President Trump cited a major winter storm forecast to impact about two-thirds of the United States as evidence to suggest that global warming does not exist, repeating a misleading claim that has been consistently debunked by climate experts.
In a Truth Social post on Friday, he said, "Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States. Rarely seen anything like it before. Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain — WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???"
Climate scientists say Mr. Trump's statement conflates short-term weather trends with long-term climate changes.
The unusually cold air spilling into the United States is an example of weather, while climate is an average of temperatures across the world over time that shows warm areas outweighing cold ones, according to Dr. Steven Decker, director of Rutgers University's Meteorology Undergraduate Program.
Global warming, which refers to the overall rise in global temperatures due to increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, is one aspect of climate change, according to the United States Geological Survey.
Heavy ice accumulations are more likely to happen when there is a considerable amount of warm air next to cold Arctic air, Dr. Daniel L. Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, told CBS News. The accumulations require a substantial amount of the atmosphere to have warmer-than-freezing temperatures to ensure that precipitation melts instead of falling as...
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