Apparently, the NWS is paying enough lip service to the doctrine of the climate as they put out (checks notes) short term weather forcasts
The National Weather Service Is Unwittingly Obscuring Reality of Global Warming
(lots of typical doomsaying on warming which is short on proof of anthropogenic causation)
For example, in Austin, Texas, where I live, the average high temperatures in September from 2017 to 2020 were 5.3 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than between 1966 and 1969. In other words, the normal high in early September, that was 93 degrees Fahrenheit in our “previous climate” (circa 1900), is 98 degrees Fahrenheit today. One would think this kind of warming would have made the headlines in recent years, but this is not the case, and there is a good reason. The National Weather Service (NWS) has a long-standing and little-known statistical weather data procedure that inadvertently helps promote the denial of global climate disruption.
The “normal” temperatures the NWS reports are averages of the last 30 years. This is the data broadcast on the weather report on the news every night. These so-called normal temperatures are not at all the temperatures from our previous climate. They are not from a time before our climate began to unnaturally warm. What we hear as “normal” from our faithful weather professionals is actually significantly warmer for most of us, has nothing to do with what most of us think of as “normal” and has nothing to do with our previous climate where our advanced civilization evolved.
I thought weather wasn’t climate? No? Oh, right, it’s only climate when it helps the climate cult. Interesting, the climate cult also uses the last 30 years to prove their point about doom.
The idea here was to supply agricultural and industrial communities with the latest and most accurate weather data related to temperatures, heat waves, first and last freezes, hours below freezing, peak temperature per day/week/month/year, all sorts of precipitation records, etc. The justification of the NWS for this deliberate manipulation of weather data is, “a better understanding of what is happening today. Rather than assess long-term climate trends, Normals (sic) reflect the impacts of the changing climate on our day-to-day weather experience.”
Deliberate! Or, just broadcasting the weather so people know what the temps are supposed to be, whether it might rain, be windy, etc.
Our historical normal temperatures (not the NWS “normals”) are from the time when our advanced civilization evolved; they come from the climate that created humankind as we know it. This climate definitively does not include the temperature “normals” of the last 30 years presented by the NWS to broadcast to the entire United States population. Our true normal temperatures are what the temperatures were back in the late-19th century before our greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and land use changes began to substantially warm Earth.
Tell you what: let’s consider what the temperatures were during the previous Holocene warm periods, which were just as warm, if not warmer, without all the fossil fueled vehicles and such.
It is now profoundly important this policy of changing the “normals” be eliminated. The NWS is purposefully warming the normal temperature statistics as our climate warms. They are doing this because it is a habit from the past; a habit whose time must come to end.
In other words, the Cult of Climastrology is coming after the NWS, and going to make it difficult for people to understand the weather.
If he doesn’t like that the National Weather Service, which is supposed to be apolitical, is apolitical, he can watch the Weather Channel, which is pretty much all-in on
global warmingclimate change, and they have some pretty women anchorettes to watch, even though they’ve hired a couple, ummm, ‘women of size’ recently.LOL! As I was preparing my usual publicize-my-friend’s-article tweet, I noticed that the source was “truthout.” Truthout is the laughable, far left source that kept telling us that Karl Rove was going to be arrested the next day.
Lest we forget, the Earth is warming rapidly, a result of we humans adding CO2 to the atmosphere.
The Pirate’s Cove is a laughable, far right source that tells us that global warming is a hoax/scam, masks don’t work, tRump won the election, Democrats are communists, abortion is murder, rape victims should be more responsible etc, etc and so forth.
Dear Elwood:
Lest you forget:
“The most important thing to remember about climate models which are used to project future global warming is that they were “tuned” with the assumption I started this article with: that the climate system is in a natural state of energy balance, and that there is no long-term climate change unless humans cause it.
This is an arbitrary and illogical assumption. The climate system is an example of a “nonlinear dynamical system”, which means it can change all by itself. For example, slow changes in the rate of vertical overturning of the world’s oceans can cause global warming (or global cooling) with no “external forcing” of the climate system whatsoever.
Instead, the climate models are “tuned” to not produce natural climate change. If a 100-year run of the model produces change, the model is adjusted to removed the “drift”. The models do not produce global energy balance from “first physical principles”, because none of the processes controlling that balance are known to sufficient accuracy. Instead, the models are “fudged” to produce energy balance, based upon the modelers’ assumption of no natural climate change. Then, the models are used as “proof” that only increasing CO2 has caused recent warming.”
https://www.drroyspencer.com/global-warming-101/
30 years??? Roy Spenser UALH who used to be prominently featured as a climate change denier now says that almost all of the increase in n Temps over the last 3 decades has been caused by man .
Will we ever see his name here posted by his acolyte Teach in the future?
Hairy, will you please provide a link showing what Spenser said? I would like to read it.
Have empirical proof that it’s CO2, J?
Jill,
Yes.
Then be a big boy and show your cards..
he has nothing.
J-do you have proof that’s it’s “rapidly warming”? And rapidly compared to what?
Jill,
Yes, indeed.
There is proof of neither.
We’d all love to see it, show us. Just like your claims the election wasn’t stolen yet you look at the evidence and deny, deny, deny. Then refuse to initiate an investigation and audit because you know it will show you cheated, stole an election, had a coup on Nov. 4 2020 and cannot defend your lies.
Everything about the current democrat party stinks of corruption and mass murder.
There is more credible evidence (of which there are volumes) supporting the theory of anthropogenic global warming than supporting that DonJon won the 2020 election (of which there is none).
Show the evidence, J. Should be easy, right?