Global Warming

This kind of works me up a tad. The good thing is that it shows people how warming can cause more snow and seemingly colder conditions. If it wasn't for a commenter on DU I wouldn't have even noticed, because this is common knowledge here. What bothers me is how they are so quick to tack this to global warming. The lakes have NEVER froze at the same time on an annual basis. There are too many variables to attribute it to one cause so quickly.

He says even seasoned meteorologists are taking note..... THAT IS THEIR FUCKING JOB! If this is absolutely and positively the result of global warming perhaps you should put on at least one of these meteorologists to make that claim and back it up with data. When did anchors become weather experts? It is stuff like this that eats away at the credibility of the actual movement on climate change. I promise, no one in a snow belt is even the slightest bit surprised. I just wrote on this blog like 2 days ago that we can get a couple of feet of snow in a matter of like 7-8 hours. This is the exact thing I was talking about - down to the details. It wouldn't even surprise us if it was a severe storm with wicked lightning and thunder, but I'll bet every reporter would went mental.

What would be abnormal? More than 4 ft in a day. That happens once every 20 years or so. If you are looking for unprecidented we'd be talking like 6+ feet in a day. I think they got that in the late 60's in Chicago proper though. I'm not sure about out east. This is a non-event. The people are prepared for this, they deal with it like 10 times a year, and to prove it look at their salt reserves and number of snow removers employed. In fact, this is good for their economy.

I think I'm in a bad mood today. I'm just tired of these guys being so news-Y lately. If you are going to claim something like this, do it thru an expert. At least have an intern fact check or make a phone call to the city.