Comments on: State Of The Union Address: The Climate Change Part https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/21/state-of-the-union-address-the-climate-change-part/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 01:13:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/21/state-of-the-union-address-the-climate-change-part/#comment-474967 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:39:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20797#comment-474967 In reply to Tim.

Tim, perhaps so, and to think, we had only been belching fossil carbon into the air for only a century at that point!

]]> By: Tim https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/21/state-of-the-union-address-the-climate-change-part/#comment-474966 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:11:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20797#comment-474966 The Dust Bowl drought of 1934 was a similar ‘Rex block’ and in a similar location:

a high-pressure system in winter sat over the west coast of the United States and turned away wet weather.

http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/geophysics/science-1934-drought-driest-most-widespread-past-millennium-02213.html

]]> By: Tim https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/21/state-of-the-union-address-the-climate-change-part/#comment-474965 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 22:12:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20797#comment-474965 Aww, ron #2; It’s because of AGW, don’tcha know?:

In a new study, a team led by Stanford climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh used a novel** combination of computer simulations and statistical techniques to show that a persistent region of high atmospheric pressure hovering over the Pacific Ocean that diverted storms away from California was much more likely to form in the presence of modern greenhouse gas concentrations.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/september/drought-climate-change-092914.html

It seems a little amplified, but spit jets and Rex blocks are not that uncommon; I seem to remember first hearing of them during brutal cold here ~1985-86. So far, it is not that extreme as I remember then — I had done a C4 R&R on a day when the high was something like 2 below in the southeast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridiculously_Resilient_Ridge

http://wasatchweatherweenies.blogspot.com/2015/01/snow-warmth-monsoon-surge-and-storm.html

**fantastically ‘fudged’, I’m guessing. I’m probably wrong, but I assumed a warmer, kinder, gentler planet would not have such large amplitudes or speeds in upper level winds due to less difference in temperature between the poles/equator. But, oh noes! My idea of Eden might halt the thermohaline conveyor causing sharks to eat the Brody family.

]]> By: cosmicomics https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/21/state-of-the-union-address-the-climate-change-part/#comment-474964 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:56:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20797#comment-474964 “Criticising Obama for identifying climate change rather than Islamic State terrorists as the country’s most serious threat in his State of the Union address last week, Huckabee said: ‘Mr President, I would think that a beheading is a far greater threat to an American than a sunburn’.”
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/25/heavyweight-republicans-line-up-to-claim-the-conservative-mantle-for-2016

HotWhopper has a good article on Curry’s latest descent into denialism:
http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2015/01/freed-of-any-values-judith-curry.html

]]> By: matt https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/21/state-of-the-union-address-the-climate-change-part/#comment-474963 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 13:25:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20797#comment-474963 Judiths conspiracy theory:

“Naive scientist that I am, it didn’t occur to me until last night that a narrative the NASA/NOAA press releaseof ‘warmest year’ was needed to provide the President with a sound bite to motivate his climate agenda. A scientifically sound press release like that issued by Berkeley Earth just wouldn’t fit the bill. (JC note: I am deleting the following text ‘the timing of the NASA/NOAA press release on warmest year was motivated by the timing of the President’s SOTU address’)”

]]> By: Doug Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/21/state-of-the-union-address-the-climate-change-part/#comment-474962 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 08:45:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20797#comment-474962 Ron @ #2 you’re on the wrong site. Alex Jones’ site is over at infowars dot com

]]> By: “Let me introduce you to my little friend”: 2014, warmest year – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/21/state-of-the-union-address-the-climate-change-part/#comment-474961 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:40:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20797#comment-474961 […] his State of the Union Address, President Obama said, “2014 was the planet’s warmest year on record. Now, one year […]

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/21/state-of-the-union-address-the-climate-change-part/#comment-474960 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 19:01:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20797#comment-474960 I think the question that is more important to “ax” is why there are so many (even the lower bound of 1 is too many) stupid people who believe the crap in that video.

]]> By: ron https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/21/state-of-the-union-address-the-climate-change-part/#comment-474959 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:59:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20797#comment-474959 Anybody want to ax why low pressure systems are killed on the US west coast?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZJA39cm15U

Maybe if .gov stopped altering the jetstream, weather would normalize, hmmm?

]]> By: Desertphile https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/21/state-of-the-union-address-the-climate-change-part/#comment-474958 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:19:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20797#comment-474958 It is a huge relief to hear a USA president give the State of the Union Address and not lie: I had thought the era of honesty would persist forever.

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