Hillary blames Hermine on climate (What does she blame the recent lack of hurricanes on?)

What does she blame the recent lack of hurricanes on? The ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt?

Liar: Last week an Obama tweet blamed Hurricane Sandy and wildfires on climate change...

The dangers of extreme weather can be heartbreaking. It's time to #ActOnClimate. pic.twitter.com/hfGTXht97h
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) October 29, 2014

NOAA disagrees: (Accent is mine)

Concerning the issue of whether storms (Sandy and the nor’easter) are signals of the impact of climate change on extreme weather:

• No significant increase in Atlantic hurricanes since the late 1880s has been observed.

• The number of hurricanes that make U.S. landfall has not significantly increased or decreased.

• In the future, it is likely that global frequencies of tropical cyclones will either decrease or remain essentially the same as a result of projected greenhouse gas induced climate change, though rainfall rates related to such storms are likely to increase.

• There is low scientific confidence that overall storminess has changed, however, it is likely that there has been a human-induced increase in coastal extreme sea level events due to overall sea level rise.

Researchers a the highly respected CSU Department of Atmospheric Science disagree:

Researchers at Colorado State University say the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in October was not caused by human-induced climate change.
In a recently released paper discussing the unusual “super-storm” that devastated the New Jersey shore and flooded the New York City subway and a traffic tunnel, CSU researchers William Gray and Phil Klotzbach say the influence of human activity on the formation and intensity of Atlantic hurricanes “is likely to be negligible.”
“As extensive and tragic as Sandy’s spawned destruction has been, it is not beyond the range of what is known about the variability of rare but extreme cyclone events,” Gray and Klotzbach wrote.
The researchers acknowledge that human activity has led to an increase in carbon dioxide being released into the Earth’s atmosphere and an increase in average temperature. But Gray and Klotzbach do not think that has caused more frequent and powerful hurricanes to form.

As for the claim climate change is causing more wildfires, that is false too.  Data (1960 on right) from nifc.gov.

 

Dumb: Global Warming Nuts Want Hurricanes Named After Skeptics...

I would point out the is the Quietest Hurricane Season On Record To Date.

Shameful: Unions harassing non-union Hurricane Sandy clean-up crews...

Is there a good union anywhere in America anymore? 

Via Daily Caller:

Unionized local employees repeatedly harassed and intimidated non-union workers of a private disaster cleanup firm that won a government contract to restore Long Island, New York, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

The vice president of the union even made threats against the wife and kids of one of the workers. That worker felt it necessary to call the police and pursue other security measures to protect his family, a source told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

After Hurricane Sandy devastated the New York and New Jersey shoreline in late October, Looks Great Services (LGS) won a bid to haul away debris, clear roads, and remove damaged trees. New York’s Nassau County hired the company to complete $70 million worth of repairs.

Soon thereafter, representatives of Local 138, a union representing heavy equipment operators, began visiting construction sites, demanding that the company hire unionized employees to help with the job.

But LGS was paying its workers — some of whom came from out of state — market-based wages, rather than union wages, in compliance with federal law regarding disaster recovery jobs.
“If the contract is union, we are union, if it’s not, we’re not,” said Kristian Agoglia, president of LGS, in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation.
His answer didn’t satisfy the union, which began making inflammatory statements to workers at LGS construction sites. [...]

NYC Mayor Bloomberg booed by Hurricane Sandy survivors...

Apparently, big gulps are more important than disaster rebuilding...

Via NY Post:

Mayor Bloomberg was booed today as he walked in the annual St. Patrick’s Parade in hurricane-hammered Rockaway, Queens.

The jeers grew so loud toward the end of the parade that mayoral candidate and Council Speaker Christine Quinn appeared to break away from the mayor to march separately.

A spokesman for Quinn later said she always intended to walk separately from the mayor.

Locals didn’t spare their ire over the area’s slow recovery, hoisting signs reading, “Mr. Mayor, we need jetties” and “Listen to the Rockaways.”

“We’ve been dying down here, up to our ears in muck trying to rebuild, get back to a regular life,” one heckler told The Post.

