At RealClearPolitics Steve Milloy argues that President Biden’s climate agenda is melting and, worse, meaningless:
President Biden is being urged to declare a climate emergency, which may happen as early as this week. If he does, the irony will be rich, as the 911 call should really be for the climate agenda.
The president apparently hopes to take advantage of the ongoing record-setting European heat wave and string of wildfires, and an ongoing heat wave in the U.S. Midwest.
While it certainly is very hot in Europe and the Midwest, it is relatively cool elsewhere. The unfortunate reality for Biden’s planned exploitation is that today’s average global temperature per the University of Maine is a mere 0.2C warmer than the average from 1979-2000. It’s called “global warming,†and yet there’s really not much of that occurring.
We also know that heat waves are not associated with carbon dioxide emissions. The frequency and intensity of heat waves has dramatically declined in the U.S. over the past 100 years despite ever-rising emissions, per the National Climate Assessment conducted by the Obama-Biden administration.
Carrying on with my question of yesterday, IMO claiming that the record high temperature being experienced across Europe is “natural variability” is weak in any but the most general sense. The temperatures they’re seeing are from 2-3°C above previously recorded highs.
I’m a bit disappointed that nobody is mentioning other possibilities like
- The unusual La Niña pattern
- The extraordinary sunspot activity
It could be global climate change but there are other possibilities, too, and I’m not sure how you’d go about determining the cause definitively. There’s a lot we don’t know about the weather.
Climate change means we are statistically more likely to have these kind of highs but you cant prove any particular high is due to climate change. Anyway, one of the things I have noticed that hacks like these guys do is cite stuff assuming no one will actually read the references. Here is what his source says.
“Annual average temperature over the contiguous United States has increased by 1.2°F (0.7°C) for the period 1986–2016 relative to 1901–1960 and by 1.8°F (1.0°C) based on a linear regression for the period 1895–2016 (very high confidence). Surface and satellite data are consistent in their depiction of rapid warming since 1979 ”
Steve
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/18/biden-climate-emergency-manchin/
Yet another publication reporting the pressure Biden is getting to declare a “Climate Emergency.†However, a NYT poll shows people have little interest in climate issues, with only 1% rating it as important. 3% of Dems and 3% of ages 18-30 also have a milquetoast interest in climate. But, the political left keeps clamoring to force people into the economy-killing Green New Deal or else……in the meantime the public is focused on the day to day problems effecting their lives, rather than ideological ones to appease the progressives.
More details on double jet stream if you didnt read it yet.
Steve
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31432-y
The key paragraph is this one: