Ah, Booby and another one of his escape clauses:
Quote:if it's hot it proves global warming &
if it's cold it proves global warming
Climate scientists do not mention purely local events as evidence of AGW.
Of course, he only considers LOCAL cooling because that is all Dubyne and the other snake oil sellers cover.
Lots of coverage of “The Beast from the East” oh, sure sign of an ice age! No coverage of the Arctic being warm (61 days above freezing to end Feb at one station, NH winter!) which would not fit with an ice age. Ice coverage in the Arctic last NH winter was LESS than in winter 2016
The snake oil sellers pushing a mini ice age always talk of Arctic ice increasing etc etc even when, like last NH winter when it is decreasing.
But Booby is not very bright or well educated and falls for crap like that. The global picture is NEVER discussed by the snake oil sellers.
Last NH summer was bloody hot. I went through any number of local papers from Western US to China and Japan—heatwaves everywhere. Not discussed by the snake oil sellers AT ALL
And the snake oil sellers LIE in other ways:
1. Talk about a local cold event for weeks, making a cold snap seem to last a month.
2. Dubyne said that last years Australian wheat harvest had failed—talked of 70% losses—due to a late start and a cold winter. I checked up: the 2017 was 2% bigger than the 10 year average and the winter was WARM here last year. Booby just accepted the cold winter uncritically. The 2017 harvest may have looked small compared to the bumper 2016 harvest but that does not make it small in actual fact.
3. A fox fell through thin ice on the Danube and was “flash frozen.” When I pointed out the impossibility of that Booby said wtte “I am not responsible for every word Dubyne utters” but he had posted that video and accepted the “flash freezing.” Liquid nitrogen can flash freeze but water, being above 0°C cannot. Lees could not figure this out either. Seems a farmer fished the fox carcase out the river, froze it into a block of ice and put it on the bank to warn people the ice was thin.
4. It snowed in Morocco for the first time ever—ice age! Oops, a Moroccan was one of the people who watched that particular lying video and told Dubyne that Morocca had two ski resorts. So much for snow being unusual! Apparently snow used to fall down to sea level but had not for decades—guess it was warm enough to melt the snow that did not fall on the Atlas Mountains.
5. Galactic Cosmic rays are reaching the earth in record numbers and are causing clouds and thus cooling the earth. It is scientific fact that CRs do not cause water vapor to condense—just do a Google. AGW warms the seas and so they evaporate more water vapor. AGW has warmed the air and so it can hold 8% more moisture than it could in 1900. Warm moist air moves over land, cools—and the moisture precipitates as rain, hail or snow.
6. The ice age fraudsters like Dubyne claim record rain, hail or snow, particularly the latter, as, yup, a sign of the ice age. It is much more a sign of AGW of course. Even record snow falls (you MUST always check when one of the snake oil sellers claims something is a record: even if it is a record it might be like a 2 or 5 year record, not really what you think when reading of “record” this or that.
7. Hail is grequently pointed to as a sign of the ice age. Poppycock! Look up hail in wiki or wherever. Hail is formed way high up in the atmosphere, sent there by strong updrafts in the middle of thunderstorms. It is not formed on the surface or lower atmosphere! With stronger thunderstorms from surfaces warmed by AGW, with more moisture in the air due to AGW is it surprising we get hail and bigger hail? I often point to the hail storm on the day my father died—late January! Water does not freeze naturally at the surface in the middle of an Adelaide summer! It froze WAY up in the atmosphere! So more and bigger hail is a sign not of an ice age but of AGW!
8. The liars claim volcanoes erupting or earthquakes happening as a sign of a grand solar minumum. My first post in this thread demolished that rubbish.
And so on. Every cool event is a sign of the ice age, every hot event is ignored.
Consider point 2. Dubyne is ALWAYS talking of crops failing even when, like the Australian 2017 wheat harvest it was a bit better than average. It is a constant refrain in his videos, in his tweets and doubtless his facebook page. Why? Is the “survival food” he advertises on his lying YouTubes his food? Or is it to make the non–existent ice age more real? I think it is directly related to money he can make—that is why he is lying about an ice age in the first place! So the survival food business is either his or he has a stake in it.