Global Warming Gospel Takes Another Hit

J.J. Jackson* | March 28, 2007

Just remember that the Cascade Mountain snowpack numbers are one of the things radical enviro-Marxists use to justify their claims that man is destroying the Earth and causing Global Warming.

The number is eye-popping, and it was repeated so often it became gospel.

The snowpack in the Cascades, it was said, shrank by 50 percent in the last half-century. It’s been presented as glaring evidence of the cost exacted by global warming — the drying up of a vital water source.

That statistic has been repeated in a government report, on environmental-advocacy Web sites and in media coverage. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels recently mentioned it in a guest column in The Seattle Times.

Here’s the problem: The number is dead wrong.

The debunking of this statistic, and the question of just how much the state’s snowpack shrank, is stirring up a heated debate among the region’s climate scientists.
On Monday, it escalated further when University of Washington researcher and State Climatologist Philip Mote stripped a colleague of his title as associate state climatologist, triggering concerns that scientific dissent is being quashed. Losing the title doesn’t affect the man’s employment at the UW.
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After reading Nickels’ February essay in The Times, Albright sent an e-mail to colleagues saying he didn’t see evidence that snowpack was steadily shrinking, much less by 50 percent.

A back-and-forth ensued, involving Albright, co-worker and meteorologist Cliff Mass, and several scientists with the UW’s Climate Impacts Group, a federally funded team of researchers that plays a prominent role analyzing climate change in the Northwest.

All quickly agreed that the 50 percent number was wrong. It may have originally come from an editing error in a 2004 report issued by an Oregon panel of scientists.

The percentage decrease, as the article points out all depends on when you start looking at the snowpack and who you ask. In fact, and probably most of you don’t know this, but the Earth is currently in what is considered an ice age (ice and the poles and glaciers on the continents) and the Earth has been much warmer than it is now even before evil humans came to exist.

Guess it must have been dinosaur farts back then that caused global warming huh?

Oh, and by the way, all you folks that want to drive “zero-emission” vehicles that emit only H2O to try to curb global warming because your hubris makes you think that you are that important remember that water vapor is many times more a greenhouse gas than CO2. Just food for thought.

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