Comments on: Blame Climate Change for Increasingly Extreme Summers, Says Leading Climatologist

By: Daniel J. Andrews

Daniel J. Andrews — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:25:43 +0000

We have weather cycles which our scientists chose to ignore in their ignorance of long time history look at the ice ages.

Erhm….no. That is like saying scientists ignore the gravitational effects of the sun when sending a probe to Mars. A ten second google search should enlighten you. See AMO, El Nino/Nina phases, Milankovitch cycles, just for starters. If you’re feeling brave, check out Raymond Bradley’s Paleoclimatology textbook.

Incidentally, based on the rest of your post, I’d recommend you not rely on wherever you’ve been getting your information. It is making you look very foolish. If you wish to remedy that start here: http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.htm

By: Daniel J. Andrews

Daniel J. Andrews — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:10:09 +0000

Clark…solar activity has declined and was stuck in an extended minimum yet temps still increased.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming.htm (basic version, be sure to click on Intermediate for more info).

Incidentally, why would you call Hansen, a man with numerous scientific achievement awards and a history of being right before most others joined him, a pseudo-scientific nitwit? Especially when your post has two factual errors, one strawman argument and demonstrates you lack credentials to distinguish between science and pseudo-science.

By: Clark Griswold

Clark Griswold — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:32:36 +0000

And the climate groupies that made pseudo-scientific nitwits like Hansen what he is never mention the influence that the emerging solar maximum certainly has on these trends.

Remember, Warmists, when temps go down, it’s weather. But when they go up, well, that’s climate!

By: Veronique Greenwood

Veronique Greenwood — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:39:51 +0000

@Tony, don’t forget this one: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=national-academy-as-national-enquirer

By: Pete1215

Pete1215 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:45:30 +0000

It should be noted that we are at the start of a journey. Since global warming is for real, things will most likely get worse.

By: Tony Mach

Tony Mach — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:49:39 +0000

This would be a lot more impressive if PNAS would do proper peer reviews.

http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2011/05/05/xmrv-and-chronic-fatigue-syndr-21/
http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2011/12/26/xmrv-and-chronic-fatigue-syndr-33/
http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2011/07/20/xmrv-evilution-its-more-than-j/
http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2010/08/23/xmrv-and-chronic-fatigue-syndr-16/

And even then…

By: Ralph Lockhart

Ralph Lockhart — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 01:29:23 +0000

It shouldn’t be surprising that a change in climate may be underway on an earth several billion years old with a known history of changes ranging from ice-ages to extreme heat and arid winds. But a comparison of 30 years is fundamentally meaningless, especially if the conclusion is that any changes in that period can be attributed to man!

By: Jose

Jose — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:30:38 +0000

Hurricanes dissipate a lot of energy and there hasn’t been anything of significance so far this year. That is going to responsible for some of the heat waves.

By: arrowrod

arrowrod — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:26:23 +0000

Darn. I was going to have a picnic.

Who pays these peoples salaries? At least they should have put some complicated calculus equations in the paper, with some fractal formulas. Then the critics would have been impressed, because nobody reviews the math.

By: aedge

aedge — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:18:49 +0000

Funny thing is that while we are having quote record heat no one ever seems to notice it goes in cycles. And actually in the 1970′s it we had a couple of blistering summers hotter than this year followed unusual wetness.

We have weather cycles which our scientists chose to ignore in their ignorance of long time history look at the ice ages. The cyclic volcanic periods! Man may have sped up the cycles but no matter what they say we can not slow it or reduce it without massive die offs in populations! In the past disease, plagues, etc. reduced the populations when they became to large!