Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Hold the wind turbines; According to climate scientist Judah Cohen, the uptick in winter storms over the last decade was caused by the global warming in the Arctic.
Heating Arctic may be to blame for snowstorms in Texas, scientists argue
The wintry weather that has battered the southern US and parts of Europe could be a counterintuitive effect of the climate crisis
Oliver Milman
@olliemilman
Wed 17 Feb 2021 17.00 AEDT…
This week, a blast of winter weather has reached deep into the heart of the US, causing several deaths and knocking out power for about 5 million people. Sleet and ice have battered Oklahoma and Arkansas, while many people in Texas have been left marooned, amid unsafe travel conditions, in homes with no electricity.Millions without power and 21 dead as ferocious winter weather sweeps USRead more
“The current conditions in Texas are historical, certainly generational,” said Judah Cohen, the director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental Research. “But this can’t be hand-waved away as if it’s entirely natural. This is happening not in spite of climate change, it’s in part due to climate change.”Advertisementabout:blank
Last year, Cohen co-authored a paper that found a strong uptick in winter storms in the US north-east in the decade leading up to 2018. This, Cohen and some other scientists argue, is a symptom of heating in the Arctic, occurring at a rate more than twice the global average, that is disrupting long-established climatic systems.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/17/arctic-heating-winter-storms-climate-change
Now that we know the science tells us global warming is making winter storms worse, I hope Joe Biden listens to the science, and cancels all federally funded wind and solar projects.
There is no point building power generation systems which are vulnerable to snow and ice, if there has been a global warming driven uptick in the severity of snow and ice events.
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I remember the snow storms in the 70’s. Was that climate change too what done it?
Yes, and it was all our fault! Global cooling, caused by our emissions of soot into the atmosphere which blocked the heat of the sun. I recall it all too well!
It’s quite clear. Global warming causes cooling. Global cooling causes warming. Easy
an “opinion” (thats what this is) by a supposed “scientist” is not SCIENCE … its just an opinion with an appeal to authority shield from criticism …
Is the Texas Cold Wave Caused By Global Warming?
Texas and neighboring states are experiencing a major cold wave causing substantial snowfall and power outages affecting millions of people.
A number of major media outlets are making the claim that such cold is a “sign” or “indication” of global warming
Such claims are demonstrably untrue and can be easily proven to be untrue.
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/02/is-texas-cold-wave-caused-by-global.html
The alarmists always do that. Anything that happens is attributed to Human-caused Climate Change. It’s just one unsubstantiated assertion after another, with the alarmists. If they didn’t have unsubstantiated assertions, they wouldn’t have anything at all.
This is actually plausible if you have a grounding in “the science”. Here is Global Warming 1:01 currently being pumped into a pre-schooler near you.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-understand-the-issue-of-global-warming-on-the-polar-habitat-6rw64t?step=1
Barf bags at the ready, and if you find anything objectionable in the propaganda, er, I mean lesson, just “tell the screen”.. although I’m pretty sure you won’t be heard.
No wonder kids these days are turning to self harm as they struggle to come to terms with reality having been stuffed with this sort of political nonsense.
Is this going to be reported to the Paris Climate Agreement police?
Biden administration sending generators to Texas amid power outages (yahoo.com)
Add Bill Gates to the ‘experts’ refuting the Journal Nature with more crackpot out of date science.
The link…
Bill Gates says Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s explanation for power outages is ‘actually wrong’ (yahoo.com)
What’s really sad about this story is there are literally millions of fools who will believe this utter nonsense. Doesn’t say much for our species.
Just another Cohencidence
Arctic heating is a symptom of weaker solar wind states causing negative Arctic Oscillation conditions. Rising CO2 forcing is supposed to make the AO increasingly positive.
https://archive.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch10s10-3-5-6.html
If these winter storms are generational why have I experienced seven? More than one of those was used by climate propaganda as being the run up to a new ice age.
Conclusion they don’t know how to predict climate.
I recall a colleague explaining to me many years ago after a similar artic invasions that there is nothing between the north pole and Texas except for a barbed wire fence, and parts of it are down. This was clearly a significant weather event, but nothing out of the ordinary.
So, this guy is the chief shyster running a scam operation to bilk us out of our tax dollars. Got it.
