{"id":12613,"date":"2013-03-21T20:03:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T00:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=12613"},"modified":"2013-03-21T20:03:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T00:03:34","slug":"bloom-off-of-global-warming-on-first-day-of-brrrr-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/bloom-off-of-global-warming-on-first-day-of-brrrr-spring","title":{"rendered":"Bloom off of global warming on first day of (brrrr) spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/weather.aol.com\/media\/2013\/03\/winter-storm-massachuconn.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst day of spring?\u201d said a WWJ-Detroit Radio forecasterWednesday morning in frigid, below-normal, 21-degree, Midwest temperatures with little relief in sight. \u201cFeels more like the first day of January.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What a difference\u00a0a year makes.<\/p>\n<p>Last March, the media welcomed spring in a panic over global warming, as local and national media sensationalized unseasonably warm temperatures. \u201c\u201dMeteorologists and other weather commentators have frequently commented they\u2019ve never seen anything like this, exhausting superlatives,\u201d hyperventilated Washington Post meteorologist Jason Samenow, citing the usual Horsemen of the Apocalypse, NASA\u2019s James Hansen and activist Bill McKibben. \u201cThe background increases in greenhouse gases \u2013 at levels unprecedented in at least 800,000 years \u2013 are stacking the deck for more extreme heat events such as this and we have observed increases in average and extremely high temperatures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was soooo 12 months ago. As usual, the global warming crowd was confusing weather and climate (not to mention hysteria and science). The science tells us\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-2160456\/Its-wonder-worlds-cooling-climate-change.html\">the globe hasn\u2019t warmed in 14 years<\/a>, even as the planet trends warmer out of the Little Ice Age of the mid-19th century.<\/p>\n<p>Weather makes for great anecdotal scare stories with which to push more regulation. Not surprisingly, the media hysteria was non-existent this week as Samenow &amp; Co. went back to reading temperature forecasts. \u201cAnd the chilly air is here to stay for a while,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2013\/03\/19\/pm-update-back-to-a-winter-chill-on-springs-first-day\/\">deadpanned Samenow<\/a>. New England welcomed spring with a foot of snow. No screaming headlines. No predictions of disaster. Nothing to see here, just move along.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say that the green crowd isn\u2019t still beating the drums for a carbon tax (never mind the pain of declining American incomes). The New York Times\u2019 Tom Friedman continues to flog his favorite weather event \u2013 Superstorm Sandy \u2013 as evidence the climate is in chaos. But a simple check of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heartland.org\/2013\/02\/revisiting-superstorm-sandy-part-i-spinning-climate-weather-for-political-points\/\">scientific history finds<\/a>\u00a0plenty of Sandy-like behemoths over the centuries: 1667, 1693, 1788, 1821, 1893, 1938, 1944, 1954, 1960, and so on (the 1938 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/02\/nyregion\/02towns.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Long Island Express<\/a>\u201d hit NYC as a Category 3 hurricane, churned up 18-foot storm surges, and killed 60 New Yorkers).<\/p>\n<p>So happy spring, everyone. Enjoy the blessed silence of the green lobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFirst day of spring?\u201d said a WWJ-Detroit Radio forecasterWednesday morning in frigid, below-normal, 21-degree, Midwest temperatures with little relief in sight. \u201cFeels more like the first day of January.\u201d What a difference\u00a0a year makes. Last March, the media welcomed spring in a panic over global warming, as local and national media sensationalized unseasonably warm temperatures. 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