Most of the US is suffering the coldest January in years. It snowed in Baghdad last week for the first time in living memory. The rest of the Middle-East is having unusual cold with frost threatening crops in Jordan. Even Egypt is running colder than normal. China is having problems after unusually heavy snowfall. Greenland is having the sort of winter they used to have decades ago. All of the Arctic ice that was reported melted last Summer is back again.
So, what does this mean about global warming? Nothing. It's all within normal climate variations.
But - if this had been a warm year like last year then we would be hearing a constant stream of stories about global warming.
This is a big problem with the news media. Long-term climate changes are not noticeable but they are convinced that global warming is a big story. Big stories need to be constantly fed. The reporters need to see effects of global warming right now in terms that anyone would recognize. So, anytime there is a weather event of any kind, they hunt up an expert who assures them that it is caused by global warming.
I'm sure that somewhere out there a climatologist is insisting that the current cold winter is caused by global warming.
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