Subject: Say it ain't so! AP's Borenstein Reports: Winds 'seems to be dying down...the cause may be global warming' |
From: "Marc Morano-ClimateDepot.com" |
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:23:00 -0400 |
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Say it ain't so! AP's Borenstein
Reports: Winds 'seems to be dying down...the cause may be global
warming'
Scientist mocks wind claims: 'How can they have more intense storms
from the same effect that is lessening winds?'
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - By Marc Morano – Climate Depot
Associated Press
environment reporter Seth Borenstein reported on June 10, 2009 that global
warming may be causing the winds to die down in the U.S.
Borenstein's
article, titled "Not so windy:
Research suggests winds dying down" reports:
The wind, a
favorite power source of the green energy movement, seems to be dying down
across the United States. And the cause, ironically, may be global warming-the
very problem wind power seeks to address. Borenstein also noted: "Several
outside experts mostly agree that there are signs that wind speed is decreasing
and that global warming is the likely culprit."
The article
continues: "[The study] raises a new side effect of global warming that
hasn't been looked into before." [Editor's Note: Yes,
this does appear to be an alleged "new side effect" of man-made
global warming. For a complete list of alleged impacts of warming see here: A complete list of
things caused by global warming - Perhaps this is why a top
Japanese scientist recently compared
global warming claims to "astrology." ]
Borenstein's article
continues: In global warming, the poles warm more and faster than the rest
of the globe, and temperature records, especially in the Arctic, show this. That
means the temperature difference between the poles and the equator shrinks and
with it the difference in air pressure in the two regions. Differences in
barometric pressure are a main driver in strong winds. Lower pressure
difference means less wind. [End AP article excerpt.]
But Geophysicist
Dr. David Deming, associate professor of arts and sciences at the University of
Oklahoma who has published numerous peer-reviewed research articles, challenged
the new study in an exclusive interview with Climate Depot.
"Wait a
minute! Isn't a mainstay of global warming alarmism the claim that global
warming will produce greater numbers of more intense storms?" Deming told Climate
Depot on June 10, 2009.
"How can
they have more intense storms from the same effect that is lessening winds?
They appear to be claiming that global warming will simultaneously increase and
decrease wind velocities," Deming said. "For thousands of years,
philosophers and theologians have concluded that not even God could create a logical
contradiction, such as allowing something to simultaneously exist and
non-exist," he added.
To his credit,
Borenstein did note the many flaws and lack of data associated with the study's
claims. "That information doesn't provide the definitive proof that
science requires to connect reduced wind speeds to global warming, the authors
said," Borenstein reported. [Editor's Note: Borenstein has
slightly improved his balance in global warming reporting in recent times,
despite a woeful history. See: 1) AP's Borenstein in
a PANIC: 'Obama left with little time to curb global warming'...'cooling trend
illustrates how fast the world is warming' - December 14, 2008
6) AP's BORENSTEIN INCORRECTLY
CLAIMS SCIENTISTS PRAISE GORE'S MOVIE - June 27, 2006
In his June 10,
2009 global warming wind article, Borenstein also wrote:
"The idea that winds may be slowing is still a speculative one, and
scientists disagree whether that is happening... Still, the study, which will be
published in August in the peer-reviewed Journal of Geophysical Research, is
preliminary. There are enough questions that even the authors say it's too
early to know if this is a real trend or not."
Borenstein also
cited Real Climate global warming activists in the article.
The new study
"demonstrates, rather conclusively in my mind, that average and peak wind
speeds have decreased over the U.S. in recent decades," said Michael Mann,
director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University. A
naysayer is Gavin Schmidt, a NASA climate scientist in New York who said the
results conflict with climate models that show no effect from global warming.
He also doubts that any decline in the winds that might be occurring has much
of an effect on wind power. [ For complete AP article go here:
]
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