Image: A final comment on the blizzard: USA! GFS! USA! GFS!
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Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly “Wednesday Wakeup” newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne…), starting with an acknowledgement that, while we typically claim climate zealots call heat climate and cold just weather, some have lately been blaming cold on global warming, while refusing to acknowledge that the winter they didn’t predict has exposed the weakness of the grid they did design, plus climate being to blame for high California home prices not because of fires and hurricanes but because people pay extra to be away from cold, and a California wildflower extravaganza despite claims heat killed everything nice, moving on to how we might praise the energy transition if it ever happened but it didn’t and politicians are backpeddling, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive into this summer’s “red team” climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on how models predict stratospheric cooling that didn’t happen while Qing-bin Lu predicted stratospheric warming because in his view h-GHGs not CO2 were driving late 20th-century warming, models predict decreasing Northern Hemisphere snow cover but it went up, models predict higher “albedo” for the Northern than Southern Hemisphere but data say otherwise, and the models predicted heat would kill the U.S. corn crop and it didn’t, polar bears flourishing and from CO2Science.org, “Goldenclub” isn’t a James Bond film but an American aquatic plant that (cue dramatic music) has a carbon touch
Denmark’s Cold Winter; Freeze To Delay Washington’s Cherry Blossoms; Aomori Orchards Under Deep Snow; + Japan Blames Its Record Snowfall On ‘Global Warming’