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'Snowmaggedon' in Washington spurs climate change doubters
February 10, 2010 | 2:32 pm


A casa de Al Gore em Washington, D.C.


Mark Twain had it right: Climate is what we expect; weather is what we get.
So, is the massive dumping of snow from the Mid-Atlantic to New England proof positive that climate change is untrue, as doubters such as Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) have taken the opportunity to trumpet? (His family built an igloo, declared it Al Gore's new home and put up signs asking people to honk if they liked global warming).
Not if you read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report carefully.
First, the cold weather spells in the East have been linked with an "El Nino" year and a shift in the arctic oscillation that sent a jet of cold air down into the Eastern United States and elsewhere, all cyclically occurring events regardless of the overall trend in average planetary temperature, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pointed out recently.
Lost in the hype over the East Coast cold snap around the Christmas holidays was the fact that at the same time, parts of Alaska were unseasonably warm. And the record cold that descended as far south as Florida in January? Globally, January 2010 was the warmest January on record, based on satellite data that date to 1979, according to AccuWeather.com.

As for East Coast getting snow in February, the IPCC scientists, citing peer-reviewed studies, concluded that the severity of precipitation events (and snow is one of them) would increase in a warming global climate.
The Union of Concerned Scientists, in a new backgrounder addressing recent controversies over the IPCC report, offers this:
"Between 1958 and 2007, New England saw a 67 percent increase in heavy precipitation events and the Midwest experienced a 31 percent increase, according to the 2009 federal report "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States." The report documented a 20 percent average increase for the entire country.
To be sure, the IPCC has been forced to acknowledge errors and unsubstantiated statements in one of its landmark 2007 reports. The irregularities had to do with predictions of the expected effects of warming. None of them, however, undermined the report's consensus that the planet has warmed and that man's activities have contributed to the warming.
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Read more here/Leia mais aqui: Los Angeles Times
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NOTA CAUSTICANTE DESTE BLOGGER:
Fui, nem sei por que, querendo ver a cara de um certo 'afirmacionista' de o aquecimento global ser antropogenicamente provocado e o supra-sumo de ciência objetiva feita honestamente [eu não pude resistir...] em cima das evidências e sem nenhuma agenda $$$.

Por que Pachauri e Al Gore fazem parte de 'empresas' que estão faturando uma nota preta em cima de 'créditos de carbono'? Os éticos 'afirmacionistas' nem se incomodam com isso...

Falando na dupla Al Gore e Pauchari, eles devolveram o prêmio Nobel da Paz de 2007? Não? Gente, eles ganharam uma nota preta -- 10 milhões de coroas suecas (cerca de R$ 2,7 milhões).

O Prêmio Nobel da Paz de 2007 foi dividido com Al 'Apocalipse' Gore pelo seu documentário "Uma verdade inconveniente" e o IPCC com um relatório apocalíptico que mais tarde se mostrou fraudulento. E a Grande Mídia Tupiniquim o que fez? Enfiou o rabo entre as pernas e nada fala...

Falou, sim. Um contraponto do The New York Times 'dourando a pílula' do aquecimento global ser antropogenicamente provocado: Neve nos EUA é um novo front de guerra sobre mudança do clima. [Requer assinatura da Folha de São Paulo ou do UOL].