Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?
It snowed two weeks ago in New York. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing – a temperature science naturally dictates is necessary to melt snow and ice.
But science isn’t enough for some US political critics, however, who have instead blamed Zohran Mamdani, New York’s new socialist mayor, for the snow not having melted and still clogging up some of the city’s streets.
The New York Post, the rightwing tabloid and a frequent Mamdani critic, has led the charge. This week the newspaper claimed that “slushy streets” were “ruining travel for everyone”.
The need some of that hell fire the RepubliKKKlans bring with them to melt it asap
Hey southern people/non-phsyics-readers?
Snow is the best insulator to keep snow from melting
Canadian here. “Barely risen above freezing” means it’s above freezing. That means it’s warm. Are right wing pundits just a bunch of wussies?
Does the pope shit in the woods?
Aren’t these the same people who believe in a rodent to tell them how long winter is?
or an almanac that is basically 50/50 guesses?
Lol, they copied the groundhog day from Pennsylvania in Wiarton, Ontario, an area farther north. So the whole “if he sees his shadow, it means six more weeks of winter, otherwise spring comes at a normal time” is actually worse than our normal spring time (though many years in the past few decades have been exceptions to this). Like if it warmed up by mid-March, that would be an early spring.
Worst part is that I noticed this on my own. Like I’m probably not the first, but it’s not like the usual BS where people might repeat it but are also quick to say it’s inaccurate, my experience is that the groundhog gets brought up, I’ll mention that even the “bad case” sounds way better than reality, then people stop and think before agreeing that yes, it is that way. I’m hoping it’s because they weren’t taking it seriously in the first place.
… Yes. The rodent they typically expect to dictate the weather mostly uses a sharpie, but it was only a matter of time before they recognized all rodents.
I can’t really speak for NYC, because I don’t live there anymore. I’m in Albany, NY, 150 mi north, and it’s been hovering around -15 to -20 centigrade. (Water freezes at 0 centigrade.) A quick weather search shows it’s been hovering at/below freezing down there. Snow doesn’t melt when it’s this cold out. I don’t know where the fuck the post thinks the snow is going to go.
They know what they’re saying is stupid. They are trying to build anger and when there is nothing material to twist, they have to invent something. Eventually they will build an entire alternate universe mythology around Mamdani, just as they do with all their enemies.
Thanks Mamdani…
This is great! Obama is finally off the hook.
… wut
Well damn Jackie I can’t control the weather!
Must be the water.
Is it possible, being as how snow removal is the city’s responsibility, they’re actually complaining about that? If snow removal isn’t done in a timely manner, slush does indeed form and just moves around, not melting much.
Quickly reading the article suggests that’s the actual complaint.
I like the Guardian and Mamdani but come on here. Let’s focus on whether or not that complaint is accurate, and whether he’s had any chance to impact the city’s snow removal plans, which are generally done well in advance by someone other than the mayor.
Former NYC resident here. Growing up, NYC rarely got snow like the storm we just had the last week of January. Like maybe it happens Once every 2-5 years. On top of that, the city tends to warm up quickly because of the jet stream and being on the coast, so the snow tends to melt faster. (Specific heat of water keeps the temps there above freezing.) It’s been freakishly cold in the city, well below the freezing point of water, for an extended period of time, so it’s not melting as fast. It just gets pushed around. Also, the mayor took office 1 month ago. Like give the guy a break.
Thank you! Same thing happened in the South after the freak storm in January, we had snow/ice for like 10 days which is hugely abnormal, no snow removal was done, streets became sheets of ice. Mail delivery stopped for a week. Everything did. Schools shut down over a week. I worked from home for a week. Number of people blaming the mayor? 0
The south tends to budget far less for snow removal than norther states. So when a big storm hits, it shuts things down way way longer because it takes them even longer just to clear it. The actual Post article, uses three photos as reference images, and I am sure those were the worst they could find. However, you can see from those images that streets are mostly clear. The sidewalks are a different story, businesses are responsible for clearing the snow from the sidewalks in front of their stores. With respect to parking, parking in NYC has always been ass no matter what. If people still choose to drive in the city in this weather, and they aren’t planning accordingly to leave themselves more time to find parking, that’s on them. NYC has extensive public transportation, and it isn’t super expensive. I usually cycle to work up here in Albany, but with the cold and snow I am taking the bus. The public transit up here in Albany can’t hold a candle to what NYC has, and I have no problem making it to work on time or getting shopping done. (I’m 5 miles from work, and 3-10 miles from my preferred grocery stores.)
They didn’t take this chance to criticize global warming?
Trump did almost immediately…
But that’s only because people who think they understand it but don’t keep saying “global warming” instead of climate change
As long as naive idiots who think they understand keep saying “global warming” you can’t expect the other idiots to understand the problem.
But good luck convincing any of them to stop using the phrase they learned 30 years ago, or to incorporate new information.
In 30 more years they’ll all be acting like boomers because they never actually understood any of this, they’re literally doing the same as boomers and insisting what they were told in he high will always be true
It’s incredibly depressing knowing it’s gonna keep happening.
The only benefit of “climate change” over “global warming” is that it does not suggest it will get warmer everywhere, though in turn it fails to communicate that the global annual temperature is steadily increasing.
And worse yet, the change in terminology suggests a retreat from a prior position, allowing denialists to suggest that scientists changed their mind and they are two distinct concepts.
It’s a terminology change not worth arguing about. Global warming causes local climate change, and climate change is just the local effect of global warming.
We should absolutely use whichever term communicates best with the audience we are trying to reach, but mocking someone for the terminology they use is counterproductive and reinforces the fallacy that the ideas are meaningfully different.
The main benefit of rhetorically talking about “climate change” instead of “global warning” is that “climate change” sounds fairly innocuous to the layperson, and can be easily misconstrued as “natural”.
How many conservatives have you heard say something like “of course the climate changes, it happens every day!”
There’s a reason the bush administration pushed the “climate change” narrative so hard.
Wouldn’t have anything at all to do with their cold shoulders huh
politicians and oligarchs raping children and eating babies while giving away state secrets and money to Israeli and Russian spies
Establishment politicians: …We should just move on.
The snow isn’t melting and it’s inconvenient
Also Establishment politicians: blame socialism with every billionaire backed news organization and launch several expensive sensationalist investigations
Establishment politicians:
More misleading BoTh SiDeS bullshit
Establishment Politicians: politicians who support the police state, mass surveillance state, don’t stand up for the constitution and support genocide
Not The Onion.
How stupid can people be? Don’t they know it’s the Jews that control the weather?
With their space lasers!
