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Posted on 02/09/2026 6:57:29 AM PST by MtnClimber
It would be a hell of irony if useless preparation for a nonexistent threat simply set us up for a knockout blow from a real one.
It has been two weeks since western PA experienced a dump of two feet of snow, the product of the continent-wide storm that was supposed to ravage the nation and throw back civilization 500 years or more. That, needless to say, did not happen, at least outside of Missouri, where it would never be noticed. But there is that two feet of snow.
Pennsylvania is in the melt belt, a region in which even heavy snows begin to vanish with a day or two after their appearance. Yet this last snowfall has remained virtually untouched since it hit the ground. Oh, it’s become packed, and has shrunk an inch or two, but otherwise it looks precisely the same as it did when it first came down. Temperatures since the snowfall have been in the low double digits since the storm, dropping into the single digits and even well below zero overnight. The lowest was about -5°.
It’s getting on to four decades since New Yorker writer Bill McKibben published The End of Nature (1989), a popular study of how global warming would affect our relationship with the natural world. McKibben’s theme held that we could no longer speak of “nature,” since the major forcer of events for the planet was now mankind, and that the state of the environment for all time to come would be the result of human activity. Needless to say, he did not consider this an improvement.
What depressed him most was the coming elimination of winter. McKibben loved winter. The snow, the transformation of the landscape, the brisk days. All that was going.
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Are SUVs responsible for the snow too?
Is praying for global warming such a bad thing?
It's been true for many millennia. McKibben is merely ignorant.
What a chump. Missouri is as civilized as Pennsylvania. Probably more so.
During his weather forecast the other day, Al Roker took time to explain why this unusually frigid weather has been caused by global warming. It’s a heads-he-wins/tails-you-lose every time proposition.
I guess the East Coast has our snow. They are welcome to it.
Where's my grant cash, Baby? LOL!
Thirty-eight days to go! Think Spring!
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I don’t consider the preparation to have been ‘useless’. I now have extra sterno, water, food and a new electric blanket on the way. We are usually well prepared for Summer storms; but Winter storms like this recent one are very rare in this area. Now we know better what it’s like.
You and Phil...
Not fair looking at a calendar.
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In Detroit Spring starts on St. Patrick’s Day.
“Weather” we like it or not. :)
Well, duh! Any groundhog could tell you that
Are we in danger of flipping over if we get too much snow?
its been a cold SE Michigan!! I made the comment just the other day... “You know your used to winter when you wake up and breathe a sigh of relief that it closer to 20, not 0!!”
Every now and then you get a bad winter. It’s called Mother nature... And she does what she wants to do when she wants to do it.
The forecasting has been pretty terrible this year... The more they rely on satellites and computers... The worse their forecasting becomes.
” this unusually frigid weather has been caused by global warming. It’s a heads-he-wins/tails-you-lose every time proposition.”
Non falsifiability is a clue that there is a cult on board.
The hustle never ends.
I read McKibben’s book when it came out—a couple years after James Hansen did his alarmist act for the Senate, courtesy of a young senator named Al Gore. The book is not a real study of anything, btw, it is standard apocalyptic science fiction. And of course none of it has come close to happening.
The Sandhill Cranes just took off from my sister’s area today en masse, which means they will be here in a few weeks. That’s usually my first sign of when Spring will arrive.
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