I live in Bengaluru in southern India. This month, the city recorded the coldest temperature in 10 years for the month of November.
So has been the case in my country’s capital New Delhi where extreme winters have become a norm in recent years.
A small percentage of India’s 1.3 billion population has access to electrical heaters. However, a majority must burn a variety of fuels for fire to stay warm, making many people susceptible to surprise cold events.
Why are cold events considered a surprise and not a normal part of the weather? Is it because the public has been made complacent about cold by the fearmongering of global warmists? [emphasis, links added]
The reality is cold events have become common not just in India but across the globe. Since 2017, there have been regular incidences of below-average temperatures in both winter and summer.
What can be inferred from these cold spells and what do they suggest about the apocalyptic rhetoric of the climate cult?
Cold Spells and Polar Ice Sheets
The November 18 snow event at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is the earliest snowfall in recorded history since 1898. Just an isolated event due to a regional storm? Well, think again.
The past few months witnessed unusual cold spells in the U.S. and Canada. Buffalo registered one of its highest snowfalls for November while Vancouver saw unusual early winter snowfall.
On November 20 and 21, hundreds of daily all-time low-temperature records were registered across the U.S. as Arctic air swept through the North American continent. There have been extreme cold events in other parts of the world, too.
In August, China’s northwestern province of Xinjiang experienced a surprise summer snowfall. South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia registered record-low temperatures in recent months.
In Greenland – often a subject in the climate-change debate – the surface mass balance (SMB) of the ice sheet this year is at one of its highest levels since 1981 and is set to increase further in the winter season. Greenland has been registering consistent growth in ice sheet SMB since 2016.
As Electoverse writer Cap Allon notes, “(S)ince 2016, Northern Hemisphere (NH) snow mass seasons have been holding well above the 1982-2012 average, and the 2022-2022 season is proving no different — as of the latest datapoint (Nov 19), the ‘Total snow mass for the NH’ chart, which comes courtesy of the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), continues to ride above both the multidecadal average and the standard deviation.”
The “Dangerous Warming” Rhetoric
So, do these record snowfall events and record-low temperature events mean that there is no increase in global average temperatures? Certainly not!
There has been a warming trend since the Little Ice Age began to lose its grip in the 17th century, but never has there been a dangerous general warming – and there is none now.
The claim that global warming has made our summers hotter and winters milder is certainly wrong. As evidenced in the last five years, both extreme cold and extreme warmth have been common.
Until the climate debate took over our media, these thermal ups and downs were known as weather variations.
However, in the age of climate apocalypse, every extreme weather event is a catastrophe. Even unusual snowfall and cold are considered sour fruits of man-made emissions of carbon dioxide.
This pseudoscience and outright distortions of media and political elites are harmful. The most vulnerable in our world are more exposed to the risks of cold because of an exaggerated concern about warming.
More than 500 million Indians still use an open fire to warm themselves while cold kills more people than heat.
In some parts of India, winter temperatures can reach as low as -20 Celsius/-4 Fahrenheit.
Even in a developed nation such as Germany, climate complacency has led to unpreparedness for winter energy needs and government officials are now asking citizens to heat just one room in their homes!
It is the cold that kills.
If anything, the warming of the past three centuries has been extremely beneficial to mankind, helping us achieve unprecedented progress in human health, living standards, food production, and technological achievement as we utilize the Earth’s resources ever more efficiently.
Vijay Jayaraj is a Research Associate at the CO2 Coalition, in Arlington, Virginia. He holds a master’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia, UK, and resides in India.
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“Until the climate debate took over our media, …” ?? I wish it was truly a debate! Maybe then we could start to bring science back into consideration of climate change. Instead, editors won’t print anything that climate skeptics say and even qualified scientists are unable to publish critical papers in their normal scientific journals because the editors know they could lose their jobs in the backlash from environmental activists. I’m afraid this will continue until a lengthy global cooling trend cannot be disguised any longer.
In the winter of 1976/77 Buffalo was hit with big time winter storm there a episode of In Search of from 1978 that’s all about it and no one was blaming it on our way of living Gore was a unheard of little pipsqueak Carter was in the Oval Office and the term Global Warming/Climate Change was yet to be invented
I want to rhetorate tha God our creator of the heavens, heaven and earth and beyond and below has total control of the weather and He told man to be good stewards of our delicate planet. So God is author even of weather events and climate variations. Yes, there is a climate cult out there and we must be vigilant and not be deceived by Satan the father of all lies who wishes to destroy our planet. It is ultimately God who in His wrath will destroy our planet and it will not be a flood but by fire shall burn the earth and its elements and creat a new heaven and a new earth…Praise God! John 3:16
Thanks Vijay….
But the Alarmists do not care about facts.
They just keep pushing their political agenda of lies.
Nov. 19th Buffalo snow storm. I’m about 25 mi. NNW and we got about 18″ were Buffalo got closer to 48″+. This is absolutely normal except for the early date. This is called Lake Effect snow. Warmer winds from the SW (in winter) pick up moisture from Lake Erie and when it hits land (Buffalo) and a cold air mass we get a dump.
This one was abnormal because the normal temp for the 19th is 0.02C but it was -7C this year. Within 4 days the temp increased by 17C. Weather change not climate change.