Temperatures have not risen in Florida, and it has been six years since Florida was hit by a hurricane – the longest period on record. But the author wanted to blame something on global warming so he made up some mindless crap and his editor published it.
The debate over global warming tends to focus on future perils – scary maps of flooded suburbs, the northward creep of tropical diseases, rich farmland turning into desert.
But some of the effects of global warming have already arrived in South Florida, as coastal cities flood more frequently and overheated corals turn white and die. The region’s temperatures have not gone up, however, and many scientists say climate change has had little effect on hurricanes.
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I had to check the source to make sure the article was written as represented. The reporter writes two sentences in the same paragraph, both of which contradict each other. Huh? This type of writing wouldn’t even pass at the grade school level.
SOP for climatology! That way every one can claim the paragraph supports their position.
“..overheated corals turn white and die. The region’s temperatures have not gone up..”
Now overheating is caused by a lack of rising temperatures. It’s the New Science.
Its a phenomena that’s related to our warmcold.
I think that Dead Coral story was from Coral FREEZING to death in La Nina waters. So, the effects have arrived, tho the temp has not risen? Wow. Very tricky, that.
A CGate2 email from alarmist Thorne: “Observations do not show rising [temps in] the tropical troposphere unless you accept one single study…and discount a wealth of others.” A Forbes commenter: “the troposphere is one of the three places that increased temperatures must be observed if there is warming. Increased warming is simply not observed there. There is no global warming. Global warming isn’t real.”
Oh, kick me, I forgot, it’s “climate change!” …my bad, never mind.
Yes, the high tropical troposphere thing was, to me, the final nail in the coffin when I was still trying to figure out if the AGW conjecture could hold or not. That finished it.
The one study I have seen that shows the Hot Spot is by Santer where the start and end dates were selected and some data was discarded because it did not fit.
I could be wrong but seem to recall reading about the Big Red Dog a couple of years ago!
http://climvis.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/cag3/hr-display3.pl
The above page from NOAA shows temperature change in Florida going DOWN every year from 1895 until 2011. Funny thing is I’ve not been able to connect with it in well over a week.
The northern extent of citrus groves has monotonically moved southward over the last 150 years, from the southern edges of S. Carolina to the current location just south of Orlando.
This is, of course, clearly due to global warming.
In our brave new world, freezing is caused by heating.
The author’s lawyer would tell you, “the two effects cited are the result of rising sea level (coastal flooding) and increased SSTs (murdered coral), both of which are well documented and have been attributed in the peer reviewed literature to AGW. Neither are dependent on the local anaomaly of little or no increase in local surface temperature. Accordingly, there is no contradiction in the article, except that fantasized by shills of the fossil fuel industry.”
I’m not sure if all these guys just write badly and unintentionally create such ambiguity, or if they are remarkably clever and build these little escape hatches into everything they do and say. Either way, it allows them to ignore plain meaning and deflect criticism as extremist. We still have a long way to go to win this war, my friends.
Apparently Phil is completely unaware that the recent coral die-off referred to happened during the winter due to extreme cold. Oops!
http://keysnews.com/node/20365
Have you no sense of humour or ability to detect sarcasm, Mr. Independent? I think you entirely missed the point of my post.
Nope, missed the “lawyer” part I guess, sorry about that. And you’re probably right that is what they would say, slipperier than eels these folks.
” already arrived in South Florida, as coastal cities flood more frequently ”
Which coastal cities in Florida have flooded ?
When ?
I guess there was some flooding.
Scratch previous post.
HAppy Thanksgiving.