Truth, Lies and In Between

While we have a major winter snowstorm barreling through the USA Midwest, we know that the usual suspects will jostle for position to tell the media that this is just another signature of global warmingclimate changeclimate disruption extreme weathercaused by global warming. But these sorts of claims, like the claims made by AP’s Seth Borenstein about the recent Northeast blizzard, are nothing more than desperate spin, and it is easy to prove by looking at similar claims of the past. Thanks to email from”Haunting the Library” for the primer, which I’ve built upon.

First, the obligatory Dr. David Viner quote:

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past

However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit…