They really can’t help themselves, and this probably doesn’t help calm them down
That caused a whole bunch of unhinged articles from the Credentialed Media.
Winter storm doesn’t disprove climate change, despite Trump’s claim. Scientists explain why.
It’s the same old same old, which gets repeated here
‘This is not natural’: VCU expert links climate change to intensifying Virginia winter storms
A Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) expert says climate change is intensifying winter storms ahead of this weekend’s snow and ice storm. (snip)
A VCU professor in the School of Life Sciences and Sustainability warns that climate change may be intensifying the system and increasing the risk of widespread power outages.
8News spoke with Vickie Connors, a professor with the VCU School of Life Sciences and Sustainability, about how warming in the Arctic is influencing winter weather patterns in Virginia.
Connors said rising temperatures in the Arctic are allowing more heat and moisture to enter the atmosphere, hurting circulation patterns that usually keep cold air contained near the North Pole. (snip)
“This is not natural,” Connors emphasized. “If we didn’t have this excess amount of gases, like CO2 and methane and in our atmosphere, we would be seeing a pretty respectable polar ice cap, and we would have snow pack that’s older than five years.”
Sigh.
Climate Change Won’t Make Winter Storms Less Deadly
In some ways, fossil fuels make snowstorms like the one currently bearing down on the U.S. even more dangerous.The relationship between fossil fuels and severe weather is often presented as a cause-and-effect: Burning coal, oil, and gas for heat and energy forces carbon molecules into a reaction with oxygen in the air to form carbon dioxide, which in turn traps heat in the atmosphere and gradually warms our planet. That imbalance, in many cases, makes the weather more extreme.
But this relationship also goes the other way: We use fossil fuels to make ourselves more comfortable — and in some cases, keep us alive — during extreme weather events. Our dependence on oil and gas creates a grim ouroboros: As those events get more extreme, we need more fuel.
This weekend, some 200 million Americans will be cranking up the thermostats in their natural-gas-heated homes, firing up their propane generators, or hitting icy roads in their combustion-engine cars as a major winter storm brings record-low temperatures to 35 states, knocks out power, and grinds air travel to a halt.
See? You using fossil fuels makes winter more winter.
Hmm, not “normal”?? When did WEATHER become “normal”?
We were in Louisiana about this time last year for a Funeral of a great Friend. On Saturday it was a beautiful day – sunshine and low 70’s! On MONDAY the temp was in the TEENS! Then the ONE FOOT OF SNOW hit! We were planning on leaving Wednesday but stayed till Saturday due to closed roads! The entire town SHUT DOWN for two days – CURFEW!
So now a year later and we have ANOTHER “Winter Storm” that oddly is occurring IN THE WINTER!
There’s nothing “normal” about Weather – it’s going to do what it does – WHEN it does! Manmade has NOTHING to do with it!
I read somewhere that it’s “the worst winter storm in 40 years.” Which probably scares the manure out of the children, but then I always ask, “So what was it like 50 or 100 years ago?”
I’m sure some people will get hammered. And I am also sure the Weather Channel needs more clicks/views. (I lived in Florida during some of their hurricane coverage, and it was a bit over the top in some cases.)
I will admit that I annoy the poop out of my wife by having the Weather Channel on, pretty much as background noise.
At least for a hurricane, the reporters know which beach to go to to show how bad the weather is and remind people to not go outside because it is dangerous.
If anything, with this storm, the real problem is the cold and potential loss of electricity to keep warm.
Dang! Snow and ice, in late January, whoda thunked it?
It’s cold today, therefore global warming is a hoax/scam. We get it.