Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:11:50 PM
Global warming is having a seemingly peculiar effect on winter weather in the northern United States, detailed in a new report from the National Wildlife Federation.
“Oddball winter weather is yet another sign of how uncontrolled carbon pollution amounts to an unchecked experiment on people and nature,” said
Dr. Amanda Staudt, climate scientist, National Wildlife Federation. “While global warming means shorter, milder winters on average, some snowbelt areas will see more heavy snowfall events. Disruptions to tourism and recreation economies will become increasingly common – for example to skiing and ice fishing that depend on predictable conditions.”
With the regularity of a finely tuned pendulum, as soon as the temperature hits freezing this annoying species of fowl cries out with indignation that global warming must be a farce. After all, how could the world be warming if snow is falling outside?
Likewise, every winter we see newspaper editors across the country trot out the old and tired cartoon of the global warming group meeting canceled due to snow and ice. Give me a minute here -- I'm doubled over in pain from the laughter.
Whew. Now that we've recovered from that laugh riot, we can be sobered by the reality that newspaper editors and much of the general public all suffer from the common misunderstanding that weather and climate are equivalent. They are not.
Maybe I am getting this wrong, but is there any way to argue with those that believe in man-made global warming? As you see here, any kind of weather, or climate, or whatever, that is happening on any given day is problably due to the catastrophic consequences of man-made-climate-changing-global-warmingosis. Or is it 'itis'?