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Here we go again: the Cult of Climastrology is continuing to blame winter storms of anthropogenic climate change

January Was Awash With Extreme Winter Storms. Climate Change Likely Played a Role
In the West, Northeast, Midwest and even the South, states experienced downpours, blizzards and flash floods this month. Research suggests those events will only become more common.

Winter storm and flood alerts continue this week for millions of Americans following a weekend of flash floods in states such as Pennsylvania and Illinois, where many residents were forced to evacuate their homes as they took on water. It’s the third weekend this month when large swaths of the country have been doused with extreme wintry conditions—a trend that’s becoming increasingly more likely because of climate change, recent analyses show.

In northeastern Illinois, unseasonably warm temperatures destabilized a pileup of ice on the Kankakee River and unleashed major flooding, prompting evacuations of about 200 homes. “There’s always ice backups this time of year, but I’ve never seen it this bad,” one resident told a local news station. (snip through all those storms)

ClimaMeter, an international consortium of climate scientists, released a rapid attribution analysis last week that examined the winter storm systems that occurred Jan. 12-14 across large swaths of the United States. The report found that January saw increased precipitation largely due to climate change, with natural climate variability playing a modest role.

“Our analysis reveals that winter storms in the USA remain a tangible threat, occurring with temperatures akin to those in the past but yielding increased snow or rain precipitation,” Favide Faranda, a scientist with the France-based Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace and a co-author of the study, said in a statement. “These findings impose additional challenges on adaptation strategies in a globally warmer climate, where winter storms still have the potential to instigate significant disruptions.”

The mid-January storms brought about exceptionally low temperatures from the Northwest to the Midwest, disrupted ground and air travel, caused power outages for hundreds of thousands of households and prompted severe winter weather alerts in more than 17 states.

If everything is caused by your cultish beliefs, it’s a cult. They’re literally blaming very cold temperatures, ice storms, and big snowstorms on heat trapping gases. Not that this is new, but, the insanity continues. They’re saying that the massive snow I watched via webcam in places like Buffalo, Watertown, NY, Vermont, New Hampshire, and others was due to the Earth getting warmer because Other People drive fossil fueled vehicles. It’s nuts. At least Scientology isn’t trying to force their beliefs on everyone.

Read: All Those January Winter Storms? Your Faul »

That’s a good thing, right?

Climate activists in Germany to abandon gluing themselves to streets, employ new tactics

A group of climate activists who infuriated many in Germany by gluing themselves to streets to block traffic said Monday that it will abandon the tactic and move on to holding what it calls “disobedient assemblies.”

The Last Generation group frequently blocked roads in Berlin and other cities over the past two years, its best-known but far from its only tactic in a campaign of protests that also included spraying the capital’s Brandenburg Gate with orange paint, among other things.

The group’s tactics were widely criticized, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz described them as “completely nutty.”

Last Generation asserted that the number of demonstrators has increased enormously in the past two years and said that “from now on we will protest in a different form — but it will remain unignorable.”

Oh, this should be good. Unignorable

From March onward, “instead of dividing into small groups and blocking roads, we will hold disobedient gatherings with many people. And where we cannot be ignored,” the group said in a statement.

As well as that, the group said it will increasingly “directly confront” those it considers responsible for climate destruction, for instance by confronting politicians and other decision-makers in public and on camera.

So, easier to score points running them over Carmageddon style? They already create issues with blocking emergency services, this seems to make it worse. How many altercations will occur with German motorists getting out of their cars and dragging the wackos out of the road? How many fights? How quickly will it escalate to something worse? Funny thing is, idling vehicles are even worse, especially in terms of localized non-CO2 emissions.

Read: Good News: German Climate Nuts To Stop Gluing Themselves To Streets »