When I wrote that denizens of the east coast had to shovel a couple of feet of global warming, I was right:
…this record-breaking snowstorm is pretty much precisely what climate science predicts. Since one typically can’t make a direct association between any individual weather event and global warming, perhaps the best approach is to borrow and modify a term from the scientific literature and call this a “global-warming-type” deluge…
Global warming. Is there anything that it can’t do?
More over at The American Spectator, where I got the link, with some history in comments:
The worst storm for the East Coast occured in late Jan 1888 (just a few weeks after the horrible Children’s Blizzard). The entire Mid Atlantic states were buried under 15-20 foot snow drifts
The strongest cyclone to hit the UK occured in the 17th Century, and resulted portions of upper Scottland be buried under 60 foot of sand.
Some of the most spectacular rain fall events for Europe occured in the 14th and 15th centuries, which caused widespread famine and starvation. In Normandy, during the summer of 1318 it rained every day but 3.
Ditto for China. The 14th through the 17th centuries saw both record droughts and rainfalls.
And none can be attributed to AGW.
Of course it can. The planet was anticipating our voracious energy usage in the future.
I just re-read Feynman’s speech on Cargo Cult Science…
http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/02/CargoCult.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science
…and could not believe the parallels with the catastrophic AGW narrative.
Anyone who calls this “science” is clearly ignorant of what the term really means.
Every winter brings proof that AGW is not falsifiable, and therefore is not science.