Winter ain't going nowhere

American Thinker ^ | 9 Feb, 2026 | J.R. Dunn

[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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: climatechange; fraud; globalwarming; hoax; scam; weather; winter

[RckyRaCoCo]

heh heh (m-80)...occasionally hear tannerite boom-booms in my part of rural Michigan.

[Organic Panic]

This is the most mild winter I have ever experienced here in the PNW. And nope, not complaining a bit. My snow shovel and snow blower are happily hibernating in the shed.

[glennaro]

It has been obvious for some time that the only “climate change” these charlatans are interested in is “global warming” which term, during winter, doesn’t do well in focus groups.