by Nick Pope
The Daily Caller
Numerous corporate media outlets have recently published stories asserting that snow is disappearing in North America because of climate change, but data derived directly from government statistics appears to contradict that notion.
Bloomberg News, CNN and The Washington Post have all published stories in the new year suggesting that climate change is increasingly relegating snow to the annals of history. While the outlets reference a new study published in Nature, a leading scientific journal, that found North American snowpack has declined over the last several decades, data from Rutgers University’s Global Snow Lab shows that there has been a clear upward trend in snow cover on the continent since 1967.
“Snow varies every year. Are there going to be differences? Yes, but so what?” Steve Milloy, a senior legal fellow for the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The media is only intentionally going to report stuff that is consistent with the narrative. Once again, even if there is reduced snowpack, you can’t look at variations across time and space and attribute those to emissions. … Until you can show that emissions are causing whatever is happening, then you really have nothing.”
“If the science was settled, these guys would be able to predict what is going to happen every year. But of course, they can’t,” Milloy added.
Bloomberg headlined their Wednesday story “World Nears Dangerous Climate Tipping Point With Snow In Short Supply,” while CNN’s Wednesday headline led with “Snow is disappearing as the planet warms.” Meanwhile, the Post’s headline read “We’re in danger of falling off a ‘snow loss cliff.’ Here’s what that means.”
