Posted on 02/06/2012 1:14:25 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
From the Weather is not climate unless we say it is department: Over at Climate Progress, paid propagandist Joe Romm wails about “journalistic malpractice” from Michael Mann’s words in a tweet:
The wailing (Jan 31st and again Feb 4th) was because the LA Times didn’t use the words “global warming” or “climate change” in a story about the mild winter in the USA. But Romm and Mann both ignore the much bigger story of a bitterly cold winter in Europe with snow reaching into northern Africa which has caused nearly three hundred deaths. Conversely, there doesn’t seem to be any deaths associated with the mild winter in the USA that Romm and Mann are wailing about. You can decide who’s committing “journalistic malpractice”.
Rutgers Snow Lab has the current NH snow extent:
Romm’s buddy, Dr. Jeff Masters puts the temperature departure in Europe and Alaska in perspective with the continental USA:
Figure 1. Departure of temperature from average as analyzed by the GFS model, for February 2, 2012. Remarkably cold air was present over Europe and western Alaska - Image: Dr. Jeff Masters, Weather Underground
And here’s a CNN story from today about the severe winter weather in Europe:
Situation ‘tragic’ as winter weather blankets Europe (Snow Reported as far south as Algeria in Northern Africa)
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 12:23 PM EST, Sun February 5, 2012
London (CNN) — Heavy snow left several Italian villages paralyzed and without power as winter weather and cold temperatures spread across Europe, the mayor of one village said. Many of the 32 villages in the Aniene Valley, near Rome, lost electricity on Friday when an electric pylon fell because of the snow, said Piero Moscardini, mayor of Vallinfreda. The valley, home to about 50,000 people, has received some 100 cm (39 inches) of snow, Moscardini said. “It’s the worst snow since 1956,” he said. “The situation is tragic. We need the Army to save us.”
Ambulances cannot traverse the roads, he said, and some villagers cannot reach their stables to feed livestock. Meanwhile, deaths continued to increase from the cold. In Romania, four people died on Saturday and another six on Sunday, authorities said. A total of 34 people have died since the cold snap began in late January. Nineteen national roads and one highway remained closed on Sunday. More than 30 cities and villages are isolated, authorities said, and power outages were reported in 200 cities and villages. More than 3,000 employees belonging to the Interior Ministry were involved in rescue operations, as hundreds sought refuge in temporary shelters and hundreds more were hospitalized because of hypothermia.
In Poland, TVN Poland said a total of 53 people have died, eight of them in the past 24 hours. The victims are mainly homeless people, according to the report. Heathrow Airport, one of the world’s busiest international airports, canceled about half of its flights Sunday, its owner said Sunday — about 260 more flights than it expected to cancel as of the night before. Between two and four inches of snow fell on London overnight, as the British capital became the latest European city to be hit by winter weather wending its way west. Drivers in both London and Rome will need to worry about ice as temperatures rise slightly, then fall again to below freezing, CNN meteorologist Tom Sater said Sunday.
Full story here
People stand in snow in front of the Colosseum on Saturday, February 4, in Rome.
A boy and his mother skate on the partly frozen Elbe River as the skyline of the eastern German city of Dresden is silhouetted in the background on Thursday, February 2. A cold snap kept Europe in its icy grip, pushing the death toll past 150 as countries from Italy to Ukraine struggled to cope with temperatures that reached record lows in some places.
A man pets a dog next to frozen sea waters in Constanta, Romania, on Wednesday, February 1. Temperatures plunged to -34 degrees Celsius (-29 degrees Fahrenheit) in central Romania, where eight people died due to cold-related causes, according to local media.
Freshly plowed snow frames a road in Bucharest, Romania, on Friday, January 27.
iReporter Cosmin Stan sent in this photo from Bucharest, Romania, on Thursday, January 26. “The problem was not the quantity of the snow, but the strong winds,” he told CNN.
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Thanks.
Pinging myself for later so I can show my global warming believer friend, who is of Italian heritage, the pic of the coliseum. He whines continually that because Americans drive big vehicles, etcetera, that his relatives in Italy and Spain are baking in global warming.
Of course he’ll still claim the cold is our fault but it will be fun to show him the pic.
The older I become, the more exhausting it becomes to live on this planet. the truth is buried under layers of lies, fabrications, superstitions, distortions, mis understandings and outright excrement. This list can include religion, politics, medicine, finance, human inter relationships of all kinds and many others as well.
Pontius Pilate: “What is truth”. No questionmark needed as this was not even a question.
Truth is apparently whatever the hell “you” or “I” decide truth to be? We are all Borgia?
Yes, the ole globull warming causes global cooling!
Cool pics!
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We got High Wind Advisories up as a short blast hits the West Coast.
http://www.wunderground.com/severe.asp
Loved to have seen EUrope back when a mile of ice covered it..
What’s that white stuff in Kansas?
What’s that white stuff in Kansas?
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Winter Weather Alert
Imagine ,, winter in february on the plains.. heck, the lake ice is still thin in a lot of spots in Minniesoda..
We should get a good soak the next 24 hours here.. some snow in the LA peaks.. I miss the sight of Mt. Baldy covered in snow.
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The white outlined areas in Kansas are for Winter Weather Advisory conditions.
That’s getting too close, time to mover further south!
I wish posts had a “Like” button as I would click on it for yours.
You’re right. It’s gotten so bad I’m glad the contents of my hour-glass are almost all at the bottom.
I’d just assumed that Al Gore was on a European lecture tour.
Time for Al Gore to come to the aid of his fellow followers in Europe. He could at least breath a few times upon them to warm them up a bit. He could enlist Manning and Hansen in the effort. Freaking clowns...
Whooooops: Manning = Mann.
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