TANJ - Al Roker Blames Joplin Tornado on Global Warming
Timothy Birdnow
Sometimes I despair of this world; the most ignorant people seem to rise to the top, a sort of reverse cream effect. Take, for instance, Al Roker...
Somebody please take Al Roker - as in away in a straightjacket.
The likable television meteorologist from the Today Show has blamed the recent spate of tornadoes on, drumroll please, Global Warming!
http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/23/nbcs-al-roker-climate-change-bringing-tornadoes-to-urban-areas/
Now, Mr. Roker is a meteorologist (a profession far more skeptical of "climate change" than their climatological cousins) and should know better. Tornadoes are not caused by warm air but by cold air, and in this instance by La Nina spinning cold air off the Pacific. If one wishes to blame climate change in any capacity one can say it is global cooling, not warming, that is the cause of these tornado strikes. Be that as it may, Roker surely must understand that a strong La Nina cannot be construed as proof that the globe is warming.
The reality is, there has been no statistical warming since 1995, and even if one wants to claim that the cold air is meeting unusually warm air the case cannot be made. What case can be made is we are at the peak of a 40 year cycle, and that this seems unusual to us because we have gotten used to a quiet tornadic season; the last fifty years have been very quiet, while humans have been busily building up areas that would have been rural backwaters. Naturally we are seeing high death tolls, because we have more people in the path of these storms.
Global Warming fails as a theory; the projected hot spot in the troposphere is not there (and all models require this), the oceans are not really heating up, the planetary ice balance is not down (yes, it's down some places and up in others), the oceans actually DROPPED last year, and we have not witnessed any long term increase in the rate of sea level rise. That all the measurable metrics have paused cannot be accounted for by CO2 as the primary forcing. We also now know that the temperature record is horribly corrupted. There has been purposeful manipulations by insiders of the data sets (CRU).
Roker should know this.
Roker should also know that coincidence is not causality, and that weather is not climate. Astrophysicist Piers Corbyn predicted this very spate of tornadoes based on solar activity:
http://www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=347&c=5
"MAJOR TORNADO OUTBREAK: NWS ISSUED OVER 110 TORNADO WARNINGS SO FAR TODAY; OVER 45 TORNADO REPORTS **OVER 30 REPORTED DEATHS**
75% #Joplin Destroyed http://t.co/96xmJ1w in 4th #tornado swarm of year.
Piers Corbyn, astrophysicist of WeatherAction.com said: "May's tornado count was below normal up to this date so we are very pleased with this dramatic confirmation of our explicitly forecasted dangerous and tornado swarm which has come in the regions we predicted when we said to within a Day. This continues our 100% success rate in EXTREME EVENT / tornado USA warnings in April and May which is so far 11/11 (7/7 for April* & 4/4 for May so far). We successfully predicted all 4 of the major tornado outbreaks / swarms so far this season.
Our sympathies go to all those who have suffered in this dangerous deadly outbreak and hope that in future the Authorities can use our forecasts to be better prepared for such dangerous weather events.
* See http://www.weatheraction.com/docs/WANews11No7.pdf & bit.ly/mMXcEm (for Earthquakes)"
End excerpt.
This was not based on increases in greenhouse gases, mind you, but observations of the sun. The sun is the principle forcing of the climate. Surely Roker understands that?
Apparently not.
On the Martin Bushir show, Roker:
"Roker also offered a theory on why tornadoes are seemingly touching down in more urban areas as of late. His answer: Climate change.
“And you know look – yesterday, or the day before yesterday, we had the tornado in Minneapolis,” Roker said. “We have had these tornadoes and earlier this week we had a tornado in Philadelphia. And so, you know our weather, or climate change is such now that we are seeing this kind of weather not just in rural parts of our country, but in urban centers as well.”'
End excerpt.
And this fellow is on national television as a meteorologist?
Science fiction writer Larry Niven coined a term for it TANJ or There Ain't No Justice. It applies here; Roker should be doing readings at weather stations or filing data in some backwater office, not misinforming millions of people.
TANJ is right!
Sometimes I despair of this world; the most ignorant people seem to rise to the top, a sort of reverse cream effect. Take, for instance, Al Roker...
Somebody please take Al Roker - as in away in a straightjacket.
