could change the levels of the oceans. And he may have. Just think, this is the type of weather experienced in the 1930’s.”
Obama healed the nation, well, he did cure white guilt!
If you are experiencing "drought" conditions for the majority of the time, don't you think the paradigm should change so that the "drought" becomes "normal," and unusual years would be considered "wet?"
Here in the western US, it seems like drought conditions prevail (at least in the high desert areas where I always seem to end up living). Maybe the climate is just dry here! It's not a drought, it's just normal!
Ohnoes!!!
Seth Borenstein must be William Connolley's man at the AP. SSDD.
Total BS. This is what a HOT SUMMER looks like. Here in Virginia it’s awful, but our past two summers were pretty mild. So what’s this brainiac’s explanation for that?
“Derecho”....last I heard, it was known as a straight-line wind. I really think they make up this stuff as they go along.
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