This was certainly inevitable from the cult, right?
How this brutal winter storm is even possible with climate change – and maybe even more likely
The frigid temperatures, massive snow and deadly ice storm taking shape east of the Rockies might seem to conflict with life on a rapidly warming planet. But all of these things still happen, even with climate change, and some of them could be even more severe than before when the conditions are right. (big snip)
Other experts point to the winter storm and particularly the Arctic cold that will follow in its wake and note that climate change may itself be playing a role in instigating them. Jennifer Francis, a researcher at the Woodwell Climate Research Center who has studied changes in the polar vortex as the world warms, said she’s seeing evidence in this storm.
“Even though global warming is causing warmer winters overall, severe winter weather events are still possible — and perhaps even more likely — because warming is not the only consequence of human-caused climate change,” she said. “Other ingredients that set the stage for severe winter weather are on the rise, and many of them are in play this week.”
This is what a doomsday cult says. No matter the weather it gets blamed on Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles. Even massive winter storms.
Arctic Blast To Wallop N. America — Is Climate Change To Blame?
An unusually brutal winter storm is set to pummel more than 160 million Americans from Friday, as a stretched “polar vortex” sends a devastating blast of Arctic air, bringing heavy snows and freezing rains.
Winter Storm Fern is forecast to engulf an area well over half the length of the continental United States, stretching from Texas and the Great Plains region to the mid-Atlantic and northeastern states.
Scientists say the increasing frequency of such disruptions of the polar vortex may be linked to climate change, though the debate is not yet settled and natural variability also plays a role.
Nutters.
The song Dixie’s Land was copyrighted in 1860, and I’d say that the lyrics prove that yes, we did get winter in the South, even before our esteemed host began selling evil, fossil-fueled cars.
Actually, coming to Kentucky from Maine, I was surprised how little snow we got in the Bluegrass State. Oh, we’d get some, and there was the infamous blizzard of 1977 — or was it 1979? — when Lexington got eight of so inches of snow, no one shoveled their sidewalks, and the tramped down snow became hard ice that lingered for three weeks up and down Rose Street. But, rare or otherwise, while we didn’t get a lot of snow here, we did get the occasional several inches.
When I lived in Hampton, Virginia, which is in the Tidewater area — I was a ten-minute bike ride from both Buckroe and Grandview beaches on the Chesapeake Bay, there was one weekend, in February or March, in which we got something like 14″ of snow, it was gone by Monday, and the subsequent Saturday another 8″ of snow, and it, too, was gone in a day or two.
It’s winter; snow happens!
LIVE Coverage Tracking 2,000 Mile Historic Major Winter Storm, 40+ States Impacted | FOX Weather
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/01/live-coverage-tracking-2000-mile.html
A once-in-a-lifetime winter storm predicted for Texas! The most recent once-in-a-lifetime winter storm there was in 2021. So once-in-a-lifetime only for toddlers. Some 250 Texans died in the 2021 storm.
Let’s hope Governor Abbott is better prepared for this once-in-a-lifetime storm!!
Relax! Humans are an adaptable species!!! Southerners will adapt to biannual winter *ice storms and blizzards AND hotter summers!
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*Southerners (red states!) are precluded from trump ICE Storms which only occur in blue states.
“May have made storm more likely”… which is the same as “may not have made the storm more likely”.
Good news: today’s forecasts are already diminishing the storm impacts. Global warming to the rescue. My area was going to get over a foot of snow. Now, likely none at all.