A cold start to winter has the News Corp newspaper and Sky News telling ‘alarmists’ to chill, but what is really going on with snowfall?
Let’s look at what the story said, and what it didn’t say, about the trends in snowfall.The story included a subheading which read: “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is – East Anglia university experts in 2020.”
The Daily Telegraph said CSIRO had warned Australia should “prepare for shorter ski seasons” with “snow coverage reduced by as much as 54% by 2020.” Hennessey, with current CSIRO climate scientist Dr Michael Grose, compiled a summary report of climate change impacts on Australian snowfall for Temperature Check.The summary said the projections were based on an average over a 20-year period with 2020 as the middle year. So to make a fair comparison between the projections and the actual snow conditions, we’ll need to wait until all the data is in after 2030.
Sky presenter Andrew Bolt delivered a diatribe under the headline “Global warming ‘isn’t the great threat we were told’ that gained more than 190,000 views on YouTube.