Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Home arrow News arrow Science arrow Lubchenco on snowstorms: ‘Weather is not climate’
Lubchenco on snowstorms: ‘Weather is not climate’
A top Obama administration scientist on Monday struck back at climate skeptics who claim that record snowstorms this winter have undercut evidence of global warming.
 

“It is important that people recognize that weather is not the same thing as climate,” said Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Lubchenco, speaking on NPR’s “Diane Rehm Show,” said the planet is warming but that weather is variable. The snowy weather, Lubchenco said, “is not a contradiction and it is not really unexpected.”

Read the complete story at The Hill.

Bookmark and Share Print