Say it ain't so! AP's Borenstein Reports: 'The Wind seems to be dying down...the cause may be global warming' | Climate Depot

But Geophysicist Dr. David Deming, associate professor of arts and sciences at the University of Oklahoma who has published numerous peer-reviewed research articles, challenged the new study in an exclusive interview with Climate Depot.

"Wait a minute! Isn't a mainstay of global warming alarmism the claim that global warming will produce greater numbers of more intense storms?" Deming told Climate Depot on June 10, 2009.

"How can they have more intense storms from the same effect that is lessening winds? They appear to be claiming that global warming will simultaneously increase and decrease wind velocities," Deming said. "For thousands of years, philosophers and theologians have concluded that not even God could create a logical contradiction, such as allowing something to simultaneously exist and non-exist," he added.

Others are joining in to mock Borenstein's article. University of Colorado Professor Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. ridiculed the AP article for what he termed a "Climate Rorschach Test as News."

"Apparently an AP news article out today on how we don't know if global warming is making the winds blow with less gusto is not a parody, despite all indications to the contrary," Pielke Jr. wrote. Pielke is at the University's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research.

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Has global warming reduced windspeeds with potentious implictaions for wind power?

Well obviously we don’t know, but if you’d like to believe that it does, you can justify that belief by citing Michael Mann. And if you’d like to believe that it does not, you can justify that belief by citing Gavin Schmidt.

Climate science as Rorschach test, film at 11.