By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
The circumpolar vortex has put this season into the record-books. The United States has just gone through its coldest interequinoctial winter (equinox to equinox) in a century. Hat-tip to CFACT, which has just sent me the graph.
The last U.S. winter colder than this one was in 1911/12, before the First World War.
Thank you, America! Most of Britain has had an unusually mild and wet winter, for you have had more than your fair share of the Northern Hemisphere’s cold weather this season.
Global warming? What global warming?
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Mr Monckton,
Could you please stop rubbing our noses in what an awful winter it has been?
I live in SE Wisconsin. So far during this the last week of March, I have been waking up to sub-freezing temperatures and the highs have been just barely above freezing. Last month, February, saw an average high 9 degrees F below normal and an average low, 11 degrees below normal.
Cordially,
Freezing My Ass Off.
philjourdan My Canadian neighbors have enjoyed this winder here is been above normal temperatures for most of the winter, and by the way we are in a drought(funny I though I now lived in a desert isn’t desert and drought synonymous.) Yet my Canadian neighbors soon will have to flee north, soon like all snow birds the migrate north starts late march and into April by May most are gone. There is some regulation about how long they Canadians can stay down here and as for the snow birds from the northern states for some strange reason most of them find temperatures in the high 30 and low 40 Celsius a bit warm for four months straight but since I fled the north and remember six months of winter three months of spring two weeks of summer if your lucky and then four months of fall. I will take the heat. Yea, I am a poor refugee from North Dakota now living in Arizona and loving ever minute of the heat. 110 beat -40 any day of the week.
@Mark Luhman – I think there is a limitation on how long they can stay – 6 months. This year is stretching that limit. And yes, 30 or 40 feels great when you have suffered in the single or minus digits. Yet they still visit you for those mild 70s and 80s! So would I (more often) if I did not have a job and lack of funds to expand my carbon foot print. 😉
pokerguy says:”Well there’s always at least one, and I guess this time it’s me. This post is a frivolous waste of time.”
With all due respect, I disagree, and I hope I can explain the reason to you. In terms of pure science, you’re probably correct, but you, and everyone involved in this fight, has to realize and accept that the scientific argument is really over, and in fact that was always the smallest, most inconsequential part of the war we’ve all found ourselves in.
What this is, is the political fight of our lives. It’s taking place in every country in the world today, and it’s goal is to take power over our lives. As far as those who follow the issues intently on either side, the positions are set in stone – there will be no conversions. So, this fight is now for the hearts and minds of the much-discussed “LIV”, the Low Information Voter. These are the people who the warmists have had a monopoly in terms of influence with for the last 30 years, and that is what has to change. The LIV’s won’t read position papers, they won’t listen to any argument that takes any explanation, they want a punchy soundbite that they don’t have to think about too much. “Coldest Winter in 100 Years!” is perfect for that! And it’s the perfect counter to the Warmist lines of argument. Sure, they’ll attack it, but to attack it, they have to start explaining, and as soon as explanations start, the LIV tunes out and goes to watch something more entertaining. It’s the first of many soundbites that we need if we’re ever going to win.
Is it cheap? Is it exploitational? Is it the only way we are ever going to win this war?
Yes, Yes, and Yes.
p.s. for any who think that this is NOT a war, let me assure you, to the other side, it most definitely is a war. And once someone declares war on you, as they have declared war on us, then your only choice is to fight or to surrender. I don’t like the sound of surrender, especially not to the likes of them.
Bruiser says:
March 26, 2014 at 5:17 pm
I was intrigued by the low temperatures on the Dome A graph and asked about this on the AAD web site. See their response below:
http://www.antarctica.gov.au/living-and-working/stations/other-locations/dome-a/temperature_graph.png
Tomorrow morning my wife and I leave lovely warm Sydney and fly to New York and then Washington for the International Congress of Actuaries. So please end winter right now! If you don’t it will cost me a lot of money as my wife will insist on buying heaps of warm clothes when she reaches Washington.
LadyLifeGrows says: Well, the warmistas say that warming causes more water vapor, hence big snowfalls. Pretty poor excuse–but that’s why they’re “the Church of Global Warming.” No falsifying them.
The theory is that more liquid water somewhere vaporizes because of a higher temperature, wanders about, then condenses when it hits cold air somewhere else. Okay, fine, heat of evaporation (600 cal/g) in here, out there. But to get it from the liquid state all the way down to snow requires removal of another 80 cal/g! When much of the NH is covered in ice and snow, the system is not in balance; there’s been a significant net loss of heat. “Heat causes cold” is just another Warmist lie.
Figures.
I looked at the numbers for Buffalo … nothing special in October … a nice spread between temps above normal highs as below normal lows, but then the snowball hits and the period November to March saw temps running on the cool side … so much so that about a third of the time the day’s high temp was so low that it didn’t even reach the average low temp for the date … and, as if to underscore this cold fact, today we tied the record low high temp for the date in Buffalo … and now it’s starting to look like we’re about to set some kind of record for the latest date in which we reach 60°F.
