German Media Report That Current Frigid Weather Can Be Explained by Arctic Warming!

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By P Gosselin on 11. January 2026

Frigid tempertures have gripped Central Europe and the population ist struggling to stay warm. Media say it’s all part of warming!

Frigid weather grips Germany. Symbol photo by P. Gosselin 

Nine days ago I warned that such junk science would soon be reported. We can’t have people questioning the climate dogma, now can we? 

Germany’s online Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) just published an article titled: “Why the cold winter is no evidence against warming.”

The article explains why severe winters in Germany do not contradict global warming. The core argument lies in the distinction between weather (short-term events) and climate (long-term trends). That of course gets ignored by the media when there’s a hot summer day.

Experts, the FR reports, emphasize that a single cold winter is merely a statistical fluctuation, while the global trend points upward. “Weather is what you see outside; climate is the statistics over a long period of time,” the FR reports. “A cold winter does nothing to change the long-term warming trend.”

A warm Arctic produces cold Europe temperatures

Moreover,  the Frankfurter Rundschau reports that there are meteorological explanations for extreme cold phases despite global warming: a weakening polar vortex, fueled by Arctic warming, that can cause icy polar air to surge further south. “The Arctic is warming about four times as fast as the rest of the world,” writes the FR “This disrupts the jet stream and allows cold air masses from the north to penetrate our regions more easily.”

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Bryan A
January 11, 2026 10:18 pm

The Arctic IS NOT warming 4 times faster then the rest of the world…that’s total BS.
Everyone knows the Arctic is only warming Twice as fast as everywhere else…in fact every place is warming twice as fast as everywhere else.
In fact the Arctic shows ZERO warming over the Arctic Summer as evidenced by the DMI graph for 2025. All the warming only shows…sporadically…during Arctic Winter when here is no sun above the Arctic Circle
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Bryan A
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January 11, 2026 10:19 pm

2024
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Bryan A
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January 11, 2026 10:20 pm

2023
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Bryan A
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January 11, 2026 10:22 pm

2022

ZERO warming during the Summer Melt Season

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Anthony Banton
Reply to  Bryan A
January 11, 2026 11:06 pm

The Arctic will not warm above 0C during the summer until much more sea-ice is gone.
For why?
The temperature of melting Ice is ….. 0C !!

Why would you expect air that is advecting over a surface at a temp of 0C to be anything other than 0C?

When a tipping point is reached whereby there is enough open water to allow warmer air to ingress into the central Arctic then it’s average summer temp will rise above freezing.

Reply to  Anthony Banton
January 11, 2026 11:29 pm

You don’t understand what ice does. It insulates. As more ice free sea is exposed, more heat will escape from the Arctic ocean. This is basic physics.

Your ‘tipping point’ is however completely unscientific. If this mythical tipping point existed, it would have been passed during the roman and medieval warm periods. It wasn’t, therefore it doesn’t exist except in the minds of alarmists and their faithful followers.

January 11, 2026 10:46 pm

If everything is evidence of AGW, then nothing is. If climate changes and arctic warming weren’t happening, then what would it look like? Would weather be the same for a thousand years straight? A hockey stick with no blade?

January 11, 2026 11:25 pm

There is no Null Hypothesis in Climate Scientology. Therefore there is no science in Climate Scientology.

Tom Halla
January 11, 2026 11:33 pm

So? The Green -Blob tried to sell the Texas
February 2021 storm as being consistent with global warming.
Yeah, I was snowed in for a sodding week by effing global warming!
And wind and solar had nothing to do with the grid nearly crashing! Just listen to the Green Blob gaslighting!

Richard Rude
January 11, 2026 11:44 pm

And there it is: An hypothesis that cannot be falsified–Karl Popper, we need you again.