Yesterday I brought you an LA Times article about ice storms being caused by a warming earth. Today we have
Why historic snow doesn’t mean climate change is a myth
It’s been snowing in the Eastern United States like nobody’s business. Crazy, wild cold and snowstorms.
Predicting the weather might be hard, but predicting that extreme cold weather will produce a lot of hot air from climate deniers is easy. In fact, the number of myths floating around about climate change is pretty extensive, and I thought it might be helpful to address them, one by one, over the course of the year.
There’s an elegant, if not complete, counterargument that comes via MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Tracker, one of my favorite daily blog reads. I’ll let you read it all here, but to boil it down to its chilly essence:
Within the global context, these snowstorms mean nothing. Even if the entire United States, including Alaska, were blanketed with unseasonable cold (not here in California, that’s for sure) or snow (could we just get a few raindrops, maybe?), that would amount to about 2% of the planet’s surface.
A couple points. First, the Warmists seem to be really ramping up their talking points about cold and snow and ice being caused by warmth from Mankind’s activities, particularly fossil fuels.
Second, when a tiny portion of the planet’s surface is seeing things like tornadoes (which have been really low), wildfires (again, really low), drought, flood, or other weather (Sandy didn’t even affect that 2%, yet the storm was supposedly PROOF of AGW, er, climate change) we are told that it is proof of Hotcoldwetdry, even when the rest of the world is average or below average.
Yet, these same Warmists refuse to give up their own Big Carbon lifestyles, which should tell you everything you need to know about their beliefs.
