Is Global Warming Causing Wild Weather? - Energy and Environment Experts

[Marlo Lewis - What Natural Variability Looks Like] The good news is that, whatever effect greenhouse gases may be having on U.S. weather patterns, the recent heat wave caused far fewer deaths than earlier heat waves in 2006, 1999, 1988, and 1980. And over the past century and more, a period of overall planetary warming, global deaths and death rates related to extreme weather declined by 93% and 98%, respectively.

As environmental scholar Indur Indur Goklany explains, these decreases in weather-related mortality are due in large part to the very fossil fuel-based economic activities — electric power generation, motorized transportation, and mechanized agriculture – that produce greenhouse gas emissions.

The policy implication is exactly the opposite of some would have us believe. In Goklany’s words: “Reducing these emissions through efforts to make fossil fuel energy scarcer and more expensive could, therefore, be counterproductive in humanity’s efforts to limit death and disease from not only such [weather] events but also other, far more significant sources of adversity.”

Is Global Warming Causing Wild Weather? - Energy and Environment Experts

[William O'Keefe - Forest Fires and Grasping at Straws] Groucho Marx once observed about politics that “it is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” If he was alive today, he might say that about climate change alarmists.
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It’s unfortunate alarmists would use the wildfires in Colorado to fuel speculation about climate patterns while ignoring basic, measurable causes like land management policies. The interest of those currently displaced by the fires, as well as those of countless individuals across the country who live in similar areas, would be much better served by talking about constructive, practical changes that could prevent future problems than by using the situation to propagate political issues.

Cardiff University warmist desperate: "campaigners need to ditch the language of catastrophe and the images of polar bears"

Corner actually comes up with one excellent piece of advice, particularly addressed to the likes of WWF, Greenpeace and Al Gore:

 "campaigners need to ditch the language of catastrophe and the images of polar bears"

Oklahoma Record Maximums In Sharp Decline Since The 1930s | Real Science

The two biggest years for Oklahoma all-time record maximum temperatures were 1936 and 1956. By contrast, 2011 was not much above average.

Planes, Trains & Automobiles: How Global Warming Could Derail Your Commute | ThinkProgress

So what happens when these temperatures are the new normal in summer? Travelers better prepared for a hellish — and in some cases, more dangerous — commute.

Flashback: Snow, Ice Result in Hundreds of Crashes on Minn. Roads | KSTP TV - Minneapolis and St. Paul

Drivers met slippery conditions again Monday after snow fell overnight on top of a coating of ice that formed Sunday.

The State Patrol says statewide between 5 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday there were 247 crashes, resulting in 32 reported injuries. One person was killed ina crash on I-90 in Rock County. Another 295 vehicles spun out or went off the road. 117 of the crashes took place in the Twin Cities metro area, accounting for 15 reported injuries. 72 vehicles spun out or went off roads around the metro.