“For the politicians to come down here and try to take our celebration and make it their thing … it’s disgusting.”

At the end of the route, Bloomberg thanked the Sanitation Department, said, “This was a great day for the Rockaways,” and abruptly jumped in his car.

Hurricane Sandy Victim: Obama Is A “Straight Out Liar”

 I wonder who Scott McGrath voted for? He is really angry about all the pork shoved into the Hurricane sandy relief bill.

Via The Blaze:

During an interview on Fox News Friday, Hurricane Sandy victim Scott McGrath went off on President Barack Obama and politicians in Washington who have allowed the nation to rack up debt while neglecting its own citizens. He reminded them “we run this country, not you” in an epic segment.

McGrath lamented the fact that nearly two months later, many Sandy victims still need aid and Congress has only been able to put forth a pork-filled bill that will only partially help those affected by the storm.

“He’s a phony. He’s a liar,” McGrath said of Obama. “He said to be face to face, that he is going to cut the red tape. We’re two months now no red tapes been cut.”

Keep on reading…

Idiocy: Sen. Barbara Boxer Claims “Hurricane Sandy Has Shown Us” Global Warming Is Real…

Real scientists disagree Nancy...

Via Politico:

Senate Democrats used an emotionally charged hearing Thursday on the effects of Hurricane Sandy to make an aggressive attack on climate change deniers in and out of Congress. [...]

“The clock is ticking and Hurricane Sandy has shown us all what the scientists sitting right in this room [said] the day I got the gavel, … and they told us exactly what would happen and it’s all happening,” Boxer said. “And you can close your eyes and cover your ears and put a pillow over your head. But anyone with a heartbeat and a pulse can tell things are changing. And you are right and we’re going to do whatever we can.”

Bloomberg on Brooklyn plea for National Guard: “The NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns.”

Shocking political correctness and plain stupidity...

The Brooklyn Paper: 

Mayor Bloomberg has snubbed Borough President Markowitz’s impassioned plea to bring the National Guard to Hurricane Sandy-scarred Brooklyn — arguing that approving the Beep’s request would be a waste of federal manpower and turn the borough into a police state.

“We don’t need it,” Mayor Bloomberg said on Wednesday during a press update on the city’s ongoing Hurricane Sandy cleanup. “The NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns.”

Markowitz demanded the National Guard’s help just an hour before Bloomberg’s press conference, claiming that the NYPD and FDNY are “brave — but overwhelmed” by all the challenges Sandy brought when it visited the borough on Monday night: flooding, power outages, and looting.

“All of our resources have been stretched to the limit,” Markowitz said. “In the name of public safety we need to send more National Guard personnel into Coney Island, Manhattan Beach, Gerritsen Beach, Red Hook, and any other locations.”

NYC Mayor Bloomberg blames hurricane on global warming

I thought it was caused buy too many big gulps. [snark] Bloomberg is a scientific idiot.

Via Daily Mail:

Hurricane Sandy may have seemed uniquely damaging to those caught in its path, but some have suggested that global warming could bring even more devastating storms to the U.S. in coming years.

New York governor Andrew Cuomo and mayor Michael Bloomberg both pointed to climate change as the culprit for Sandy’s ravages as they addressed the scale of the destruction on Tuesday morning.

And Cuomo even raised the possibility of a levee being built in New York Harbor, an unprecedented move to protect the 400-year-old city.

Many observers have pointed out that it is almost impossible to pinpoint climate change as the cause of specific weather events.

Moreover, the U.S. has long been subject to hurricanes and other damaging storms which have been just as violent as Sandy.

But the terrors wrought by Sandy, combined with last year’s destructive Hurricane Irene, have led New York’s top officials to raise the spectre of global warming.

Scientists disagree with Bloomberg. 

Al Gore on Hurricane Sandy: “disturbing sign of things to come”

Give it up Gore. Almost nobody is buying that BS anymore...

Via E2 Wire:

Al Gore said Tuesday that Hurricane Sandy is a “disturbing sign of things to come” in a warming world and should prompt action to curb greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.

