30 years of global cooling coming. And like all truly good theories, it's "big tent" enough to accommodate perceived global warming, and doesn't require any theological belief system that screams "kill the heretics". Imagine that.
(FWIW I think Dr. Latif is only halfway home. He still doesn't get that there isn't any real warming to speak of. But he's getting there.)
John Ringo, The Last Centurion, Chapter 21, Of Course We Fucking Looted:
Go back to the Global Warming thing. One of the things that was raised about why Global Warming was going to Destroy Civilization was that Storms Got Stronger.Uh, huh.
Maybe, maybe an argument for hurricanes. (I can argue ag'in it. And so would most paleoclimatologists and even hurricane experts.) But hurricanes don't affect most regions of the world. Very few, actually. Oh, they're big news in the U.S., but they don't hit most parts of the world, period.
Cold fronts do, though. And warm fronts. And they can be pretty fucking powerful. See "Storm of the Century." Well, it might have been for the 20th Century, but in the 21st we've learned a whole new definition.
Why?
Meteorology 101. "Storms are governed by differences in temperature between the polar regions and the tropics."
Global Warming would have meant warmer temperatures in the polar regions and pretty much the same in tropical regions.
Global Cooling meant much colder temperatures in the polar regions and pretty much the same in the tropical regions.
Oops.
Jesus, you global warming twits. Use your fucking brains. Contrary to the "global climate change" priesthood, bad winters aren't evidence of "global warming", but warmer-than-normal summers could be evidence of cyclical climatic patterns in a world whose "average" temperature probably isn't really much higher than it was during what we think of as the Little Ice Age. We were in the down side of the cycle when I was in high school (late 70's) and 30 years later we're heading back into the down cycle again.
How hard is this to assimilate? Sometimes it's hot and sometimes it's cold. Get with the program, already.
