If There’s Global Warming … Why Is It So Cold?

It’s that time of year, the perennial “It’s snowing so […]

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January 29, 2014

It’s that time of year, the perennial “It’s snowing so it can’t be warming” season – or, as scientists call it, “winter”. Depends on where you’re standing, actually — I stood on a frozen lake with Dr. Jeff Masters to discuss the current planetary changes, but at the same time, in Alaska, historic warm temperatures were unfolding, and across the west, the deepest drought in decades…

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52 Comments

  1. jebus6kryst January 29, 2014 at 1:47 am - Reply

    Thank you for sharing.

  2. edgarrice January 29, 2014 at 1:48 am - Reply

    “They’ve got to find a way to attach this to the global warming agenda, and
    they have, it’s called…”

    science

  3. mik1984 January 29, 2014 at 2:01 am - Reply

    Climate change is already having a catastrophic impact throughout the
    planet on the mental health of environmentalists and left-wing ideologues.
    Other than that, climate change resulting due to the anthropogenic increase
    of CO2 in the atmosphere is details aside a slow and harmless process. All
    issues that may be of any concern are far more manageable for the human
    civilization than the resignation from the utilisation of carbon based
    fossils as combustible fuel.

  4. simon24h January 29, 2014 at 3:31 am - Reply

    4th. really only 3 copmments so far, probably being 50 by now, since
    i I loaded the page. Didn’t there used to be a youtube feature to live load
    the comments as they appear? Maybe it’s still there and this is the 4th
    comment.

    +mik1984 That day where you have stop usinmg thiese precious fossil fuels
    will come anyway since they will just run out. And on the way to that the
    will become so expensive that you can’t afford them.

  5. TheBetterGame January 29, 2014 at 4:07 am - Reply

    Leave it to rush to claim that since he hasn’t heard of something, we just
    made it up!

  6. DaithiDublin January 29, 2014 at 8:18 am - Reply

    Nice montage, thanks.
    It’s maddening to think that with easier access to information than ever
    before, fewer people know the answer to this question than know what Katy
    Perry was wearing at the Grammy’s this year. I’d offer the less P.C.
    alternate title:
    *If there are so many idiots.. .. why are we described as intelligent life?*

  7. Michael Umbricht January 29, 2014 at 5:22 pm - Reply

    Why we’re all doomed: this excellent video has been watched 273 times,
    while “Peeing in Below Freezing Minnesota Weather” has 1,867,224 views

    #PolarVortex #ClimateChange

  8. TheJimsock January 29, 2014 at 5:34 pm - Reply

    What we see here is somebody trying to dovetail Media and Science.

    Media thrives on crisis. It’s warm? It’s a crisis. It’s cold? It’s a
    crisis.

    Nothing going on is the least bit unusual.

    Records of one sort or another get broken every season, every year.
    Why?
    1. Because we’ve only been monitoring it for a historical blink of an eye.
    2. The United States has the world’s worst weather as it always has.
    Ever wonder why the Mayans developed so much more rapidly than North
    American Natives? It’s because the weather sux in North America. It’s too
    freakin’ cold making the growing season too short.

    Things were promised to get worse. Well, tornado activity is down and it
    has been six years since a hurricane made land-fall on the US.

    If you don’t like the climate here, move. It’s not that difficult.

    If you retired in Helsinki and moved to Singapore, you would instantly
    begin a mean temperature increase of 22 degrees for the rest of your life.
    Not only will it not kill you, your life span will increase.

    A warmer planet is better for humans. Try not to be anti-human.

  9. Desertphile January 29, 2014 at 8:35 pm - Reply

    There was a bit of ice on the window outside this morning! That proves Al
    Gore is evil!

