Yes, Global Warming Could Be Cause of D.C. Snowstorm

politicsdaily.com ^ | Feb. 13, 2010 | Ria Misra

[Free ThinkerNY]

There's bipartisan agreement on at least one thing in Washington this week: There's a whole lot of snow outside. After two paralyzing storms swept through the District in quick succession, the area was blanketed in almost two and a half feet of snow.

Climate change skeptics quickly pointed to the winter storms as proof that Al Gore and climate researchers have their facts exactly backward. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), for example, twittered during the storm on Tuesday, "It's going to keep snowing in DC until Al Gore cries 'uncle.'" And Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), on his Facebook page, posted photos of his family building a snow fort on the National Mall, the tag on top reading "Al Gore's New Home!"

But, in a press conference sponsored by the Center for American Progress on Thursday, Dr. Jeff Masters, director of meteorology for the online weather service Weather Underground, pointed out that snow in the winter -- even a lot of it -- doesn't mean that average temperatures aren't nevertheless on the rise.

"Individual weather is not climate," said Masters. "The point I've tried to make is we're in a warming trend. Last decade was the warmest on record, replacing the '90s, which replaced the 80's as the warmest decade." In fact, increasingly severe storms -- even winter ones like D.C.'s recent blizzards -- are consistent with climate change models, said Masters. "We still have winter, even if temperatures are rising," he said, noting that as average temperatures have risen, moisture levels in the atmosphere have also risen over 4 percent in the last 20 years, which has the potential to increase the severity of storms.

[Rocky]

Oh my gosh! Stop everything. Don’t even exhale.

[Milton Miteybad]

Yes, Global Warming Could Be Cause of D.C. Snowstorm


Yes...I suppose it possibly could be.

























































But it isn't.

[relictele]

‘A Beautiful Mind’ was a nice enough film but unfortunately we have many in the corridors of power who refuse to accept or even acknowledge reality and instead press on with their individual and mass psychosis.

[hal ogen]

I live in the WDC area. We used to call this sort of thing WINTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SteamShovel]

Climate change skeptics quickly pointed to the winter storms as proof that Al Gore and climate researchers have their facts exactly backward.

NO NO NO.....

.....It is a rebuttal to absurd earlier assertions of "proof" of global warming in years when it didn't snow much.

It is a rebuttal to an argument started by the AGW believers.

Let science be science, not politics.