The “extended winter conditions” all around the world have the hierarchy of the Global Warming Death Cult scrambling to explain how come the seas haven’t heated and risen to swallow us all up.
This winter has been the coldest in the northern Oregon Cascades since 1993. Snow is piling up on Mount Hood. The past two winters in the Willamette Valley have been the coolest in more than a decade.
Globally, it was the coldest winter since 2001, according to the National Climatic Data Center. Sea ice even made a bit of a comeback after a dramatic melt-off last summer.
So is global warming a thing of the past?
Maybe for the time being, scientists say, but probably not over the longer term. One or even two years isn’t nearly enough time to indicate a climate trend, researchers say.
In the short window of a few months, routine shifts in weather such as the one the Northwest is experiencing now — driven by a well-known climate cycle known as La Nina — easily overwhelm whatever trends might be gripping the globe over years or decades.
The cool resurgence is fueling arguments by global warming skeptics that natural forces, not human factors such as greenhouse gases, dominate the climate.
But Northwest climate scientists say it’s a matter of short-term versus long-term perspective. The cool winter doesn’t mean there’s no warming trend, they say. Any trend remains subtle and is simply hidden for the time being.
“There’s a lot of variation, and the (warming) signal’s pretty weak — at least, so far, it’s pretty weak,” said Clifford Mass, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington.
The effects of warming on Northwest weather remain uncertain, he says. For example, he sees no clear snowpack decline, although one is likely if warming continues.
And yada-yada-yada. We’re not wrong, dammit! You people need to go live in caves so that we don’t all die horrible deaths! Ahhhh!
This will be just the start of it. Watch this summer. The first time Las Vegas breaks 100 degrees, it all be about how we’re all gonna die again, courtesy of the same people who whine “Weather isn’t a Trend” whenever it gets cold for long periods of time.
And because this idiocy cannot wait until Thursday’s regular Soundboard episode, I’m going to dedicate a track that relay’s the Global Warming Death Cult’s sentiments exactly. From the antithesis of everything “Green Culture” is about, I give you
Don’t Stop Believin’ – Journey
While you’re listening to the Steve and Neil, like, totally rock out, take a read at this article from the NYT that shows exactly who is truly getting more money in the debate over “Global Warming”.
And lastly, I was going through some old links last night and found one for this t-shirt, that I thinks needs to be widely publicized. Hit the thumbnail for larger pic.
