{"id":289219,"date":"2023-11-29T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=289219"},"modified":"2023-11-29T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T16:00:49","slug":"cnn-cries-doom-over-snowfall-decline-of-just-2-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=289219","title":{"rendered":"CNN Cries Doom Over Snowfall Decline \u2013 Of Just 2 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By James Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CNN published an article this weekend raising alarm about \u201cdisappearing\u201d snowfall during the past 50 years, all the while burying the negligible amount of snow decline. By CNN\u2019s own data, snowfall has declined merely 2 percent during the past half-century, which is statistically insignificant and barely measurable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, 1973 was an above-average snowfall year, so choosing 1973 as the starting point is dishonest. Finally, CNN failed to mention that snow cover trends have been flat for decades and are actually rising during the past 30 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these facts show that CNN \u2013 like climate activists do regarding so many climate issues \u2013 is crying \u2018the sky is falling\u2019 over essentially nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN\u2019s article, \u201cNew maps show where snowfall is disappearing<\/a>,\u201d was published on November 25 and quickly rose to the top of Google News searches for \u201cclimate change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSnowfall is declining globally as temperatures warm because of human-caused climate change, a new analysis and maps from a NOAA [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] climate scientist show,\u201d reads the article\u2019s opening paragraph. The article then asserts that less snow somehow \u201cthreatens to disrupt food and water for billions of people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there is no decline at all in precipitation. In fact, NOAA reports there has been an increase in precipitation<\/a> in recent decades. Instead, precipitation is merely shifting \u2013 on the very edge of wintry late fall and early spring \u2013 from snow to rain. How does more precipitation and longer growing seasons threaten to disrupt food and water for billions of people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worse, only after five paragraphs of alarm does CNN quietly note that snowfall has declined just 2 percent during the past half century. That is an almost indistinguishable small amount that can barely be measured. At that pace, it would take 250 years for a mere 10 percent of our current snowfall to then be falling as rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still further, the snowfall data show an increase in snowfall in many American ski destinations like Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Utah. The lion\u2019s share of the modest snow decline is in the U.S. Southeast, which does not receive much snowfall, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The choice of 1973 as a starting point is also suspect. Rutgers University Global Snow Lab tracks global snow cover<\/a> going back to November 1966, when satellites first began to track global snow cover. The year 1973 had unusually high snow extent, even for the early years of snow measurement. If current snowfall was compared to1967, which was the first full year of the satellite record, CNN would be reporting on an increase rather than decrease in snowfall, and CNN would likely be crying alarm and blaming increasing snowfall on global warming, also. The same holds for an analysis beginning in 1990 or 2000, with snow cover modestly increasing since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, there is no declining snowfall crisis. There is only a crisis of media dishonesty regarding all things climate change.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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James Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Taylor is the President of the Heartland Institute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor is also director of Heartland’s Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor is the former managing editor (2001-2014) of Environment & Climate News, a national monthly publication devoted to sound science and free-market environmentalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The post\u00a0CNN Cries Doom Over Snowfall Decline \u2013 Of Just 2 Percent<\/a>\u00a0appeared first on\u00a0ClimateRealism<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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