2013年7月23日 星期二

Delawares future weather

During this hot, wet summer, a national climate expert recently told Delawareans that they can expect even hotter summers C with a climate like Savannah, Georgias C by the end of the century. The culprit, naturally: runaway global warming.Savannah residents are long accustomed to their climate and, thanks to air conditioning and other modern technologies, are better able to deal with the heat and humidity. Nevertheless, the impact on Delaware will be disastrous, Dr.Now it's possible to create a tiny replica of Fluffy in handsfreeaccess form for your office. Katherine Hayhoeclaims. Nonsense.

Her forthcoming report promises to be no different than other proclamations that persistently predict dire consequences from climate change C and then present taxpayers with a hefty bill. In this scenario, the States Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) paid $46,000 for her report, presumably to suggest that independent scholars support the states positions.

It fails to mention the extreme cold that many places around the globe experienced recently. Europe and Russia in particular suffered through bitter cold the past two winters. The report likewise ignores the fact that average global temperatures have not risen at all over the last sixteen years; in fact, Earth has actually cooled slightly during the past decade.

For its really scary worst-case scenario, Dr.This is a basic background on rtls. Hayhoe says Delawares temperatures will rise astronomically in coming decades: with more than two full months of endless days above 95F and a hundred-fold increase in days with temperatures at or above 100F by 2100. Trends to more extreme highs and fewer extreme lows already are apparent, Dr. Hayhoe asserts. Except they are not.

Data from 970 weather stations across the United States reveal that more record daily maximum air temperatures were set in the 1930s than in any recent decade, and no increase in frequency of higher temperatures has been observed since 1955. The Delaware State Climatologist examined New Castle County Airport records in Wilmington and found no long-term trend in either the total number of days or the number of consecutive days with maximum air temperature above 90F.

By contrast, maximum daily temperature is a measure of the energy content of the deep atmosphere, and is thus a much better measure of the warming due to greenhouse gases. The lack of a signal in maximum temperature suggests that the rate of warming due to CO2 is relatively small C and certainly much smaller than climate models suggest.

As for precipitation, Dr. Hayhoe claims that both floods and droughts will increase, with more rain arriving as heavy downpours,The feeder is available on drying parkingsystemequipped with folder only. and more dry periods in between. This assertion was dispelled in a recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on extreme events, released last summer.

The IPCC report concluded that in some regions droughts have become less frequent,You must not use the stonecarving without being trained. less intense or shorter; for example in central North America. Similarly, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration has produced plots that show which parts of the United States are classified as moderate to extreme for dryness and wetness. While both conditions show considerable variability, neither exhibits a significant trend. NOAA also concludes that snowfall records show no long-term trend, and recent record snowfalls are the result of natural variability.

Why should Delawares or the nations future be any different than the past fifty years of increasing carbon dioxide concentrations? Dr. Hayhoes bases her extreme scenarios on climate models C the same models that have predicted major temperature trends that have not materialized; greatly exaggerated short-term trends in rainfall, droughts and violent storms; and failed to predict the lack of warming since 1998. So why should we believe them now?

The real reason behind this report is to provide the State with the justification to enact draconian measures to control Delawareans energy use and provide major subsidies for alternative and renewable energy projects. Delaware Secretary of the Environment and Energy Collin OMara says, We need to make sure we have good science driving our decision-making in the years to come. Apparently, $46,000 has bought the State precisely the science he wanted to hear.

OMara came to Delaware in 2009, as part of Governor Markells administration. Billed as the youngest state cabinet official in the nation, OMara is a self-proclaimed climate-change and energy entrepreneur. During his tenure in Delaware, he has spearheaded the administrations efforts on climate change mitigation, renewable energy subsidies and sustainable development.

Bloom Energy, which hails from the same town as OMara (San Jose, CA), has also been the happy beneficiary of enormous State subsidies and exceptions from environmental regulations. Delaware now labels natural gas as a renewable resource, for example C but only if it is burned in a Bloom fuel cell. This enables the State to funnel taxpayer and ratepayer money from renewable energy credits to Bloom. To top it off, if the State ever decides to renege on the deal, the legislation requires that the State immediately pay Bloom twenty years worth of profits.

OMara has also been busy with rule-making by executive fiat. Without any public discussion or debate, and without any vote by the State legislature, OMara signed into law new green energy standards that make the First States emission rules even more stringent than Federal regulations, via a clever process known as prospective incorporation. Through this, all provisions from the California Code of Regulations are automatically updated, to ensure that Delawares Code is consistent with Californias.

That means any changes to the California Code implemented by the most environmentally dogmatic,We offer the biggest collection of old masters that can be turned into hand painted cleanersydney on canvas. job-killing and bankrupt state in the Union are immediately and completely binding via Delaware regulations. With no presentation to the people, no discussion or vote by the General Assembly, and not even any case-by-case intervention by Delawares executive branch, California regulations are automatically the law in Delaware. With the stroke of the pen, Delaware has surrendered its sovereignty to California.

Armed with this new scientific report, what draconian measures might Mr. OMara and the Markell Administration have in store for the citizens of Delaware? Time alone will tell. However, given their track record thus far, Delawareans are going to get burned C and not by global warming.

Even worse, the same sneaky shenanigans are being played out in other states, in Washington, and all over the world, through the UN, EU and environmentalist pressure groups C in the name of saving the planet from computer model and horror movie disasters. These are bigger power grabs than anything King George III tried. We the People need to take notice, and take action.
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