Forbes Blames Global Warming For Record Cold – Science Disagrees

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Forbes Blames Global Warming For Record Cold – Science DisagreesClimate Change Dispatch / 4d

In a major victory for Newspeak, the propaganda language in George Orwell’s novel “1984,” Forbes.com published an article yesterday blaming global warming for the record cold pummeling much of the nation.

Google News, moreover, promoted the Forbes article by placing it at the top of search results for “climate change.”

The title of the Forbes article is “Blackouts In Texas and California Teach A Hard Lesson: Climate Change Is Costly.”

The author writes, “These grid failures are wake-up calls and provide further proof that the impacts of climate change are not geographically constrained, nor do they take aim at one political party. One way or another, the cost of climate change on each of us will make itself known: in this, both California and Texas can now agree.”

The author does not, however, explain how or why global warming causes record cold temperatures.

Climate activists have occasionally, and when politically convenient, claimed climate change causes more polar-vortex extreme cold events.

However, the scientific data strongly contradict Forbes’ assertion that global warming is to blame for the cold outbreak in Texas.

Indeed, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data show the number of days each year with below-freezing temperatures in Texas is neither unusually high nor unusually low so far this century.

Similarly, NOAA data for neighboring Oklahoma – which is also getting walloped right now by cold weather – show a decline in the frequency of very cold weather events in recent decades.

So, there clearly is no recent increase in the frequency of severe cold events in Texas and Oklahoma.

So, by what logic does Forbes blame the current very cold conditions on global warming? Well, the author of the Forbes article is Chief Science Officer and Chief Commercial Officer at New Energy Risk, which is comprised of “climate-conscience venture capitalists” seeking to make money promoting “green” energy.

Forbes clearly has no conflict-of-interest standards for its authors and articles, nor does it attempt to investigate what the scientific data show regarding its articles’ claims.

At Climate Realism, however, the truth will always be told.

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