{"id":369754,"date":"2025-03-13T17:07:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=369754"},"modified":"2025-03-13T17:07:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:07:48","slug":"climate-astrologers-forecast-global-weirding-and-climate-whiplash-will-hit-the-worlds-biggest-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=369754","title":{"rendered":"Climate Astrologers forecast \u2018Global weirding\u2019 and climate whiplash will hit the world\u2019s biggest cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shamen and fortune-tellers are back preying on suggestible minds<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A new \u201cstudy\u201d warns us that the most populated cities on Earth have a distinct trend towards, wait for it, wetter or drier weather.  Somehow, 95 of the 100 biggest cities do not have the exact same amount of rain that they had 40 years ago. (The horror). And this is \u201cweird\u201d they say, as if shifting patterns of rain have not been normal for the last four billion years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new term this week in Climate Bingo is \u201cClimate Whiplash\u201d \u2014 which means a city that has had more droughts\u00a0and floods<\/em>\u00a0lately. It\u2019s just another sort of Global Weirding which was predicted by exactly no models anywhere until after it happened, and sometimes not even then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trick here is to study some random permutation in an obscure weather metric over an absurdly short time frame \u2014 like for example the moisture surplus\/deficit difference between precipitation and evapotranspiration, and voila, we find a \u201c40-year trend\u201d. Given that the Pacific Ocean oscillates on\u00a020 \u2013 30 year cycle<\/a>, and the\u00a0Atlantic on a 60 to 80 year<\/a>\u00a0one, the world will never run out of 40-year meaningless trends in watery parameters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus paid Blob scientists have come up with another scary headline to justify their grant, and trick a few teenage girls into voting for Big Green Governments that will  give more money to Blob Scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian, as always parrots the Blob nonsense without so much as 2 seconds of googling \u201cDrought cycles of China\u201d where they could have found out that droughts were worse in the 1960s and 70s<\/a> just before this study started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Global weirding\u2019: climate whiplash hitting world\u2019s biggest cities, study reveals<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Swings between drought and floods striking from Dallas to Shanghai, while Madrid and Cairo are among cities whose climate has flipped<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damian Carrington (Chief of Environmental Propaganda) The Guardian<\/em>
Wed 12 Mar 2025 11.01 AEDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate whiplash is already hitting major cities around the world, bringing deadly swings between extreme wet and dry weather as the climate crisis intensifies, a report has revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dozens more cities, including Lucknow, Madrid and Riyadh have suffered a climate \u201cflip\u201d in the last 20 years, switching from dry to wet extremes, or vice versa. The report analysed the 100 most populous cities, plus 12 selected ones, and found that 95% of them showed a distinct trend towards wetter or drier weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shamen and fortune tellers are notorious for ambiguous projections, and it\u2019s right there in the press release.<\/a> Climate change can look like any change at all, and any change  could be climate change:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Katerina Michaelides, Lead Scientist from University of Bristol, said: \u201cThe findings from our study illustrate just how differently and dramatically climate change is expressing around the globe \u2013 there is no one-size-fits-all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything is changing and none of it\u2019s predictable. These forecasts come with excuses built in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur study shows that climate change is dramatically different around the world,\u201d said Prof Katerina Michaelides, at the University of Bristol, UK. Her co-author, Prof Michael Singer at Cardiff University, described the pattern as \u201cglobal weirding<\/a>\u201d. \u201cMost places we looked at are changing in some way, but in ways that are not always predictable,<\/strong>\u201d Singer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All told, 17 cities are apparently suffering Climate Whiplash, though they were not important enough to list in the Guardian or the press release. Possibly because the full list included  Canberra, Chicago, and Melbourne, where millions of Guardian readers live \u2014 who might realize they are not being whipped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eye candy graph definitely looks jagged and scary:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The\u00a0Guardian\u00a0<\/a><\/em>(of The Blob)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But in the long run, these are bumps of nothing. For example, here\u2019s the last 700 years of recharge rates in one part of China where rain has come and gone. Curiously, there are\u00a0200 year long cycles in groundwater recharge rates in China that seem to vary with cycles on the Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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R.K. Tiwari1,*<\/sup>\u00a0and Rekapalli Rajesh2<\/sup>\u00a0(2014)\u00a0 Imprint of long-term solar signal in groundwater recharge fluctuation rates from North West China. Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:\u00a010.1002\/2014GL060204<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Warn the children that the Global Weirding lot are just government marketers wearing labcoats. They fish for random 40-year fluctuations that no one predicted. It ain\u2019t science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POST NOTE:<\/strong>\u00a0See this is the tragedy of one-sided government funded science. The people writing these junk studies up probably think they are doing a decent job, they just don\u2019t realize how vacuous this is because there is never any criticism of green-promo-science. They\u2019ve never attended a conference where someone talked about long term drought cycles, they don\u2019t know there are 10,000 proxies that show continuous variation in every climate parameter.\u00a0 If they had been reeled back in a few times as honours students, they wouldn\u2019t grow up to be scientists making these baby mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REFERENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Water and climate: Rising risks for urban populations,<\/a> Cardiff University, 12 March 2025 in Climate change, published by WaterAid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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