The eco-crazies at TIME magazine were up in arms over President Donald Trump daring to poke fun at the climate change bogeyman as the American Northeast braced for one of the worst snowstorms in half a decade. [some emphasis, links added]
TIME “reproductive rights” (or abortion) reporter Chantelle Lee side-stepped her beat on January 23 to grumble against Trump’s climate humor, “Trump Mocks Climate Change Concerns Ahead of Historic Winter Storm. Here’s Why That’s Wrong.”
Lee whipped out the grossly misleading notion of a “scientific consensus on climate change” to argue Trump was “falsely implying that the massive winter storm set to hit much of the U.S. this weekend contradicts the evidence that the planet is getting warmer.”
This is the issue with the climate media fanatics: No matter which way the winds of the weather turn, it somehow will always be attributed to man-made “warming,” even as the nation is literally in the middle of the winter season.
Talk about trying to have your cake and eat it too.
Trump posted Friday on Truth Social: “Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States. Rarely seen anything like it before.” He continued:
“Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain — WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???” Lee — apparently not privy to the joke — protested, “But the idea that brutal winter conditions of this kind mean that climate change isn’t happening, as Trump suggested, is a misconception.”
She went on to cite Indiana University Bloomington Professor Christopher Callahan, who boasted, “As a proud ‘environmental insurrectionist,’ it’s frustrating to have to explain this every winter.”
“Every winter?” As if the debate had been consistent for that long!
At least when the idea of Global Cooling was all the buzz in the 1970s, a blisteringly cold winter season would at least be consistent with the narrative.
In fact, it was TIME that tried to scare readers about a global cooling catastrophe over 47 years ago.
“The trend [of global cooling] shows no indication of reversing,” TIME reported in 1974. “Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.”
The headline was the chef’s kiss: “Another Ice Age?”
Lee, apparently oblivious to her own publication’s history, took the holistic approach and attributed climate change to practically any and every weather event. That makes sense, given her publication’s stated position that “Climate Is Everything.”
However, Lee made a critical mistake:
Research also indicates that climate change can make some extreme weather events—including heat waves, heavy rainfall, severe floods, droughts, extreme wildfires, and hurricanes—more intense and more frequent. Some experts have hypothesized that climate change may be making winter storms more intense as well, though there’s still a ‘genuine scientific debate’ on that, according to Callahan.
Wait, what happened to the “scientific consensus?” And couldn’t Lee admit that no hurricanes made landfall in the United States last year, damaging the “more extreme weather events” thesis?
In 2010, Meteorologist Dr. Roy Spencer noted that in “the case of global warming, [the so-called ‘scientific consensus’] is nearly worthless.”
He continued:
“The climate system is so complex that the vast majority of climate scientists — usually experts in [a] variety of specialized fields — assume there are more knowledgeable scientists, and they are just supporting the opinions of their colleagues.”
Spencer concluded that,
“among that small group of most knowledgeable experts, there is a considerable element of groupthink, herd mentality, peer pressure, political pressure, support of certain energy policies, and desire to Save the Earth — whether it needs to be saved or not.”
No kidding.
Top: Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok.
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