The Kevin Trenberth / Seth Borenstein aided fact free folly on the USA heat wave | Watts Up With That?

…it is clear they are desperate to sell any connection because the public will probably not hear about the science studies that will follow.

It is another shameful attempt to do just that by Dr. Kevin Trenberth aided by Seth Borenstein’s media bully pulpit. I will give Borenstein at least one credit though, he asked Dr. John Christy what he thought about it and printed it:

‘…history is full of such extremes, said John Christy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He’s a global warming skeptic who says, “The guilty party in my view is Mother Nature.”‘

msnbc video: Summer heat wave an early indication of global warming

[David de Rothschild] i think what's happened is obviously sort of the common sense circuit board , if there is a common sense circuit board that goes into politicians' heads has been knocked out by the electrical storms. they are in the dark. it's just like what is going on, why are we seeing such a disconnect between our politicians and this issue of climate change . as you just stated, there is no norm anymore. we are seeing extreme weather patterns, this is not going to disappear.

Scientists say ongoing weather extremes offer proof of climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Jeff Masters director of meteorology at the Weather Underground website, told Democracy Now: "What we're seeing now is the future. We're going to be seeing a lot more weather like this, a lot more impacts like we're seeing from this series of heat waves, fires and storms."

He added: "This is just the beginning."...Aside from pockets such as northern Minnesota, Washington state, and New England, temperatures across a vast swathe of the United States were heading to record hot temperatures, Brooks said.

Putting The 2012 Heatwave In Perspective | Real Science

Bottom line is that the US saw much more severe heatwaves in the past when CO2 was below 320 ppm. Not only was the duration of the heatwaves longer, but the intensity was greater. The climate was hotter in the past.

Blaming CO2 for heatwaves defies history and science, and is nothing more than superstition. The 1990s had unusually cool summers after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, and that gap has blinded people to the longer term record.

Rio+20 = Politics Minus Democracy » Climate Resistance

It’s almost as if the failure of things like Rio are what drives the process ever further from normal democratic politics. We hear often from the green camp that climate change may be too big an issue for democracy — that by representing people’s interests and desires, it fails to respond to things which are beyond individuals’ understanding.

Climate Change Dispatch - Gosh, It’s Hot!: Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste

Note how they tack back and forth in their use of language when it suits them: “global warming” yielded to “global climate change,” which gave way to “global climate disruption.” Now that things are actually warm, we’re back to calling it “global warming.”

The View from Nowhere Interviews Trenberth | Planet3.0

When Trenberth calls the current situation “without precedent”, Woodruff is journalist enough to call him on it.

Homeless Polar Bear Roams The Streets Of London After Destruction Of The Arctic | ThinkProgress

Greenpeace has envisioned that future in a striking new film released as part of its Save the Arctic campaign. The organization worked with the band Radiohead and actor Jude Law to put together this distopian story about the Arctic: