Notice Anything Missing From Those Winter Storm Stories?

Over the weekend, USA Today reported that northeast states were experiencing an unusual winter problem – a shortage of salt.

It seems that there have been so many snowstorms this winter that even states like Michigan and Vermont – which are quite accustomed to them –  are running short of the snow-melting chemical.

“An official from Monroe County, [Michigan] located between Detroit and Ohio, told the news station that local crews used more salt in December than in the past four Decembers combined,” says USA Today.

But what’s curiously missing from this and other accounts of the winter storm is the obligatory mention of “climate change” as the cause. It seems that bad winter weather is just weather. Whereas bad summer weather is always – always – and prominently blamed on our burning fossil fuels.

That’s not to say that no story over the weekend brought up “climate change.” But most of those were in response to President Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social:

And these stories were meant only to debunk Trump’s claim.

CBS News helpfully explained that Trump is confusing “weather” with “climate change.”

“The unusually cold air spilling into the United States is an example of weather,” it says, “while climate is an average of temperatures across the world over time that shows warm areas outweighing cold ones, according to Dr. Steven Decker, director of Rutgers University’s Meteorology Undergraduate Program.”

The “experts” also say, as CNN reported this weekend, that “severe winter weather events are still possible — and perhaps even more likely” because of global warming. Why? Because a warming planet is stretching the polar vortex, or something.

But wait, just one year ago, Bloomberg ran a piece quoting climate “experts” claiming that “the long-term trend, especially in the normally colder parts of the U.S. and other countries, is one of warmer winters with less of the white stuff.”

And just one month ago, Time magazine ran a feature article, quoting climate “experts” explaining how “climate change is causing shorter, warmer winters.”

So, which is it? Shorter, warmer winters, or more frequent blisteringly cold winter weather events?

As always, it’s both. Depending on whatever bad weather is happening at the moment. If it’s unusually cold, it’s because of climate change. Unusually sunny or cloudy? Climate change. Every big hurricane is now blamed on climate change, but so are mild hurricane seasons. Wildfires? Climate change. Mudslides? Climate change. High humidity? Climate change. Dry air? You got it.

In this space a few years ago, we noted that climate “experts” were blaming the rise of water levels in the Great Lakes on climate change, even though in previous years they were predicting that global warming would most definitely cause lake levels to recede.

What changed? Nothing, other than the water levels of the Great Lakes at the time these “experts” were making their claims. (See: “Great Lakes Reveal a Fatal Flaw in Climate Change ‘Science’.”)

Whatever this is, it ain’t science. It’s more like a pagan religion, where everything bad that happens is because we’ve upset the climate gods. And if you don’t agree, you’re a heretic.

—  Written by the I&I Editorial Board