tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post5183599019513219350..comments2024-03-19T07:10:27.303-07:00Comments on Quark Soup by David Appell: Bill McFibben on the Weirdest WeatherDavid Appellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03318269033139447591noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-82737819829450591452012-03-26T18:14:31.739-07:002012-03-26T18:14:31.739-07:00Dear Mr McKibben,
I have a better picture.Dear Mr McKibben,<br />I have a <a href="http://nigguraths.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/350.jpg" rel="nofollow">better picture</a>.Shubhttp://nigguraths.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-60152724289677483392012-03-26T06:51:33.027-07:002012-03-26T06:51:33.027-07:00David;
I couldn't agree more. The Mckibbons o...David;<br /><br />I couldn't agree more. The Mckibbons of the world do no one any favors with there constant exageration and half truths.Don Simpsonhttp://www.desmogblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-27734037912220691852012-03-25T19:19:33.903-07:002012-03-25T19:19:33.903-07:00Shub,
Are you not concerned that your identifica...Shub, <br /><br />Are you not concerned that your identification of Michael Tobis as the "expert on the Russian heat wave" makes YOU palpably evil?<br /><br />http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/03/pielke-jrs-take-on-an-amazing-conversation-with-a-climate-scientist/Republic of Tarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-51909639071389646662012-03-25T15:49:02.012-07:002012-03-25T15:49:02.012-07:00this might be what you're looking for: http://...this might be what you're looking for: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2057bill mckibbenhttp://350.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-86332127191451855692012-03-25T10:10:57.405-07:002012-03-25T10:10:57.405-07:00Michael wrote:
>>A couple of places have exc...Michael wrote:<br />>>A couple of places have exceeded their all-time records for **April** this week. This is not just weather.<<<br /><br />But there are *always* places that will be exceeding their all-time records. If the temperature record is N years long, then on average there will be 365/N record highs set every year, and the same number of record lows. <br /><br />Since N~100-200 for many US locations, that's about 1-3 record highs and lows each year....<br /><br />Have there been reports that this heat wave is 5 standard deviations above the mean, somewhere? I haven't seen them (partly because it's been so cold and rainy here in Oregon that the heat wave hasn't felt like news to me, partly because I don't watch TV so I don't have an emotional sense for it).<br /><br />Where I live the last 2 weeks have been 4.4 F below normal, with 5.6" of rain....David Appellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03318269033139447591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-242627986550663852012-03-23T17:04:17.138-07:002012-03-23T17:04:17.138-07:00Masters also had an interesting point: recently du...Masters also had an interesting point: recently during the heat wave, several cities' LOW temperatures were <i>higher</i> than the previous <i>record high temps</i>. <br /><br />Not a typo. <br /><br />And what Michael said: during a la Nina.<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />DDanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03709762632849004871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-31617311677299078102012-03-23T12:10:31.325-07:002012-03-23T12:10:31.325-07:00tropical storm Irene.
Amazing how scumbags unive...tropical storm Irene. <br /><br />Amazing how scumbags universally mislabel that storm. <br /><br />Here's the definition. <br /><br /><i>tropical storm<br />n.<br />A cyclonic storm originating in the tropics and <b>having winds ranging from 39 to 73 miles per hour</b> (34 to 63 knots; 63 to 117 kilometers per hour).</i><br /><br />Just because East coast custodians of historically registered <i>no man's lands</i> would like to pass on the price of hiring a tree service to the government, that wish does not a hurricane make.papertigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233780822178325215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-28235878450779949152012-03-23T05:32:52.164-07:002012-03-23T05:32:52.164-07:00McKibbon's comments on Irene are correct. The...McKibbon's comments on Irene are correct. The rest of the hurricane season is irrelevant handwaving. Cat3 storms do not reach that far north (due to wind sheer) with that much energy, size and that much water without the unusually high ocean temperatures . Even after the sheer knocked out the eye, the storm still caused considerable damage along the rain wall all the way up the inner coast.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-5591108033503853322012-03-23T02:25:14.860-07:002012-03-23T02:25:14.860-07:00Please, hey, would we care to all get in line, get...Please, hey, would we care to all get in line, get in line.<br /><br />No shoving.<br /><br />Waiting to cut out the deadwood.<br />Waiting to clean up the city.<br />Waiting to follow the worms.<br />Waiting to put on a green shirt.<br />Waiting to weed out the weaklings.<br />Waiting to smash in their windows <br />And kick in their doors.<br />Waiting for the final solution<br />To strengthen the strain.<br />Waiting to follow the worms.papertigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233780822178325215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-20804631852827771102012-03-22T20:17:56.264-07:002012-03-22T20:17:56.264-07:00Sorry David, you are out of line here.
Listen to...Sorry David, you are out of line here. <br /><br />Listen to Michael Tobis, the <a href="http://nigguraths.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/russian-heat-wave-climate-porn/" rel="nofollow">expert on the Russian heat wave</a>. You are out of line.<br /><br />Out.of.line.<br /><br />You were out of line with the Glieck thing too.Shubhttp://nigguraths.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-554318862296176372012-03-22T19:44:14.191-07:002012-03-22T19:44:14.191-07:00The sorts of things meteorologists are saying (quo...The sorts of things meteorologists are saying (quoted without permission, so without attribution)<br /><br />"what makes this even more jaw-dropping from a meteorological standpoint is the La Nina ENSO phase. To have the 4th warmest meteorological winter during a cold ENSO phase is what makes me reach for the Maalox. High-amplitude patterns are quite common in March, but I can’t recall a 1-2 week long Bermuda high blocking pattern in March. Ever. The weather map still looks like something out of late June."Michael Tobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-33416245551767762212012-03-22T19:40:11.866-07:002012-03-22T19:40:11.866-07:00Sorry, David, you are out of line here.
Look at M...Sorry, David, you are out of line here.<br /><br />Look at Masters and at Skolnick. The meteorologists jaws are on the floor every day.<br /><br />This really is an extraordinary event, and it quite likely amounts to the sort of event that could not possibly have occurred in the climate of, say, 1950 or the ten thousand years prior to that. <br /><br />It's not just the 5 sigmas. Those are 5 sigmas looked at as daily phenomena. Strings of them don't actually add up to 10-sigma, 15-sigma and 20-sigma, because they are not independent. But you find nothing comparable in the instrumental record in the US, and as far as I know only a couple of events anywhere ever, notably Russia in 2010 and Australia around the new year of 2009, and all those in the respective summers. This is a new kind of atmospheric flow.<br /><br />Did it occur previous to the instrumental record? Well, nobody ever thought to look for it before. It will be interesting to see how robust the ecosystem is to summer in winter.<br /><br />As for you being in the cold sector, yes. The whole world is not forty degrees too hot. That means that an anomaly like this has to be accompanied by cold anomalies immediately upstream and downstream. <br /><br />As always, global warming is NOT a good name for the problem. Climate can be terribly disrupted without any warming, as you see in Oregon. But it's worth noting as well that warm records are falling at an enormous pace and cold records are not.<br /><br /> A couple of places have exceeded their all-time records for **April** this week. This is not just weather.Michael Tobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-22373549353592236562012-03-22T19:06:13.119-07:002012-03-22T19:06:13.119-07:00He likely got it from Jeff Masters who tried to ca...He likely got it from Jeff Masters who tried to calculate SD of anomalous heat and found lots of mi^2 that were 4-6 SDs outside of range.<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />DDanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03709762632849004871noreply@blogger.com