Essay by Eric Worrall
Defending the hottest year ever narrative in the middle of record breaking cold.
Yes, it’s cold. Yes, the planet’s still warming.
It’s important to remember that the cold snap is, for many of us, just a moment of discomfort, while climate change is a long-term disaster.
By Derrick Z. Jackson
It’s become a familiar pattern by now. Every cold snap that grips the nation brings with it a bunch of hot air from conservative politicians who seize on subzero temperatures and declare global warming a hoax.
Mocking climate protesters who interrupted Republican campaign events in Iowa, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., posted on social media: “You’ve got to appreciate the irony of climate protestors trudging through a foot of snow and -30 degree wind chills to yell about how the planet is warming. They just don’t see it, do they?”
When a climate protester in that same state was tackled by security guards at a campaign event for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., gleefully posted a videoof the protester being body-slammed. He wrote, “The irony of protesting global warming during a once in a lifetime cold snap/blizzard. dude found out!” And after a climate protester held up a sign calling former President Donald Trump a “climate criminal,” Politico quoted Trump adviser Chris LaCivita as saying: “Climate change? It’s minus 15 degrees. Read the room, man.”
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Despite the skepticism from those Republicans that cold weather and climate change can co-exist, it’s important to remember that, for many of us, the cold snap is just a moment of discomfort, while climate change is a long-term disaster. Scientists are mixed as to how connected modern cold snaps are to the warming of the Arctic and how much they’re the result of natural variability despite the warming. Some models, according to a 2021 explainer by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, point to stronger polar vortexes. Others point to weaker polar vortexes.
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Read more: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republicans-cold-weather-climate-change-deniers-rcna134148
A week ago, Bloomberg reminded us snow is becoming a thing of the past;
Don’t Be Fooled, Snow Is Becoming a Thing of the Past
Storms will keep happening, but the long-term trend is warmer winters with less snowfall, which will bring severe consequences such as water shortages and lost economic activity.
8 January 2024 at 22:00 GMT+10
By Mark Gongloff…
Winter storms like the one that blanketed parts of the Northeast in snow this weekend will keep happening but less frequently. The long-term trend, especially in the normally colder parts of the US and other countries, is one of warmer winters with less of the white stuff.
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Snow has been scarce in the US lately. Aside from the blizzard that swept the Plains and Midwest around Christmas, snarling travel, most of the country has been well below snowfall averages for this time of year, according to the National Weather Service. Only about a fifth of the country was covered in snow before this weekend’s storm, the lowest in more than a decade.
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At the rate we’re cooking the planet, this is all just a taste of what’s to come. The best thing we can do now is turn off the oven. As that’s unlikely any time soon, scientists and policymakers should be busy adapting to the headaches that shrinking winters and snowfall will bring — the agricultural impacts, longer allergy seasons, resilient pests, water shortages, lost economic activity and more. Whatever our feelings about the season in the past, there is no doubt we’ll miss it when it’s gone.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-08/winter-storm-aside-snow-is-disappearing-because-of-climate-change?embedded-checkout=true
And back in December, VOX explained that mild winter weather in New York is a sign of global warming.
Missing the feeling of a white Christmas? That might be solastalgia.
Finally, a term that explains the sadness of a whole season — and a way of life — melting before our eyes.
By Anna North Dec 21, 2023, 7:00am EST
A snowy winter in New York City brings with it a kind of magic. The air goes crisp, then bitter, and fragile snowflakes sift down in the early dark, silvering the trees and blanketing the sledding hills in the parks. After the first big snow, children and adults alike rush out to make snowmen, creations that delight passersby for the next two frigid months, until the snow finally thaws. When I took my older son, then a toddler, out for his first-ever sledding session, he squealed with awe at the crystalline world before him, shouting, “It looks like Frozen!”
Today he’s 5, and I doubt he remembers what sledding feels like. It’s been more than 650 days since Central Park, where snow is measured daily, got more than an inch of snowfall at one time; last winter, the park got just 2.3 inches in total, less than one-tenth the normal amount. In early December, Brooklyn saw a few anemic flurries, and my son told me excitedly that his friends had tried to build a snowman during recess. But there was nowhere near enough material to work with. They settled for “a pile of snowflakes.”
This sense of winter melting away before our eyes is not unique to New York: While blazing-hot summers and stormy autumns come with their own dangers, scientists say winter is actually the fastest-warming season. Snowfall is decreasing across the Northeast, the flakes slowly replaced by raindrops. The Great Lakes have experienced a 22 percent drop in maximum ice cover since 1973, and are frozen for a shorter percentage of the year. In December 2022, Utqiagvik, the northernmost city in Alaska, posted its warmest winter temperature ever at 40 degrees Fahrenheit, a full 36 degrees above the frigid average for that time of year.