The likable television meteorologist from the Today Show has blamed the recent spate of tornadoes on, drumroll please, Global Warming!
http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/23/nbcs-al-roker-climate-change-bringing-tornadoes-to-urban-areas/
Now, Mr. Roker is a meteorologist (a profession far more skeptical of "climate change" than their climatological cousins) and should know better. Tornadoes are not caused by warm air but by cold air, and in this instance by La Nina spinning cold air off the Pacific. If one wishes to blame climate change in any capacity one can say it is global cooling, not warming, that is the cause of these tornado strikes. Be that as it may, Roker surely must understand that a strong La Nina cannot be construed as proof that the globe is warming.
The reality is, there has been no statistical warming since 1995, and even if one wants to claim that the cold air is meeting unusually warm air the case cannot be made. What case can be made is we are at the peak of a 40 year cycle, and that this seems unusual to us because we have gotten used to a quiet tornadic season; the last fifty years have been very quiet, while humans have been busily building up areas that would have been rural backwaters. Naturally we are seeing high death tolls, because we have more people in the path of these storms.
Global Warming fails as a theory; the projected hot spot in the troposphere is not there (and all models require this), the oceans are not really heating up, the planetary ice balance is not down (yes, it's down some places and up in others), the oceans actually DROPPED last year, and we have not witnessed any long term increase in the rate of sea level rise. That all the measurable metrics have paused cannot be accounted for by CO2 as the primary forcing. We also now know that the temperature record is horribly corrupted. There has been purposeful manipulations by insiders of the data sets (CRU).
Roker should know this.
Roker should also know that coincidence is not causality, and that weather is not climate. Astrophysicist Piers Corbyn predicted this very spate of tornadoes based on solar activity:
http://www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=347&c=5
"MAJOR TORNADO OUTBREAK: NWS ISSUED OVER 110 TORNADO WARNINGS SO FAR TODAY; OVER 45 TORNADO REPORTS **OVER 30 REPORTED DEATHS**
75% #Joplin Destroyed http://t.co/96xmJ1w in 4th #tornado swarm of year.
Piers Corbyn, astrophysicist of WeatherAction.com said: "May's tornado count was below normal up to this date so we are very pleased with this dramatic confirmation of our explicitly forecasted dangerous and tornado swarm which has come in the regions we predicted when we said to within a Day. This continues our 100% success rate in EXTREME EVENT / tornado USA warnings in April and May which is so far 11/11 (7/7 for April* & 4/4 for May so far). We successfully predicted all 4 of the major tornado outbreaks / swarms so far this season.
Our sympathies go to all those who have suffered in this dangerous deadly outbreak and hope that in future the Authorities can use our forecasts to be better prepared for such dangerous weather events.
* See http://www.weatheraction.com/docs/WANews11No7.pdf & bit.ly/mMXcEm (for Earthquakes)"
End excerpt.
This was not based on increases in greenhouse gases, mind you, but observations of the sun. The sun is the principle forcing of the climate. Surely Roker understands that?
Apparently not.
On the Martin Bushir show, Roker:
"Roker also offered a theory on why tornadoes are seemingly touching down in more urban areas as of late. His answer: Climate change.
“And you know look – yesterday, or the day before yesterday, we had the tornado in Minneapolis,” Roker said. “We have had these tornadoes and earlier this week we had a tornado in Philadelphia. And so, you know our weather, or climate change is such now that we are seeing this kind of weather not just in rural parts of our country, but in urban centers as well.”'
End excerpt.
And this fellow is on national television as a meteorologist?
Science fiction writer Larry Niven coined a term for it TANJ or There Ain't No Justice. It applies here; Roker should be doing readings at weather stations or filing data in some backwater office, not misinforming millions of people.
TANJ is right!
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 6:14 AM
2 Comments:
Everything is caused by global warming nowadays. Everything from solar flares to teenage acne, so why wouldn't people think that tornadoes are caused by global warming. Not many years ago insect infestations were caused by excess insecticide use, today its global warming. We used to beleive that reduced fish stocks were caused by over fishing, today its caused by global warming. In the old days nuclear power was evil, today nuclear power will save the planet and CO2 is now evil. No wonder no one listens to the greenies anymore, I don't know how they survive each day. Environmentalists are truly environ-mental.
Very true, Anonymous! They've even tried to blame earthqakes on Global Warming. EnvironMENTAL they are!
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