Ian Bradford: Climate and Weather Are Not the Same - and thinning clouds cause the warming.

A number of weather events have been happening lately that have been associated with climate change by the climate alarmists. Weather events do not in general, signify climate change.

Weather is real and observed as well as being chaotic and non linear. There are no regular patterns with weather. Weather is part of our physical world, climate is not. You can look out your window and see weather. You cannot see climate by looking out your window. Climate is an abstract concept. That means it exists in thought or as an idea, but does not have a physical existence. We know most climate predictions are made using a computer. So clearly there is no physical existence. In fact, it is likely no one living at present will notice any climate change. When scientists talk about global warming they are talking about 1.1 deg C since the Industrial Revolution in 1850. We don’t know whether it is true or not, but the alarmists say most of the warming has occurred in recent years. So to get around this let’s take 80 years from year 1900. 80 Years is an average life span. So for someone who lived from 1900 to 1980 the temperature increase was just 0.5 Deg C. Given a lifespan of about 80 years can anybody detect a rise of 0.5 deg C over their life? No of course they can’t.

Ian Bradford: Rain and Flooding are NOT Climate - they are Weather Events

I have been forcing myself to watch TV1 news for a time so that I know what they are promoting. There is hardly a night goes by without part-Maori featuring, and reports of rain and floods, and lately the hurricanes which did much damage in the USA. The implication is always that humans are causing climate change by emission of CO2 and these weather events are a result of that.  

Let’s remind ourselves what NASA said about climate:  “No weather by itself is evidence of global warming/climate change, as the test is whether the weather adds to a new weather pattern over many years or even millennia.” 

Ele Ludemann: Distinguishing science from activism

Ulf Büntgen writes on the importance of distinguishing climate science from climate activism:

I am concerned by climate scientists becoming climate activists, because scholars should not have a priori interests in the outcome of their studies. Likewise, I am worried about activists who pretend to be scientists, as this can be a misleading form of instrumentalization. . .