It's so Hot, it's Snowing?

Snow is everywhere today. All corners of North America are reporting snowfall, even Hawaii is seeing snow in the mountains. This has brought with it some delight, some inconvenience and the occasional Al Gore joke. More so then anything else, it has brought questions and doubt adding to the climate change debate. As this weather continues, global warming alarmist scrabble to to provide answers designed to keep the faith, but are these explanations plausible? Lets examine.

One explanation offered is 'Increased temperatures will create more precipitation, so therefore all this unusual weather is a product of Global Warming.' There is partial truth to this. The high the air temperature the greater the evaporation rate of water and the the amount of water the air can hold. As air warms it rises and as it rises it cools. When cooling occurs the amount of water air can hold decreases so you get clouds and then precipitation. So this principle would be correct in causing more rain in Texas and more snow in Wisconsin at this time of year. Obviously that is not what is happening. Why is Texas and Florida getting snow at all? That was not normal before people where heating the Earth, how come it can be happening now? What has happened is that the warm moist air that travels north east from the Pacific ocean and the Gulf of Mexico has mixed with a very large, very cold mass of air that is slowly moving south west. This cold air mass is what is unusual. Normally the Arctic air warms enough that by the time it reaches the southern states it just cause rain and slightly cooler temperatures. This time it was able remain below freezing at lower latitudes and allowed for snow. If global warming was occurring, there would be rain at higher latitudes, which would be unusual for this time of year. In the end it was the introduction of this cold air mass, that should not exist in a warming scenario, and not the increased amount of water vapour in the air that caused this situation. This explanation does not hold water.

'Not all weather is effected by global warming.' This is a great explanation. What is being said here is that every weather situation that can support global warming theory is "Global Warming", all weather that can't is "magic." For years proponents of global warming have been telling us that this man made disaster would effect ALL weather on Earth, in EVERY aspect. Now science can take a snow day? It can when it is not science. You see real science has law and principles that can not be conveniently removed to prove or support a position. That would be politics. This kind of statement is an admittance that they do not know enough about what factors effect climate change, and they using it to justify another agenda.

There is the problem. Global warming has stopped being a study a long time ago. It has become as faith driven and dogmatic as any world religion. We are at the point now that global warming clerics don't even bother to offer explanations, they just tell us "it is a global warming" and that is it.

The pursuit of knowledge is a worthy cause and should be encouraged. Though doubt and questioning we can advance the issue and find the facts. Those who are in search of truth would not try to silence people and be dismissive to legitimate doubt. We need to ask questions. Why is the weather colder, not warmer? Why is every government solution a wealth redistribution policy and not a total pollution reduction policy? Why haven't globe warming proponents corrected the public when they assigned events to warming that are unrelated (example: 2004 Tsunami). We can neither afford to believe in corrupted ideologies or follow those who propounder it to us. If these alarmist where the least bit intellectually honest they would be admitting their theory does not account for the current happenings, but instead they offer nonsensical rationalizations. So ask away. Ask every question that comes to mind and don't just settle for 'it's snowing because it is warmer.'