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Read more: https://www.vox.com/culture/24001256/snow-winter-climate-change-solastalgia-warming
I hear New York received a big dose of that snowy weather they were all missing a few days ago.
Does a single really cold winter disprove global warming? Of course not. But the panicked green response to gentle mocking of global warming narratives sure tells us which side of the debate has a sense of humour.
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The position of alarmist is like the old joke about “Heads I win, tails you lose.”
You lose even when the coin lands on tails.
Wife walks in on husband, a climatologist, in bed with a man. He shouts, “I can explain everything!”
Climate change made him do it!
If it’s cold, it is just a weather. Only record heat counts as climate.
Two hallmarks of far-leftists: psychological projection, and intellectual dishonesty. First they claim we use short term weather events dishonestly when it is actually their side who yells that a 110°+ set of above average temps in Phoenix (or similar such summertime one-day high temps elsewhere) proves the existence of man-caused global warming, while a set of significantly below average temps in those same locations …… is just ho-hum trivia. Then they claim that the Arctic is twice to 4 times warmer than before – being literally dishonest with themselves when they don’t pose the simple question “warmer … relative to what?” concerning an Arctic that is currently under constant subfreezing temperatures right now.
Okay these guys need to shut the hell up. We have spent billions maybe trillions of dollars to address CAGW by that I mean lower CO2 emissions. In addition we are paying a higher price for energy, have less reliable energy and for some no energy at all. What have we accomplished for all our sacrifice and money? Exactly zero. CO2 concentrations are higher now than when we began our effort to lower them. Why on earth should anyone listen to these crackpot liars and cheats. Enough is enough take a hike.
Of all people, journalists ought to be familiar with stories in print media of historical weather.
Many of the stories being written now suggest a lack of perspective. About weather, one site says “… the condition of the atmosphere regarded as subject to vicissitudes.”
Then vicissitudes is a word that can refer to the fact of change, or to an instance of it, but often refers to hardship or difficulty brought about by change.
Members of the “ClimateCult”™ and the journalistic friends seem to think Earth’s atmosphere ought to be as it was in 1850 (Why, I have no idea.), and stay that way.
1850 was about the time that temperature records of any kind were available and being measured somewhat systematically. It also corresponds to the end of the Dalton Minimum and the begining of the gradual rise in global temperatures and global sea level that we have today. The period before 1850 was rather brutal with more extensive, freezing temperatures poor agricultural yields.It was not as bad as the Maunder Minimum but it was still pretty bad. Even in the early 19th century, the Thames in London was still routinely freezing over in winter allowing ‘ice fairs’ on the river.
To imagine that climate in 1850 was ideal is simply delusional. The climate cult and friends are insane.
“journalists ought to be familiar with stories in print media of historical weather.”
all they have to do is subscribe to Tony Heller’s YouTube channel- that’s the theme
“…it’s important to remember that, for many of us, the cold snap is just
a moment of discomfort, while climate change is a long-term disaster.
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That’s the argument. There isn’t anything to indicate that a
warmer world with more CO2 in the air is a long-term disaster.
1. More rain is not a problem.
2. Warmer weather is not a problem.
3. More arable land is not a problem.
4. Longer growing seasons is not a problem.
5. CO2 greening of the earth is not a problem.
6. There isn’t any Long-Term Disaster.
I worked outside as a forester for 50 years. It’s nicer working outside now than in my early years. That’s all the facts I need to know to understand that there is no long-term disaster. Here in Wokachusetts I see in the media every day about the climate emergency. I keep looking for it but can’t find it!
For 35+ years now we’ve seen one claim after another of catastrophes to come due to “global warming/climate change”. One “tipping point” after another has come and gone. And nothing catastrophic has happened or appears about to happen. And they wonder why we don’t take their claims seriously.
The current Meteoblue synoptic shows it perfectly
as attached.
Map colours are windspeed – temps in Fahrenheit are in the coloured dots
I’ve marked in black where the 1014mb isobar is.
1014 being Earth’s *average* barometric pressure
Note esp
There is descending at places where is no moisture within the landscape to create water vapour and thus give buoyancy and uplift.
There hasn’t been any uplift at those places for months and months and months – the Troposphere is thus very thin and the descending air doesn’t get a chance to heat very much as it falls
(The Exact Opposite of the much vaunted and predicted tropospheric hot spot)
Where there is moisture in the landscape, the water vapour it creates causes rising air, it sucks warm air in from the nearest ocean and perpetuates it own uplift .
