Tag: climate change

[def. dictionary.com]  a long-term change in the earth’s climate, especially a change due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature: Melting glaciers imply that life in the Arctic is affected by climate change. … Foremost among them is the role of birth control in dealing with climate change.

[added comments] The above appears to be an overly simple definition of climate change and the last sentence is open to extensive discussion.  There is much more to climate change than temperature.  There is wind, precipitation, humidity, atmospheric pressure, and other elements.  Also, there is nothing unusual about climate change, because the climate is constantly changing.  Climate is simply average weather.  What that is depends on the averaging period.  Some say that at least 30 years of measurements are required to compute climatic averages, but that is not necessarily correct.  There are good reasons to consider 60 years of measurements due to the 60-year Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).  The limiting factor in computing climatological averages is the amount of measurement data available.  Generally, there is no more than 100 to 150 years of data unless proxy data are used.  Regardless, the climatological average will be different for each different averaging period.  Consequently, we must conclude that we really do not have sufficient data to know what the climatological averages are not to mention how they are changing.

Comment on: “Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate”

Robert W. Endlich

[This is the author’s review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the US Climate, which he submitted to Regulations.gov in the necessary format.  Also, this is his post corresponding to his August 2025 Forum presentation.  Ed.]

INTRODUCTION

Carbon Dioxide molecule.  Image by Pixabay.

I received a Bachelor’s in Geology, Rutgers, 1962, Basic Meteorology certificate from Texas A&M, 1964, and an MS in Meteorology at The Pennsylvania State University, 1969. I served as a Weather Officer in the US Air Force for 21 years, 1963-1984, including overseas tours on Guam, in Thailand and Viet Nam, and in Germany, during the Cold War. In 1964, I was elected to Chi Epsilon Pi, the National Meteorology Honor Society, while an Air Force Basic Meteorology student at Texas A&M University. I worked as a Meteorologist for 49 years: 21 in the Air Force, 18 in the U.S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM, and 10 in the Physical Science Laboratory Continue reading “Comment on: “Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate””

The Central Texas Floods of 4 Jul 2025: Tragic Loss of Human Lives

A Lack of Critical Thinking: Many in the Media got the Wrong Answer.

Robert W. Endlich
INTRODUCTION

My heart sank when I found out about the loss of life, including many young girl campers, during a flash flood event on what should have been a joyous 4th of July holiday weekend along the Guadalupe River in Texas.

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Although I’m originally from New Jersey, the Air Force, and later the Army, sent me many times to Central Texas, journeys which crossed Texas’ scenic Hill Country numerous times. When they were small, duty at Ft Hood frequently found me within 2 hours’ drive of Daughter Carol and Grandkids Daryl and Reina, and an excuse for me to take them on a ‘Saturday Adventure with Grandpa Bob,’ usually to drive and visit across the Hill Country. I know this area well.

This post describes Geography, Rainfall Records, Flood Records, pertinent Continue reading “The Central Texas Floods of 4 Jul 2025: Tragic Loss of Human Lives”

Analysis of the January 2025 Los Angeles’ Wild Fires

. . . and claims they were “human-caused by <CO2-fueled> climate change.”

 Robert W. Endlich

 INTRODUCTION

This analysis examines the causes behind the catastrophic January 2025 fires in Los Angeles by exploring both environmental triggers and human failures that contributed to the disaster.  There are two main parts to this analysis, which are described below.

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Section A provides an analysis of the extant climate today, and the weather and fire events which unfolded in Los Angeles during the early days of January 2025.

The first of several catastrophic fires began and continued during an extremely powerful (and well-forecast) Santa Ana Wind event.

The analysis here reveals a diagnostic pattern for these types of fires found in the sea surface temperature time series in the Nino 3.4 Region along the Continue reading “Analysis of the January 2025 Los Angeles’ Wild Fires”

The Flawed Conversion of James Delingpole from Climate Skeptic to now Alarmist? PART ONE

Robert W. Endlich

Author’s Note: This is Part ONE of a multi-part post.

INTRODUCTION
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James Delingpole is an English writer who has written extensively about the allegedly human-caused, CO2-fueled global warming alarm. Wikipedia calls his writing “climate change denial.” But, Delingpole’s recent Substack post, “Valencia: Man Made Climate Change is REAL  Or: Why I No Longer Talk to Climate Sceptics” seems to me, at least, enough of a change in Delingpole’s thought and writing process that I call it his “flawed conversion.”

One of Delingpole’s books is ”Watermelons, The Green Movement’s True Colors,” in which he correctly characterizes the Global Warming Alarmist movement as allegedly Green (conservation-aligned) on the outside, but (Communist) Red on the inside.

So Delingpole’s 5 November 2024 Substack post changes that. James now says that aircraft-generated contrails, which he (and other ignorant and/or deluded individuals) now calls Continue reading “The Flawed Conversion of James Delingpole from Climate Skeptic to now Alarmist? PART ONE”

The Flawed Conversion of James Delingpole from Climate Skeptic to now Alarmist? PART TWO

Robert W. Endlich

Author’s Note:  This is Part TWO of a Two-Part post.

James Delingpole’s new belief, as he writes on Substack, concerning his book WATERMELONS is

“In the original version, I claimed that man-made climate change wasn’t real. Of course it is, though.  Look at Valencia…Or, indeed, look at North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. Or Florida after Hurricane Milton.”

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And

“…This is what chemtrails look like, you morons!”

And

“…What I find particularly interesting, as a veteran combatant of the climate wars, is the reluctance of my old, climate skeptical comrades to acknowledge the role of chemtrails, the use of Directed Energy Weapons and such like in generating extreme weather events.”

STRENGTH OF HURRICANES HELENE AND MILTON, AGAIN

Let’s delve into James Delingpole’s notion that the power of 2024’s Continue reading “The Flawed Conversion of James Delingpole from Climate Skeptic to now Alarmist? PART TWO”