Fox News, New York Post advance Trump's false claim that this is "coldest winter ever"
Both Fox News and the New York Post advanced Donald Trump's false claim that this is the "coldest winter ever." In fact, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), global land and ocean surface temperature for December 2009 was the eighth warmest on record, and January was the fourth warmest on record.
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Fox & Friends, New York Post advance Trump's false claim that this is the "coldest winter on record"
NY Post uncritically quoted Trump saying "the coldest winter ever recorded." On February 14, the New York Post reported that "Donald Trump is not a big believer in global warming" and quoted from Trump's speech in front of the Trump National Golf Club. From the New York Post:
Donald Trump is not a big believer in global warming. "With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore," the tycoon told members of his Trump National Golf Club in Westchester in a recent speech. "Gore wants us to clean up our factories and plants in order to protect us from global warming, when China and other countries couldn't care less. It would make us totally noncompetitive in the manufacturing world, and China, Japan and India are laughing at America's stupidity." The crowd of 500 stood up and cheered.
On Fox & Friends, Trump again claimed "we're having the coldest winter ever." On the February 19 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy asked, "Hey, what global warming? Remember the weather outside? Well, Al Gore's prize theory called into question after the harshest winters on record." Trump claimed, "You have the Nobel Prize going to Al Gore; we're having the coldest winter ever." He also claimed that "New York is warm compared to Europe. I have friends over there. They say the coldest they've ever remembered." Doocy claimed that "people close to Al Gore and part of that movement say, 'Look, people are saying it's a cold winter; weather ... isn't the same as climate.' " Trump responded by saying, "Well, they always have an answer, and they always say, you know, then you -- then they get caught sending emails around talking about it as being a big con from the big scientists."
Fox chyron during Trump interview: "Coldest Winter on Record." During the interview, the following on-screen graphic aired:
In fact, global temperatures so far this winter are some of the highest on record
NOAA: December 2009 was the eighth warmest on record. According to NOAA, "The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for December 2009 was 0.49°C (0.88°F) above the 20th century average of 12.2°C (54.0°F). This is the eighth warmest December on record." From NOAA:
NOAA: January 2010 was the fourth warmest on record. According to NOAA, "The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for January 2010 was 0.60°C (1.08°F) above the 20th century average of 12.0°C (53.6°F). This is the fourth warmest January on record." From NOAA:
Think Progress: "Following the hottest decade on record," we are in the "hottest winter" and "January was one of the hottest Januaries on record for the planet." In a February 16 post, Think Progress responded to Trump's National Golf Club speech by noting, in part, that "[f]ollowing the hottest decade on record, we are now in the hottest winter in the satellite record, and this past January was one of the hottest Januaries on record for the planet."
And about that thing on your head, if I might quote the Dude, "Nice marmot".
Now, I am not convinced that global warming is entirely human caused. I am, however, convinced that it is happening, and I suspect that it is at the very least exacerbated by humans - and tragically in a way that is entirely solvable. As good stewards of our planet, we as a species need to work to mitigate and eventually eliminate our warming influence on the planet.
I should turn you in for cruelty to animals as well, considering that poor squirrel superglued to your head, but I'll let you off with a warning just this once.
Tell it to these guys.
If the temperature is too high, say 40ºf, then there can't be snow. Likewise, air that is too cold, say 20ºf, means there also likely won't be any snow. Temperature and air pressure and humidity all have to be balanced just right for snow to occur.
In all of those clips, and I followed links to previous stories too, and not once did I see anyone claim that these weather events PROVED global warming.
Look at all your highlighted Pielke quotes:
The first two, do not support the conclusion he drew. And go back and reread the whole section that you quoted. Pielke doesn't refute AGW - he consistently supports it. He disagrees with some of the details other scientists have put forth and he thinks too much emphasis is placed on CO2 to the exclusion of other anthropogenic causes. He also prefers the Ocean Heat Content as a measure of warming over land based models.
These scientific differences are normal and are a part of why science as a whole works so well. You posted some rants by Pielke trying to claim he was being shut out and then resigning when no one fawned over him, but oops, here he is publishing papers. Not shut out, just not working with other people with whom he obviously wasn't meshing with on a personal level if one missing e-mail could send him into conniptions.
Poor guy. Rational inquiry and Fox are like matter and anti-matter. I just hope I can distract him from the spectacle before his head explodes.
Your time as a climatologist is over!
You're FIRED!
And to make your fancy charts you put your temperature sensors next to a trash burning barrel.
A storage barrel with a smoke stack, good one!
The temperature readings are minimum maximum. It can go maximum for one minute and that number is registered for the whole day.
The excuse that the readings can magically be adjusted is horse poop.
Thanks for showing everyone how poor your reading comprehension is.
Above is what I wrote. Below is what you read.
"A storage barrel with a smoke stack, good one."
...But seriously, if they were burning trash next to a data-gathering device, wouldn't it show a fluctuation of dozens of degrees? Wouldn't global weather data conclude that, I dunno, humanity has long since died due to extreme unworldly temperature?
Go away or I will call ICE.
There are a couple of different classifications for how much a previously-existing temperature recording station might be affected by newly-added things, like parking lots or air conditioning units or buildings.
I know that you weren't asking a 'serious' question above.
We can all relate to it.
Matters as much as anyones heating bill this year, my state's January was the hotest on record.
Sitting here quietly playing my Webbly-Vickors zither/sitar.
"If you are beginning to doubt what I am saying...you are probably...hallucinating."
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And look at Europe. Looks like global warming is really acting up all over the Northern Hemisphere.
I cant handle all this global warming. 34 inches in the last snowstorm.
It's about climate change, earth catastrophes and our planet as we lives in.
Recent Earth catastrophes - Continental Drift: One huge continent became 2 continents, then 5 (or 6) and then?
Thank you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7I_eFoIk64
Please watch my video.
It's about climate change, earth catastrophe and our planet as we lives in.
Recent Earth catastrophes, it's about Earth Changes - Continental Drift: One huge continent became 2 continents,
then 5 (or 6) and then?
Thank you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7I_eFoIk64