Apparently, Barry and the Democrats would rather discuss ‘global warming/climate change’ than the far more important issues such as Obamacare and the economy. And the reason I say that is because while Secretary of State John Kerry-Heinz prances around the world speaking doing his best to advance the cockamamie theory, right here at home we recently had Barry claiming that California’s worst drought in a century is also linked to ‘global warming’ caused by those pesky old greenhouse gas emissions that he’s trying to get rid of.
But we also seem to have a tiny minority of supposedly shoddy scientists, that John Kerry-Heinz recently made reference to while on one of his many wasted trips abroad, who aren’t so willing to let Barry get away with making his idiotic claim. And one those scientists is Richard Seager, who’s happens to be a climate scientist who studies water issues at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. And it’s Mr. Seager who told The New York Times, "I’m pretty sure the severity of this thing is due to natural variability."
Mr. Seager bases his claim that ‘climate change’ has played little or no role in causing the drought, on recent computer projections that suggest that as the world warms, California should get wetter not drier in the winter. The drought, which has lasted three years, has made 2013 the driest year in California since records first started being kept 119 years ago. But even The Times says there’s no concrete evidence to support the theories that a warming planet is what has caused California’s drought leading to a water shortage.
And Michael Anderson, the California state climatologist, has said, "We are going through a pattern we’ve seen before, but we’re doing it in a warmer environment." And last week, while on a tour of central California, Barry proudly announced $160 million in federal financial aid to the state, including $100 million in the farm bill he’d previously signed into law for programs that cover the loss of livestock. So like every other issue he encounters, Barry reacts like your typical Democrat by doing nothing more than to throw more money at it.
And then we have the White House ‘shoddy science’ adviser, John Holdren, who stated last week that, ultimately, climate change is the reason behind California’s water shortage, even though "no single episode of extreme weather" can be blamed on global warming. He said, "The global climate has now been so extensively impacted by the human-caused buildup of greenhouse gases that weather practically everywhere is being influenced by climate change." It’s like if the say it enough, the rest of us will finally start to believe this drivel.
But Mr. Seager, on the other hand, said that southwestern states have suffered drought conditions in some form for 15 years, and warmer climates have resulted in winter precipitation tending to fall as rain rather than snow. With less snow melting during the spring, these states face a lack of water during the hot summer months. "It all adds up across the Southwest to an increasingly stressed water system," he said. "That’s what they might as well get ready for." Liberals have long bragged about being big supporters of science, but oddly enough, it’s only if science can be made to at least appear to be supportive of their nutty theories.
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