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
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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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