Guest eye-rolling by David Middleton
The Atlantic’s Robinson Meyer once again demonstrates a music major’s grasp of science…
SCIENCE
There’s Snow on TV, so Trump’s Tweeting About Climate Change
Alas, a brief cold spell does not undo decades of scientific fact.
ROBINSON MEYER
JAN 20, 2019It’s something of an annual tradition for the president. On Sunday morning, as the eastern half of the country endured driving snow and frigid winter winds, Donald Trump asked on Twitter how climate change could be real if it was so cold outside.
“Be careful and try staying in your house,” he said. “Large parts of the Country are suffering from tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold. Amazing how big this system is. Wouldn’t be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now!”
Trump has raised similar concerns about that “good old fashioned Global Warming” nearly every year since 2012. If it snows near Manhattan, the president says he isn’t sure about climate change.
Unfortunately, even as New York has occasionally been blasted with frozen precipitation, the world has kept warming. The past four years have been the four warmest years on record—a fact that NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were due to announce this past week, were the government not shut down. Earlier this winter, Washington, D.C., experienced a shocking 22 days of above-average temperatures, and the Northeast as a whole saw a balmy January. President Trump did not seize that opportunity to affirm that global warming was real.
The simple, tedious fact is that two things can be true at the same time: The world’s average temperature can be clearly and dangerously increasing, and it can still snow sometimes in the northeastern United States.
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Hey Robby! There’s snow on the ground too! Lots of it!
This is funny!
Unfortunately, even as New York has occasionally been blasted with frozen precipitation, the world has kept warming. The past four years have been the four warmest years on record—a fact that NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were due to announce this past week, were the government not shut down.
Maybe this happened when Mr. Meyer was still studying music… in grammar school…
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”…
However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. 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.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”… When? The winter of 1999-2000 was twenty years ago.
While there is no statistically significant trend in the GSL snow extent anomaly, there clearly is an upward “trend” since 1990… And That 70’s Climate Science Show was smack-dab in the middle of the period of greater snow extent anomalies (1966-1985)…
I earned my degree in geology (Earth Science) in frigid Connecticut during That 70’s Climate Science Show. The GSL snow extent anomaly was only about 1 million km2 greater than it is today during That 70’s Climate Science Show…
The Ice Age Cometh?
A 1977 TIME magazine cover may not have predicted “another ice age,” but a 1974 TIME magazine article sort of did…
The full text of the article can be accessed through Steve Goddard’s Real Science.
There’s also Newsweek…
Dan Gainor compiled a great timeline of media alarmism (both warming and cooling) in his Fire and Ice essay.
While the “infamous” 1977 TIME cover was a fake, this 1975 magazine cover and article were very real…
Energy and Climate: Studies in Geophysics was a 1977 National Academies publication. It featured what appears to be the same temperature graph, clearly demonstrating a mid-20th century cooling trend…
The mid-20th Century cooling trend is clearly present in the instrumental record, at least in the northern hemisphere…
So, why are the warmunists so obsessed with denying this? Is the mid-20th century cooling period so “inconvenient” that it has to be erased from history like the Medieval Warm Period?
Conclusion
Getting back to the music major… With so little difference in temperature and snow extent separating The Ice Age Cometh? from Children just aren’t going to know what snow is, anyone with at least half-a-brain would ridicule the Warmunists with each and every snowstorm. While this snowstorm isn’t scientific evidence related to climate change, anthropogenic or otherwise, neither are droughts, hurricanes or warm winter days. Weather isn’t climate. Climate is climate… and it hasn’t really changed all that much since the end of The Little Ice Age… And the nadir of the Little Ice Age was the coldest “climate” of the entire Holocene.
The supposedly “four warmest years on record” have occurred about 300 years after the coldest century of the past 100 centuries. This could only be described as a “climate crisis” by someone who was totally ignorant of basic scientific principles, particularly Quaternary geology and signal processing. It’s actually a helluva a lot better than just about any other possible evolution of Earth’s “climate.”
Climate is a lot more than just prevailing weather conditions and it hasn’t changed very much in the past 120 years.
If we’ve had significant climate change over the last 150 years, the Köppen Climate Classification Map should reflect those changes… Right?