  10. forsiite111 January 29, 2014 at 10:27 pm - Reply

    Oh you know, global warming does not mean it will be hot all over in winter
    for one. 2, you likely have not researched global dimming and its effects.
    3, the Sun is entering a minimum it seems which will give us extremely cold
    winters. Thank the Sun

  11. Brandi Besecker January 29, 2014 at 10:34 pm - Reply

    Just something to think about. I’m tired of people that follow me on
    facebook and twitter that constantly make snide comments about how
    #climatechange is non-existent because of the cold #weather patterns
    right now. They are so narrow-minded that they refuse to look at the world
    as a whole. Look outside the Mid-Atlantic United States, or the
    Southeastern United States, wherever you’re from. You will see the planet’s
    climate is in fact trending warmer.

  12. Lina Moussa January 30, 2014 at 3:11 am - Reply

    “The end of January cold spell and heavy snows raise questions for some
    about the links between frigid weather and a warming Arctic. ”

    If There’s Global Warming … Why Is It So Cold?

    If There’s Global Warming … Why Is It So Cold?

  13. Vilnis Krumins January 30, 2014 at 4:35 am - Reply

    Excellent video for the climate change debate … Alaska is currently
    having record high temps????

  14. M Robinson January 30, 2014 at 4:46 am - Reply

    I almost slipped on my way to the car. It’s all Obama’s fault!

  15. Nicolas Decourten January 30, 2014 at 5:56 am - Reply

    Global warming is a silly lie. Everyone with any sense realizes that
    climate change is actually caused by turtles. It’s turtles all the way
    down!!

  16. Tim Edwards January 30, 2014 at 6:29 am - Reply

    If There’s Global Warming … Why Is It So Cold?

  17. Collin Maessen January 30, 2014 at 7:18 am - Reply
  18. Nate McD January 30, 2014 at 7:22 am - Reply

    If There’s Global Warming … Why Is It So Cold?

  19. graveyardrumblers January 30, 2014 at 7:40 am - Reply

    MANBEARPIG IS REAL I TELLS YA!!!

    Leave it to the arrogance of man to think he can control everything
    including the weather.

  20. Vill Pill January 30, 2014 at 8:29 am - Reply

    Did no one see the memo leaked from al gores office last year saying the
    global warming myth is making us a lot of money. That’s why you don’t see
    him he was caught lying and he is hiding. Its all bullshit

  21. davidmcccsf January 30, 2014 at 11:55 am - Reply

    The shutdown of solar activity evidenced by this current solar max just
    ending being lower than average minimums and the prediction of decades more
    even lower activities are going to put us in a (mini?) ice age-that is
    fact. Climatologists always leave out THE determining factor of the sun. It
    drives earths climate. That is fact. Global WARMongers convolute with
    government to further the decline of middle class and poor through carbon
    taxing which corporation will write off or receive subsidies. This is a
    crock of….

  22. davidmcccsf January 30, 2014 at 11:59 am - Reply

    And the California and West Cost in fact historically were dry-REAL dry.
    The last century has been unbelievably wet… The West Coast is returning
    to historical norms. Funny how they don’t look back to history. Anything to
    justify their agenda…and everyone just eats this pile up.

  23. HeartlandTuber January 30, 2014 at 1:41 pm - Reply

    Viewers and denialists especially are invited to review the weather in
    Australia. They are in the middle of summer. And it is hot as Hades.
    Temperatures day after day topping 122 degrees F. Whole ecosystems such as
    bat colonies being killed off by the heat. Imagine 10’s of thousands of
    bats falling from the skies dead a few weeks ago. Similar high heat
    patterns are also happening in South America in some areas. Last year was
    in the top four hottest years globally on record. We are frying the planet;
    disturbing ecosystems; breaking up weather patterns that have been stable
    for millenia and longer. Yet we will find no solutions, which ultimately I
    suspect will require emergency technological solutions to geo-engineer heat
    dissipation, reflection, or atmospheric carbon sequestration, because the
    wealth and the corporations and the politicians prefer hanging on to power,
    and blinding themselves to the consequences of our industrial atmospheric
    emissions on the planet. In other words, my children and grandchildren are
    faced with a very bleak future. We have ignored this problem until we are
    past the tipping point. And the future is looking grim for our planet, its
    biodiversity, and weather patterns. We are in fact in the anthropocene age,
    the anthropocene mass extinction, and its due to anthropogenic climate
    change, including out of control global warming.

