Denver Post contradicts itself with climate claims

Open the Denver Post and you might experience intellectual whiplash.

In one article, readers are warned that Colorado ski resorts face an uncertain future due to climate change, with “less reliable powder days” threatening the industry. Resorts must invest in snowmaking, diversify revenue streams, and brace for a warming planet.

Right beside it? A forecast of more than two feet of snow for Colorado’s mountain peaks.

Two feet.

Apparently, the climate crisis is now capable of producing both the imminent demise of snow and an old-fashioned Rocky Mountain blizzard. Sometimes on the same page.

This is not satire. It’s modern climate journalism.

Climate journalism is actually a thing. The Washington Post employed 24-30 such journalists and recently laid off 14 of them. Maybe their new slogan should be “Climate Alarmism Dies in Darkness.”

We are told skiing is endangered by global warming, that snow seasons are shrinking, that resorts must adapt or perish. Yet every winter seems to bring headlines about record snowfalls somewhere in the West. Just two seasons ago, California experienced record Sierra snowpack, twice the average. 

Colorado has enjoyed several strong seasons in recent years. Across the country, upstate New York measured snowfall in feet, not inches. Atmospheric rivers dump historic moisture into lake-effect snow machine guns.

And yet, the narrative remains: snow is disappearing.

The problem is not that weather varies. It always has. The problem is that whatever happens is now cited as evidence of climate catastrophe.

If it snows less than average — climate change.

If it snows more than average — climate change.

If temperatures rise — climate change.

If temperatures plunge — climate change.

If drought hits — climate change.

If floods come — climate change.

At this point, climate change has become less a scientific hypothesis and more a theological doctrine: omnipresent, unfalsifiable, and invoked to explain all things.