Flat Temperatures, Still More Ills
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 5, 2014“When the history of the global warming scare comes to be written, a chapter should be devoted to the way the message had to be altered to keep the show on the road. Global warming became climate change so as to be able to take the blame for cold spells and wet seasons as well as hot days. Then, to keep its options open, the movement began to talk about ‘extreme weather’.”
– Matt Ridley, “Nobody Even Calls the Weather Average,” July 9, 2013.
Last summer, global warming was blamed for firefighter deaths, more thunderstorms, and poor lobster catches.
Last fall and so far this winter, the list has grown to include:
- Trillions of dollars of storm-surge flooding
- Bigger snowfalls
- Future Winter Olympics cancellations
- Drying Great Lakes
- Increased severe U.S. thunderstorms
- Less fall coloring
- Devastated ocean fisherman: ‘Sometimes We’ll Catch 5,000 Pounds Of Jellyfish’
- Aggressive hornets
- Christmas Island red crab migration
- Depletion of Caribbean fresh water supply
- Stockholm, Sweden heat deaths
- Worse Lake Erie algae blooms
- More polar bear attacks
- Destroyed Lavender (Haute-Provence)
- Wild pigs rampage
- Snowy Owl invasion
- Threatened Costa Rica banana industry
- Starfish disintegration
- Syrian Uprising; future conflict
- Prospective Texas fish deaths
A cartoon illustrates the hilarity of the ever-expanding, often contradictory list:
IPCC via Borenstein: Everything Worsens!
Several months ago, Seth Borenstein in the Huffington Post described how a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that climate change (man-made climate change) will MAKE EVERYTHING WORSE!
He begins:
Many of the ills of the modern world — starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease — are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts.
The report uses the word “exacerbate” repeatedly to describe warming’s effect on poverty, lack of water, disease and even the causes of war.
Ills Aplenty
The ill-list above adds to a master list compiled (see my February 2010 post) by Number Watch (UK), a depot for “all about the scares, scams, junk, panics, and flummery cooked up by the media, politicians, bureaucrats, so-called scientists and others who try to confuse you with wrong numbers.”
This site interprets the climate-change movement as eco-theology. It explains:
Children are having nightmares about their carbon footprint. What a pretty pass modern man has brought himself to! Frightening children with scary stories about hell fire is the way our ancestors drilled society into conformity. It might have been hoped that the age of science would bring all that to an end, but now we have entered the post-scientific age, in which a new class of high priest returns to the traditional methods of enforcement.
So here is the list (of nearly 700), to which we must now add dozens more:
Acne, agricultural land increase, Afghan poppies destroyed, poppies more potent, Africa devastated, Africa in conflict, African aid threatened, African summer frost, aggressive weeds, Air France crash, air pressure changes, airport malaria, Agulhas current, Al Qaeda and Taliban Being Helped, allergy season longer, alligators in the Thames, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end, amphibians breeding earlier (or not), anaphylactic reactions to bee stings, ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills, animals shrink, Antarctic grass flourishes, Antarctic ice grows, Antarctic ice shrinks, Antarctic sea life at risk, anxiety treatment, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic ice free, Arctic ice melt faster, Arctic lakes disappear, Arctic tundra lost, Arctic warming (not), asthma, Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty, atmospheric circulation modified, attack of the killer jellyfish, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased,
Baghdad snow,Bahrain under water, bananas grow, barbarization, beer and bread prices to soar, beer better, beer worse, beetle infestation, bet for $10,000, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billion homeless,billions face risk, billions of deaths, bird distributions change, bird loss accelerating, bird strikes, bird visitors drop, birds confused, birds decline (Wales), birds driven north, birds face longer migrations, birds return early, birds shrink, bittern boom ends, blackbirds stop singing, blackbirds threatened, Black Hawk down, blood contaminated, blue mussels return, bluetongue, brain eating amoebae, brains shrink,bridge collapse (Minneapolis), Britain one big city, Britain Siberian, British monsoon, brothels struggle, brown Ireland, bubonic plague, budget increases, Buddhist temple threatened, building collapse,building season extension, bushfires, butterflies move north,
