Sunday, July 03, 2011

Still more climate hoax propaganda from "Scientific" American: "The signal of a human influence on climate pops up in 1985"; CO2 is "sort of like that Kung Fu guy who said, 'I'm going to kick your head off now...'"

Our Extreme Future: Predicting and Coping with the Effects of a Changing Climate: Scientific American
Extreme weather events have become both more common and more intense. And increasingly, scientists have been able to pin at least part of the blame on humankind's alteration of the climate. What's more, the growing success of this nascent science of climate attribution (finding the telltale fingerprints of climate change in extreme events) means that researchers have more confidence in their climate models—which predict that the future will be even more extreme.
...As the research advances, it should be possible to say that two extra inches (five centimeters) of rain poured down in a Midwestern storm because of greenhouse gases, or that a California heat wave was 10 times more likely to occur thanks to humans' impacts on climate.
..."The real honest message is that while there is debate about how much extreme weather climate change is inducing now, there is very little debate about its effect in the future," says Michael Wehner, staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and member of the lead author teams of the interagency U.S. Climate Change Science Program's Synthesis and Assessment reports on climate extremes.
"The signal of a human influence on climate pops up in 1985, then marches on getting strong and stronger," Barnett says
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... "It's sort of like that Kung Fu guy who said, 'I'm going to kick your head off now, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it,'" [Tim Barnett of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography] says.
...Gene Takle, professor of meteorology at Iowa State University in Ames. "Iowa's floods are in your face—and in your basement—evidence that the climate has changed, and the farmers are adapting," he says.
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Reporting for this story was funded by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

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