Weather vs. Global Warming: It's not the same thing

With harsh cold temperatures and feet of snow, the east is bathed in a brittle cold spell. Britain has had a winter season with such unexpected low temperatures, pundits have been caught off guard and climate change deniers have found new fodder to laugh off 98% of the world's scientists.

Problem for deniers like Wallin, Will and Murphy is that they mistake weather for climate. To the uninformed, it's an easy mistake to make. Let me makes this clear: weather is seasonal and transitory, climate data is pruned from much longer periods of time. Don't take my word for it; just ask NASA.

While the right is bending over backwards to deny, The New York Times presents a coherent breakdown of what is actually happening to the earth according to facts and other scientific data, you know those inconvenient liberal things.

That is why the Eastern United States, Northern Europe and East Asia have experienced extraordinarily snowy and cold winters since the turn of this century. Most forecasts have failed to predict these colder winters, however, because the primary drivers in their models are the oceans, which have been warming even as winters have grown chillier. They have ignored the snow in Siberia.Last week, the British government asked its chief science adviser for an explanation. My advice to him is to look to the east.
It’s all a snow job by nature. The reality is, we’re freezing not in spite of climate change but because of it.

UPDATE: In an unusually bit of candid wingnuttia, rightbloggers are all over the Times piece. One of the dimmer nuts, Doug Ross, alleges its a 'lampoon' of the Global Warming claims. Ha!