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Doug Powers
This time of year, especially under the conditions much of the country
is experiencing, we see people who are digging out from under tons of
snow who are mocking "global warming." This ticks off global warming
bureaucrats for two reasons: 1) They need to quickly develop
alternative excuses (which they have), and 2) Your heavy winter
clothing makes it more difficult for them to reach your wallet.
But a good global warmist wouldn't win an episode of Eco-Fear Factor
unless he or she could explain how global warming can indeed bury us
in snow (because, as you know, it never snowed before global warming
started a few years ago).
Here's the basis for the "blizzards caused by global warming"
argument: NASA reported that 1.5 trillion and 2 trillion tons of ice
in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted at an accelerated rate
since 2003. One blogger at the Daily Kos ("It is wise to study the
ways of ones adversary") echoed other global warmists and explained
our harsh winter:
When ice melts, the surrounding air or water cools down, basic
thermodynamics. It would be ironic if that cooler air and water from
excess northern melt were to work their way south a little farther and
a little earlier in the season than they otherwise would have, and
maybe even help fuel an occasional localized snow or ice storm, which
right-wing climate change skeptics, especially those bearing a
borderline pathological obsession with Al Gore, would then seize on as
evidence that global warming is ... well not sure exactly.
Thermodynamics? Okay, good. Physics can explain all this. But what it
can't explain is that thermodynamics doesn't know if it's summer or
winter.
If the melting ice is making the surrounding air cooler and making
temperatures drop more in wintertime (in locations very far away), how
come the same melting ice isn't making those same locations cooler in
the summertime? Is the ice not melting in the summertime? Yes it is,
according to satellite data. And if all that ice melt is cooling the
surrounding air, shouldn't that lowered air temperature slow the melt
instead of speed it up?
When the eco-left is using occasionally stifling summer heat (which,
again, never happened until global warming started a few years ago) as
evidence of global warming, where is this magical and far-reaching
thermodynamic cooling? That must be the time of year that
thermodynamics is on summer break. Al Gore, unfortunately, is never on
break.
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