Every time a blizzard shuts down an airport or a winter storm makes the evening news, the comment sections explode: “Global warming isn’t real — look at all this snow!”
It’s a tempting argument. Snow is cold. Snow is real. Therefore, the planet can’t be warming, right? Not so fast. That’s the kind of reasoning climate scientists call cherry-picking: using isolated events to dismiss a long-term trend.
Snowfall, freezing temperatures, and extreme winters are not contradictions to climate change. In fact, they are often linked to it in ways most people don’t realize.









