1930 Heatwaves Greater, No Fires

The "2018 Camp" fire

Climatologist Dr. John Christy rebuts wildfire and heatwave claims: "Our most serious heatwaves were in the 1930’s."

Alabama’s state climatologist John Christy objects to claims recent California fires and national heat waves are caused by human activity. And  one word Dr. Christy turns to frequently for describing climate science is "murky."  These conclusions are based on his research presented in his last 20 appearances before Congressional Committees.

“It is encouraging as they wouldn’t invite me back unless my message were compelling and accurate,” Dr. Christy is Alabama’s State Climatologist.

Dr. Christy does research and teaching as the Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).  He has gained notoriety over the years for dissenting from mainstream climate scientists and policymakers who claim climate change is anthropogenic,  man-made; new bureaus, regulations and taxes must be created to deal with it! 

Dr. Christy declares, “I’m a working-stiff atmospheric scientist, opposed to those who support climate modeling and those who use mathematical models with modified data sets like those of Dr. Michael Mann of Penn State University falsely claims to be a Nobel Prize winner.  He was caught in the infamous East Anglia University Climate Unit scandal where he was lauded by Dr. Phil Jones Director of EAUCU for his "trick" of erasing the 500 year warming to make his "Hockey Stick" which was in the infamous Al Gore speech and slide show film that got him the Nobel Peace Prize. It is not a real "Nobel" as the $1 million award is funded by the very political Bank of Sweden and not the Nobel Trust.

Dr. Christy carefully criticizes his anthropogenic global warming promoting colleagues saying they create data sets rather than "...build them themselves" which we translate into "...invent them" for clarity as every working scientist knows real experimental data tends to be "wobbly."  Most of our models are inventions or fantasies in fact. 

According to Christy, the result of fewer “working-stiff” scientists contributing to the prevailing climate debate means more frequent misuses of data, “Here we have a science that’s so dominated by personalities that claim the science is settled, yet when you walk up to them and say prove it, they can’t.” 

Dr. Christy claims, “We do not have an experiment that we can repeat and do.”  We have two at https://sciencefrauds.blogspot.com  under the titles "CO2 Is Innocent" and "The CO2 Bomb."  Both have all the chemistry and physics involved written for non-science trained readers and demo-experiments that can be done for a few Dollars each and prove what we say.

Christy argues that exacerbating fires in California, results from human mismanagement. Such states have enacted strict management practices that disallow removing and burning brush annually. 

“If you don’t let the low-intensity fires burn, the fuel builds up year after year,” Christy said. “Now once a fire gets going and it gets going enough, it has so much fuel we can’t put it out.  In that sense, you could say that fires today are more intense, but it’s because of human management practices, not because mother nature has done something,” 

Data from the Fire Center indicates that the number of wildfires has been decreasing since the 1970s overall, though the acreage burned has increased significantly due to mismanagement.  

As for the heat, Christy said there’s nothing abnormal going on in the United States. “Heat waves have always happened,” he said. “Our most serious heatwaves were in the 1930’s. We have not matched those at all. It is only a perception that is being built by the media that these are dramatic worst-ever heat wave kind of things but when we look at the numbers, and all science is numbers, we find that there were periods that were hotter, hotter for longer periods in the past, so it’s very hard to say that this was influenced by human effects."

Adrian Vance