What kinds of things did people actually claim about global warming?
“The global temperature will increase every year by 0.2°C”
Michael Müller, Socialist, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Environment, in Die Zeit, January 15, 2007
Because there are hundreds, maybe thousands of claims about winters that were made, none of which came true. Same for all the predictions about temperatures rising globally.
“Warmer and Wetter Winters in Europe and Western North America Linked to Increasing Greenhouse Gases.”
NASA, June 2, 1999
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/19990602/
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Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms but could cause an increase in freezing rain if average daily temperatures fluctuate about the freezing point.”
IPCC Climate Change, 2001
“We are beginning to approximate
the kind of warming you should see in the winter season.”
Star News, Mike Changery, National Climatic Data Center, 11 Mar 2000
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In a warmer world, less winter precipitation falls as snow and the melting of winter snow occurs earlier in spring. Even without any changes in precipitation intensity, both of these effects lead to a shift in peak river runoff to winter and early spring, away from summer and autumn.”
Nature, T. P. Barnett et. al., 17 Nov 2005
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The rise in temperature associated with climate change leads to a general reduction in the proportion of precipitation falling as snow, and a consequent reduction in many areas in the duration of snow cover.”
Global Environmental Change, Nigel W. Arnell, Geographer, 1 Oct 1999
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Within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. … Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”
David Viner, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, 20 March 2000
“Shindell’s model predicts that if greenhouse gases continue to increase,
winter in the Northern Hemisphere will continue to warm. ‘In our model, we’re seeing a very large signal of global warming and it’s not a naturally occurring thing. It’s most likely linked to greenhouse gases,’ he said.
NASA, GISS, 2 June 1999
“We have seen that in the last years and decades that winters have become much milder than before and that there isn’t nearly as much snowfall.
All simulations show this trend will continue in the future and that we have to expect an intense warming in the Alps…especially in the foothills,
snow will turn to rain and winter sports will no longer be possible anymore.”
Mojib Latif, Leibnitz Institute for Oceanography, University of Kiel, February 17, 2005
That now, after 6 years of increasingly colder and usually snowier winters for the NH, we see claims that global warming will make winters colder. There are even people so clueless they want to claim warmer winters will actually mean more snow. And they are serious. The delusion is that deep.
We see this absurd reversal, where instead of talking about the warming of winters, more rain instead of snow, lack of snowfall for ski resorts, the danger of winters too warm for winter wheat to grow, animals moving north because of warming winters, now the exact thing that wasn't predicted, is now being blamed on global warming.
So when the winters were warming, with less snow, we heard all kinds of predictions about it, because of global warming. Warmer winters are a prediction of global warming.
“More heat waves, no snow in the winter… Climate models… over 20 times more precise than the UN IPCC global models. In no other country do we have more precise calculations of climate consequences. They should form the basis for political planning… Temperatures in the wintertime will rise the most… there will be less cold air coming to Central Europe from the east…In the Alps winters will be 2°C warmer already between 2021 and 2050.”
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, September 2, 2008.
But now, the reverse is being claimed.
Actually, this cold weather can be linked to global warming
And no, it's not the media making this up.
http://www.wunderground.com/news/global-warming-winters-20130328
That the science is not settled is for certain.
Especially since a lot of people are still in denial that winters are getting colder.
I remember in 09 when some people were saying the epic snow and cold meant global warming was a joke. The AGWs said clearly, that one cold winter meant nothing, that you could still have the rare cold winter. But in a global warming world they would be rare. That pointing to weather, a cold winter, meant you didn't understand climate at all.
Now those same people are claiming cold winters are possibly caused by global warming.
And they can't understand why so many people have become skeptical of their claims.
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There are plenty of other years she could have got it. There is still time for her to get it. Do you hate the people who got the Nobel Prize those other years as well. Logically, as a debating point, this is complete non-sequitor.
