Where did all those weather stories on Drudge go?
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Where did all those weather stories on Drudge go?
There are some things I'll always remember about the winter months of 2010. My travels among the Tea Party, for one thing, and getting stuck in Nashville to watch the Saints finally win a Super Bowl. Oh yeah -- and the non-stop parade of weather stories on the Drudge Report -- snowbound D.C., blizzards threatening public hearings on climate change.
Here's what Drudge and his pals were up to back in early February:
Earlier this week, Rush Limbaugh and other conservative commentators made light of the fact that the announcement of the creation of a new federal climate service on Monday had to be conducted by conference call, rather than news conference, because the federal government was shuttered by the storm.
Matt Drudge, who delights in tweaking climate-change enthusiasts, noted on his Web sitethat a Senate hearing on global warming this week was canceled because of the weather.
As the first blizzard howled last weekend, the Virginia Republican Party put up an advertisement on the Web — titled “12 Inches of Global Warming” — criticizing two Virginia Democrats, Representatives Rick Boucher and Tom Perriello, who voted for the federal cap-and-trade legislation last year.
So guess what. Summer arrived officially today.
And it's hot. Real hot. Hotter than it normally is this time of year, and it's going to stay that way for a while. Here in Philadelphia, the mercury is going to top out at or above 90 all week, with high humidity. So I raced over to the Drudge Report, and you'll be shocked, shocked to learn there was nothing there about high temps or how that was going to change the debate on manmade global warming.
And truth be told, a hot week in June in the U.S. Northeast shouldn't impact the debate on climate change -- because that's only weather. What we need to watch is climate -- longer and more gradual shifts in planetary temperatures over time -- and the news in that department ought to be Drudge-worthy (he does rule our world, after all) even it it is not:
New data from some of the world's leading climate researchers and institutions suggest that 2010 is shaping up to be one of the warmest years ever recorded.
Scientists at the US National Snow and Ice Centre Data Centre (NSIDC) report today that Arctic sea ice – frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface – is now at its lowest physical extent ever recorded for the time of year, suggesting that it is on course to break the previous record low set in 2007.
Satellite monitoring by the NSIDC in Boulder, Colorado, shows that the melting of sea ice has been unusually fast this year, with as much as 40,000 sq km now disappearing daily.
Meanwhile, here's a good new piece from Cynthia Tucker of the the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the dangers of climate change denial in Washington.
Ironically, there's new talk of a push for energy legislation in Washington -- but it's because of the BP oil spill, and not because the earth is getting hotter.
And it's certainly not because of the pictures and headlines on the Drudge Report.
Wow, Will you really got Drudge. Your childish "gotcha" based upon the fact that it is warmer this week (the third of June) is really the cutting edge journalism that will keep the Inquirer afloat.— Philalawyer
Comment removed.- Global Climate Scientists clearly don't know as much as an anonymous commenter on a newspaper website. It's an Ice Age, Auntie Em! An Ice Age! The desperation of the marginalized minority is palpable. Their carefully constructed alternate reality keeps crumbling in the face of actual fact.— E.Plebnista
- "Global Climate Scientists clearly don't know as much as an anonymous commenter on a newspaper website. It's an Ice Age, Auntie Em! An Ice Age!" Guess you missed the late 70's when global climate scientists were predicting another ice age.— RG
- Its almost 40 degrees hotter than only a few months ago in January! Global Warming!— MBFlyerfan
- "The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider. The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was “only a few dozen experts,” he states in a paper for Progress in Physical Geography, co-authored with student Martin Mahony." http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/06/13/the-ipcc-consensus-on-climate-change-was-phoney-says-ipcc-insider/— RG
- Don't you know scientific consensus is meaningless, politicals know what is best.— borncynic
- "So I raced over to the Drudge Report, and you'll be shocked, shocked to learn there was nothing there about high temps or how that was going to change the debate on manmade global warming." I've had similar experiences racing over to this blog looking for stories that are critical of liberals after they get foot in mouth disease.— Ramon
- ---}}} Guess you missed the late 70's when global climate scientists were predicting another ice age. {{{--- Classic RG logic. Because a minority of experts in the 70's "predicted" another ice age, therefore, thousands of experts are now wrong about climate change. Hilarious.— Talking point sleuth
- ---}}} The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was “only a few dozen experts,” {{{--- Heh! RG's on a role today. --snip-- Since 2001, 32 national science academies have come together to issue joint declarations confirming anthropogenic global warming, and urging the nations of the world to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The signatories of these statements have been the national science academies: * of Australia, * of Belgium, * of Brazil, * of Cameroon, * Royal Society of Canada, * of the Caribbean, * of China, * Institut de France, * of Ghana, * Leopoldina of Germany, * of Indonesia, * of Ireland, * Accademia nazionale delle scienze of Italy, * of India, * of Japan, * of Kenya, * of Madagascar, * of Malaysia, * of Mexico, * of Nigeria, * Royal Society of New Zealand, * Russian Academy of Sciences, * of Senegal, * of South Africa, * of Sudan, * Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, * of Tanzania, * of Turkey, * of Uganda, * The Royal Society of the United Kingdom, * of the United States, * of Zambia, * and of Zimbabwe. --snip--— Talking point sleuth
- From the Newsweek article. Note the near unamimous. "To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world’s weather. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic."— RG
- I hope these were peer reviewed. "In 1974, the National Science Board announced: "During the last 20 to 30 years, world temperature has fallen, irregularly at first but more sharply over the last decade. Judging from the record of the past interglacial ages, the present time of high temperatures should be drawing to an end…leading into the next ice age."" "Science's prediction of "A full-blown, 10,000 year ice age," came from its March 1, 1975 issue. The Christian Science Monitor observed that armadillos were retreating south from Nebraska to escape the "global cooling" in its Aug. 27, 1974 issue."— RG
- Hummm what do all of those national science academies have in common....I know they need to beg for money fromt the govenment....whih is much easier if you are towing the comapny line. Yes it's just as hilarious that ther are thousands of scientists that disput AGW, hilarous that the head of the UN IPCC is a political hack with no education or training in climate science....but then again AGW believers are like any other relisious zealots— jd587
- I'm glad we have politicians who can save us from ourselves.— RG
- You're hilarious, RG. --snip-- Global cooling was a conjecture during the 1970s of imminent cooling of the Earth's surface and atmosphere along with a posited commencement of glaciation. This hypothesis had little support in the scientific community, but gained temporary popular attention due to a combination of press reports that did not accurately reflect the scientific understanding of ice age cycles, and a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 1940s to the early 1970s...In the 1970s there was increasing awareness that estimates of global temperatures showed cooling since 1945. Of those scientific papers considering climate trends over the 21st century, only 10% inclined towards future cooling, while most papers predicted future warming. --snip-- Here's an article for you, RG - so you can realize just how easily you're duped: http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/Myth-1970-Global-Cooling-BAMS-2008.pdf --snip-- There was no scientific consensus in the 1970s that the Earth was headed into an imminent ice age. Indeed, the possibility of anthropogenic warming dominated the peer-reviewed literature even then. --snip--— Talking point sleuth
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