Monday, January 08, 2018

Al Gore's Twitter account is dogged by some of the most uninformed and idiotic people I ever read.

Vice President Gore doesn't argue with the commentators to his posts, he doesn't have time for it. But, the latest thing with his Twitter account is siting the events that occurred between 1981 and 1983. 

The so called experts that can pass judgement on Vice President Gore's life's work don't even understand the definition of climate. If I may? Climate is defined as the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.

There were two winter SEASONS recorded; the winter of 1981-82 and the winter of 1982-83. The first mentioned winter was very severe causing crop losses of peaches and the second was a very mild winter (after a severe one) whereby notably odd temperatures were recorded.

This is typical of those who dislike Vice President Gore and disdain his ability to capture the meaning of scientists and put it into the language of average Americans. These so called anti-climate crisis experts glom onto one fact that seems to suit their purpose and exploit it until it becomes reality. They are very, very wrong and are endangering lives and compromising the well being of people on Earth.

Go, Vice President Gore, Go! 

Review of the Unusual Winter of 1982–83 In the Upper Midwest (click here)

W. M. WendlandL. D. BarkD. R. ClarkR. B. CurryJ. W. EnzK. G. HubbardV. JonesE. L. KuehnastW. LytleJ. NewmanF. V. Nurnberger, and P. Waite
Regional Climate Coordinating Office, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Champaign, III, 61820

Climatologists from the climate centers of 12 states of the upper Midwest contributed temperature, precipitation, and related data for December 1982, January and February 1983. Analyses present the month-to-month spatial anomaly patterns of these parameters. Mean monthly temperatures were much above normal (30-year means) during the three months in virtually the entire region, with maximum magnitudes (+ 4 to + 9°C) extending from the Dakotas to Iowa, and to Indiana (December) and Missouri (January and February).

December precipitation was also above normal with anomalies of + 100 mm in much of Missouri, Illinois, extreme southwest Michigan, and Indiana. The maximum anomaly was over + 250 mm in southern Illinois. January and February precipitation anomalies showed only little deviation from normal.

Impacts of the mild winter were generally favorable to consumers in that heating demand was reduced from normal, and particularly reduced from that of the previous year. Costs for urban snow removal were much under budget, as well. The only potentially negative impact was a relatively high survival rate of insect larvae, which is usually controlled by normally colder winter temperatures.

The 1982 peach crop of southern Illinois was essentially lost during the 1981–82 winter due to record cold temperatures. The 1983 crop was also lost largely by a late spring frost, even though the winter was one of the warmest on record.