As the snow piles up over the Northeast, it is clear that global warming or climate change has caused this storm. Please take the opportunity to write up a prospective/perspective article as comments and I will combine them into the most coherent narrative for the folks at the New York Times or Washington Post to use in their newspapers. Note, you may use anonymous sources or experts in the field to come up with testimony. You may/should probably include anecdotes from storm-weary travelers who have never experienced anything like this before. Also, bonus points will be awarded to those that incorporate climate model predictions, which are almost always spot on when it comes to “forecasting” these “extreme events”. We will compare our efforts to what the elites ensconced in Washington, New York City, Boston, and London come up with.
Note to the blog police: this exercise is meant to be illustrative of the contortions that the media on both sides of the Atlantic have undergone to rationalize “winter weather”.
So far, Wade has set the standard for best journalism.
Update December 29, 2010: Time Magazine does not disappoint: blizzard is a sign of global warming!
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Sorry Ryan but Rahmstorf has already beaten you to it. And he’s got a computer model to prove it. And it’s already appeared in MSM. So there!!!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/expect-more-extreme-winters-thanks-to-global-warming-say-scientists-2168418.html
Rachel M. says:
December 26, 2010 at 11:37 pm
please, i already clarified this for you denier fools – “Global Warming” means extreme weather of all kinds.
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When wasn’t there “extreme weather of all kinds”?
Christmas snow in Atlanta for the first time in over 100 years, Europe in a deep freeze, snow in summer in Australia.. What on Giea is happening? The Watermelon Wire demands answers, so they sent me, investigative reporter Ima Neored out onto the street to find them.
My first interviewee was a Mr. C. Little, executive Director of the SIF Institute for Atmospheric Studies. “It is really simple.” stated Mr Little. “The cow farts and refrigerants have combined with the missing lower troposphere heat signature to rise to the top of the atmosphere and weigh it down.”.
“The end result,” he continued, “is that the atmosphere has dropped almost 1,000 meters closer to earth, and continues to do so at an alarming rate. This has brought conditions much like those seen in the movie ‘The Day After Tomorrow’.”
Very interesting.
Our interviews continued with a man who identified himself as Dr Curly Climategate, from an un-named university in Pennsylvania. His theory wasn’t really coherent, he kept ranting something about making hockey sticks out of tree rings, and hiding the ones that didn’t fit. Ooookay.. He tried e-mailing Larry and Moe for more coherent answers, but to no avail. Apparently they were out scouting deserts for the next climate conference.
About that time a heckler in the gathering crowd suggested that maybe GISS did it when they recently ‘adjusted’ the 1930s data set again. When asked, he shared his theory that by changing the data yet again, since 2010 was now the hottest year ever, we needed a sudden global winter event to bring the atmosphere to equilibrium. GISS started a thermo-temporal wave, plunging the planet into deep winter to bring balance.
What a kook.
We did find a climate skeptic to interview, but we did not find it useful. He kept babbling on about climate cycles, the NAO, ENSO and PDO, and the scientific method, whatever that is.
(Is that scientific method that I keep hearing about some kind of birth control or what? Let’s hope so, every human child born is an environmental catastrophe like Bopal or Chernobyl.)
In the end he insisted on denying that the global warming based global snowmageddon was caused by Soccer Moms in Chevy Tahoes and coal fired power plants.
What an idiot.
Our final interviewee was arguably the best. The gentleman only identified himself as MBP. He spoke in this really slow irritating southern drawl like he was addressing a short bus full of hick kids. In spite of the insanely irritating delivery, he did recite the gospel of Lord Gore with amazing accuracy. When asked if he really was The One, he ran off yelling something about being late for a rubdown. Bye Sir! We love yooooo!
The answer is clear to this reporter. As always, look to the scripture of Lord Gore, the answers are there to be twisted into shape for any occasion. Personally I have had enough of the 15″ of global warming caused rotten snow here in NYC, and I am off to Cancun. What? The airport is closed? Aw crap.
Hey! Maybe there is a global warming protest in town…
This is Ima Neored reporting from the white hot streets of NYC for the Watermelon Wire. Have a green (and red) day.
C’mon. Dont you know that AGW/Climate change causes snow? Because as the Earth warms,we get more cold weather.
Also known as suck in the taxpayers to please a few thieving eco-tards.
The Australian non summer.
As I type this 7:58PM Sydney time
Sydney 17C
Melbourne 13C !
