Winter snow extent for the Northern Hemisphere has been steadily
increasing for the past 10 years.
(Steven Goddard / Watt’s Up With That)
This winter has seen record-setting snow across parts of North America as well as Europe and Asia. Climate scientists have been quick to remind the public that the storms were short term events and not indicative of a lack of global warming. However, they have neglected to point out that winter snow extent in the Northern Hemisphere has been steadily increasing for more than 10 years.
Rutgers University’s Global Snow Lab is the definitive source for information on snow coverage of the globe. According to the unit’s latest statistics, 20,141,729 square miles (52,166,840 km2) of the Northern Hemisphere is covered in snow.
That puts the week as having the second highest snow extent in the 44 years that Rutgers has been gathering data. The only week out of the last 2,277 in the record with more occurred in 1978 during the second week of February.
Across the hemisphere, cold and snow has seemingly been appearing with greater ferocity and frequency this winter. The Mid-Atlantic states have seen record-setting amounts of snow while places in Texas and Florida that rarely see snow have had it more frequently this year. In Europe and Asia, snow as well has made numerous appearances above and beyond normal.
In the wake of the recent blizzards that struck the East Coast, many climate scientists took to television and print media repeating the mantra that ‘weather is not climate.’ They point out that short-term weather phenomena do not disprove manmade climate change and global warming. Many even said in recent weeks that the extreme cold actually supports the global warming theory.
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However, these new statistics show that snow extent has been steadily increasing over the last 10 years in what appears to be a longer term trend. Steven Goddard points out on Watt’s Up With That that three of the last four months rank in the ‘top 10’ for monthly snow extents.
The trend toward increased snow extent would seem to dovetail the downward trend in global temperatures over the same period. The trend in temperatures has been largely ignored by some climate scientists seeking to push the manmade climate change theory.
Just this week however, Dr. Phil Jones, one of the central figures in the Climategate email scandal, acknowledged that there had been ‘no statistically significant warming’ over the last decade.
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And of course the alarmist crowd will continue to insist that record snowfall is a result of global warming, not a counterexample.
Except for one thing: excessive precipitation from a warm ocean would fall as rain, not snow, if the globe were actually warming. The El Nino experiences clearly show this pattern.
The record snow is a huge nail in the global warming coffin;
No scientist ever contended that our tiny trace of extra Co2 could cause disaster directly.
The now discredited theory was all about positive feedback loops
as 'simulated'in computer programs to multiply a tiny effect into an Al Gore style disaster.
The principle feedback loop was the albedo effect, where less snow reflects more energy = less snow and so on.
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