Fossil-Fueled Fiction
It’s been a heck of a week for hysteria in the so-called Climate War. Apparently, with all the other things going on in the world, the hysteria has to be whipped up so people actually pay attention to this trumped-up agenda. Look at this, an inconvenient truth if hysteria is your agenda: “World Disasters Report for 2013 – lowest number of catastrophies and deaths in 10 years.” That’s right. All this screaming and yelling about how bad it is, and we find that we are at a decade low in terms of catastrophes and deaths.
It’s been a heck of a week for hysteria in the so-called Climate War. Apparently, with all the other things going on in the world, the hysteria has to be whipped up so people actually pay attention to this trumped-up agenda.
Look at this, an inconvenient truth if hysteria is your agenda: “World Disasters Report for 2013 – lowest number of catastrophes and deaths in 10 years.”
That’s right. All this screaming and yelling about how bad it is, and we find that we are at a decade low in terms of catastrophes and deaths. Wait a minute – isn’t this extreme of non-extremes an extreme in itself? This lack of disasters is a disaster since it’s a sign there have to be more disasters. After all, how can there be any less? Don’t be surprised if that argument shows up. After all, only in the world of the AGW alarmists can a record-breaking amount of ice in the Southern Hemisphere and the third-highest snow total for September in the Northern Hemisphere be a sign it’s getting warmer. Apparently, humans are also changing the freeze process. Perhaps water now freezes at higher temperatures, and that’s the reason increases in snow and ice are a sign it’s warmer? (Sarcasm.)
And then we get this from the founder of the “#ClimateSilence” and “#DontFundEvil” campaigns, Brad Johnson, who calls himself “Climatebrad”: “Dangerous, Fossil-Fueled Hurricane Gonzalo Barrels Toward Bermuda.”
Is that so? Gonzalo went through the area we said in April would be primed for the strongest storms. We predicted one or two major hurricanes.
Guess what? Gonzalo was the second major hurricane of the year.
Apparently, this “fossil fuel” didn’t work too well. It weakened from Category 4 to Category 2 as it reached Bermuda – quite a bit different from the non-fossil-fueled Hazel in October 1954, which hit the North Carolina coast as a Category 4 and caused hurricane force winds all the way into Canada.
Moreover, the hurricane season this year has gone almost exactly as our non-fossil fuel-based forecast said it would when we put it out in April! Look at the tracks of the storms, where we had the two prime regions for storms. All of the hurricanes had hit maximum intensity in our two main areas. We had little activity in the deep tropics. Over 80% of the total ACE (Accumulated Cyclone Energy) index this year is in the two shaded areas. If there is any criticism, it’s that the area of highest threat should have been centered east about 300 miles. But without any of this fossil fuel nonsense, this forecast from April targeted the season we have had. We are within one now of the total number and all the hurricanes (Dolly was tropical storm) have gone through our areas. If we get a late-season development later this week, it reaches the low end of the total number. The forecast had one or two major hurricanes, and we’ve had two form. As of Sunday PM, we are near 75 percent of total ACE.
I could not possibly have had the life I’ve had or do what I do (this applies to all of us) without fossil fuels. Which is one of the things that bugs me so much about the whole Climate Ambulance Chaser movement. Here we are, all nice and warm with our marvelous technology, and the same people and industries that help so much to make it that way are now demonized and destroyed. I believe the word to describe someone that does that is “ingrate.”
Just a reminder folks: The true “hockey sticks” of fossil fuels, given the fact there are tree ring studies such as Liu’s from China, are not with temperatures but with world wide GDP and life expectancy.
Though showing you only a couple of examples, it’s obvious the strategy of the AGW alarmists is to simply blame everything on fossil fuels. Even in the year of a lack of extreme events, they are trumpeting all weather events as evidence they are right. In a way, they are playing an “everybody gets a trophy” card (“no matter what we say, we are right, give me my trophy”) and a victim card (“the evil fossil fuel people are destroying us; never mind we are far better off than we would have been if what we are pushing was enacted from the get-go”).
I guess then it’s okay for me to call what they do what it is: FOSSIL-FUELED PROPAGANDA.
Why not? They claim everything else is.
Joe Bastardi is chief forecaster at WeatherBELL Analytics, a meteorological consulting firm.
