From the Weather is not climate unless we say it is department: Over at Climate Progress, paid propagandist Joe Romm wails about “journalistic malpractice” from Michael Mann’s words in a tweet:
The wailing (Jan 31st and again Feb 4th) was because the LA Times didn’t use the words “global warming” or “climate change” in a story about the mild winter in the USA. But Romm and Mann both ignore the much bigger story of a bitterly cold winter in Europe with snow reaching into northern Africa which has caused nearly three hundred deaths. Conversely, there doesn’t seem to be any deaths associated with the mild winter in the USA that Romm and Mann are wailing about. You can decide who’s committing “journalistic malpractice”.
Rutgers Snow Lab has the current NH snow extent:
Romm’s buddy, Dr. Jeff Masters puts the temperature departure in Europe and Alaska in perspective with the continental USA:
And here’s a CNN story from today about the severe winter weather in Europe:
Situation ‘tragic’ as winter weather blankets Europe (Snow Reported as far south as Algeria in Northern Africa)
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 12:23 PM EST, Sun February 5, 2012
London (CNN) — Heavy snow left several Italian villages paralyzed and without power as winter weather and cold temperatures spread across Europe, the mayor of one village said. Many of the 32 villages in the Aniene Valley, near Rome, lost electricity on Friday when an electric pylon fell because of the snow, said Piero Moscardini, mayor of Vallinfreda. The valley, home to about 50,000 people, has received some 100 cm (39 inches) of snow, Moscardini said. “It’s the worst snow since 1956,” he said. “The situation is tragic. We need the Army to save us.”
Ambulances cannot traverse the roads, he said, and some villagers cannot reach their stables to feed livestock. Meanwhile, deaths continued to increase from the cold. In Romania, four people died on Saturday and another six on Sunday, authorities said. A total of 34 people have died since the cold snap began in late January. Nineteen national roads and one highway remained closed on Sunday. More than 30 cities and villages are isolated, authorities said, and power outages were reported in 200 cities and villages. More than 3,000 employees belonging to the Interior Ministry were involved in rescue operations, as hundreds sought refuge in temporary shelters and hundreds more were hospitalized because of hypothermia.
In Poland, TVN Poland said a total of 53 people have died, eight of them in the past 24 hours. The victims are mainly homeless people, according to the report. Heathrow Airport, one of the world’s busiest international airports, canceled about half of its flights Sunday, its owner said Sunday — about 260 more flights than it expected to cancel as of the night before. Between two and four inches of snow fell on London overnight, as the British capital became the latest European city to be hit by winter weather wending its way west. Drivers in both London and Rome will need to worry about ice as temperatures rise slightly, then fall again to below freezing, CNN meteorologist Tom Sater said Sunday.
Full story here
People stand in snow in front of the Colosseum on Saturday, February 4, in Rome.
A boy and his mother skate on the partly frozen Elbe River as the skyline of the eastern German city of Dresden is silhouetted in the background on Thursday, February 2. A cold snap kept Europe in its icy grip, pushing the death toll past 150 as countries from Italy to Ukraine struggled to cope with temperatures that reached record lows in some places.
A man pets a dog next to frozen sea waters in Constanta, Romania, on Wednesday, February 1. Temperatures plunged to -34 degrees Celsius (-29 degrees Fahrenheit) in central Romania, where eight people died due to cold-related causes, according to local media.
Freshly plowed snow frames a road in Bucharest, Romania, on Friday, January 27.
iReporter Cosmin Stan sent in this photo from Bucharest, Romania, on Thursday, January 26. “The problem was not the quantity of the snow, but the strong winds,” he told CNN.
There seems to have been a lot of warmCold in Europe and Asia and Western North America and Australia and South America and Africa over the last few years. These are Regional changes confined to only Europe and Asia and Western North America and Australia and South America and Africa, and thus are not Global warmCooling indicators.
Don’t confuse weather with climate.
Weather is anything that involves warmCold or warmCooling in general.
Climate is almost everything else including: Drought, Flood, High Wind, No Wind, Tornados, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Forest Fires, above Average Temperatures.
The media (and the climate scientologists) linked the heat wave in Russia in 2010 to Global Warming (climate) but they are not linking this warmCold snap in Europe to anything other then a spot of bad luck (weather). This media presentation illustrates the difference between climate and weather.
Climate often includes Arctic Sea Ice (which was decreasing until 2007).
Climate Does Not include Antarctic Sea Ice (which has been above average for years) or Global Sea Ice (which is also above average) or Ocean temperatures or the Sun or any actual measured data from nature taken before 1970 or after 1998.
Snow in Rome? Now that is something.
…and all of that means what? Here in above normal Nebraska we finally got a storm that produced some measurable snow — about 10″, but I suspect that was a radar estimate because all the pavements are/were well above freezing and much of the snowfall melted quickly. As it was, I had about 5″ of very heavy wet snow in my driveway. I’m glad I have a two-stage snow thrower; it was hard enough shoveling the spots the snow thrower can’t reach. Not that much cold with the passing of the low pressure system either. Today is a pretty moderate day: it’s cloudy and the temperature did not crack 32F, but IR coming through the clouds produced considerable melting anyway.
Brrrrrrr! Reminds me of The Big Freeze in UKLand in 1962/3. Much toastier in Southern Tasmania. It’s rather nice having been one of the “rats leaving a sinking ship” as my mother so wisely put it in 1965.
Mr. Mann, who hasn’t displayed much in the way of intellectual depth so far, now succumbs to “some temperatures are more important than other temperatures” thinking. Fact is that the winter in Alaska has been brutal. IMO, the failure to mention global cooling in most news stories constitutes a greater journalistic malpractice — people are dying.
