GLOBAL WARMING? 2018 YEAR OF 'LOST SUMMER' FOR ARCTIC, Report
cites threat to shorebirds because of July snow, 7/13/18, WND So much for global warming.
The tundra was 100 percent covered in snow, and it was a very deep layer,” he says, estimating an average depth of about one meter. “It was a big shock to see the place like that.”
The tundra was 100 percent covered in snow, and it was a very deep layer,” he says, estimating an average depth of about one meter. “It was a big shock to see the place like that.”
Espinosa echoed former U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres, reported Morano. Figueres called for “centralized transformation” that will make things “very different” for life on the plant.
Morano: “What about [your call for U.N.] ‘centralized transformation’? What about people who might be afraid the U.N. is essentially going to be a climate central power?”
The original movie wasn’t without controversy, as a judge in the United Kingdom said it could be shown to schools only if they alert students to nine statements “that are not supported by current mainstream scientific consensus.”
Newsbusters pointed out the original prediction “was not about extenuating circumstances of a storm like Sandy slamming into New York or any ‘storm surge’ at all.”
A report from Scientific American said there are problems this year
for the species of shorebirds that each year descend on the Arctic to mate and
raise chicks.
It’s because the reproduction happens
during the summer, and because of extensive July snow this year, there’s been
no summer.
The report said the frozen precipitation
“sealed the birds off from food and nesting sites.” “Without these key
resources avian migrants to the region will not reproduce in 2018, experts
say.”
The report elaborated that snowmelt
usually allows shorebirds to begin nesting on eastern Greenland’s treeless
tundra during the first half of June. But Jeroen Reneerkens, an avian ecologist
at the University of Groningen, said when he arrived there this year on June
14, he found a particular species of shorebirds absent.
That kind of development is why
activists largely have stopped using the term global warming –
which hasn’t been detected for two decades – to climate change.
Marc Morano at Climate Depot said
Reneerkens reported never having come across such circumstances before.
“He is uncertain how this ‘disastrous’
incident will affect the overall populations of these shorebird species. But
‘given the scale that this happening [on],’ he says, ‘I do expect that this
will have large consequences.'”
Morano pointed out that other areas also
are experiencing unusual circumstances. He cited, from the article, the
fact that the region’s tundra still was covered 80 percent with snow as of July
12.
WND recently reported a United Nations
official is calling for an “ark” to save the world from global warming. Patricia Espinosa, the
executive secretary of U.N. Climate Change, was speaking at a recent conference
at the Vatican hosted by Pope Francis.
Morano noted Espinosa urged the world
“to make the fundamental, transformative changes necessary” to fight “global
warming.”
The Vatican’s International Conference
was titled “Saving our Common Home and the Future of Life on Earth.”
“If we truly want to make the
fundamental, transformative changes necessary to combat climate change, perhaps
what we need then is not a physical ark, but an ark of ambition for #climate action,”
she said on social media.
Espinosa said: “I want to begin by
discussing a narrative that is common to many cultures and faith communities
throughout the world. It’s the story of a great flood that took place long ago.
While different cultures tell it in different ways, most outline how humankind
not only had warning that rising waters were coming, but that those warnings
were ignored. Now, let me be clear: I don’t propose we begin building an ark—at
least not a physical one—but it’s hard to ignore some parallels with today.
Every day we are seeing evidence of climate change and its devastating impacts
on populations around the globe.”
She said climate change and the world’s
response to it “raises larger questions about who we are, why we’re here, and
where we’re collectively going.”
“Climate change is about morality: who
are we to willingly destroy the ancient and intricate beauty of the world?
Climate change is about legacy: who are we to leave a debt of neglect to an unborn generation?”
WND reported last year when Figueres
was in Germany for a climate summit and laughed off questions about her call
for a globally centralized planning structure.
Morano said he asked her about her
message to President Trump and her own calls for a U.S. “centralized
transformation” that “is going to make life of everyone on the planet very
different.”
Figueres: Loud laugh. Morano: “That is
your response?”
Figueres: “Now that is real humor.”
She continued to laugh as she got into
the waiting car.
But it wasn’t so long ago that she made
the proposal.
According to the Tom Nelson blog, it was in 2012 when she said of her
work, “It is the most inspiring job in the world because what we are doing here
is we are inspiring government, private sector and civil society to [make] the
biggest transformation that they have every undertaken.
“The Industrial Revolution was also a transformation,
but it wasn’t ‘a guided transformation from a centralized policy perspective.’
This [U.N. climate change action] is a centralized transformation that is
taking place because governments have decided that they need to listen to
science. So it’s a very, very different transformation and one that is going to
make the life of everyone on the planet very different.”
WND reported when Al Gore used the extreme
results of “Superstorm Sandy” to support his contention that sea waters are
rising significantly. The claim is in the sequel to his 2006 movie “An
Inconvenient Truth.”
In the promotions for “An Inconvenient
Sequel: Truth to Power,” critics have found yet another misstatement by Gore.
According to the Media Research Center’s
Newsbusters, Gore
claims in his film that the flooding caused by Superstorm Sandy at the site of
the Twin Towers memorial in New York City is a fulfillment of his prediction in
his original movie that a rise in the ocean level would flood the site. But
that isn’t what happened.
In his 2006 film, he said, illustrated
by an animation, “If Greenland broke up and melted, or if half of Greenland and
half of West Antarctica broke up and melted, this is what would happen to the
sea level in Florida.”
Then he showed animations of what he
believed would happen to San Francisco, the Netherlands, Beijing and other
places. Turning to Manhattan, he said, “This is what would happen to Manhattan;
they can measure this precisely.”
The animation shows water reaching the
9/11 memorial.
But Newsbusters argued Gore has twisted
his original words to make it appear his prediction about Manhattan came true.
In a newly released clip from the movie,
he said: “Ten years ago when the movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ came out, the
single most criticized scene was an animated scene showing that the combination
of sea level rise and storm surge would put the ocean water into the 9/11
memorial site, which was then under construction. And people said, ‘That’s ridiculous.
What a terrible exaggeration.'” The movie then shows news footage of Superstorm
Sandy water reaching the memorial site.
The report noted the latest maps
show that Greenland still has ice 11 years after Al Gore’s prediction of
catastrophic melt.
Even scientists dispute Gore’s
contention that Superstorm Sandy was the product of “manmade climate change.”
Gore also told an audience in 2009,
for example, that “the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer
months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.” He
also predicted increasing temperatures would cause Earth’s oceans to rise by 20
feet, a claim many scientists say is utterly without rational basis.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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