A newly published peer-reviewed study is destroying years of claims by climate alarmists and the Establishment Media that global warming makes winter snowstorms more frequent and deadly.
In contrast to the longstanding alarmist narrative, a team of scientists documents in Nature Climate Change that a warmer world will reduce the frequency and severity of severe snowstorms, especially in the U.S. Northeast.
Nearly every year, when a major snowstorm strikes and captures public attention, climate alarmists and their media allies stoke public fear by claiming global warming makes snowstorms more frequent, ferocious, and deadly.
A partial list of such articles includes:
- “Global Warming Could Make Blizzards Worse” – Washington Post, Jan. 26, 2015
- “How Climate Change May Lead to Bigger Blizzards” – PBS Frontline, Jan. 26, 2015
- “Blizzard of Nor’Easters No Surprise, Thanks to Climate Change” – National Geographic, Jan. 26, 2015
- “The Future of ‘Epic Blizzards’ in a Warming World” – Climate Central, Jan. 22, 2016
- “Major northeastern U.S. snowstorms expected to continue with climate change,” – Science Daily, Jan. 24, 2019
- “Spring blizzard fueled by Arctic warming, climate change” – CBS News, April 12, 2019
- “Climate change could make blizzards more intense, scientists say” – National Geographic, Jan. 29, 2020
Now, let’s look at what the new peer-reviewed study says.
“Significant decreases are found in the frequency and size of snowstorms in a pseudo-global warming simulation, including those events that produce the most extreme snowfall accumulations,” the study observes. “Early and late boreal winter months show particularly robust proportional decreases in snowstorms and snow water equivalent accumulations.”
Or, as described by the newsroom at Northern Illinois University, where two of the study’s authors work:
“Under an unabated greenhouse gas emissions scenario, the study projects 28% fewer snowstorms on average per year over central and eastern portions of North America by the century’s last decade, with a one-third reduction in the amount of snow or frozen precipitation and a 38% loss in average snowstorm size.”
Each of the alarmist articles noted above claimed that more severe snowstorms are devastating results of climate change.
Now that research shows warming temperatures may make severe snowstorms less frequent and severe, alarmists are changing their tune, claiming that reduced severity constitutes a climate crisis.
A Science Daily article on the new study claims substantial reductions in annual snowfall “could have far-reaching implications” on “water resources and plant and animal life.”
Even one of the authors chimed in with an alarmist message, which was likely a necessary condition for Nature Climate Change to accept and publish the study.
“There also could be serious negative consequences, especially for freshwater resource-dependent industries such as agriculture, recreation, refining, manufacturing, power generation, and river and lake transport,” said coauthor Walker Ashley, according to the Northern Illinois University press release.
Hopefully, prominent climate alarmists Michael Mann, James Hansen, Gavin Schmidt, and Katharine Hayhoe will soon weigh in and help us sort out the contradictory alarmist claims:
Will global warming creates more frequent and severe winter snowstorms, which is a very bad thing, or will global warming create less frequent and severe winter snowstorms, which is a very bad thing.
Remember, 97 percent of the world’s scientists all agree on one of these statements or the other, which is clearly “settled science.”
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A simple Weather House if the Lady comes out the weather will be Sunny If the Man comes out it will be wet if the both come out it will be sun followed by Rain if they both stay in a Tornado or Hurricane is coming
Cano somebody now explain what they mean by “pseudo global warming simulation”? is this another way of saying we had fun with some computer models? Or maybe “if it gets colder it will get warmer” or “if it gets warmer it will get colder”?
What it means is there is no “consensus” – flip a coin. If it lands on edge, say ‘the heck with it’ and relax with a glass of your favorite beverage. Come to think of it, forget the coin, just relax with…..
Wait a minute, so you are telling me that Global Warming doesn’t make winter colder and harsher!? Wow! And that lie had to be have studies done to refute? Go figure.
I have already read that line about how Global Warming/Climate Change will lead more harsher winters Just the usial sort of lies we get from the M.S. Media on a a daily bases