“Heating” in the arctic? What is the source of this “heating”?
“Warming” I understand. You can get warm by getting under a blanket.
But you can’t “heat” something with a blanket. You have to actually apply heat.
I would suggest closing all pipelines exporting natural gas from TX and OK to CA, IL, and the northeast. They don’t need it.
But But But…the whole world is going to be frying in 10…no 20…no maybe 30 years if we don’t eliminate Carbon from our atmosphere. Forget what you see and hear on the news. The computer models are where its at
Just watched the BBC’s evening news, they weren’t shy to attribute Texas cold to – you guessed it – global warming! According to their journalist-scientist expert, the cold outflow reaching Texas was displaced by warm air moving north over the Arctic.
Slight problem – Texas is bigger than the Arctic. And the US cold system is much more than just Texas.
What we’re seeing now is glacial inception caused by global warming.
The colder it gets, the warmer it actually is, and the less we can do about it, the more we’re to blame.
Anything and everything that happens is “see – told ya!” climate change.
“This I had also foreseen”
Asterix and the Soothsayer,
Goscinny & Uderzo
I blame global-warming-climate change on my worsening hemorrhoids. They have gotten worse over the past 20 years and I blame it all on climate change, so we must change our ways so that may painful, burning itching will go away.
I live in Alaska and we are freezing our nards off up here!
Well at least they’re trying-
Why we can’t yet say with certainty whether the Texas cold snap is linked to global heating | The Independent
Although naturally they kick off with-
“The cold weather was driven by an “Arctic breakout”, according to the US National Weather Service.
Some have suggested that there could be a link between the current cold snap and global heating. This is because some scientists have theorised that the rapid heating of the Arctic could be linked to episodes of extreme weather in mid-latitude regions such as North America and Europe.”
and we end up with Twitter as you do-
‘Posting on Twitter, Dr Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist and director of climate and energy at the Breakthrough Institute in California, said “there was not much evidence that climate change is making cold extremes more common”.
“One of the challenges of being on the frontier of science in complex systems is that we have to live with a lot of uncertainty,” he said. “For the time being we could all use a bit more restraint around arguing either that occasional cold weather disproves or is caused by global warming.”’
Calm down with this cold snap people as there’s a lot of uncertainty with this cutting edge sciencey Twitter stuff and climate change but rest assured we’re all working diligently on the global warming.
Well now we’re all behaving like learned ladies and gentlemen with this nuanced freezing and the scientific method we’ll hand the megaphone over to our next guest-
Why on earth would right-wing people with connections to the fossil fuel industry lie about ‘frozen wind turbines’ in Texas? (msn.com)
“The current crisis in Texas, and the way the fossil fuel industry and its backers have swooped in to take advantage of the situation in order to spread climate denial and anti-renewable energy talking points, is a perfect case study in how a disinformation machine operates.
Let’s be clear about what’s really going on in the Lone Star state right now. These temperatures are not that unusual in the grand scheme of weather changes over decades. It may even be that the freezing temperatures are actually connected to global warming, with climate change leading to changes in the Arctic jet stream that allow freezing weather to escape the polar regions and break down south……….
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In short, the failure of fossil fuels is what’s causing the blackout.
It’s not enough to just to push back on the fossil fuel industry’s propaganda on a case-by-case basis (there are very few effective ways to combat a lie once it’s spread across the internet). We need to actually dismantle the industry’s disinformation machine — or at the very least, throw a few wrenches in the gears.”
It was never arguing the science that was going to unseat them but their technically illiterate prescriptions not to mention their saviour they’ve all been covering for-
‘Never before’ has the leader of the free world been ‘so cognitively compromised’ | Sky News Australia
Anyone but Trump eh climate changers?
“In short, the failure of fossil fuels is what’s causing the blackout.” Just keep repeating the lie, it is the only tactic warmunistas have ever had.
Do these guys ever read history??? Historical, unprecedented? Check out the winter of 1886-1887, especially the blizzards of January 1887
That’s a big part of a lot of problems today: no understanding of history. If it wasn’t personally witnessed it didn’t happen. And even then, too many forget anything that happened more than a few years ago. To listen to some politicians, history started in 2016.