{"id":10069,"date":"2012-01-21T21:53:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T02:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=10069"},"modified":"2012-01-21T21:53:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T02:53:40","slug":"iowa-state-meteorologist-climate-change-small-factor-in-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2012\/01\/iowa-state-meteorologist-climate-change-small-factor-in-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa State meteorologist: Climate change small factor in weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elwynn Taylor is not a <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2011\/09\/08\/the-nonsensus-97-to-98-of-climate-scientists-believe-in-global-warming\/\">97%-er<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Des Moines Register<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.desmoinesregister.com\/dmr\/index.php\/2012\/01\/21\/isu-meteorologist-climate-change-small-factor-in-weather\/\">reports<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iowa suffered its hottest July since the mid-1950s last year and has received below-average moisture since, but agricultural meteorologist Elwynn Taylor of Iowa State University told the Land Investment Expo Friday that climate change accounts for only about 5 percent of whatever weather patterns emerge at a given time.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor told the group that weather patterns tend to run in cycles as long as two decades, and that Iowa has emerged from a period of relatively mild, stable weather to a pattern of colder winters and perhaps hotter, drier summers similar to what happened in the 1950s and again in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t discount man-made impacts of climate change,\u2019 Taylor said in respones to a question. \u201cBut I would put the impact of climate change on our weather right now at no more than 5 percent&#8221;&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elwynn Taylor is not a 97%-er.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-2Cp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}