Climate Progress's Romm Blames Tiger's US Open Loss on Global Warming

Climate Progress's Romm Blames Tiger's US Open Loss on Global Warming

By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
June 25, 2009 - 10:35 ET

Climate Progress's Joe Romm believes global warming caused all the rain at last week's U.S. Open golf tournament, and because favorite Tiger Woods was in the first draw of players most impacted by the inclement weather, it cost him the victory.

In his latest exhibition of Global Warming Derangement Syndrome, Romm conveniently ignored how New York is currently experiencing one of its coldest Junes on record.

Alas, as we've seen from Romm and his ilk in the past, facts are often inconvenient truths to be summarily cast aside when they conflict with the agenda (h/t Climate Depot):

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They called this year’s U.S. Open “Bathpage.”
And yes, Tiger Woods lost, even though I called him an “all-climate player” after he won “the brown British Open” at drought-stricken Royal Liverpool in 2006 and the “Hottest Major of All Time.” In fact, I had predicted “No doubt he’ll some day win the ‘wettest major of all time,’ too” — but a bad draw and bad putting thwarted him, as I’ll discuss at the end. [...]
I’m going to borrow and modify a term from the scientific literature and call this a “global-warming-type” deluge — see Must-have PPT: The “global-change-type drought” and the future of extreme weather. After all, this type of extreme downpour is precisely what climate science projects would happen when you put more water vapor into the air. And it is precisely what major peer-reviewed studies have shown the United States has been experiencing in the past few decades (see Why the “never seen before” Fargo flooding is just what you’d expect from global warming, as Obama warns): [sic]

Yes, but New York and the northeast are experiencing a very cold June. As Bloomberg reported days before the tournament started:

The average temperature from June 1 through yesterday was 65.2 degrees Fahrenheit (18.4 Celsius), or 4.1 degrees below normal, said Richard Castro, a student forecaster at the Upton office.

The coldest June in Central Park was in 1903, with an average temperature of 64.2 degrees, and the wettest was in 2003, with 10.27 inches of rain, Castro said.

This month is currently tied for the second-coldest, in 1881. Castro said that could change because there are still two weeks left before July.

“We stand a good chance to be in the top-10 coldest Junes,” Castro said by telephone.

On Thursday, Weather Underground reported (h/t Marc Sheppard):

Through June 24... the average monthly temperature is 66.1
degrees... 4.4 degrees below normal. [...]
So far... this June has been the fourth coldest June on record at
Central Park.

So, global warming is causing wetter, cooler summer conditions? If that's the case, how's all that ice going to melt to cause sea levels to rise and drown everyone living on the coasts?

Maybe more importantly, is this why the Orlando Magic surprisingly beat LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers earlier in the month?

With all the things these alarmists claim are caused by global warming, it wouldn't be at all surprising.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.

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What about Wimbledon?

June 25, 2009 - 10:42 ET by Blonde

There goes that excuse, with the new cover for Centre Court.

I'll give you the next one to be blamed on Global Warming....Obama's health care plan won't pass because of Global Warming. We'll leave it to demedia to explain it, though.

I hope he fails, too.

Space Aliens

June 25, 2009 - 10:44 ET by allanf

Really, I thought the loss was due to space aliens ...

Or drunken fans?

June 25, 2009 - 10:49 ET by Blonde

Seriously, though....isn't this wet weather a good thing for Georgia? Weren't they suffering through the worst drought in years and years?

Stupid warmers...they forget that pesky phenomena....weather.

I hope he fails, too.

Hey Blonde, You are

June 25, 2009 - 11:22 ET by Scuba Dude

Hey Blonde,

You are thinking of the Masters which is held in Augusta in April. Tiger's recent loss was at the US Open on the Black course in Bethpage, New York (where I watched his poor showing). And let me tell you, I could have used some of that global warming. It was not fun slogging through the mud and rain watching the players. I needed no sunscreen and had to check the forecast to find out if I needed a windbreaker or something a tad more waterproof.

The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER

Thanks, Scoob

June 25, 2009 - 11:36 ET by Blonde

As you can see (from my monumental ignorance)....I don't commit golf, nor follow it.

I know who Tiger Woods is, and of course Greg Norman, but only because Greg married Chris Evert, lol.

I hope he fails, too.

Mother Nature is a racist!

June 25, 2009 - 10:45 ET by jefflebowski

Mother Nature showed her true racist colors last week by calling down rains to prevent Tiger Woods from winning the US Open! She, according to unnamed sources, does not like his "Combinasian" description of himself. This is despicable and Mother Nature should crawl on her knees to apologize to Al Sharpton!

