Scientists: "We Have No Idea What The Hell Is Going On"

Oh, they won't admit to the headline, but you only have to look at what they actually say. Fog over San Francisco thins by a third due to climate change:

The coastal fog along the Californian coast has declined by a third over the past 100years – the equivalent of three hours cover a day, new research shows....

"Since 1901, the average number of hours of fog along the coast in summer has dropped from 56 per cent to 42 per cent, which is a loss of about three hours per day," said the study leader Dr James Johnstone at the University of California.

He said that it was unclear whether this is part of a natural cycle of the result of human activity, but the fog is receding because of a reduction in the difference between the temperature of the sea and the land.

"A cool coast and warm interior is one of the defining characteristics of California's coastal climate, but the temperature difference between the coast and interior has declined substantially in the last century, in step with the decline in summer fog," he added.

Got that?

OK, let's move on. Science has spoken... WTH is this? Get ready for even foggier summers:

The Bay Area just had its foggiest May in 50 years. And thanks to global warming, it's about to get even foggier.

That's the conclusion of several state researchers, whose soon-to-be-published study predicts that even with average temperatures on the rise, the mercury won't be soaring everywhere.

"There'll be winners and losers," says Robert Bornstein, a meteorology professor at San Jose State University. "Global warming is warming the interior part of California, but it leads to a reverse reaction of more fog along the coast."

The study, which will appear in the journal Climate, is the latest to argue that colder summers are indeed in store for parts of the Bay Area.

Scientists began sounding the alarm 20 years ago when looking at greenhouse gases and their possible reverse effects along the foggy Northern California coast. The theory, then and now, is that the hotter the Central Valley gets, the greater the temperature and pressure gradients between the inland and coast will be - therefore forming more fog.

In the new fog study, Bornstein broke the Bay Area down into smaller regions and looked at daily temperatures for the last half century, focusing on the rapid post-1970 warming period. He found that although temperatures were trending upward as a whole, it was asymmetric - the hills and inland areas were warming, while low-elevation coastal areas were actually cooling.

Got that?

Scientist #1: "temperature difference between the coast and interior has declined substantially in the last century..."

Scientist #2: "temperatures were trending upward as a whole, it was asymmetric - the hills and inland areas were warming, while low-elevation coastal areas were actually cooling..."

Isn't "consensus" a beautiful thing? Quick, let's allow these guys to destroy the economy based upon the state of our present knowledge!

Please?!?!

(Gleaned from Gateway Pundit)