Most of the United States is enduring the worst winter weather in years — digging out from a foot or more of snow while facing record-breaking temperatures far below normal. It’s simply miserable out there.
Yet, comically, the legacy media is blaming it all on global warming and man-caused climate change.
On this episode of The Climate Realism Show, we push back against the latest climate myth-peddling and offer a little camaraderie in our shared winter misery.
Special Guest: Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com
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- Radical activists helping write climate “guidance” for federal judges
- A scheme to make money by pumping poop into the ground
- A status update on efforts to eliminate the CO₂ “Endangerment Finding”
- A look back at Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth on its 20th anniversary
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Weather is warm here in the Pacific North-West. 39 degrees and foggy. It’s been like that for a month now. Supposedly because of La Nina or something.
I live in the PNW (Willamette Valley) and it’s been below freezing here for a month, until 3 days ago when it warmed up slightly and started raining. Typical normal January. Just wanted to clear up the record. Normal, average, just the same, within the bounds of historical variation. No wild a** hypotheses required. Please remain calm and refrain from freaking out, about the weather anyway.
Also, welcome back Climate Realism crew. Some of you have been globe hopping. Looking forward to your report.
Said it before, but if both A and non-A “prove” your theory then you are dealing in religion, not science.
From the above announcement of the show:
“Most of the United States is enduring the worst winter weather in years — digging out from a foot or more of snow while facing record-breaking temperatures far below normal. It’s simply miserable out there.”
Could this possibly—remotely—be all that water injected into the troposphere and stratosphere in January 2022 by the Hunga-Tonga volcano finally “deciding” to precipitate out as recent heavy snowfalls over the US and Europe?
No, makes no sense . . . but I await all the comments that offer up the H-T eruption as the immediate cause for any recent weather perturbation.
Copilot AI
Original Warming Argument
Why Some Now Claim Cooling
Current Consensus
D Sandberg,
Under your recounting of Copilot’s output, subheading “Current Consensus”:
“Most peer-reviewed studies still lean toward net warming from the water vapor injection, but the magnitude is modest compared to anthropogenic trends.”
Obviously,
(a) Copilot has the hallucination that peer-review has value in today’s world of publishing . . . hah! There is no objective evidence of such, and much evidence against this claim.
(b) Copilot has the hallucination that there is a “strong trend” in global warming that is anthropomorphic (that is, caused by mankind) . . . hah, hah! There is no objective evidence of such, and much evidence against this claim.
Beyond this, one just has to admire Copilot using a plethora of ambiguous words/phrases such as:
— “the expectation was”
— “some now claim”
— “some datasets now show”
— “these may have”
— “can delay”
— “still lean toward”
— “claims often hinge on”
— “could reflect”
— “likely within natural variability”
— “can amplify or mask the signal”.
I was rather shocked to see that Copilot did not follow the human pattern, after such pontification, of stating that this subject really needs additional substantial funding to further study the subject. /sarc
With all that hallucinating Copilot should seek a good psychiatrist. 🙂
No. I predicted above trend snowfall in the NH over a year ago. It is due to the Sun and Earth’s relationship with it.
The changes in solar power from day to day and season to season is the driver of climate trends.
OK, so how is that Sun-Earth “relationship” this end-January 2026 different from what it was end-January 2025 or end-January 2024?
Reference the very first sentence in the above article:
“Most of the United States is enduring the worst winter weather in years . . .”
Uhhhh . . . NASA, NOAA and most real climate scientists define “climate” as weather over a specified geographical area averaged over a period of 30 years or more, and do not attribute it to day-to-day or season-to-season variations.
Seems to me the weather has just swung back o what I recall from decades ago. Having worked outdoors for 50 years, I’m rather familiar with the weather, at least here in Wokeachusetts. I often worked in the forests in near zero temperature and with 3′ of snow on the ground. Got my snowshoes out yesterday. The snow is deep enough but its pure dry power so I sunk too far. I’ll wait until it gets a crust on it after a warming then re-freeze.
Just so. And let’s not forget that in the early 1970’s most “climate scientists” were very concerned about the Earth cooling off . . . even to extent of publications talking about “the coming Ice Age”.
Along with many other things- most of which we don’t understand.
Need to get Lee Zeldin back on to tell us what is happening with “The Endangerment Finding”
Trump now has him working on trying to resolve the problems with rebuilding in LA since the mayor and governor aren’t helping much- mostly by now granting building permits. I hope that’s a temporary thing- maybe he could go out there for a week, and leave a few of his people to do that chore. We do need him in DC working on terminating the EF.
The Sun and Earth’s relationship with it caused the warm boreal summer followed by the above trend snowfall this boreal winter.
I predicted it over a year ago.
Similar conditions will prevail in 2033 summer and 2033/34 winter. The 2025/26 conditions will be eclipsed in 2037/28.
This is another example of the desperate measures that the proponents of climate change have adopted as they see their alarmist theories losing more and more traction. These were the same people who were assuring us that because of excessive fossil fuel consumption winter wouldn’t begin until mid-December and end by January 31. Yet here in Winnipeg we’re experiencing the 9th straight day of below normal temperature where January normals are lows of about minus-24C=minus 11 F. and highs are minus 12C=minus 10. F with plenty of snow in every direction. Meanwhile the rest of the continent is reeling from major winter storms that have caused travel problems on the ground and in the air. In other words, these are the types of variations that have always existed and this year is just a little more extreme, no more or less.
All I know is in Pa this has been the longest sustained cold spell I can remember and I am pretty old. Been below average since early November with only a couple weeks in the normal to slightly over normal range. Can’t wait to get a little more of that global warming Al Gore keeps promising me.