Friday, February 12, 2010

Warming is causing snow

OK, I'll buy the argument that heavy snow in Philly is the result of cold-enough temperatures and unusually moisture-laden air. But now we're getting in in the Deep South. They don't normally get snow now due to lack of moisture but lack of cold. This simply suggests we're having a severe February, that can't be explained by any flavor of global warming.

Those of us in the skeptic, not denier, camp don't object to the consistent use of science in support of public policy positions, but we get a little tired when heat waves in Europe, Katrina, and so forth are quickly attributed to AGW, but snow in Atlanta and record snow in Britain just mark a blip or even another consequence of AGW that nobody had thought to mention before. At least before 1998. With the failure of consistent warming to appear, there have been some "everything is due to AGW" warnings, but increasingly frequent blizzards haven't been mentioned that I recall.

A little consistency would be nice.

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