The NY Times is just recycling the same climate alarmist garbage they've been pushing for years. Before this piece, they also ran an identical headline on Feb. 2014 (but had the foresight and humility to add a question mark at the end of the title). https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-snow.html
You are absolutely correct about the mass confusion over the difference between weather and climate. We experience weather, but climate is a rather arbitrarily defined scientific abstraction.
I was at a birthday party in the woods near Edinburgh and I got chatting to an Italian gentleman and both being in the pensioner brackets we started chatting and the climate came up! We both kind of laughed when we looked at the students that were there and we both agreed that since school people are being programmed and it has got much worse the last 30 years!
I happened to say that 50+ years ago the climate freaks said there would be no ice or polar bears. Well the ice is still there and the polar bears have not stripped off the fur coat and are not sun bathing! We also spoke about sea temperature and I said that when I was young I would swim in the North Sea and it was freezing. About 60 years later I went in and it is still freezing!
We did not realise that a few students had been listening to us talking and after a bit one of the students came and asked if she could interview us. The Italian was not available as was heading back to Italy in few days.
I did an interview with the student and the thing that struck me was when the student said that we are not allowed to think or speak out with a certain narrative! She said I can take things from our interview and use them as it is not me that is saying it!? See if it is used!?
The climate of the earth is always in a state of change. We are emerging from an ice age which to me is preferable to returning to the next. Our main problem is the majority of influencers don't know the difference between weather and climate.
We are in an ice age! Snow is not going away. Glacial cycles are restarted at the end of an interglacial such as we are in now, not because it gets colder but because there is more moisture in the atmosphere. We are technically in a neoglacial phase of the ice cycle (transition back into a glacial phase) with the Holocene optimum occurring some 7,000 to 6000 years ago. In past cycles some neoglacials occur quickly and some longer. We are fortunate that our current neoglacial cycle appears to be a long one because of a weak Milankovitch winter. However, it is very possible that a Grand Solar Minimum is upon us so we will need to wait and see how this may interact with an otherwise weak Milankovitch winter.
It is always well below freezing in the Arctic and Antarctica. Both are essentially frozen deserts so when moisture increases accumulation of snow in the Arctic and Antarctic increases. When this increase in moisture coincides with a solar minimum and/or a Milankovitch winter, permanent snow pack begins to move southward, increasing the albedo of the planet, moving the world toward a new glacial cycle. Since the poles are always very cold in an ice age, it is ironic that it is actually increased warming - leading to more moisture - that is a catalyst for the return of continental ice sheets.
The NY Times is just recycling the same climate alarmist garbage they've been pushing for years. Before this piece, they also ran an identical headline on Feb. 2014 (but had the foresight and humility to add a question mark at the end of the title). https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-snow.html
You are absolutely correct about the mass confusion over the difference between weather and climate. We experience weather, but climate is a rather arbitrarily defined scientific abstraction.
I was at a birthday party in the woods near Edinburgh and I got chatting to an Italian gentleman and both being in the pensioner brackets we started chatting and the climate came up! We both kind of laughed when we looked at the students that were there and we both agreed that since school people are being programmed and it has got much worse the last 30 years!
I happened to say that 50+ years ago the climate freaks said there would be no ice or polar bears. Well the ice is still there and the polar bears have not stripped off the fur coat and are not sun bathing! We also spoke about sea temperature and I said that when I was young I would swim in the North Sea and it was freezing. About 60 years later I went in and it is still freezing!
We did not realise that a few students had been listening to us talking and after a bit one of the students came and asked if she could interview us. The Italian was not available as was heading back to Italy in few days.
I did an interview with the student and the thing that struck me was when the student said that we are not allowed to think or speak out with a certain narrative! She said I can take things from our interview and use them as it is not me that is saying it!? See if it is used!?
The climate of the earth is always in a state of change. We are emerging from an ice age which to me is preferable to returning to the next. Our main problem is the majority of influencers don't know the difference between weather and climate.
We are in an ice age! Snow is not going away. Glacial cycles are restarted at the end of an interglacial such as we are in now, not because it gets colder but because there is more moisture in the atmosphere. We are technically in a neoglacial phase of the ice cycle (transition back into a glacial phase) with the Holocene optimum occurring some 7,000 to 6000 years ago. In past cycles some neoglacials occur quickly and some longer. We are fortunate that our current neoglacial cycle appears to be a long one because of a weak Milankovitch winter. However, it is very possible that a Grand Solar Minimum is upon us so we will need to wait and see how this may interact with an otherwise weak Milankovitch winter.
It is always well below freezing in the Arctic and Antarctica. Both are essentially frozen deserts so when moisture increases accumulation of snow in the Arctic and Antarctic increases. When this increase in moisture coincides with a solar minimum and/or a Milankovitch winter, permanent snow pack begins to move southward, increasing the albedo of the planet, moving the world toward a new glacial cycle. Since the poles are always very cold in an ice age, it is ironic that it is actually increased warming - leading to more moisture - that is a catalyst for the return of continental ice sheets.
Nice article. As an avid skier myself, a few of my substack essays have centered on winter, snow, and skiing. A recent one about the hypocrisy of the organization known as POW (Protect Our Winters), is here: https://open.substack.com/pub/trevorcasper/p/pow-misfires?r=1qevah&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web