Via Linnea Lueken
A Google news search for the term “climate change” comes up a yahoo news The article claims that autumn weather is disappearing and being replaced by a sudden change from the hot temperatures of summer to the cold early winter. This is wrong. Sudden cold spells and even heavy snowfall are not unusual in the fall, and the data show no evidence of a significant change from previous summer-to-fall transitions. when compared to more recent times.
In the article, “What happened to the fall? Scientists point to climate change,” writer Ben Adler claims that “experts” say fall has “almost disappeared.” In recognition of Adler’s credit, he interviewed two climate researchers – one of them, Judah Cohen, enthusiastically supported Adler’s story, but the other was a little more hesitant to agree.
Adler wrote:
“We are seeing a sudden change in weather here in the fall, where it can be very warm, there can be record warm temperatures, and then very quickly we could move into a period very cold,” Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, told Yahoo News.
Experts like Cohen say climate change is a factor. The weather is erratic and most individual events cannot be attributed to climate change, but climate change is creating conditions that, starting with a longer, hotter summer, make many year has fewer autumns.
“Weather whiplash” is not among the approved ones meteorological terms, and appears to be a deliberately sensational depiction of ordinary weather phenomena such as sudden cold spells. It is not a new statement, as discussed in a Climate realism parcel, herewhere Sterling Burnett explains that “extreme weather” is the result of natural conditions such as atmospheric river event and other things that have been known to happen since the beginning of record keeping.
One of the “evidence” pointed out by Adler is recent the temperature is colder than average in October and November, and record snowfall in Buffalo, New York. Buffalo Niagara International Airport measured a local record of 21.5 inches of snowfall in a single day, making it the second-highest single-day snowfall airport in November for the region. Number one place taken, according to to local weather data, on November 20, 2000, 24.9 inches of snow in one day. While the record numbers are impressive, November snowfall is not unusual for Buffalo. display profile that the “daily heavy snowfall” in November has occurred since at least 1913.
A second scientist interviewed by Adler, Matthew Barlow, a professor of climate science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, pointed out that while he believes warm weather will last into late fall, he doesn’t. that there is strong evidence to confirm that that year’s summer is rapidly turning to winter, or that global warming increases meteorological trend disruptions that could lead to a rapid transition so.
“I think there is still no consensus on that, on whether there is an increase in faulting or stretching of the polar vortex or whether the jet stream is becoming more rippling, at least in the North Atlantic. There’s certainly some evidence of that, but I don’t think there’s a consensus,” Barlow said yahoo news.
This is true, yes There is no scientific consensus about whether the jet stream changes in a way that could increase the likelihood of severe cold spells. Evidence to the contrary exists, for example in A glimpse of the climate: Cold spells, the data collected shows that there is indeed more evidence that extreme cold temperatures are less. This is really a reason to celebrate, because cold weather is to blame ten times the number of deaths such as extreme heat, according to a peer-reviewed mortality study in Fingertips.
Adler seemed to have a specific conclusion in mind—that fall weather is disappearing due to climate change—and hunted down a researcher to back his unscientific hypothesis. Following the links in the article will lead you into a never-ending spiral of articles that make unsubstantiated claims without data-driven research. That’s because there’s no data to back up the claim that the normal seasonal transition is being disrupted, with summer skipping fall and transitioning straight into winter. yahoo news should celebrate the overall decline in extreme cold weather, rather than trying to upset readers with the questionable “loss” of their favorite season. contradictory to Yahoo News statement, autumn is here to stay.
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Linnea Lueken is a Research Fellow with the Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy. As a Heartland Institute intern in 2018, she co-authored the Heartland Institute Policy Brief “Unmasking Four Persistent Myths About Hydraulic Fracture”.
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