While the descending air pulls air from the Stratosphere and perpetuates itself
See that from the windflow arrows – air is coming out of the high pressure centre and going into the low pressure centres’ Up aloft, the air flow is the opposite = the basic Hadley Cell
In the image, the Hadley Cell has one uplift leg (The continental US) and 2 downwelling legs = the Pacific and the Atlantic
That picture demonstrates the impossible hill that soil erosionists (like me) have to climb
i.e. we have to assert that: Deserts Are Cold Places
It goes against 3 impossibly and resistantly held beliefs:
“””My kindergarten teacher never lied
“”My country, my nation, my state, My Home is Not A Desert, you impertinent little *!**//!!*!
“””It has always been like that and I have graphs to show you
What else does the attached picture show – apart from all those things being wrong?
The takeaway being that deserts are self creating and self reinforcing regimes.
If you find yourself in such a situation (as that map shows) – do something about it – before you are forcibly removed to Planet Mars without even leaving your own front door
The land mass doesn’t show too well – find Cuba along the bottom dead centre to get your bearings
The black isobar up the left follows exactly The West Coast apart from the blob where Baja is
Repeat for the n’th time – Carbon Dioxide is a symptom of that and NOT the cause
I was looking at the Ventusky world temperature map this afternoon. If we were to take the temperature of every square km every hour for a year, we would be talking about over 4464 billion measurements. We may see climate change in an area over 30 to 50 years but we have so many different areas with different changes so extrapolating a temperature/rainfall increase in certain areas to the whole globe is misleading. I believe this makes nonsense of those who are alarmed by a few degrees warming in one place and cooling in another.
The most reliable guide will be observations of what is happening in each of the climate zones and subzones over longer periods of time say 50 to 100 years and comparing century to century. We are still a long, long way from having this kind of data. In the meanwhile we need to do what previous generations have done, and that is adapting to the weather conditions we are facing. It is foolish to try to engineer a perfect climate.
“Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., gleefully posted a videoof the protester being body-slammed. He wrote, “The irony of protesting global warming during a once in a lifetime cold snap/blizzard. dude found out!”
It’s not irony, it’s a real phenomenon known as the Gore Effect. If it happens in Iowa, it’s known as Hansen’s Razor…
The writer wrote this and the contradiction doesn’t seen to strike him. D’oh!
Climate model output.
Pick your poison.
But “climate science” uses an AVERAGE of the model outputs, so the average is NO CHANGE?
The fact that they have no model that works, and use the average needs to be repeated often.
I always look to MSNBC for unbiased scientific assessments.
Yes Rachel, Sharpton, and Reid are prime examples of integrity in journalism. LOL!
“And back in December, VOX explained that mild winter weather in New York is a sign of global warming.”
Heck, nobody in their right mind would WANT to be in NY during a snow storm.
At this point there are so many people so emotionally invested in global warming that you will probably never change their minds. You will never convince the high school teacher who lectured his class that global warming was real, you will never convince the politician who ran on a global warming program, you will never convince the scientifically illiterate reporter who got on the news and sneered at sceptics. For them global warming is a matter of faith. Despite the scientific evidence, these people are too emotionally invested in their belief. Because the evidence of their own eyes can’t change their beliefs, they are probably hopeless.
The same way it took a generational change in the 17th century after Galileo’s death (1642) for most people to accept that the Earth goes around the sun, just the same way it took a generation change in the nineteenth century for doctors to accept that bleeding a sick patient to cure an illness was a dumb idea, so today it will probably take a generation change before most people accept that the there is no man-made global warming.
And nobody likes being told that their religious icon is ugly.
“Climate change” is a quasi-religious belief system or “memeplex”, the likes of which has never been seen before. It involves a system of lies touted as “science” with the worldwide backing of governments, NGOs, and the media. It has various means of punishing anyone who dares to question it, including “othering”, as in the use of the “denier” label. Many, many people depend on and benefit from the Climate Industrial Complex. It has been said that about the only thing capable of bringing its demise would be significant cooling, perhaps on the order of the LIA, and I’m inclined to agree.
We may well live to see the next cool spell. That will be a pyrrhic victory since the alarmists will be shown to have been @ssH@ts but the people of the world will suffer due to the decrease in agricultural output.
I like the snowman in the image at the top. It wouldn’t take much to have it look just like Mickey Mann! With a hockey stick of course.
Official broadcast of PAVDA
Yes, it’s cold. But it’s warm cold, so there. 😉
Planet was COOLING for the 6 or so years before the 2023 El Nino.
And there is no reason to assume to go back to a pause, or some cooling, won’t continue once the effects of the El Nino dissipates.
Yes, the planet has warmed some since the LIA. No, that doesn’t mean man is responsible, or that the warming is “bad” or that we are experiencing a “climate catastrophe”.
In 100 years there will still be snowmen. Mark my words. Here is one from 100 years ago.