By In my last posting I mentioned the scaremongering in the New York Times in regards to global warming causing heavier rains, and not long after posting that article I read this:
2006:
Global warming is intensifying the monsoon in Central India, according to a study that warns of increasing risk from heavier rains during the season.
2009:
Each year, millions of farmers in India hope and pray for the right kind of monsoon rains to help grow their crops. But it’s believed climate change is delaying the onset of the monsoon - threatening crops and pushing up the prices of basic foods. . [Andrew Bolt]
So which is it?
3:11 am on July 19th, 2009 1
Both you genius, just because you delay the onset of Monsoons doesn't mean that they arent happening and heavier then ever. Part of the problem with agriculture is that you need a perfect storm. So if you start the process expecting rain in 3-4 weeks and it doesn't rain for 2-3 months then yeah you are gonna eventually start to pray for rain.
6:45 pm on July 19th, 2009 2
The whole "Global Warming" is like a new religion.
It doesn't have solid science to back it up but if you dare question it in any way, you'll be like the only Jewish guy caught in the Rabbi suit in the middle of Seville in broad daylight during the Spanish inquisition.
When people see some kind of weather anomaly (basically less than favorable weather conditions) it's now attributed to Global Warming and it is due to our sins of being irresponsible towards mother Earth.
6:58 pm on July 19th, 2009 3
Global Warming/Climate Change may be debatable but I'm guessing we'll know one way or another in a few years. If the climate is basically unchanged in 5 years people will discard the notion. However, if the opposite happens…
9:49 pm on July 19th, 2009 4
A change over 5 years is NOT a change in climate. That's a change in weather patterns and it should not surprise you that weather constantly changes.
Climate is usually something that is what you generally expect and it's usually meaning "it's been that way for the past fifty or odd years" sort of thing. Not "last year, it rained like crazy here. The climate here is different now," which is what a lot of environmentalists like you to believe.
Nature is far more complicated than we give it credit for.
And as for those computer models… it shows what will happen according to the parameters, laws and data we give it. It's not some kind of Oracle of truth. If our approach and understanding of Global Warming (I'm calling it that because people now call it "climate change" because a lot of folks are realizing that the whole Global Warming thing was getting far too difficult to prove, but they're using it in the same way and for the same purpose) is flawed, then the model will also be flawed.
1:54 pm on July 25th, 2009 5
Global Warming is way worse then we thought!
http://www.newsweek.com/id/208164