Desperate to find something positive in all this I notice that a high of 20°F in March is warmer than 20°F in January thanks to solar insolation … snow that would stay on the ground in January melts in March, even with air temps well below freezing. Now, all we need is for the sun to do something about the air temps.
Where’s Al Gore’s global warming when you need it?
Please … no record May snowfall.
Bob Turner says:
March 26, 2014 at 5:12 pm
“Interesting that an English (UKIP) politician equates ‘US’ with ‘global’ !”
It seems you are having trouble with the term “global.” Last I checked the US was still located on Earth and would be included in the global concept. If the warming is “global” then the US ought to – being within the definition – be warming.
I think it is just weather, including the snow in Cleveland and the little Nor’easter that just went by (nice photo here):
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/26/294923074/massive-noreaster-rakes-new-england
Bob Tisdale says:
March 26, 2014 at 7:18 pm
I wish winter would end. I’m tired of it.
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Send winter a Dear John letter explaining that you wish to end the relationship so you can see other seasons.
Why not send a letter of complaint to Michael Mann, telling him you are being charged more for electricity than before. What’s he going to do to bring on the warming again. LOL
Dave … I think John was using a bit of sarcasm directed at the warmistas.
Winter….I want you gone….and I don’t care if you NEVER come back…
wws says:
March 26, 2014 at 8:17 pm
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It is formally called “Agenda 21” per the published UN docuuents.
It is truly a war of the worlds.
The “thing” at stake is your freedom.
Think about it folks.
Read it! {°¿°}
http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&nr=23&type=400
My suggestion essentially was that you spell out the period in question rather than leaving it to the reader to guess. I recognized that my guess of “(Dec. 21 thru March 21)” was only a guess–that’s why I followed it with “(or whatever)”. I didn’t assert anything incorrect.
Revised version: I’d insert “(Sept. 21 thru March 21)” before “winter.”
If record cooling isn’t evidence of warming I don’t know what is.
Coldest March I can ever remember in my part of Michigan……coldest winter in fact.
WWs sez: “What this is, is the political fight of our lives. It’s taking place in every country in the world today, and it’s goal is to take power over our lives.”
–Think about it. What is the answer?
Roughly, a country’s wealth is dependent on its ability to consume energy. Computers, transportation, and infrastructure development are very sensitive to energy.
AGW remediation requires that some trans-global authority decide how much energy each country can expend each year. Ken Lay (of the U.S. Department of Energy/U.S.regulator of energy production, and of Enron, financial scam artists of the year) promoted cap-n-trade in Kyoto. Cap-n-Trade is an allowance: here is how much energy your country can burn up this year.
If wealth Is roughly equal to energy expenditure, then controlling energy expenditure is pretty much equal to controlling wealth.
If you control a country’s energy budget, you control the country.
That is fine for the continental US, what about Russia and Alaska?
dwerth says: March 26, 2014 at 5:17 pm
Perhaps not, but it makes one helluvan impression on U.S. public perception on the veracity of CAGW fear-mongering…where this political battle is now being fought.
When they’re freezing their asses off, their hearts and minds (most anyway) will follow.
Oh- the U.S. Department of Energy: proud sponsor of Michael Mann’s Hollaender Fellowship dissertation.
Not so bad here in WY but then most of the really cold stuff went east of us ‘where all the peoples is’. That’s where there are more folks who believe in global warming, or did. We had a couple of cold spells but nothing we have’nt seen before, actually have had worse about 15 years back.
Here is a definition of interequinoctial
1. Coming between the equinoxes.
“Summer and winter I have called interequinoctial intervals. — F. Balfour.”
It is quoted from the webster 1913 dictionary.
It seems to be general enough to cover the use here.
We have fortunately had a very very mild winter in Greece. Fortunately because of the fuel costs and the continuing economic crisis. Spring has already started almost a month earlier and the only real cold spell, i.e. days below 10C , we had in Athens was early in December.
Seems to me that all of Europe must have been unusually warm with all this flooding , the humidity from the Atlantic instead of falling a manageable snow that would slowly melt in spring and summer came down as rain and created floods from the UK to the north Balkans. We have not had a very wet winter, but not as dry as last year. The point of this paragraph is that the northern hemisphere might balance out, probably to last year’s average temperature.
Jim Bo says:
March 26, 2014 at 9:29 pm
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Yep, without the U.S. economy the world goes to shite.
Quicker than it is going now.
Bob Tisdale says:
March 26, 2014 at 7:18 pm
I wish winter would end. I’m tired of it.
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Been pretty nice here in Southern Arizona (Tucson) for the last 3 months. Run or walked almost every day… in shorts. Ran 7.5 this evening in shorts, gorgeous sunset to finish. My pool is about to bust 70F any day now. I figure S. Arizona is a good place to be with the coming 20 years of global cooling.
P.S I moved here last year because I was sick of shoveling snow in eastern Massachusetts.
P.P.S. I’m betting on a weekly snowfall event on Boulder Colorado through mid-may, just to cheer up Trenberth, et al.