Is this what global warming looks like? Over 2000 new low temperature records set in October | Watts Up With That?

There were 137 high temperature type records versus 857 low temperature type records this past week , a 6-1 difference. Last week there were 1154 low temperature type records putting the two week total for October at 2011. There were also 24 new snowfall records set this week in the upper plains.

Once again, if this had been summer, and the numbers reversed, you’d see Seth Borenstein writing articles for AP telling us this is ‘what global warming looks like’. So far not a peep out of Seth on this cold wave and what it is supposed to mean.

Still good news: global temperatures remain stable, at least for now. « Fabius Maximus

The IPCC reports make few claims about attribution of current climate activity to warming to date, as that remains actively debated in the literature.

There is an even larger debate about climate forecasts, both the extent of future CO2 emissions (the IPCC consensus does not reflect well the debate among geologists about the extent of fossil fuels reserves), and the net effects of the various anthropogenic effects.