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To: Brumar89 who wrote (932907)	5/2/2016 9:32:38 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572319

Why Do They Keep Wheeling Out Bill Nye? May 2, 2016 Could it be that none of the real experts are prepared to blame every bit of bad weather on global warming? By Paul Homewood Bill Nye, “The Science Guy” If anybody needs any reminding about how little Bill Nye knows about meteorological matters, just recall my post from February 2013: Following his disastrous debate with Marc Morano on the Piers Morgan Show a couple of months ago, Bill Nye was wheeled out by MSNBC to explain the recent blizzards in New England. And once again, he showed just how little he knows about climate matters. Jason Samenow, meteorologist with the Washington Post did not pull any punches: To educate viewers on the science of the recent mega-blizzard that socked New England, MSNBC’s Craig Melvin brought onto his program noted “science guy” Bill Nye . What followed was the one of the most flawed discussions of meteorology I’ve ever seen on a national network. In likening the blizzard and hurricane Sandy, Nye implies both storms originated off the coast from Africa, which is wrong. Sandy formed in the Caribbean (not from an African wave) and the blizzard formed off the Mid-Atlantic coast (from the merger of two North American disturbances). Nye then draws an absurd comparison between East Coast storms and West Coast storms in an attempt to equate them. “If you live on the West Coast … that same type of storm is called a Sou’wester,” Nye says. “If you go to the sailboat store you can get a Nor’easter hat in New England but it’s a Sou’wester hat in Seattle.” Big problem: storms typically hit Seattle from the west not from the south. They don’t form off the Pacific coast of Los Angeles or San Francisco and charge northward. In my entire life, (until watching Nye’s comments) I had never heard the term “Sou’wester” used in reference to a West Coast storm (a google search reveals there is an apartment complex and a lodge with such a name in the region – but I couldn’t find a meteorological reference). There is a good meteorological reason for the lack of “Sou’westers”: Whereas the warm Gulf Stream current creates a zone of temperature contrast that allows storms to form along the East Coast and move northward, there’s no equivalent current in the Pacific to steer storms up the West Coast. I challenge a reader to find a “Sou’wester hat” for sale… Nye then makes a convoluted comment about spin in different parts of the storm that serves as a nonsensical transition into a discussion of climate change. The climate change discussion is somewhat more coherent than his early comments but overly simplistic. Why MSNBC turned to Nye for weather wisdom is headscratching, considering it has access to a stable of competent meteorologists at the Weather Channel. Nye has created some wonderful science educational programs for children, but a weather expert he is not. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/bill-nye-the-science-guy-fumbles-storm-explainer/2013/02/11/685cdd04-7465-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_blog.html As Samenow questions, why do the likes of MSNBC bother bringing Nye out to discuss these issues such as these. Could it be that none of the real experts are prepared to blame every bit of bad weather on global warming? https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/bill-nye-shown-to-be-clueless-again/ notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (932907)	5/2/2016 9:37:00 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1572319

Yes; lots of cold water coming from Greenland's melting glaciers. "it means that the days of the global warming scare are numbered" Yeah, about 365,000 of them.... sciencealert.com = Lead Author Stefan Rahmstorf in RealClimate: The North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Ireland is practically the only region of the world that has defied global warming and even cooled. Last winter there even was the coldest on record – while globally it was the hottest on record. Our recent study (Rahmstorf et al. 2015) attributes this to a weakening of the Gulf Stream System, which is apparently unique in the last thousand years. The whole world is warming. The whole world? No! A region in the subpolar Atlantic has cooled over the past century – unique in the world for an area with reasonable data coverage (Fig. 1). So what’s so special about this region between Newfoundland and Ireland? Fig. 1 Linear temperature trend from 1900 to 2013. The cooling in the subpolar North Atlantic is remarkable and well documented by numerous measurements – unlike the cold spot in central Africa, which on closer inspection apparently is an artifact of incomplete and inhomogeneous weather station data. It happens to be just that area for which climate models predict a cooling when the Gulf Stream System weakens (experts speak of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation or AMOC, as part of the global thermohaline circulation). That this might happen as a result of global warming is discussed in the scientific community since the 1980s – since Wally Broecker’s classical Nature article “Unpleasant surprises in the greenhouse?” Meanwhile evidence is mounting that the long-feared circulation decline is already well underway. climatecrocks.com