Sorry. I couldn’t help it.

Many years ago, I made a resolution to stop poking fun at global-warming believers with news stories about unusual cold weather, snow storms, and blizzards.

Although global-warming myth-makers never tire of reporting every unusual hot spell as though it were proof of their claims, I knew it was dishonest to imply that short-term events mean anything except that they are short-term events. Yes, of course, there will be unusual hot spells, even in periods of planetary cooling. I resented the fact that the media was playing mind games with the public, and I resolved that, if we are to take the high ground, we must not stoop to that tactic. Since then, we have never reported on unusual cold spells in such a way as to imply they disproved the theory of global warming. Only reliable records of long-term trends can do that – and those we do report.

As you can see from the photo at the top of this week’s edition, I broke my promise. Sorry, but I just couldn’t help it. I take comfort in the thought that no jury of my peers would ever convict me.

Here are two news stories from this week that are back on track of just reporting the facts.

A team of scientists at Stockholm University performed a study of climate and geology and compiled twelve centuries of ‘water history’ for Europe, North Asia, and North America. They concluded that current climate models and rainfall predictions are wrong. They found that there were more dramatic wet-dry weather extremes (climate change) in earlier centuries long before the industrial revolution that now is blamed for climate change and global warming. AFP 2016 Apr 6 (Story) (Cached)

To keep the myth of global warming alive in the minds of Americans, the White House issued a warning on April 4th that ‘extreme heat is expected to cause an increase in the number of premature deaths’. On that same day, the National Weather Service issued advisories for April snowstorms. A bitter-cold Arctic front descended on New England, the Upper Midwest, and Great-Lakes areas bringing heavy snowfall expected to last through next week. CNS News 2016 Apr 4 (Story) (Cached)

G. Edward Griffin
2016 April 8