{"id":297657,"date":"2024-01-20T20:20:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T19:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=297657"},"modified":"2024-01-20T20:20:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T19:20:22","slug":"msnbc-damage-control-yes-its-cold-yes-the-planets-still-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=297657","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Damage Control: \u201cYes, it\u2019s cold. Yes, the planet\u2019s still warming.\u201d\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defending the hottest year ever narrative in the middle of record breaking cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, it\u2019s cold. Yes, the planet\u2019s still warming. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s important to remember that the cold snap is, for many of us, just a moment of discomfort, while climate change is a long-term disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Derrick Z. Jackson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s become a familiar pattern by now. Every cold snap that grips the nation<\/a> brings with it a bunch of hot air from conservative politicians<\/a> who seize on subzero temperatures and declare global warming a hoax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mocking climate protesters who interrupted Republican campaign events in Iowa, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., posted on social media<\/a>: \u201cYou\u2019ve got to appreciate the irony of climate protestors trudging through a foot of snow and -30 degree wind chills to yell about how the planet is warming. They just don\u2019t see it, do they?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a climate protester in that same state was tackled by security guards at a campaign event for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., gleefully posted a video<\/a>of the protester being body-slammed. He wrote, \u201cThe irony of protesting global warming during a once in a lifetime cold snap\/blizzard. dude found out!\u201d And after a climate protester held up a sign calling former President Donald Trump a \u201cclimate criminal,\u201d Politico quoted Trump adviser Chris LaCivita as saying: \u201cClimate change? It\u2019s minus 15 degrees. Read the room, man<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the skepticism from those Republicans that cold weather and climate change can co-exist, it\u2019s important to remember that, for many of us, the cold snap is just a moment of discomfort, while climate change is a long-term disaster. Scientists are mixed<\/a> as to how connected<\/a> modern cold snaps are to the warming of the Arctic and how much they\u2019re the result of natural variability despite the warming. Some models, according to a 2021 explainer by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/a>, point to stronger polar vortexes. Others point to weaker polar vortexes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/republicans-cold-weather-climate-change-deniers-rcna134148<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A week ago, Bloomberg reminded us snow is becoming a thing of the past;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Don\u2019t Be Fooled, Snow Is Becoming a Thing of the Past<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storms will keep happening, but the long-term trend is warmer winters with less snowfall, which will bring severe consequences such as water shortages and lost economic activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 January 2024 at 22:00 GMT+10
By Mark Gongloff<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter storms like the one that blanketed parts of the Northeast in snow this weekend will keep happening but less frequently. The long-term trend, especially in the normally colder parts of the US and other countries, is one of warmer winters with less of the white stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snow has been scarce in the US lately. Aside from the blizzard that swept the Plains and Midwest around Christmas, snarling travel, most of the country has been well below<\/a> snowfall averages for this time of year, according to the National Weather Service. Only about a fifth of the country was covered in snow before this weekend\u2019s storm, the lowest in more than a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the rate we\u2019re cooking the planet, this is all just a taste of what\u2019s to come. The best thing we can do now is turn off the oven. As that\u2019s unlikely any time soon, scientists and policymakers should be busy adapting to the headaches that shrinking winters and snowfall will bring \u2014 the agricultural impacts, longer allergy seasons, resilient pests, water shortages, lost economic activity and more. Whatever our feelings about the season in the past, there is no doubt we\u2019ll miss it when it\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-01-08\/winter-storm-aside-snow-is-disappearing-because-of-climate-change?embedded-checkout=true<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And back in December, VOX explained that mild winter weather in New York is a sign of global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Missing the feeling of a white Christmas? That might be solastalgia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, a term that explains the sadness of a whole season \u2014 and a way of life \u2014 melting before our eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Anna North<\/a>  Dec 21, 2023, 7:00am EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A snowy winter in New York City brings with it a kind of magic. The air goes crisp, then bitter, and fragile snowflakes sift down in the early dark, silvering the trees and blanketing the sledding hills in the parks. After the first big snow, children and adults alike rush out to make snowmen, creations that delight passersby for the next two frigid months, until the snow finally thaws. When I took my older son, then a toddler, out for his first-ever sledding session, he squealed with awe at the crystalline world before him, shouting, \u201cIt looks like Frozen<\/em>!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today he\u2019s 5, and I doubt he remembers what sledding feels like. It\u2019s been more than 650 days<\/a> since Central Park, where snow is measured daily, got more than an inch of snowfall at one time; last winter, the park got just 2.3 inches in total, less than one-tenth the normal amount. In early December, Brooklyn saw a few anemic flurries, and my son told me excitedly that his friends had tried to build a snowman during recess. But there was nowhere near enough material to work with. They settled for \u201ca pile of snowflakes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This sense of winter melting away before our eyes is not unique to New York: While blazing-hot summers<\/a> and stormy autumns<\/a> come with their own dangers, scientists say winter is actually the fastest-warming season<\/a>. Snowfall is decreasing<\/a> across the Northeast, the flakes slowly replaced by raindrops. The Great Lakes<\/a> have experienced a 22 percent drop in maximum ice cover since 1973, and are frozen for a shorter percentage of the year. In December 2022, Utqiagvik, the northernmost city in Alaska, posted its warmest winter temperature ever<\/a> at 40 degrees Fahrenheit, a full 36 degrees above the frigid average for that time of year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/24001256\/snow-winter-climate-change-solastalgia-warming<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I hear New York received a big dose of that snowy weather they were all missing a few days ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does a single really cold winter disprove global warming? Of course not. But the panicked green response to gentle mocking of global warming narratives sure tells us which side of the debate has a sense of humour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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