Inhofe wasn't mindlessly saying a brief cold spell meant the collective whole of global warming was a hoax, he was lampooning the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and their predictions of
warmer snowless winters (full text here).
Not exact matches
And without any real snow before this storm, my
winter accessories were getting pushed further back into my closet with the
warm and
snowless winter!
That MetOffice blurb was a bit better than the forecasts they used to release of «
snowless winters», BBQ summers», «record
warm years», etc. that all never came to be.
For instance, the relatively
snowless and mild
winter in the U.S. of 2011 - 12 resulted from an inversion of the jet stream; its «U» course though the North America flipped upside down, trapping
warm air over much of the central and eastern U.S.