A Warm December in Washington

“End times must be on the way,” she said, her smile suggesting no concern.

That should be the end of it. It is weather. Weather is variable. It has been warm in Washington in December before.

“By early afternoon, the temperature had vaulted to 69 degrees at Reagan National Airport, the highest Christmas reading in more than 30 years, and far warmer than the customary high of 44 degrees.”

If warm Decembers have occurred in the past then today’s weather is not unprecedented. It is not a sign of the dreaded ‘global warming’ the global warming pushers keep trying to sell us.

The climate changes continuously and while in the East a warm December has been enjoyed in the West winter has been its normal deadly self.

And then we have this - record cold tied in LA - 36 set in 1916. Evidence of global cooling?

If the warm December in Washington is a sign of global warming then what does the cold in the west signify?

And how does CO2 decide to warm one area and cool another? Is it bipolar?

Or does CO2 concentration have nothing to do with the weather or the climate?

Weather history provides the answer. If bad weather happens at lower levels of CO2 and at higher levels then the concentration of CO2 is irrelevant as a cause. As someone once joked: the difference between a low CO2 blizzard and a high CO2 blizzard is that the snow is white. The conclusion that CO2 is irrelevant is strengthened if the trends in ‘bad weather’ are not increasing as CO2 rises. Indeed, the Mother Nature Climate Network shows no increase in the frequency or severity of extreme weather which is not to downplay the seriousness of the extreme weather that does occur. There are more of us with more stuff to lose so a modern event can be injurious to a lot of people and property. But CO2 is NOT to blame.

We owe CO2 an apology.

And the warm December in Washington has now passed. CO2 couldn’t trap the heat?