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Hot And Bothered About Heat Waves

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No, we can’t conclude anything about climate change from them.

“In fact the most recent (2021) report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) does not support the common claims about drought, floods, hurricanes and other severe weather events. Not only does the last IPCC report find no clear trends, it offers “low confidence” in predictions of future trends.”

20 thoughts on “Hot And Bothered About Heat Waves”

  1. Ice water breaks so mowing takes 2-to-3 sessions …and no mowing when it is hottest. Oklahoma summertime …yay! It was hotter when I was a kid in the early 70’s so I have personal experience in Climate™ coming and going.

    1. I can sympathize. Growing up in the mid-west, my Grandfather had an incredible knack for baling hay on the sunniest and hottest days of the year… He used to pause for beer breaks. But the problem with that was the bucking crew would get a little too careless afterwards to the point of potentially dangerous falls or hay hook accidents. It was ice water or soda pop from then on.

  2. Here in Hawaii we had a series where everyone went ballistic because NOAA released a statement: “due to global warming, there is a 50% chance of a worse than typical hurricane season.”

    Hmm, sounds tautological. (I was told there would be no math?)

  3. As an aficionado for fiction, Krugman should stick to Economics.

    What I love about Crimate Slyence, is the moving averages. Like base-lining your temperature averages from the the coolest decade of the 1970s with the hottest decade of the the 1930s falling off the left end of the tally. Or you just re-jigger the past data measurements down by 1 or 2 degrees, because, algorithms… And we all know the high degree of precise calibration and precision of ocean going diesel powered sea vessels inlet water thermometers and the “well established fact” of their insular performance and lack of outlet water influence.

    1. I guess in the case of the latter, one could argue that there’d be no outlet water induced climate change without the combustion of fossil fuels.

    2. I was on a Zoom call for popular music performed on an accordian offered to a group of mask-wearing Whole Foods shoppers spanning the country (don’t ask how I am adjacent to popular music on the accordian or a national group of mask-wearing Whole Food shoppers).

      The gentleman in Florida claimed that the “sea surface temperature has reached 100-F, it is killing all of the coral in the Florida Keys, and this will make for a horrific hurricane season because hurricanes are powered by warm seawater.”

      I guess I could fact-check this, but will I run into the narrative that this is all real and all from Climate Change? Does the sea surface temperature in the Gulf of Mexico get that warm, and is it really that warm right ow?

      1. I’m awaiting the paper that takes a sample from a fleet of 100 supertankers containing their evil liquids, idling in the Gulf Of Mexico, station keeping while awaiting docking and believe me, the water inlet temperatures are all going only in one direction!

    3. I always marvel at Gerbil Werming™ graphs calculated to a thousandth of a degree Celsius interpolated from instruments showing accuracies of maybe one half a degree. My Intro to Engineering 101 prof would have covered my homework with red circles if I had claimed accuracy like that.

    4. Ever notice how almost all of their datasets and graphs go back no further than 1850. That just conveniently happens to be when the Little Ice Age ended, and surprise it has gotten warmer since then.

  4. It is amazing how natural variation during one of the best climates humans have ever experienced has been turned into a prophecy of apocalypse.

    What do all the most educated among our society think happened before 1900? There are at least 1,900 years of history to look at, 15,000 years of “modern” history, or 300,000 years of pre-history for homo sapiens. Do people really not know anything about what life was like before WWI?

    1. You mean there was like life, before television? Are you sure? I mean all those movies from WWI and before have to be fake. Things in real life don’t move that fast!

    2. Some people my age or younger seem to have difficulty grasping what life was like before 1980.

  5. I take my father in law to breakfast each weekend, and when I picked him up Saturday morning the first thing he said was “it is so hot! Seventeen people have died due to the heat!”

    I exclaimed “right here in town? That is terrible, I had not even heard of this” and he said, “no, nationwide”. I said “seventeen heat related deaths is bad, but nationwide? More people than that were shot in Chicago yesterday”.

    He then decided that maybe the news was blowing things way out of proportion.

  6. Funny: We only have this problem in the summertime….

    The government must DO SOMETHING! Using other peoples taxes.

      1. Good luck banning summer as long as teacher’s unions exist. They work hard to get their 10-12 week vacations.

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