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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Scientists connect global warming to extreme rain ~~with biased data~~

2011-02-16

Extreme rainstorms and snowfalls have grown substantially stronger, two studies suggest, with scientists for the first time finding the telltale fingerprints of man-made global warming on downpours that often cause deadly flooding.
They got to save their phony baloney jobs!
One group of researchers looked at the strongest rain and snow events of each year from 1951 to 1999 in the Northern Hemisphere and found that the more recent storms were 7 percent wetter. That may not sound like much, but it adds up to be a substantial increase, said the report from a team of researchers from Canada and Scotland.

The study didn't single out specific storms but examined worst-of-each-year events all over the Northern Hemisphere. While the study ended in 1999, the close of the decade when scientists say climate change kicked into a higher gear, the events examined were similar to more recent disasters: deluges that triggered last year's deadly floods in Pakistan and in Nashville, Tenn., and this winter's paralyzing blizzards in parts of the United States.
Ok, stop there a sec... You only took the data from 1951-1999 and didn't single out events... yet events that happened since then were singularly examined...

Now, it has been a while since I was a studying the scientific method... but THAT IS CALLED COOKING THE DATA AND CHERRY PICKING DATA TO FIT YOUR HYPOTHESIS!!!!,
Ok, the rest of the story I have to summarize, but cherry picked data... short time frame of study... no dissenting part of the paper... and all funded by foundations that have a remarkable interest in MMGW means that these studies aren't worth the paper they are printed on. More bullshit to push the goddamn Maxist takeover of economies in the name of saving the fucking planet.

These crooks need to be laughed out of the scientific world, sued for everything they got for the damage inflicted on the economy, then fired into the sun to reduce their "carbon footprint".

Posted by:DarthVader

#2 Then there's this, from a few days ago in the Wall Street Journal. The one group of researchers were already behind the times before they released their report, poor dears. Isn't science wonderful!

The Weather Isn't Getting Weirder
The latest research belies the idea that storms are getting more extreme.

Some climate alarmists would have us believe that these storms are yet another baleful consequence of man-made CO2 emissions. In addition to the latest weather events, they also point to recent cyclones in Burma, last winter's fatal chills in Nepal and Bangladesh, December's blizzards in Britain, and every other drought, typhoon and unseasonable heat wave around the world.

But is it true? To answer that question, you need to understand whether recent weather trends are extreme by historical standards. The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project is the latest attempt to find out, using super-computers to generate a dataset of global atmospheric circulation from 1871 to the present.

As it happens, the project's initial findings, published last month, show no evidence of an intensifying weather trend. "In the climate models, the extremes get more extreme as we move into a doubled CO2 world in 100 years," atmospheric scientist Gilbert Compo, one of the researchers on the project, tells me from his office at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "So we were surprised that none of the three major indices of climate variability that we used show a trend of increased circulation going back to 1871."

In other words, researchers have yet to find evidence of more-extreme weather patterns over the period, contrary to what the models predict. "There's no data-driven answer yet to the question of how human activity has affected extreme weather," adds Roger Pielke Jr., another University of Colorado climate researcher.

Posted by: trailing wife 2011-02-16 20:15

#1 Still no speck of proof that anything the human race changes in the next 50 years will affect weather any sooner than, say, 300 years from now.

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-02-16 18:17

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