When #47Traitors Sen. Jeff Sessions grilled Gina McCarthy, head of the EPA on climate change, he used a short series of denier lies. This diary exposes those lies and his role as a tool of the Koch brother funded campaign of denial and death.
The woeful example of this murderous traitor using his role in the U.S. Senate to lie with intent to harm the American public can be observed here:
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Drought
We've had fewer droughts in recent years . . . The IPCC says global soil moisture content is greater than it has been in the last decade. . .
Senator Sessions is apparently getting his talking points from Mark Morano's
Climate Depot which is a subsidiary of a Koch funded entity called CFACT.
This graphic shows that there has indeed been no increase of drought since 1982.
However, the reason this is a lie is that
the MODELS (pdf) show no expected
globally averaged drought increase until 2020 at the earliest. However, this doesn't mean that the droughts that are occurring today are not
more intense and severe because of climate change (see:
California).
Here is what the science says (circa 2006):
past observations
and
projected future drought trends
This is what that looks like for United States and her Citizens
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Hurricanes
We have experienced less hurricanes and there have been less hurricanes worldwide
Again, Sen. Sessions appears to be drawing from
CFACT's database of deceptions about climate change for denial talking points.
Notice that he first says, "hitting us", meaning landfalling hurricanes in the U.S. which is such a small number that the natural variability of events allows for no statistical trend. In addition, some models for climate change show a much higher upper altitude wind shear that will suppress hurricane formation activity, at times, similar to the last two years.
However, the evidence of higher sea surface temperatures and hurricane power is clear, both from direct observations and historical impacts to the New England coast.
Increases in hurricane power due to climate change
Increased frequency of North Atlantic tropical storms
Increased frequency of hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin
Historical Evidence of massive New England hurricanes 1,000 years ago
A little over 1,000 years ago a period of regional warming associated with a higher flow of the gulf stream led to warmer surface temperatures in the North Atlantic. This was a regional event because similar warming signals did not occur in the Pacific. These higher regional surface temperatures are very similar to what we are going to experience in the next decade or so.
11 February 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Intense hurricanes possibly more powerful than any storms New England has experienced in recorded history frequently pounded the region during the first millennium, from the peak of the Roman Empire into the height of the Middle Ages, according to a new study.
The deposits revealed that these early storms were more frequent, and in some cases were likely more intense, than the most severe hurricanes Cape Cod has seen in historical times, including Hurricane Bob in 1991 and a 1635 hurricane that generated a 20-foot storm surge, according to Donnelly.
This is what that looks like, except this won't be the Philippines, this will be Downtown Boston.
These examples of intentional deceptions for the purpose of killing innocent U.S. citizens are clear. Since
the U.S. Pentagon has declared that climate change is a current national security threat, these acts are obvious acts of treason against the United States.
When one considers that arctic ice loss and the associated western droughts are already wreaking havoc on our country, we must take clear and decisive action against these criminals, whose greed and avarice will lead to the deaths of the next generation of Americans, (yes nearly ALL of them) if we do not immediately engage climate change mitigation and adaption in a direct and meaningful way.
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Think that this is hyperbole?
Think that these are overstatements of what we are facing as a nation?
stay tuned for the second in this three part series on the current National Security threat that is worse than Islamic Fundamentalism.
2:08 PM PT: A brief note:
In case there is any doubt regarding his lies about the "pause" These will be addressed in part 2 tomorrow. However, here is a tidbit from the upcoming attraction: