This year, record cold and heavy snowfall have swept across North America and the world, casting doubt once again on the global warming narrative pushed by liberals, environmentalists, and other advocates. The “melting ice” frequently cited in climate change warnings has nearly returned to its original state, with significant refreezing observed.
In the Northeast, last year saw a record 11-foot snowfall, and Florida even experienced snow this year during a record-cold winter. As extreme cold and heavy snowfall persist, the notion of global warming is increasingly being exposed as a flawed theory.
According to the U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the average temperature of the global land surface in January 2008 fell below the 20th-century mean for the first time since 1982. Cold conditions spanned large regions of central Asia, the Middle East, western parts of the U.S., Alaska, and southeastern China. These freezing temperatures contributed to the largest January snow cover extent on record for the Northern Hemisphere and Eurasian continent.
In the U.S., the average temperature in January was 30.5°F, slightly below the 20th-century average. The month ranked as the 49th coolest January on record, with North America experiencing the heaviest snowfall since the 1960s.
Furthermore, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center found that while the Northern Hemisphere’s sea ice extent remained below the 1979-2000 mean, it was still greater than in the previous four years. In the Southern Hemisphere, sea ice extent in January 2008 was significantly above the 30-year average, ranking as the largest in the historical period.
Meanwhile, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that much of the supposedly “lost” ice had returned. Ice levels, which had shrunk from 5 million square miles in January 2007 to 1.5 million square miles by October, have almost fully recovered to their previous levels.
