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.
I’m getting the feeling that the MSM has finally clued into being conned for all these years, by the various Warmistas, made to look like idiots, made to carry their fear mongering water, magnify their boiling planet hysteria and they figure it is now time to pay back Mikey & the rest of Team.
Payback from the media can be a very nasty experience once they turn on you.
As the old saying goes . . . never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the truckload
‘Don’t confuse weather with climate’., the last bits missing it should read
Don’t confuse weather with climate, expect when such a confusion can be used to support ‘the cause’ then its OK.
Here in the Netherlands there was a meeting today of the 22 departments that make up the “Koninklijke Vereniging De Friesche Elf Steden”, to discuss the condition of the Ice on the canals and lakes in the province Friesland.
The last time that this happend was 15 years ago, wich resulted in the 15th Alvestêdetocht (Eleven City Ride), a 200 km long skating marathon and a rare event because since 1890 it has been organised only 15 times and another 25 times it was called off, the other 82 winters since 1890 they did not even bother to look at the condition of the ice, that if there was even ice to begin with.
In the last 50 years only 4 of them have been organised, 1963 (the worst conditions ever, of 10.000 riders only 69 made it to the finish), 1985 and 1986 where perfect, 1997 was also cold, but unlike 1963 there was hardly any snow on the ice and very mild wind.
Warmed up, it is now -6C where I am at about 58N in Sweden which seems to have the Swedish people all bundled up. The railroads up North in Sweden shut down because of the cold, the same is true for Norway.
The day is becoming long and dusty, as battle weary Roman Centurion Antony, rides along the valley of death, seeking truth. His Lorica glints in the Sun, polished to finery by his ever faithful comrade, Eschen.
Long his quest has been a Mann, committed crimes against Empire so foul, Kings would waste legions for the demise. With a heart of rose ‘n steel Antony tracks his quarry unnervingly.
Suddenly, from the corner of his eye, the centurion sees a round baldness behind a tree. Could that be a Mann. It is.
Antony charges, his mount nays high, Spatha drawn as he rushes towards his prey. Up pops a Mann from behind the tree, eyes mystified by the onslaught.
A still coolness meets the air as Antonys’ blade scalps that Mann.
Virgins, feasts and debauchery are gifts offered for the Centurions favor. Centurion Antony, a man of truth will not be victim of such grants as rides to his next conquer.
Hail Antony!
Mann did have 17 retweets.
It can be blamed on AGW. Article in Independent on Saturday on how below normal sea ice (Barents and Kara Sea) was causing the high pressure system. Apparently the models saw this coming……?
Oh, I forgot, Mike, just wait for Al to come back from Antarctica. 😛
Laugh. What else can you do at anything Mann says? Anyone silly enough to believe that global warming causes global freezing deserves only ridicule.
And don’t forget the significant flooding they’re now getting in Australia:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16866168
This has been a recurring problem in Australia for about a month now.
It seems to me as if the last 3 winters are getting worse and worse!!!! Never mind, it’s just the weather (unless it’s warmer winters, in which case it’s a SURE sign of GLOBAL WARMING).
Sarc aside, more people may die in colder winters as the governments of the world spend billions to try and cool a non-warming planet instead of spending it on blankets and food.
Why would someone like Mann and Romm want to advertise their ignorance….
This goes counter to other things they have both said.
Camburn says:
February 5, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Remember, “peer review” requires “peers”, which by definition indicates why Mann’s garbage science is accepted by… well… garbage scientists. (But hey, they get the same favorable treatment from Mann for their garbage, so they keep doing it and everybody on “The Team” is happy.)
LOL! Gladiators I salute you.
I remember snow in the Med about 2 years ago. What is going on; is THIS climate change?
You’d think anyone with a sort of scientific or technical mind would be able to put it together without knowing details of the Arctic Oscillation or similar cycles. He should be able to form a mental picture of a “blob of winter” centered on the North Pole, and should be able to visualize this year’s blob sliding less over North America and more over Eurasia than it usually does. Same size blob, just moving in a different way. That should be the starting hypothesis for a scientist; that should be the trigger for his curiosity and passion.
Instead, Comrade Mann is only passionate about maintaining absolute 100.0000000% ideological purity in 100.00000000% of media outlets. He’s more concerned with catching and punishing his minions who dare to omit his Official Magic Doctrinal Formula.
Thus proving what we already know: he’s a Stalinist tyrant, not a scientist.
Let us look back at what some senior climate scientists were saying about snow in the UK just 12 years ago…
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Monday 20 March 2000
[Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past]
[According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.]
[David Parker, at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Berkshire, says ultimately, British children could have only virtual experience of snow. Via the internet, they might wonder at polar scenes – or eventually “feel” virtual cold.]
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
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The Internet does not forget all the Global Warming predictions that have been made by ‘Climate Scientists;’ and that the media has published as fact. The falsifications of their predictions are legion; nature did not get the memo.
“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.”
Well, that is very shocking indeed. The LA Times is about the worst newspaper in the USA in global warming gullibility. Or they are getting government moolah to “educate” the public on climate change. Or they have deep insecurity of being an outsider to the chattering class establishment. Whichever, they are completely entangled in global warming scams and cap and trade.
“Camburn says:
February 5, 2012 at 4:00 pm
As my Grandma used to say “The proof is in the pudding”.”
I am sure your Grandma never said that. She would have used the original, proper, quotation.
“The proof of the pudding, is in the eating”
Here around Boulder, Colorado the record snowfall for February was just broken. Records are meant to be broken. I wouldn’t call it a “year without a winter.” Climate scientist without a brain is equally asinine.
Snow in Rome is really unusual.
That said, it’s global averages, and multi-decadal trends, that define climate. Not year-by-year variation, or local effects.
January was freezingly cold with much snow in northern Japan. After a short moderate weather from yesterday to tomorrow, freezing days are coming again on Wednesday and beyond.
Where’s AGW? (though of course I know weather is not climate….).
Well actually we have had some fatalities from tornadoes that formed in the warmer air in the USA this winter.
Fred from Canuckistan says:
February 5, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Payback from the media can be a very nasty experience once they turn on you.
As the old saying goes . . . never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the truckload.
Speaking of which, there doesn’t seem much being said about the Titantarctic Mission….
His doctoral committee is either as incompetent as he is or is hiding in shame.
I found this (a frozon auto on Lake Leman, Switzerland):
http://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/5c/7c/3af8deefdd71389decaa5478bab5b8ce.jpg