To: Wharf Rat who wrote (855967 ) 5/11/2015 1:29:53 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to Katherine Hayhoe, POLITICAL SCIENCE professor, one of top 10 environmental leaders: http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2015-05-08/hayhoe-chosen-top-10-environmental-leader-huffington-post#.VVByj5N2FOg Katharine Hayhoe’s reputation as one of the world’s leading experts on climate change continues to grow. Hayhoe, an associate professor in the department of political science [ What!!! So that's what kind of scientist the director of the climate science center is .... a political scientist. ] and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech, [ What is her real job at TX Tech? To bring in the federal money. So she pretends to be a real scientist, gives a lot of interviews in which she spouts made up crap to impress the grubers and voila, she's one of the top 10 environmental leaders. ] was named to the top 10 list of environmental leaders by Huffington Post. The Huffington Post top 10 list is part of a celebration of the organization’s 10th anniversary. Post editors sought to recognize leaders who are reshaping the environmental movement now and into the future. Hayhoe was chosen for her work in bridging the gaps in communication of climate change to the general public. have you seen sizeable increases in average temperatures that could be defined as climate change?”. She replied ““What we’ve actually seen, at least in West Texas, is an increase primarily in winter temperatures. Our very cold days are getting less frequent and our winter temperatures are increasing in nearly every station we look at across Texas and Oklahoma”. REALITY – Katharine was using 1965 as her base point, the bottom point of a cool period in the 60’s. Temperatures in the last 30 years are similar to the period 1920-1950 and the long term trend is down. https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/whats-katharine-hiding/ our weather is becoming much more extreme, where it’s either feast or famine. I’ve been here [Lubbock] for five years and in five years we’ve had the longest dry period on record,” REALITY – The dry period she refers to, 2005/6, is a common event. Texas weather records show similar dry spells about every 5 years. https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/katharine-and-the-texas-drought/ I’ve been here ( in Lubbock) for five years and in five years …… we’ve had two 100-year rain events.”. REALITY – There was one localised storm in Lubbock, which was similar in intensity to one in 1981. The next heaviest was 83mm, which is the sort seen every 3 or 4 years. https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/katharine-and-the-missing-rain/ our weather (in Lubbock) is becoming much more extreme”. REALITY – Not according to the National Weather Service in Lubbock, who say “The horizontal line across the graph below is a 30 year running average of the record, which doesn’t show any notable trend . In looking at the graph, it appears that the first 40 years of record show more year to year variability and include a disproportionate number of very wet and very dry years when compared to the last 40 years of records.” https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/even-the-national-weather-service-says-hayhoe-is-talking-tripe/ REALITY – NOAA show an increase of 12% since 1895. https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/where-does-katharine-get-this-tripe-from/ The Northeast is particularly vulnerable to heavy precipitation events, not just rainstorms, but snowstorms. We’ve already seen a 50-percent increase in precipitation in the Northeast. It’s very vulnerable to flooding; there have been an enormous amount of flooding events in the Midwest and Northeast .” REALITY – According to the US Geological Survey – “Only one of four large regions of the United States showed a significant relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere and the size of floods over the last 100 years. This was in the southwestern region, where floods have become smaller as CO2 has increased. “ https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/katharines-floods/ “you find that with higher temperatures you obviously need more water to provide plants with the same amount of irrigation because evaporation is a factor……..So climate change is exacerbating the problem we have, and it’s the same across most of the Southwest, which is very water-short”. REALITY – NOAA show temperature trends across Texas and the Great Plains are flat since 1895. https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/global-warming-in-texas/ Changes consistent with global warming are already under way across the Northeast. Since 1970, the region has been warming at a rate of nearly 0.5oF per decade. Winter temperatures have risen even faster, at a rate of 1.3oF per decade from 1970 to 2000” and “More frequent extreme-heat days (maximum temperatures greater than 90°F")” REALITY – Again Katharine starts her analysis from the cold interval around 1970. Since 1931 the trend is only 0.02F per decade. USHCN records also show a decline in days over 90F. https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/katharines-northeast-climate-impacts-assessment/ An increase in heavy rainfall events ”, and “Less precipitation falling as snow and more as rain” REALITY – USHCN records show no trend towards more heavy rainfall events over the last 100 years. Snowfall levels also show no such trend and are higher in the last decade than in the 1940’s. https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/katharines-northeast-climate-impacts-assessmentpart-ii/ https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/kathys-top-of-the-pops-at-the-puff-host/#more-14730
