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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
If everything in the weather is attributable to climate change, then where are the distinctions? What isn’t a cause or effect of climate change. The climate change matadors who give reasons why everything is more evidence of climate change (no matter how opposite they are to other climate change evidence) sound less like scientists than they do like defense lawyers.
Excuse me I just sneezed again. No doubt that sneeze was due to climate change. I sneezed yesterday also. “Must be, another instance of climate change.”
Climate change is just that-change. If our climate never changed. Now that would be the story. From the fossil record, we know epochs were very warm and subtropical for periods. Similarily, colder periods saw more glaciers, etc. eventually fill the landscape. It’s been proven that burning fossil fuels can warm the envionment long term. But consider just one extremely large volcanic outburst could also cool the planet relatively quiuckly with its human occupents unable to alter those events in any meaniful way. The point is, no matter fossil fuels or anything else, man is beholden to nature and almost all of what occurs in our climate on our world is beyond man’s control.
The folks embracing “Man Made Global Warming” (and you know who you are), miss the very point of life. “Worry about things you can do something about and enjoy each moment; every sunrise, every sunset, every storm cloud or starry night sky.
“Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. … There’s an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there’s a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all. We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment. Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs, imbibe.“
Michael Crichton 2003
I hate the irony that environmentalism has now produced the lithium battery, the mercury lightbulb, and the strip mining of entire square miles of the planet. Windmills that kill birds. Solar farms that turn the landscape into a dystopian hellscape. Huge forest fires that destroy ecosystems and cities. Ripping out dams, killing millions of fish. Thanks, Rachel Carson!
Bravo!
Well done. To the left, everything is climate change, except when it isn’t. The science is indeed settled.
Exactly right. Great piece
Even forgetting whether snow is weather or “climate”, let’s address the absurd root of the AGW claim: that it is caused by carbon dioxide. This notion is absurd on the face of it. Yes there is correlation between warmer weather and CO2 in the atmosphere, but the cause is reversed. Warm oceans release more CO2 and cold ones capture more. The whole thing started with the assumption that Venus was every like Earth in any way, and somehow CO2 turned it into literal Hell. Had nothing to do with the 75% of the surface that is covered with ACTIVE VOLCANOS. No it must have been the CO2. And if that were even true, where are all the Venusian SUVs causing it?
When Krakatoa blew its top in the late 1800’s, it did cool the planet for a year, a horrific .73 degree
97% of scientists agree that 97% of scientists do not understand the scientific method.
One thing that we all know now is that if there is a ’cause’ that the Democratic party stands for, they don’t really stand for it, believe it or even accept it – it is JUST A MEANS OF MAKING MONEY. Poor Somalis in America? Find a way of making money from it. USAID designed to help other countries? Let’s make money from it. Maybe it can fund our low rated news shows? Whatever.
The Democratic party looks at EVERY SINGLE ISSUE as how they can make money from it. What was Al Gore’s Net Worth before and after he started being the climate clown? About the same increase as Omar’s.
There’s an old Brit mystery show called Van Der Valk (the original one, done in the ’80s) and one of the shows in early 1988 had Van Der Valk’s wife showing the cover of the London Times and she tells her husband (Van Der Valk) that the cover says that the Thames will over flow it’s banks into Parliament, in the next few years. Yes, this isn’t science, it’s a way to control people and the only reason why some people (Bill Gates) are lessening their grip is because nearly 40 years later and just about NONE of their predictions have come true and “You can fool some of the people, all of the time and you can fool all of the people, some of the time”…..or however it goes.
Does the seeding of our atmosphere by Globalists to block the sun the cause of any of this – which must be stopped but how – by NATO? What right to the elites have to cause great harm to the entire world by blocking the sun – INSANITY on steroids all for the sham fraud called “climate change.” These DAVOS egotistical mental midgets are true monsters to humanity.
I believe “Issues and Insights” thinks they are being profound or snarky by failing to grasp the very simple fundamentals of climate change, but it really just sounds like they are very, very stupid. Climate change means general trends. It does not mean no winter and all summer. It means hotter summers, shorter winters. It does not mean all cold weather will suddenly cease. It means averages over the course of years will continue to trend in the direction they’ve been trending since the onset of the industrial revolution and mass carbon emissions. Climate change also generally creates conditions that makes pre-existing severe storms, even more severe. This is especially true with hurricanes and tornadoes.
I like to imagine the “Issues and Insights” editorial board, such as it is, sitting in on any other type of science. “I don’t know about this whole oncology thing,” they’ll say after finding a way to politicize cancer. “I don’t know what it is, but it ain’t science.”
We were trying to be profoundly snarky.
I’ve seen reports that “climate change” turbo charges tornadoes and hurricanes. I have yet to see any evidence presented that this is indeed true.
‘Weather’ isn’t ‘Climate,’ unless it reinforces the GW religion.
What’s important to the elites, who made up the climate change story to control the people, is now AI. And the AI can’t run without burning carbon to supply the energy. So we will no longer hear about climate change in the msm because the incessant shrieking and squawking about it doesn’t benefit them anymore.
Climate Change may be wrong-headed and wrongly proved, but we should thank the climate change warriors for one thing: They didn’t deputize one our drug companies to create a vax for it.
So, shorter, globalwarmingclimatechangefraudulentscience is bovine scatology.
And the purveyors thereof are money grifting ninnyhammers.
I recently came across and re-read “State of Fear” by Michael Crichton for the first time in quite a while. It’s 20+ years old, and seems more prescient than ever, in its discussion of how inconvenient facts get rolled right into the overarching, non-falsifiable narrative.
There is no evidence whatsoever that the Earth’s climate was ever static. Change is constant.