Angry White Dude

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Fits the Liberal meme......

June 25, 2009 - 14:53 ET by Pilgrim1949

Of course Tiger would have been the most adversely affected by the higher humidity, wherein the increased moisture in the air would have slowed down his club head speed.

Libs everywhere know that whenever something aweful happens that it's women, children and minorities that are victimized the worst. Tiger's multi-ethnic mixture simply doomed him to suffer the most.

Re the classic headline: End of World Due In Less Than 24 Hours - Women and Minorities Expected To Be Hardest Hit

"...this type of extreme

June 25, 2009 - 11:11 ET by mattm

"...this type of extreme downpour is precisely what climate science projects (predicts) would happen when you put more water vapor into the air."

Yeah, and I bet if you suck more water vapor out of the air you'd probably get extreme drought, right?

Damn, it's a good thing we have so many experts around to help us poor, ignorant, saps make it through the day.

Irony

June 25, 2009 - 15:11 ET by Wildcatter1980

The irony is that the GW alarmists can cite weather phenomena to support Anthropogenic GW, but we realists cannot do the inverse to debunk AGW.

Also, the GW alarmists cannot answer some simple questions:

Doesn't hypothesis testing require that test outcomes that support and disprove the hypothesis be defined ahead of time? (In fact, hypothesis testing typically amounts to identifying whether a test outcome does or does not disprove the hypothesis.) Therefore, shouldn't alarmists be able to tell the rest of us what climate and/or weather phenomena supports or disproves AGW?

We already have term limits. They are called elections. We can & should vote out those who do not represent & serve us! - Me

So this guy must have lost

June 25, 2009 - 13:59 ET by G. May

So this guy must have lost a lot of money betting on Woods and now he just can't accept the fact that his guy lost.

I guess anything that beats a record temperature or rainfall MUST be due to global-warming-oh-wait-temperatures-are-falling-so-we-better-call-it-climate-change. These people act as if there's never been extreme weather before 1980 or something. Hell a rainy day is now extreme weather to these nutjobs.

I blame it on our "extreme" culture. Extreme sodas, extreme sports, extreme programming, extreme breakfast cereals, and the list goes on.

The only thing "extreme" here is this guy's lunacy.

Wow, just wow. The Rocky

June 25, 2009 - 11:21 ET by wiwf

Wow, just wow.

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

Noel get with it.

June 25, 2009 - 11:55 ET by danbo

Rain? That's a sure sign of AGW and a climate change.

Ten years of no warming and how many years of cooling. That's just weather.

Limited Disclosure: I used to belong to the Sierra Club untill they went crazier. Worse of all, I was bribed by Exxon with free New Orleans Saints glasses with fill ups in the 70's.

I grew up in Farmingdale

June 25, 2009 - 12:04 ET by Chaitealover

I grew up in Farmingdale [location of Bethpage State Park golf course], starting in the late '40s. There's always been periods of heavy rain, even hurricanes.

That said, I do believe all those in the first draw were at a disadvantage, no one else had to actually play in that weather.

Chai

“When all government...in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided...” Thomas Jefferson

Blame global warming

June 25, 2009 - 12:08 ET by graylobo

I am sooooo sick of global warning and Tiger Woods and....and...

What a MoRomm!

June 25, 2009 - 12:11 ET by Crash

He means "climate change." I long for the days when liberals would blame the weather on the weatherman, or mother nature. Heretics unite against junk science!

More Joe religion

June 25, 2009 - 12:39 ET by seven

“So yes, there is a “strong link between climate change”, which is now predominantly driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and the rise in many different type of extreme weather events — and that “rise will accelerate in the future and the link will grow”. Until, of course, the climate just changes, and in many regions we stop using the word drought, and use the word Dust Bowl — assuming that we aren’t smart enough to ignore the siren song of the deniers and solve this problem.”

See his preeching at climate progress. All things will be better if the greenies ignore the deniers he says.

He acts like a little witch doctor spinning in circles in the jungle trying to cast spells on other peoples demons.

Anthropogenic Butt Covering

June 25, 2009 - 12:12 ET by dbo

It doesn't matter if it's sunny and hot or cold and wet, I predict that if Tiger wins next months British Open it will be because of global warming.

Heavy rain and drought

June 25, 2009 - 12:27 ET by seven

Both are predicted by the global warming alarmists.

Joe Romm is very supersticious. He sees a severe weather catastrophy behind every tree. George soros funds him to creat rear and aggitation in the weather blogosphere.

