At the risk of stating the blindingly obvious, on no level–period–is a feature of global warming, global cooling. If I turn an oven on, it may warm unevenly, but no parts become colder. If I open a refrigerator and turn it off, cooling may come out, but that cooling is counterbalanced by warming within the refrigerator.
It CANNOT be the case both that both poles are seeing increases in their ice sheets, AND that we are seeing colder winters, IF one still wants to claim the Earth is warming. This is a fool’s game. It is stupid, counter-intuitive, gutless, lemming-like.
This is a cut and paste from a post that may well be deleted (from Mother Jones, and it looks like they are going the disengagement and suppression route, which of course is needed if they want to continue to defend the indefensible. Edit: yes, they are tired of having to defend the indefensible, and have blocked me, which is always what happens on left wing sites. They are not interested in either truth or a multiplicity of opinions; quite the contrary. They call themselves liberals, but they are ANTI-liberal):
Arctic ice is increasing.
Antarctic ice is increasing.
When we add to this that we are seeing snowfalls that are the earliest in 100 years in Canada and the northern United States, common sense has to interject into this whole narrative and just call BULLSHIT.
Of course, one-off weather events don’t prove anything, but to be repetitive, cooling is NOT a feature of warming, period. This is not debatable. Using complicated and fraudulent math, one can hide unmeasured cooling in the oceans or elsewhere, but does this come even remotely close to passing the smell taste? No.