Adelaide 18 C
Canberra 13C
Brisbane 22C
Cairns 26C
Perth 33C
I love the broadsheet entries above but I thought I’d go down market and aim at the tabloids…
What will it take for you people to believe in climate change, for this, this monster storm is surely climate change from Hell itself? But it’s cold you sceptics say. Yes, yes it’s COLD, it’s air straight from the Arctic, where it should be. It should be keeping the runway frozen for Santa, not making the streets unsafe for shoppers trying to get the best bargains at the sales.
Advertisement.
[Discounts on all winter clothing!!!
In this weather the bargains are just blowing awaaaaaaaaay!
So don’t freeze, rush down to bag some boots or snatch a scarf!]
Scientists have told me that the moisture for this storm comes directly from the still unfrozen Hudson Bay. In normal years that moisture would have been safely locked up in its tomb of ice. But this year it’s here, it’s cold and it’s in your face sceptic scum!
But it’s just a storm, you whine. It’s no normal storm, this storm comes with DEATH. Oh, no, I’m not talking about car crashes and hypothermia. I’ve had an exclusive interview with an anonymous expert on polar animals and he’s given me a story that has me scared. I’m so scared that I’m packing my family up and moving South for the winter. He didn’t want to tell me but he admitted that because of the late freeze on Hudson Bay, the bears are unable to move out onto the ice and feed. They’ve got NO WHERE TO GO. So they’ll start looking for new prey and they’ll follow the cold.
Yes, the polar bears are heading SOUTH. What will it take to wise you up to climate change? I think the first time One of New York’s Finest has to shoot a polar bear on Madison because it’s mistaken a baby for a seal pup, then you’ll wish you’d never accepted a penny from your oil filthy masters!!!
Advertisement.
[Tired of the cold?
Why not take a winter break to somewhere warmer?
Here at Cancun, we’ve got everything you need to forget the weather! You’ll love our climate!]
The science is indeed settled – what can be more settled and irrefuteable if the predictions and the exceptions support it…?
The current cold spell in northern Europe is interesting. CET for December (up to the 25th) is at -0.9C, and the anomaly is -5.7C. The coldest December on record since 1659 is -0.8C. However, if we accept that global warming raises the level around which there will be natural variability, this December will be more like a -7C anomaly. That’s pretty much off the charts statistically for the CET. And this proves… make your pick!
A Blizzard of lies in the New York Times
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/12/blizzard-of-lies-in-new-york-times.html
You guys in the NH won’t have to worry about all that missing heat in the Pacific Ocean any more. 90% of the ocean has now been dumped on Queensland and New South Wales down here in Australia.
By Friday I’ll be able to walk to New Zealand !
AND it is cold ! AND wet, AND still it comes down. Worst floods in 70 years.
What did you guys do with our Summer ??
The blizzard that dumped snow on the Eastern U.S. seaboard and beyond creates havoc with weary homebound travelers. From Boston to Baltimore, from New York to Nebraska the very heavy snowfall is creating barely passable roads, delaying rail and bus travel and cancelling some flights. This type of snow storm has been seen in these areas before, but never this frequent nor this severe. The global warming scientists explain that this is a natural consequence of global warming.
At least 52 climatologists associated with the IPPC’s last report indicated that the eastern part of our U.S can expect more and more of these storms as the winter progresses. According to the latest studies it greatly relies on the model predictions of the Antarctic Oscillations. Apparently, the southern winds of the Antarctic rush into the high pressure area above the Azores which then facilitates the dropping down of the cold air. This combined with the westerly winds from Europe that rush over the Atlantic and pick up moisture to dump snow over the Atlantic seaboard states. The models indicate that this can only occur with an increase of Co2 in the atmosphere.
Reports from the University of Anglia in Scotland as well as professors in Germany have made an astounding discovery. According to their latest detailed calculations over several moments it has been determined that winters can be colder but the warming of the earth continues unabated. Their model shows that the earth has increased at least .07 degrees C over the last 150 years. “If this continues unchecked, the tipping point will be reached in no time and the greenhouse horror will be unstoppable” writes the German professor in his report. “All our wind generating windmills will freeze at these temperatures and will mimic the terrible cost of generating power for the United Kingdom at 0% efficiency”.
A different report by Defra in the U.K. acknowledges that the infrastructure will struggle to cope with climate change. With this large amount of snow sea levels will rise inexorably and floods will be created. “Winters result from the greenhouse effect, Columbia scientist finds, using NASA Model. It is exactly what one can expect during the ramp up of the Co2 over the last few decades”.
