{"id":297157,"date":"2024-01-19T14:26:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=297157"},"modified":"2024-01-19T14:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:26:19","slug":"severe-cold-from-global-warming-nope-doug-lewin-in-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=297157","title":{"rendered":"Severe Cold from Global Warming? NOPE (Doug Lewin in error)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe fix is in with Doug Lewin, whose mission is the eradication of fossil fuels in power generation via the \u2018virtual power plant\u2019\u2026 Pick your term between \u2018energy transformation,\u2019 \u2018deep decarbonization,\u2019 Net Zero, Green New Deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Doug Lewin, climate alarmist and PR voice for the Texas renewables industry, posts on social media with the tag line<\/a>, \u201cGrowing jobs, increasing justice, and reducing pollution in Texas.\u201d In his Texas Energy and Power Newsletter<\/a>, he blamed<\/a> the state\u2019s current freeze on Global Warming (aka climate change) as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate Impacts: We\u2019ve Seen This Movie Before<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few days ago, when the forecasts for Jan. 15 were still at or near freezing, I started feeling like we\u2019ve seen this movie before: warnings of a weakening polar vortex, steadily worsening forecasts each day \u2026 This is what happened in February 2021 and December 2022. And it\u2019s happening again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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These severe storms did not used to be so common. <\/strong>But this will be the third time in four winters that one has hit Texas. This underscores the growing body of data that suggests climate change is fueling Arctic warming, which weakens the polar vortex (a jet stream-like air current 10-30 miles above the Earth) allowing Arctic blasts and exceptionally low temperatures into the continental US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monique Sellers of the National Weather Service talked<\/a> with the Dallas Morning News<\/em> about the connection to climate change. \u201cClimate change plays a role, Sellers said. The average winter temperature in Texas is rising. But conditions are also more volatile, with intense, short-term freezes increasing in likelihood each year.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018One of the confounding conundrums of climate change is that winter has become warmer, but we have more deep freezes,\u2019 Sellers said.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re unfortunately getting more evidence of this with each passing year. Texas is growing. If future winter storms are going to be more extreme, we need to be ready. Peak demand on cold winter mornings is growing at a stunning rate\u2026. We\u2019ve got to act \u2014 quickly \u2014 to address the other side of the supply-demand equation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Unusual cold from unusual warming? Settled science? Just the opposite. This hypothesis turns out to be bogus. I posted<\/a> at the Climate Change Professionals Group<\/a> (LinkedIn):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Posts from the \u2018climate alarmist\u2019 side are linking severe cold snaps such as in the U.S. presently on global warming effects: \u201cClimate scientist blames global warming for more Arctic blasts in winter.\u201d This hypothesis is countered by a recent article in Nature<\/em> (2023):<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cNo detectable trend in mid-latitude cold extremes during the recent period of Arctic amplification,\u201d Judah Cohen, Laurie Agel, Mathew Barlow & Dara Entekhabi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is widely accepted that Arctic amplification\u2014accelerated Arctic warming\u2014will increasingly moderate cold air outbreaks to the mid-latitudes. Yet, an increasing number of recent studies also argue that Arctic amplification can contribute to more severe winter weather. Here we show that the \u2026 temperature of cold extremes across the United States east of the Rockies, Northeast Asia and Europe have remained nearly constant over recent decades, in clear contrast to a robust Arctic warming trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysis of trends in the frequency and magnitude of cold extremes is mixed across the US and Asia but with a clearer decreasing trend in occurrence across Europe, especially Southern Europe. This divergence between robust Arctic warming and no detectable trends in mid-latitude cold extremes highlights the need for a better understanding of the physical links between Arctic amplification and mid-latitude cold extremes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

John Christens of the alarmist side responded<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rob Bradley \u2013 So glad to see that you\u2019re now posting research that supports the conclusions of the UN IPCC and the US National Climate Assessment (NASA, EPA, DOE, NSF, Smithsonian Institute, etc.) and is consistent with everything we would expect from Anthropogenic Global Warming. (here<\/a>)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

To which I responded:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frankly, the false narrative you and I decry (thank you) was used by Doug Lewin in his influential Texas Energy and Power Newsletter and by several folks against me on LinkedIn threads.

So yes, I am happy to report that this is a PR stunt by climate alarmists to make their point in the middle of unusually cold times.

Now, if the GHG signal is not oriented toward summer afternoons but winter nights at high latitudes, will the alarmist community also tone down the exaggeration? Can you call that out too?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Final Comment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fix is in with Doug Lewin, whose mission is the eradication of fossil fuels in power generation via the \u201cvirtual power plant,\u201d a mix of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n