What’s Really Happening with the Weather
Joseph D’Aleo, CCM
This article is one of a series that counters the Green Agenda by presenting facts about the climate.
Government agencies, energy companies, auto and major corporations are increasing their support of de-carbonization programs and policies (including taxes, mandated reduction of the use of fossil fuels and promoting not ready for prime time alternatives).
This has proved to be a disaster where this unwise radical agenda has been imposed.
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What’s really Happening with the weather.
Joe D’Aleo has spent 50 years focusing on attribution science – starting with his Master’s thesis on the causes for east coast “bomb” snowstorms in winter. He has spent the decades doing correlations of weather patterns and extremes with natural factors.
For the last few years, he and a team of scientific experts evaluated today’s 12 most commonly reported claims and found them all either unfounded or explainable by natural factors.
Click here to read the detailed report.
Here’s a summary of the weather facts:
Heat records declined since the 1930s, which holds 22 of 50 state hottest ever temperature records.
The 2010’s was the second quietest decade for land-falling hurricanes and major hurricanes since 1850.
The 2010’s was the quietest decade for tornadoes since tracking began in the 1950s.
Sea level rises have slowed to 4 inches/century globally.
Arctic ice has tracked with the 60-year ocean cycles and is similar to where it was in the 1920s to 1950s.
NOAA could find no evidence of increased frequency of floods and droughts.
Last spring had the smallest % of US in drought on record.
Snow, which university scientists predicted would disappear, actually has set new records (fall and winter) for the hemisphere. North America, and both Boston and NYC, have had more snow in the 10 years ending 2018 than any other 10 year period back to the late 1800s.
Wildfires cause havoc but were far more prevalent before the forest management, fire suppression and grazing of the 1900s. They are problems now because more have left the failing cities to move out of state or to the beauty of the foothills. The power lines to service them can spark new fires when the cold air rushes through the mountain passes this time of years downing trees onto the power lines.
In the U.S., with low cost energy, low taxes and elimination of stifling regulations, we have had (until the coronavirus pandemic) the lowest unemployment for the nation in decades or history and for the first time in a long time, with significant wage increases! Here in NH, we had the lowest unemployment in the nation.
The U.S. is energy independent, a long thought unachievable goal.
Our air and water is cleanest in our lifetimes well, below the tough standards put in place decades ago.
Over the long term, the weather and the climate run in cycles.
The Ice Age was followed by warming. Glaciers have expanded and receded.
Nothing happening in the weather or climate now is outside of normal cyclical variability.
Posted by GST Board member Joseph D’Aleo
GST Board member Joseph D’Aleo has previously commented on the climate change agenda.
A Weather Channel co-founder, D’Aleo has chaired the AMS Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, and national conferences for AMS and the National Weather Association.