Damn those 97% of climate scientists for pushing the hoax that climate change over recent years is linked to human causes.

Rick,

As often as you repeat that myth, it won't be true.

Here is an analyses of the origins of that 97% number. Bottom line, only 1-3% of the scientists in the various studies explicitly agreed with the IPCC position that man is the primary cause of global warming.

http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/97_Consensus_Myth.pdf

Don't tell me, denier-guy. Tell NASA their science is bad.

I've researched Friends of Science, and won't bother with any of their end product.

Of course you won't bother with their end product. You can't dispute their work but you don't like their conclusion.

Whatever you wanna say, denier-guy. G'nite for now.

In climate change news circles....

Energy companies have been under increasing pressure from shareholder activists in recent years to warn investors of the risks that stricter limits on carbon emissions would place on their business.

On Thursday, a shareholder group said that it had won its biggest prize yet, when Exxon Mobil became the first oil and gas producer to agree to publish that information by the end of the month.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/business/in-a-shift-exxon-agrees-to-re...

Early in his career, a scientist named Mario J. Molina was pulled into seemingly obscure research about strange chemicals being spewed into the atmosphere. Within a year, he had helped discover a global environmental emergency, work that would ultimately win a Nobel Prize.

Now, at 70, Dr. Molina is trying to awaken the public to an even bigger risk. He spearheaded a committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society, which released a stark report Tuesday on global warming.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/science/scientists-sound-alarm-on-clim...

Climate change will displace hundreds of millions of people by the end of this century, increasing the risk of violent conflict and wiping trillions of dollars off the global economy, a forthcoming UN report will warn.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/official-prophec...

Kurt,

More of the chick little doomsday stuff. The global warming/climate change models have been so far off the mark in the past. Why would you believe their predictions of the future would be any more accurate?

EC, I linked to those stories to further the conversation. But beyond that, you have to agree the weather of late, across the globe, has been a bit, uh, bizarre:

The 2013 extreme weather events included several all-time temperature records in Northern and Southern Hemisphere. The February extent of snow cover in Eurasia and North America was above average, while the extent of Arctic ice in the same month was 4,5% below the 1981–2010 average.[1] The Northern Hemisphere weather extremes have been linked to the melting of Arctic sea ice, which alters atmospheric circulation in a way that leads to more snow and ice.[2]
By January 11, 233 weather-related deaths were reported in India.[3] Elsewhere, particularly in Russia, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom, low temperatures had an impact on wildlife, delaying bird breeding and disrupting the bird migration. On January 10 Bangladesh faced the lowest temperature since country's independence, at 3.0 °C (37.4 °F) in Saidpur.[4]

Land and ocean temperature values in February 2013 compared to a 1981–2010 base period.

Differences of land precipitation percentiles in February 2013 from average values.
In Europe the late spring and June were perturbed. While Finland and most of Northern Countries got the record high, and even the highest temperatures at Europe during May and June, Western- and Middle Europe faced much cooler weather and even their wettest May and June ever. This difference at weather was very exceptional in Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_extreme_weather_events

There have been heat waves in Slovenia and Australia, snow in Vietnam, and the return of the polar vortex to North America. Great Britain has had its wettest winter in 250 years, but temperatures in parts of Russia and the Arctic have been 18 degrees above normal. Meanwhile, the Southern Hemisphere has had the warmest start to a year ever recorded, with millions of people sweltering in Brazilian and southern African cities.

According to the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which monitors global weather, the first six weeks of 2014 have seen an unusual number of extremes of heat, cold, and rain—not just in a few regions as might be expected in any winter, but right the way around the world at the same time, with costly disruptions to transport, power systems, and food production.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/02/world-begins-2014-unusual...

From my climate-change studies, such bizarre swings in the "weather" are all part of the climate-change model.