It’s freezing because of global warming
As global temperatures have warmed and as Arctic sea ice has melted over the past two and a half decades, more moisture has become available to fall as snow over the continents. So the snow cover across Siberia in the fall has steadily increased.
The sun’s energy reflects off the bright white snow and escapes back out to space. As a result, the temperature cools. When snow cover is more abundant in Siberia, it creates an unusually large dome of cold air next to the mountains, and this amplifies the standing waves in the atmosphere, just as a bigger rock in a stream increases the size of the waves of water flowing by.
The increased wave energy in the air spreads both horizontally, around the Northern Hemisphere, and vertically, up into the stratosphere and down toward the earth’s surface. In response, the jet stream, instead of flowing predominantly west to east as usual, meanders more north and south.
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Saw this nonsense all over FB today.
Valiant on December 26, 2010 at 10:15 PM
Al Gore farted and had to excuse himself from the AGW Pediction Center….this is why their predictions are going haywire..
Mcguyver on December 26, 2010 at 10:16 PM
No wonder they’re not allowing comments on that opinion piece. It’s absolutely incoherent.
stevezilla on December 26, 2010 at 10:37 PM
This ranks right up there Joe “Brain-Freeze” Biden proclaiming that we have to spend money to keep from going bankrupt. Shouldn’t the mentally-challenged like these folks be assigned handlers?
ya2daup on December 26, 2010 at 10:38 PM
First paragraph:
I thought global warming was the great danger to life? What happened to bazillions of people dying from diseases because of warmer weather? Are they now arguing that global warming is killing people via frostbite and pneumonia?
Using this logic, we should hope for a new ice age, so we can get some warmer temperatures.
hawksruleva on December 26, 2010 at 11:33 PM
You mean, our planet regulates itself…? I’m shocked!
CliffHanger on December 26, 2010 at 11:48 PM
NYT’s headline, December 26th, 2050:
Global Warming Triggers New Ice Age
Recent global warming has triggered a New Ice Age and the resultant drops in ocean levels has turned former beach front property into vast mud flats.
New York’s harbors have become dry. Democratic politicians are demanding higher taxes to pay for…
Yoop on December 27, 2010 at 12:31 AM
They’ve ruined science. Thank heavens history is safe!
Shy Guy on December 27, 2010 at 12:38 AM
This is some of the stupidest reasoning I’ve ever heard. Temps rise, melting sea ice and producing more moisture in the air, even though it would be such a minimal amount that we wouldn’t notice. Those same temps are not enough to melt snow as it falls, even though it just melted ice. Then because of all this snow that never occurs naturally in the world, the sunlight escapes the atmosphere through all the greenhouse gases that they’ve spent decades telling us would trap every bit of light and heat.
So basically they don’t know a damn thing about how weather or climate works and would probably blame global warming if a volcano erupts. Oh wait! Maybe this brutal winter was a result of Earth-Made Global Warming and Sun-Made Global Warming. There was a big volcanic eruption earlier this year that scientists were saying would make winter really bad. And there was something about sunspots that I kept hearing about… Nah, it must be our fault.
kvader on December 27, 2010 at 12:44 AM
If you’re trying to be cynical, you’re too late.
Socratease on December 27, 2010 at 12:53 AM
Gobbledegook.
Global “warming” doesn’t work, so gobbledegook, change the definition, so “climate change,” works instead.
Yeah, that’s it, say us stupid knuckle-draggers. We’ll never notice the difference!
marybel on December 27, 2010 at 1:51 AM
hey…it worked for “commerce”. For now.
Fighton03 on December 27, 2010 at 2:51 AM
It is not about temperatures, it is about a Socialist world scam to take money from rich countries and redistribute it to 3rd world
dictatorshipscountries under the guise of Global warming.If it wasn’t global warming, then some other “cause” would be used.
And if it weren’t for governments headed by socialists (the U.S., for example) these re-distributors of world wealth would disappear.
albill on December 27, 2010 at 7:40 AM
It’s freezing because of global warming
It’s hot because of global warming
The sun rises because of global warming
The sun sets because of global warming
It’s snowing because of global warming
It’s raining because of global warming
It’s foggy because of global warming
It’s cloudy because of global warming
My coffee is too strong because of global warming
I have the hiccups because of global warming
I can’t pay my cable bill this month because of global warming
My car won’t start because of global warming
I have an ingrown toenail because of global warming
I am exhausted because of global warming
…….
cableguy615 on December 27, 2010 at 8:24 AM
The good news is this tripe is behind a login/paywall.
Hopefully they will wind up putting all thier big government/progressive/socialist malarky behind a paywall so as to not polute the internet any further than they already have.
Thune on December 27, 2010 at 8:52 AM
Hide the decline!
No wait, don’t bother hiding it. We’ll embrace the decline and tell the rubes that the decline actually proves our theory is correct. It’s brilliant!
Does this remind anybody else of that Harrison Ford movie where Ford plays an aide to the president, and the president is worried about the adverse media attention that he’s going to get when one of his cronies is exposed for some serious wrongdoing. Ford’s character recommends that the president not deny his friendship with the crooked crony, because that will just arouse more suspicion that the president knew of the crony’s misdeeds and is trying to distance himself. The president is shown on t.v. saying: “he’s not just my friend, he’s my best friend!” And the Harrison Ford character boasts to his wife (Anne Archer, IIRC): “I told him to say that!”
AZCoyote on December 27, 2010 at 8:53 AM
Some say warming comes from the sun, not CO2. Silly, no?
There’s a mini ice age coming, says man who beats weather experts, December 21, 2010
petefrt on December 27, 2010 at 9:15 AM
When everything is evidence of global warming, then let’s stop pretending that this is about science.
johnboy on December 27, 2010 at 9:33 AM
And when the only solution is post-national global socialism, the problem isn’t a problem.
Inanemergencydial on December 27, 2010 at 9:37 AM
So Judah, you can point to me the papers from NASA GISS or the Met Office that predicted this spate of brutal winters before they became the new norm… right? Or did you just move the goalposts again?
theCork on December 27, 2010 at 10:02 AM
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