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The National Climate “Assessment”

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Judith Curry has the goods on this latest bout of junk science:

My main conclusion from reading the report is this: the phrase ‘climate change’ is now officially meaningless. The report effectively implies that there is no climate change other than what is caused by humans, and that extreme weather events are equivalent to climate change. Any increase in adverse impacts from extreme weather events or sea level rise is caused by humans. Possible scenarios of future climate change depend only on emissions scenarios that are translated into warming by climate models that produce far more warming than has recently been observed.

Roger Pielke approves.

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  1. Not too long ago it was widely acknowledged that the climate had long period cycles, such as El Nino/La Nina, the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation, and so on. Such things would factor into the weather forecast for a region for decades. Now, all of that cyclic variability is a: termed entirely negative, and b: put down as “climate change” due to human activity. This is an act of desperation. And it will inevitably result in humiliation as the cycles come back around (as the AMO cycle will likely lead to increasing arctic ice thickness/extent over the next few years).

    1. “his is an act of desperation. And it will inevitably result in humiliation as the cycles come back around (as the AMO cycle will likely lead to increasing arctic ice thickness/extent over the next few years).”

      But the same players will be blamed and the same solutions proposed.

  2. Over at WUWT, Anthony has a graph of artificial corrections that NOAA has made to the temperature record over the years. The game appears to be to correct temperatures before 2000 down by as much as a degree and those afterwards upwards. Correction this year was 1.5 deg F – meaning it must have been a pretty cold year. This is pretty bad and will be used as the foundation of policy out of this regime. Cheers –

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/06/ive-been-waiting-for-this-statement-and-the-national-climate-assessment-has-helpfully-provided-it/

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