“The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.”
Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992)
My son, a genuine scientist and tenured college professor, once told me scientists say, “I found it because I believed it was there.” The climate alarmists only find what they want to find.
My life’s work has been in Instrument and Control systems (I&C), measurement, and control. Referring to the NOAA graphic above, NOAA states, “North America has its warmest Feb and warmest winter on record.“
Personally, I welcome warm winters. I can’t speak for the folks in Fargo, North Dakota, but they probably enjoy warmth more than ice.
Why was our North American winter warmer than usual? There are two reasons I can point to.
A small portion of our heat comes from the Earth, nominally 87 milliWatts/square meter, a total of 47 teraWatts, 1/10,000th of the energy received from the sun. The Earth’s molten core has a comparable temperature to the surface of the Sun, approximately 10,000 °F.
A great deal of the Earth’s surface heat comes from tectonic collisions, such as the El Niño phenomenon. Tectonic collisions in Southeast Asia create the Western Warm Pool. Periodic tectonic activity along the western coast of South America, in concert with the Western Warm Pool, causes above-average warm atmospheric temperatures in North America.
“A strong El Niño will shift the Pacific jet stream, which helps determine temperature and precipitation patterns over the United States and alters the track of winter storms — leading to more winter storms over California and the southern United States. Record rainfall often strikes Peru, Chile, and Ecuador.” Source: NOAA, Understanding El Niño
In North Texas, where our potable water comes from rainfall, above-average rainfall is not a curse but a blessing.
Always be suspicious of the phrase “average temperature.” There is no reliable expression of the average air temperature across North America due to the heat island effect and disparate standards for air temperature measurements across America.
Climate alarmists hate mankind and drive their narratives to anthropogenic forces. The combined forces of the Sun and Planet Earth far outweigh the negligible human contributions to climatic effects.
I welcome the heat and the rainfall. I thank God for blessing us with these life-sustaining resources.
John White
Rockwall, Texas
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