Posted on 12/29/2010 7:01:09 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Time Mag Headline 'Holiday Blizzard: More Signs of Global Warming' By Noel Sheppard Created 12/29/2010 - 9:10am
By Noel Sheppard | December 29, 2010 | 09:10 Noel Sheppard's picture
In today's "Everything Is Caused By Climate Change" segment, the folks at Time magazine offer a howler destined to start your morning off right with a chuckle: "Holiday Blizzard: More Signs of Global Warming."
The contents were even more hysterical:
One theory is that a warmer Arctic may actually lead to colder and snowier winters in the northern mid-latitudes. Even as countries like Britain — suffering through the coldest December on record — deal with low temperatures and unusual snow, the Arctic has kept on warming, with Greenland and Arctic Canada experiencing the hottest year on record. Temperatures in that region have been 5.4°F to 7.2°F (3°C to 4°C) above normal in 2010. As a result, the Arctic sea-ice cover has continued to shrink; this September, the minimum summer sea-ice extent was more than 770,000 sq. mi. (2 million sq km) below the long-term average, and the third-smallest on record. Snow may be piling up in midtown Manhattan, but the Arctic is continuing its long-term meltdown.
Shhh, wait - there's more:
The loss of Arctic sea ice helps accelerate the warming of the atmosphere in the far north, thanks to what's known as the albedo effect. White ice reflects sunlight into space, cooling the air, but when ice melts and is replaced with dark ocean water, the effect is reversed and more of the sun's heat is absorbed. As the Arctic air warms, it raises the altitude of discrete areas of high pressure, which can then alter wind patterns. This, in turn, can weaken the jet stream, allowing more cold air to seep out of the Arctic and into Europe and the eastern U.S. As the authors of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's recent "Arctic Report Card" put it, "There is evidence that the effect of higher air temperatures in the lower Arctic atmosphere in fall is contributing to changes in the atmospheric circulation in both the Arctic and northern mid-latitudes. Winter 2009-2010 showed a new connectivity between mid-latitude extreme cold and snowy weather events and changes in the wind patterns of the Arctic; the so-called Warm Arctic–Cold Continents pattern."
Ah - the famous Warm Arctic-Cold Continents trick. I hate it when that happens.
Then again, this might not be happening, for Time offered readers another theory if the first one seemed a tad convoluted:
Judah Cohen, the director of seasonal forecasting at the environmental research firm AER, has written that increasing seasonal snow cover in Siberia may drive extreme winter weather. Even as the planet has continued to warm and the Arctic has melted, seasonal snow cover has increased in Siberia, especially north of high Asian mountain ranges like the Himalayas. (As the climate warms overall, the atmosphere can hold more moisture, which can lead to more precipitation — falling as snow in places like Siberia that remain relatively cold.) All that Siberian snow creates a dome of cold air near the mountains, which bends the passing jet stream. Instead of flowing west to east, the jet stream moves in a more north to south fashion, carrying cold air south from the Arctic in the eastern U.S. and in Europe.
So, on the one hand, the cold and snow in America and Europe could be caused by the absence of ice in the Arctic.
If you're not buying that one, how about it's being caused by too much snow in Siberia?
Of course, if you like either of these theories, there's still some swampland available for sale in Florida that's getting even cheaper as those buying into Nobel laureate Al Gore's favorite money-making myth flee the southern states fearing it's going to be too warm to retire there.
Snicker, snicker.
Chicken < ------- > Egg
I guess a glacier moving into Times Square would be the final proof for TIME that global warming is based on science.
The same circular reasoning employed for evolutionism is being employed for climate “science”. It think it would be more accurately called Climate Scientology.
If the planet is actually going through a period of cooling - would they tell us? Nah.
Or "Climate Cultism."
Yes, Judah, there is Global Warming. It exists as certainly as self-delusion and conceit and arrogance exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Global Warming. It would be as dreary as if there were no Judah. There would be no childlike faith then, no fantasy, no grants to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which tenure fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Global Warming! You might as well not believe in fairies, excuse me, Gays! You might get your NASA to launch satellites to watch in all the chimneys on all the power plants to catch Global Warming, but even if they did not see Global Warming, what would that prove? Nobody sees Global Warming, but that is no sign that there is no Global Warming. The most real things in the world are those that neither scientists nor mere humans can see. Did you ever see angels dancing on the Charles River? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
Expect a massive resurgence of the movement in 2011. They spent 2010 regrouping and reorganizing.
Did anyone see NOVA last night? A one hour GW propaganda blitz. They are still sticking with the 3-5 degree global temp increase.
Hey, there isn’t anything that can’t be explained by global warming! It’s “settled science”, ya know.
Conservatives = radicals, extremists, domestic terrorists
Christianity = bad homophobes
Communism = good
Constitution = bad
Cold Winters = caused by Warming
Makes sense...
You’ve heard of the expression “can’t pour pee out of a boot” (revised for public consumption)...well these idiots can’t tell hot from cold. This so reminds me of Pudd’nhead Wilson (available online).
Just think how cold it would be without all this Global Warming?
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