Shows how Romm and Mann cherry pick, no mention of all the deaths in Europe, maybe we don’t count as much as Americans?
But then, they would spin it anyway they could, despite the fact that here, cold kills more than heat,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16855184
Ironically, all of my tutorials with students have been cancelled tomorrow! Reason? Too much snow and ice in my part of Southern England! At least it gives me time to catch up with my reading.
[snip – blog policy violation – Anthony]
Meanwhile, back at the (post-soviet) ranch…
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/02/03/russian-gas-under-pressure/
Cmon Dr Mann, playing the local weather game? Et tu??? I am surprised as a climatologist not being aware of the rapid drop off in Global temps, . here so you dont get accused of what is going on around the entire globe.
http://policlimate.com/climate/cfsr_t2m_2011.png
notice the trend now is DOWN since the PDO flip in 2008, no longer just leveled off as it had done since the great nino of the late 90s, a product of the warm PDO. BTW There will be a nino response later this year and winter, like 09-10, and I suspect once Hansen wakes up he will declare temp spiking super nino is on the way. As per cold PDO’s The globe will warm a bit and the US will freeze next winter. Will you then blame warming for the snow? As a climatologist you should know if you want to think locally YOU BETTER LOOK GLOBALLY ( interesting in that all the studies I read out of China find no hockey sticks there with the proxy tree rings.. but we will stick with the current global cold and making sure you are aware of this drop off. I am sure someone at PSU will ask him about the rapid enso response down like this globally in your talk this week, so you see I am trying to help.
Retweeting Heidi Cullen blaming AGW for earthquakes and Irene.. that was kind of weird too.
Was AGW responsible for Irene weakening and not being as bad as Carol, 1944, 1938, etc.
I believe Dr Cullen thinks the earth is really “pissed off” if I remember that.
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Hopefully we have not destroyed our reliable energy capacity because we are going to need it in the coming decades. It takes more to heat, than to cool homes and business. As I said 4 years ago, and will continue to say, we will back to temps of the 70s by 2030. Unfortunately, those kind of temps need alot of energy to fuel an economy… the kind that people can make money so they can help with university professors getting grants to fund their studies. Doesnt grow on tree rings, you know
again check the link out , so you dont get ambushed using the warm US winter ( btw likely to change and last into March) when the rest of the globe is cold
About 8ins of snow fell here in East Anglia yesterday and shows no sign of thawing. I’m glad of it as the flies had started hatching and I’d been killing mosquitoes all winter! It’s been very mild here til now – we hadn’t even had a hard a frost and my geraniums only stopped flowering in late January. It’s tragic though to see the images on TV of the homeless in Eastern Europe inc Russia surrounded by all that snow and ice, and people walking past children giving no money to help them
Mild winter in the USA? Just ask the folks in Alaska.
In related News…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096277/Global-warming-James-Delingpole-claims-green-zealots-destroying-planet.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
It is now winter in the UK as expected for this time of the year.
Unfortunately a couple of weeks ago crops, plants in general thought it was spring!
We’ve had a field of rape seed in flower – nothing to pollinate it and now wrecked by cold.
European wheat fields are usually covered by snow early in winter but it was too hot therefore no snow. Now -20C therefore dead wheat.
Some experts make silly predictions off the cuff which then get endlessly repeated. It will always be cold in winter (its he angle of the sun!) if its cold and the atmosphere holds enough water then it is likely to snow rather than rain – simple really!
We just had
-9C Friday
30mm snow by 9pm Saturday,
now 5pm suday +5C and 1mm snow left. Not even time to build a snow man!
This is all called weather not climate!
[SNIP: Policy. -REP]
I love you Joe (Bastardi)!
It is disappointing that Dr. Mann would tweet something as stupid as this. But then, doesn’t it really display his understanding concerning climate?
As my Grandma used to say “The proof is in the pudding”.
Well, Dr. Mann, by his tweet, gives us more proof of his lack of knowledge concerning climate verses weather.
This demonstrates the sorry state that Climate Science has become, a very sorry state.
Mann and Romm ought to know the meaning of “global” by now. I certainly do not agree with the idea of a global average temperature but they seem to like it. So why, when Mann’s home state of PA is having a warmer winter, doesn’t he calculate a global average temperature rather than proclaim AGW based on US temps?. When the rest of the northern hemisphere is freezing I think it negates the warm winter PA is having. And it’s not even unprecedented. The winter of 1916 was even warmer in PA.
This also raises the question?……..
How in the world did Dr. Mann everrrrrrrrrr get past peer review? Is peer review now the definition of sloppy acceptance of consensus?
@Patrick Guinness: I’ll see your snow in Rome, and I’ll raise you an Algeria.
I have to ask the question, as I don’t know the answer to it:
What is Dr. Mann’s PHD in? Surely it can’t be climate related…..it just can’t be.
Don’t confuse weather with climate.
We don’t. But we do observe that the global January anomaly is pretty low.
Oh. I see Joe Bastardi has made the same point.
it is more impressive the snow in Majorca. Second largest snowfall on records. The largest one happened in 1959. Majorca is an island in the balearic archipelago further south than Rome.
http://www.abc.es/20120204/deportes-futbol/abci-nieve-palma-201202041624.html
It seems those two clowns (R&M) did not get the memo that there was a LaNina this year…
It would seem Joe that Money DOES GROW on tree rings for those guys… but the golden cow is about to turn to lead for these buffoons.