Americans freeze due to the Climate Calamity™


Posted On: Wednesday - January 17th 2024 4:32PM MST
In Topics:   Music  Global Climate Stupidity

Note: This is just weather, people, not climate! Record highs are a different story.



I've been through all these except McAllen, Texas*.


We're obviously not putting enough Carbon Dioxide "emissions" into the air. I've had enough of this cold already, and the "forecasters" at Apple in Cupertino - high today, 61F, low tomorrow morning, 45F, bastards! - are telling me this will last for a week. (Perhaps they are wrong - that's usually the case.)

Here's what the Fox News weather site asked:
Why has the winter been mild, and what is changing that?

El Niño is partly to blame for the mild winter so far in the U.S. During an El Niño winter, the temperatures in the northern U.S. are usually warmer** and drier than average, according to NOAA. The jet stream generally flows from west to east.

"So we were pretty lucky for a good chunk of the month of December and even into the very beginnings of January, but now it's been a kind of page turn, if you will, a complete flip of the script," FOX Weather Meteorologist Kendall Smith said. "Because now we're starting to see that cold air that has been locked in place over Canada and over the Arctic. That's going to be starting to change." 
So, in other words, you don't know.

As we stated long ago in Part 5 of our series There is no working mathematical model of the world's climate, dammit!, if you don't know when El Nino or La Nina is coming, then how can you claim to have a working model of the entire climate? This phenomenon has at least been studied and has some predictive value (except this time), one of the few season long trends that seems to be partially understood, its effect on North America at least. From that long ago post:
However, as my debating opponent admitted, the El Nino effect is NOT KNOWN ABOUT UNTIL IT IS ALREADY IN PROGRESS. (Same with La Nina, the opposite effect). So, I asked the gentleman if El Nino/La Nina are INPUTS to, or OUTPUTS from, these climate models. The answer is neither.
So then, if you can't predict El Nino, if it's an input to the model then it's garbage in, but if it's an output of your model than we can see your model sucks ... because we can't predict El Nino. Well, I mean 3 months after it starts each time, we can, so there's that ...

I don't like this Arctic Freeze business. I purposely live far from the Arctic Circle, and I shouldn't have to put up with. It's a calamity, what with the car batteries not up to the task, the pipes in danger of freezing, and the cat freaking out because we won't let him out to chase anything. (You give him a taste of the cold, he comes back in, and 5 minutes later he's forgotten the whole thing.) Let Fox Weather give you some more temperatures:
It's so cold [How cold IS it?! - Ed(itor) McMahon] that the National Weather Service has issued Wind Chill Advisories and Warnings from the Canadian border to the Mexican border. Temperatures are 25-35 degrees below average for mid-January, which is already one of the coldest months for most places.

Fortunately, the coldest air is already behind us as temperatures begin to moderate a bit in the next 48 hours, the FOX Forecast Center said. The intensity of the cold air will decrease as temperatures become only 10-20 degrees below average, but the long duration of this arctic blast could stress people and infrastructure.
And the cats. Will somebody please think of the cats?!

Well, OK, per Fox Weather, the climate will get better. Per a well-known Climate Political Scientist, the Earth has had a fever. These are the chills you often get when you have a fever. It's letting up, so it'll only be 10 to 20 below average soon, and those are just Fahrenheit degrees, 5/9 the size of the Celsius ones.

With that word "calamity" a particular song from 14 years back always comes into my head. This is I think the 3rd time it's appeared here, but how many good songs do they make these days? It helps a lot to have help from REM, as the guitarist here did (from Peter Buck, that is). One good riff can make a great song.

The Calamity Song is by a band called The Decemberists. After hearing this I was very hopeful, but I didn't find another from them that I liked much.



The lyrics are nonsense, very much in the REM style, but who cares? Turn it up!!


* That's one of the BIG invasion points. We're gonna have to start calling the "migrants" Icebacks, the way this is going.

** Except when they're not.

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[UPDATED 1/18:] Added another excerpt from the Fox Weather site article.
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Comments:
The Alarmist
Thursday - January 18th 2024 1:45PM MST
PS

Stolen from Gatito Bueno:

——
so here’s a thing i noticed:

if you go to a psychologist and you see the exact same thing in every ink-blot, they call you “monomaniacal” or “obsessive.”

but if you go to the new york times, they call you “a climate scientist!”

weird, huh?

——
🕉😊🛸
Adam Smith
Thursday - January 18th 2024 11:52AM MST
PS: Good afternoon,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkrcxLgHn-w

We've had some serious 𝑪𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆™ here in the mountains this week. For example, the other night it was ~10° and barely above freezing during the day. (Good news is Baby Girls' new heater kept her Kitty House cozy in the 70° zone.)(And the water in her heated bucket didn't freeze.)

Yesterday was also cold, but not as cold as the other night. And today it's sunny and about 50° out there. Forecast says it will be above freezing tonight.

All this 𝑪𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆™ and the week isn't even over yet!

https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/255949

☮️
MBlanc46
Thursday - January 18th 2024 11:34AM MST
PS Our poor neighbors back in the western Chicago suburbs are getting hit pretty hard in what was supposed to be a mild, dry winter. On the other hand, it is January, and this is what January can be in Chicago. Here in our winter hideout in southern California, it was supposed to be cool and wet, like last winter. Although the highs have only been in the low sixties, it has been pretty decent so far. Touch wood. But whatever the actual weather is, it’s due to CLIMATE CHANGE!!! Too hot: Climate change. Too cold: Climate change. Too wet: Climate change. Too dry: Climate change. The global elites have latched on to CLIMATE CHANGE!!! in order to take complete control of our lives. They’ve ridden it for too long for them to give up on it now.
Moderator
Thursday - January 18th 2024 9:27AM MST
PS: Old Soldier, I like that "global warming astrologist" term. I may "borrow" that one.
Old Soldier
Thursday - January 18th 2024 9:09AM MST
PS "the reason these people like to predict the future climate, sea levels and that a century ahead is that they'll be dead before anyone can call them out on their bullshit." And global warming astrologists look quite foolish because their predictions are always wrong, yet still manage to keep their jobs! That alone speaks volumes!
Old Soldier
Thursday - January 18th 2024 9:05AM MST
PS If we get any more of this global warming, I'll freeze to death.
Moderator
Thursday - January 18th 2024 6:22AM MST
PS: Good morning, Alarmist. I'll be the first to admit that weather isn't climate. However, the reason these people like to predict the future climate, sea levels and that a century ahead is that they'll be dead before anyone can call them out on their bullshit.

Of course, you knew that, hence your comment. Thanks.
The Alarmist
Thursday - January 18th 2024 2:03AM MST
PS

Predicting the weather next week or month is really hard for the people comfortable with predicting the effects of climate change on global temperatures, sea levels, etc. a century ahead.
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