{"id":426239,"date":"2026-02-14T21:51:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=426239"},"modified":"2026-02-14T21:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:51:49","slug":"new-york-times-solves-winter-mystery-global-warming-freezes-your-face-off-experts-baffled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=426239","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Solves Winter Mystery: Global Warming Freezes Your Face Off \u2013 Experts Baffled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The New York Times\u00a0 discusses the ongoing extreme cold wave gripping much of the eastern United States since mid- January 2026, with record lows (e.g., 6\u00b0F in New York City, -34\u00b0F in parts of northern New York), prolonged below- normal temperatures (up to 30\u00b0F below average in the Northeast), frozen rivers\/lakes, and dangerous wind chills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It quotes MIT research scientist Judah Cohen, who links this to Arctic warming (from climate change): melting sea ice in areas like the Barents and Kara seas, plus heavy Siberian snowfall, adds heat to the atmosphere, disrupting the polar vortex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This causes it to stretch and wobble, displacing cold air southward and disrupting the jet stream, leading to extreme cold outbreaks in eastern North America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cohen notes the current stratospheric pattern is unusually “stuck” and expects the cold to persist through February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If global temperatures are rising overall, why has this winter felt so brutally cold for so long?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From News Busters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joseph Vazquez<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently,\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>has snowflakes for brains as it struggled to find the climate change link in the blistering cold that has gripped the Eastern Seaboard.\u00a0Times\u00a0<\/em>reporter Eric Niiler ran a ridiculous February 7 piece of propaganda disguised as news that\u00a0was laced<\/a>\u00a0with a complete lack of self-awareness:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The headline? \u201cWhat\u2019s Up With This Big Freeze? Some Scientists See Climate Change Link.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niiler floated the possibility that \u201cA warming Arctic can stretch the polar vortex, a high-altitude air ribbon, one says. The \u2018wobble\u2019 can disrupt the jet stream, causing extreme cold in the East.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least in the 1970s-1980s, frigid temperatures were more narratively consistent with the \u201cGlobal Cooling<\/a>\u201d angle, but this was just the latest textbook example of climate media activists trying to have their cake and eat it too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was at least apparently aware of the glaring contradiction but still attempted to shoehorn some kind of logic into it anyway. \u201cIf the planet is getting warmer, why is it so cold this winter,\u201d Niiler pondered. \u201cThe seeming contradiction comes up often when talking to Judah Cohen, a research scientist at M.I.T. who has been studying how global warming might also be causing colder winters in the eastern United States<\/strong>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recall the Great American Cold Wave of January 1985<\/a> that also swooshed across the eastern states for one of the \u201cmost intense arctic outbreaks of the 20th century?\u201d The interesting factoid was that frosty event also occurred during, er, winter. Shocking, right? The National Weather Service summarized then that \u201cExtremely cold temperatures affected every state east of the Rockies with three new state record lows established.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Times republished<\/a> The Associated Press to report on that \u201cMajor Cold Snap\u201d along the following lines, \u201cTemperature records shattered like icicles yesterday from the upper Middle West to the Gulf states, as Arctic cold covered much of the United States.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the funny part: In May of that same year (1985), following the snap, The Times <\/em>fear-mongered<\/a> that \u201cBeginning in a decade or two, scientists expect the warming of the atmosphere to melt the polar icecaps,<\/strong> raising the level of the seas, flooding coastal areas, eroding the shores and sending salt water far into fresh-water estuaries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as JunkScience.com founder Steve Milloy pointed out<\/a> February 1, \u201c[A]t its 2025 summer minimum, the Arctic still had more than 5 million square kilometers<\/a> of sea ice \u2014 about the same as in 2007.\u201d In May 2025, the Antarctic ice sheet gained a record-shattering<\/a> amount of ice between 2021 and 2023, reversing a trend of loss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milloy slammed Niiler’s propaganda in comments to MRC Business. “Past the scientific impossibility of attributing past weather to emissions, climate hoaxers have yet to realize that they jump the shark with respect to public opinion and credibility when they blame cold weather on global warming,” Milloy stated. “There is no part of the emissions-driven global warming fantasy that includes colder weather. Every emission and more CO2 drives more warming everywhere all the time is their basic story.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently, if we were to take Niiler\u2019s 180-degree spin, \u201cwarming\u201d was also causing the reverse effect to happen too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate warming<\/strong> in the Arctic is causing this disruption of the polar vortex, Dr. Cohen said. With more snowfall in Siberia and melting sea ice in the Barents and Kara seas, just north of Norway and Russia, the ocean is feeding more heat into the atmosphere, setting up a weather pattern that leads to a burst of extreme cold in North America.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Milloy took a blowtorch to this topsy-turvy logic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instead of just laying low from a tactical standpoint until the weather is warmer, they come out with nutty sounding headlines proclaiming global warming causes cold weather. They are literally insane as they have no awarenbess of how they hurt their own (ridiculous) cause.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Liquid \u2192 Solid vs. Solid \u2192 Liquid. Global Cooling or Global Warming? Heads I win, tails you lose? Either way, it\u2019s ManBearPig from South Park\u2019s<\/em><\/a> fault didn\u2019t ya know! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeez, just pick one already!<\/p>\n\n\n

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The New York Times\u00a0 discusses the ongoing extreme cold wave gripping much of the eastern United States since mid- January 2026, with record lows (e.g., 6\u00b0F in New York City, -34\u00b0F in parts of northern New York), prolonged below- normal temperatures (up to 30\u00b0F below average in the Northeast), frozen rivers\/lakes, and dangerous wind chills. 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