Yesterday, the Washington Post announced the demise of winter.
“If you’ve noticed summers getting hotter and longer, you’re not alone: Climate scientists have had their eyes on an uncomfortable warming trend for decades.”
As of 5 a.m. Monday, Cheyenne, Wyo., had received 30.8 inches of snow in the storm, with drifts as high as four feet. The snowfall topped the city’s previous record of 25.2 inches for any two-day period and 25.6 inches for any three-day period, both set in November 1979.
The National Climate Assessment shows that summers are much cooler now than they were 80 years ago, so it isn’t clear which climate scientists the Washington Post was referring to.
February afternoon temperatures peaked in 1954 and have been declining in the US for a century.
I took this picture on frozen Chesapeake Bay on March 7, 2015. Washington DC climate expert Andy Weiss (who used to regularly comment on this blog before he passed away two years ago) said this was probably the first time that happened in March since the 17th century.
The following year brought the largest snowfall on record to Baltimore.
New York had their coldest Valentines Day on record in 2016.
The coldest holiday season on record in the Northeastern US occurred in 2017-2018. I took this picture at the US Capitol building on January 8, 2018. It had gotten down to 1F (-17C) the night before.
I spent the spring of 2018 in Philadelphia, and it was the coldest and snowiest February/March on record. This was Philadelphia on March 21, 2018.
This was Will Happer and myself in front of Albert Einstein’s house in Princeton on March 22, 2018. He was pushed out of the Trump White House by staffers – for providing factual information about climate.
The Washington Post appears to have no interest in factual reporting. All they need is one corrupt or incompetent academic to push their agenda, and sometimes they don’t even require that.
Ten years ago today, the Washington Post said the weather had gone haywire, we were running out of time, New York was going to drown – and Polar Bears would be floating in the harbor.
That sounds bad. Particularly since the Washington Post says we may be having having our largest snowstorm on record this weekend.
Historic blizzard bearing down on Colorado and Wyoming
“Before the wintry onslaught is over, some locations in the Colorado foothills & eastern Rockies might end up with as much as four feet of snow. Some cities, particularly Cheyenne, Wyo., could challenge all-time snowfall records.”
Ten years ago today, there was unanimous consensus that Australia didn’t used to have fires, floods and cyclones, and that they were now caused by the local mining industry.
“The upshot of all the fires, floods and cyclones that have wreaked havoc over Australia in the past few months is that everybody has had more new taxes imposed on them, perpetrators and victims alike.
If you believe the scientists, the catastrophes have an undoubted source – they are the devastating end product of global climate change. Nobody seems to disagree that the only industry capable of producing outsized carbon emissions is the hugely successful local mining industry.”
Twenty one years ago, the New York Times announced that the North Pole was ice-free for the first time in fifty million years.
“The North Pole is melting.
The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday. At least for the time being, an ice-free patch of ocean about a mile wide has opened at the very top of the world, something that has presumably never before been seen by humans and is more evidence that global warming may be real and already affecting climate.
The last time scientists can be certain the pole was awash in water was more than 50 million years ago.”
“Americans are fed up. They’re fed up with the war in Iraq, the federal deficit, illegal immigration, high gas prices, and the health care system, and it’s time for change”
She was correct, as people in Texas found out last month. Many froze to death because Texas invested in unreliable windmills instead of reliable fossil fuels.