  24. Wirendra Tjakrawerdaja January 30, 2014 at 3:14 pm - Reply

    This is not cool…

  25. Victor Miller January 30, 2014 at 3:22 pm - Reply
  26. mountainzummit January 30, 2014 at 5:09 pm - Reply
  27. Chris Dalrymple January 30, 2014 at 6:23 pm - Reply

    Refreshingly rational.

  28. Kevin O'Brien January 30, 2014 at 7:26 pm - Reply

    Get some facts, folks. Snow in January does *not* disprove global warming.

  29. greiteneis January 31, 2014 at 12:16 am - Reply

    i slipped on ice today…checkmate climatologists!

  30. dumass00072 January 31, 2014 at 1:50 am - Reply

    Does anyone other than me have issue with them blatantly changing from
    “Global Warming” to “climate change”!!! Yes, weather conditions change; No
    shit. And all of those idiots bitching about co2 a change of 200 ppm THAT
    IS 0.02%! TWO HUNDREDTHS OF A PERCENT. Fuck it. What a waste of time

  31. David Bicking January 31, 2014 at 3:20 am - Reply

    Here is an explanation of why it is so cold in middle America, and so warm
    in Alaska

  32. Francisco Cabrita January 31, 2014 at 3:00 pm - Reply

    Get some facts, folks. Snow in January does *not* disprove global warming.

  33. Mike Matessa January 31, 2014 at 4:19 pm - Reply

    In the US, why is it cold in the East and warm in the West? The polar
    vortex.

  34. Jon G. January 31, 2014 at 6:38 pm - Reply

    That graphic that they analyzed the northern hemisphere temps in early
    January now is replaced by brutal cold in Russia and continued cold shots
    in the CONUS.

    You guys sure love to cherry pick data.

    Dr. Masters lives 20 miles from me. His reference to -15 versus +30 last
    year was more cherry picking. We had days of -30 departures this year and
    perhaps a day of mid +20’s departure last year… But beyond that, he is
    definitely in damage mode.

  35. solarwind907 February 1, 2014 at 9:31 am - Reply

    Seems like a reasonable approach. The Rutgers lady basically says “it walks
    like a duck and quacks like a duck” but she’s not ready to make the claim
    that our weather woes are ABSOLUTELY caused by global warming. Her comments
    are logical and consistent with what you’d expect from a scientist. She
    gives us the facts and doesn’t try to color them one way or another
    Rush on the other hand is a talk show guy who gets paid a lot of money to
    misinform people and confuse issues. It’s no small wonder he was addicted
    to oxycontin. When you are a paid liar like he is, it can’t be easy to
    sleep at night OR look yourself in the mirror in the morning. What a cross
    to bear!
    Thanks to those responsble for the video for making it accessible to
    everyone! : )

  36. g mverber February 1, 2014 at 4:58 pm - Reply

    It is refreshing to see this compilation video. Very informative. Very
    clear explanation of why we are experiencing the current stable, and
    unpleasant weather pattern in the US.

    The most worrisome issue raised is the severely reduced snowpack in the
    Sierra. This next summer is going to bring a true crisis to California.

    It would have been nice if the clips had been audio-normalized when
    spliced, as the production version commentary varies between inaudible and
    painfully loud.

  37. Bernie M February 1, 2014 at 8:24 pm - Reply

    A lot of emphasis on the past year’s experience, not enough attention on
    longer term trends, so this video doesn’t make a strong case illustrating
    that climate change in a real, on-going phenomena. That case can surely be
    made. so it is unfortunate that this opportunity didn’t do it.