carbon crimes, camel deaths, cancer deaths in England, cannibalism, caterpillar biomass shift, cave paintings threatened, childhood insomnia,Cholera, circumcision in decline, cirrus disappearance, civil unrest, cloud increase, coast beauty spots lost, cockroach migration, cod go south, coffee threatened, coffee berry borer, coffee berry disease,cold climate creatures survive, cold spells (Australia), cold wave (India), cold weather (world), computer models, conferences, conflict, conflict with Russia, consumers foot the bill, coral bleaching, coral fish suffer, coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink , coral reefs twilight, cost of trillions, cougar attacks, crabgrass menace, cradle of civilization threatened, creatures move uphill, crime increase,crocodile sex, crops devastated, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, curriculum change, cyclones (Australia),
danger to kid’s health, Darfur, Dartford Warbler plague, deadly virus outbreaks,death rate increase (US), deaths to reach 6 million, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, depression, desert advance, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, dig sites threatened, disasters, diseases move north, dog disease, Dolomites collapse, dozen deadly diseases – or not, drought, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt,
earlier pollen season, Earth axis tilt, Earth biodiversity crisis, Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming, Earth lopsided, Earth melting, Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth past point of no return, Earth slowing down, Earth spins faster, Earth to explode,earth upside down, earthquakes, earthquakes redux, El Niño intensification, end of the world as we know it, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis, English villages lost, equality threatened, Europe simultaneously baking and freezing, eutrophication, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, (human, civilization, logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod, pikas, polar bears, possums, walrus, toads, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, a million species, half of all animal and plant species, mountain species, not polar bears, barrier reef, leaches, salamanders, tropical insects), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California,
fading fall foliage, fainting, famine, farmers benefit, farmers go under, farm output boost, fashion disaster, fever, figurehead sacked, fir cone bonanza,fires fanned in Nepal, fish bigger, fish catches drop, fish downsize, fish deaf, fish get lost, fish head north, fish shrinking, fish stocks at risk, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, flesh eating disease, flies on Everest, flood patterns change, floods, floods of beaches and cities, flood of migrants, flood preparation for crisis, flora dispersed, Florida economic decline, flowers in peril, food poisoning, food prices rise,food prices soar, food security threat (SA), football team migration, forest decline, forest expansion, frog with extra heads, frostbite, frost damage increased, fungi fruitful, fungi invasion,
games change,Garden of Eden wilts, geese decline in Hampshire, genetic diversity decline, gene pools slashed, geysers imperiled, giant icebergs (Australia), giant oysters invade, giant pythons invade, giant squid migrate,gingerbread houses collapse, glacial earthquakes, glacial retreat, glacier grows (California), glaciers on Snowden, glacier wrapped, global cooling, glowing clouds, golf course to drown, golf Masters wrecked, grain output drop (China), grandstanding, grasslands wetter, gravity shift, Great Barrier Reef 95% dead, Great Lakes drop, great tits cope, greening of the North, Grey whales lose weight, Gulf Stream failure,
habitat loss, haggis threatened, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, health affected, health of children harmed, health risks, heart disease,heart attacks and strokes (Australia), heat waves, hibernation affected, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, homeless 50 million, hornets, human development faces unprecedented reversal,human fertility reduced, human health risk, human race oblivion, hurricanes, hurricane reduction, hurricanes fewer, hurricanes not, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths,
ice age, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, icebergs, illness and death, inclement weather, India drowning, infrastructure failure (Canada), industry threatened, infectious diseases, inflation in China, insect explosion, insect invasion,insurance premium rises, Inuit displacement, Inuit poisoned, Inuit suing, invasion of alien worms, invasion of cats, invasion of crabgrass, invasion of herons, invasion of jellyfish, invasion of king crabs, invasion of midges, island disappears, islands sinking, Italy robbed of pasta, itchier poison ivy,
jellyfish explosion, jets fall from sky,
Kew Gardens taxed, kidney stones, killer cornflakes, killing us, kitten boom, koalas under threat, krill decline,
