The Associated Press published – and the Appleton Post-Crescent (Wisconsin) republished – an article claiming global warming is causing an acceleration of wind speeds with disastrous consequences for the Great Lakes.
However, the article and its claims have little credibility, as the Associated Press previously claimed global warming (a.k.a. climate change) is causing wind speeds to slow down, not speed up.
The Associated Press/Appleton Post-Crescent article is titled, “Scientists: climate-whipped winds pose Great Lakes hazards.”
The article claims, “Powerful gusts linked to global warming are damaging water quality and creating a hazard for fish in Lake Erie and perhaps elsewhere in the Great Lakes, according to researchers.”
According to the article, high winds bring water with low oxygen and high phosphorous from deep in the Great Lakes to the surface, “creating a hazard for fish and insects on which they feed.” The article claims winds have accelerated since 1980.
“As temperatures increase overall, we will get higher winds and larger waves,” according to a quote in the article.
However, the Associated Press previously reported exactly the opposite. The AP even quoted prominent alarmist scientist Michael Mann to support its assertion that global warming causes slower wind speeds.
In an article titled, “Not so windy: Research suggests winds dying down,” AP reporter Seth Borenstein wrote:
“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.”
The Borenstein article claims the “average and peak wind speeds have been noticeably slowing since 1973, especially in the Midwest and the East. ‘It’s a very large effect,’ said study co-author Eugene Takle, a professor of atmospheric science at Iowa State University. In some places in the Midwest, the trend shows a 10 percent drop or more over a decade.”
Borenstein backed up the claim by quoting Mann. Wrote Borenstein, “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.”
More recently, the Guardian published an article titled, “Global warming will weaken wind power, study predicts.” According to the article, climate models show wind speeds will slow as the Earth warms.
“The research, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, used the same climate models and projected future emission as the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,” the Guardian emphasized.
If global warming is causing wind speeds to accelerate, with disastrous consequences for Great Lakes fish, somebody needs to tell that to Seth Borenstein, Michael Mann, Gene Takle, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and everybody who previously sounded the alarm about global warming causing slower wind speeds.
At least until the next study comes out, flip-flopping again on “settled science.”
Read more at Climate Realism
A local newspaper ran an article in January, fretting over the lack of ice on the Great Lakes, calling it a trend (since 1979, of course) and blaming climate change.
A month later there was average ice cover, thanks to the polar vortex , another ‘climate change phenomenon’. I don’t understand how people don’t catch on to the alarmists.
Easy. The only place they get any (mis)information is from the left-wing media where they push these lies. They don’t hear from the likes Dr Lintzen or don’t follow the information from websites like this or Tony Heller’s youtube channel.
More proof that were no longer getting any real news just Fake News and the usial lies we get every day from these Liberal Journalists from ether the talking heads or the Print fake news
Global warming causing more winds and less winds at the same time — par for the course with the Climate Alarmists.
Global warming has caused the greening of the planet and bumper crops while people will starve and die because of it.
It has caused cities to be hotter and the countryside cooler.
Global warming caused warmer summers and harsher winters all at the same.
It has caused the greening of Greenland just like in the Middle Ages– opps, nevermind that one, Greenland is still a huge sheet of ice. But big chunks slough off every spring and form icebergs. That has never happened before.
Since these Climate Alarmists screwballs think everything from last years Riots to Burnt Toast was caused by Global warming/Climate Change the same way they have been blaming it for the Hurricanes and Tornado’s because their total’y nuts from watching fake films from Gore and DiCaprio
It really doesn’t matter what happens in the future, “THEY” will be able to say, “We told you so.” The fact that they also said the exact opposite at a different time means nothing.
If wind speeds in the Atlantic increase it’ll be great news for Greta going to another climate conference…
Dr Tim Ball – Historical Climatologist
http://www.generalistjournal.com
Book ‘The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science’.
Book “Human Caused Global Warming”, ‘The Biggest Deception in History’.
https://www.technocracy.news/dr-tim-ball-on-climate-lies-wrapped-in-deception-smothered-with-delusion/
There must be something to this report – I was following the America’s Cup races and was awestruck to see the boats sailing at three times the speeds seen in previous contests! .
Back in the 1970’s it was Global Cooling and a New Ice Age was coming that very same liberal rag TIME was going on about it back in the 1970’s before any of this Global warming/Climate Change load of Marlkey