Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Green myths debunked - Energy: What about the record snowfalls? (19) - FORTUNE
Myth: Snowy winters equal no global warming.

Reality: Weather is not the same thing as climate, even though Donald Trump thinks it is.

The Donald ribbed Al Gore to give back his Nobel Prize, citing the East Coast's record snowfalls. But climate scientists argue that bigger snowfalls are consistent with climate change because warmer temperatures mean more moisture evaporating into the atmosphere -- and therefore more rain and snow.
Once ubiquitous, cold winter has made Florida's brown lizards scarce - St. Petersburg Times
According to the National Weather Service, this has been the coldest start to any year in St. Petersburg since record keeping began in 1914, in central Pasco (where record keeping began in 1895) and in Brooksville (1892) and the second coldest in Tampa (1890). The combined average temperature for the first three months of 2010 was 6 to 8 degrees below normal.
UN Reaching for Any Excuse to Tackle Climate Change | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
By linking the Aral Sea to global warming, Ban is trying to use water scarcity to rebuild the credibility of the global warming effort. But his claims that global warming would aggravate water scarcity, like many he’s made before, are baseless and not supported by sound, incontrovertible evidence. The credibility of climate modeling has come under heavy attack, not just because of errors reported in data sets, but simply because of their accuracy in forecasting.

As Ban attempts to build momentum for this year’s climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, it’s important to remember the debacle that was Copenhagen. This is nothing more than a Ban trying to stay relevant.

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