lake and stream productivity decline, lake empties, lake shrinking and growing, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, large trees decline, lawsuits increase, lawsuit successful, lawyers’ income increased (surprise surprise!), lawyers want more, legionnaires’ surge, lives saved, Loch Ness monster dead, locust plagues suppressed, lush growth in rain forests,
Malaria, mammoth dung melt, mango harvest fails, Maple production advanced, Maple syrup shortage, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, Meaching (end of the world), Meat eating to stop, Mediterranean rises,megacryometeors, Melanoma, Melanoma decline, methane emissions from plants, methane burps, methane runaway, melting permafrost, Middle Kingdom convulses, migration, migratory birds huge losses,microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, minorities hit, monkeys at risk, monkeys on the move, Mont Blanc grows, monuments imperiled, moose dying, more bad air days, more research needed, mortality increased, mountain (Everest) shrinking, mountaineers fears, mountains break up, mountains green and flowering, mountains taller, mortality lower, Myanmar cyclone,
narwhals at risk,National Parks damaged, National security implications, native wildlife overwhelmed, natural disasters quadruple, new islands, next ice age, NFL threatened, Nile delta damaged, noctilucent clouds, no effect in India, Northwest Passage opened, nuclear plants bloom,
oaks dying, oaks move north, ocean acidification, ocean acidification faster, ocean dead spots, ocean dead zones unleashed, ocean deserts expand, ocean waves speed up, Olympic Games to end, opera house to be destroyed, outdoor hockey threatened, ozone repair slowed, ozone rise,
penguin chicks frozen, penguin chicks smaller, personal carbon rationing, pest outbreaks, pests increase, phenology shifts, pines decline, plankton blooms, plants lose protein, plants march north, plants move uphill, polar bears aggressive, polar bears deaf, polar bears drowning, polar tours scrapped, popcorn rise, porpoise astray, profits collapse, psychiatric illness, puffin decline, pushes poor women into prostitution,
rabid bats, radars taken out, railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rape wave, refugees, reindeer endangered, release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, rice threatened, rice yields crash, rift on Capitol Hill, rioting and nuclear war, river flow impacted, rivers raised, roads wear out, robins rampant, rocky peaks crack apart, roof of the world a desert, rooftop bars, Ross river disease, ruins ruined, Russia under pressure, salinity reduction,
salinity increase, Salmonella, salmon stronger, satellites accelerate, school closures, sea level rise, sea level rise faster, seals mating more, seismic activity, sewer bills rise, severe thunderstorms, sex change,sexual promiscuity, shark attacks, sharks booming, sharks moving north, sheep shrink, shop closures, short-nosed dogs endangered, shrinking ponds, shrinking sheep, shrinking shrine, Sidney Opera House wiped out, ski resorts threatened, slow death, smaller brains, smog, snowfall decrease, snowfall increase, snowfall heavy, snow thicker, soaring food prices, societal collapse, soil change, songbirds change eating habits, sour grapes, space problem, spectacular orchids, spiders getting bigger, spiders invade Scotland, squid larger, squid population explosion, squid tamed, squirrels reproduce earlier, stingray invasion, storms wetter, street crime to increase, subsidence, suicide, swordfish in the Baltic,
Tabasco tragedy, taxes, tectonic plate movement, terrorists (India), threat to peace, ticks move northward (Sweden), tides rise, tigers eat people, tomatoes rot, tornado outbreak, tourism increase, toxic seaweed, trade barriers, trade winds weakened, traffic jams, transportation threatened, tree foliage increase (UK), tree growth slowed, trees in trouble, trees less colorful, trees more colorful, trees lush, tropics expansion, tropopause raised, truffle shortage, truffles down, turtles crash, turtle feminized, turtles lay earlier,
UFO sightings, UK coastal impact, UK Katrina,
Vampire moths, Venice flooded, violin decline, volcanic eruptions,
walrus pups orphaned, walrus stampede, wars over water, wars sparked, wars threaten billions, wasps, water bills double, water scarcity (20% of increase), waves bigger, weather out of its mind, weather patterns awry, Western aid cancelled out, West Nile fever, whale beachings,whales lose weight, whales move north, wheat yields crushed in Australia, wildfires, wind shift, wind reduced, winds stronger, winds weaker, wine – Australian baked, wine – harm to Australian industry,wine industry damage (California), wine industry disaster (US), wine – more English, wine – England too hot, wine -German boon, wine – no more French , wine passé (Napa), wine – Scotland best, wine stronger, winters in Britain colder, winter in Britain dead, witchcraft executions, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, workers laid off, World at war, World War 4, World bankruptcy, World in crisis,World in flames,
The Dead Link List
Africa hit hardest, Alaska reshaped, allergies increase, anxiety, Arctic tundra to burn, atmospheric defiance,
