Remember when I wrote this:
The Church of Global Warming has some explaining to do.
BUENOS AIRES — Thousands of Argentines cheered and threw snowballs in the streets of Buenos Aires on Monday as the capital’s first major snowfall since 1918 spread a thin white mantle across the region.
Wet snow fell for hours in the Argentine capital, accumulating in a mushy but thin white layer late Monday, after freezing air from Antarctica collided with a moisture-laden low pressure system that blanketed higher elevations in western and central Argentina with snow.
“Despite all my years, this is the first time I’ve ever seen in snow in Buenos Aires,†said Juana Benitez, an 82-year-old who joined children celebrating in the streets.
I have yet to find it, but somewhere there is a blogger or true-believer that is saying the snowfall is due to global warming.
It didn’t take long for me to find it.
Although the article does not support the idea that the snowfall was caused by Global WarmingTM, a couple of the commenters beg to differ:
Al Gore in the movie An Inconvenient Truth actually does mention the paradox that warming leads to more snowfall because of increased precipitation in the atmospehere.
….and global warming denialists will try to use this as evidence that the planet isn’t warming. (There was snow in Vegas a couple years ago, and LA!)
Of course, it can be evidence of global warming, because it could be a side effect of some heat transfer. Feel the back of your fridge. It’s hot. Does that mean the inside of the fridge is hot? No. The back of the fridge is hotter because the inside of the fridge is colder. Heat transfers always do this.
You cannot rule out global warming (GW) yet. Although signs are indicative of a weather phenomena, if we see this events cycle period decrease, such as happening another few times in the next decade, then GW could well be attributed to this cause.
It wasn’t all disciples spilling the scripture of the Church. There was a really great question there that blew me away with its directness:
Was it global warming when it snowed in Buenos Aires 90 years ago?
Brilliant.
