While it might seem odd, or tedious, to focus on the fact that it’s winter in January, we are driven to return to our point from last week about children still knowing what snow is, especially in Britain, because the winter weather just keeps getting worse. We had to laugh at the “Two feet of snow in Scotland“ image, confident that the kids would get it too. And at the British “Green Industrialist” and noisemaker who posted on December 23 “If you’re dreaming of a White Christmas – dream on. Snow is fast becoming a thing of the past in Britain.” But cold you’re not prepared for is no laughing matter. And since climate alarmists are prone to say the science is simple, the results linear, and the predictions rock-solid, we need to ask where “Europe’s Arctic storm chaos” was on their bingo card, as “Thousands of passengers camp out at frozen Dutch airport while snow-hit France closes motorways and cancels flights as death toll climbs”. Or Alaska having its snowiest December in 80 years. Oh sure, post hoc they say yeah we predicted it or could have jet stream polar vortex something something. But did any of them actually tell us, a decade ago, that we’d have such headlines in 2026? Did any predict that we’d be in, if Ryan Maue is correct, “the snowiest January in history for the Northern Hemisphere”, probably exceeding even those in the cold but relatively dry Little Ice Age? And if not, what about all the other things they confidently told us would happen in ten years, or will happen in ten?

As we reminded people last week, cold is deadly. And indeed Euronews writes “At least six dead as cold snap grips Europe with snow and ice wreaking travel havoc”. Note of course the “cold snap” not “cold wave” or even “cold spell” or, dare we use the word, “winter”. Which that story does, along with weather but not of course climate. But speaking of Britain, it went with “cold snap” again in conceding that white stuff fall from sky:

“A cold snap sent the temperature in northern parts of Britain down to minus 12.5 degrees Celsius overnight, as snow disrupted rail, road and air travel and closed hundreds of schools. Horse races and football matches have been called off because of snow and frost, while a power failure caused by ice closed Glasgow’s metro system. Up to 15 centimetres of snow was forecast for northern Scotland on Tuesday, where some people have already been snowed in by previous falls. Northeast Scotland lawmaker Andrew Bowie said the situation was ‘critical,’ calling for soldiers to be sent in to clear snow and get food and medical supplies to stranded people.”

One wonders how often Bowie and his colleagues have warned against warming in their careers and how rarely against cold. But here it comes anyway. And it’s not all fun and games with snowmen and overheated rhetoric. As Maue also posted:

“Due to global heating (climate breakdown) no one prepared for the winter cold. No snow tires on vehicles and lack of de-icing fluids. Climate scientists say that this type of winter weather is practically impossible today, so everyone was surprised. Wow!”

Surprised and worse. As The Standard wrote:

“Six people have been killed and thousands have been stranded at airports as an Arctic blast sweeps across Europe. Freezing temperatures and severe wintry weather conditions have caused widespread disruption across the continent this week.”

After all the hollering about heat and unlivable regions, reality is back with icy fingers. As Bloomberg noted, in reporting the havoc from Britain to Bavaria, and burying the Berlin blackout in the last paragraph, authorities were scrambling to crank up natural gas plants to keep people alive, not blowing as hard as they could on windmills.

Oh, and Heatmap Daily in its roundup of weird weather to make you believe in climate breakdown says:

“Unusually frigid Arctic air in Europe is causing temperatures across northwest Africa to plunge to double-digit degrees below seasonal norms, with Algiers at just over 50 degrees Fahrenheit this week.”

Here we thought Arctic air was usually frigid. And we could keep listing things like Ryan Maue’s X post:

“Powerful ‘bomb cyclone’ for the ages will wreak havoc on England and France Thursday and Friday with hurricane force wind gusts and up to 2-feet of snowfall. Europe’s climate is in ‘extreme disarray’ this week.”

And to some extent we will, because a crucial point about the climate debate is that it is not one side saying we know exactly what’s happening and why, and what will happen which is as follows, and the other going no, we know exactly what’s happening and why and what’s going to which is this other thing. It’s one side that insists they know everything about everything, the debate ended decades ago, more than once in fact, and the other saying climate is very complicated and weather so variable that spotting trends is extremely difficult and the causation so complex that tracing it out is nearly impossible and sometimes literally so.

For that reason, we skeptics’ inability to predict the fierce winter of 2026 in much of the northern Hemisphere actually strengthens our case… especially since the alarmists couldn’t either.

And yes, we do also have to say “told you so” about the fact that the Daily Mail story we led off with contains 12 instances of the word “weather” and… go ahead. Guess. How many of “climate”? Right. Net zero.