“We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather,” the former vice president said in a statement on his website.
Gore cited Sandy, which slammed ashore late Monday, and smaller-scale flooding in his hometown of Nashville two years ago, noting “both storms were strengthened by the climate crisis.”

“Scientists tell us that by continually dumping 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every single day, we are altering the environment in which all storms develop. As the oceans and atmosphere continue to warm, storms are becoming more energetic and powerful,” he said.

Idea for Obama: Take Donald Trumps $5 million and donate it to hurricane Sandy victims

Donald Trump has offered 5 $ million to a charity of Obama's choice if Obama will release his college and passport records. This is a great opportunity for Obama to do something noble and help hurricane Sandy victims. I would release my records for a lot less. Wouldn't you?

I'm not hearing much from Obama or his administration about my $5M offer to charity or to which charity the money will go.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2012

Trumps YouTube video is here.

Fail: Obama campaign ask people in hurricane path to man campaign phone bank last night

Barack Obama is surrounded by idiots. 

Via Townhall:

You really cannot make this stuff up.

Last night, the Obama campaign was sending email requests into Annapolis, Maryland, for help with phone-banking. The time? 5:30 pm, right when Sandy is supposed to be at its worst there.

Hey, what’s your petty little insignificant life compared to helping Obama win a second term?

Just by way of comparison, the Romney campaign has cancelled all its campaign events for Monday/Tuesday.

Tracking Sandy (Video)

Prayers for those in the path of Hurricane Sandy. 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – As of the latest National Hurricane Center update Sunday night, Sandy hasn’t changed it’s course or intensity much. It remains a Category 1 hurricane with low central pressure, and is still tracking toward the northeast, though that will change overnight (in fact, I’m starting to detect a more northward push looking at the most recent satellite. This is a HUGE storm, with a diameter of over 700 miles wide and a tropical storm wind field over 400 miles wide, meaning that it will impact a very large number of people for an extended period of time.

Unlike many storms that move up the coast and are in and out quickly, Sandy will be arriving almost perpendicular to the New Jersey coastline, and then weakening but dawdling as it moves inland. That means even in Philadelphia and the suburbs, tropical storm force winds could last over 48 hours!

Obama supporters want Hurricane Sandy to blow Romney away...

There is a hurricane coming to Washington, but it's name isn't Sandy. It's Romney/Ryan...

#Sandy should kill #Romney!
— Qudsiyyah Jabaar (@QudsiyyahJ) October 28, 2012

I Want Hurricane Sandy Too Blow Away Mitt Romney.
— #TeamLoser/#Finessee (@Fine__DAD) October 28, 2012

Straight into the ocean!! RT @lemonnnndrop I hope Sandy blow Romney out the Presidential Race!
— Nae Sax (@naenaeboogie) October 28, 2012

sannnnndaaaay can u please blow away mitt romney
— Ellen Virkkunen (@err3n) October 28, 2012

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Inclement weather conditions would have a more severe impact on Democratic voters than Republican ...

Hmm...

Would storms, rain or snow prevent you from voting on Election Day? More than a third of undecided voters say yes, according to a recent survey that points to the role weather could play in a close presidential election this November.

Among those who plan to vote this year, 35 percent of undecided voters say that inclement weather conditions would have a “moderate to significant” impact on whether they make it to the polls on Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 6.

More registered Democrats (27 percent) say that bad weather conditions would impact whether they make it to the polls than registered Republicans (20 percent), the survey also found.

Since the undecideds may break for Romney, I am not sure what the net effect will be. 

Green Fail: Half of all offshore wind farm turbines would be destroyed by hurricanes over 20 year period

President Obama has a goal to generate 20 per cent of our electricity from wind by 2030. One sixth is supposed to come from off shore wind farms.

(New Scientist)-Gone with the wind? Hurricanes could destroy the offshore wind farms the US is planning to build in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.

The US Department of Energy set a goal for the country to generate 20 per cent of its electricity from wind by 2030. One-sixth is to come from shallow offshore turbines that sit in the path of hurricanes.

Stephen Rose and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, modelled the risk hurricanes might pose to turbines at four proposed wind farm sites. They found that nearly half of the planned turbines are likely to be destroyed over the 20-year life of the farms. Turbines shut down in high winds, but hurricane-force winds can topple them. Keep on reading...

