Climatologist Debunks 'Extreme Weather' Myth, Says Current Weather is 'Business as Usual'

newsbusters.org ^ | 1/25/2016 | Alatheia Larsen

[rktman]

Calm down, climate alarmists; the weather events taking place are nothing new.

Climatologist Patrick Michaels said that recent droughts, warmer temperatures because of El Nino, and the blizzard of 2016 were "business as usual."

Michaels, a climatologist and the director of the Center for the Study of Science at The Cato Institute, wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal Jan. 24, explaining that recent droughts, blizzards, and flooding "little to do with what recent headlines have been saying about the hottest year ever."

However, no one would know that from watching the broadcast news networks. Between 2013 and 2014, the media have increased their coverage of "extreme weather" by nearly 1,000 percent compared to the year before former Vice President Al Gore's feature-length outcry over global warming known as An Inconvenient Truth was released. That film premiered at Sundance Film Festival ten years ago (2006).

[rktman]

Ruh Roh! Stand by for vilification of Prof. Michaels momentarily. Non-believers will be cast out and no funding will be forthcoming. How dare he contradict all those super money makers, uh, I mean brilliant other climatologists.

[yoe]

...and then there's this: (Five Ways We Know Al Gore’s Been Running A Global Warming Racket)

[ctdonath2]

I’m nearing half a century old. EVERY year I can remember has been dubbed “extreme”. Basically, every human wants it 72*F and sunny; anything else is undesirable, and humans don’t react well to unpredictable undesirable.

[BitWielder1]

Shh! It does not fit the agenda.
Too much snow, too little snow, both are our fault and we must give up on civilization itself in order to save the planet.

[immadashell]

Between 2013 and 2014, the media have increased their coverage of "extreme weather" by nearly 1,000 percent...

They are just following orders from their boss at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[batterycommander]

What’s that smell?

[batterycommander]

Don’t eat the yellow snow.

[PATRIOT1876]

Oh an ACTUAL Climatologist! No one will believe him.

Not when you have the word of politician Man-Bear-Pig or self styled anti-free speech dictator Sheldon “il dunce” Whitehouse pontificating about how the Socialist government science is more real than Actual Science.

Of course, what does a Climatologist know when Matt “Arrogant No Nothing Genius” Damon has an opinion.

Climatologists are “complete idiots” according to Bill Nye the Anti-Science Guy if they dare to disagree with his vast knowledge as a kid's show host decades ago, not to mention his alleged degree in science that is unrelated to Climatology.

[crusadersoldier]

I see a tax audit in Mr. Michaels future.

[TBP]

Somebody is about to be blackballed.