Dear Editor:
Whenever "climate realists" bring up record-breaking cold, below-average temperatures or even record snowfall, "climate alarmists" respond with, "A single event is weather not climate."
Bill Nye was reminded of this a few months ago by meteorologists when he blamed flooding in Texas on climate change. We've been hearing now how flooding in Louisiana is caused by climate change yet two research papers one from the University of Iowa and the other from a research team led by NOAA/GFDL's Karin van Der Wiel (I looked her up and couldn't find any big oil ties) disagree.
The first states "The stronger storms are not getting stronger" the second comes to the conclusion "no evidence was found for changes in extreme precipitation attributable to climate change in the available observed record." Despite this let's just go ahead and charge those poor flood victims a big ol'e CO2 tax and while we're at it let's pass legislation that will increase the price of the trucks and trailers delivering relief supplies to the victims.
As for as the 97 percent what exactly do they agree on, and how did they prove it?
A recent letter to the editor asked if "Low CO2 levels were a problem how could plants have survived for the last 800,000 years?" An analogy would be a person used to living at sea level all his life being taken to the top of a high mountain. He would have difficulty breathing yet would easily survive but he wouldn't be doing sprints. Once he gets back to the valley he will thrive again. The letter also mentioned Tyndall but did you know that Tyndall concluded (in 1859) that absorption of infrared by other gases is relatively small and water vapor was the principal gas controlling air temperature?
Published after the rebuttal to Qing-Bin Lu's paper there was an interesting article in Principia Scientific International titled: EPA Rebuttal CO2 Innocent, CFC's real Cause of Global Warming?. This article had some very interesting evidence on how water vapor, evaporation, particulates and gases affect climate.
When it comes to weather and climate, alarmists can't have their cake and eat it too. Just like record cold temps and freezing winters are weather events so are warm summers, droughts and flooding. When we look at the trending data climate change, as they present it, just isn't there.