The BBC has a story today about the heatwave in May and early June the southwestern U.S. and Mexico. Apparently, a report by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group has claimed that climate change made the heatwave 35 times more likely, though exactly what that means goes unexplained.
The World Weather Attribution (WWA) group studied excess heat between May and early June, when the U.S. heatwave was concentrated in south-west states including California, Nevada and Arizona.
Extreme temperatures in Mexico also claimed lives during the period.
Such attribution studies take some time to complete, so it is too soon for scientists to say how much of a role climate change is playing in the current heatwave stretching from the centre of the U.S. through to the north-east and into Canada.
In their new report, the scientists said such a heatwave was now four times more likely than it was in the year 2000, driven by planet-warming emissions.
Many extreme weather events including heatwaves are becoming more frequent and intense as a result of climate change, experts say.
“The results of our study should be taken as another warning that our climate is heating to dangerous levels,” said Izidine Pinto, Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.
“Potentially deadly and record-breaking temperatures are occurring more and more frequently in the U.S., Mexico and Central America due to climate change.
“As long as humans fill the atmosphere with fossil fuel emissions, the heat will only get worse – vulnerable people will continue to die and the cost of living will continue to increase.”
The WWA study focused on a region including the US south-west and Mexico, as well as Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras which also saw dangerously high temperatures.
The interesting thing about that BBC story is the complete lack of any mention of the spectacular plunge in temperatures across the northwestern United States as a major winter storm crossed over the Rockies into Montana and Idaho. Newsweek has the story:
The calendar may be showing a date in summer, but no one seems to have told the weather — with forecasters warning of a “winter storm” for some areas despite it being mid-June.
Parts of Montana and Idaho were both hit with a “winter storm warning” by the National Weather Service (NWS), which published a map on Monday showing which regions were to be affected. Up to 15 inches of snow was possible in some areas overnight, the experts said, as they warned of the dangers for drivers and possible power outages.
WUSA9 has a video of the effects. Of course, the American West has always been prone to such extreme events, as USA Today points out:
Great Falls is scorching hot.
Great Falls is frigid.
During a week of weather extremes in the U.S., it all depends on which Great Falls the mercury is measured.
In Great Falls, Virginia, Luke Mraz, lugged a 100-pound hose around a golf course, spraying pond water over several acres of dry grass as the temperature climbed to 92 degrees.
“It feels like the moisture is literally just getting sucked right out of your body,” the 27-year-old said.
In Great Falls, Montana, a 127-year-old record for cold fell with temperatures reaching 45 degrees, according to the local National Weather Service office. A freak June mountain snowstorm even enticed a few skiers up to Showdown, the local ski hill.
“After a less-than-typical snowfall year, we’re welcoming the moisture,” said Avery Patrick, one of the resort’s owners.
Of course, the BBC stuck resiliently to the story about a heat dome in the U.S. (but managed a fleeting mention of the Montana storm in an online report that had to be hunted down for Daily Sceptic). Make of all that what you will.
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I will make of it what I always do. This fear porn was mentioned on the radio this morning.
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It’s become a joke.
The BBC and the fake news/science complex is a joke.
Now in Sussex it is 22c. Next week it might reach 26c. After a miserable 19 days of June weather, the BBC will declare this June the hottest June evah, in 14 trillion, billion, Darwinian, Brazilian years. Whatever.
State funded vomit.
The easiest way to understand why there are these extreme shifts in temperature is to look at the following illustration of what happens during the Low Solar Activity preceding an Ice Age. The normally steady Jet Stream flow turns “loopy”, bringing cold air down from the Arctic to southerly regions, soon followed by another loop bringing hot air up from the tropics to northerly regions. This article was published before the Electroverse website went behind a paywall.
Explained: Low Solar Activity And A ‘Meridional’ Jet Stream Flow – Electroverse
This was also explained by the late Robert Felix in his 1999 book:
Not by Fire but by Ice: Discover What Killed the Dinosaurs…and Why It Could Soon Kill Us: Amazon.co.uk: Felix, Robert W.: 9780964874688: Books
(He was a healthy man until his wife insisted that he get the Covid jabs. He suddenly died soon afterward, in 2021)
Who is old enough to remember the time when the weather was normal for the time of year in every part of the world?
Indoctrinated young people may believe there was such a time.
Exactly, it has always been a bit loopy tunes. There are some patterns though which can be weird. We were on holiday in Greece one year and got talking to a bar owner. He said “It will rain on Thursday, this time of year, it always rains on Thursday”. Sure enough it did. Was that man made to keep his customers in the bar?
The DS may now be awakening to the nature of the real climate crisis coming and how so much more dangerous it will be than any amount of ‘warming’ –https://open.substack.com/pub/electroverse/p/montanas-record-lows-and-snows-global?r=jx6c3&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Thanks for helping DS readers to have access to that otherwise paywalled Electroverse article.
Anyone with an agenda, a point of view, or an argument will highlight that which aligns with their world view while ignoring all that doesn’t. It was ever thus. —–It is exactly the same with activist News Channels pushing the Political Agenda of Climate Change. No one should be fooled by this claim that what they are reporting on is “science”. In science you question everything. When Mainstream News question NOTHING it means they are not indulging in science at all. —–The whole Sustainable Development political agenda depends on there being dangerous changes to climate caused by our use of fossil fuels, and if there isn’t then that whole political agenda collapses. So, the Climate Industrial Complex have to keep the idea of a climate emergency foremost in our minds so we all will accept the changes this political agenda wants to impose on us, and at astronomical expense and with severe consequences for prosperity and freedom. —–So we will always be shown extreme weather events from all corners of the globe to give us the impression that everything is getting worse, but as it happens real world data that the public seldom see or attempt to look at reveals there is no increase in the frequency or intensity of any type of weather event anywhere in the world. ——The whole political agenda of climate change is therefore a pack of lies, and at best a smidgeon of the truth elevated into a planetary emergency for which no empirical evidence exists.
About 5 years ago I read a report from NASA which said that the Moon is on a wobble cycle. It went on to explain that this will cause extremes in weather for around 10 years and is a normal occurrence.
Look at a weather map and you can see where the weather fronts are. El Nino was particularly long and blocked cold air from moving South and hot air moving North. Perfectly normal.
We now have a weather front doing the same thing. I was talking to come colleagues in India and it is around 36 degrees. This time of year they always expect a Monsoon, it will come but it is late this year. The BBC would report the Monsoon, when it comes, as being due to “Man Made Climate Change”, yet, it has always happened at roughly the same time since time immemorial.
I find it interesting when you ask someone where the non-modelled, real world data is that proves this nutcase theory. There isn’t one despite all the billions.
The MSM latch onto any high temperature events they can find (especially if forest fires are involved) because that makes it easier for them to convince non-thinking members of the public that global warming will destroy us all, and that we should all willingly embrace a Dark Ages lifestyle to save our world. However, I’m a little surprised the BBC didn’t feature the Montana snowfall as “evidence” that global warming can make the weather more erratic. They missed a trick there.
The youtube channel ‘Oppenheimer Ranch Project’ has daily weather and other reports. The US winter was record breaking, colder than hell.