tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post5883614012488460362..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Does The Polar Vortex Over The Eastern United States Mean Global Warming Is Over?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-7143308328937376882014-01-09T14:30:16.353-05:002014-01-09T14:30:16.353-05:00Shag,
It is really unfortunate in my view that Go...Shag,<br /><br />It is really unfortunate in my view that Gore became so strongly identified with this issue. It contributed to the partisanizing of it that has led us to the point where any sort of action by Congress is now impossible, given that the GOP has been taken over by deniers, although the latter might have happened anyway due to the influence of certain corporate interests.<br /><br />It is also the case that he was wrong about some things, which has made this easier for those crticizing him on partisan grounds. Thus, he made a big deal about Katrina, but there is no scientific consensus about the impact of warming on hurricanes. It looks like it might increase intensity of them due to warmer oceans, with both Katrina and Sandy examples. But this is offset by a tendency to have fewer, dramatically seen in 2013 due to warming leading to more sand coming out of Africa in the air, which tends to suppress hurricanes. One rarely hears about that, even after the flop this past year of some people making forecasts of a massive hurricane season that did not happen.<br /><br />BTW, the scientific consensus that warming is happening remains in place, despite the last decade not clearly having a warming trend in the atmosphere. But this has already been explained in my main post.rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-80742242776745972652014-01-09T07:14:21.903-05:002014-01-09T07:14:21.903-05:00Is Gore-Tex the answer to polar vortex? Recall th...Is Gore-Tex the answer to polar vortex? Recall the Seinfeld episode with George Costanza wearing a Gore-Tex bulky jacket on a cold NYC night. Query: Was Gore-Tex named after Al Gore in response to his global warming claims?Shag from Brooklinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07312591102812315460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-58057032732221818702014-01-09T02:45:30.004-05:002014-01-09T02:45:30.004-05:00Wallfly,
You are right. In the early 70s I worke...Wallfly,<br /><br />You are right. In the early 70s I worked for the late Reid Bryson, one of the main climatologists who found the evidence for this rapid entry (and exit) from glacial periods. This is still accepted, and is one of the pieces of evidence for Weitzman's argument for fat tails in climate outcome distributions, with the many positive feedbacks in the complex nonlinear climate system easily able to generate such outcomes.rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-45337925667125525602014-01-09T00:27:41.392-05:002014-01-09T00:27:41.392-05:00The thing about the ice age theory, recalling from...The thing about the ice age theory, recalling from grade school, was that climatologists first encountered evidence of a relatively rapid onset of earlier Ice Ages in the late 60's(and as far as I know the idea that the start of glaciation can start much more quickly than the pre-1970's view is still valid). <br /><br />Yeah, lots of media scare, though I also think some academics were anxiously impressed by the fact that the onset of an glaciation might not be at all gradual. Wallflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03852136998154262919noreply@blogger.com