CBS Hosts Guest Who Implicates Climate Change in Disasters of 2011
By Brad Wilmouth | December 31, 2011 | 21:45
On Thursday's The Early Show, CBS hosted a guest who implicated climate change as one of the factors contributing to many weather disasters in 2011, and he ended up warning of more droughts in the future. After asserting that 2011 was an unusually active year for natural disasters, Dr. M. Sanjayan of the Nature Conservancy including climate change in the list of influences:
There's a perfect storm of events. We had a La Nina year, we had this thing called Arctic oscillation that drifted further South, but then we also have this underlying factor of climate change that makes everything warmer and supercharges the atmosphere, plus people today are living in places that sometimes puts them in harm's way.
As he recounted the heat waves of July, he intoned: "You only have to say Texas, 100 days of above 100 degrees in Texas. Can you imagine living through that? And that wasn't just a U.S. phenomenon. That was a global phenomenon. That's only going to get worse."
As he dismissed the likelihood of more tornadoes in 2012, he ended up predicting that there would be more droughts caused by climate change in 2012:
It's not going to be as bad because it's a La Nina year again, but a weak La Nina year. That's what people are saying. Now, that said, climate change is continuing, so you're going to continue to see droughts, but I don't think we're going to suffer from as many tornadoes and things like that like last year. So that's the positive news. Droughts are going to continue probably.
Below are complete video and a transcript of a portion of the segment from the Thursday, December 29, The Early Show on CBS:
DEBBYE TURNER BELL: But first, this is a record year for extreme weather - 96 declared disasters in the U.S., costing billions of dollars and killing more than 1,000 people.
JEFF GLOR: Here to look at the top five weather events of 2011 is M. Sanjayan, lead scientist at the Nature Conservancy. ... So, 2011, how bad was it, relatively speaking, weather-wise?
DOCTOR M. SANJAYAN, THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: So this is not the media hyping something. It really was a lot worse, about three to four times worse in terms of big disasters than we've ever seen before.
GLOR: And why?
SANJAYAN: That's a harder question. There's a perfect storm of events. We had a La Nina year, we had this thing called Arctic oscillation that drifted further South, but then we also have this underlying factor of climate change that makes everything warmer and supercharges the atmosphere, plus people today are living in places that sometimes puts them in harm's way.
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SANJAYAN: You only have to say Texas, 100 days of above 100 degrees in Texas. Can you imagine living through that? And that wasn't just a U.S. phenomenon. That was a global phenomenon. That's only going to get worse.
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GLOR: And looking at it 2012, more tornadoes? Any predictions on what happens here?
SANJAYAN: It's not going to be as bad because it's a La Nina year again, but a weak La Nina year. That's what people are saying. Now, that said, climate change is continuing, so you're going to continue to see droughts, but I don't think we're going to suffer from as many tornadoes and things like that like last year. So that's the positive news. Droughts are going to continue probably.
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Hey dummy
Submitted by ohio granny on Sat, 12/31/2011 - 11:22pm.
Hey dummy the climate is always changing. How did the ice ages end and begin if the earth did not warm and cool, even before man was on earth? Bet you can't answer that with any kind of proof.
Idiots and fools.
Climate change
Submitted by 26CX on Sat, 12/31/2011 - 11:30pm.
I've been pushing the precession of the earth's axis of rotation as a significant cause of climate change, but for some reason have not been able to get a lot of traction on that one... ;)
You've been pushing the precession of the poles?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 7:00am.
Wow! You know, Archimedes said he could do that if he had a lever long enough. Where are you standing when you do that?
Evidently, CO2Maker,
Submitted by 26CX on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 10:22am.
I've been standing on thin ice because I can't get the concept across to people.
I have just as much evidence
Submitted by big.league.slider on Sun, 01/01/2012 - 3:30am.
I have just as much evidence as Dr. Sanjayan does to support my claim that global warming saved millions of lives in 2011.
As for his incredulity about people being able to live through a Texas summer like that of 2011, 1936 was hotter, and most Texas residents did not have air-conditioning.
