Of course, we know that some climate astrologist will blame this on climate change, but for the moment
(Detroit News) “First day of spring?†said a WWJ-Detroit Radio forecasterWednesday morning in frigid, below-normal, 21-degree, Midwest temperatures with little relief in sight. “Feels more like the first day of January.â€
What a difference a year makes.
Last March, the media welcomed spring in a panic over global warming, as local and national media sensationalized unseasonably warm temperatures. “â€Meteorologists and other weather commentators have frequently commented they’ve never seen anything like this, exhausting superlatives,†hyperventilated Washington Post meteorologist Jason Samenow, citing the usual Horsemen of the Apocalypse, NASA’s James Hansen and activist Bill McKibben. “The background increases in greenhouse gases – at levels unprecedented in at least 800,000 years – are stacking the deck for more extreme heat events such as this and we have observed increases in average and extremely high temperatures.â€
That was soooo 12 months ago. As usual, the global warming crowd was confusing weather and climate (not to mention hysteria and science). The science tells us the globe hasn’t warmed in 14 years, even as the planet trends warmer out of the Little Ice Age of the mid-19th century.
This doesn’t mean the Earth is heading into another cool period similar to the Little Ice Age or the Dark Age, nor even a glacial period. This simply means that the Earth’s climate is doing what the Earth’s climate does: namely, it’s own thing. That’s the explanation. Weather happens. Right now the Earth is in a long term (as in a couple of hundred years) warmer climate trend, but just like there will be really warm times during a cool period, there will be cool times during a warm trend. There’s little to nothing anthropogenic about it. Just nature doing nature things.
