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The Great Winter of 2017-2018 and the Hypocrisy of Climate Alarmists

by Vijay Jayaraj

January 16, 2018

As record lows gripped many parts of the U.S. and Canada, the global warming elitists scrambled to announce to the world that climate change was the driving force behind the freezing weather.

Inevitably, their claims have exposed the hypocrisy of the global warming cult that has instilled fear among the public.

Temperatures in many parts of the Atlantic U.S. went down drastically last week. Canada was not an exception, with record lows registered in many provinces since November last year.

While some forecasts in December predicted a colder than usual winter due to the polar vortex inversion, the drop in mercury was more severe than expected.

Extreme cold and extremely hot weather patterns can occur at any point in history, regardless of whether the earth is on a long-term warming trend or not.

For example, the Earth went through a mini ice age during the 16thcentury. Soon after the end of the mini ice age in the 17th century global temperatures began rising, and have been on a warming trend since then.

Despite this overall warming trend, countries like the U.S. experienced several severe winters during the 19th and 20th century. This can be attributed to many reasons such as the inversion of the Polar Vortex, a decrease in solar activity, and other natural cyclic phenomenon.

These extremely cold temperatures do not provide sufficient reasons to conclude whether the global warming hypothesis is right or wrong. However, they expose the flawed predictions of the global warming alarmists, thus falsifying their climate-doom propaganda.

The global warming alarmists face two major problems here. One—their claim of carbon dioxide emission from human activity is the primary driver of temperature increase in the 20th century, and two—their claim that global warming is responsible for the ongoing extreme winter in the U.S. and Canada.

Temperature reconstructions from the past show us that carbon dioxide has not been the primary driver of global temperature levels. The same is true today—global temperature levels failed to display any linear relationship with the increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in the past 20 years.

This truth even prompted several of the staunchest climate alarmists to acknowledge the blatant errors in the temperature forecasts of the computer climate models used by the United Nations to inform global energy and developmental policies.

In fact, hundreds of scientific papers in the past two years have repudiated the claims of climate alarmists. Besides categorically denying the catastrophic increase in temperatures, they also dismiss any notion of carbon dioxide being the primary driver of global temperatures.

The hypocrisy of the climate alarmists reached a new low last week when Al Gore—one of the chief proponents of climate alarmism, suggested that the current extreme winter that we are experiencing is because of climate change.

Al Gore, quoting the opinion of another alarmist—Michael Mann, said the record lows were extreme weather events caused by climate change. If taken at face value, this signals a monumental yet unintelligible shift in the narrative of the climate alarmists.

Almost all of the climate change-related mitigation policies are based on the assumption that temperatures are increasing globally. The recent claim by Al Gore renders all of these policies meaningless.

Going by the alarmist logic, if reductions in carbon dioxide emissions are to be justified based on the claims that they could control the increase of global temperatures, then the very same emission reductions could be attributed to the current severe winters in the U.S. and Canada.

The alarmist logic thus falls flat on its face.

By blaming climate change for the record lows, the alarmists have dug their own grave. They now face an unavoidable conundrum of choosing between warming and cooling, and either way, they will depart far from the actual science of climate change.

Originally published on Townhall.com. 

 

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Featured image courtesy of  Simon Matzinger on Unsplash.

Dated: January 16, 2018

Tagged With: Al Gore, Climate Change, Cold, Computer Climate Models, Global Warming, Michael Mann, Snow, Temperature, Weather
Filed Under: Bridging Humanity and the Environment, Climate & Energy, Environmental Subjects

About Vijay Jayaraj

Vijay Jayaraj is a Research Associate at the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, VA and writes frequently for the Cornwall Alliance. He holds a master’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia, UK, and resides in India.

Comments

  1. David Rieben says

    January 16, 2018 at 4:12 pm

    Yup, this “global warming” is about to freeze me to death! ;^)

    Reply
  2. Bob Webster says

    January 19, 2018 at 2:16 pm

    I remember these same patterns in the 1950s and 1960s when our corner of northwestern New Jersey had a succession of harsh winters. In those days, the old US Weather Bureau put out daily weather maps. Today, it is virtually impossible to find a REAL weather map that hasn’t been dumbed down to colorful blobs. I doubt if anyone under the age of 30 knows what a real weather map looks like!

    Global warming/climate change (since warming stopped) is the biggest fraud in the history of science. Far more evidence exonerates carbon dioxide than convicts it.

    There is no period in Earth’s climate history and certainly, no consistent evidence that would even suggest CO2 is a CAUSE of climate change… ALL the real evidence shows CO2 RESPONDS to climate change, it does not cause it.

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