Telegraph Warns Of ‘Godzilla Weather, Widespread Devastation’
El Ninos create a problem for the alarmist media. As global temperatures can rise by as much as a full degree in the space of a couple of years, as the climate swings from La Nina to El Nino, without any noticeable detriment to human life
This begs the question why on earth should we be worried about much smaller rises in temperature spread over many decades?
On June 3rd, The Telegraph told us we should expect ‘the weather phenomenon that could shake the world‘.
The article states:
Experts fear a ‘Godzilla’ El Niño will be strongest on record and cause widespread devastation.
The world could be on the brink of a “Godzilla-like” El Niño extreme weather pattern that could trigger economic and political disruption around the world.
El Niño, an oceanic heatwave that occurs two to three times each decade, is building in the Pacific around the equator, and is expected to peak in September, the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned.
The warm current will affect weather patterns and increase the risk of droughts in Australia, and southern parts of Asia and Africa. It will also increase the likelihood of violent storms and heavy rainfall in parts of the Americas.
While droughts and storms are bad enough, experts say this could be the strongest El Niño on record, with even more severe potential outcomes. These include flooding, landslides, wildfires, famine, conflict and migration.
The expected severity has led to some meteorologists using the term Godzilla El Niño – after the colossal dinosaur-like creature that has featured in dozens of monster films.
El Niño has been causing weather-related disasters for centuries. It is thought to have contributed to the collapse of Peru’s ancient Moche civilisation in the eighth century, for example.
So, at a time when global supply chains and geopolitics are especially fragile, what could a Godzilla El Niño mean for the world?
(Italic and bold emphasis added – Ed)
The report goes on to claim that food supply will be disrupted, migration will increase and and there will be “conflict zone flare-ups”.
All this from a weather phenomenon that comes around every four or five years – something humanity has managed to survive for millennia! Indeed, when you add in La Ninas, which also impact the weather, most years are “abnormal”!
Hence the attempts to frighten us with childish descriptions of ‘Godzilla’ weather patterns triggering economic and political disruption around the world.
In reality, the changes to weather patterns brought about by El Nino have nothing at all to do with higher temperatures. They are the result of the change in atmospheric weather patterns.
The Met Office have this useful video, showing exactly what El Nino is:
Because of the changes in Pacific trade winds, as shown above, precipitation patterns around the world are also affected:
To label weather as “good” or “bad” is an oversimplification. The BBC, for instance, talk about floods in some regions, but heavier rain is more often than beneficial for agriculture.
But these effects tend to be much smaller than they would like us to believe. They are usually much more subtle. Take the Indian monsoon, for example:
Source: tropmet.res.in
Yes, El Ninos tend to lead to droughts, but not always so. Droughts often occur in other years as well. But more significantly El Nino-linked droughts have NOT become more severe over time, which the silly Telegraph article implies.
Indian rainfall patterns respond to atmospheric changes, not global temperatures.
Finally, just to deal with the food supply crisis, we are supposed to expect, the chart of cereal production proves that recent El Ninos have had zero effect on output:
Source: fao.org
I cant leave this without mentioning that the young reporter who wrote this twaddle is the Telegraph’s “Global Health Security Reporter”:
We also have to mention that The Telegraph’s Global Health Security coverage is partly funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Orlandobass
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The operative words in all this prognostication are “on record”. Somewhat accurate temperature records have been kept for less than 200 years, less than a wink of an eye in geologic time. The planet is approximately 4.5 billion years old. The climate didn’t change at all before records were kept?
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very old white guy
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When it comes to weather and the “climate” we must do what man has done for thousands of years, adapt.
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