@P.G.Sharrow:
Ah, yes. My home town is just downhill from Paradise (in the warmer valley floor). As I used to say to folks “Just another normal August… 110 in the shade and there ain’t no shade…”
@John F. Hultquist:
Would be interesting to document if the airport is regularly a few degrees hotter than the ‘riparian’ area just 5 miles away…
The “precursor” event was, IMHO, the book “The Limits To Growth” by Meadows et. al. published in the late ’60s or early ’70s. Promoted by The Club Of Rome (who also bring you AGW Scare) it used computer models to predict Doom In Our Time via running out of basically everything and then preaching that we needed to stop using everything… ( Did you know the world ran out of natural gas in 1980? The computer said so…) Sound familiar?
As it was being “pushed” about the time he was being indoctrinated… well…
Not a big leap to “lets make other computer models showing how people are destroying the planet”…
@Pascvaks:
Interesting pattern on that graphic. Wet and dry spots are about 180 degrees out of phase around the planet. Central Russia vs Canada. Australia vs Brazil / S.America. USA vs China.
Looks like a simple “what one loses the one on the other side gets”… (With a couple of ‘missing spots’ due to the “mate” being in the middle of the ocean and thus not on the map).
It’s the oversupply of “Hansens” that’s the problem… not any undersupply of “Chiefios”… that, and they have control of the Peer Review filter…
@Punmaster:
Yeah. I was all set to have an ‘End Of The World As You Know It” party and had to cancel ;-)
@Adolfo:
Generally, yes. But there is the added bit that during cold PDO phase, we get more ‘meridional’ flow (loopy jet stream). That makes California cold and dry and the US Midwest hot and dry (as the Mexican Desert air wanders up over Texas et. al. instead of wet gulf air / rain).
So there are some “which way the loop goes” effects to add in. Like Europe being cold and wet this year from a loop of polar air drooping over them, while Russia was hot and dry from air going the other way.
Still, overall, less energy into the ocean surface means less water out of it… so more overall drought.
@Gösta Oscarsson:
That was a bother to me, too. Until the Climategate Emails showed that the Warmers had a grip on the throat of the Peer Review Process… So not a lot of “There is no warming” papers could be published.
That is starting to loosen up now. Some of the worst offender journals are now known, and folks are going to “lesser known” journals and getting published. (While the reputation of some of those “more known” journals is headed rapidly to Crap City… PNAS now gives me an ‘oh God, that crap again’ moment when I see it in a citation. I hear a new name for it echo in my brain “Post Normal Almost Science”… )
There are also a lot more scientists just putting up their complaints in blog form. Now that they know “the review is rigged” they are bypassing it with some of the “issues”. In this case, with the crap paper from Hansen, there’s been a half dozen withering criticisms out in about a week. Hansen and his publisher both looking very foolish.