bananas destroyed, beer shortage, blizzards, boredom, business opportunities, business risks, British gardens change,
cardiac arrest, cataracts, challenges and opportunities, cloud stripping, cold spells, cremation to end,
damages equivalent to $200 billion, dermatitis, desert life threatened, diarrhoea,disappearance of coastal cities, drowning people,
early marriages, early spring, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, extinctions (bats, ladybirds, pandas, pigmy possums, koalas, turtles, orangutan, elephants, tigers, gorillas, whales, frogs, penguins,)
fish catches rise, flames stoked, footpath erosion, frosts,
glacial growth, global dimming, god melts, Gore omnipresence,
harmful algae, hazardous waste sites breached, high court debates, HIV epidemic, human health improvement,
ice shelf collapse, lightning related insurance claims, little response in the atmosphere,
malnutrition, marine dead zone, Maple production advanced, mental illness (Alberta), migration difficult (birds), mountains melting, mudslides,
oceans noisier, oblivion, oyster diseases, ozone loss,
Pacific dead zone, plankton destabilized, plankton loss, plant viruses, polar bears cannibalistic, polar bears starve, psychosocial disturbances,
rainfall reduction, reindeer larger, riches, rivers dry up, rockfalls,
shrimp sex problems, skin cancer, snowfall reduction, squid aggressive giants, stick insects, stormwater drains stressed,
teenage drinking, terrorism, tree beetle attacks, trees could return to Antarctic, tree growth increased, tsunamis, tundra plant life boost,
walrus displaced, war, war between US and Canada, water stress, water supply unreliability, weeds, whales wiped out, white Christmas dream ends.
Oh, here’s one I found from this morning: “Heat-related deaths will rise 257% by 2050 because of climate change.”
And here is the latest from ‘The Warmlist”
You know global warming is a fraud by the behavior of the AGW true believers. They claim they can predict the future and control the climate. When you ask for some examples where they have successfully done this, they call you names.
The article by Seth Borenstein last October escaped me for I would have made comment. Borenstein wrote, “Many of the ills of the modern world — starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease — are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts.”
How dumb can climate alarmists be? Have they not heard of the “Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse”. All disasters cited have been part of all written human history. Modern society has tamed these disasters by use of our abundant fossil fuels. The alarmists want to go back to pre-industrial revolution times that will make climate disasters more dangerous.
James H. Rust, Professor
[…] Read more at Master Resource. By Robert Bradley Jr. […]
It is amazing to me that so many scientists have produced papers that conclude that the effects that they observed are solely caused by global warming. One reason is that in their proposals to the government agencies and university foundations researchers seek to find a connection with some observed environmental effect and climate in order to obtain and to maintain financial support. Naturally if one proposes that climate has an effect there is a strong pressure to find one. While this blindness in observations may not be an overt desire by the researcher, it affects their open minded and skeptical assessment of their results that could include other causes for the observed change or effect. Not looking for other causes for observed environmental effects is a blindness that has affected the climate research area for the 20 years. The list above explains why zealot researchers find conflicting effects from the same change in climate. In fact the IPCC scientists in the AR5 report this year were blinded by political motives and refused to consider any other causes for a global temperature increases other by CO2 in the atmosphere. They were 90% certain.
Climate science is not like chemistry or physics in which an experiment can be run to validate a theory by observing how well it fits the data. If need be, the experiment can be repeated to verify its reproducibility. In climate research, the experiment is uncontrolled because the observations are made over a period of months and years where the scientist is at the mercy of changes in the environmental conditions. Under these circumstances the observed effect is reported with little real certainty and the conclusions to the papers contain many may “bes”, could “bes” or should “bes” and few certain climate caused effects. Probably none of the observed effects due to global warming prove that CO2 is single cause of heating of the planet which has been heating up since 1880’s.
Hey, there is a broken link in this article, under the anchor text – expansion of university climate groups
Here is the working link so you can replace it – https://selectra.co.uk/sites/default/files/pdf/sideways.pdf