Here’s the map for 1901-1925…
Here’s the map for 1951-2000…
I’m sure that if I printed these maps out at full scale and overlaid them on a light table, I could see some differences because climate is always changing… But, eyeballing it, I don’t see much difference between the early 20th century vs mid-late 20th century climatic zones
Here it is as a video…
Is it any wonder that President Trump can’t resist trolling these Bozos?
Source: Kottek, M., J. Grieser, C. Beck, B. Rudolf, and F. Rubel, 2006: World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated. Meteorol. Z., 15, 259-263. DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0130.
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“Maybe this happened when Mr. Meyer was still studying music… in grammar school…”
My guess is in 2000 Mr. Meyer was still suckling his momma’s [snip].
Heck, he still may be living at home, and suckling… so to speak off his parents.
Mods, there… I saved you the snip trouble. 🙂
He doesn’t live at home.
<LINK: 2015 Lack of snow causes lack of skiing
20 Ski Resorts CLOSED on the West Coast Due to Lack of Snow
I haven’t checked, but if they are closed this week it is because of too much snow.
Alarmists have no sense of humor or irony.
But, hey, we’ve only go 6 inches of snow – on the dry side of the Cascade Mountains.
The left getting all upset about the poking of fun at CAGW is a pokerplayer’s ‘tell’. It means they are greatly exercised themselves about the repeated -20F-below-normal blasts and national snowstorms that seem to be visiting the US more frequently the past decade. They had sharks frozen solid off Cape Cod – something I had never heard the likes of, and Gulf turtles needing rescuing from hypothermia last year in Louisiana.
Keeping the faith is a stressful business these days. Even the latest IPCC hysterics reached a fevered pitch, the scientific content slumped and the fire, brimstone and the end of days were bullhorned. Twelve years to the point of no return, mass extinctions, famines, rising seas, earth dessicating droughts in one place while your neighbor is eashed away in a biblical flood, pestilence and glibal wars. And we are supposed to keep a straight face!
I really enjoyed the 1977 New Yorker cover, and it reminded me of a novel that was published a couple years after. Seek out a (cheap!) copy and read Ice! by Arnold Federbush and Lou Feck.. It describes a sudden-onset Ice Age and That Movie Day After Tomorrow was a near straight ripoff of it. But the novel has real substance (the dramatic more than the scientific kind of course)… in place of the movie’s eye candy and ho-hum daring rescue scenes, which is a dreary Hollywood fare… the book begins with a loose-knit group underfunded climate researchers — does any of this ring a bell — who discover that the world is on the brink of a disastrous tipping point. They even build a ‘physical model of global climate’ with objects ready at hand, which is fun to imagine. Then the event is triggered and they attempt to survive and escape from New York. A recurring theme in the book is survival and amateur radio plays a prominent role in the story. In the end they must choose what aspects of modern technology to keep, and what they can afford to take as they become nomadic hunters following antelope herds South.
And yes, the book literally ends with a glacier thundering through New York City. A great read.
I find it amazing that “science ” continually ignores the geological record that shows a cycle to climate activity. People just continue on with their own graphs and charts their computer models and try and make them fit their own bias.
David, Hans Chen has built an excellent interactive website to share information about the Köppen climate classification, and provide data and high-resolution figures from the paper Chen and Chen, 2013: Using the Köppen classification to quantify climate variation and change: An example for 1901–2010 (pdf)
http://hanschen.org/koppen/#home is link to website and study of climate change.
My synopsis is https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/data-vs-models-4-climates-changing/
The table and images show that most places have had at least one entire year with temperatures and/or precipitation atypical for that climate. It is much more unusual for abnormal weather to persist for ten years running. At 30-years and more the zones are quite stable, such that is there is little movement at the boundaries with neighboring zones.
“Trump has fallen into the same trap that many people around the world do: conflating “climate” and “weather”. The US’s current snow storms and cold snap are an example of weather—they will persist for a couple of days to a few weeks at maximum, but will eventually stop and make way for clear skies and inevitably a warm summer for much of the US.”
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-01-weather-climate-interchangeably-shouldnt.html#jCp
Today’s temp anomalies …..
Fun Post and entertaining thread!
To sum up then: ” The only thing we can expect with absolute certainty is ..er.. the unexpected.”
Cheers
Mike