The weather people assure us that this snow will not last too long and will stop within days. It is expected that the new year will see a lot warmer weather for the rest of this winter.
‘This is what happens when people who don’t understand “the science” get involved in the debate’, a weary Professor Grant-Collector explained to a journalist who asked about the cold winter. ‘Firstly, this winter has not been peer reviewed and the snow measurements are in the hands of irresponsible people with an agenda. Secondly, our model conclusively contradicts its existence. I just despair sometimes at the ignorance of the general public and self-styled experts on this issue.’
Activist Lulu Green points out: ‘All this cold weather is a bonanza for Big Oil, as the demand for, and price of, fossil fuels for heating rise dramatically. You don’t have to be a genius to join the dots …’.
Homeowner Gomer Gormless has another take: ‘I’m sure glad that the globe is warming. Just think – otherwise it would be even colder than it is now!’
The final word goes to 10 year old Starflower Windrush, snuggled up in front of the log fire with 20 others at her parents’ commune in chilly Minnesota. ‘Please Gaia, don’t destroy the Earth and kill all the cute squirrels.’
As usual, the wisdom of a child trumps all the silly arguing of the apathetic and greedy adults who run the world today.
In the late 12th century in Europe meteorologists were ridiculed and hunted down as witches – because in the low CO2 world there was no such thing as weather or the seasons as we know them today. It was also believed that the strange cult of “Denialists”, a secretive warlock clan, were in league with lucifer and through human sacrafice and burning of carbon based fossil fuels they were trying to induce weather on the hapless population recovering from the black death and turn them into a mindless mass of slaves.
Now in the 21st Century we can see the the full results of the secret war. In our High CO2 world we are beseiged by weather of all kinds. Travellers this week testified that they have never seen weather like this in their lifetime. Even an immortal shape shifter, William Harris, admitted to me that in his 3 billion years he had never been delayed at an airport like this before. But the powers of good are about to unleash the “final solution” to rid the world of weather once and for all. Mind control circuits are being built into wind turbines to break the spell of fossil fuel burning Deniers. Wind turbines are being installed around the world as we speak and we will once again return to the benign static climate of our forefathers.
peteremcc says: December 26, 2010 at 9:25 pm
[ryanm: this research paper is worse than you can possibly imagine. nightmare in fact…]
Keep a tab on this paper for next year, prime evidence of the blatant disregard of commonsense and true science in the face of herd mentality. Prime evidence for the reform needed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/opinion/26cohen.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
Just one more epicycle:
http://rpmedia.ask.com/ts?u=/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Cassini_apparent.jpg/180px-Cassini_apparent.jpg
Dateline: June 2020.
“As we continue to fight the scurge of AGW. It is expected that the high level of evaporation from the the seas, causing the the heavy snow worldwide, will subside by 2030 as we reduce the level of CO2 in the atmosphere. With funds raised from the ‘carbon taxes’ we will be providing subsidies for sheep farming in order to increase the wool supply to the clothing industry, food ration coupons until we can increase farming output again and our temporary resettlement of northern states citizens into the south. We will win this fight against AGW, even if it kills us.”
Sorry but you’re all go it quite wrong.
It’s not artic sea ice that is melting and going away and causing the cold because it’s hot, when it’s not.
It’s sea lice, as in dice and mice – sea lice – GET IT?.
Can’t you yanks spel propppper or wot?
tobyglyn says:
December 27, 2010 at 1:01 am
The Australian non summer.
As I type this 7:58PM Sydney time
Melbourne 13C !
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English barbecue-summer weather at the MCG? Right up our street 😉
According the most recent theory of Global Warming (viz. Monbiot), very cold snowy regions are pushed around by very warm regions of the globe. England and much of Europe was blanketed with unprecendented snow because global warming caused the cold Arctic air to descend on those regions. In the case of NE US, the storm originated in the Pacific and traveled west then north along the Atlantic coast. The trajectory seems to show it’s trying to make it’s way to England as well! However we have to find the globally warm region of the planet that caused the globally cold region of the Pacific to run rampant over the US.
In physics courses I learned that according to thermodynamics, heat naturally moves towards areas that lack heat. In the case of AGW, heat drives areas that lack heat away, like pushing the north pole of a magnet towards another north pole of a magnet.
To bolster this new theory of AGW, it would be a good idea to also find an unprecedented warm region of the planet and include some anecdotes about it in the NY Times Narrative on this Nor’easter.
