Posted on 01/17/2021 7:37:54 AM PST by Kaslin
Japan reported 13 deaths and hundreds of hospitalizations in the past week due to the intense snowfall in the country. Residents in Spain were in awe over the record snowfall in their streets. Here in India, Delhi experienced one of its harshest winters in recent memory, with intense cold waves.
Does this disprove global warming? Certainly not! However, the extreme cold events bring about questions over the media narrative that climate change is causing milder winters and temperatures increasing to dangerous levels.
The most worrying aspect is that these extreme cold events are a reminder that we could be in great danger if our governments continue to adopt climate policies based on faulty forecasts and unreliable renewables. Here is why.
The Cold Winter of 2020–2021
My visit to Delhi this December was quite memorable. The city was going through an intense cold spell. Minimum temperatures during the months of October, November, and December broke many records.
At just 2 degree Celsius, India’s capital city experienced one of its coldest winter mornings on January 14. Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir recorded a low of minus 8.4 degree Celsius, the coldest in 30 years.
It was no surprise to the residents, though. The previous winter (December 2019) broke 100-year records. Intense cold has become a norm in the past couple of years.
In the U.S., record cold and snow events were registered across the country this year. In Spain, historic cold temperatures sent the mercury to 20-year lows. Over in Siberia, Russia, and Japan, the story was no different. Beijing recorded its coldest January 7 since the 1960s.
These cold events must be analyzed with due consideration to the multiple climatic factors that may be influencing them. The sun’s activity, earth’s rotation, changes in the magnetic poles, Arctic cold blasts, and many other factors all help determine regional and global weather patterns.
Hyped Climate Doomsday Theories Do Not Come to Pass
So, while these record cold and snowfall events don’t disprove global warming, they do inform us that real-world cold snaps and snowfalls differ considerably in both intensity and frequency from the classic global warming/climate change narrative.
Al Gore, for example, claimed that the summers in the Arctic would become ice-free by 2015, but that hasn’t happened. Likewise, scientists predicted that snow would be a “thing of the past” and that our children will not know what snow is. But since 2017, there have been historic snowfall events across the globe, including those in New York and the recent ones in Spain and Japan.
Hot and cold weather events may occur anytime. Though there has been a gradual increase in global average temperatures since the 18th century, that doesn't mean the future will be intensely hotter than before, or that our winters will be milder. None of the computer climate models have been able to predict the temperature variations with accuracy or the onset of cold or warming events.
Don’t Bet Your Future on Renewables or the Climate Models
The unfolding of cold weather events and the failure of climate prophecies should help us frame the future course of the energy sector. Wind and solar generate little or no electricity in cold conditions. That means economies will still need reliable energy from coal and oil, no matter how many wind and solar factories we built.
This was evident during the recent extreme cold events in China and Europe, where the wind and solar networks could not generate electricity. To make things worse, the extreme cold caused significant energy demand (for heating), making utility providers scamper to generate more electricity from weather-proof coal plants.
Beijing’s only coal-powered plant resumed operations in December to meet the increase in energy demand. Beijing stated that “The (latest) historic peak load came as extreme cold weather increased demand for electricity-powered heating facilities, which account for 48.2% of total load.”
In simple words, countries should not bet their future on renewables. Even in summers, both wind and solar are unreliable and expensive. Besides causing an unnecessary rise in electricity prices to the consumers (as proven in Germany and California), they also act as a burden to grid functionality. Despite this, wind and solar have been receiving subsidies on taxpayers’ expense and hailed as the future of the world.
That is called “GLOBAL COOLING” - wait a few months for it to go back to “GLOBAL WARMING”....
Has Greta figured it out yet?
So can I. I think it was the mid 70's. Then there was "population explosion" that the world couldn't possibly feed. You also had the alcar scare that almost killed the apple industry. And then you had the ozone depletion that was going to kill every living thing on Earth. Don't forget the original nutrition pyramid that has been changed. Egg yolks will kill you, also. Now they're a good source of protein. I know I'm missing some.
I don't trust scientists any more than I do politicians. They both develop a thesis or problem and then build models/solutions to prove it. Hell, I remember when the Universe would expand forever. Now they say it is on the verge of contracting. The dead String Theory is a good example. The physicists just couldn't work it out on their white boards. Now we have the Dark Matter theory.
Hold on just a minute here. Remember the truth of the Scientific Method, and Albert Einstein's statement that "It doesn't take a hundred signatures to prove me wrong. If I were wrong, it would only take one." Real Science tells us that in order for a theory to be valid, it must be disprovable.
Though one season's weather certainly doesn't prove or disprove anyone's climate theory, those so-called scientists who declared that "our children will never know the meaning of snow" certainly deserve the same ridicule as the Flat Earthers. Their hysterical interpretation of the catch-all "Climate Change" has certainly been proven WRONG.
The sun was once like the earth until the people that lived there foolishly allowed the concentration of CO2 to atmosphere to shoot past the safe 0.04% to the dangerous 0.05%, then one dude flicked a lighter to light a cigarette and BOOM a star was born
“ I don’t trust scientists any more than I do politicians”
Scientists are fine unless their research is funded by government grants from politicians with agendas that expect certain results with trillions of dollars depending upon those results
The article makes many good points but destroys its scientific integrity with this statement: “Wind and solar generate little or no electricity in cold conditions.” That is not a true statement. The solar part of that statement is not true and all, and the wind part of the statement is only true of “extreme” cold conditions, which for wind farms means somewhere around and/or below minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit. The only, and main effect that cold temperatures usually have on solar power is when the cold is accompanied by cloudy conditions as well.
I am not trying to defend the climate alarmists, but bad arguments attempting to counter the alarmists do not help.
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