Based on projections of 5 degree increases in summer temps, these clowns predict terrible droughts, for example, on the Iberian Penninsula.
I would point out that warming will circulate more water vapor, if it occurs, and that the planet is 3/4 water, so we got plenty o’ water.
Water distribution and supplies are affected by politics and economics, but to say that the water from the sky is going to stop because of the evil capitalist machine and carbon dioxide?
Besides, Hollywood is always portraying the dystopic future as cloudy and rainy (think Blade Runner), can’t these people get their story straight?
Now if the researchers claim that someone will not pay attention to distributing the water or installing desalinization where it is needed, is that a warming catastrophe? And let’s see–average temp up 5 degrees C, which is not likely, still we are in a tolerable range because the earth is a soup and temps equilibrate except in models where everything is designed to look like we are going to hell, quick. Models have these forcers and no feedback mitigators, but I know the subject of this scare notice is one of the great feedback chemicals in the universe–water, that does such a nice job of mitigating cold and hot.
I have a model in my head that says these people are wrong, and warming causes more precip and we see another green explosion, if we get warm, if we don’t get warm, and it looks like that’s a serious possibility–we are going to wish we generated more carbon dioxide, not less.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2536499/Climate-change-cause-Europe-suffer-80-droughts-claim-scientists.html
Always good for a scare. After all, nobody wants to live in a desert! Funny, every time a drought comes about in the last 20 years, it’s always a consequence of global warming. Then when the area returns to normal precipitation in a couple of years (as drought areas are wont to do), then they’re on to another drought area. God knows that there is always a drought going on somewhere in the world at any given moment.
How come extreme weather events are always a sign of global warming, but long periods of average conditions are not considered a refutation of global warming? It seems to me that if extremes are an indicator of something, then lack of extremes should indicate the opposite. Perhaps we should focus on regions that are experiencing long periods of seasonal conditions,. Of course, If they did focus on them, that would be proof of global warming too.
Good points. I have always thought that people don’t even get it. water in all its forms creates all kinds of positive effects, mitigating things and creating feedbacks that should not be ignored.
The Sahara thing has been discussed before, for sure. The reason that it does up to 120 or 130 F in the tropics is humidity and water vapor–deserts are dry, cold at night and hot in the day, albedo and plant produced vapors make the tropics very warm but not hot, hot deserts.
John, didn’t Mr. Milloy tip us to “the greening of the Sahara” a while back? Something about how as we warmed and gained CO2 over the last century, that desert body has actually shrunk in acreage by something like 20%? I can’t remember where I heard that now.
Also, and again I can’t remember where exactly I saw this (SPPI, I think), but Viscount Moncton showed mathematically that the increased evapotranspiration of the Amazonian rain forest alone due to the increase of atmospheric CO2 should cancel out any warming brought on by that same CO2, and that’s using the IPCC’s own forcing numbers.
Who feels like a campfire? I’ve got hotdogs and marshmallows….
I think installing desalination is the goal of this one. They pulled that scam in Australia not too long ago. Huge waste of public resources to prop up an unnecessary industry in the name of mitigating climate change. Sounds familiar. I wish they’d change the record.
The Iberian peninsula has droughts on a regular basis and has for all of known history. So do the Great Plains of North America and all grasslands. That makes it easy for the scaremongers to “predict” droughts, since it’s like predicting sunrise.
Are these the same folks who predicted that children in England wouldn’t know what snow is like? 5°C by the end of the century with no rise by year or decade mentioned. They make rather wild predictions and the gloomiest get reported without any milestones to check validity. Besides, the same group will be out in a few weeks with another different dire prediction and no one will hold them to account for the last bit of gloom and doom.