Given that those who actually know the data say that we’ve cooled during the past decade, it sounds like the Chicago MSM is spouting their normal bull-Obama.
Science and math are not friends of the MSM...after all, why the heck do you think they were driven into such a sleazy occupation?
Hit pieces like this come out every summer when there’s a heat wave in play. Using the weather forecast everyone watches as a subtle backdrop to add fear or believability to the story is getting kind of old though.
Doesn’t he think that anyone remembers how long and miserable last winter was for most of us in the north? I bet if the editor had this story hit his desk back in January he would have laughed and filed it away as a useless waste of ink and it never would have been printed.
Given that those who actually know the data say that we’ve cooled during the past decade [...] IF you cherry-pick the outlier peak in 1998, it looks like that--but, regardless, the temperature during the overall 20th Century was lower than this decade because of the late-20th-Century climb.
Oh, and I'm eating fewer donuts than I used to, as this graph shows...
...I mean, just look at 1998 and see!
The problem is, we shouldn't be "keeping nearly steady" if our temperature supposedly correlates with insolation. The insolation drop should have plunged temperatures, not keep them nearly the same. It seems that there's an overall warming trend.
And that tends to lead to more snow, as the Great Lakes don't freeze as soon in the winter, so there's more lake-effect precipitation and greater erosion.
Of course, there's the isostatic rebound still occurring, too.