The tell tale signs of inconsistent denial are apparent as
climate contrarians attempt to deal with strange weather occurring over the
globe in 2015.
Strange weather
2015 will almost certainly be the hottest year on record
when looking at the average of global temperatures. There are extreme and often
strange weather patterns being reported particularly towards the end on the
2015 year. Many of the weather patterns that have occurred are those that are
to be expected in an El Niño year including not only droughts in Indonesia
helping the spread of wildfires but also far afield as in California bringing
rain after a prolonged period of drought. A milder winter and so far with
extreme rain in the UK in December, however, is not so easily associated with
the El Niño and certainly a short period of exceptionally warm weather all the
way towards the North Pole due to weakened jet stream is not what was expected.
It seems we see the effect of global warming contributing to weather patterns
including the El Niño but in other cases overshadowing some of the expectations
of an El Niño.
Seeing half the cycle.
What is to be expected though is the typical climate
contrarian viewpoint regards these weather patterns that one comes across in
comments on social media sites and blogs. True to form you will see the
contrarian tell you that these extreme weather patterns and the global average
temperature reaching a new high record and that these are all due to the
presence of the El Niño. Now one could forgive them for believing that the El
Nino has contributed to all these events but what may be of surprise (to those
unfamiliar to the strategies of the anthropogenic global warming denier) is
that most of these arguing these points seem to have become sudden experts of
the El Nino which is part of a larger ocean and atmosphere weather cycle, ENSO,
that not only changes rainfall and drought patterns but permits the atmosphere
to warm largely from heat from the oceans. Only a few months ago many of these
new “experts” could be seen denying the weather pattern associated with the El
Nino when this weather pattern was storing heat in the oceans.
In some years surface temperature do not rise and one reason
among other possible natural cyclic variations for this is that the ENSO cycle
is causing heat to be stored in the oceans in spite of an increase in
greenhouse gases contributing to global warming. This ability of heat to be
stored is often denied by the contrarian.
In other years the temperatures of the surface can increase
rapidly as the El Nino contributes to the global warming. This contribution is readily
accepted by these same contrarians.
Of course this ability to only accept half a cycle can be
seen with contrarians in the past as they attempt to deal with the carbon cycle
and CO2 concentrations.
