False IPCC claims of more severe weather with global warming, Cap and trade

Political, Media, and Bureaucratic Distortions of Weather and Climate

By Dr. Tim Ball
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Mainstream television has extreme or severe weather reports when they are actually reporting natural events. Hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards are all natural events and warnings for potential loss of life are commendable, but the focus creates a false impression. It reinforces the false IPCC claims of more severe weather with global warming.

The syndrome created is comparable to when you are introduced to someone and it seems every time you turn around they are there. They were always there but just not part of your perception. This is reinforced by the advent of cameras and video so that many more events are recorded, reported and seen. How many tornadoes occurred when nobody was watching? How many would have died if current population densities existed? Of course, we also have the benefit of fewer deaths because of advanced warming.
What Year Are They Talking About?

How would you rate the year that experienced the following events? Which year was it?

254 people died in tornadoes in the US: 30 people in Marquette, Kansas; 87 people in Snyder, Oklahoma; 97 in Southwest Oklahoma; and 40 in Montague, Texas. 40 people died in a November storm in Minnesota.

Global storms: Typhoons struck the Philippines in July, August and September; a June typhoon in the Marshall Islands resulted in 500 reported deaths; a storm killed 33 in the Republic of Salvador; Ireland had severe storms and flooding. Only five tropical storms formed in the Atlantic and only one became a hurricane. This was used conveniently as the base year to argue there was an increasing trend due to global warming. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07 ... storms.php

Record low temperatures: February 13, -33°C at Pond, Arkansas, -40°C at Lebanon, Kansas, and -40°C at Warsaw, Missouri. Sydney, Australia lowest monthly averages in September and October and the lowest spring minimums.

Record high temperatures: Algonquin, Illinois recorded 47°C in September. An estimated 91 people died of a July heat wave in New York City. On July 7th Parker, Arizona recorded 53°C. Rivadivia, Argentina record high of 49°C on 11th December. The heat caused an outbreak of the tropical disease Yellow Fever in New Orleans and it spread north to Indiana.

Precipitation: Taylor, Texas, received 2.4 inches in fifteen minutes on April 29th. On July 29th, 11 inches of rain in southwest Connecticut resulted in extensive flooding that caused a dam to burst.

Arctic ice retreated dramatically allowing an explorer to be the first to enter waters previously inaccessible.

People Have Always Worried About ‘Abnormal’ Weather

There is always concern about the current conditions and the belief that they are abnormal. Now people are deliberately led to believe that the conditions are abnormal to perpetuate the claims that humans are causing the change. They can get away with it because few people are able to put the reports in historical context. On January 15th, 1662 English diarist Samuel Pepys wrote, “And after we had eaten, he (Mr. Berchenshaw, a friend) asked me whether we have not committed a fault in eating today, telling me that it is a fastday, ordered by the parliament to pray for more seasonable weather it hitherto had been some weather, that is, both as to warm and every other thing, just as if it were the middle of May or June, which doth threaten a plague (as all men think) to follow; for so it was almost all last winter, and the whole year after hath been a very sickly time, to this day.â€