Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.: What Does the Peer-Reviewed Literature Say About Trends in East Coast Winter Storms?
The images above comes from a 2001 paper by Hirsch et al. (here in PDF) titled, An East Coast Winter Storm Climatology. The top curve shows all East Coast winter storms, and the bottom shows the most intense storms. for the period 1948 to 1997. As the figure implies, they concluded in that analysis: the frequency of […]
Paper calls Morano ‘Among the loudest skeptics’ – Florida’s Sun Sentinel newspaper features Climate Depot: ‘Skeptic disputes warmest year reports’
Among the loudest skeptics is Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot, who proclaims the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is “conning the public” with a recent report that 2014 was the warmest year on record globally. Morano, a former U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee staff member, calls the report “shameless activism shown by our federal scientists” […]
Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. rips blizzard/AGW claims: ‘Actual climatology’ finds ‘Significant trends in [East Coast] storm frequency over the 46-yr period beginning in 1951 are not evident’
Repeating News Story: Global Warming To Make Blizzards Worse
Bill Nye on MSNBC Hits ‘Unglued’ Viewers Who Object to Blaming Blizzard on Climate Change
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2015/01/26/msnbcs-bill-nye-climate-change-culprit-winter-blizzard
WATCH: BILL NYE ON MSNBC: BLAME CLIMATE CHANGE FOR BLIZZARD
NYE on MSNBC – Jan. 26, 2015: But is the economic effect of storms like this is huge. You cancel half of the flights out of the world’s — one of the world’s busiest airports, certainly the eastern seaboard is a very busy area economically for airplane travel and so when you start having big […]
Climate Depot report prods AP to walk back ‘hottest ever’ story
Meteorologist: 2010s officially the snowiest decade in the east coast in the NOAA record – surpassing the 1960s
The monster blizzard of 2015 will be adding to what is already the snowiest decade on the East Coast. “Assuming this storm gets ranked by NOAA as one of the high impact (population affected by snowstorm) snowstorms (likely since the November storm was), we will have had 14 major impact storms this decade (only half […]
Flashback 2014 New York Times: ‘The End of Snow?’
Blizzard blamed on ‘global warming’ – Bill McKibben: Blizzards are ‘Climate change at work’ – NY Gov.: ‘Part of the changing climate’
Climate activist Bill McKibben, who was key organizer of the NYC climate march in September 2014, wasted no time in blaming the massive blizzard bearing down on the Northeast on ‘global warming.’ McKibben tweeted on Monday: McKibben: ‘5 0f 10 worst blizzards in NYC in last ten years, 0.2% chance that’s chance. Climate change at work’ […]