Reality Check on Sandy: Warmists ‘insist Sandy was ‘unprecedented’ and ‘proof that climate change is real’
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Watch Now: Climate Depot’s Morano on Fox News on carbon tax: ‘They are trying to ride Hurricane Sandy all the way to the bank. The bank is setting the stage for a carbon tax here in DC’
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New Record: ‘Remarkable ongoing US ‘intense hurricane drought’ — ‘Such a prolonged period without an intense hurricane landfall has not been observed since 1900’
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Prof. Pielke Jr.: ‘The fashionable talk these days of a ‘new normal’ is of course utter bullsh*t. Just wait until we return to the ‘old normal’
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Lord Monckton in Qatar: UN’s 18 annual climate gabfests: 16 years without warming OOPS!
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Claim: ‘America’s carbon tax offers a lesson to the rest of planet on fighting climate change’: ‘Thanks to extreme weather events, Republicans are slowly accepting that government has to intervene’
…Sen Boxer (D-Calif) ‘Hurricane Sandy has shown us all what the scientists sitting right in this room said the day I got the gavel, & they told us exactly what would happen and it’s all happening’
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Senate panel Democrats bash climate change deniers: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.: ‘And we’ve tolerated the deniers for far too long in this body’
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125 International Scientists Rebuke UN for Climate Claims in Open Letter: ‘Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused extreme weather of past few years’
“We ask that you desist from exploiting the misery of the families of those who lost their lives or properties in tropical storm Sandy by making unsupportable claims that human influences caused that storm. They did not.”
Full Letter:
Mr. Secretary-General:
On November 9 this year you told the General Assembly: “Extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal … Our challenge remains, clear and urgent: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to strengthen adaptation to … even larger climate shocks … and to reach a legally binding climate agreement by 2015 … This should be one of the main lessons of Hurricane Sandy.”
On November 13 you said at Yale: “The science is clear; we should waste no more time on that debate.”
The following day, in Al Gore’s “Dirty Weather” Webcast, you spoke of “more severe storms, harsher droughts, greater floods”, concluding: “Two weeks ago, Hurricane Sandy struck the eastern seaboard of the United States. A nation saw the reality of climate change. The recovery will cost tens of billions of dollars. The cost of inaction will be even higher. We must reduce our dependence on carbon emissions.”
We the undersigned, qualified in climate-related matters, wish to state that current scientific knowledge does not substantiate your assertions.
The U.K. Met Office recently released data showing that there has been no statistically significant global warming for almost 16 years. During this period, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations rose by nearly 9% to now constitute 0.039% of the atmosphere. Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused the extreme weather of the past few years. Whether, when and how atmospheric warming will resume is unknown. The science is unclear. Some scientists point out that near-term natural cooling, linked to variations in solar output, is also a distinct possibility.
The “even larger climate shocks” you have mentioned would be worse if the world cooled than if it warmed. Climate changes naturally all the time, sometimes dramatically. The hypothesis that our emissions of CO2 have caused, or will cause, dangerous warming is not supported by the evidence.
The incidence and severity of extreme weather …
Warmist Josh Fox on Sandy: ‘Really, we should be calling it Hurricane Exxon’
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