Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Climatologist Kelly T. Redmond at warmist Senator Jeff Bingaman's climate change hearing: "Precipitation really in the western states in general has exhibited no trend that I'm able to see"

SEN. JEFF BINGAMAN HOLDS A HEARING ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN INTERMOUNTAIN WEST - Power Engineering
KELLY T. REDMOND, REGIONAL CLIMATOLOGIST/DEPUTY DIRECTOR, WESTERN REGIONAL CLIMATE CENTER, RENO, NEVADA
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[Redmond] Temperature in the West began to increase, I've looked at it over the last 120 years or so, began to increase around the mid '70s, it's risen by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit in that time. In the last 10 years or so it's kind of leveled off and it's even dropped the last three or four years, we don't know the reason why.

The models predict that this is going to continue to rise by probably another 4 to 6 degrees Fahrenheit during this century. Nighttime temperatures have gone up more than day time temperatures and we don't know the reason for that.

Precipitation really in the western states in general has exhibited no trend that I'm able to see.
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Climate system is an incredibly complicated system, it involves -- literally the climate here Santa Fe as the result of everything happening on the surface of the Earth, up in the atmosphere, down in the soil, all around the earth, and it's a highly connected system. Because of this, we cannot -- it's not fully predictable....
It's very frequently said that observations are everybody's second priority.

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