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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (740774)	9/21/2013 1:08:15 AM
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Hi J_F_Shepard; You wrote: "Why don't you post links to your claims...??" when I called you out for your stupid claim that "Hurricane Sandy that did major damage to NJ is being attributed to climate change"; Hey, you're the one who is claiming that there's a link so you would be the one that provides the link. A storm is "weather" climate change is about climate, not weather. Since only a complete idiot would think that such a relationship exists, the fact that there isn't one is not discussed in the peer reviewed literature (to my knowledge). One the other hand, the drought the US went through a summer or two ago was sometimes attributed to global warming and that idea is discussed in the peer reviewed literature, for example: Do extreme climate events require extreme forcing? Kumar, Chen, Hoerling and Eischeid Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 13, 3440-3445 (July 2013) The question whether extreme climate events require extreme forcings is assessed for the severe Great Plains drought during May–July 2012. This drought event had a rapid onset, and little indications or early warnings for its sudden emergence existed. The analysis of its origins is based on a dynamical seasonal climate forecast system where states of the ocean, atmosphere, land, sea ice, and atmospheric trace gases were initialized in late April 2012, and an ensemble of forecasts was made. Based on the diagnosis of a spectrum of possible outcomes for precipitation over the Great Plains from this system, it is concluded that the extreme Great Plains drought did not require extreme external forcings and could plausibly have arisen from atmospheric noise alone. Implications for developing early warning system for extreme events in general are also discussed. onlinelibrary.wiley.com Let me translate that for you. Extreme weather has been happening forever. For that matter, you should look back through history to see some of the other exciting weather events with which God has blest New England. You'll find they've been happening since the Pilgrims got here and undoubtedly long before. Back then the local religious experts told us that the storms were caused by our sins. Since we're now in a more enlightened, scientific, age, we know that that's ridiculous, sins don't cause weather. (Unless the sin is raping the earth.) -- Carl