If it is, I blame the Warmists for refusing to give up their own use of fossil fuels, hairdryers, ice makers, hair spray, refusing to unplug every appliance not in use, refusing to live in a tiny house, refusing to grow their own food, walk or bike to work, and only buy local
Here’s How We Know Global Warming Made the Blizzard Worse
Manhattan may have gotten the wimpy end of Juno, but the storm chin-checked New England. Boston is buried in snow. Hurricane-force winds buffeted Nantucket. The storm surge may have permanently altered shorelines from New Haven, Connecticut, to Portsmouth, Maine. Storms have always happened in winter, but the excessively violent ones? They’re getting more common, and that’s due to climate change.
“It’s winter, and we have storms, so that part is entirely natural,†says Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the federal government’s center for understanding weather and climate. “The global warming aspect relates to the fact that the oceans are warmer, and the air above them is more moist.â€
So, does this mean that the oceans were super-duper warm during the Little Ice Age, the Dark Ages, and, heck, the last glacial age and Snowball Earth?
Also, weren’t we told that the heat was hiding in the deep oceans?
Trenberth’s expertise puts him in the potentially uncomfortable position of trying to use scientific data to answer what has become a politicized question. But he says that doesn’t bother him because the numbers speak for themselves. Climate models—heavy-lifting computation that simulates the fluid dynamics of the whole planet—show that oceans are like batteries, charging up with extra warmth as atmospheric carbon continues to warm the planet. But that energy storage isn’t free. What goes in must come out, feeding bigger, badder storms. In the case of Winter Storm Juno, extra warmth in the ocean possibly lowered air pressure by a few bars. That means more wind and bigger storm surges.
So this is all based on computer models? Good grief.
Not to be outdone, VICE News goes with
Climate Change Is Bringing More Extreme Precipitation Events to the Northeast
And Full Time Whistle
Blizzard of Nor’Easters No Surprise, Thanks to Climate Change
The contents of the fables pretty much mirror the excerpted one, the same as many, many other articles, so, it looks like Warmists received their marching orders. Then there’s the New Republic
It’s Time to Remind Climate Change Deniers That Weather and Climate Are Different
This myth is routinely debunked, but one more time doesn’t hurt: Weather is not climate. The weather is immediate conditions—rain, snow, sunshine, etc.—while the climate is long-term trends.
Perhaps they should be telling Warmists this, since they now blame every weather event on “climate change”.
A blizzard or a cold snap doesn’t disprove climate change. It doesn’t cancel the fact that ten of the hottest years on record have occured since 2000, with 2014 as the the warmest yet.
So, they set the condition that nothing can disprove their pet cult. And, they apparently haven’t gotten the info that 2014 is not necessarily the warmest yet. But, really, even if it was the warmest, even if they were right on snow being caused by heat, that in no way proves anthropogenic causation.
Weather forecasts are also not the same as climate projections, because weather predictions are short-term by nature. And despite improved forecasting over the last few decades, weather forecasts are only as accurate as meteorologists’ initial data, like atmospheric conditions, ocean surface temperatures, and how well real-world physics is represented in their models. Imperfect knowledge of those conditions makes weather predictions highly variable.
Climate models, on the other hand, can’t predict the weather on a specific day, but they do show trends and averages. They deal with different data, including conditions of the deep ocean, vegetation, and the sun, and how greenhouse gasses impact the system. “The ability (or not) of predicting a single storm on a given day in a specific portion of the U.S. has little relevance to skill in predicting long-term climate associated with long-lived greenhouse gases,†Norman Loeb, an atmospheric scientist with NASA, said in an email.
Which is interesting, because “climate models” have consistently failed. Remember when we were told that snow would be a thing of the past? Remember when we were told that the 2005 hurricane season would be “the new normal”? Then landfalling hurricanes dropped off. We were told that Superstorm Sandy would be the new normal. Nope.
Climate deniers upset that Tuesday’s blizzard skipped New York City can take comfort that the city will face more historic storms in the future.
Of course it will. That’s the way nature works. Of course, in Warmist World, they seem to forget that “weather is not climate.”
