This is not a retread article. This is a new one. I’m not even looking for this stuff purposefully. It’s showing up on Yahoo’s front page and when I search “climate change” on Google. The ones this morning were front and center without even clicking the news link. This was prominent on the Yahoo front page. Because it is a cult, and cults have to sync their messages and then get them out
The massive winter storm that buried much of the United States in snow this week bringing record-setting cold across the plains and knocking out the power grid in Texas is not inconsistent with climate change, a leading expert told Yahoo News.
“We haven’t had enough warming to eliminate cold events, and we shouldn’t expect to have enough warming to eliminate cold events in the mid-latitudes for some time,†Noah Diffenbaugh, a climate scientist at Stanford University, said in phone interview on Tuesday.
Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, global temperatures have risen by just over one degree Celsius, enough to significantly alter weather events, but certainly not enough to put an end to winter storms. (snip)
“Our climate change present is that we are already in a climate that has changed significantly and that the change of one degree Celsius has already been enough to increase the frequency and severity of many different kinds of many different kinds of extreme events,†Diffenbaugh said. “We see this very clearly in extreme hot events, where our research has shown that the probability of record setting hot events has already increased by more than 80 percent of the global surface area. For extreme wet events and extreme dry events, in terms of high and low precipitation, that number is about 50 percent — we’ve already seen increases in probability in about half of the globe so far.â€
OK, that’s a new Hotcold take. See, the slight 1.5F increase in global temperatures since 1850, caused by you and your predecessors, is not only not killing off winter storms, but, is making them more extreme. But, in the future, your carbon footprint will kill them off in a couple decades (and, when it doesn’t happen, the cult will say that’s further Proof of the climate crisis).
Then the doomsday climate cult propaganda piece delves into wildfires and hot weather and sea rise before, deep in the article
What is unclear, however, is whether climate change is making winter storms like this week’s blizzard more severe. That’s because climate systems are highly complex and based on myriad factors.
So the whole leadup is a bunch of mule fritters? There’s an old saying with Internet pieces: most people read the first three paragraphs or 30 seconds. How many never made it to the “unclear” part? How many simply read the headline?
