The online meteorologist who refuses to succumb to climate change propaganda, Mike Smith:
Back in April I wrote a posting called Climafornication. Showtime Networks debuted a series called “Years of Living Dangerously.” It ran (and repeats still run) on Sunday evenings immediately after its series, “Californication.” In that blog post, I wrote:
Now, I guarantee you that the current drought in Texas and California will not be presented in this scientifically factual manner. It will be presented as some type of drought that has never occurred before complete with special effects to make it appear worse than it actually is.
I’d say that comment was accurate. The series (since it is still running) lasted longer than the supposedly unprecedented drought!
While reasonable people can and do disagree about global warming, the series used sleazy techniques to convey its propaganda point. For example, noted climate scientist Don Cheadle went to the small town of Plainview, Texas, to talk about the drought it was then experiencing. Nothing wrong with that. But, that is not where the producers stopped. Look at this screen capture. The brown tint in the air was added post-production to exaggerate the drought! They employed a number of these production tricks to make things look worse than they were. That is propaganda, not science.
We also heard how the west Texas (already dry) climate has “changed” and droughts were going to be more frequent. Only one problem with all of this: The drought is over. The official National Weather Service drought metric is below. I’ve placed an arrow pointing to Plainview.
Less than five months later, the drought is officially gone. That is not to say the region does not have challenges, it does. More rain is needed to fill reservoirs (so as to be prepared for the next drought) and the depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer is a huge problem.
The series also starred frequent private jet commuter Arnold Schwarzenegger and private jet owner and pilot Harrison Ford. Nothing like being lectured to decrease our carbon footprints by people whose footprints are the size of Alaska.
Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds says,
I’ll believe global warming is a crisis when the people telling me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.
Once again, in difficult economic times, people trying to make a living and support their families are misleadingly lectured about carbon footprints by Hollywood hypocrites who crisscross the world in private jets.
Harrison Ford in “Years” (left) and with his jet I like Harrison Ford as an actor and I would use a private jet extensively if I could afford to do so. But, he is in absolutely no position to tell me about the size of my carbon footprint.
Readers are reminded of Al Gore’s 11,000-square-foot house, where he apparently lives in between flying across the world to lecture the masses on their carbon footprints. That also applies to Secretary of State John Kerry, who married into money before he started lecturing the masses on their carbon footprints. The Kerrys are not living in an 800-square-foot apartment and taking mass transit to work.
Smith points out things the mainstream media doesn’t — for instance, the number of tornadoes and hurricanes, and the number of most violent tornadoes and hurricanes, is down, not up.
But hey, don’t let the facts get in the way of your narrative, as is reported by National Review:
According to a top environmentalist organizer, climate change is responsible for this summer’s violence in Ferguson, Missouri.
“To me, the connection between militarized state violence, racism, and climate change was common-sense and intuitive,” 350.org Strategic Partnership Coordinator Deirdre Smith wrote.
“Oppression and extreme weather combine to ‘incite’ militarized violence,” she continued. Weeks of rioting followed the killing August 9 of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Observers around the nation criticized the police for a heavy-handed response to protests in the town, but while the rioting received international attention, it did not result in any loss of life.
Smith explained that not only do poor minority communities have fewer resources to deal with the impacts of climate change, but that “people of color also disproportionately live in climate-vulnerable areas,” which makes climate change a race issue. …
According to the National Weather Service, the St. Louis area was not notably warmer this summer than it has ever been. At 80.3 degrees Fahrenheit, this August’s average temperature in the Gateway to the West was only the seventh-warmest of the last 20 years, substantially cooler than the two-decade high of 83.9 degrees in August 1995.
Smith adds:
Connection between climate change and Ferguson??? Hmmm. Perhaps, because of her lack of background in climate science, she didn’t know how to research the temperature on August 9, 2014, the day of the horrible shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, a north suburb of St. Louis.
So, I did a little research:
The high temperature that day was a very pleasant 82° which was seven degrees cooler than usual. The record high of 110° occurred in 1934 when world climate was cooler than it is today.
To put St. Louis’ high of 82° in perspective, thousands of people pay thousands of dollars every day to fly to Honolulu to enjoy and vacation in Hawaii’s pleasant climate. What was the high in Honolulu the same day?
It was 87°, five degrees warmer than St. Louis.
Obviously, a high of 82 degrees had nothing to do with the tragic shooting and terrible events that unfolded in Ferguson. While I am tempted to make other comments, I’ll stop here.
Steve Prestegard.com: The Presteblog 
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