[Editor Note: Chip Knappenberger, a leading data-driven climate scientist, kindly consented to let MasterResource reprint his post from January 13, 2011, at this site, Global Warming Means More Big New York City Snowstorms? Not So Fast!, for its relevance to the current winter storm in the Northeast. He is currently updating his analysis from five years ago.]
New Yorkers are digging out from another major snowfall [this mid-January 2011]. The 10 inches or so they got on Wednesday came less than 3 weeks after some 20 inches fell the day after Christmas.
And, odd as it may seem, some folks are linking big snows and big cold in the Big Apple to anthropogenic global warming.
But, a look back through more than 140 years of weather observations from New York’s Central Park shows little evidence to support such a contention.…
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There is very positive news this cycle:
1- The best news in a long time is about the 12± year brawl to stop the ridiculous Cape Wind project. It finally seems to be fatally wounded, due to a combination of economic, legal and political matters. Kudos to those warriors who stuck with the fight, through thick and thin.
2- Also sensational news is the almost unanimous vote by the West Virginia state legislature to kill their RPS — the first state to actually do this.…
Continue Reading“Is this destruction and poisoning of the natural world, this trampling of human rights, the legacy that climate campaigners want to leave the world? Is this really the only ethical way to deal with the question of global warming? Is it even ethical at all? … A public debate on the damage being done by climate change policy is long overdue.”
At the heart of much policy to deal with climate change lies an ethical approach to the question of intergenerational equity, namely that current generations should avoid passing costs onto future ones, who can play no part in the decisions. In fact it has been said that this is the only ethical way to deal with global warming, although this is not true – professional economists have identified several alternatives.…
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