  38. Borley4 February 1, 2014 at 11:16 pm - Reply

    Global worming is created by the media. They want to never run out on news
    stuff about the weather.

  39. Alfredo Romero February 2, 2014 at 12:28 pm - Reply

    Extrema sequía e intensas heladas se combinan en el cambio climático que
    afecta a USA!!!

  40. Andy Rhodes February 3, 2014 at 4:41 am - Reply

    Thank you, Yale Climate Change Forum! I’ve been trying to explain this
    stuff from a common sense perspective to my friends who are skeptics
    regarding Climate Change and Global Warming. This video is very helpful.
    The general public really needs to understand that Global Warming is the
    long term trend and that it causes “global weirdness”, in that normative
    weather patterns are radically altered. The Earth has many mechanisms by
    which to reset deviations like this, but there is a limit. Even if Climate
    Change and Global Warming was not real, strict and serious regulation of
    ecological health would still be absolutely necessary: this is only planet
    we have – why not dramatically increase our efforts to clean up our
    abuses/mistakes in this area and maintain sustainability for the living
    spaces belonging to us and non-human animals?

  41. Gadi Yosef February 3, 2014 at 2:19 pm - Reply

    This is important.

  42. Vill Pill February 4, 2014 at 9:03 pm - Reply

    Al gore

  43. Community ARK Project February 5, 2014 at 7:22 am - Reply

    Does it matter whether global warming is due to man made or natural
    causes? The devastating effects are still the same. It’s like wasting
    resource and time arguing over whether the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant
    disaster is cause by nature or by human negligence, the effects are still
    the same. So if the elites, having access to think tanks and vast number
    of scientists, have figured out that the environment is going to collapse;
    and they are preparing by building underground cities and seed vault for
    themselves using public tax money. Why aren’t the common folks taking
    lesson from them, pool resources and do the same to prepare? It’s like
    sitting around and watching Noah as he build his ark and not take the
    hint. Just food for thoughts. This is a gathering call. For more info,
    check out the “about” section of the Project channel.

  44. Wim Ahlers February 5, 2014 at 11:52 am - Reply

    “…or, as scientists call it, “winter”. …”

    Now that remark is funny :-)

    Though tragic some people use it to deny global warming, and its
    consequence, climate change :-(

  45. myplayer12 February 6, 2014 at 12:26 am - Reply

    Global warming causes Global cooling, but then Global cooling cause global
    warming? Those poor warmists, they must be soooo confused right now. I
    wonder… how do they get to sleep at night?

  46. Olucatei February 6, 2014 at 3:58 am - Reply

    The jet stream looks to have gone from buzzed Bessel function to hammered
    sine function. We should probably close out its tab, but I like driving and
    eating. I especially like eating.

  47. usagill February 6, 2014 at 7:56 pm - Reply

    Global Warming, LOL. It is called weather and most of these
    pseudo-scientists are schmucks. When will they stop the scam. California is
    going to be a desert. LOL

  48. Armahx February 9, 2014 at 7:02 pm - Reply

    Here it is a week later and California is getting dumped on, how about that
    the climate is changing.
    I like how they show the arctic and Siberia in yellows and reds as if it’s
    70 degrees up there, it may be a few degrees above normal but still 5 below
    zero or whatever.

  49. citizenwangpeng February 13, 2014 at 3:35 am - Reply

    My take on those who write on this page that they think climate change is a
    lie or something like that is that they seem not to either understand or
    acknowledge basic statistical measures of dispersion. They seem not to
    understand what a global average is and what outliers are.

  50. Michael Leavitt February 14, 2014 at 11:52 am - Reply

    *This Is Not Cool*

  51. Juuso Vilmunen February 16, 2014 at 12:06 am - Reply

    If There’s Global Warming … Why Is It So Cold? #agw #climatechange

  52. Mike Hunt April 5, 2014 at 11:24 pm - Reply

    We are all going to die!

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