Penn Scientists Claim Recent Winter Storm is Evidence of Global Warming
“In regions that experience these stronger storms, we can expect extreme cold — and indeed, in some places, even record cold — even as the planet continues to warm dramatically”
Isn’t it amazing how every type of weather is proof of climate change?
The College Fix reports:
After huge snowstorm Penn climate scientists warn about … global warming
The northeastern U.S. got socked by its biggest snowstorm in about a decade last weekend, with the Philadelphia area getting between 9 and 10 inches.
Over the last couple of decades the public has seen apocalyptic headlines such as “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past” with the quotes “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” (The Independent in 2000), and cautions about “snowless scenarios” within the next several decades (High Country News, 2021).
Keeping with this, the University of Pennsylvania student paper The Daily Pennsylvanian decided to go to Earth and Environmental Sciences Professor Michael Mann, who said the recent snow makes “clear” the “impact of human-caused warming.”
“In regions that experience these stronger storms, we can expect extreme cold — and indeed, in some places, even record cold — even as the planet continues to warm dramatically,” Mann said.
Mann emphasized “decarbonization” efforts, claiming the “warming of Earth’s surface will stop” once carbon emissions reach zero.
Mann’s colleague Leigh Stearns said “a lot of evidence” points to future worsening of “extreme climatic events,” noting a “warmer ocean and a warmer atmosphere” make more powerful storms.
Stearns added that a “diversified power grid mainly supplied by renewables [the costs and effectiveness of which she “hoped” would go down and become more efficient, respectively] could offer a solution for future storm preparation.”
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1- how much is china and India – the greatest producers of carbon – willing to impoverish their population and give up cheap energy for unreliable renewables? If the answer is not much you’re wasting your time hectoring the first world.
2- how much are you planning on stopping volcanoes and other natural carbon sources? I recall after each eruption there is something like ten years of human sourced carbon in the atmosphere.
3- unless you stop china, India, and natural sources of carbon including volcanoes from erupting you are talking nonsense.
Michael Mann. LOL.
Mann should be decarbonized. It’s to save the planet after all.
Of course it to be Michael Mann.
It had to be
From grok. Natural emission is much greater than human emission.
The primary natural sources of carbon in the atmosphere (predominantly in the form of CO₂) are part of the Earth’s carbon cycle, where large amounts of CO₂ are exchanged between the atmosphere, oceans, and land biosphere. Based on scientific assessments, the top three natural sources are:
1. **Ocean outgassing**: Oceans release CO₂ into the atmosphere through processes like diffusion and upwelling, contributing around 90 GtC (gigatonnes of carbon) per year.
2. **Decomposition of organic matter and respiration**: This includes decay of dead plants and animals, soil microbial activity, and respiration by living organisms (plants at night, animals, etc.), adding roughly 119 GtC per year from land-based sources.
3. **Volcanic eruptions and geothermal activity**: Volcanoes release CO₂ from magma and the Earth’s crust, but this is a minor contributor at about 0.1 GtC per year.
Note that wildfires and weathering of rocks are sometimes included in broader categories like decomposition or geological processes, but they are not distinct top sources in terms of volume.
Regarding the comparison: Natural processes emit approximately 210 GtC (or about 770 GtCO₂) into the atmosphere annually as part of the balanced carbon cycle (where emissions are roughly matched by natural absorption through sinks like photosynthesis and ocean uptake). Over ten years, this totals around 2,100 GtC. In contrast, the human-added carbon currently in the atmosphere (the excess CO₂ beyond pre-industrial levels, driving climate change) is about 300 GtC, accumulated from centuries of anthropogenic emissions (primarily fossil fuel burning, deforestation, and cement production). This means ten years of natural emissions are roughly 7 times larger than the total human-contributed carbon stock in the atmosphere today. However, natural emissions are part of a balanced cycle with no net increase over time, while human emissions add a net surplus because natural sinks can’t absorb all the extra CO₂. For context, annual human emissions are about 10 GtC (or 37 GtCO₂), so ten years of human emissions would be around 100 GtC—still much smaller than the natural flux over the same period.
Mann is a grifting tool in my opinion and a questionable scientists who appears to alter data he won’t release so his findings can be reproduced.
Not only is he a fraud, he’s a dedicated violent insurrectionist.
“warming of Earth’s surface will stop” once carbon emissions reach zero.”
Uh huh. Idiotic to expect carbon emissions to ever reach zero.
Need to first cap all the sewer gas coming out of Capitol Hill.
Some “scientists” need to be locked into a walk-in freezer for a weekend.
And politicians.
Their joint conference could be called the True Accords.
True, the most trusted name in commercial refrigeration
I would deeply discount anyone or source that attributes a particular weather event to climate change. It takes about 20 or so years of observations to begin to detect a trend and to determine if a particular weather event was part of that trend or just a normal variation about the average. Also another sign of climate change fraud is if anyone or source has attributed only inclement weather events to climate change. Unless one has concluded that we have been living in an unchanging optimal atmosphere, it stands to reason that any long term changes to weather systems could actually make things, on the average, nicer – what ever that means.
“It takes about 20 or so years of observations to begin to detect a trend”
What a coincidence. That’s just how long it’s been since An Inconvenient Truth came out, and not a damn thing claimed in it came to pass.
The current warming period that began sometime in the 19th century is a recovery from the Little Ice Age, a period of bitterly cold weather, failed harvests and drought. The warming period is most likely part of natural variation in the earth’s climate, which in turn is a function of changes in the earth’s orbit around the sun. CO2 counts for almost nothing in the earth’s climate. The degree of warming is quite modest and I for one would welcome more of it. Also, keep in mind the multiple failed predictions of the warmunistas who would impoverish us all with their zero-carbon demands, two cases in point: the UK and Germany.
Warming makes things colder.
Ask any democrat politician or voter.
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