Here's another weather-related headline Drudge wouldn't touch
January 22, 2010 2:53 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
It was from the Toronto Star and was for an article about the upcoming Winter Olympics:
Warm, wet weather causes shutdown of Cypress Mountain: Officials are hoping to preserve snowboarding and freestyle courses
Yep, there's no way Drudge would ever highlight a news article about how unseasonably warm it is in Canada because that would run counter to the conservative, anti-reason argument that becomes it sometimes gets cold in the winter, that means climate change doesn't exist.
FYI, from the Star [emphasis added]:
Olympic officials who have been dreaming of a white Winter Games are instead being met with a brown, muddy nightmare as unseasonably warm weather, heavy rain, and lack of snow forced them to close the mountain where next month's snowboarding and freestyle skiing events will be held.
It is not wet here. It hasn't rained for a number of days. It is sunny.
And this kind of weather is not that unusual in Vancouver (we're not Seattle, BTW).
That's why some of us always thought it was a joke to have a Winter Olympics up here in February.
I've suntanned on my patio in February some years.
Why do you keep pulling facts out or your hats, when that isn't what the current meme is about.
Brrr, it's winter now. That means the globe can't be warming.
Is that better?
http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article/19077--no-snow-in-forecast-means-vanoc-goes-to-plan-c-at-cypress-mountain
Now you want to keep doing it?
You sound like Ed Schultz when he says he'd have cheated to keep Scott Brown from winning.
I knew if we waited long enough a troll would come out.
On today's edition of Trolling For Trolls...
People will believe what they will, no matter what the truth.
Just because it is now warmer than usual doesn't mean that it proves global warming. (obviously)
As I have thoroughly explained here and here, and too many other times, the defense for hiding the decline is, in the words of Kevin Trenberth, a travesty.
What's amazing is that there are still morons out there defending the CRU crumbs and in denial about the reality of the decline, not only the "divergence" decline, but the decline in the AGW theory and its stranglehold on the science.
The Church is losing its flock, at least the extreme branch of the AGW cultists. The impact of the CRU scandal cannot be contained and flat-Earthers like you will eventually become relics. That won't stop you from not going gently of course. What else would one expect from a member of a doomed cult?
You remind me so much of creationists, I could almost forget the actual topic. Years from now, you and your ilk will be dredging up those emails the way creationists still dredge up Piltdown Man, even though both are irrelevant to the actual science.
For the period for which that select batch of tree ring data indicates a decline, we know positively that there was not an actual decline in temperatures. Ergo, I am correct. And that makes you the moron/liar/ignoramus of which I spoke.
I was going to say 'But isn't this just more local weather rather than an indication of climate change?' until I got to your post. If the onset of spring is getting earlier each year that's a much better indication than an unusually warm January one particular year.
My post really was only meant to reflect (relatively) local conditions. Been anticipating these (relatively) nearby games for a while. I love all that snowy-slidy-jumpy stuff and started thinking a few weeks ago how they are going to need it to cool down and snow. Bad luck with the El Nino and it's predictable effects. The link from Science Buff tells the bigger story, can't deny that.
*sarcasm
I live in the Northeast, and it is nearly 50 degrees. We have been in the mid forties for the last couple of days. During lunch today, I went out for a walk and saw kids playing basketball in shirt sleeves. I am looking out my window now, and most people are wearing just heavy sweaters, no hats, no gloves - it is that warm out. And for crying out loud, it is January!
A nasty cold snap in December does not make for global cooling, and a few lucky warm days in January does not make for global warming.
Climate change measures a thirty year trend. It is the climate stupid.