AP’s Seth Borenstein details new warmist tactic on brutal cold: ‘We’ve become weather wimps’ – ‘When a deep freeze strikes, scientists say, it seems more unprecedented than it really is’
…Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer shocked that Obama Science Czar John Holdren ‘has so little knowledge of basic physics’
Spencer excerpt:
Holdren co-authored a book chapter with Paul Ehrlich (the honorary Failed Forecast Czar) back in 1971 entitled Overpopulation and the Potential for Ecocide. In that chapter, they forecast both a human-caused ice age and human-caused warming, with the latter being the biggest threat.
What is astounding from a science perspective is that Holdren blamed warming on waste heat, the result of humans and their energy use, rather than a slowly increasing greenhouse effect. He predicted that the localized nature of this waste heat would eventually spread to be a global problem.
But a little research and few minutes of math (which I assume Holdren learned at some point) would have revealed that humanity’s waste heat generation is, from a global perspective, trivial.
Assuming today’s global energy use is about 150 petawatthours per year, and dividing that by the number of hours in a year and the surface area of the Earth, this yields an average energy flux of 0.03 Watt per sq. meter. This is about 100 times smaller than the estimated heating from increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It is almost 10,000 times smaller than the rate of solar energy input into the Earth.
It scares me that someone with so much energy policy influence has so little knowledge of basic physics.
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NBC dismisses record U.S. cold as ‘single’ weather event – but previously linked heat waves, wildfires, snowstorms, Sandy, tornadoes, etc. to man-made global warming
NBC’s hypocrisy is stunning, here is just a sampling of instances where the network seized on single events to push the climate change agenda:
Without Proof, NBC Presumes Global Warming to Blame for Wild Fires
NBC: Global Warming to Blame for Deadly Polar Bear Attack
NBC Nightly News Blames Halloween Snowstorm on Global Warming
NBC Uses Warm Weather During ‘Most Unusual’ Winter to Promote Global Warming
NBC Predictably Asks: ‘Is Global Warming to Blame for Storm Damage?’
NBC Works on ‘Connecting the Dots’ Between Sandy and Global Warming
NBC Uses Tragedy in Oklahoma to Advance Global Warming Agenda…
Flashback 2011: ABC News Blames Global Warming for Extreme Cold Temps: Global warming ‘means winters with more snow’ Brutal cold & snow ‘could be the new normal’
…German Global Analysis: 2013 Was A Debacle For The Promoters Of Anthropogenic Global Warming
…Climate campaigners start to eat their own over ‘Cleantech Crash’
…Week 50 2013 Northern Hemisphere snow cover 3rd highest on record, and increasing since 1966
…Coast Guard: ‘The earliest the ice has frozen in Great Lakes since the 1930s’
…Global Warming Warning Labels Proposed For California Gas Pumps
…2013 Peer-Reviewed Study: ‘Contribution of the greenhouse effect of carbon-containing gases to global warming turns out to be insignificant’ – By S. V. Avakyan, writing for the Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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