Even though scientists refuse to say that global warming is the culprit, journalist still blames global warming.
Global-warming alarmists have reemerged with a vengeance following the recent heat wave featuring record temperatures across the nation and dozens of wildfires throughout the West. But how much has global warming contributed?
At least two climate change scientists refused to identify any possible threshold, with one declaring, “I honestly don’t think you can really put a number right on it.”
However, one journalist didn’t let that stop him. Even though the scientists refused to say that global warming was the culprit, Seth Borenstein’s AP story was titled, “This US summer is ‘what global warming looks like.’”
“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,” wrote Borenstein.
“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.
“Scientifically linking individual weather events to climate change takes intensive study, complicated mathematics, computer models and lots of time. Sometimes it isn’t caused by global warming. Weather is always variable; freak things happen.”
See entire article:
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/07/11/scientists-blame-global-warming-for-heat-wave-but-fail-to-back-it-up/
Thanks to Gordon for this link
I wonder what Borenstein has to say about the supply ships now stuck in the “brutal” Bering Sea ice … in mid-July?
I don’t think he’d recognize global cooling even if he were stuck on one of those supply vessels.
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It seems to me that even when certain persons equate the hot summer here in the States to AGW..they ultimately forget the word “Global”. Ask other parts of the world that are freezing how they feel about it.
Heat waves happen in the summertime. Besides this, he seems to target only the United States which is but a portion of the world. I understand that there are still ski resorts open in British Columbia, but correct me if I’m wrong.
Also, for the past few years I have been watching the ice grow in BC and Alaska. The glaciers seem to be covering more territory, or am I seeing things?
Since when have our “News” outlets ever let little items like facts or reality ever get in the way of headlines?
Governments, environmentalists and journalists will continue to blame global warming until their bodies are part of continental ice sheets. They will die believing and spouting lies right to their very end.
It is fitting that they should spend 100,000 years locked in a frozen Hell on earth.
The truth about the coming Ice Age is often lost because people are looking at things in a very shallow sense. Here we have a clear example to illustrate the problem. The USA is in the grip of a heat wave. So it is very easy to see that fact as a sign that global warming is true ? False ! What is really going on is the exact opposite. The world is definitely cooling down. Thus heavy cold air from the actic is moving south, and in the process creating high air pressure across the entire North America. As well as other parts of the world too of course. The high air pressure creates drought conditions and also at this time of the year allows the sunlight to penetrate to the ground thus causing the heat wave. The heat wave is causing convectional thunder storms which are causing severe flash flooding in various locations. It is actually very cold air moving out from the arctic that is creating these extreme weather conditions. It is the same in the southern hemisphere where it is presently winter. I heard that the penguins that live in Patagonia, that seasonally migrate to southern Brazil, have migrated further into the tropics than they usually would, thus some of them have died, not least because they came into contact with humans on the beaches. I believe the migration of these birds is because they sense the colder than usual conditions coming on all around the world. In the Labrador Straits some Canadian Navy ice breakers are having to cut into ice so thick that it is freezing again before the supply ships can follow behind them. At this time of year, being summer in the northern hemisphere, surely the fact that ice breakers are having to be used is a clear sign that something sort of Ice Age “ish” is coming on. In the British Isles this years summer is basically a complete non event. I predict that this coming winter is already coming on and by early October it will already be snowing in parts of the British Isles. Once the cold sets in we will have a “cold snap” with temperatures even as low as minus 50*C causing our rivers to ice over. I advise people to get their winter togs ready now. Once the winter sets in who can tell just how dire the situation will get to be ?
Neil, are you a meterologist or a climatologist?? I have to disagree with you about your supposition that the earth is cooling. In southeast Texas in the winter we used to have frost on windshields when I was a youngster. Not any more. Retired from the military in 1994 and returned to southeast Texas and haven’t seen one episode of frost on my windshield since I’ve been back. So the climate has warmed since the 70′s. I do agree that there is nothing out of the ordinary to have heat waves in the midst of summer. Last summer was a bear for us, record heat, and no rain. Also had a record hot summer in 1980. Texas will be recovering from it for quite a while in the future. This summer has been hot, but nothing out of the ordinary, and we have had alot of rain which I am thankful for. However, with the winter that wasn’t last winter, the above average spring, I don’t think we have to worry about an upcoming ice age in the near future. The media is also reticent to remark about the cause of the wildfires in the west and the drought in the east and central US. It might be attributable to global warming, but not anthropogenic. Anthropogenic global warming is nothing but a con to part people from their hard earned money!!!The absence of or very low amount of snow cover during the winter that wasn’t last winter is the main culprit for the wildfires and drought.
The temperatures here in Switzerland are unusually cold for this season. Tomorrow we expect only 18 degrees Celsius.
Always has me ragingly mad when Only?? the paid shills aka reporters, are supposed to be able to be the ones anyone is to listen to..
after all, they…went to journo school ya know.
and blogs and educated others are to be dismissed out of hand as ignorant luddites with no idea..
suuuure.
more I see of media the thicker they seem to be getting.
I remember growing up in south Texas and don’t remember all the frost you speak of ? I do remember some frosty mornings however is wasn’t everyday ….that’s why when it gets to 32 degrees the newscasts start telling people to drip their water to prevent freezing it’s almost a non occurrence and always been that way …yes we had cold snaps like in dec of 89 where everybody’s water lines froze ….one last tidbit growing up I remember celebrating my best friends birthday with a pool party at my house …. His birthday was in December and we didn’t even have a heater on the pool …. Yep frosty mornings in south Texas ….. Go to Amarillo in the winter if you want cold in Texas …
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/June_temps_1-30.jpg
June temperature departures from normal.
Note the big blob over Colorado. It seems to be centralized where the huge forest fire occurred.
Same with the smaller blob over AZ&NM.
This graphic shows average temp departures(from ‘normal’) for the entire month.
I think that the Derecho was for the most part due to the heat energy and particulates from the Waldo Canyon wildfire.
Now the blackened ground and rocks generate more heat as the sun comes up each day. Perhaps the whole area should be ‘whitewashed’ with a light color re-seeding and fertiliser mixture… just an idea.
The possible profits from carbon taxation and carbon credit trading is more important to the powers that be than real truth and real science.
Money talks and everything else walks. That is why the media and the world of finance and government are stubbornly clinging to the AGW hypothesis.
It is all about power and money.