He hates poor people and jacking up energy for them will give them what they deserve.

I blame my recent

June 25, 2009 - 12:29 ET by jdhawk

I blame my recent flatulance on global warming, but I could be wrong . . .

More worthless crap from the far left . . .

What isnt' crap is that Congress is about to vote on the most far reaching so-called energy bill in history. It is a far left attempt to gain more and more power over the daily lives of everyday Americans. It will not reduce so-called greenhouse gases one iota, it will raise energy bills for all Americans and it will reduce the recovery and job growth.

Just vote NO for Cap and Trade. Call, e-mail, and/or write your elected representatives to vote NO on the bill that may be before Congress for a vote as early as tomorrow.

But what about the leftist

June 25, 2009 - 12:45 ET by MrSnuggles

But what about the leftist meme that "weather is not climate"?

Weather can't cast

June 25, 2009 - 13:49 ET by danbo

Weather can't cast question on the one true religion. AGW. Nothing can do that.

But it can be "proof" of AGWing.

Limited Disclosure: I used to belong to the Sierra Club untill they went crazier. Worse of all, I was bribed by Exxon with free New Orleans Saints glasses with fill ups in the 70's.

Joe Romm is Slipping

June 25, 2009 - 13:05 ET by gopcongress

Joe Rahm—oops, I mean Romm; how the heck could I make THAT slip??—is an ignorant piker when it comes to demonizing the right (which I assume is his purpose).

After all, Tiger is actually one of those rich, selfish b-----ds who make money from corporations who repress child workers in other countries. In addition, he plays a game of golf which other radical earth firster types actually have actual campaigns against (http://www.antigolf....), flies small corporate jets from which congress demeans of corporate CEO's (but celebrates jet usage by celebrities such as Oprah and John Travolta), and conspicuously ignores the plight of the black man ala Jim Brown (conveniently ignoring the largest individual-endowed foundation for improvement of children's lives, the Tiger Woods Foundation).

Instead, Romm amateurishly spouts out that Global Warming caused Lucas Glover to sneak by everyone and win a golf tournement ahead of the prohibited favorite. What a hack.

If you are going to be an activist for something stupid in the first place, at least legitimize your stupidity.

EDIT: RIP Farrah Fawcett, my first TV femme fatale.

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Air France crash

June 25, 2009 - 13:28 ET by seven

Romm posted a screed regarding global warming and it having caused severe storms that caused the crash. This was posted the day after the flight was lost and before they found parts and pieces. Talk about making claims and gathering information later if at all.

I actually went to the

June 25, 2009 - 14:03 ET by G. May

I actually went to the anti-golf link you posted. Hopefully it's meant to be satire because it's hysterical. The music really makes it.

If it's not satire, it's even funnier.

Romm is wrong

June 25, 2009 - 13:32 ET by jdlybrand

It's Bush's fault! That rain was inherited.

Joe Romm clings to OLD DATA... 2006 is HISTORY

June 25, 2009 - 14:07 ET by upcountrywater

It never fails; once again no mention of the driver of climate in this solar system....

The June 25, 2009 Sun

Hurry and Look real close there is a sunspot that's fading away...

Do you think the Maunder Miminum observers in the 1700's can see a spot this size?

Record COLD this month

Reagan VS Carter and 0bama

Is it my imagination?

June 25, 2009 - 16:45 ET by Jarhead68

Or does Woods look like Yoda in that picture you posted?

Global Warming is, without

June 25, 2009 - 21:05 ET by nadadhimmi

Global Warming is, without doubt, a crock of s#it. It's the excuse the Oligarchs use to sieze total control over EVERY THING ON EARTH. Hell, Cheryl Crow even wants to dictate to me how many sheets of toilet paper she will allow me to use to wipe my ass. The operative phrase here is: my ass, as in KISS MY.

CO2 Is A Killer

June 25, 2009 - 21:51 ET by dbo

Noel,

I'll keep an eye on Romm's blog tomorrow. I'm pretty sure we're going to see a 'Global warming killed Michael Jackson' thread. :-)

→ Great thought

June 26, 2009 - 00:10 ET by Cool Arrow

Global Warming caused his Vitiligo, which triggered his other health problems.

Since he converted to Islam, does he spend eternity with 72 virgin boys?

Sorry, it just wouldn't be respectful of me to be respectful of him.

This really fits in well with tomorrow's vote on the biggest tax in history. A little twist to Rahm Emanuel's maxim and voila! "Never let a gigantic story fail to veil a gigantic boondoggle.

We will Barry you! - Russian Prophecy