It is increasingly difficult to take the mainstream media seriously. Today's example is from the
Washington Post (timed to coincide with the Peru conference, of course).
Fall snow cover in Northern Hemisphere was most extensive on record, even with temperatures at high mark
At least they admit this is a "surprising result." No, a "very" surprising result. Here's how the article starts:
In 46 years of records, more snow covered the Northern Hemisphere this fall than any other time. It is a very surprising result, especially when you consider temperatures have tracked warmest on record over the same period.
Data from
Rutgers University Global Snow Lab show the fall Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent exceeded 22 million square kilometers, exceeding the previous greatest fall extent recorded in 1976.
The rest of the article tries to make the point that "record high temperatures" in 2014 have led to increased snow because warmer air holds more moisture! How many readers of the Washington Post are ignorant enough to believe that?
Notice how the snow coverage grows as the planet supposedly gets warmer. Except the albedo effect (more snow = more reflection of the sun's energy) is supposed to cool off the planet. Declining ice was supposed to be a death spiral; i.e., lack of ice in the Arctic meant the ocean would absorb more heat, year after year, until the ice was all gone.
Instead, the "death spiral" seems to be death by snow!
Here is a reader comment that sums it up:
Key point the media always glosses over: When the government says it's the warmest year "on record," they aren't referring to actual historical records. They are referring to "adjusted" historical records. NOAA has been revising historical data lower by far more than the latest "record."
If you look at actual historical data, 2014 is far from the hottest year on record. That's how we can have record sea ice (including growing Arctic ice extent) and record snow cover even though this is supposedly the hottest year ever.
It's true that warmer air can hold more moisture, but "global warming" isn't changing the laws of physics. At the freezing temperatures necessary for snow and ice, moisture content doesn't change.
NOTE: I also came across Tony's comments:
It has been obvious since about April that government agencies had been instructed to make 2014 the hottest year ever. But this headline in the Washington Post summed up the fraud in spectacular fashion.
The record snow extent this autumn was due to record intrusions of cold air to low latitudes in North America and Asia. Obviously not compatible with record heat.
But it gets must worse. Last winter also had well above average snow cover.
Antarctica had record sea ice cover this year.
The amount of sea ice on Earth is above normal.
Arctic sea ice extent is at a 10 year high
The Greenland ice sheet has gained a record amount of ice this Autumn.
Satellite temperatures are far more accurate than surface temperatures, and they show that temperatures are not warming, and are nowhere near a record.
The surface temperature record which the claims are based on has huge geographical gaps of no data, shown in gray. They have an error of at least half a degree, yet make claims of record heat at 0.01 degrees. Junk science and fraud at its absolute worst.
It is not a coincidence that these wildly fake claims of record heat came out just as Obama and the UN are doing their big push to take control of the world’s energy supply through “climate” regulations.
And even with all their endless data tampering, GISS is still below zero emissions scenario C.
These claims of record heat by NASA and NCDC are not even remotely credible. They are in defiance of all corroborating science, and are complete utter nonsense.
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