Democrats say that global warming causes too much rain in Texas, because it increases the amount of moisture in the air. One year ago they said that global warming causes too little rain in Texas.
Democrats depend on the fact that 97% of their voters are complete morons.
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September 17, 2017 at 05:17AM
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
- George Orwell
Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
It appears that the Arctic sea ice minimum has been reached, and the news is terrible for those who have been lying about the Arctic all year.
Minimum extent has been increasing for a decade.
masie_4km_allyears_extent_sqkm.csv
The Arctic summer ended the earliest of the past decade.
The rate of ice loss from the maximum to the minimum was slowest of the past decade.
The total ice loss from the maximum to the minimum was smallest of the past decade.
Arctic sea ice area is up 40% over the past five years.
All year long the criminals in the press have been telling us the Arctic is super hot and melting at a record rate. The exact opposite is happening.
The North Pole is an insane 36 degrees warmer than normal as winter descends – The Washington Post
None of this will be reported by the press, because they are paid to misinform the public.
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September 17, 2017 at 04:47AM
By Paul Homewood
h/t Patsy Lacey
From the failed Independent:
Pakistan could face drought in the near future according to experts in the country, who have warned the country will approach the “absolute scarcity” level of water by 2025.
The Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) made the grim forecast in a new report which claimed the country touched the “water stress line” in 1990 before crossing the “water scarcity line” in 2005.
An unnamed government official in the south Asian country told Pakistani media that urgent research is needed to find a solution – but warned of a lack of available government funds.
Pakistan has the world’s fourth highest rate of water use but is dependent on water from a single source – the Indus River basin in India – and rainfall has been steadily declining, with some experts claiming this is down to climate change.
An estimated million people live in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi – but very few have running water after the land has gradually dried up, forcing many residents to queue for hours for supplies to be given to them.
Shamsul Mulk, former chairman of the Water and Power Development Authority in the country, said water policy is simply non-existent in Pakistan. Policymakers act like “absentee landlords” over water, he added.
“Because of this absentee landlordism, water has become the property of the landlords and the poor are deprived of their share."
Experts say that population growth and urbanisation are the main reasons behind the crisis. Some say the issue has been exacerbated by climate change and poor water management.
Energy sector expert Irfan Choudhry said the authorities appear to lack the political will to tackle the problem.
“There are no proper water storage facilities in the country. Pakistan hasn’t built new dams since the 1960s. What we see is political bickering over the issue. The authorities need to act now. We can store water for only 30 days, and it is worrisome,” Mr Choudhry told local media.
Some politicians have warned of “massive corruption” in the water sector with some seeking to profiteer from the scarcity of a vital resource.
Others blame India for the Pakistani water crisis and claim that New Delhi is failing to uphold the terms of the Indus Waters Treaty brokered by the World Bank in 1960 which regulates control of the rivers between the two nations.
Given that we keep hearing about floods in Pakistan, including one this summer, I would suspect that the real problem is increasing water demand, coupled with poor organisation.
This suspicion seems to be confirmed by the actual data from the Pakistan Met Office.
Below are the drought monitors from their last six annual reports:
The vast part of the country has actually had wetter than normal weather since 2011. The only exception appears to be the extreme south west, most of which is not even in the Indus basin.
There is a possibility that rainfall is reduced over the border with India, at the extreme north of the Indus River basin in Kashmir. But there is no evidence of this either from the India Met Office data.
It looks like another case of “blame it on climate change”, which does not stand up to scrutiny.
FOOTNOTE
In true Independent style, the Independent is rehashing a story which was originally covered in May 2016, for instance here.
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September 17, 2017 at 04:34AM
Two members of a recent international meeting said that a White House representative had said the US would maintain the accord, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Saturday.
But the White House says that’s nonsense – and that Trump is still planning his climate exit unless he gets the changes he wants.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the initial remarks about Trump reversing his decision to pull out of the agreement were made at an international meeting in Montreal.
That meeting had seen ministers from 30 countries, including Canada and Britain, discussing US climate-change goals with White House senior adviser Everett Eissenstat.
Two people at the meeting said that they were told America would instead seek compromises within the existing framework rather than renegotiating it.
‘They are seriously considering the terms on which the US could re-engage,’ one of the officials at the meeting.
‘They have also made clear that they have no intention to renegotiate or develop a parallel track to Paris.’
Those remarks were reiterated by Miguel Arias Canete, European commissioner for climate action and energy.
He said: ‘The US has stated that they will not renegotiate the Paris accord, but they will try to review the terms on which they could be engaged under this agreement.’
He claimed that America ‘has stated that they will not renegotiate the Paris accord.’
That would contradict Trump’s promise in June that he would pull out unless it was either renegotiated or scrapped and started again.
‘The Paris accord is very unfair at the highest level to the United States,’ Trump claimed on June 1.
via The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)
September 17, 2017 at 02:55AM
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