Tale of Two ABC Climate News Reports
What a difference a year makes.
Here’s Diane Sawyer on ABC News nearly one year ago, reporting on the connection between global warming and record snowfall:
Here’s Sawyer on Friday, reporting on the connection between global warming and the “extreme winter” much of the nation is experiencing:
The only difference I can tell is that this year Republican Senator James Inhofe and his family neglected to build an igloo.
Warming can bring more precipitation (and thus more snow). But can it bring extra-cold winters? Nothing in the IPCC models appears to predict that. IPCC models predict normal temperatures would rise more in winter than in summer, more in the Arctic than anywhere else, more by night (i.e. the minima) than by day (the maxima). But this would imply rising minima in winters, right the opposite of what is happening. Does not sound very logical.
“This could be the new normal”.
Famous last words, imo…
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I remember hard winters in the UK when I was a child. Weeks of snow and months of biting cold temperatures. Are we now meant to deduce that the planet is now as ‘warm’ as it was in the sixties and seventies?
As Hector makes clear, the way things are happening are not how the CAGW rulebook laid things out at the IPCC.
Stu, indeed! LOL!
My take on the winter weather is posted at Climate Etc.
Does this not imply a negative heat capacity?