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From the science-may-be-slightly-more-complex-than-making-a-sandwich-that’s-why-we-have-scientists department:
Most don’t see a contradiction between a warming world and lots of snow. That includes Kevin Trenberth, a prominent climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
“The fact that the oceans are warmer now than they were, say, 30 years ago means there’s about on average 4 percent more water vapor lurking around over the oceans than there was, say, in the 1970s,” he says.
Warmer water means more water vapor rises up into the air, and what goes up must come down.
“So one of the consequences of a warming ocean near a coastline like the East Coast and Washington, D.C., for instance, is that you can get dumped on with more snow partly as a consequence of global warming,” he says.
So global warming or no, please stop saying that the billions of tons of CO2 our civilization has pumped into the atmosphere is having no consequences just because it’s snowing. Your ignorance is making my head hurt.
If people would just read KSR we wouldn’t be having this problem.
Hmmmm… I just realized the flaw in that argument: “read” – not a common practice these days.
SRT