Where Is The “Climate Emergency”?

We have a climate emergency. Where I live, we will be 10F below the average temps for this time of year for at least a week...... It's F'in cold here.....

 

Same here.

 

It's cold here too. It won't get above 50 f today.

 

It's 20 degrees here in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Tried to tell my wife it's too cold to take the dogs for a walk or out to the property to run for an hour or so.

She wasn't buying any of that crap. So, I took them to the property. Dang things went swimming in the pond.

Apparently global warming doesn't bother them.

 

That’s Civil War weather.

 

I grew up in the Detroit area. Here it was 13 degrees when I woke up. Still 40 degrees above the all time low of my life, but still.....

 

I grew up in the Upper Peninsula - Ishpeming. I recall going to school one winter morning at - 32F. Went to Michigan Tech and played basketball. Freshman year was in Bemidji Minnesota to play Bemidji State. The night before it was - 78F with the wind chill.

 

A fellow Michigander!

Not to derail the thread, but how about them Lions?

Or are you a Packers fan?

 

Did you grow up there?

Always a Lions fan although most yoopers are Packers fans. I remember 1957 - I was 8 years old Maybe a repeat in 2025?

 

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The Yale Lary football card was memorable. Full extension punting.
I grew up in Indiana so I had my pick of Midwest teams. Bart Starr was my favorite player.

 

Yes, I did. I was born in Salt Lake City (oldest of 4 kids) but we moved to Dearborn, MI in 1967 when I was 6. First major sports memory was the Tiger's 1968 World Series. Met and married a sweet, young lady whose family came from Norton, VA in 1987 and we moved here to Virginia in 1998. Been here ever since.

But still a diehard Lions, Tigers, Red Wings, Pistons, and Wolverines fan to this day.

As we say these days, "Win one before I die"!

Good to know I don't have to hate you now.

 

As long as you didn't come from Columbus, OH, I don't have to hate you either.

 

Small town in southern Indiana.

 

Graduated from high school in 1967. First college basketball game was in Detroit against Wayne State Tartars - now the more politically correct Warriors. Second college basketball game was in Ypsilanti against the Eastern Michigan Hurons - now the more politically correct Eagles. Now nobody knows what a Tartar and Huron is.

Yes - Lions, Pistons, Tigers, Red Wings, but I always like the Spartans more for some reason.

 

I remember that football card. I had a lot of the 1950's Lions and a lot more but my Mom took them all to the church bazaar sale after I had moved out. We visited when our kids were small and I was going to show them all my old cards but they were all gone. Ouch. Liked the Lions but also liked all the Packers players.

 

OK, last off-topic post. Many of my classmates when I graduated in 1979 went to Wayne State, a well-recognized engineering school as well as a decent music school.

Myself, I got my undergraduate degree from Eastern Michigan. Both schools will be Tartars and Hurons for me for the rest of my life.

And my MBA came from Michigan. And the Spartans still suck.

 

Stupid is as stupid does.
The Paris Agreement Is Symbolic - And Helping Nothing
Hank Campbell, Science 2.0

 

Warming seems to have missed China.
Another New Study Finds Warming Has Missed China For Centuries
By Kenneth Richard on 14. February 2025

There has been no net warming at 3 mid-latitude study sites in China since 1916 (Tongbai Mountain), 1663 (Shimen Mountain), and 1541 (Xinlong).

Zheng et al., 2025

 

Rapid natural climate change.
Sahara Desert Shows Abrupt Extreme Climate Change Is Natural, Nothing Human About It.
By P Gosselin on 26. March 2025

Abrupt, dramatic climate changes happen naturally. Scientists find Sahara went from green to parched in just a matter of decades.



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The claim that human emissions are causing the climate to change dramatically and abruptly is used to instill fear among the population. Without human emissions, the climate would still change, but much more calmly and gradually, so they like to have us believe.

But anyone who has studied climate history knows that climate change tends happen abruptly, often over the course of just a few decades.

One example is the Sahara, which wasn’t always a desert. Trees and grasslands dominated the landscape from roughly 10,000 years ago to 5,000 years ago, scientists reported in a paper published in 2013. “Then, abruptly, the climate changed, and north Africa began to dry out.”

The study published in Science says it all took just a few hundred years.

According to the authors: “Our analysis suggests that the termination of the African Humid Period in the Horn of Africa occurred within centuries, underscoring the non-linearity of the region’s hydroclimate.”

The Saharan shift is thought to have been initially triggered by more sunlight falling on Earth’s northern hemisphere, as Earth’s cyclic orientation toward the sun changed. It had nothing to do with CO2 emissions and human activities. It was all natural.

Man has an impact, but the real change is still very much natural and is still very poorly understood today. Performing weather-alteration rituals won’t make Mother Nature tamer.

 

Those pushing the CO2 climate narrative constantly wail that the modern warming is "unprecedented," and even "10x faster than any previous climate change" (or 100x, 1000x, 1Mx, it doesn't seem to matter when the lie is that big). But the warming at the end of the Younger Dryas, just 10Kya, was faster than the modern warming.

 

You can have the alarmist narrative or you can have the data, but you can't have both.
German Droughts Were Much More Common Back In The Old Days, Before 1980!
By P Gosselin on 23. April 2025

Central Europe has been experiencing a bout of dry weather since February. Germany’s DWD national weather service reported in a recent press release that just 19 liters per square meter (l/m²) fell in March compared to the approx. 60 liters that normally fall in the month. This made last March one of the driest since measurements began in 1881.

“The pronounced drought, which had already lasted in some regions since the beginning or middle of February, was caused by high-pressure areas that repeatedly settled over Central Europe or in the surrounding area,” reports the DWD.

Not surprisingly, the media are making alarmist claims of unprecedented drought, and all hinting it’s due to climate sins by mankind.

Driest years overwhelmingly before 1980

So is drought in rainy Germany something new that we have only begun to experience, like the media and pols suggest?

The historical data show that the answer is clearly NO.

Four of the 5 driest years on record in Germany occurred before 1960. Eight of the top 9 occurred before man-made climate change was ever an issue (before 1980).



Annual precipitation of the 9 driest years since 1881. Hat-tip: Stefan Homburg

And when we look at Germany’s long-term precipitation trend since data began to be recorded, we see the trend is in fact becoming wetter:



Chart: DWD.

Yet, green politicians in Germany have begun calling for a “masterplan” for water-saving and, not surprisingly, more restrictions on how we use water.

Dr. Stefan Homburg summarizes at the end of his video: “I just can’t get my head around it, ladies and gentlemen. I personally don’t understand as a final evaluation why we allow politicians to really ignore real, existing problems and instead invent problems that don’t exist at all in order to derive restrictions on our lives and, above all, to make life more and more expensive through CO2 taxes certificates and so on.”

 

It makes sense to have a plan for responsible use of water resources; but concocting a link between that and the CO2 climate narrative is fraudulent nonscience.