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A typical response I get from climate alarmists when I point out that winter snow cover has been increasing over time.

5:47 AM · Nov 21, 2022

Increased snow cover means the area covered with snow is extending further south. The freeze line is moving to lower latitudes because Arctic air is penetrating further south.

More snow falls during cold winters than during warm winters. Warm winters are either dry or the precipitation falls as rain.  Precipitation typically occurs at the boundary of cold air masses because cold air can’t hold as much moisture, and water vapor condenses. If the air is “holding the moisture” then precipitation is not occurring.

Climate alarmists alternate between “snowfalls are a thing of the past” and “global warming causes too much snow.”

In 1972 Steven Schneider explained why a runaway greenhouse effect is impossible.

rasool_schneider_1971.pdf

In 1974 Schneider warned President Nixon about global cooling.

The Genesis Strategy – The New York Times

In 1978 Schneider discussed the arrival of a new ice age.

But by 1989, Schneider had switched to global warming and said it was best for the public to not be aware of uncertainty and instead be told of consensus.

“Journalists have a tradition, quite appropriate I believe in political reporting, of providing balance in a story. This tradition stems from the need to give both sides of the political spectrum equal exposure. However, balance is not a very good doctrine when applied to science reporting. It does not help the public to understand the nature of complex technical questions to balance an extreme position of a scientist or advocate at one end of the spectrum against an extreme position of a scientist or advocate on the other end. Technical issues often have more than two sides, which means that polarized reporting can create a false dichotomy. The public, and the politicians who must ultimately make policy, need to know not only what the members of the community think, but also what the broad spectrum of responsible and knowledgeable opinion is on an issue. If only the irreconcilable debates of implacable expert enemies are reported, the typical public reaction (and probably those of politicians as well) will be, “Well, if the experts don’t know what’s going on, how can I decide?” The next reaction would probably be, “You folks go back and study some more, and when you have more certainty come and tell us so we can decide how to act.” Instead, knowledge of a consensus over how much we already know or a rough estimate of how long it will take to learn a great deal more could very well lead to public and political reactions quite different from those created by a noisy, angry, and dichotomized debate.“

https://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/GlblWarming4rev.pdf

In 1989, Schneider said we were 15 years to late to start solving global warming.

He predicted a sharp increase in 95 degree days near Washington DC and 100 degree days near Dallas.

Popular Science – Google Books

There has been a sharp decrease in 95 degree days at the closest Virginia USHCN station to Washington DC .

Their longest stretch of 95 degree days was sixteen in 1930.

The Dallas area has seen a decline in the number of 100 degree days.

Their longest stretch of 100 degree days was fifty in 1980.

Snow cover seems to increase in proportion with both CO2 and climate propaganda.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

Global Monitoring Laboratory – Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

“The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.”

? H.L. Mencken

5:53 PM · Nov 19, 2022

(10) Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) / Twitter

“If the present refuses to get warmer, then the past must become cooler”

Liz Cheney’s efforts to frame President Trump wouldn’t have gotten very far had people been able to see what he was actually saying on January 6.

1:13 PM · Jan 6, 2021

The press is blaming snow in New York on global warming.

Massive snowfall fueled by climate change hits Buffalo and Great Lakes region – World Socialist Web Site

Cold winters in New York state get a lot more snow than warm winters.

Buffalo’s worst snowstorm occurred during the record cold winter of 1977.

The National Geographic Archive | December 1977 | page 1

TimesMachine: February 2, 1977 – NYTimes.com

TimesMachine: February 2, 1977 – NYTimes.com

20 Jan 1977, Page 3 – Valley News

19 Jan 1977, Page 20 – The Town Talk at Newspapers.com

At the same time there was a severe drought in the west.

TimesMachine: February 2, 1977 – NYTimes.com

TimesMachine: February 2, 1977 – NYTimes.com

Ocala Star-Banner – Google News Archive Search

TimesMachine: February 2, 1977 – NYTimes.com

This was blamed on global cooling and expanding Arctic ice.

International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30?Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere – The New York Times

09 Jun 1977, Page 1 – The Daily Inter Lake at Newspapers.com

“Problems From Climate Changes Foreseen in a 1974 CIA Report

HOUSTON, Jan. 31—In August 1974, researchers at the Central Intelligence Agency completed a classified 36 -page working paper, entitled “A Study of Climatological Research us It Pertains to Intelligence Problems.” in it they reported, “Leaders in climatology und ‘economics are in agreement that’ « climatic change is taking place and that it has already caused major economic problems throughout the world.”

The study was declassified last May, after a relatively mild winter and at a time when most Americans believed, de- spite warning, that the energy ci casing, if not over, It generated attention.

Now, in the midst of major economic problems caused by a severe winter in the nation, studies on climate are receiving closer, if belated, scrutiny.

The C.LA. study, prepared by its Office of Research and Development, raised sobering issues well beyond the economic effects of a cold winter. It said that many nations, including this one, were locked into isolated and shortsighted perspectives that were out of step with new global realities of population growth, food and energy resources, and the economic and political disruptions caused by major, and even minor, weather disruptions,

Failure to Prepare

The study said that the United States had failed to prepare for assessing these implications, especially as they related to questions on climate.

“Though the issues are important’ study said, “the United States has a limited capability in climatic forecasting. The Government expends over $150 million annually on short-range weather forecasting, hut only a minimum of direct dollars on climatic forecasting. Only a few academic centers in the United States are engaged in training personnel in this field, which suggests we have a limited chance of solving the intelligence com- munity’s problem unless decisive action is taken.”

The report said that Intelligence analysts, as late as 1972, had “no methodologies to alert policy makers to adverse climatic change,” and “no tools to assess the economic and political impact of such a change.” Since then, world food and energy problems have intensified,

“With global climatic-induced agricultural failures in the early 1970’s, the stability of many governments has been seriously threatened,” the study said. “Many governments have gone to great lengths to hide their agricultural predicaments from other countries as well as from their awn people,”

Warnings Since Early ’70’s

Since the early 1970’s, some United States authorities on energy, food and climate have steadily warned of worsen- ing national and_ international predicaments in these interrelated areas, but their warnings have been disputed by others.

Students of climate, for example, contend that Americans are generally unaware of the ‘overall effects of droughts, freezes, floods and other unusual climate patterns around the world because these problems have been perceived and report- ed as isolated occurrences and because they have not directly affected Americans in the way the energy crisis has affected them,

Students of weather, on the other hand, view these occurrences as short-term aberrations and say it is too early to determine if they are part of a long- range global pattern.”

TimesMachine: February 2, 1977 – NYTimes.com

TimesMachine: March 8, 1977 – NYTimes.com

A few months later the state was flooded.

11 Feb 1978, Page 1 – The Sheboygan Press 

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

Buffalo’s largest snowstorm occurred in 1977 during one of the coldest winters on record.

The National Geographic Archive | December 1977 | page 1