Vice President Biden’s former chief of staff cites hurricanes and tornadoes as proof of global warming

Ron Klain, Vice President Biden’s former chief of staff criticized Rick Perry's claim that CO2 induced global warming isn't proven. He basically accused him of listening to 'bought' scientists.

WASHINGTON — Ron Klain, Vice President Biden’s former chief of staff, went to bat for the Obama administration Thursday afternoon as he swatted away suggestions from Rick Perry and Mitt Romney that global warming isn’t caused by people.

“They’re playing to their base,” Klain said on MSNBC. “It’s primary politics.”

In defense of global warming being a man-made problem, Klain cited “hurricanes” and “a record year for tornadoes,” also claiming that Republicans are citing information from “scientists and researchers sponsored by the oil industry.”

Lets fact check Klain's claim global warming is affecting hurricane activity. The chart below is from NOAA. The green hatched part of the bars indicate the number of hurricanes by year. The red part of the bars indicate category 3 or higher hurricanes. The yellow indicates named storm systems. As you can clearly see, the recent higher temperatures do not correlate to more or stronger hurricanes. The most occurred in the 1930's. The strongest in the 1950's.

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Here is a chart from NOAA depicting the number of tornadoes by month from 1950 to 2010. Dark red indicates the largest number of tornadoes per month. Dark blue indicates the fewest. The early 1970's and early 1990's were the worst time periods for tornadoes.

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Who is guilty of following bad science now?

Remember when global warming was going to cause severe hurricanes?

NASA jumped on this theory with both feet in 2005.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics — the type associated with severe storms and rainfall — is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

In a presentation today to the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, JPL Senior Research Scientist Hartmut Aumann outlined the results of a study based on five years of data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft.

The AIRS data were used to observe certain types of tropical clouds linked with severe storms, torrential rain and hail. The instrument typically detects about 6,000 of these clouds each day. Aumann and his team found a strong correlation between the frequency of these clouds and seasonal variations in the average sea-surface temperature of the tropical oceans.

Environmentalists tried to blame Hurricane Katrina on global warming.

The work of hurricane expert Dr. Kerry Emanuel indicates that Global Warming provided the extra margin of energy that gave Hurricane Katrina enough power to break the levees in New Orleans. This is the conclusion of scientists, Global Warming observers along the Gulf Coast and others.

Hurricanes get their strength directly from the heat in the oceans they travel over, so it has long been expected that Global Warming would have an effect on the frequency and/or the intensity of tropical cyclones, which are called hurricanes in the United States. Observations have confirmed a sharp increase in intensity. The result is that the number of dangerous Category 3, 4, and 5 storms has increased. Dr. Emanuel’s innovation, the “power dissipation index,” helps track this intensification over time.

Al Gore tried to link Hurricane Katrina to global warming in his 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

Now I’m going to show you, recently released, the actual ocean temperature. Of course when the oceans get warmer, that causes stronger storms...

The actual truth is hurricane activity is currently at a 40 year low.

During the past 6-years since Hurricane Katrina, global tropical cyclone frequency and energy have decreased dramatically, and are currently at near-historical record lows.  According to a new peer-reviewed research paper accepted to be published, only 69 tropical storms were observed globally during 2010, the fewest in almost 40-years of reliable records.

Furthermore, when each storm’s intensity and duration were taken into account, the total global tropical cyclone accumulated energy (ACE) was found to have fallen by half to the lowest level since 1977.

Global Warming Fail: Lowest Hurricane Season in 12 Years

The 2009 hurricane season has finished with the lowest number of named storms in 12 years and the first time in three years no hurricane struck the US mainland.

Global warming scientists have been forced to retract their earlier claims global warming would make more storms. The global warming hoaxers now claim global warming will decrease hurricane activity. Even Al Gore has been forced to remove his hurricane slide from his "Inconvenient Truth" global warming slide show. In other news, the planet Earth has been cooling since 1998.

An Inconvenient Lie:


Anthropogenic global warming is a fraud that has been exposed by Climategate.