If you’re Bryan Walsh, who writes the majority of Global Warming stories for Time, and ultimately something to defend, you have to find some crazy way to explain away the lack of Global Warming, especially this winter.

“As the blizzard-bound residents of the mid-Atlantic region get ready to dig themselves out of the third major storm of the season, they may stop to wonder two things: Why haven’t we bothered to invest in a snow blower and, also, what happened to climate change? After all, it stands to reason that if the world is getting warmer — and the past decade was the hottest on record — major snowstorms should become a thing of the past, like Palm Pilots and majority rule in the Senate. Certainly that’s what the Virginia state Republican Party thinks: the GOP aired an ad last weekend attacking two Democratic Congressmen for supporting the 2009 carbon-cap-and-trade bill, and using the recent storms to cast doubt on global warming.
(See pictures of a massive blizzard hitting Washington, D.C.)

Brace yourselves now — this may be a case of politicians twisting the facts. There is some evidence that climate change could in fact make such massive snowstorms more common, even as the world continues to warm. As the meteorologist Jeff Masters points out in his excellent blog at Weather Underground, the two major storms that hit Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., this winter — in December and during the first weekend of February — are already among the 10 heaviest snowfalls those cities have ever recorded. The chance of that happening in the same winter is incredibly unlikely.

Which is bathtub water. Last decade was NOT the hottest on record, that’s been thoroughly debunked (it was the 1930s). As for heaviest snowfalls, Richmond Virginia has this season at 16th since 1962. Hardly record.

GW fiends want it both ways. If the weather is record hot – record hot over the last 50 years or so – they say “See? It’s Global Warming!” If it’s record cold, then “See? It’s BECAUSE OF Global Warming. Here’s a laugher. Remember how GW disciples told us of record hurricane seasons for the last three year that never materialized?

Well they’ve got that covered!

“Climate models also suggest that while global warming may not make hurricanes more common, it could well intensify the storms that do occur and make them more destructive.”

Way to adjust that bar Byran.

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