May 8, 2013: Con think tank stooge: "Sorry Global Warmists - Weather getting less extreme"

[brentspeak]

Less than two weeks ago, Heartland Institute tool James Taylor wrote for Forbes online:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/05/08/sorry-global-warmists-but-extreme-weather-events-are-becoming-less-extreme/

Sorry Global Warmists, But Extreme Weather Events Are Becoming Less Extreme

Just about every type of extreme weather event is becoming less frequent and less severe in recent years as our planet continues its modest warming in the wake of the Little Ice Age. While global warming activists attempt to spin a narrative of ever-worsening weather, the objective facts tell a completely different story...Although global warming activists and their media allies often claim global warming is making extreme weather events more frequent and severe, virtually all extreme weather events are becoming less frequent and less severe as our planet gradually warms.

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Despite all this good news, a growing number of people believe global warming is causing an increase in extreme weather events. This is no accident. Fully aware of the objective facts, global warming activists are doing everything they can to distract people from the truth. Although extreme weather events are becoming less frequent, the Earth is a big place with a dynamic climate. There will always be some extreme weather events, even as they become less frequent and less severe. Global warming activists can always highlight some extreme weather event occurring somewhere on the planet and paint a false narrative that global warming must be to blame, even though extreme weather events are becoming rarer as the planet gradually warms and returns to pre-Little Ice Age norms.

Major hurricanes struck the U.S. Northeast on a fairly regular basis during the first half of the 20th century when temperatures were cooler. Now, as our planet warms, hurricanes of any sort almost never strike the U.S. Northeast. As a result, when even a minor hurricane like Sandy strikes the Northeast, it is a seemingly unheard of weather event. We can thank global warming for the fact that even a small hurricane like Sandy is a rare event in the U.S. Northeast. The same applies for tornadoes, droughts, etc.

Thank goodness science is conducted according to objective facts rather than activist propaganda!

"Less extreme" tornadoes, everyone!

[spanone]

1. K&r...

[City Lights]

2. Idiots! nt

[sakabatou]

3. *facepalm*

[AverageJoe90]

4. James Taylor is a fucking moron.....Weather =/= climate. And that's a FACT.

In fact, if anything at all, it's looking like the variations in weather are what's becoming extreme more than anything right now, and that DOES count for something. So STFU, Jimmy boy, and let the REAL brains do the talking.

(P.S. Brent, thanks. )

[subterranean]

5. A "small hurricane like Sandy?"

Is this guy serious?

[DCKit]

7. Or the Derecho of June 29th?

Never seen anything like it but five days later they were telling me it was a common occurrence. Then there was another one, 27 days later, much gentler, though.

The first storm that's scares the bejeesus out of me in 43 years became "a common occurrence" within a week. Then it happened again, less than a month later.

Had a tornado here in DC a few years back, too. Tore everything off the roof of the waterfront condo across the street (tables, chairs, potted plants), skipped over my building, then tore the tops off two trees at the back of our property. I was on my balcony, looking directly up into the funnel.

The climate denialists can go suck some homeless guy's balls. We're going to see some serious shit this summer.

[kentauros]

6. "as our planet gradually warms"

My guess is people like this don't understand the meaning of even this part.

Let's use something they can visualize instead. Think of a pot of water boiling (say to cook pasta.) Now, it has to heat up gradually, too. However, does the water remain stagnant? No, it begins to bubble, and then as it gets to boiling, that water is moving all over the place!

The atmosphere is fluidic, and it's going to move all over the place as it "gradually warms". It's just too bad their brains are too atrophied to make this simple connection.