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How's that Global Warming feeling?

by Whaleoil on August 2, 2010

Peru has declared a state of emergency after hundreds of children died from freezing conditions that have seen temperatures across much of the South American country plummet to a 50-year low.

In 16 of Peru’s 25 regions, temperatures have fallen below -24C.

Four hundred and nine people, most of them children, have already died from the cold, with temperatures predicted to fall further in coming weeks.

But, but, but the planet is warming faster than ever before.

Tell that to the relatives of the cold, dead Peruvian children.

“Over the past three or four years we have seen temperatures during the winter months get lower, and people are unable to survive this,” said Silvia Noble, from Plan Peru.

“This cold weather is now extending into areas that never saw these low temperatures before and children and elderly people are especially at risk as they are not physically strong enough to last month after month of sub-zero conditions.”

But, but, but the planet is warming faster than ever before. It can’t be getting colder year on year, it simply can’t because Nick Smith says so, so does a railway engineer from India plus the real kicker….the science is settled.

Oh I know, this is simply a weather event…when it gets cold it is a weather event, when it is stinking f**cking hot it is climate change. Spare me….no better still spare the children of Peru.

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  • robf

    Ha. The Great climate Con again. Somebody should tell these fools that the sign of a good Con is that the mark doesn’t know they are being Conned.

    We may well be contributing to climate change after all there are 4 Billion of us burping and farting co2, the fastest way to reduce all that carbon is to reduce the population by say 90% . Maybe a good Virus, Nature would call that survival of the fittest and natural selection. Better than any man made solution.

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  • oldtimer

    weird that peru is freezing and russia is so hot it’s burning.

  • http://roarprawn.blogspot.com/ American Gardener

    The science around AGW isn’t the issue, it is the PR that is the problem.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1201173949 petal

    Weather is not the same as climate.

    I know. Wasting my time. But occasionally it’s nice to say it. Makes me feel better.

  • bobdino

    The science behind AGW is sound (and extensive!). Only Luddites refuse to consider it.

    To paraphrase your last paragraph:
    …when it gets hot, all the climate change deniers ignore it. But any non-tepid anomaly is shouted from the rooftops as definite proof that climate change ain’t happening.

    Spare me indeed!

  • stevewrathall

    If the “science” of AGW is so sound, then tell me: what observation would falsify the hypothesis of catastrophic human-induced global warming?

    • panzerboy

      Interestingly the IPCC site does not get any hits when searching for the word catastrophic.
      http://www.ipcc.ch/sphider/search.php?query=catastrophic&search=1
      Look to the use of adjectives to see a persons bias.
      To answer your question, the average temperature for the entire planet (air sea and land) over a period of several (five would do me) years either falls or increases remarkably.
      Either result would show AGW needed to be modified or replaced.
      A large increase or decrease in greenhouse gases with no effect on climate (again over years) and no other explanation (ie Massive volcanism would increase C02 but often, but not always, comes with sulpher dioxide which is a ‘sunshade’ chemical) would also disprove AGW.

      Jeremy Thomson

      • panzerboy

        I’ve done some further delving into the IPCC site and found the word ‘catastrophic’in IPCC reports.
        http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/ch2s2-2-4.html
        “The possibility of abrupt climate change and/or abrupt changes in the earth system triggered by climate change, with potentially catastrophic consequences, cannot be ruled out (Meehl et al., 2007).”
        Well thats hardly saying theres “catastrophic human-induced global warming”.
        I’m not aware of any theory called “catastrophic human-induced global warming”, I’m aware of the theory of Athropogenic Global Warming (AGW).

        Jeremy Thomson

  • panzerboy

    Interesting map of the recent heatwave in Russia.
    http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=45069.
    Notice the Red areas (12 degrees above average) look to be roughly balanced by the blue areas (12 degrees below average).
    So the average temps for the whole of Russia are probably not much different.

    How does all this relate to the AGW debate?
    It shows the folly of taking 1 isolated area and drawing conclusions from its immediate weather. The NASA map shows clearly that temperatures vary by considerable amounts (24 celsius), but if you look at only one area you may conclude that things are much hotter of cooler. Globally there not that much difference in average temperature, but there IS a consistent slight increase in temperature since the middle 20th century.

    Jeremy Thomson