The Sky Is Falling. Fact.
By Georgey Moonbat, Climate Alarmespondent, The Guardian
Unnamed climate scientists are saying that whilst we cannot specifically attribute the cause of the Northeast US blizzard specifically to AGW, we do know that Death Blizzards (as scientists have termed them) will only increase in frequency as capitalists pump more noxious CO2 (not sweet CO2 like Mother Nature provides) into the atmosphere. The precise reason we have record low temperatures right now in the northern hemisphere (where lots of people live) is because in other areas (where no one lives but we have sensors within a 1200km radius to measure the heat) it is boiling like Hell. This heat sends moisture around the world in the form of snow. And if one substitutes the word “sky” for “snow,” one can now genuinely say that the sky is indeed falling. And that’s a fact.
The Scientific Community™ have explained this phenomenon as being based on the same set of principles as how whilst we can’t blame any single Poly Bear death on AGW, we know that they are dying in their millions due to the overall cumulative effect of AGW. Thus this is why the Poly Bear population is increasing – because the poor bundles of fluffy love have gone into breeding overdrive to offset the increased death rate. This is entirely consistent with climate supermodels (after adjustments to make them
predictpostdict the currently known figures).“It is difficult to see how one can seriously deny the climate now,” the Scientific Community collectively said yesterday. “Apart from a couple of Big Oil-funded fringe lunatics in need of psychiatric treatment, everyone now accepts that Climate really does exist, and cannot be denied.”
So there you have it. And yet we know that in the face of all this incontrovertible evidence, there will be those who continue to deny Climate. Meanwhile conservative estimates have it that the world has warmed between 0.9 and 2.6°C in just the blink of an eye. That’s approximately 65397 x10-to-the-power-of-24 times the heat produced by my toaster this morning, which is a reasonable analogy because if we go on like this it will be Mankind that is toast. Time to wake up and smell the toast.
© 2010 G Moonbat
We looked at the weather forecast yesterday and made plans to travel today. Today despite the forecast it has snowed. Do we a) believe the forecasts now when it says there will be no snow later in the day or b) don’t travel because the official forecasts are crap and after a decade of warmist propaganda there are so few snow ploughs that a few millimeters of snow brings the motorway network to a grinding halt or c) do we say to hell with forecasts and just live with the fact that in winter it snows and if we want to travel in winter we have to be prepared for the disruption caused by snow?
Wait a minute…wait a minute….we’re all wrong here. It’s cold = it’s just WEATHER. Falls outside the realm of AGW. No need to discuss it any further. Now in April when it’s a tad warmer than “usual”-that we can talk about! That will be Globull Warming!
Lucy Skywalker says:
December 27, 2010 at 1:28 am
peteremcc says: December 26, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Here’s an article printed here in New Zealand about the UK’s cold winter being because of global warming:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=10696652”
This is the most Orwellian piece I’ve read since I read Orwell. Has the AGW crowd completely gone off their rocker or do they believe the average person is that stoooopid?
Just goes to show that there is a lot of non scientists especially in the media out of their depth and don’t understand how the planet works. (nothing new here) Geoff Sharp has it spot on with little exception that there is lower levels of EUV, just not much lower. Still the idea that temperature as a measurement is not a good way of measuring global changes because temperature can stay the same, but energy levels can change. Don’t need to keep increasing the temperature on the stove to boil water, a standard level and set length of time will do the job.
Kaboom said:
1. Global warming causes evaporation of water molecules into the atmosphere;
2. Evaporated water molecules, when they get cool enough, come back down to earth as precipitation;
3. Lots of evaporation = lots of precipitation;
4. Lots of precipitation in winter = snow and sleet; and
5. Lots of snow and sleet = blizzard.
Hmm.. Explain “lake effect snow”. Where’s the warming?
I know that people don’t like to give politicians credit for anything these days, but you have to admit that they really figured out a way to control the climate. You all may think of them as just a visual blight on the countryside, but not so. Those wind turbines certainly did the trick and brought back those old-fashioned winters we’ve all been missing so badly.
I think, based on current events, that they may have overdone it but, it’s early days for this technology and we can surely fine tune it by having even more of them not rotating and taking too much carbon out of the atmosphere. I’m certain that within five years, “scientists” will have mastered the technology and we will have our Arctic ice back, and the climate will be perfect again.
Thank you great leaders and wind turbine manufacturers for surely saving our climate and our planet, our polar bears and our grandchildren, etc. ……