What a clown.
I am not a scientist
Submitted by ifihadahifi on Sun, 01/01/2012 - 10:16am.
but I will go out on a limb here and guarantee that in 2012 there will be floods, droughts, earthquakes, and all sorts of natural disasters much like every other year. Some years we have more, some not so much.
Don't forget us here in
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 01/01/2012 - 11:13am.
Don't forget us here in Eastern NC and our hurricanes.
Oh, you whiny bastards on the Outer Banks!
Submitted by CO2Maker on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 7:06am.
If you didn't overbuild the coast because you can get cheap flood insurance, and drive those 4WD trucks across the fragile dunes, spewing sand and CO2 (my namesake) all over the place (and probably flying a Dook flag on your whiplash antenna), you wouldn't cause so many hurricanes. You brought it on yourself, so suck it up, will ya, Ricklail? You whimper like you're living in California or the Maldives.
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TWC outed themselves yesterday
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sun, 01/01/2012 - 10:38am.
I think it was yesterday, might have been the day before, but anyway, they were talking about a new island that showed up because of volcanic activity and the TWC guy and girl that were talking about it let it slip that the earth is ALWAYS changing like the climate.
*GASP* The horrors! That means man really doesn't have anything to do with climate change!
-Jon
20-yr winter cooling trend for the US
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sun, 01/01/2012 - 3:36pm.
Winter (Dec-Feb) 1990 thru 2011 NCDC
And Texas?
Texas has no warming trend since 1895.
(;~/ gary
“We need more hurricanes to save the coral reefs”
Submitted by upcountrywater on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 12:58am.
SST heat loss from Hurricane Irene
The title is sarcasm, but it does present an interesting quandary for alarmists. What’s more acceptable – hurricanes and the loss of life and property they bring, or loss of coral reef systems? My guess is that given the dislike for humankind often demonstrated by the environmental movement, they’d go for more hurricanes, and then use them to squall about “increasing extreme weather”. Fortunately, as Dr. Ryan Maue has shown us again and again, there is no upward trend in hurricane frequency.
O'bama 0% capital gains @4:58 and so much more.
One more victim of Global Warming
Submitted by CO2Maker on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 7:09am.
If O'Bama is defeated in November, it will be because of Global Warming and the deniers who denied it and voted for the Republican troglodytes and their friends in Big Wealth and Big Jobs.
SANJAYAN: You only have to
Submitted by CO2Maker on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 7:18am.
SANJAYAN: You only have to say Texas, 100 days of above 100 degrees in Texas. Can you imagine living through that? And that wasn't just a U.S. phenomenon. That was a global phenomenon. That's only going to get worse.
I lived in Moody, a small town in central Texas (think, Last Picture Show: its twin), in 1962. It was 95+ without rain for almost 3 months. (Thank God the humidity was about 20%.) Then one day, a thunderstorm with golf-ball sized hail that knocked down the big antenna on a friend's house. (Antennas, remember them?)
The real stats
Submitted by deadeyedan on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 10:49pm.
Where are the hurricanes?
Though each of the last two years have had somewhat above normal Atlantic Basin activity, the earth as a whole has had near record low activity. This is not in line with AGW Holy Scripture and therefore absent from MSM reporting.
GLOBAL WARMING - authoritarian, rather than authoritative, science
CLIMATEGATE (now I & II) - the revelation that the pseudo-scientists at East Anglia University know just as much about the atmosphere as Harvard law professors know about the Constitution
That's something you won't hear
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 12:55pm.
These Climatechangers love to spout off about Globull Warning whenever there's a storm of some magnitude (and they're totally silent when there aren't any). What they won't tell you is that if we were actually warming like they claim, there would be increased high altitude wind-shear which would rip the tops off forming hurricanes - and the tops of forming hurricanes is where they develop into actual hurricanes. Without the energy buildup at high altitude, they're just tropical storms (of which there has been no noticable increase in frequency).
You have to pay even more attention to what these dimwits AREN'T saying than what they ARE saying, which is usually total BS.